What was left was just a skeleton found in a pine stand at a place called the Devil's Elbow.
October 30, 1886, Palatka, Florida
A boy hunting found him. His head lay to the roots of the pine tree, and his flesh had been completely stripped off by animals and buzzards. The condition of the clothes indicated he had been dead several months, and that he might have been the victim of the prior winter's freeze.
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