This was sent to my by Robert McKee (please let me know if this is wrong, I will correct it) published in the Windsor Star, July 12, 2003. It was written by Gary Rennie, Star County Reporter.

Some 204 years after his death, the remains of Col. Alexander McKee, one of the areas most prominent historical figures, may have been discovered in an unmarked paupers grave at Windsor Memorial Gardens.

Two amateur histoians with the help of Windsor police have pieced together the clues that point to a mystery skeleton unearthed nine years ago at the ADM construction site near Ojibway Parkway as likely that of McKee.

"I'm 99-percent certain it's McKee" said Ken Turner, president of the Essex County Historical Cemeteries Preservation Society. "The circumstantial evidence is very strong."

The provincial Ministry of Culture has been contacted over the find, and is prepared to for DNA testing of local descendants of McKees to confirm the identity, Turner said.

Since there doesn't appear to be a published geneological history of the McKees in this area, it may take several months to put one together and determine the closest descendants for DNA testing, Turner said.

If the skeletal remains are proven to be those of McKee, the descendants will also have to determine how and where the remains should be reburied.

Given McKee's prominence in local history as an Indian agent for the British government and negotiator of the 1790 treaty with several First Nations tribes that opened much of southern Ontario to white settlement, a burial with military honours may be appropriate, said Turner.

Turner probed the mystery of McKee's final resting place with the help of Ann Fleming, who's writing a biography of another local pioneer, Prideaux Selby.

Fleming had been poring over the early land registry records of the Sandwich area known as Petite Cote and noted deeds to land owned by Thomas McKee, son of Alexander McKee.

Numerous historical records have detailed the well-attended burial of Alexander McKee on his son's land in 1799, so Fleming mentioned to Turner last summer it would be quite a find to locate McKee's grave

Turner immediately recalled the unearthing of a skeleton at the ADM constructions site Nov 17, 1994, of which he had saved clippings from the Star. ADM's property includes the former McKee lot.

The skeleton was turned over for examination to then University of Windsor anthropologist Deborah Gustavsen.

But Gustavsen left for the U.S. in 1996, and the university had no records of what happened to the skeleton. Windsor police had purged their 1994 records.

But in the last week, police located Gustavsen in Whitby and with her help determined the skeleton had been turned over to Anderson's Funeral Home and buried at Windsor Memorial Gardens, paid for by the province.

Turner said Windsor Memorial Gardens kept detailed records of the burial in case the identity of the skeleton was determined later. The skeletal remains will be exhumed when DNA material is needed, he said.