“Waramaug (probably born about 1650) died in
1735 after fifty five years as a beloved and respected sachem and was buried on
the eastern side of Lover's Leap Canyon. A great monolith stone column
marked the spot, surrounded by rocks and trinkets piled six feet high. Each
stone represented an expression of care from a member of his tribe. In
the late 1880's, a family from Bridgeport bought the site and build a house on
top of the grave site using many of the stones for the foundation..."
-
Swimming Eel
(Franklyn Bearce)
Excerpt from a genealogy posted at: http://www.fatlosereviews.com/html/Men_Fat/men_face_fat/20130701/2192.html
(Note photo on top right in photo found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/corbettjames/5820905049/sizes/l/in/photostream/)
Some related posts (and stone piles):
Above a James Porter photo from: http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/ct-standing-stones-in-cairns.html
And two Peter Waksman
photos from: http://rockpiles.blogspot.com/2007/11/rock-pile-marking-boundary.html
2 comments :
Thank you, Tim for the acknowledgement. You know either Jeremiah his son made stone walls in the Cornwall area?Tom Littledeer
Franklyn "Swimming Eel" Bearce was a charlatan and fraud. He was never accepted as being an actual native, even by the natives he dealt with.
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bearce-45
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