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Man at center of artifact fight dies

Widow says she'll continue lawsuit against Ohio Historical Society over Adena tablet

Edward Low will be buried today, but his fight to regain a cherished childhood treasure will live on.

Low, 77, of Reynoldsburg, died Thursday, before his lawsuit against the Ohio Historical Society reached court.

His widow, Dorothy Low, has vowed to carry on the fight her husband began three years ago when he first asked the historical society to return his "Indian rock," a valuable carved artifact from the Early Woodland Adena culture created as long as 400 years before the birth of Christ....
Read entire article at The Columbus Dispatch