Tag: Tomb of William Wirt (Washington DC)

In the Congressional Cemetery.

Wikipedia says: In the early 2000s, after a series of mysterious phone calls to the cemetery, it was discovered that in the 1970s someone had broken into the Wirt Tomb at Washington, D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery and had stolen Wirt’s skull. After the skull was recovered from the house of a historical memorabilia collector, it spent time in D.C. Council member Jim Graham’s office while he tried to get it returned to its rightful crypt. Finally in 2005 investigators from the Smithsonian Institution were able to determine the skull, which had gold block letters saying “Hon. Wm. Wirt” painted on the tin box containing it, was indeed his and had it returned.