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Mystery of the mounds: Bob Ross tends to forgotten graves PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 20 August 2004
Mystery of the mounds: Bob Ross tends to forgotten graves in Davenport City Cemetery

By Bill Wundram

“Bring out your dead,” was a macabre call. The summons was to bring out the dead from “cholera homes.” Legends claim that at least 102 of the cholera victims are buried — in layers — in two mounds amid acres of tombstones in old Davenport City Cemetery. The cholera mounds linger as a cryptic, disquieting story in the cemetery, which is straddled by two of Davenport’s busiest thoroughfares.
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Now, 131 years later, the plague victims who may (or may not) be buried in the mounds are being remembered with flowers. If there is any proof, there may someday be a plaque.
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The cholera mounds, so far as all the old stories go, began in 1873 when river towns were stricken with the deadly plague of cholera. Davenport was so fearful of contagion that the pauper dead were not buried in caskets, but quickly interred in what has been generally accepted as “burial mounds” in City Cemetery alongside Rockingham Road and what is now U.S. 61. Some were residents of Davenport; others had been found floating in the Mississippi River, tossed into the water by captains fearful of infecting their crew or passengers.

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