Anne and Don went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Frye, in Coshocton, Ohio in September 1952.
Don asked Fred Frye, “Are there any fossils around here?” Fred, still in high school, said “No, but I can take you to where the hobos hang out and sleep.” It was a rock outcropping with a ledge about 6 feet high.
Don said, “Well, let’s see if they dropped anything” and started digging around the back edge of the rock. …
Anne was bored and reading a book in the car. Fred and Don dug in the soft rocky sand and eventually came up with some bones! Don said, “We have to stop right here; I have to go call someone. These look like old human bones!”
Don called the local doctor first who said the bone was really, really old. So Don call his uncle who worked at the Ohio state university, Uncle Dale Maxey. Uncle Dale sent out some Ohio State Geology and Archeology staff and students. When they excavate the site with archeology tools, they uncovered a complete skeleton.
The Coshocton gossips got on the telephone party line and declared that Mr. and Mrs. Frye knew someone who found a body and if you know where the body is then you must the one who put it there! Grandma Frye was very put out about it that she announced that her son in law was a very fine young man, graduate from WVU and was a lieutenant in the Army!
Later we found out it was pre-Columbian, but never head anything more.
