Just as we went to press last week reports reached us that laborers engaged in stripping on the West side of Main Street, had plowed up several old coffins and human bones, at a depth of about six feet below the surface. Inquiry revealed the fact that sometime in the '40s the ground in that vicinity was used for a cemetery. But subsequently it was abandoned and the cemetery located on Adams street, and the remains were removed to the new cemetery. But it seems several graves were overlooked. Mrs. Baldwin states that Prof. Dwight, the first principle of Baldwin Institute, was buried there, also a brick-maker, a child and several others. Of course it is not known whose remains were overlooked and disturbed last week by the excavators.
On Wednesday, other remains were found, including tresses of hair, hair comb, etc.
They were carefully re-interred in the cemetery. The laborers were somewhat non-plussed and discomfitted at the "find".
(Berea Advertiser, Ohio, 9 Dec 1887)