On a rural stretch of County Road 400
in Amity, Indiana, the road splits around a small mound of earth
located in the center of the roadway. That mound is the grave of Nancy
Kerlin Barnett (1793-1831) and it is in the middle of the road for a
most unusual reason. As the 1912 historical marker at the site explains,
when the county planned to run a road through the cemetery in which
Barnett was laid to rest, her grandson Daniel Doty guarded the plot with
a gun until the county relented and built the road around the grave.
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Hoosier bastards...
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DeleteI've got another hero now. :)