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From left, Janet Wacker, Robia Kaylor, and Kimberly Orsborn in 2010, uncovering the overgrown metal plaques identifying the top layer of bodies buried at Bangs Cemetery.
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The only obvious identification of the land on Johnstown Road as a cemetery comes from this small metal sign hanging on the gate.
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The poignant plaque inscribed to “Little Flower Grun.” Genealogical searches turn up no information about her.
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Mount Vernon State Hospital patient Ellen Shively died there in 1959 of cancer. Without immediate family and with records that failed to lead to any, Shively was buried in the public potters field at Bangs. (Photo by Mark Jordan.)
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This is the tuburculosis sanatorium.
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The former Knox County Home still stood in 2010. The building later burned to the ground in 2015. It was the principal — but not only — source of bodies to be buried in the adjacent potters field today known as Bangs Cemetery.
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