Taken from "Hardin County, Kentucky Newspaper Abstracts 1902 to 1904" compiled by Carolyn Wimp. Friday, February 19, 1904 R. S. Jones told the following story which happened shortly before the break out of the Civil War. Pendleton Ray, a cousin of Mr. Jones, was employed to dig a well on the Jeffries farm, which joins Mr. Jones on the south. The place selected was in a low place or rather a sink. Ray started the work and after digging 2 or 3 feet, struck a large flat rock, which he broke with hammer. When the rock was broken, it fell 12 to 15 feet into a cavern. Ray removed the fragments above, then descending the shaft, he removed what had fallen and began digging in the bottom of the shaft. He soon unearthed a human skeleton. On further investigation, he found that there were 7 of them lying side by side. Four of the heads lying in one direction and three in another. The bones were very large, much larger than the Caucasian. One jaw bone especially was much larger and longer than any that could be found. The bodies had evidently been placed there by some person but there was no trace or mark of human hands above except the flat rock which had been placed over the cavern. It is a settled fact that they were mound builders although no mounds are known of in the section. Mr. Jones saw the skeletons and can vouch for the truth of the story. He says the skeletons were reburied somewhere on the Jeffries farm. Ray joined the Confederate army and was killed in battle. The well is one of the very best in the section. Mr. Jones also has some charred wheat. Not far from the beginning of the Civil War, a wheat stack was struck by lightning on his farm and burned to the ground. He said that grains of charred wheat can yet be picked up on the spot almost in natural shape after having laid the more than 40 years. (Sonora News)