Dying man wants Ohio Historical Society to return artifact
These days, Edward Low is fighting on two fronts: to get his precious "Indian rock" back from the Ohio Historical Society and to stay alive.
The 77-year-old Reynoldsburg man has been in a three-year battle with the Historical Society to recover an artifact he found as a boy - a piece of pre-history from the Early Woodland Adena culture that was probably created 400 years or more before the birth of Christ. Its value at auction has been estimated at $200,000, possibly much more.
But now Low is dying. And he isn't worried about money. He's more concerned about getting back the boyhood treasure that he kept in a sock drawer for years and took to school for show-and-tell. Low wants to donate it to a museum in Parkersburg, W.Va., near where he grew up and where he found the 3-inch-by-5-inch sandstone tablet carved with human faces and birds.
Low sued the Historical Society last year in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, claiming he loaned the artifact for research and display back in 1971 and now wants it back. The society asserts that Low gave it to the museum, but can provide no paperwork or documentation as evidence....
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The 77-year-old Reynoldsburg man has been in a three-year battle with the Historical Society to recover an artifact he found as a boy - a piece of pre-history from the Early Woodland Adena culture that was probably created 400 years or more before the birth of Christ. Its value at auction has been estimated at $200,000, possibly much more.
But now Low is dying. And he isn't worried about money. He's more concerned about getting back the boyhood treasure that he kept in a sock drawer for years and took to school for show-and-tell. Low wants to donate it to a museum in Parkersburg, W.Va., near where he grew up and where he found the 3-inch-by-5-inch sandstone tablet carved with human faces and birds.
Low sued the Historical Society last year in Franklin County Common Pleas Court, claiming he loaned the artifact for research and display back in 1971 and now wants it back. The society asserts that Low gave it to the museum, but can provide no paperwork or documentation as evidence....