SKELETON TO BE BURIED BUT MYSTERY REMAINS
A funeral Wednesday afternoon at Sutton cemetery southeast of Towanda may be the last in a series of events constituting one of Butler County's strangest mysteries.
Graveside services for an unknown man, now called the "Skeleton of Four Mile Creek," will be conducted at 2 p.m.
An inscription on the tombstone will read:
Unknown
Four Mile Creek
1960
October 10, 1962
No relatives and no close friends will be present. There will be no pallbearers.
But the identified man, who may have died 10 or 15 years ago---in a manner unknown---is not without the kindness of friends. Principal among the arrangements to give the man a decent burial were those of the Towanda E.M.B. Club, which has made arrangements for donation of the burial plot.
Officiating at the simple services will be the Rev. Leon Hayen, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, and the Rev. Kenneth E. Garrison, pastor of the First Christian Church. The Rev. Mr. Hayen serves as president of the El Dorado Ministerial Alliance, and the Rev. Mr. Garrison is vice president.
The Kirby Funeral Home is in charge.
All details of the funeral and burial are being handled through donations. Active in the Towanda E.M.B.'s Club's efforts was a committee, composed of Mrs. Ray Shreve and Mrs. Robert Louis. The Dawson Monument Co., Winfield, is donating the tombstone. County workers will prepare the grave.
Sutton cemetery, located southwest of El Dorado and southeast of Towanda in Towanda Township, will become the final resting place of the skeleton. The remains of the man, believed to have been 35 to 45 years of age when his death occurred, were discovered on the banks of Four Mile Creek near Augusta by a Wichita fisherman on Sept. 15, 1960.
The mystery which ensued has resulted in numerous inquiries made during the two-year period---more recently to Sheriff Dallas Babcock, who "inherited" the skeleton from former Sheriff Escel Reed. Attempts to identify the remains have been to no avail. (El Dorado Times ~ October 9, 1962 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
NOTE: permission granted by Lori to use article.
A funeral Wednesday afternoon at Sutton cemetery southeast of Towanda may be the last in a series of events constituting one of Butler County's strangest mysteries.
Graveside services for an unknown man, now called the "Skeleton of Four Mile Creek," will be conducted at 2 p.m.
An inscription on the tombstone will read:
Unknown
Four Mile Creek
1960
October 10, 1962
No relatives and no close friends will be present. There will be no pallbearers.
But the identified man, who may have died 10 or 15 years ago---in a manner unknown---is not without the kindness of friends. Principal among the arrangements to give the man a decent burial were those of the Towanda E.M.B. Club, which has made arrangements for donation of the burial plot.
Officiating at the simple services will be the Rev. Leon Hayen, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, and the Rev. Kenneth E. Garrison, pastor of the First Christian Church. The Rev. Mr. Hayen serves as president of the El Dorado Ministerial Alliance, and the Rev. Mr. Garrison is vice president.
The Kirby Funeral Home is in charge.
All details of the funeral and burial are being handled through donations. Active in the Towanda E.M.B.'s Club's efforts was a committee, composed of Mrs. Ray Shreve and Mrs. Robert Louis. The Dawson Monument Co., Winfield, is donating the tombstone. County workers will prepare the grave.
Sutton cemetery, located southwest of El Dorado and southeast of Towanda in Towanda Township, will become the final resting place of the skeleton. The remains of the man, believed to have been 35 to 45 years of age when his death occurred, were discovered on the banks of Four Mile Creek near Augusta by a Wichita fisherman on Sept. 15, 1960.
The mystery which ensued has resulted in numerous inquiries made during the two-year period---more recently to Sheriff Dallas Babcock, who "inherited" the skeleton from former Sheriff Escel Reed. Attempts to identify the remains have been to no avail. (El Dorado Times ~ October 9, 1962 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
NOTE: permission granted by Lori to use article.
SKELETON TO BE BURIED BUT MYSTERY REMAINS
A funeral Wednesday afternoon at Sutton cemetery southeast of Towanda may be the last in a series of events constituting one of Butler County's strangest mysteries.
Graveside services for an unknown man, now called the "Skeleton of Four Mile Creek," will be conducted at 2 p.m.
An inscription on the tombstone will read:
Unknown
Four Mile Creek
1960
October 10, 1962
No relatives and no close friends will be present. There will be no pallbearers.
But the identified man, who may have died 10 or 15 years ago---in a manner unknown---is not without the kindness of friends. Principal among the arrangements to give the man a decent burial were those of the Towanda E.M.B. Club, which has made arrangements for donation of the burial plot.
Officiating at the simple services will be the Rev. Leon Hayen, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, and the Rev. Kenneth E. Garrison, pastor of the First Christian Church. The Rev. Mr. Hayen serves as president of the El Dorado Ministerial Alliance, and the Rev. Mr. Garrison is vice president.
The Kirby Funeral Home is in charge.
All details of the funeral and burial are being handled through donations. Active in the Towanda E.M.B.'s Club's efforts was a committee, composed of Mrs. Ray Shreve and Mrs. Robert Louis. The Dawson Monument Co., Winfield, is donating the tombstone. County workers will prepare the grave.
Sutton cemetery, located southwest of El Dorado and southeast of Towanda in Towanda Township, will become the final resting place of the skeleton. The remains of the man, believed to have been 35 to 45 years of age when his death occurred, were discovered on the banks of Four Mile Creek near Augusta by a Wichita fisherman on Sept. 15, 1960.
The mystery which ensued has resulted in numerous inquiries made during the two-year period---more recently to Sheriff Dallas Babcock, who "inherited" the skeleton from former Sheriff Escel Reed. Attempts to identify the remains have been to no avail. (El Dorado Times ~ October 9, 1962 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
NOTE: permission granted by Lori to use article.
A funeral Wednesday afternoon at Sutton cemetery southeast of Towanda may be the last in a series of events constituting one of Butler County's strangest mysteries.
Graveside services for an unknown man, now called the "Skeleton of Four Mile Creek," will be conducted at 2 p.m.
An inscription on the tombstone will read:
Unknown
Four Mile Creek
1960
October 10, 1962
No relatives and no close friends will be present. There will be no pallbearers.
But the identified man, who may have died 10 or 15 years ago---in a manner unknown---is not without the kindness of friends. Principal among the arrangements to give the man a decent burial were those of the Towanda E.M.B. Club, which has made arrangements for donation of the burial plot.
Officiating at the simple services will be the Rev. Leon Hayen, pastor of Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, and the Rev. Kenneth E. Garrison, pastor of the First Christian Church. The Rev. Mr. Hayen serves as president of the El Dorado Ministerial Alliance, and the Rev. Mr. Garrison is vice president.
The Kirby Funeral Home is in charge.
All details of the funeral and burial are being handled through donations. Active in the Towanda E.M.B.'s Club's efforts was a committee, composed of Mrs. Ray Shreve and Mrs. Robert Louis. The Dawson Monument Co., Winfield, is donating the tombstone. County workers will prepare the grave.
Sutton cemetery, located southwest of El Dorado and southeast of Towanda in Towanda Township, will become the final resting place of the skeleton. The remains of the man, believed to have been 35 to 45 years of age when his death occurred, were discovered on the banks of Four Mile Creek near Augusta by a Wichita fisherman on Sept. 15, 1960.
The mystery which ensued has resulted in numerous inquiries made during the two-year period---more recently to Sheriff Dallas Babcock, who "inherited" the skeleton from former Sheriff Escel Reed. Attempts to identify the remains have been to no avail. (El Dorado Times ~ October 9, 1962 ~ Submitted by Lori DeWinkler)
NOTE: permission granted by Lori to use article.
Inscription
Body found in 4 mile creek in 1962 - was never identified.
