I was going through some very old newspapers I have and saw this and thought others might be interested in some old copy. I find it fun reading them especially the various advertisments. Enjoy Patti The Daily Graphic, New York March 17, 1876 Pigmies of a Past Period [From the Woodbury (Tenn.) Press] An Ancient graveyard of vast proportions has been found in Coffee County. It is similar to those found in White County and other places in Middle Tennessee, but is vastly more extensive, and shows that a race of pigmies who once inhabited this country were very numerous. The same peculiarities of position observed in the White County graves are found in these. The writer of the letter say: “Some considerable excitement and curiosity took place a few days ago since near Hillsboro, Coffee County on James Brown’s farm. A man was ploughing in a field which has been cultivated many years and ploughed up a man’s skull and other bones. After making further examination they found that there was about six acres in the graveyard. They were buried in a sitting or standing position. The bones show that they were a dwarf tribe of people about three feet high. It is estimated that there were about 75,000 to 100,000 buried there. This shows that this country was inhabited hundreds of years ago.”