This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zQB.2ACE/1509.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Osage cemetary was named for the Osage chapter of the 'Redmen' who were the public face of the secret societies that started and fought the revolutionary war. In order to be buried at Osage you had to be a direct decendent of not only a Revolutionary war vet but one that was a member of the local secret society. Remember, the folks who participated the Boston Tea Party were painted up like indians.