The popular legend is, that the ten men perished by the falling in of a
gravel-pit, and that their remains were buried together. This, however,
will not account for the "men of strife."
Is it not probable that, in the time of the civil wars, the bodies might
have been disinterred for the sake of the leaden coffins, and then
deposited in their present resting-place?
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The tomb may have been erected some time afterwards by "I. R.," probably
a relative of the "Henry Rogers," the date of whose death is commemorated.