More Gruesome But True

This is a memorial picture. It remembers eleven people who died. I forget the details, but Lynley will have all the info in the exhibit.

Assistant Curator/Archivist Lynley Dunham is hard at work on the Gruesome But True exhibit. It's not open yet, but should be ready by the second week in September.

Lynley is a Dayton native and not that familiar with the many details of Warren County's history. She has been living in the vault - sort of - looking for great items for the Gruesome But True exhibit - a special feature of the Gruesome But True Tour.  Everyday she finds something really neat and is just thrilled. It is like watching a kid at Christmas!

I have no idea why this child's tombstone is in the museum, but since she died in 1847 she was probably from the cemetery that used to be on West Main across from the Pioneer Cemetery and  is currently a car dealership.  It was difficult to survive childhood and little Mary Morris didn't make it to age five.



I believe these were the shackles used to confine the first man every hung for murder in Warren County.