Gruesome But Truesome Opens Sept. 15

Absalom Death
 

For more than 50 years this picture of the first mayor of Franklin, Ohio was in storage at the Ohio Historical Society. He was part of the original Warren County Museum collection that had resided at Glendower Historic Mansion and had been put in storage around 1959.

Can you believe that a man whose last name is Death would have such a Dickensian portrait made of himself. Learn all about him and many other Gruesome But Truesome things when the Gruesome But Truesome exhibit opens at the Warren County History Center on September 15, 2012.