TIL that Thomas Paine's bones were dug up in 1819 and taken to England by radical journalist William Cobbett, who intended to give Paine a heroic reburial in his native country. It never happened. Cobbett still had the bones when he died over 15 years later, and they were lost after that. | BuzzSumo
TIL that Thomas Paine's bones were dug up in 1819 and taken to England by radical journalist William Cobbett, who intended to give Paine a heroic reburial in his native country. It never happened. Cobbett still had the bones when he died over 15 years later, and they were lost after that.