The Jar Buried by a Tree: Who Is the Unnamed Hand?
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The Jar Buried by a Tree: Who Is the Unnamed Hand?
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A buried jar sealed by a tree root held forty-one handwritten birth entries, each stamped "delivered by D.H.," while official records list a doctor as attendant for thirty-eight of them - who was D.H., and why did this town let a mystery of births sit untouched for decades?
In this episode, we follow how a county surveyor's chance discovery on Sutter Road set a retired archivist on a path through parish registers, county ledgers, and local memory to ask whether the Unnamed Hand was hiding a truth the town had long overlooked.
Person: Kenneth Quinn
Person: Dorothea Hoffman
Person: Leonard Voss, M.D.
Date: Jar discovery in spring 2019
Location: Sutter Road, Harlan's Ford, Missouri
- The jar contained forty-one handwritten entries listing name, birth date, weight in pounds and ounces, and the phrase "delivered by D.H."
- Botanists and foresters determined the tree's growth made it impossible for the jar to have been placed there within the thirty years before 2019.
- Dorothea Hoffman worked as an unlicensed midwife in the area since the late 1940s and received small payments from St. Ambrose Episcopal Church between 1961 and 1968.
- County records matched thirty-eight of the jar's entries to official birth certificates listing Leonard Voss, M.D., as the attendant at birth.
- Three births recorded in the jar had no matching certificate in the county birth ledger.
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