1 Comments Posted by oone

This may predate the usage of "Doe" - and the person buried there may have been an indigent found long after the fact or even a Native American skeleton accidentally unearthed when someone was digging a well or root cellar, (and not knowing one way or another, the community re-buried the finding on consecrated ground out of respect just in case - anecdotal evidence indicates there are Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon remains in old European cemeteries when burial caves were mistaken for robbers dens and the bones of their victims - to be a good Christian was to see too it that the found remains were properly disposed of because nobody deserves to be scattered around in the wilderness.) It could also be the remains of a Revolutionary War soldier or murder victim hastily buried in a temporary unmarked grave, again found decades later and given a decent burial because to the community, to do otherwise would be unthinkable.