<< My belief is that the Fries Cemetery is a natural glacier mound. It has been awhile since I took Junior High science and the name of these types of mounds has escaped me, but they are quite common, and I know of no instance in this area for that time period of any early white settlers hauling dirt to make that large of a mound. >> I agree with Kelsey that this is a natural formation. Our ancestors at that time had neither the time nor the resources to create an artificial mound of that size. Kelsey is correct that there are many other examples of this formation in our glaciated area. The area of Wellsburg is an example of another, even larger, formation of this type. Joyce M. Tice <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~srgp/jmtindex.htm">Tri-County Genealogy Site of Joyce M. Tice</A>