Four members of the Blue Eyed Six took out an insurance policy on Joseph Raber, an elderly farmer, and promised to care for him until his death. As part of the conspiracy, the other two members, Franklin Stichler and Charles Drews, drowned Raber in nearby Indiantown Run in 1878. The trial that followed received international attention as the first trial for an insurance murder. Stichler and Drews were convicted of the murder along with three other members and were hanged in Lebanon in 1880. Stichler's mother carted his body home in a wheelbarrow and buried him here in the family's back yard. In the vicinity of Saint Joseph's Spring on McLean Road, a trading post, a group of houses, and a tavern and hotel also existed.