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The Lenape tribe, known to white settlers as the Delaware tribe, once lived in Knox County, Ohio. This is an early historical drawing of Lenape tribe members drawn on the east coast of the U.S. before the tribe was pushed beyond the Allegheny Mountains to Ohio.
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It was when a grave was dug for young Henry Cooper in 1894 that the historical Indian burial was discovered. Grave artefacts dated the find to the historical period, and Sac-a-manc’s local prominence suggests that he could have been buried there after he was killed during the War of 1812. Mound View Cemetery was not founded until the 1850s.
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The original mound of Mound View Cemetery is officially known as the McLaughlin Mound. In addition to an ancient Adena burial at the base of the mound, a later historical American Indian burial was discovered at the base of the mound, believed to be Chief Sac-a-manc.
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The outbreak of the War of 1812 brought open warfare to the Ohio country, including scalping raids by Indians encouraged and supplied by the British.
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