regarding the request of Kathy J-G, the Erie Historical Museum, Erie, PA has a very interesting exhibit dealing with the Revolutionary general known as Mad
Anthony Wayne.  It seems that Wayne died suddenly in Erie, then a frontier
outpost, of gout.  His leg had previously been amputated in an effort to save
him, but to no avail.  He was buried there, but soon his son appeared with the
intention to return his father to Radnor, PA.  Wayne was exhumed but the
coffin wouldn`t fit the son's wagon.  The corpse was then boiled in a large
kettle and the son took the bones back home.  Along the way, he dropped a
few of them, and every Halloween (up scary music now) Mad Tony rides again,
looking for them bones.  The Museum has the kettle on display.  I believe
that this was surveyed on the Jack Palance-hosted version of Believe It
Or Not.
 
Chuck Watkins
Appalachian Cultural Museum
App State U., Boone, NC  28608