checked their traps. Suddenly, Bridges rushed back to the camp, claiming that he heard a shot from Harrod's vicinity. When Harrod did not return, Bridges offered to look for him. He soon returned and claimed that he had seen fresh signs of Indian activity in the woods, and was sure Harrod must have been killed. Stoner wanted to look for Harrod, but Bridges insisted that it was too dangerous. Eventually, Stoner acquiesced. Soon after the expedition, Bridges went to Lexington where he sold some furs and some silver buttons engraved with the letter "H" at a local shop. The shopkeeper sent the buttons to Ann Harrod, who said they belonged to her husband. Later, while searching the area where Harrod was last seen, some of Harrod's friends found some bones in a cave. The bones were still tightly wrapped in sedge grass, which appeared to have been used to help transport the body to its present location. Some of the friends claimed that the bones were wearing Harrod's shirt, and that the buttons were missing. Others claimed there was no shirt at all. Regardless, when the men returned, Bridges had fled the area. Harrod's family claimed that Bridges' flight proved that Harrod's friends had found Harrod's body in the cave and feared that he would be implicated in his death. However, when Ann applied for Harrod's pension, she swore he had died in a hunting accident and that his clothes had been found in a nearby river. See also List of people who disappeared References External links 1848 Court case between the relatives of son of Ann McDonald Harrod 1st marriage and descendants of daughter of Ann McDonald Harrod 2nd marriage 1740s births 1790s missing person cases 1790s deaths Year of death uncertain 18th-century American people Hunting accident deaths Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Missing person cases in Kentucky People from Bedford County, Pennsylvania People of Kentucky in the American Revolution People of Pennsylvania in the French and Indian War People of Pennsylvania of Pontiac's War Pre-statehood history of Kentucky American explorers Kentucky pioneers Kentucky militiamen in the American Revolution People from Kentucky Accidental deaths in Kentucky