| Birth: | 1767 | | Death: | Oct. 3, 1832 | 
Sauk Indian Leader. Indian Chief Black Hawk died in 1832 and was buried on James Jordan's farm near Iowaville. On July 3, 1839, James Turner, a local dentist, stole the corpse, fled to Quincy, Illinois, cooked off the flesh in a hog-scalding kettle, and prepared to exhibit the skeleton. The Iowa governor insisted on its return, then gave the skeleton to a physician friend, who kept it here in his Burlington office. A fire destroyed both office and bones in 1855.
Search Amazon for Chief Black Hawk | | | Burial:
Iowaville Cemetery
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Selma
Van Buren County
Iowa, USA
*Cenotaph [?] |
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
Find A Grave Memorial# 2625 |
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