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Number of Burials (approximate): 1

Dates of Activity:  Early 1800s

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24 Bellefonte Avenue

Lock Haven, PA 17745

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Unknown

History: 

Clinton Republican, June 8, 1898.

BELLEFONTE AVENUE MYSTERY.

Human Bones Found in Making an Excavation for a Cellar.

Mr. E. Henry, the well-known barber, recently purchased the property at No. 24 Bellefonte avenue, and a few days ago commenced to excavate a cellar under the building.  Friday while Frank McKinney was digging in the cellar he came across a number of bones which Mr. Henry concluded resembled the bones of a human being.

This morning when Dr. J. H. Hayes, the county coroner, saw the bones he stated they were either the bones of a woman or a child.  They were very much decayed but enough of them remained to show that they were those of a human being and from their size were not those of a man.

The bones were found at a depth of about three feet and are not those of an Indian as no trinkets such as the aborigines always buried with their dead were found.  Mr. Henry says he has been told that the house under which the bones were found was built at least 35 years ago, and so far as can be ascertained there was no cemetery in that place.  Who was buried there or when the interment was made no one seems to know.