Photos now up of field trip to Seville OH!!!!

LOCATION: MOUND HILL CEMETERY (OPEN DAWN TILL DUSK)

SEVILLE OH

WHEN: MEET AT 5 ON 05/16/2012 (TIME MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON WHERE WE ARE MEETING UP)

REASON: TO TOUR THE "GIANTS OF SEVILLE" WHO ARE BURIED THERE.

check it out here: http://www.guilfordtwpoh.com/Cemetery.htm

Intimates of royalty, friends of celebrities and renowned in international medical circles, Captain Martin Van Buren Bates and Anna Swan Bates received more column inches of newspaper articles, books and brochures than any other couple in the history of Medina County.

A native of Kentucky, the captain stood 7-feet, 9 inches and weighed 470 pounds. Anna, who was born in Nova Scotia, was 7-feet, 11-inches tall and weighed 413 pounds.

Mound Hill Cemetery Seville, OH where the Giants of Seville are buried.





Life size pants worn by Mr. Martin Van Buren


Life size replicas of Mr and Mrs. Van Buren



Life Size replica of Mr. Martin Van Buren's wedding band


Mrs. Van Buren (Anna Swan Bates) and Mr Van Buren's baby was born at 23 pounds. Replica of the baby is shown in the above photo. The baby only lived for 11 hours.

Burial site of Mr and Mrs Giant at Mound Hill
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A woman standing by the replicas to see the size she is about 5 "2
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They were a big couple back in the day. I am guessing no one bothered with them.

Thank you for sharing those photos with us. I love history such as what was shown.

Yes I was mildly creeped out. Supposedly Anna Bates had a petuitary gland issue which made her larger. Martin grew naturally until he was about 12.

It was very cool.

All I kept thinking though was that episode of Ancient Aliens where they talked about the "giants."

Makes you wonder.

I do think the giants they mention in the past may only of been eight or so feet tall. When you are only five or so feet, that makes the others truly giants.

I remember visiting Mark Twain's boyhood home and walking through the houses. They were built with quite tiny rooms for the 19th Century. I do think most people were a foot or so shorter than they are now as food and nutrition are better.

THese folks were definitely giants. There is actual proof of this one so it is more believable. We could have been bigger in the past to live with the dinosaurs...who knows..

Giants did exist. The tallest human on record was half an inch shy of nine feet tall. They also have untested skeletons of giant Native Americans in a few museum storage areas. Many of the skeletons are way over seven feet tall.

It is quite interesting to read of such giants when most people considered six feet quite tall for a person.

Cool picture of Jesus holding a dinosaur.