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The Bay City Times
Thursday, 23 April, 1908

         DUG INTO A COFFIN
         
         IN MAKING HOLE FOR POST FOR CITY SHED
         
         Occupies Part of What Was a Cemetery in the 
          Early Years.
          
         In the rear of No. 3 hose house the city owns a shed
       in which wagons and similar city property is kept. This
       shed has rested next to the ground for some time and the
       foundation has been giving away. Accordingly orders were
       given to dig holes and place posts under the building.
       This morning one of the diggers struck a wooden box which
       more than excited his curiosity.
       
         Within it was another box and within the second box,
       a lot of human bones. It was the last resting place of
       a former resident of Bay City.
       
         This incident recalls the fact that on the corner of
       Saginaw street and Columbus avenue in the early day was
       located a cemetery in which many early settlers were
       buried. Some of the bodies were removed and placed in
       the newer cemeteries, but there were many graves that
       were unmarked and when foundations for buildings were
       built on the property it was a common thing to dig into
       a coffin.
       
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