Use our SEARCH ENGINE to see all occurrences of your ancestor's name). No, we can't help you find further information to get accepted into the DAR. No, this is not sufficient information to get accepted into the DAR. No, we don't have anything further on your soldier ancestor (Don't send us someone else's research that you've copied from the internet). No, we're not going to change the original source data we've transcribed, but we will add notes or separate biographies if you want to send us data that you yourself have found during YOUR research. Yes, there are errors and they might have occurred MANY years ago! PLEASE NOTE that we do not actually WRITE the history - we just transcribe the data we find in various history books and the source of the data is noted at the end of every soldier's information. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE VISITING THE WEBPAGES Short biographies are given when available. The soldiers are organized by county, and in alphabetical ©Transcribed by Kimberly Torp, 2004 & 2006 RELATED STUDY: Fresh look at burials, mass graves, tells a new story of Cahokia.Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Illinois The new insights from this study underscore the importance of curating old collections so that researchers can reanalyze these important sites using more recent technologies and methodologies to address new research questions, the researchers said. “You may have 25 percent of the people you had before.” “Population starts to downsize, and after A.D. The violence evident in this mass grave occurs just before people began leaving Cahokia in droves, said ISAS director Thomas Emerson, an expert on Cahokia. “The differences we found between these victims and the female sacrificial victims at Cahokia suggest that these men and women may represent political rivals within the Cahokia polity.” “The strontium isotopes also suggest that they were all from a single locality, either within the American Bottom or another region with similar geology to Cahokia,” Hedman said. “And then you get this situation where everything is obviously not right in the world because they are violently killing some people and marking that spot with the bodies of others, so it’s a statement.”Īnalyses of the teeth of this group revealed that they were different from others at Cahokia and likely represent a different population. “You have these earlier sacrifices of women that are very organized, and this lasts for a number of generations,” said Eve Hargrave, a skeletal analyst at ISAS who has studied those buried in Mound 72. This burial dates to around 1150, the most recent of the mass graves and one of the final burial events associated with Mound 72, the researchers report. “With this one mass grave, you find bashed skulls, you find decapitations, you find projectile points,” Hedman said. The bodies show unmistakable evidence of violence. In one distinctive mass grave, however, dozens of men, women and some children appear to have been slain on site. “But they were likely sacrificed, and may have been drugged and strangled before burial.” There are no marks on the bones that we can see that indicate how they were killed,” Hedman said. “There are several mass burials of young women in Mound 72 that range in age between 12 and 25. The ISAS is a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois. Strontium isotopes are derived from local geologic formations, and, since they are incorporated into bones and teeth through food and water, can serve as fingerprints of specific locales.Įvidence from the burial mounds is helping researchers understand what happened at Cahokia, said Illinois State Archaeological Survey physical anthropologist Kristin Hedman, who conducted the study with Andrew Thompson of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine and ISAS researcher Philip Slater. To determine whether those buried in Mound 72 were from Cahokia or somewhere else, the researchers analyzed strontium isotopes in the teeth. Align image left align image center align image right
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