A long but good read. i grew up in Wayne, PA - named for the same person whose home was (and is) just about 3 miles away and whose grave I have seen many times. About that grave: https://twitter.com/politico/status/1289157624328409088

"Mad" Anthony Wayne died on the edge of the Midwest he was genocidally clearing for white settlers - in Erie, PA, right on the Lake of the same name. And he was buried there - because the "roads" connecting Erie to Philadelphia were hundreds of miles of wilderness paths.

In due course, the family wanted to reclaim his remains and bring them home to the churchyard of his own Episcopal church - the lovely little St. Davids Church - still there and still honestly quite lovely.

So they dispatched a wagon and went to dig him up. Sadly, the body had for reasons unknown, failed to decompose. And no one even thought for one second of trying to carry that weight for 400ish miles though the mountains and forests.

So they boiled him.

Yes, they boiled the body in a pot to separate out the bones from the flesh. I believe the pot is still on display in Erie. They reburied the broth in Erie, and sent the bones back to Wayne (not called that at the time) to be buried at St. Davids.

It is said, though I cannot confirm this, that some of the bones bounced out of the wagon on the bouncy ride back East. And for this reason, the ghost of Anthony Wayne rises every New Years Eve, searching for his missing bones.

While i cannot speak to this one way or another, never having been there at the appointed time, I would think Gen Wayne would have more of a bone to pick regarding the earlier operation. I could imagine he has been stewing about that for some time. End.