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..*.- CHRONICLES QF GYNTHIANA

OTHER CHRONICLES

liV MRS. L. BOYD

CINCINNATI UOBEKT CLAKKK & CO ]8i)4 COPYRIGHT, 18D4, BY MRS. L. BOYD PREFACE.

I have made it a rule tlirough life veccr to read u preface, and have often wondered why they were written. Noiq I know, since a certain brain eliihl has been born, wliose mother, you know, and wlio.se father is Necessity. They are written to introduce the siiiri-tual wanderer to the world, to beg mercy of the critics, or to say a last word, as I am about to do now. This town was settled before 1703, but the second general assembly of Kentucky granted the charter that year, and the town was named and then the corner­ stone of Cynthiana was laid. Fronl a few houses it has grown to the proportions of a city, and her chil­ dren think that here is the loveliest spot on earth. They may wander, but their love for her abides, and draws them to her a^fain, even froni foreign ligids. May God bless her always. (iii'i

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CIIAPtKK i: ()l,l) ClTIZKNS, ETC ^ 5 {'IIAITKU II. li/WVYKKH—PAST AND PKKSKNT ii(i ("IIAPTKK III. I'll YSICIANS—P.VST AND PuRSKNT. .r. r,A

(;IIAITI:K IV. TKACIIKKH AND SCHOOLS—JIIXISTICHS 101 (UIAI'TEIi V. Ol.mtKS Olf Tills {^OURT.S 107 PIIAPTKH VI. .VllDAl.l.AII PAUK.. '» > H7 CIIAPTKIt Vll. ("llOI.KRA Ilil ClIAI'TKU VIII. DAVID .*^Hi;i:f.Y AND MIS (iimsT rJ2 CIIAPTKIJ IX. Tun UNI-OHTIXATH DUTCHMAX l;i.') rilAPTKK X. THK HAIUIICITH OK 1S44.... , i;iS CHAPTKU XI. PiM.l.v's .\fCOlINT OK MOKIJ AN'.S UA II) VS) VI CONTENTS.

JSt^fii CHAPTKR XII. FRANCES AND KAiTiiFtri .• 150 niAPTKIl XIII. MARiiAUin^ (i(iri)v , 177

CHAPTKH XIV. Iliciii Hon AN 180

CHAPTER XV. TlIK A HOI. IT ION ISTS IN CvNTlriANA . 2()(i ClIAPTKk XVI. BEHAVIOR OK XEOROE.S WHEN KREED 200 CIIAPTHK xyii. "Po' UAIIIEL" 215 CIIAPTEU XVIII. Oi,D FAMILIES ; i':)7 OIIAPTKB XIX. MEN HORN HERE nuTjiisTiNcii'iNiiED ELSEWHERE 241 OIIAPTEU XX. CVNTIIIANA CEMETERIES .V. -'4.)

CHAPTER XXI, THE GHOST'S WALK 250

CHAPTER XXII. OLD UA LKADS 25:?

CHAPTER XXIII.: THE IILSTORIAN OK 180;i: GKEETING 258 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA

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OTHER CHRONICLES.

CHAPTER I.

CM) CITIZENS, ETC.

NESTLED among the fVirtije hills of Harrison county. Kentucky, is the little city of Cynthiana. Hither came actors, a hundred years ago, to

" Frot their little hour upon the stage, And tlien be seen no more.''

Few stones remain to mark the place where they played their last act—when death extinguished the footlights, and the weary actors crossed from Time to Eternity. If Ahrara Crossdale, who died and was buried in the old cemetery, in 1812, could rise from the dead and sit on his moss-grown tonibstone, how would he (»e surprised to see the cars thunder past his resting- jdace! And if he might interrogate " Young Amer­ ica " (he would n't be afraid of the " Old Ghost," not he), he might learn that since he fell asleep, eighty years ago, steamboats and steamships have been made (5) 6. CURONICLKS OF CYNTIIIAXA. to sail all tlje rivers and seas, and that they and steam cars had brought all the wonders of oiico unknown lands to our very doors; that a man iii (\viithiana can reprove, by word of mouth, his son who is in Cin

'.'The toueii of » vanished hand, But not for the souiid of a voice Hiat is Htill;"

For Edison has invented a machine to catch and hold for ages the sweet low voice of wonmn or the stirring tones of man's eloquencc^-that ouce uttered in tinu's past were lost forever. And that dear to the human heart as any discovery of any age is the one made by Dagucrre, who used the sunbeams as pencils with which to draw a perfect likeness of the human face, now woman's beauty may live after her. l>nt when Abram learns what is patent to the older members of this ge'licrati.on, namely, that when boys and girls now arrive at the ages of .sixteen ai^d soveiiteen years they cause the sun of authority to stand still, and begin to bring up their parents in the nurture and admo­ nition of Young America, he shall just turn around and crawl into his " moldy bed,'" pleased to await the summons of Gabi'iel. Every school-boy knows that Xerxes invaded (irreece nearly .500 years n. c, and that he saw from a liigh hill a plain below covered with 2,000,000 soldiers; and the sea, as far as the eye could reach, covered OLD CITIZEXS, ETC. 7

with his ships!. As the sun, in its western course', touched the waving pluiujcs and all the glittering niunimeiits of war belonging to that Vast array—the largest history r)i?c(4rds-^he wept to think that in a hundred years every soul before him woidd be dead. Alexander the Great conquered the world, and wept that there were no more worlds for him to conquer. .(acob ki.s.sed Uachael aiid wept—why, no human be­ ing, knows; but we <)f the present gei^enition weei) tliat ive may not live to see the vast stride.** art and s(!i- enjje will makt' in a hinich'ed years to coiiie. Perhaps by that time some mail sitting in. the c()urt-honse yard may look southward and see an aii'ship-comiwg from the south pole, with all her hull and rigging outlined against the sap|)hire sky'.' . fSh.e may dip-low enough to take on passengers, and then ciintiniie, on her northct'ij.wayi.as swiftly as the wild duck takes its tlight, in spring; to csca]>e the southern sun. The 7/rnvv'.yo«.v.^Tradition is.'the iipik fotuns that glimmers along the marsh lauds that divide the past from the present tinie. Wy its dim and uncertain light we must look at the pioneers who dared the wild beasts and wildi'r Indians of th'fs part of ''The 'Dark and DIoody (Jround," and founded t^yntbiana in the wilderness, it was named Cynthiana in, hoi\()r of Cyuthi^i and Anna Harrison. This passage oceurs in the "History-of Ilarnsou County:" "Tradition relates that Robert Harrison was a gay, healthv, rollicking son of the wilderness, jiist the man f()r the'times; and that his blooming young daugh­ ters, not then grown, were- the favorites of all their father's custcmiers and neighbors. The najiie Cynthi­ ana of course gave general satisfaction. But Robert" 8 CllROXICLKS OF CYNTHIANA.

Harrison soon sold out his rights to the soil here, for his farm was already) in 17i)8, laid" out into convenient streets and alleys, and, be'tbre Cynthia and Anna had reached womanhood^ he removed to Portsmouth, Ohio. There lie floiirisbed in business, his family grew up, and one of the daughters, we are not informed which, married a successful young nierchant of Philadelphia, and became an honored inatron in a prosperous family in thlit city." Imagination .takes up the thread where tradition drops it, and jiictures th«se beautifiil young girls, of twelve and fourteen years of age, stan

in the cabin before mentioned in the latter part of the last century. Mrs. Hays was a beautiful woman of the blonde type. ^ Tradition has nothing to do with the incidents about 'to be recounted. TJiey are facts handed down to us without exaggeration. Oiie, fc) have looked at the fair face and to haye watched the gentle manner of Mrs. Hays, would never have suppo.scd that she was as resolute and iii- trc'itid as any Ltdiaii that prowled in the woods about her dwelling; but her actions proved her heroism. Michael Hogg resided in the house'on the hill where Mr. Burk now lives, 'and owned several hun­ dred acres of the surrouiidiiig land from the year 1775 until hedied. Thomas Hogg, the son of Michael Hogg, was born at Iliiiksoii's Station in 1780, his mother and father having gone there from their place on the hill to escape iiiiissacre by the Indians. What IS, related happened when Tlioiiiiis was but a lad; therefore, it must have lieeii near the date of 17i)n. Mills at that time were starce and far apart. Cap­ tain Hays and a number of bis neighbors stai'ted early one morning with their grist to a mill miles away., Mrs. Hays was left in her cabin, which is still to be seen oii Captain Desha's place, alone with her little children and her rifle. Michael Hogg learned as night was falling that the Indians were, in ambush near Mrs. Hays's house, and that they were Avaiting foi- (lark to make an attack. He determined to warn her. He was compeJled to .«tay at his. own home to protect his family ; what must he do to save the lives of Mrs. Hays and her children ? He calledt'his son, Thomas, and told him of her OLD CITIZEXS, ETC. 11 danser. There must have been'' jriaiits among chil- dreil ill those days,'' for Thonias siiA'cited himself to be strii>ped of his clothing, greased in order that he might slip easily out of the Indians' hands if caught, mountetl his horse as twilight deeiieiied, and made his way swiftly to Mrs. Hays' cabin. He was barely in time to do his errand, for the Tii- (Ihms had surrounded the cabin at some distance away from it. Mrs. Hays heard a slight noise tat the (loor, and, fearing Indians, ojiened the (h)or, rifle in hand. She recognized little Thomas, drew him from ills horse, and placed liiiii in the cabiii. As she did so, she saw behind a falleU^tree iii the yard an Indian taking aim at her. She closed and barred the door, took her station at the port-hole of her cabin with her gnu at rest aimed ready to Are. The Indian cautiously put up his head to tire at her, for the light within the cabiii made her plainly visible, but she was too quick for him; she tired and the Indian fell mortally wounded. His conipaniohs bore him to the mouth of Gray's Run, where he died,. A moccasin used to staunch the bloo,d flowing from the wound of the dying man was found next day, and was ke[)t in the family of Dr. (iavin Morrison for many years. [s Michael H()gg, his son, Thomas, or Mrs, Hays nnist to be admired? .Michael Hogg was willing to risk the life (if his .son to .save the lives of his neighbor's wif(j and children. But how must Thomas have felt as he mounted bis horse in the twilight to go. as he knew, lierliap.s,'to captivity or cruel death? His courage did not falter: A soldier goes into battle to the sound of nuirtial music, and tiutes death in company of thou­ sands as brave as himself; but this child rode alone 12 CURONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

and unprotected in the dusk of eveijing on an errand of mercy. His deed is recorded in heaven, but it has almost passed away frcnn the minds of men. And Mrs. Hays—a fair young wonmn gently nurtured, well boru—nothing but love could have nerved her arm to do the awful deed she did! Think of her standing among her little children at evening in her Cabin in the wilderness^ knowing' that the fair locks of her dittle daughter might soon dangle from the belt of some savage Indian! The Maid of Orleans was the bravest woman that ever lived; she led an army to victory, and suft'ered death at the hands of the English by being burned at the stake. But could she have done these things with­ out the inspiration drawn from the thousands who looked on and admired and almost- wor.shipcd her? Could she have acted more bravely aloue in a cabin iii the wilderness than did Mrs. Hays? Mrs. Hays was a remarkable woman all her life, and she lived to the verge of extreme old age. When she was still young, she and her husband removed to the Scioto valley, 'Ohio. In her eighty-fourth,year, she came from there, on horseback, to visit the family of Mr. Perry Wlierritt, ho having married nor grand- niece, Zarelda Morrison. She arrived at Mr. Wher- ritt's house at sunset 'one summer evening, and the next morning—she felt no. fatigue—she arose before sunrise, and called Mr. Wlierritt to go with her to the old place—where Captain Desha n6w lives—that she might drink water from the old well. They stood by the well at sunrise. With what emotions of pleasure and deep regret she must have gazed on the beautiful scene spread out before her! Touched by the risen OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 1:5 sun was the steep hill down which little Tommy Hogg Inid .ridden, at breakneck speed, to warn her of dan­ ger on that fateful evening that but for him might have been her last. There, gl(>aming in the early light, was Gray's run, murmuring as it wound past the point where her old enemy, the Indian, had died. There wer(3 the trees under Avhich her children had ])layed, and beyond were the green meadows across which her husband came home when work was done. She looked long and silently around her, and then slowly left the place. This was her last visit to Ken­ tucky and last farewell to the scenes of her youth. < Jjong since, her heroic heart has ceased t() heat, but her brave actions are inimortal. When a word is p'[ioken, it becomes a thought embodied, an entity, a thing born for good o.r evil. So with a brave deed that is. done; it livesiand moves mankind years after its author is silent and forgotten in the shades of death. Mrs. Clenienfiiia Wall, second wife of Major W. K. Wall, was descendpd, on the father's side of the house, from the .lanviers, French Huguenots, who fled from Paris on the night of tlie 23d of August—St. -BartlioJ- omew's Eve—in time of the bloody massacre. Just what time the Janviers, or .Tanuarys, came to Ken­ tucky is not known by aiiy one 'now in Cynthiana. The mm have all been well educated, scholarly gen­ tlemen, and the women very beautiful. Mrs. Wall, in her girlhood, was remarkably beautiful. She in­ herited intellect from the Janviers, and that grace of manner that belongs to Frenchwomen alone. Her mother was a Miss Marshall, sister to Hon. Ilnmphroy Marshall, historian of the state. 14 CHRONICLES OP CYNTHIANA.

The Mai'shails are and have been>?gifted people. A descendant, as Mrs. AVall was, of two distinguished lines, bow could sh(3 have failed to be the superior woman she was?" Major Wall liad several young childreji of his first wife's when he brought lionie his second wife, She reared them, and three Children of her own born after her marriage with. Major Wall. To bring up a large family of children is more diflicult than^ to be com­ monwealth's attorney for twenty years, a legislator, or a soldier in the wars. Eternal vigilance is the price of many more things as well as of liberty. So much any woman learns who rears a largo family, and does her duty. Mrs. Wall died in her seventy-sixth year, In whatever distant reahn she now abides, divided from us by the mists and shadows of this lower life, "May she dwell ill peace, and may perpetual light shiiie around lier." Samuel Lamme came to Kentucky i-n 1797 from Aguila county, Virginia. In 1790, married Nancy Steel, and settled on Licking river al);out one mile north of what afterward became Cynthiana. As was the custom, he selected a site for li house near a large spring, built a darii, and erected a saw and grist mill on the Licking. The mill soon became of consid­ erable iniportaiicetothe settlers for many miles round. The temporarydam was soon replaced by aiiernianout substantial ,one, which lasted for half a century. Wheat from portions of Bourbon, Scott, and Fayette counties ground at this famous Jjamme's mill was hauled in wagons to the mouth of Beaver creek, now Claysville, taken on flat-boatst o New Orleans and otlicr cities on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Mr. OLD CITIZENS^ ETC. 15

Lamme, in 1820, built his second dwelling-house, which stands to tjais day, a substantial, typical southern house. He was a scholarly gentlerfia" of the old school, a thorough Latin scholar, a civil en­ gineer, and possessed 'many accomplishments. Some of his surveying instruments are jvi'eserved among his descendant's. It was his delight to entertain especially ministers of the Presbyterian church, to which he was dev(>tedly attached. Presbytery and Synod were sometimes held at his liouse. Of the seven children born to him, lie chose to control the education of the sons aloiie, leaving the supervision of the daughters' learning to his Avife. On one occa­ sion a teacher called to solicit young lady pupils. Mr. Lamme examined one of his daughters in gram­ mar before the teacher, aiid-'whcu lie had finished, Mrs. Lamme said, " ^lary knows enough now to go to work." , Sanuiel Lamme died in 1825. None of his de­ scendants are living in this county now, b'lt the chil­ dren and grandchildren of Mary Steel Lamme and her husband, Colonel Alexander Grimes. The oldest son, William Lamme, volunteered m the famous Dick. .lohnson regiment, and served as clerk of the com­ missary during the time of service. He was one of the pioneer Santa Fe traders in which he and his [lartiier, IIi(!kman, father-in-law of the late Hon. .faiaesTiollins, of Columbia, Missouri, amassed a large fortune. After the death- of Samiiel Lamnie's father, his sister, who had married contrary to the wishes of her family and parents, I'anie from Missouri to visit him and receive through him her patrimony. She was 16 OHllONlUliKS OF CVNTHIANA. not named in her father's vvill, but Sarnucl, with the consent of his wife, gave her from his share of the estate what would have been hers under an impartial division of her father's property. In 1829, William Lainma returned to Kentucky and purchased the homestead fai-m and mill, lie had contracted rheumatism in .the West and preferred mercantile pursuits to farming. He formed a i)art- nel'ship with William A. Withers, father of J. S. Withers, banker of this jdace, which partnership con­ tinued until liis death in ,1838. Mr. Lamme had many men in his employ, but said that he never had better boys to work for him than John lieiiaker and Larkin Gariiett, both of wlumi became prominent citizens of this county. Captain of militia, John Renaker, was the father of Hon. Adam Reiiaker, late of this town. The Withers Faniibj.—The Withers, or Wythers, or Withers are of Norman ancestry. Knights of that name came to England with William the Conqueror. The first of its members of whom there is any authen­ tic record was Sir Thomas Wytlier, Knight, who was servant and counselor to Henry, firstduk e of Lan­ caster, afteiHvard Henry IV., king of England. This was in a stormy period of English history, about the year 1325, after the Magna Charter, and about the time Robert Bruce became king of Scotland. Aboiut this period the large landed property of Knights Templar was taken from them. The Lancas­ ter party was under susijieion of having shown favo;- to Robert Bruce. Their fortunes went down with the fall of Lancaster and the Red Rose, and did not rise OLD CITIZEXS, ETC. 17

again until the Stuart dynasty in tlie iterson of Charles the First. Copied from Burk's Landed Gentry, vol. 2, page 153K: " Wither of Maiinydown. Bigg-Wither, the Rev. Lovelace oi' Maiinydown, Tangier Park, Hampshire. .J. P., born 17th Sept., 1805, married July, 1829, Jemima, fourth daughter of Rev. John Orde by lion. Frances Chai'leton his first wife, daughter of Grey, Lord Dorclicster. Sir Thomas Wyther, Knight, was banished from England for killing Sir Robert do Hol­ land, but was afterward recalled; left a son, Thomas Wyther, wlio married and had issue, Thomas, who was servant and steward to the Abbot Whalley E. Lancaster. Having slain Sir Thomas Worseley this Thomas, his.two brothers and their families fled into Cheshicr and served the abbot of Vale Royal. Robert Wither settled at Maiinydown in the parish of St. Lawrence Wottoii Hants, toward the close of the reign of Edward the Third, and his clesccndants have ever since resided there. Of this family was George Wither, the celebrated poet, who was only son of George Wither, Es^q., of Beiitvvorth Hants, second son of Richard Wither, Esq., of Maiinydown, who died in 1577." This pedigree is continued in a direct and unbroken line until we come to James Withers, now chief con­ stable of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, who has Avritten that the names of John, James and William AVithers have been known in bis family for many gen­ erations in-Lancashire, England, and that one of the AVithers came to England with William the Con- qu(jror from Normandy. 18 CHRONICLES OF CVXTIIIANA.

Dorothy AVither, born November 11,1G61, married, November 11, 1084, Lovelac(3 .Uigg, Esq., of Chilton Folliat, Wiltshire, soii of Kittliard Bigg, Esq., of Haiiis Hill, Berkshire, by Alary, his second wife, daughter and heir of Timothy AV^ade, Es(j., of London, and dy­ ing Alay, 1717, left with other sons who died single, and six daughters, of wlioin the eldest, Alary Bigg, was wife of Charles Blackstoiie and mother of Sir AVilJiam Blackstoiie, the fanious commentator on the laws. The list of passengers who came to Jamestown,- A'irginia, during the sixteenth century contained two AVithers. First known .record in V^irginia iS of .John AV^itliers, the ancestor'of Thomas AVithers of Green Aleadows, Fauq,uicr county, Virginia. Thomas mar­ ried and had issue: 1. John Withers, who moved to Gal latin,.Teiine.s.see. 2. Alatthew Keeiie, who married Aliss Jennhigs of Fau(iuier county, A^irginja, lived and (lied there leaving several descendants. William AVith­ ers, captain in Revolutionary War, wounded at River Raisin fight,marrie d Patsy Asliby, and moved to*Ken­ tucky; Enoch Keeiie AVithers married Janet Cihiiin ; Benjamin AVithers moved to Kentucky; Sucky mar­ ried Chichester Chinii of Fau(juier county, Virginia; Sally married Minor AVinii; Nancy married Cato West. Captain Williaih Withers 'settled in Mercer coui)ty, Kentucky, succ.cteded by his son Abijah AVith­ ers, died leaving AViliiam Withers, now of Alillsap, Texas, and Elizabeth Mason, wife of Dr. George Mason, now of dilreeii county, Illinois. From Benjamin AVithei's are desoeiidcd: AViliiam A. AVithers, late of this towu, who was the father of J. S. Withers; General Temple AVithers, of Lexiiig- OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 19

ton, and Airs. Jan(^ Smith, of New York; Alice AVjth- ers, sister of W,. A. Withers, married Captain Joseplx Boyd, father of the late J. Strother Boyd, Dr. M. AV. Boyd and Airs. Ann Miller, of Paris, Kentucky, ajid gra^idmother of Mr.s. M. E. AVard, wife of J. Q. Ward, ex-judge ,of Superior Court of Kentucky. George Withers, now dead s(nne years, was brother to Will­ iam A. AVithers, and has left many descendants in Harrison county. Colonel Isaac Miller was born in , King George ^county, Virginia, in 1779. In 1803, he inarrlod Eliz- aljeth Hawkins, who was born iii Prince Charles cc5wity, Maryland. He and h\s wife came here the same year in which they,were married. Colonel Miller was the first nierchant who ever opened a store in Cynthiana. His* store-rooms W).'rc erected oil the site where Airs. Fitzjiatrick's house now stands, on the other side of Licking, at the foot of the old bridge. When Cynthiana was an infant, ladies were compelled to go shopping in a skifl'or cross in a ferry­ boat to reach Colonel .Mi.llcr's store. It niust have been a perilous undertaking, when the river was at high wafer mark, to go after a paper of pinsi Colonel Miller "built the old steam mill, and a conipany was formed to have Cotton spun in it, of wjiieli company Colonel Miller was president. He also- Iniilt the old mill which was for years called Dill'.s mill. Colonel Miller was cashier of the first bank established here, 1818, and AViliiam ALu'ris Avas president. Early in this century Colonel Aliller built the house in which Air. Spoliu now lives, and in 1825 he built a beautiful house on tlio hill, now owned by Afr. Samuel Ash- brook, and oh the same spot where Mr. Ashbrook's 20 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. new house now staiids. This house was a large square structure, of Athenian style, and was the handsomest house in this town for more than fifty years. In this house Colonel Aliller and his lovely wife reared their children, and grew old, and were not ashamed t(i acknowledge that they were old. Mr. Henry Warfield reinembors his grandmother as a handsome old lady, with white hair parted beneath a white lace cap, having long white strings that met beneath the chin. Many people remember Airs. Alil­ ler and the old ladies of her time as the last old. ladies of Cynthiana. There are no old women here now. AVe have a few young WOIIKJU who are'approaching sev­ enty, but their hair is banged and frizzed girhshly across their foreheads, and they have put oft" the allot­ ted time to one himdred and seventy in place of sev­ enty years, as the Bible has it. But TimC and Death play havoc among them just as of old. Colonel Aliller and his wife were I'resbyterians, and Colonel Aliller was the first member of that church who served as elder after its establislinient in this town. Mrs. Aliller and her husband were true Christians, full of charity and good feeling toward their fellow- men, and the sweet influence of their lives is felt in Cyiitbiana to this day. They had seven children; Harriet, who married Thomas AVare; Eglantine, who married Dr. Hodges; Eliza married Mr. Warfield; another daughter married Colonel Brown; another, a -Mr. Lampton; and Sarah married Rev. Carter Page^ once of this town, now of Cbillicothe, Missouri; I. N. Miller married Afiss AIcMillau. Hawkins Miller graduated in medicine in 1833, and died that same year of cholera. Mrs. Lampton is the mother of the OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 21

Air. Lampton, of AVashington, D. C, who writes the " Judg(* AVaxham letters." lie is also a cousin to Mr. Henry Wai-field. Warfields.—The AVai-fields were prominent people here in the beginning of the town's history. Mr. and Mrs. Warfield had born to them ten, children—^five sons and five daughters. The daughters married, the eldest first. The names of their husbands were Colonel Wm. .Brown, Mr. Theobald, Dr. .Joel Frazer, .Mr. James Coleman—who wa.^ a 'soldier in the AVar of 1812 and as good a citizen as ever live(l in Har­ rison cQUnt3\ The name, of the other daughter's husband cuan not be found. The sons were F]lisha> Benjamin, Lloyd, Nicholas, and Heniy-^who was the father of Mr. Henry AVarfield, grandson of Colonel .Miller. Airs. Warfield lived to a good old age, and died while on a visit to Bryant's Station. Jttdi/e Alexander Keith 3Iarshall McDowell was the son of Samuel AIcDowell, who married Anna Irvine. Ho Avas born in Mercer county, Kentucky, in 1806. Jle receiA'cd a collegiate education, and Avas a fine classical scholar. He Avas a soldier in the Black IlaAvk Avar and in the late civil Avar. ,'About the time of the surrender, he Avas chosen probate judge of Marengo county, Alabama." Space forbids that his genealogy be traced back to its source^through statesmen, scholars, and men at arms in Scotland, Avhere hun­ dreds of years ago his ancestors, in battle, Avere a terror to their foes. Time nor space shall prevent it being said of Judge AIcDowell, that he Avas the best one of his name that ever lived. So the people of Cynthiana believe, and they kncAV him well. It is not only the soldier Avho fearlessly fights and 'SI CHRONICLES OF CYXTHIANA. tifills in the defense of his country that is the bravest man; it is he Avbo Avins many victorie.s-^in the great battle of life—in defense ot the right, the helpless and suft'eriiig poor, Avho should be coA'eivd Avitli glory at the day's decline, as Avas Judge AICDOAVCII. TO his descendants he has bequeathed a legacy of far more Avorth than the long line of ancestry from Avhicli he came, or the armorial bearings that Avould have been carved above his place of repose, had he died in Scot­ land, and that legacy is a spotless name carved on his tomb, liesun/am, for he Avas a true Christian. William Maffce, who married Lu'cinda L(3ve, came from Virginia in the year 1815, bringing Avith him his children—Thomas, Harrison, William, Baird, and Mary Magee—the children of his first Avife. He set­ tled on the banks of Licking river, near Poindexter's station, on a claim latterly kiioAvn as the AViliiam Lake farm. This farm contained about two hundred acres. The children born to AViliianrMagee in this state Avere .John L., Robertson, Samuel Love, and a daughter AVIIO died young. Air. Alagee was a man of Avealth, and Avas a good financier. He brought many slaves Avith him from A'^irginia to this county, among Avhom Avas Aloses, the famous story teller. AViliiam Magee died in 1847, and his Avife in 1803. The only descendants of William and Lucinda Alagoe UOAV liv­ ing in this county arj3: Hon. AV M. Aloore, speaker ofthehou.se of •representatiA'cs; 11. AL Alageo; Simon, EdAvard, Harrison, and Kate Magee', AVII(.> married a Air. Case. Harrison Alagee died in 1807; John L. Alagee, mendiant of this toAvn at one time, in 1889. Aiacalla Magee, a soldier in the civil Avar on the Fed­ eral side, resides in this toAvn. He has not turned OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 23

Democrat for the sake of office, and noA^er Avill. He married Anna, daughter of Leslie and Louisa Clay- pool Bentz. "•Amnds of the Frazier Faniil)/.—(Copied.)—In the fall of 1877, meeting a gentleman by the name of Eraser on the cars, then a stranger to me, and sjieak- iiig ofthe ditt'erence in the orthography of our names, it transpired in the coiiA'crsation that the ancestors of each had come from Alassachusetts, and tluit Ave both had the tradition in .our respective families that our name had once been Frizzle; further that we were of Scotch lineage; that the name in Scothuid Avas Fraser, and had been changed for iirudential reasons to Frizzle by a Scotch ancestor, Avho had emigrated to Massachusetts,,then an English coh)iiy, and who had fled from some political persecution or embarrass­ ment at home by reasons of unhappy relations that had existed at that remote^inie betAveen the English people and the Scotch." An old family tradition recites that in the distant age of Charles the Simple, A. D. 91 ij, a nobleman of Bourbon, by name Julian De lU-rry. presented that monarch Avith some very fine straAvljcm-ies, and so much to his majesty's satisfaction" that he Avas knighted Avhen in an assemlilage of nobles, and the surname Praize substituted for De Berry. Anderson's history ofthe famil}' Fraser, published in London and Kdinburg, 1825, says : " Exjieriencing ditt"eroiit modi­ fications, the liame of old was indiscriminately written Fraizeau and Frisil. In our ancient records, Ave find the clan.styled Fresal or Eraser." AVliVn it is under­ stood that in the French language a strawberry ia called a fraise or fraize, and that, accol-diiig to analogy, 24 CHRONICLES OF CYNTill.ANA.

Fraizeur AA'oiild indicate one who cultivated .straw- berries, the signification of the name bestoAved by King Charles will be understood. The firsto f the surname of Frazer in Scotland Avas undoubtedly of Norman (French) (U-igin, and, it i,s not improbable, came over AVitli AViliiam the Con­ queror. The firsto f the name in Scotland is imder- st(jo(l to have settled there in the reign of Malcom Caiuuorc (A. D. 1095), Avlieii surnames first Ijcgan to be iisest-ofHce in AVest Virginia, an(Hliere is a Frazier street in Chicago. From the sanie lineage are de­ scended Dr. Joel Fraser, Janies Fraser, father of N. AV. Fraser of this town,, and others of the same name in this and tither states. Dr. -Gaciii Morrison Avas born in Pennsylvania, near Cannonsburg, and Avas of S(;otch-Irish descent, a Presbyterian, and a man of learning, having gi'a*d- uatcd at Princeton, New Jersey, in law, medicine, and OLD CITIZE.NS, ETC. 25

theology. About the middle of the last century, he married. Hannah Raiikins, of Fairfax county, A'ir- ginia, and returned Avith her to Peniisylvania, Avliere thoy TiA'cd until six of tlicir children \vc;re born. They then yemoA'cd to Pittsburg (or Fort Pitt), Avhere they remained a year niakiiig prejiarations to emigrate to Kentucky. Dr. Alorrison had a flat-boat built largo t'liongli to hold his family and eight shives, farming implements,and stock, and Avlien it Avas completed,he, and all beloiiiiinc: to him went on board and the boat Avas directed toward the Avildcriiess of Kentucky. After AVeary days and nights (if SIOAV traA'cl, they landed at Alaysville, and made their Avay in Avagoiis, Avith the negroes driving the stock biifore them, to Cyntliiaiia. Dr. Alorrison lived in a log-hoiisc on the loAver i)art of Pheasant street until he could build the large brick house, once the i)r(5perty of -J. S. Boyd, now belbnging to K. .M. Collier. He Aveiit to Phila- dc^tfdiia to ]irocuro Avorkmen to erect the building and burn the bri,ck. The house Avas in the course of •erec­ tion for four years, and Avas completed about the year 1800. Then Dr. Alorrison gaA'e a barbecue, the like of Avhieh had ncA'cr been seen in this part of the counti'}* before. The jieople came from far and near, and the fame of that liouse-vyarming has descended from father to son in this town. Dr. Alorri.son niade several trijis to Philadelphia, notwithstanding tlie jierils of that early day. Beh)Av \k an extract from a letter that Avill tliroAv some light on' the shiA-e trade. SlaA'c trailers, like hangmen, liaA'c been CA'cr despised, although in the long run the slave trad(jr was a bene­ factor to the eaptiv,(,'s he decoyed and cruelly separated foiicA'cr from tlieir native land. 20 ClIKO.S'ICLES OF CYXTHIAXA.

E.etr(ui from a letter nrilten dy Mrs. Warden, of St. Louis, 3Io.—"Great-grandfather Gavin Alorrison brouglit eight negro slaves Avith liim Avhen he came to Kentucky. After a fcAV years, he returned to Phil­ adelphia and bought tAvo Giiinea negroes ofi" of a shiA'c ship that had just come in. They were brought to Cynthiana in the clothes they Avorc Avhen captured. The girl had on a short, loose garment, and Avas gir­ dled about Avaist, neck, and Avrists, Avith singular , looking bead.s. The boy had on nothing blit a breech- clout. The girl seemed suiierior to the boy in e\'ery Avay. She called the boy A'akob, and he called her LltiO. AVlien they had learned to talk, they told hoAV they Avero enticed aAvay. The shiA^e traders came Avhen they Averc minding the rabbits olf of the pea patch. They saAV the Avhite men coming and hid themseh'es in the jiea vines. The Avhite men came near their hiding-place and disjilaySd beads and trin­ kets. They came out to look at tliem, and Avere ca[itured and taken to the ship. They said the traders filledth e ship before they left Guinea. Yakob and L!65 Avcre a source of aniusemeii.t to the other slaves, AVIKJ Avere so niuch in advance of tliem in civ­ ilization, and one day they tore LiOfi's beads front her Avaist. She prostrated herself on the earth, and re­ fused to rise until they Avere restored. They had learned'a fcAV English Avords by the time the first siioAV fell after their arrival, and they yelled salt and gathered it in their hands. AVhen it melted they Avere frighteno(.l. It Avas the same Avay about the first ice they found and tried to Avarm. A\nien it rained, the boy took oft" the clothes his master had given him, and made signs that he did not Avant them to OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 27 get AA'ct! Their descendants IUIA'C forgotten that roast baby Avas ever considered, in Africa, a dainty dish.'' The Itanlcin Women.—Dr. Gavin Morrison married Hannah Rankin, C'aptain Hays married Letty, David Blackburn married Jenny, and General CraAA'ford, of RcA'ohitioiiary fame, married Ami Rankin, and another married, a Roberts. They all seem to have been re­ markable Avomeii. Da\'id Blackburn AA'as a Tory, and Avas ill the [irisoii-ships ott" ('harleston Harbor in time ofthe Re\-oluti(^ii. Dayid Rankin, great-groat-grand- fathcrto the children of Perry AVherritt, of this toAvii, Avent Avith Jeniiv IJlackburn, his dauirhter, to Charles- ton, and remained there a year trying to eft"cct Black­ burn's release. When the Avar AA'as over David Black­ burn and lii.s Avife came to Kentucky Avhere thoy-lived and died. The progenitor of the Kentucky Alorrisons Avas at the seige of Londonderry, 1089, and made one of the seven thousand Protestants behind the Aveak walls of that toAvn AVIIO cried, " No surrender,'' Avlien the men Avere dying of hunger aroun'd them. FelixJ^jr and If Asjihroolc married Elizabetli Todd, and came hei-e at the ti'iiro this county was being settled. They had three sons, Felix, Thomas and Samuel; f{nn' daughters, .Jane; Cassan,dra, Alartha and Elizabeth. Felix niarried Elizabeth King; Thomas, Artemesia Bellas; Samuel, Susan Robertson. Jane married Lar­ kin Garnett; Cassandra, AViliiam Lake; Alartha, An­ drew Garnott, and the first husband of Elizabeth Avas a Air. Remington, the last Law.son Oxiey. Air, Ashbrook came from. Alary land. The men of the family have been prominent and prosjierous citizens of this town and county, and the Avonien have been 28 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

distinguished for their Christian charity. The Gar- netts came from A'irginia. Like the Ashbrooks they have been good and prosperous citizens. There is no one who can tell any thing about the history of the family; but the members of it Avho IUIA'C resided in thi.s toAVii and county must ha\'e descended from good stock, if you "judge the tree by its fruits." Cluirles T. Wilson.—llcwvy AVilson, the grandfather of C. T. Wilson, is mentioned in the "Biography of B. AV. Stone." Says Stone: "In the fall of 1797,1 left Caneridge for Georgia, in comiTany Avith Henry AVilson, Avho led a hor.se packed Avith .sih'cr, and Avas going to A'^irginia on land business. Having i-epaired to the house rendezvous for travelers at the Crab Orchard, Ave learned that a company had just left that place, just two hours before, Avitli intention to camp at the Ilazlepatch that night, AVe instantly folloAvod at a quick pace, determined to ride late and oi'ertake them. About ten o'clock, Ave came to the Ilazle­ patch, but, to our di.strcss, AVO found no one there. Aly companion being an early settler of Kentucky, and often engaged in AvarAvith the Indians, advised to turn oft' the road some distance, and encamp till day. Having kindled a fire,suppe d and hobbled ourhorses,. and prayed togetlicr, AVC laid dovyn in our blankets to rest. But AVC Avere soon aroused from slumbers by the snorting and running oflp of our horses. AVe sprang up, and saAV afire about one hundred and fiftyyard s boloAV us, and in a moment it Avas pulled asunder; as quickly did my companion pull ours apart also. He Avhispered to me: ' They are Indians after our horses.' AVe lay down again, not to sleep, but to consult the best method of escape. AVe soon distinctly heard an In- OLD CITIZEXS, ETC 29 dian cautiously Avalking on the dry leaves tOAvard our camp, about fifty yards oft". Fearing )ie might shoot us in our blankets, Avithout noise Ave crept into the bushes. A short time after, Aye heard' the Indian walk oft"in the same cautious manner.- AVo concealed the bag of money, and most A'aluable goods, and hung up our blankets and bags of provisions OA^er our camp, and cautiously Aveiit toAvard the course our hor.ses had gone. AVhen it Avas day, Ave found their trace, and overtook tliem about eight o'clock, and rode back very Avatchfully to our camp. AVhen AA'C came near it, Ave Avith difficulty compelled our horses to-advance, they frequently snorting and Avheeling back. AVe every mouient expected to be fii'(5d upon, but Avere mercifully preserved. We packed uji very quickly, and sAviftly luirsuod the company, and later in the day came up with them. They informed us that Avheii they came to Ilazlepatch, the evening before, they fouiid a camji of Avliite people, just before defeated, several lying dead and mangled in Indian style; they pushed for- Avard, and traveled late at night. We clearly saAv the kind hand of God in delivering us. Information re­ ceived from a Bourbon county man. "Mr. Charles Wilson's father was a merchant of Paris, Kentucky, and, Avhen tlie first bank Avas estab­ lished there, ho brought $40,000 from Philadelphia, in a box that he used as a footstool, and came home by stage route. He Avas empoAvered to bring this money by the bank authorities, and not required to giA'c bond to them for this large amount of specie. His honesty Avas a sufficient guaranty." The Hinkstons.—Said Thomas liinkston, of this place: My grandfather. Colonel John Hinkston, set- 30 CHRONICLES OF CYNTill.ANA. tied Hinkston Station in April,.1775. He A\^as in command of it Avlien Simon Girty and his Indian fol- loAVors attacked it. Colonel Hinkston defended the station until his ammunition was exhausted, and then Avas forced to surrender—to the renegade Girty! He exacted a pnmiise from him, before he gaA'e himself up, that the Uicn, Avomen, and children should be al­ lowed to remain in the fort in safety. The promise was giA'^en by Girty, and Colonel Hinkston Avas takpn as a prisoner to the "broad ford," tAA-^o miles north of Coleinansville. That night the Indians put their arms stacked, and their prisoners, Colonel Hinkston and a young girl, in tlie center of a circle the inner circum­ ference of which Avas described by their heads lying side by side, and their feet describing an outer circle or penumbra, for their heads Avere gayly decorated Avitli Avar paint and feathers, and their feet Avere bare and seen dimly in the starlight. In the night the young girl cut the bonds that bound Colonel Hinkston, hand and foot, and he seized his gun, sprang across tlie mirroAvest jiart of the human circle, and made tor the riA'er and jumped into it and swam safely across it amid bullets striking the Avater all around him. As soon as he had craAvled up the bank, he entered a thicket, and after some time he found a large fallen tree that Avas holloAv. Into that he crept to aAA'ait deA'elopments. There AA'as a dense Yog along the Licking the next morning, but the Indians were on the trail. He heard turkeys gobble in every direction, but he did not leave his retreat, for he knoAV the Indians Avere imitating the familiar sound of the,then AAMICI fowls. When night came doAvn, he made his AVUV to Hinkston Station and OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 31 removed men, women, and children from it as soon as j)()ssi1)le, and it Avas desertiid for some time. From Colonel John Hinkston his descendants in­ herited thousands of acres of land. Thomas Hink­ ston, his grandson, has, hoAVever, amassed his OAVU fortune, none of that large tract of land which be­ longed to his grandfather having descended to him. Michael Smith, great grandfather of . Prof". N. F. Smith and Dr. Benjamin 'Smith, of Cynthiana, was a Revolutionary soklier, and suffered many hardships on the march in the winter camps, in the jirison ships at Philadelphia, and'in every Avay .that a braA'O soldier could suft'er. AVhen the Avar AA'as ended and he Avas returning home,| he and many others Avere pois­ oned by a tory Avoman, Avho served cofi"ee for them at so.me touse Avhere they stopped to refresh them­ selves, Alichaol Smith, by his knoAvledge of medicine, saved his own lifx; and pursued his journey home. His marriage AA-as romantic. AVhen Chillicotlie, Ohio, Avas taken by Indians, Alichael Smith Avas there, and ho and a number of men and one young girl of fifteen years Avere nuido prisoners. They Avere marched to Detroit from Ohillicothe, and this young girl was forced by her captors to carry a large iron kettle on her head the whole of the long journey. AVhen they Avere released, having been prisoners a year, and about to return to their homes, the young girl said that all her peojile had been killed at Cbillicothe, Ohio, by the Indians, and that she had no home. She refused to accompany the liien to the white settlements, and said that she would try to get Avork in Detroit; Michael Smith read between her AVords that a sense of the proprieties kept her from accompanying so 3 32 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. many men, Avith no fttherfemale s to keep her -com­ pany oil the long and dangerous march. So he pro­ posed to marry the pretty little gir.l of sixteen, and she accepted him. TlnJy Avere married on the eve of their departure from Detroit; and their, Avedding journey Avas made on foot through the Avilderness amid the dangers of that early- daj^. Michael Smith Avas borii in 1764, and lived to be almost one hundred years old. He lies buried on Avbat Avas (ince the old Martin Smith farm. He Avas ahvays a Democrat, and managed, Avhen he was infirm and old, to hobblt; to the polls leaning on a staft" about five feet long that might serve as' a Aveapon of oft'ense or defense as the case required. In 1833 General Lucius Desha atttiincd his majority, and cast liis first vote—for Avhom it is not now knoAvn— but he Avas a Democrat, as Avas Michael Smith. He stood aside Avhen he saAV the old RcA'olutiomiry soldier approaching the polls and let him vote before him. A young springall of a AVliig jumped up and cracked his heels together and said: " Watch me kill that old Democrat's vote." Michael Smith raised his long staft" and brought it doAvn on the youth's head before he had time to A'ote, and ho fell siiraAvling. No one took up tlie youth. He gathered himself together and sneaked off Avithout any noise. I'rof. Franklin Smith, his great-grandson, Avas a Confederate soldier, and as brave as any body in the army. He is noAv professor of a private school here, and is considered, by far, the best mathematician that ever taught in this tOAvn. He has prepared several young inejii for Yale and other colleges, Avho have Avon distinction. His great-grandfather, Michael Smith, Avas Avith McCol- OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 33

lough, and perhaps saAV that dijring man make his Avild leap over the crag in Virginia. It js no Avon- dcr that Prof. Smith is able to drill the youth of Cynthiana, since the line from which ha came is knoAvii. Captain JoHn Hamilton was born in York county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1767. Says John Ham­ ilton, in an old record kept by him>,^nd noAV in the possession of Elizabeth Smith, his granddaughter: "At that time, 1777, tea and (joft"ee Avere not used; beef, beef soup, milk and barley bread >verc the prin­ cipal diet." It is also gathered from this record that feather beds WCYG unknoAvn to the pioneers of Penn­ sylvania, and that straAV beds and chaft" pilloAvs were soft ertough for them. Children Avere ten or twelve years old befoue they had hats or shoes. Consunqition Avas not among the people at that time. A man's Avord A'as his only bond for any thing he might oAve, and he seldom failed to keep it. Mr. Hamilton AA'as tAventy years old before he ever saAv a physician or kncAV Avhat the Avord meant. Ho also remembered Avhen his kinsman, Hans Hamilton, bought, from a shiA'o ship, twenty Guinea negroes at £20 per head. Hans Hamilton and his slaA'os killed an innnense bear near their home, Avhich Avas Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Avherc they were plentiful at that time. Captain Ham­ ilton came to Kentucky in the autumn of 1787 ; set­ tled in Fayette county; removed to Bourbon county the winter that Paris, Kentucky, Avas laid oft" as a town—Bourbon and Harrison were one at that time. He remained here until the Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania, AA'hich Avas iii 1794, and then he ven­ tured to that state, and brought his "worm and still" 34 CDRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. to Hinkston Station, and Avas the first man, in Ken­ tucky, to make copper distilled AVhisky. The first Masonic Lodge Avas held in an uji-stairs room of his " still " house. Captain Hamilton Avas never a Alason, but believed to the day of his death that, to be in­ itiated into the Alasonic Lod^o, one niust,ride the goat and clind) thdtt greasy jiole." AV^illiam Hamilton and Alary, his Avife, parents of Captain John Hamilton, had eight children, none of Avhom died under eighty years of age. Captain Hamilton married Rachel Cook, of Vir­ ginia. The children born to them Avere, Alargaret, Alary, Sarah, Nancy, Seiitimus, John and Caroline. John Hamilton Avas a captain in the War of 1812, and commanded a company of mounted riflemen under General Hopkins. The record of Captain Hamilton ends in these Avords: " I have never been intoxicated in my life, but have sold thoU' sands of gallons of Avhisky; never belonged to any religious sect; never took an obligation to keep a secret; never belonged to any secret order. I be­ lieve in one God, maker and preserver of all things, and by Avhom I exist, and by Avhose order I shall pass from this life, but where 1 know not." He passed to that " undiscoA'ored country," September 25, 1863, in the 97th year of his age. Tlw Rcnakcrs.—Adam Renaker Avas born near Ila- ger.stoAvn, Alaryland, about the year l'^72; and came to Kentucky about the year 1796. Oji his journey here, he married a handsome widoAV, Avhose maiden name Avas Elizabeth Lemon. They settled on the waters of TAvin creek. They had born to them five sons and OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 35

one daughter. The daughter married Joseph .TcAvett, of Grant county, Kentucky. The names of the sons are John, Jacob, Paul, George, and Noah. Each of the above-named sons of Adam Renaker married and lirought up large families, and their children maiTied and roared a numerous jjiogcny ; so tlfat the Renaker family is one of the largest and best known fSmilies' of this state. Many ofthe name live in (itlier states, but, as far as the name goes, prosperity and thrift, honesty and perseverance foIloAA' it. Alen and Avomen can not do as much for their country, iii aii.y other Avay as by i-earing and educating large families. B. C. 884, liA'cd Lycurgus; he forced parents to train their children in such a Avay as to be a benefit to the state, '•and produced a-system Avhicli gave rise to all the magnanimity, fortitude, and intrepidity Avliich distin­ guished the Lacedionioniaiis.'* The Sch)nischers or- Smisers. -^¥vom George Schmischer, born, in Germany, are descended the Smisors of this town and those of Hates county, Mis­ souri. George Sniiser; son of Geoige Smisor, came from Germany years before the Revolution and lo­ cated in Pennsylvania. AVhen the battle of Lexing­ ton Avas fought, and the'Revolution was under Avay, he joined the Patriots, and fought through the Avar. After its clo.se, ho came to Hinkston's Station, and married a sister of Charles Lair. She died, and he married another sister. At her death, he married their cousin, a Mi.ss Lair, of Lincoln county, Ken­ tucky. The sons born to him of these marriages Avere Samuel, Milton, George, Darius, and William ; the daughters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary, and Celia. 36 CHRONICLES OF CYjfTHIANA.

Elizabeth married Dr. Harter ; Mary, James Fraser; Catherine", Wesley Lair;-and Celia died unmarried. Darius, son of George Smiser, married LoUisa Smith, daughter of Michael Smith, and their children are Dr. John II., James W., and Samuel II. Louisa Smith died, and Darius Smiser niarried a Aliss HoAve. Their children are Benjamhi, Hubbard, Charles, Henry, Franklin, and Echvard; Alary is the only daughter of the family. Darius Smiser and his family reside in Bates county, Missouri—all, excejit Dr. John II. Smiser and his brothers, Janies and EdAvard, who are residents of this town. German blood is the balance- Avheel that is needed in America. Tlie German citi­ zens of this county, Avho have descended from educated people, rear good and obedient children, Avho become scholars, if they have half training, and tliey iuA'ariably make a living Avliere a -pure American Avould starve, Gernian Jilood is SIOAV to run out. The Smisers of to-day bear the marks and traits of character that distinguished their forefathers. 7'. J. Me'e/ilhen.—From the annals of the McGinness family the following is copied: The inaternal grand­ mother of T. J. Megibben and James Mcgibben, his brother, Avas Elizabeth AIcGinness, AVIIO Avas born, 1793, in Staunton, Vii'ginia; niarried Jeremiah Gelvin, 1810. Emily Gelvin, daughter of Jeremiah and ERz- abeth Gelvin, married, Alay 20, 1830, William Megib­ ben, Avho was born in Pennsylvania, June 4, 1808. The subject of this sketch Avas bbru Alarch 28, 1831. He married, near Cynthiana, Elizabeth J. David, born near Indianapolis, Indiana, February 2, 1833. From the annals of the McGinness family, it is learned that the McGinnesses date back to the kings of Ulster-^- OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 37 not to the^ time of them, but tc) them. It is not men- tipiied in these annals, hoAvever, that T. J. Megibben and his Christian Avife reared and educated many or­ phans, AAdio bless tlfem to-day. Such an item is of more AA'orth thaii-a line of ancestry that can be traced to kings of any country.' The Broadwells.—Asbury Bro{(,dAvell married Mary E. AIcAIilleu. He was born in Harrison county, Afay 29, 1791, and died December 11, 1843. He Avas a mercllant and grcAV immensely rich; yet he was a charitable man, eAx>r ready to help any one who Avas willing to help himself. He Avas the unele of" Mrs. John W. Peck, AV1IOS(3 father, —,— A'eatch, married Mart,Broadwell. A.sbury Broad^A'ell reared a family of three sons and one daughter. Dr. BroadAvell, a very talented man, died Avithout issiie. Mrs.'Pinley lof"t three daughters at her death. Alarcus BroadAvoll died 1870, and left three sons and four daughters. Ewing l>roadAvell, son of Alarcus, died since his father. William and Fred, are still alive, and the daughters are UOAV residents of tins toAvn. Mary married Jack Desha; Martha, John K. Lake; Kath- erine, Air. Sprake; and Bessie is unmarried. Jos(jph BroadAvell niarried early in life and died young. General Lacias B. Desha.—At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, the ancestors of General Lucius Desha fled to AVales. They Avere French Huguenots. Says history : " Henry IV. did an act of justice to the Cah'inists', by Avhoso aid he had Bocurod the scepter, in granting the famous Edict of Nantes, by Avhich lie tolerated them, as Avell as all his subjects, in the unfettered exercise of their religion." Louis XIV. reA'oked the Edict of Nantes in 1685". Says the 38 CHRONiCLES OF CYNTHIANA. same author: "The toleration Avhicli was granted t(,) Protestants by Henry IV. Avas taken away, their AA'of- fihip sufiprcssed, their churches demolished, their min- istere, exiled. By this measure, the kingdom lost 800,000 of her best Citizens, Avho perished or AA'cre driAX'u iiito estjle." It Avas then that the Deshas fled to AVales. Prom Wales, some of the namccame to Peliiisylvania, and frbnj "there to Tennessee, at a A'ory early day. General Deslija's father Avas iiamecl Joseph Desha, and he AA'as governor of Kehtiicky. Josejih Desha's father and grandfather were both named Robert Desha. Governor Desha AA':a8 a genci-al in the AVar of 1812, and commanded at the " Battle of the Thames." Robert Desha, grandfather of Governor Desha,-married Eleanor Wheeler, of Peiinsylvaiiia. p]leanor Wheeler's father Avas- General Joseph AVheeler, of RoA'olutionary fame. The Avife of Gen­ eral AVhecler Avas Alaria Ilolines, of Alassachusetts. Governor Desha married I'eggy Bledsoe, daughter of. Isaac and Katherine Bledsoe, and granddaughter of John Montgomery, Sr. It Avas Katherine Bledsoe, grandmother of Getic?rat Desha, who carried dispatches to AVashington's army in times of the Revolution. She rode on liorsi'back and alone to do this service for her country. Soine time bei'(}re she reached Gen­ eral Greene's head-quarters, she met a British officer, Avho said: "Madame,-are you not afraid to ride alone in this perilous .time?" "No," said she. "I go to carry a message t6 a sick friend." She passed on and delivered the dispatches. By sick friend she meant her distressed couptry. General Lucius Desha inherited, in a marked ile- OLD CITIZENS, ET(|f. 39 gree, the. traits of character that Iniade his ancestry distinguished, exidted principles of honor, fearless­ ness in the discharge of his CA'cr;!' duty, courtesy to his etpials, and extreme geiitleiiesii of manner to thti deserving poor. He Avas distinguiiihed for hospitality. Ho Avas a inagnificent man in aj pcarUiice ; even in old age,, Avlieii he rode on hoi-sc back through the sti-oets of C'yiitliiana, one; could i lot but think just so, a hun(lre(l years ligo, rode some monseigueur through the streets of Paris, tlie proudest city that belongs to the fatherhind of the De.slias. The chik dren Avho surA'ive General Desha ilre Mrs. Ada LucasJ Airs. Aim Lucas, of Paris, Kentjjicky, Airs. Frances Duffej', Judge Lucius Deslia, -JacH Deshrt, and Claude Desha, and Captain Jo Desha her|'tofore meiitioned. The Shawhans.-^lhm\(.'\ ShaAvlu n Avas the first on^b ofthe name tf) come to Keiifuc|cy. He canie here from Pennsylvania and settled^noilr Alt. Carmeli'Bour- hon county. His .son, J(^seph ShdAvhaii, was ten yi^ars ohi Avhen hii^ father died, Joseph Intving been born hi the ywai" 1781. Daniel SliaAA'liaii lies buried in the KuddP's Alills old biirying-ground. Joseph .SliaA\:.han Avas of Sc.()tch-Irisli descent, ah|t the strong chaTacr teristics of that mighty race of llcople Avere developed ill him to a remarkable i^ogreL lie Avas in every way'fitted to dp battle Avi,th th(|da»gei's()f the wilder­ ness, and accuniiilatod ait ininieii.so fiirtune before ho had reiK'hed old age. AVhile/yet jxtung, he married Sarah EAvalt, and they had *evon children born to theni., The names of the sons are Henry, Daniel, John, ancl AVilliaiii. John ShaAvhan—Captain John, as he is still called by persons Avho»kiieAv him AA'CU— was a soldier in the Conf(/aerate ariny, and Avas pro- 40 CHRONICLES OP CYNTHIANA-. moted to colonel for gallantry on many a hard con­ tested field. Just AA'hore he,fell and Avhen can not bb iujcertaiiied, but Avhen he unit his death, no braver soldier than he remainod to fall. His brother, Henry E. ShaAvhan,married Mary Varn-m, and their chil­ dren were John, Joseph, and Hubbard. Jo-seph Avas a Confedei'ate soldier and fought until 1803, Avlien he Avas stricken by a malignaiit fever in the mountains of Kentucky, Avliere he died... His young brother, llubbard, as soon as ho heard, of his death, took a Avagou and Avent through all the dangers of an in- A-adcd country, aii(l tlirough mountalh passes that might have apjialled a veteran, and found and brought homo his body—

"Among familiar scones to rest," And In the [ilaces of his j-outh."

Hubbard ShaAA'han married Anna Hoggins, and died early, leaving one child, a s(ni,jianK'd llubbard Warfield.- Hnbbard Warfield ShaAvliaii married Helen Mussolnian,and has one child named Hubbard AViliiam SluiAvhan. Hubbard Warfield ShaAvhan and his son are the only male descendants of the Shawhan name of that branch of the family UOAV alive. Henry E. Shawhan, after the death of Alary, his first Avife, married the Avidow Pugh. Their children Avere Alin- nie, AVIH) died young and unmarried. Airs. Lyne, Airs. May, .Mrs. Drain, and Henry, all of whom are dead. .Mrs. Halladay, daughter of Henry E. Shawhan and Alary Varnon ShaAvhan, is the only one of the family now livinnr. She has two children, Hubbard and Mrs. Dr. Iliggins Smith. Joseph ShaAvlian, son of Daniel ShaAvhan, the firstShawha n that came to Kentucky, OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 41

Avas throAvn from a htirse in 1871, and died from the eft"ccts of the fall. At the time of his death, he AA'as as active as a young man, and all the pOAvers of his mind Avere as A'i'gorous as they had been in his youth. September ficeiiied to have been a fateful month for him; he was born in Sc]itember, married in Septem­ ber: his wife died in that nioiitb, as did he idso. It has been said of him by his contemporaries that ho had a most remarkable memory, and that he never forgot the slightest apiiointment lie made nor tlielcast tiling he had promis(jd to do. Such a man as he Avill always leaA'e the impress of his strong character oii the people Avitli Avliom he HA'CS, and there is no (h)ul)t that he ami his son, Henry E. Shawhan, have been potent instruments in making Harrison county such as it is, and as good as any in the state. The Pattersons came to this country about the time the AIcDtiwells, the Alitchells, and the IrA-ines'canu'. They are descendants of Scot(;h-Irisli forefathers. .losejih Patterson married Hannah Todd, whose fiither was at the battle of the Blue Licks. The Pat­ tersons have been good and [irosperoiis citizens in time of peace and brave soldiers in time of Avar. AVliat more can be said ? This : That thc.y have, Avlien th(,'y professed friendshiji, been faithful and true:

" liotly and sour to them.that lovcil tliem hot, But to tliose men that sumjlit llieiii sweet as summer.''

The sons of Joseph and Hannah Patterson are Janies, Samuel, Levi,, Xoah aiid Joseph ; the daughters, Airs., Keen and Airs. Hubbard Frazer and another daughter. Airs. Alary Oft'utt. 'J'he Jieminytons are of English descent. They c(mie 42 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. of a long line of ancestry, as reference to the hook of Heraldry Avill SIIOAV. The immediate ancestors of Greenup Remington came to Kentucky at a Acry early period, and rank among the pioneer families of the state. Greenup Remington's first Avife A\'as a Aliss Hamilton, daughter of Captain John Hamilton. The children of his first marriage are Airs. Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Caroline Taylor, Airs. Oder and F. T. Remington, of Paris, Kentucky. Air. Remington's first wife died and he married Elizabeth Clay AlcChesney, a young AvidoAV. She belonged to the family of Henry Clay, the first orator of this state The grandfather of Elizabeth Clay Retnington, John Clay, and the grand­ father of Henry Clay being first cousins. Elizabeth Clay Remington Avas one of the best ('hristhins that ever liA^ed ; her Avhole life Avas spent in the service of God. The children of Greenup and Elizabeth C. Remington are Mrs. Deadmon, Airs. J. S. Withers, Mrs. Eliza AlcChesney and .J. A. Remington, merchant of tbi> town. The Wants.—A'ears beforc'thc " Declaration of In­ dependence," seven AVard brotherd came from England to Ameri(!a. They Avere all soldiers in the war of the Revolution. Artemus and AndroAV are the only names out of the scA'cii that remain in the memories of their descendants in this country. History attests the valor of Artemus AVard. AndrcAv AVard, his brother, mar­ ried a Aliss St(!A'eiison, of Scotch-Irish descent. The iibildren of AndrcAV AVard Avere John, George, An- drcAV and James. AndroAV, soii of AndroAv, married Elizabeth II(;adiiigton, daugliter of Zebulon Heading- ton, Avhosc Avifc Avas an English Avoman Avho came to Maryland Avith Lord Baltimore. The children Avore OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 43

Lamira, Paulina, Ellen, AVashington, John, Zebulon and Hon. A. II. AVard^ of this place. Zebulon and A. II. AV^ard are the only survivors of their large family. The Andersons.—^WWixm Anderson, a Scotchman and colonel in the Revolutionary War, married a daughter of Colonel Hinkston, and caino to Kentucky about the year 1784. His Avife died, and he married Aliss Aliller. Eight children Averc born to them. One of their sons, John Miller Anderson, marricdthe young widoAV of a Air. Falconer, Avhose maiden name Avas Helena Pope. Helena Falconer had cmo child, Mary, Aviien she married Air. And(3rson, AVIIO aftei'Avard be­ came Airs. Hott"maii, of this town. The children of Helena and .lohii AI. Anderson AA'crc Hugh Aliller and Pugh Aliller—twin sons—Thomas William, Robert, A. Keller, .Mrs. Robinson, Alrs^ Thomas and Orra. Kobcrt AA'as killed Avliile fighting bravely in the Con­ federate army at Chickaiiiauga. A. Keller Andersoii was captain in the same army; hois UOAV brigadier- goiKiral in the standing army of Tennessee. June, 1802, he and his men Avere ordered to quell a riot in a miners' camp at Coal Creek. He built a block-house in sight of the Coal Creek camp, and in place of sending one of his men among the dangerous rioters he took a flag of truce and AA'ent himself. He did not return that iiigiit nor the next morning, and his men began to suspect that the miners had fiiiledt o respect the flag of truce, and that their general Avas perhaps murdered. They began to shell the camp, and (general Anderson escaped just after his ti'ial Avas ended and he had been sentenced to be hanged. The miners had oft"cred him his life a|id liberty if he Avould surrender his men and the block-house to 44 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIAN.V.

tliem. On his refusal to comply they passed the death sentence. Ho inherited his courage from his mother, Avho Avas as brax'e a Avoman as CA'cr liA'cd, and as true a soldier of the cross as ever folloAved Christ. The Z((//r.s.—Yeai's before the Revolution, there came to this country, from Germany, Alathias Lair, or Leber, as they AA'cro named in their native land. He had si.x sons, all of Avliom Avere ReA'oluntionary soldiers. Their nanics Avere Alathias, AndrcAv, .Joseph, Charles, and AViliiam, Avho AA'as killed in Greene's re­ treat from South Carolina, and John, Avho Avas at Harniar's defeat. Charles married a Aliss Anderson. John married Aliss Custer, of Rockingham county, A''irginia. He Avas in the AVar of 1812. Wesley Lair, son of John Lair, mari'ied Catherine Smiser. Hon. A. II. AV()od married Helen, daughter of AVesley Lair. Alathias, grandfather of the venerable NcAvton Lair, of Harrison county, Avas a captain in the RoA'o- lutioii jiiid Avitncssod the surrender of Corinvallis. AVhen he receiA'cd his pay, in Continental scrip, ho paid §000 for a pair of boots and silver cuft" buttons. Newton Lair, at the ago of eighty-six years, is still a remarkable conA'ersationalist, and is the most reliable historian ill this county. The Gtrrns famih/ is of Scotch-Irish descent, and came first to A''irgiiiia, from Avhat part of Ireland is not knoAA'ii. George Giveiis, grandfather of George Giveiis, of this toAvil, came to Boni'bon county, and built a house on Silas creek, AA'bich is jiart of the di- A'ision line betAveen Harrison and Bourbon. Samuel Lfimme had come to Kentucky at the same time George Givens came, and built a house in Harrison county, on Silas crook. They had been old frieiids OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 45

and neighbors in Virginia, and their intimacy only ceased with the death of one of them. Alexander Givens, sou of George GiA'ens, married Mary Lamme, daughter of Samuel Lamme. Their children Avore George, Samuel, AViliiam, David, and James; the daughters—Nancy maiTied her coUsin, Alexander Givens; Isidiella married William Steele; Alargaret, Richard Jamison; and Alary married Mr. Frizell, of Dayton, Ohio; Lavinia is unmarried. John Givens, brother to George Givcns's- grandfather, rep­ resented his count}' tAvico in the legislature. The only male descendant of this branch of the family bearing the name Givens is I). L. Givens, AI.D., son of David Givens and his Avife, Margaret (Keller) Givens. The Pecks.—The folloAving paragraph is copied from the annals of the Pecks: "Joseph I'eck, the emigrant an(iestor of the Pecks of this country, knoAvn as the Alassachusetts Pecks, a numerous and extensive race, scattered throughout the United States, its territories, the British provinces, and the Canadas, emigrated to this country in' 1038, from Ilingham, Norfolk county, England." Joseph Pe(;k Avas a descendant of officers in the English ai'iiiy, scholars, bishoiis of the Established CMiui-ch, and dignitaries of the Establishment. Tliat he Avas a descendant of a long and noble line his an­ nals prove, and his coat-of-arms, Avhich boars sup­ porters. From him descended John Peck, officer in the War of the RcA'olution, and his son, Hiram Peck, who Avas a soldier in the AVar of 1812. John VV. Peck, of this town, is a son of Iliram Pock, above mentioned, and Avas born in Parishville, St. LaAvrence 46 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. county, NcAV A^ork, in 18T9. The mother of John AV. Peck Avas Wealthy (Kilburn) Peck, Avho came of an old Puritan family. John AV. Peck came to Ken­ tucky in 1840, and to Cynthiana in 1845, Avliere ho has since resided until the present time. His capital to begin Mfe upon Avhen he came to this t()Avii Avas a good education, sterling integrity, and indomitable energy. He has been a bencfiictor to the jioor of this place, having giA'cn employment to them in mills, factories, and dry goods stores. He Avas for years president of The Farmers Bank of Cynthiana. In all and e\'ery capacity of business he has undoi'takon, he has ncA'er kept a grindstone in his office for the poor men Avhom be emjiloycd, although he has ahvays been a great financier. In old age he has retired from active life, and is able to indulge the scholarly tastes ac(iuired in his youth. Air. Peck is a member of the Ejii.scopalian C/hurch, as were all his ancestors. .lohii W. Pock niarried Nancy J. \'each. Her father was David \oacli, Avho married Alary BroadAvell. David A'^each Avas a son of Thomas Veacli, AVIIO came here from Scotland at an early day. The Broadwells came hero from NCAV Jersey, and settled on lands about throe miles from this place. They Avere of En­ glish ancestry. Ad.dams Family.—William Addams, gr(>at-great- grandfathor of the subjecrt of this sketch, came from England AA'ith his tAvo brothers, James and Stephen, simietime in the beginning of the eighteenth century. William Addams settled iii Avhat is UOAV Adams county, Pennsylvania; James, in Lancaster county, and Ste­ phen Avont to Alassachusetts. The (children of AVili­ iam Addams Avere William, James, Stephen, Isaac, OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 47

Samuel, and .John. AViliiam Addams, son of AA^illiam Addams, grandfather of William Addams of this loAvii, married, and removed to Warrontown, Virginia. The names of his children Avere Kezia, Dr. Abram Addams, James, George, AViliiam, and John. John Addams Avas born, 1820, at Warrontown, A^irginia, ami is the father of William Addams of this place. His mother died when he Avas A'erv A'ouiii!:, and his fitthor died A\dien he Avas eleven years old. He then became a member of his uncle Isaac Addanis's fam- ily, and Avas reared at Glen Addams, PennsylA'ania; educated at Lafayette College, in that state, Avhile Dr. George .Icnkins was president of that institution. Isaac Adihiins married a Miss Quiglcy. .John Addams was graduated in 1839; came to Cynthiana in 1841; married Lucy Culpepper Logan in 1849, who is de­ scended from Revolutionary grandsires. The children of .John Addams and Lucy C. Logan are William; Elizabeth, Avifo of Judge Lucius Desha, of NcAVjiort, Ivontucky; Airs. .Mary Bain; Nannie, widoAV of Prof W. II. Lockhart; and Lucy, AVIIO died young and un­ married. William A(blams niarried the daughter of Cyrus Cooke. Their childreii are Urilla, Elizabeth, Cora, Cyrus, Ruth, Anna Alay, and Lucy Logan. The wife of John Addams died in 1801, and he in 1869. William Addams was left an or]ihan,witli the care of his young sisters~to begin life Avitli. Ho said, the day his father Avas buried, in the presence of liis kinsfolk, who Avere Avondoring Avhat Avould become of the five heljiloss orphans, '• Never fear for my sisters; they shall not Avant Avhile I am alive." They never did Avant. His father left about $2,500 to be divided among them, hut William gave hisjiart to his sisters, and since that 4 48 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. time he has risen to be one of the first business men of this town. Ho is a Christian geutlenian. "AVhen thy fiitheran d thy mother forsake tlioe, the Lord Avilj take thee up." Dr. T. H. Hood.—The grandfather of Dr. T. II. Hood Avas Lucas AndrcAV Hood, AVIIO married Miss AVillis, daughter 'of Shaderick Willis, Presbyterian minister of Charlottsville, A^irginia. He came to Ken­ tucky during Daniel Boone's time; Avas in the " Battle of Blue Licks" Avith Boone and others, and in all the engagements Avith the Indians that Avere of any im­ portance for years. The sons of Lucas AndrcAv Hood Avore Dr. William S. Hood and Dr. AndrcAV Hood, of Clark county, AVIIO represented that county in the con­ stitutional couA'cntion in '49 or '51. The son of Dr. AndrcAv Hood Avas a member of the same convention from Grayson county, Kentucky. The other brother. Dr. .John Hood, lived in Aloiitgomery county, Kcfi- tiicky, and practiced niedicine there and in the adjoin­ ing counties. He was the father of General .1. B. Hood, Avell-knoAvn commander in the Confederate army. Dr. William' S. Hood, father of Dr. T. II. Hood of this place, married Alary Ann Smith, daugh­ ter of Nelson Smith, of Scott county, and sister ofthe late D. HoAvard Smith, auditor of this state. Through his mother he is related to the Vileys, Rhodes, Bullocks^ Johnsons, Dudleys, and many other distinguished fam­ ilies of Kentucky. Dr. T. II. Hood's maternal grand­ mother Avas Sallio Kerr, daughter of Captain David Kerr, a soldier in the Revolutionary AVar. He Avas a Scotchman, Avho lived at Chal'lottesville, A''irgiiiia. In time of the civil Avar, Di-. T. II. Hood's kins­ men, Avithout an exception, Averc on the side of tlie OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 49 " lost cause.'" A few more thousands brave as they, and the cause might have boon Avon. Captain Joe Desha.—It seems that the iircseiit gen­ eration believes that it is in as bad taste to praise the living as to revile the dead. Time, hoAvever, Avill make the records of living men take rank Avitli those of the dead^ and the matter of good taste Avill be sot- tied. , If a man's lii.story be not Avritten in his oAvn day and generation, the incidents and good deeds of his life Avill be Avarped and changed, and many of them forgotten, Avheii thii;ty years later .some man at­ tempts to make history out of them. Captain Desha Avill give no account of his Avar record Avhile he sei'A'od in the Confederate army, but his private life is AVCII knoAvn to Kentuckians far and near. His military bearing jiasses for haughti­ ness Avith tlio.se not acquainted Avith him; but the AvidoAvs and orphans of his comrades in arms tell another story. They say that he is the kindest, gentlest frieiid the helpless ever had. In appearance he is remarkable. Sixty years liaA'e left his face,un- Avrinkled and his tall form as straiglit as an arroAV. He has regular features, brown curling hair and beard that time has forgotten to frost. A .stranger Avould hesitate to say whether he Avere thirty-five or forty .years of age, but he AV(iuld know the color of his eyes. But, with tliis physique of Avhich any man might bo jiroud, it is doubtful Avhether Captain Dosha has looked in the glass for forty years or that he knows the color of his OAvn hair and when it should be trimmed. But he has a Avife, has this captain, who rates his appearance as she thinks fitting,an d makes 50 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. him have his hair cut. She Avas a Aliss Rogan, of Gallatin^ Tennessee. Copied from, the History of the First Kentucky Brigade: '•At Aliirfreesboro, an incident occurred Avhicli ex- hiliited, in a strong light, tlu! metal of Avhich Captain Desha was made. On Thursday afternoon, January 1, 1803, exposed to the fire of the enemy directed at Cobb, ho Avas struck across the side of the head Avitli a six i»ouiid sh()t, Avhichcutan ugl.y gash and knocked him senseless. He Avas carried to the field hospital, all Avho saw him faill regarding him as killed outright or mortallj' Avoinided. About nightfall, Bragg or­ dered General Houston to moA'o forAvard ami drive off the enemy reported to he posting ai'tillery on tlie blutt" to the right of Cobb's position. 'Then it AVas,' says a member of the company, 'that AA'C felt the severity of our loss. The expression Avas on many tongues: If Captain .Foe AveroTuily here, it Avould be all right.' His head had been dressed and bandaged, and, though the ett'ects of the first shock Avere not over, and the severity of the Avouiid, too, Avas such jis to have furloughod most men oA'or the Avinter, he re­ mained (luring the continuance of this battle, and made the disagreeable march to Alanchcstcr, not only setting an exam]lie of manly courage and iiatiohcc under trials, but CA'CU assisting the sick and AVeak to boar their burdens.

"As noticed in the preceding portions of this bpok,« that regiment Avas in the Third Brigade of Preston's division at Chickamauga, and, of the conduct of Cap­ tain" Desha in that engagement, it is only necessary OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 51 to quote the Avofds of Colonel Kelly, who Avas then in command of t|ie brigade and reported operations. Sa,ys he: I must be allovyed to speak of the givllant conduct of certain officers (whom he names) and especially of Caiitain Joe Desha, Fifth Kentucky, AAHIO, though paiftfully and severely Avounded early in the action, remained at the head of his company till the enemy Avas defeated.

"At Dallas, Alay 28,1804, when, the Fifth Rc^giment advanced so gallantly upon tlie battery, AA'hose gun­ ners they killed or drove ott", and the line Avas halted Avithin fift.yyard s of these guns and theii- support, he was observed to turn his head to see if the lino Avas in good .shape, speak in OIKJOUraging tones to the men to be steady, then draAv his pistol and fire its several barrels at the gunners ' Avitli as deliberate aim,'says an officer of Company E, 'under the uAvful storm then assailing us, as though he Avere trying hi,s skill at a mark.' l»ut in this aftair he Avas Avounded and disabled, the left arm being so badly sl^attered that he did not regain the use of it during the reniraiudor of the service, perhaps neA'or, perfectly.

" In April, 1865, though yet unfit for the field, and particularly in a mounted capacity,_since his bridle hand Avas poAverless, ho rejoined the command near Camden. His company had been jilaced on duty as couriers betAveen Colundjia and Chester village, and he acted as field officer (Lieutenant-Colonel Conner being in command of the disniounted detachment), and Avas engaged in the subsequent operations"in that vicinity." 52 CHRONICLES OF GYNTHIANA.

Wounded many times as he Was, Captain Desha fought to the close of tlie Avar and refused to be pro­ moted to nii^jor or brigadier-gen.eral, and as,farii.'?i)Os- sible has coiicciiled every honor that he Won Avhile in the service of the Coiifedera(^y. Sa.ys Ali'i Thompson in conclusion: " Of his qualities as a sol'dier it is scarcely necessary to sjieak further. . . . In matters of Avhatever imporfance—in camp, on the field—^liedi d his daty, and Avas ncA'cr satisfied-Avith any thing less on the part of others. His natural turn of mind Avas essentiidly martial; his ordinary bearing Avas sc)ldierly ; his con­ duct Avas regulated by thoSe high principles of honor Avhieh liaA'e alAA'ays been the boast of men in the pro­ fession of arms. A qiie.stionable act; a tlisregard for the rights and feelings of othci's, hoAVCA'cr shumble; any littje scheming for }»lace or proferment; aiiy thing like aft"ectatioii, cant, liypocriticiil sniveling, lie de­ tested Avitli all the lofty scorn of Avhich a bold and ppen-Iiearted nature is capable." AVitli all this Avar record, illuminated Avith honor­ able scars, it is supposed by many thatCaptain Desha Avotild be dreadfully afraid of a AA'oman's rights Avo­ man, and Avould [K>rhaps run from her like a turkey. Major Ben Desha.—"Alajor Desha, of Cyntliiaiia," says the History ofthe First Kentuck.>' Brigade, " Avas elected captain, October 21, 1801, and Avas promoted to majoi", April 6, 1803. Fought at Shi'loh,,Avliero he Avas so severely Avounded as to bo long disabled for duty, but rejoined tlie command, and fought at Jones- boro, AvlierC he AA'as again Avounded and disabled for further sel'A'ico during the Avar." Brief record of so gallant a soldier. He liA'od until 1885, and died from OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 53 the eff"ects of jthc terrible Avound he received at Jones- boro, that shattered; his collar bone, and made him a su|J"erer for the remaindcj" of his life. "People about Cynthiaiia, AVIIO remember Major Ben Desha in his youth, AviII say that ho AA'as one of the ha^ds(ynest men over reared hi .this coutitrj'. There Avas a (lepth of coloring in his face and hair; a splendor in his dark eyes; a lofty expression tliat played 911 his faultless features not to be seeiiofteii, and ncA'er long fetaiiiod, by any one, in this changing Avorld. At BoAA'liiig Green, Kentucky, lie and hundreds of sol­ diers Avere oil dress-parade—the floAver of Kentucky's chivalry AA'aS there, in the bcginniiig of the \A'ar, and he AA'a* singl(id out as the handsomest of them all. Alas I he came homo a changed and liroken man, and never regained his Avoiited appearance. He Avas as braA'c in his agony from Avounds as he had been on the fid'ld of battle—but at last he slept.

" How sleep the hrave who sitik to rest With all their country's wishes hlestl Wlien spring, witli di'w.v lingers eold, Keturns to deck tlieir liallowed mold; She there shall dress a sw;eet;er sod Than fancy's feet have ever trod.

There honor eoines a pilgrini gray To l>les,s tjie turf that wraps their clay."

; The CromwcUs.-^A desitendant of OKver Cromwell, Vincent, by name, left England Avith Rachel, his Avife, just at Avhat time is not known, and came to this country and settled in Baltiniorc, Maryland. He came to Kentucky in 1795. Joseph Cromwell mar­ ried Christine Fry and came to Cynthiana in 1806. 64 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Henry F. Cromwell, son of .loseph ('romAA'ell and Christine (Fry) CroniAvcll, Avas born in 1811. In 1837, he niarried P^lizabeth Aliller. Their children are the widoAV of Major Ben. Desha, Alary, by name, James, Margaret, Ellen, Avho married Air. Lauderdale, and Elizabeth. Henry F. CromAvell celebrated his eighty- second birthday Jaiuuiry 10,1892. He has UOAV living five children, fourteen grandchildreii, and seven great- grandchildren. About 18^8, All', CromAvell patented the CroniAvell plow, Avith a metal mold board, which, being,the first ])loAV of the kind cA'cr invented, caused ([uite a revo­ lution in the agricultural Avorld. He also invented the fanious Cronnvell buggy. AVith the AA'ar caiiie reverses, disastrous fires,an d freedom of his slaves. Courageous in his convictions, he AVC I it south in 1802, and did not H'cturn until the Avar Avas oA'cr, broken in fortuiies, but not in spirit. Honest, industrious, and careful, he has accunmlatod a competency, and UOAV OAVIIS a beautiful home. Once to kiioAV Henry F. CroniAvell intimately is to believe that "An honest man is the noblest work of God."

Hon. I. T. Martin, M.-.E.-.Grand Hiyh Priest of Kentucky.—Hon. I. T. Alartiu Avas born in NCAV York, came to Cynthiana in liis youth, and niiide it his per­ manent homo. Although be Avas an adojited son of this toAvn, none of her native children took more in­ terest in her Avelfare than he. His nanio is foremost in all petitions for improvements, and although his untimely death iii 1868 remov'ed him from the ways of mciu forevei', his iuflueiuie is still felt and his mom- OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 55 ory revered. He Avas seiiator at Frankf()rt one term, but, failing health prevented his election a second time. He niarried a Aliss Woodyard. Their chil­ dren are Elizabeth, Alice, Thomas, Loulie, .Martha, and I. T. The Grinnans.—William Jordan Grinnau is de­ scended from a Scotch family that settled in the northern part of A''irgiiiia iiv'-tliC early days of that grand old state; Hi.s"fatfier Avas a soldier in the War pfc.1812. "Among his ancestors Avas a grand-uncle, wlV), out of the acctiiuulation of his successful prose­ cution of the culture and sale of tobacco in Virginia, manii^ed to save the property of the Duke of Argyle from inevitable iiisolvency,Avhich threatened it through the e.vtrkvaganco of a former possessor of the ijstate and dukedom. Joaniia, the lovely and accomplished daughter of the A''irgiiiia tobacco planter, became the Avife of the Duke of Argyle, the fiither of the present duke," Avlio 1^ a near relative of William Jordan Grinnaii. AIr.\Griniian, hoAAOver, noA'er refers to his distinguishcHl kinsman. In this coimtry, pedigree does not pass utApar, since so many men Avith none to speak of have rmule their Avay to the rudder of the "ship of state," and guided her aAvay from shoals and quicksands. Many a man out of the depths (that is, Avith a pedigree an inch long) stands shoulder to shoulder and Avalks side by side up the hills of science and fame Avitli the man AVIIO shines Avith the light re­ flected from ancestors Avhose names are carved in fadeless letters in CA'cry land. The Musscrs.—Distinguished among the citizens of Cynthiana is the Musser family. On their father's side, they are of German origin. Their mother AVUB 56 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Alary Ann Jones, sister of Robert Jones, of this place. Tlie children of -—- Musser Avere Robert, Richard, Adolphus, Daniel, Jcshua, and Caleb; the daughters are Airs. .James, of Denver, Colorado; Aliss Moberly, of Chillicotlie, Missouri; and Florence, a nun in a convent in Missouri. Daniel Avas killed at Fort Don- elson, Avhile fighting on the Confederate side in the civil Avar. The Alussers Avore and are intellectual and educated people. Richilrd Alusser, of BrunsAvick, Alissouri, Avon lasting fame by the Avay lie conducted one complicated case in the courts of laAV in the state of his adoption. The Williams family.—Descended from Roger Will­ iams, the founder of Providence, Avas Hal Williams, Avho Avas born at Cold Arbor, Virginia. Hal AVilliams niarried a Aliss Johns, AVIIO AA'as related to Patrick Henry. Hubbard AVil|ianis, son of Hal AVilliams, Avas born December 2, 1700, in Charlotte county, near Charlotte Count-house, A'irginia. He married a AvidoAv lady Avhoso hu.sband Avas William Pryor, relative of Roger A. Pryor, of NCAV A'^ork, and Avliose maiden name Avas Jones. llubbard Williams niarried Airs. Pryor, September 11, 1783, at Charlotte Court-house, Virginia. The Joneses, ancestors of Mrs. Hubbard AVilliams, Avere French, and fled from Franco after the rcA'ocation of the "Edict of Nantes," 1685, and came to America. Hubbard AVilliams fought through the Revolutionary AVar. His brother, Jarrot Williams, fought side by side with him, under General Washing­ ton, until the " Battle of AVhite Plains," Avhere he was killed, and lies buried on the battle field. Hubbard Williams was at the battles of Stony Point, Monmouth, and Germantown, and made one of the OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 57

•' twenty-four hundred picked men " Avhom AVasKing- ton led through a driving storm of sleet and iCe to Trenton, Avhoro they fell upon the Hessians as they Averij feasting, and, when the fight Avas over, he helped to SAvell the cry of victory that rent the air that Aviiiter morning, and," kindlijd afresh the fires of patriotisni." He spent that aAvfiil Avint(?r at Valley F^orgc, Avherethe soldiers " AA'ore encamped in cold', comfortless huts, Avith little food or clothing," and Avliere the father of our county knelt in prayer so often and besought the help of God in freeing his native land. Airs. Dr. AVilliams, of St. Louis, Ali.ssouri, has in Jier pos.session a letter Avritten to" llubbard Williams by one,of his comrades in arnis AvboAvas Avitli him through the Avar ofthe Revolution. After jieace Avas established, Hub­ bard AVillianis removed Avith his fiimily to Kentucky, and settled near Alillersburg, Kentucky. Ho had eight children born to him. The names of the sons Avero: Jarrot, born July -30,1792; John, born April 1, 1795; Samuel, born February 2, 1799. Jarrot died at Vicksburg, Alississippi, July, 1833; Sanuiol also died, 1833; both died of cholera. John AVilliams mari'ied liis firstcousin , Aliss Sally Jones. Ten chil­ dren Averc born to them—Susan, born Alay 4, 1817, married AViliiam T. Rlidman, and died Jiuic 17, 1847; Nancy, born .January 4,1819, married Air. L. Lair, and died January 13, 1865 ; Mary, born AugUst 12, 1821, died, uninari'icd, July 5, 1833; Patrick Henry, born Aiigiist 7, 1824, died September 1, 1824; Caroline, born October 25, 1826, married R. T. Lindsay, died Alay 1, 1892; Sarah, born January 6, 1829, died of cholera, June 23, 1833; Hubbard Moody, born Jan­ uary 6, 1830, killed by the accidental discharge of a 58 CIIUONICLES OF CY'NTHIANA.

gun, February 7, 1845; Belle, born June 15, 183-3, married Dr. Williams, of St. Louis, at Avhich place she and her •husband now reside; Sally T., bork 1838, maiTied Charles AVilson, and died in 1887; -John- .T., born June 0, 1836, niarried Elizabeth R. Stone, a descendant of Barton AV. Stone, February 22, 1800; Saniuol H. AVilliams, born Oct(d)er 11, 1838, marrie'd Kizzie AV right, October 22,, 1807, died January 8, 1878. Samuel II. AVillianis AA'as a brave Confederate soldier, and fought through the civil Avar. (icorge AVilliaiiis, born January 10, 1842. He is now living at Bowling Green, Alissouri. Henry AVilliams, born August 21, 1825; married Lucy Hemphill, Alarch 21," 1848; died November 17, 1888. Henry Williams AVas'a soldier in the Alexican Avar, and was at the battle of Biiena A'ista. Betsy AVill­ iams, oldest daiighterof llubbard AVilliams, Avas born December 2, 1784; married John Yarnan, and lived and died in sight of Endicot's meeting-house. She Avas one of God's saints. Polly AVilliams,' daughter of Hubbard Williams, was born February 11, 1787 ; married Alajor Griffith. They had one child, a son named Burrell Griffith. Burrell (Jriffitli niarried a Aliss King; their son, AViliiam (JrifKth, lives near BroadAvell, Kentucky. AViliiam Griffith married a Miss Sjiears, of Bourbon county, Kentucky. They have three sons and one daughterT-^AViHiam, Hubbard,, and John; the daugh­ ter's name is Emily. Nancy Williams Avas born February 29, 1808. Her first husband Avas Dr. Saunders, Avho lived only a year after his marriage. Airs. Saunders then married Dr. Joel.C. Frazer, the most popular idiysician Avho ever OLD CITI7,1:N.S, ETC. 59 resided in this county. They had only one child born to them, llubbard W., Avho married Eliza Pat­ terson. Dr. Hubbard AV. Frazer was a physician of groat learning. His Avife and tAA'o children survi\'o hiiii. His daughter, Nancy, Ayaa the Avife of GoA'crnor C. AV West. "^She died in 1883. Joel Frazer, his only son, lives at AVinchester, Kentucky; and Siisaii, his youngest child, lives here. She niarried Fred­ erick Reynolds.. A sister to the Avife of John AATlliams married John AI. Kimbrough. They had five sons and three daugh­ ters. The oldest son liA'es in Texas; another in Ari­ zona. AViliiam lives in Cynthiana, and holds the office of judge ofthe circuit court. Aloses IIA'CS in Alissouri. Elizabeth married a Air. Clay, and HA'OS in Lexington, Kentucky. Nancy married -Joseph Lebus, and IIA'CS near Cynthiana. Itohert Jones.—The first -Jones Avho AA'as related to Robert Jones of Cynthiana canu^ to America from Wales to lialtiniore, Alaryland. The grandfather of Robert Jones was a tory and tivod in Baltimore about the time of the War of the RcA'olution. He sympa­ thized Avith the British, but took no actiA'o part against the patriots. He had four .sons, all too young to be ill the licA'olution; but AA'lien tlioy Avere old enough to think for themseh'es, they became jfati'iots. .loshua -Jones, father of Robert -Jones, niarried Alary Sands, Avho had several brothers in the service of the naA'y. l>enjainiii Sands, uncle of Robert Jones, Avas a coiuinodoro. .Jo.shua .Jones AA'as in the Avar,of 1812, and belonged to a company of light hor.se artil­ lerymen. Robert -Jones, sou of -Jo.shua and Alary Sands Jones, Avas born in 180.3. When General Ross GO CHRONICLES OP CYNTHIANA. attacked Baltimore and the British fleet bomliarded Fort AlcIIenry, Commodore Sands Avas ccmimanding in Fort AlcIIenry and Joshua Jones Avas Avitli the troops that defended the city. Robert Jones Avas but a lad, but he I'omeinbered the battle well. His motlier and other patriotic AAonien had been prepar­ ing provisions for the .soldiers all day, and as evening approached Avagons containing them Averc sent doAvn by-soldiers to the s(!ene of the conflict. Robert Jones and his brother, Richard, jumped in one ofthe wagons and Avent Avith the stores to Avhere the battle Avas raging. Ilis father, in giving some orders to his men, discovered his tAvo little sons in a place of great dan­ ger, Avatching Avith the coolness of veterans the pro- grq?.? ofthe battle. He forced them to retreat, Avlii(di they did reluctantly. The children of -loshua and Mary Sands Jones Avere Sarah, Richard,.Robert, Caleb, .ro.shua. Alary Ann, Ellen, Sophia, Eliza'; William, and Benjamin. Three died in infancy. The, others came to years of maturity. Robert Jones married Amelia Smith, AA'lio Avas born in Dorsetshire, England. Eleven children Avere born to them; all died in Mui'ancy, but tAVO daughters, AVIIO are still aliA'o, Sarah -Iones, Avife of Dr. .McNecs, and Ellen, Avife of William llaviland. Robert Jones came to this toAvn Avith his father and his father's family in 1810, and Avas a dry goods mer­ chant of this place for seventy years. He Avas as brave as any one of his ancestors, and as honest as he Avas brave. He died at the advanced age of eighty- nine and a half years. A son of Commodore Sands lives in Mobile, Ala­ bama. Many of the Sands family still live in Balti­ more. OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 61

The Havilands.—The lineage of the llaviland fam• ily has been traced in England back through centuries. The descendants of that family Avho live in this coun­ try have a record extending only to 1700, but the NCAV York Havilands liaA'o the annals complete. -James llaviland Avas born in NCAV York, Alay 15, 1740, married Anii HunnaAvell, and died in New York, November 25,1780. His children Avere Thomas, born July 8, 1703; Israel, ^orn Alarch 12, 1765; ^Vbigail Jane, born Alarch 20, 1707; Pliajbe, born Alarch 3, 1709; Steveiisoii, born February 20, 1773. Israel llaviland Avas born in '.'Harrison Pwre/i/s,* AVestchester" county. New York, Alarch 12, 1705, niarried -Jane Andorson, October 12, 1788, and died October 23, 1819. The children born to him in XCAV A'ork City Avero -Tames G., born October 12,1790, mar­ ried Mai-garot Marsh, Alarch 21, 1810, ill NCAV Vork City; Robert S., born Novcimber 11, 1796, emigrated to Kentucky in 1818, married Alary C. StcAvart, April 0, 1820, died at Ilavilandsvillo, Kentucky, Augiist 8, 1858; Ge(n-ge Elvin, born August 9, 1792, died Alay 9, 1807; Susan Ann, born October 19, 1794. died Jan­ uary 21, .1790; -Jane Ann, born De(!cmber 1, .1798, married AViliiam Bolmer, August 01, 1823; Susan Maria, liorn Septi>niber 22. 1803, died September 20, 1804; Thomas L. and Eliza II., born NoA-cmber 18, 1805, died August 10, 1800; Henry T., born August 9, 1807, married Lillias G. Leonard, Alarch 29, 1829: Abraliam A., born January 8,1810, niarried Abbey C. PoAver, June 1, 1858, died June 14,1864; Ilanuah M.,

••• Spelled so in the records. 62 CHKONICLE.S OF CYNTHIAN.\. born April 3, 1812, married James 'G. Bolmer, May 30, 1838 ; diaries E., born November 14," 1814. Robert S. llaviland, 8(ni of Robert S. llaviland, Avas born Novembei\_,ll, 1796, died August 8, 1858. Rob­ ert S. llaviland AA'as a soldier in the AVar of 1812. The children of Robei't S. and- Alary StoAvart llaviland, Jiinres A., born Alay 6,1821; AViliiam S., born Alarch 26,1823; Henry H., born Alarch 10, 1825; Malinda Jane and -Jane Ann, born Alaivh 26,1830; Alartha -Jane, born June 20, 1830; Alargaret, born Api-il 17, 1835. William S. HaA'iland, born Alarch 20,,1823, in liar- rison county, Kentucky, married Alary E. AVhitehead, De(!embcr 30, 1S45, .she died April 13,1849; niarried the SCCOIKI time Alary Ellen Joncs,,,Tune 13,1854'. The children of the first Avifo AA'cre Alary und Bettie ; i-hil- drcii of the last niarriage are Charles j>., Robert S. and Carrie. -ludge Henry II. llaviland, born Alarch 16, 1825, married Susan Scrogin, who is descended from graiid- sires of ReAoluti()nai'y fame. Her father and uncles Avere in the War of 1812. Charles Scrogin, an uncle of AIrs.'IIavilan(l;AA'as a patriot spy in time ofthe AV^ar of 1812, and Avas cajjliircd by Indians and jiut to death near Blue Licks, Kentucky. Judge II. II. llaviland has one child—Sydney. Jane Anderson llaviland, AVIIO Avas married to Israel llaviland, 1788, Avas in NCAV York City, and Avas pres­ ent Avlien AA'^ashington Avas inaugurated President of the United States, Ai>ril 30, 1789. She embroidered a pair of slippers for Alartha AVashington, and pre­ sented them to her, and had. the pleasure of seeing her wear them. The Havilands are related to the OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 63

Van Rensselaers of NCAV York, and the Havilands Avho are residents of that cit}'. William Lemuel Northcutt came to Cynthiana in 1'851, a young man Avitliout means. He married Mary Trinlnell, a young AvidOAV, AVIIO AA'J{S the mother of tAA'o sons, Thomas and George Trimnell. George Ti-imiiell Avas nothing but a boy Avlien the civil AAHU- broke out, but ho 'entered the Confederate army and fought as braA'cly as any A'oteran of theni all. The children born to Alary and W. L. Northcutt are Alary, Avho married -lohn .Montgomery, of this place, William, -lolin. Walter JJCC, Ada, Avho died young, and Franks lin. At the present, AV. L.. Nortlyartt' is the filitdr y goods mercliant of the toAvn, aiuFhas acctinyulated a large property. It is shrcAvdly sTK])ectc(U4liat the name Northcutt i^hoiild be spelled Nc)rth*«5te, and also that an English book of heraldry Avould throw much light on the subject. Charles liirckel.—Among the adopted sons of Cyn­ thiana, none is more highly esteemed than Charles Rieckel. He AA'as born in Frankfort on the Alain, in Germany, in the yearl835. He came to Kontucky in his youth, married Alary Hite, of Paris,, Kentucky, and came to Cynthiana in 18-56. Since that time, he has been successful in all his undertakings, and has won the confidence and respect of the people of this toAvn. His children are Airs. Robinson, Airs. Alartha Foster, Carrie Chri.stiiie, and Lilly. One daughter died in infancy, and Mrs. Jo Stephens died a fcAV years since. Mr. Rieckel has a brother who. is a banker in Switzerland and Avell known in many countries. 64 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Thomas Cason,.the great-grandfather of Mrs. Oteria Day Frisbie, Avas born in SpottsylA'ania county, Vir­ ginia. He Avas a man of unusual strength of charac­ ter, and |)os^essc(l a fine mind. He married Nancy Day. Their children Avere Jack, Estus, Lucinda, Eliza, John, and Nelson. Thomas Coson died and his AvidoAV came to Kentucky in 1836, and brought a large number of slaves, and settled Avhere her grand­ son,, LcAvis Day, once judge of the county court of Harrison county, Kentucky, Avhere he lived and died. The maternal grandfather of Airs. Frisbie- Cason married the AvidoAv Green. The ancestors of Judge LcAvis Day on his fiither's side came from Spottsylvania county, Virginia, in the begin­ ning of civilization in this part of Kentucky. One of their descendants says that they made a great mistake in not settling in the " Blue Grass " region, near AA'hore Lexington UOAV stands. They camped one night, while on their journey to this part of Ken­ tucky, on Elkhorn crook, But they did imt like the appearance of the land—it AVas too level, and the soil looked too black, and as they had never soon such hmd, they left it and came to Avhat Avas afterward Harrison couiity, and purchased a large tract of land in the locality of John S. Day's farm. Having many slaves, they cultivated their lands on aii extensive scale. They also OAvncd a distillery, and Inade copjipr-dis- tilled Avhisky, AA'bich old people claim did not make people "crazy drunk," like the present spiritus J'ru- menti. AndreAv Moore married an aunt of Mrs. Fris­ bie, Candice^ by name. The fame of her beauty lives to this day. AndroAv Moore Avas clerk of the circuit court of this county. He Avas a kinsman of II. OLD CITIZENS, ETC. 65

Col email;. vMoore, Avho left a fund at his death to be iisod in the oflucdttion of destitute orphans. A hand­ some cenotaph has been place(t in "Battle Grove Cemetery" to the memory of H. C. Moore, which Avill lie in ruins long before the benefactor to Avhom it was reared Avill be forgotten. CHAPTER II.

LAAV VERS.

THE first laAA'ycr of AVIJOJU wo have any account is Adam. Ho Avas neither tempted by the devil nor de- coivcd^by him, yet he diW)beyed the laAV, ate the for­ bidden fruit, blamed it oh Eve, and expected to get out of it. Ho hid himself from his judge, but was tound and brought into court, and uttered this monio- rable sentence in his OAvn defense: "The wo)nan guve to me anil I did eat." Brave man ! But he could not gain his suit in the face of aiigel Avitnesses, and Avas hurled out of court, neck and crop, as he deserved to bo. Ilisbeiiig hurled out Avould not have been so much matter, but he dragged jioor Eve along Avith him, and she Avas his scape-goat ever afterward. If he sinned, she bore the blame; and the last thing she heard AVII.CII she Avas dying Avas Adam saying: "The AVomau gave to me and I did oat." This is the first speech on rec­ ord that AA'as ever made by man. Gentlemen, d^you feel proud of it I ''•The aioman yare to nic and l did eat." Adam did not tell the truth Avheii he said it. 'Think of that! Alen are more gallant no.Avadays and much inore to bo admired thaii their old sea-serpent of a forefiither. If Eve (ipuld have gone to Indiana she Avould have procured a diA'orce! The most distinguished hwyer of ancient tinics Was Moses, Avho Avas pure, enough to stand face to fiico Avith the living God. He led the murmuring Hobi'oAVs 1(10) LAAVYEKS. 67 through the Avilderness of Sinai for forty years, and, although be Avas a little ".scaly" about draAving AA'ator from the rock that time, he could not help it—he Avas a lawyer. Gamaliel Avas a hiAA'yer. (See Acts, chapter A', verse .']8.) "Then stood tlierc up in council a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a doctor of the hnv, had in repute among all the [icojile, and "commanded to put the apostles forth a little s[iace,'and said: 'And UOAV,I say unto you, refrain from thcsi" men, and let thom alone: ibr if this counsel or AA'ork be of men, it will conic to nought, but if it be of God, ye can not ovcrthroAv it, lest haply ye be i'ound to fight against Gc;!.'" At the feet of (Jamalicl sat great Paul the apo-^tle, once a a liiwycr himself Let it be remembered ahvays that -Joseph of Ara- matlica " A\'as a (^oun.sclor, and ho Avas a good nian and a just. This man went to Pilate and begged IIK; lioily of Jesus. And he took it doAvii and wrapped it ill fine linen, and laid it in a sejiu'lcher that Avas licAvn in .stone, A\hcreiii man Avas never before laid." Lawvcrs, as a class, are charitable men, never en- • . • • ,, , , vious o,iie of another, and much to be admired I They have the powers of the mind that belong to other iiieii, in a normal state, and in addition to these they lia\c li^ crealire faculty Avlridi clearly distinguishes them from all other jirofcssioiial men, in that it en­ ables them to recall cA'ciits that noA'cr hap|iene(l I For all that, they are the Avisest, the most agreeable, and certainly the most brilliant' men on earth, and have the best ntemories! God bless them. Tlu! law is a stepjiing-stone to the highest offices in the gift of the Jieople 08 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

The first court of Harrison county was held in 1794, in the home of one Morgan Van Meter, in the good old days Avhen court Avas adjourned to see the elephant that ckme here Avith the circus SAvim the Licking River, or for any other interesting entertainment.' Robert Hinkston Avasthe firstsherift" ; Benjamin Har­ rison, Hugh Miller, Henry Cblennm, Samuel AIcIK'ain, Nathan RaAvlings, and Charles Zachery, justices of the peace, all of Avliom AVerc SAvorti in February 4, 1794, and formed the first county court. They elected AViliiam Moore, clerk. Richard Henderson Avas the first county attorney; Daniel Lindsay, the first coro­ ner; Archibald IIutcliin.son, Thomas Kankiii, and William Hall qualified as constables. Henry Cole­ man was the firstsurveyor , Avith Benjamin Harrison as deputy; also-John Little and Edward Coleman as deputies. At the next session of the court, hold April 1,1794, called the Court of Quarter Sessions, the tavern rates Avere fixed as follows: Avhisky, half a pint, Or/.; corn and oats, 2^/. per quart; breakfast, l.s.; dinner. Is. Sd.; supjier, \s.; bed. Or/-.; stable and hay for one horst', tAventy-four hours. Is. The seat of justice Avas at this court fixed at Cynthiana, on ground laid out for this purpose. The court also agreed Avith Thomas, liankin to erect a "pair of stocks on the public groii'nds in Cynthiana." It is not mentioned in the history of Harrison that a Avhipping-post Avas erected in 1794, and at that early day men Avcre put in bounds. The jail AA'as built on the jiublic sipnire, and if a man Avere jiut in jail for debt, his accuser Avas compelled to pay his board as long as he Avas incarcerated. But Avhen he Avas put in bounds, it cost his accuser nothing, and LAWYERS. 69 alloAved the accused the liberty of Avalking from his oAvii liouse to his place of business, until his debts Avore paid. If the man A\'ho Avas put in bounds over­ stepped thom and passed up or doAvn other streets not mentioned in his sontonco, he Avas put in jail, and kept there until some one took pity on him and paid the debt. White and black mod AA'ere lashed at the Avhipjiing-post for oft'ensos too trifling to be tried by the courts of hnv. It is not recorded tliat any one was evcy' put in the stocks erected in ('yiVthiana. CopicH from the History of Harrison County: " In 1700, Dr. James AlcPlictcrs, not a resident until 1795, built the Aveather-boarded log-bouse standing Avest of the school-house, oil the corner of the.allcy and s([uare It has been sticcessiA'cly resideifce, court­ house, law oflice, }iriiitiiig office, and perhaps chuixdi. AVc are assured that in this house (Tiithrio's once [lop- ular old arithmetic Avas printed by Adani Kceiian and SchraAvyer, the only text-book on this subject gener­ ally used for years in this part of the .state. In this old house, also, Henry Clay defended a felloAV named House, accused of murder, in 1806. At the clo.se of ('lay s brilliant speech. House's wife, any thing but a beauty, jumjied uji and ki.ssed the blushing orator (he Avas then only tAventy-niiie) in the presence of the (Iciisely packed throng of spectators." Major William K. Widl was born in AVashington county, PonnsylA'ania, on the 19th of Alay, 1780. He received a good English education and Avas a flue Latin scholar. He read law with ('olonel Richard M. -Johnson, and Avas licensed to practice hiAV in 1809 by -ludires John Allen and William AlcClung. He bomin \\\>^ legal career in Cyntliiaiia. Hisfirst Avife Avas .Miss 70 CHRONICLES OF CVXTHIANA.

Priscilla Taylor; his second Avife Avas Airs. Alachir (maiden name, -January). She Avas a niece of Hon. Humphrey Marshall, one of the historians of the state. Captain W G. Alarshall, in his history of Harrison county, in concluding his sketch of Alajor AVall, says he Avas among the most ett'ective advocates of his time, Avliich Avas prolific of great men. There Avcre giants in those days. We can not better con­ clude this sketch than by copying one of the resolu­ tions adopted by the Harrison county bar at the time of his death, in the folloAving words: ''Besolred, That William K. Wall Avas a hiAvyer of inassiA'c intellect, of compreheiisiA'e judgment, of keen discrimination, of great logical poAver, and of address, skill and eloquence as an adA'ocate, surpassed by ICAV of his contenqiol'aries. Reared in youth among the hardy yeoniaiiry of Harrison county at a period Avlien the opportunities for acquiring an education Avore ex­ ceedingly limited, he rose by the force of a superior intellect to a high rank in his profession. He Avas one of nature's noblemen, its patent of nobility stamped upon his massive broAv a man Avho bore in his de­ meanor the impress of greatness. Guileless and child­ like in his nature, benevolent and aff'ablo in his dis- jiosition and graced Avith the modest characteristic of the truly great, he AVOII and enjoyed the esteem and aft'ection of all his associates. He Avas born in AVa.sh- iiigton county, Pennsylvania, an(l Avas brought by his father to Kentucky in early boyhood. He studied laAV under Colonel Richard AI. .lohn.son, and volunteered under that gallant officer in the last war Avith England, as a private soldier, doing gallant service in that sec­ ond struggle for the independence of liis country. He LAAVYERS. 71 was commonAvealth's attorney for this judicial district for a period of twentj' years, in AA'bich station his abilities as a criminal laAA'^'er shone pre-eminent. At various periods of his professional life, he represented his county and senatorial district in the state legis­ lature. He died at the age of sixty-seven years in the full maturity and vigor of his poAver. The memory of his many personal and social virtues, Avill long sur- A'ive in the hearts of his family, and in mournful recol­ lections of the comnmnity in Avhich he lived and died." Hon. A. H. Ward AA'as born on the Avatcrs of Indian Creek, in Harrison county, the 3(1 December, 1815. At the time of his birth his father Avas in the army. Ho Avrote to his wife just before his son, A. II. AVard, was born, that Avhether the coming infant Avere girl or boy, it must be named AndroAV Harrison. The infant came Avith the SOX suitable to the name, and the fiither Avas rejoiced, and as the mother looked in the face of her little son she lioiied and believed that should he live he Avould never disgrace the distingniBlicd name he bore. At a A'cry early age Air.- Ward Avas left an orphan with the care of his AvidoAved mother and her little children on his shoulders. Ho assumed the responsi­ bility Avithout a niurmer and Aventto AA'ork for a farmer at the slender Avages of tAventy-fivo cents per day. When he had earned P2.00 the farmer paid him and it seemed a groat sum to him. On his AA'ay home he Avalked a mile out of the direct course to buy his mother a country cheese for Avhich he had heard her express a desire. On entering the bouse where his mother Avas sitting Avith her little children about her, ho handed the cheese to her and then 72 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. jioured the remaiifder of his $12.00 in her lap. On relating this incident, not long since, to an old friend, Air. Ward remarked, in a IOAV Aoice, " I have had a fcAv triumphs since tlioii, and IKIA'C occupied places of honor and profit in the gift of the people, but there is no recollection my mind (hvells upon Avith so much jiloasure as earning my first Avages and presenting them to my beloved mother." Among all the treasures Air. AVard has laid up in heaven, none is more precious in the sight of God than that simple act of self-sacrifice on the altar of filial duty. He studied hiAV and graduated Avitli honor. He jiaid his Avay at the law school AA'ithout assistance from I'clatives or friends. When he began to practice hnv at the Cynthiana bar, Henry Clay, Breckeiiridge and the Alar.sballs Averc often members of it fiirAveek s at a time. Judge Curry said: "No man' ever stood at the Cynthiana bar Avho had more iiati\'e intellect than A. II. AVard.'' With all bis "intellect,'' the older hnvyeivs—some­ times—thought that beseemed careless of the-inter- ests of his clients. But when his cases came to trial his opponents learned that prepared or unprepared he was more than a match for them. With an inexhaust­ ible fund of Avit and humor, Avheii argument failed, he Avon the jury by anecdotes rclcA'ant to the cases in hand. Alaiiy a Avretch Avould have dangled at the rope's end but for the management and Avoiiderful tact of Air. AVard. When it is kiioAvu that he is to sjieak in an imjiortant trial the court-house is aUvays filled Avith an attentive audience. .Mr. Ward served one term in Congress, and has LAAVYERS. 73 never sought an office since that time. He is one prophet Avho is honored in his OAVU country. Colonel William Brown.—" During the first third of the present century, the most eininent member of the Cynthiana bar after William K. AVall Avas, no doubt, William BroAvn." He married Aliss Harriet WarfiehL aunt of Henry AV^arfield of this tOAvn. He OAvned the farm once the property of Dr. Joel T. Frazer, sit­ uated half a mile from t0Avn,and built the liou.se, UOAV the residence of W T. Handy. He became very Avealthy, OAvning 1,000 acres of land and many slaves. Hon. W. W. 7'/'/H/W('.—Prominent among the hnv- ycrs of Cynthiana for many years Avas Hon. W. AV- Trimble. He Avas of Scotch descent. The family name Avas originally Scott in the eloA'onth century. One, Scott, saved the life of a king of Scot­ land from a furious bull, and be gave him a title Avitli the name of Turnbull. The Scotch to-day pronounce the name as if it Avere spelt that Avay in jilace of Turnlmll. Oliver CromAvell settled a family of Scoffs in the northern part of Ireland, from Avhence tAvo brothers emigrated to A'irginia. The father of lion. W. AV. Trimble was John Trim­ ble, judge of the United States District Court. His brother, Robert Trimble, was of Bourbon county, Kentucky, and Avas judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Governor Trimble, of Ohio, Avas a cousin of Hon. -J(J1III Trimble, of this place. Trim­ ble county, Kentucky, AA'as named for Hon. Robert Trimble. , The paternal grandmother of AV AV TrimbloAvas a /4 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Ali.ss AIcAIillan,of Edinburg, Scotland, sister to a jjro- f'essor ill the Edinburg University. It Avas oAviiig to the training of this gentleAvoman that Hon. -John Trimble and his brothers received su­ perior educational advantages in the early times of this republic. Hon. AV W Trimble's first Avife \A'as a Aliss Waller, Avliose male ancestors Avere soldiers in all the Avars of this country. The AVallers came to Kentucky at a A'ery early day. His second Avife AA'as Ali.ss Alary UarloAV, of Boiirbon county, Kentucky. Her grandfathors brother Avas a soldier under Alarquis do Lafayette in time of the American ReA'olution. Many of the BarloAvs ha\'e attained distinction as inventors. AViliiam Barlow, once a citizen of this place, invented the planetarium, and aided the science of astronomy as much as any man in America.

CVXTIIIANA B.\K. A. II. AVard, L. Benton, .1. q. Ward, S. F. Patterson, WAV. Kimbrough. I). L. Evans, .]. T. Simon, ^ P,. D. Berry, J].C Dufiey, .lohn Barns, W. T. Lafi'Jrty, Daniel Duriiin, W. S. Hardin, J. C. Deadman, W. S. Cason, A. A. -fiiett, J. Irvjie Blantoii, AI. G. Land. AI. C. Swinford,

.A. II. Ward has AVOII distinction. J. Q. Ward Avas fiirtAvo terms judge ofthe Superior LAAVYERS. 75 Court of Kentucky. Many names on this list will be illuminated before they are carved on a tombstone or somebody has made a mistake. In the language of the immortal Jack Buiisby: " AVhereby, why not 'il If so, Avliat odds ? Can any man say otherwise V No. AAvast, thou!

SHORT SKETCH OF .IIIMJE .IA.AIKS R. CIIRRYS LIFE iiv Ill.AlSELF. I Avas born at Flournoy's Station, on Little North Elkhorn, in Fayette county, on the 8th day of Decem­ ber, 1789, and my father AA'as killed at Harniar's de- teat at Fort Wayne on the 30tli of September. 1790. .My mother married again, and Avhen I Avas fiA-e years old, my step-father removed and .settled in the forest near Cynthiana, and 1 Avas taught to labor from the time I Avas able to drag brush to the fire. We had then but foAV schools or school-books in the coun­ try. I had an old uncle Avho Avas a weaver. AVIIO took great interest in instructing me, and Avho devoted all the time he could spare to my education. My stop-father had but little (Mlucation, but was a kind man, and Avould ride a great distance to borroAv a book for me to read. In this Avay I Avas consider­ ably in advance of the other children in the neighbor­ hood. When about sixteen years old, I had a long and severe attack of fever, from Avliich my recovery was slow, and it AA'as thought that T Avould not for a long time, if CA'er. be able to labor. The neighbors took il great interest in my feeble health and made up a school, and T taught about nine months. It Avas, 76 CIIUONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. hoAvever, uni>leasaiit to teach children Avith Avhom I liad been reared, a majority of whom Avere older than myself. At the request of my step-father's relations, I gave up my school and took another one near the place Avhero I Avas born. The Rev. Samuel AlcClure, a Alethodist preacher, lay sick about a month at the house Avhere I boarded, and at night I AA'aited on him to the best of my abil­ ity. There I became acquainted Avith Colonel Alor­ rison, U. S. contractor, Avho employed me to find ra­ tions for the troops stationed at Fort Pickering. On my Avay doAvn, the flat-boato n Avliich I AViis embarked sunk, and I escaped only Avith the clothes I had on. I got on another boat, and Avorked my passage to F^ort Pickering, and Avheii I iirrived there learned that the troops had been ordered to the jiost on the Arkansas river. I thought that if I folloAved thom I Avould groAV up among savages, and that I Avould become one also. I wrote to Colonel Alorrison tliiit I Avould not go to Arkiuisas, got on another boat, iiiid Avorked my pass­ age to Natchez. There I Avas every day ()tt"ered money, by Kentuckians, to return home, Avliich I refused. I Avas for tAVO or throe Aveeks looking about for some­ thing to do—feeling at home among the flat-boats. I Aviistold thiit on the next Sidjbiitb Lorenzo DOAV AA-ould preach at the Alethodist Chapel. I could not suppress my curiosity, and before church time AA'ent iind took a seat in a remote corner of the chapel. Soon the con­ gregation began to collect, and after a Avhile Lorenzo DOAV came in, and, to my utter surprise, the Rev. Sam­ uel AlcClure Avas Avith hiin. They Avont into the iml- pit. At the end of the sermon, Avlieii they began to -sing, I slipped out and started under the hill. AVhen LAAVYERS. t t about fiftyyard s from the church, I felt a hand placed on my shoulder, and turning saAV the Rev. Samuel AlcClure. I told him hoAv I came to be there in such a plight. He held me fast, and said that he AA'ould as­ sume the authority of a father over me, and that I should return with him. AVhen Ave reached the church, the congregation Avas coming out. He called to Brother Gibson, and said: I knoAV they want a school here, and here is just the teacher for the place, and he gaA'e a short account of our acquaintance. The did man looked at me and at my soiled clothes, and re­ marked that I did not look much like a teacher, and inquired Avhere I Avas born and Avhere I Avas reared, and, AA'lien told in Kentucky, he remarked tluit he had employed a Kentuckian once Avho had remained Avith him about ii month, then borroAved a horse and disap- jiearcd, and that he had iioA'or heard of horse or Ken­ tuckian since. Brother AlcClure Avould take no de­ nial, and Air. Gibson put his hand in his pocket and drcAV out $15, and handed me, saying:" "I giA'o you that for a month's Avages. A''ou need clothes; to-mor- roAv morning buy Avhat you need, and come to my house, ten miles up the river, on the other side: my girls Avill make your clothes. I never quarrel, and if Ave can't iigree, AVO Avill just part—at the end of the month." About tAVO days before the end of the month, he iiskcd mo lioAV I Avas pleased. I ansAvered, that my attachment to the people Avas very strong, and that so long as I lived T Avould fe(>l grateful and reflect Avitli ])leasuro on the kindness Avitli Avliich I, as a stranger, liiid been treated by the AVIIOIO neighborhood, but thiit duty to myself Avould compel me to seek better Avages. 7S CHRONICLES OF CYNTIII.W.V.

Air. Gibson replied, that he had been tiilking to his son Simon iuid his ,soii-in-liuv Harrison, and AVC liaA'c coiieluded that if you Avill remain and teach what children Ave choose to send to you, that AVO will give you, for ten months, -5100 per nioifth and your hoard ; you may IUIA'C two months vaciitioii. This proposition Avas better than 1 expected or Avould have iisked, iiiid I iit once agreed to it. Aly intention Avas to return to Kentucky in A'iication, bid my friends farewell, and to iimke the south my pernianeiit home. But about two Avc(d

Xorth-Avestern Army, he said thiit the comiiiiny to which I AViis attached AA'Ould not be (tailed into service I'or some time, and adA'ised me to go Avith him, Avhicli 1 did. After AVC arrived at Franklinton, then Geueriil Ilar- risoiTs head-qiiiirters, 1 Avas employed as temporary fonige niiister and in similar duties until C'olonol Caniiibell's (letiichnieiit Avas ordered to AlassiuiUA'a. 1 AViis then furnished Avitli money and ordered to pur­ chase tind furnish the detachment with forage as tiir iis F()rt Granville, and during its absence to piiridiaso and liiivc provision stored iit that place. On our AViiy, the detachment hiiltcd at Lebanon, Ohio, a few duvs. Some (W the militia colonels seemed to think tliat tluy bad iiutbority over our oflicers, esi»eciiilly stiift" oilicers. Officers of inferior gradijs Avore intimidated. One liouglit and supplied his own regiment Avitli for­ age, and Avithout making any regular returns, iind then ordeix'd me to pay him the money ho siiid that he had expended. On my refusing to do so, AVC hiid a difliculty, iind he threatened to ride me on a rail or drum 1110 out of camp, Avhich I did not fear. It ended in his preferring strong charges against me to (icneral Jfarrison, iiiid asking to have his claim for foriige paid. Gcnerid Hiirrison biid [irolmbly received information from some ofthe other officers in relation to the afttiir. The re.'^ult AA'as, that before the detach­ ment returned I n^ceived a letter fr(nn Colonel Alor­ rison or General Iliii-rison approving of my conduct, and saying that, if I Could give the necessary security, thiit I should have the appoiiitmont of A. D. Q. M. (T!en.,-with the rank and ])ay of a captain of caA'alry. I Avroto to Captiiin Cole.man, rather lamenting that 82 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIIIAXA.

my poverty kt'pt me back from my good fortune. In a short time, 1 Avas rejoiceil iind surprised iit receiving a letter inclosing the necessary bond, with Captain Coleniiin's and Colonel Alillers names signed to it as security. I AVUS immediately put in charge of the transportation on the left line of the army, in Avhicli 1 was laboriously engaged, Avitli but few incidents worth relating, until after the battle of the Thames. There were, boAvever, many occurrences of exciting interest iit the time Avhicli iire hiirdly worth relating now. 1 will iiii'iition one iis a siiniple. 1 Inid iit St. Alary's twenty-six AViig(m loads of ammunition and a quantity of bacon to forward. Generiil Harrison or­ dered Colonel -Johnson to remain at St. Alary's and" furnish me Avitli escorts iis they iiiight.be needed. -I called on him for an escort for the iimmunition iind biicoii. He iiKpiired how iiiaiiy men I needed. I submitted to him iis my superior officer to ii.x the nuiiiber, and AViis iinnised iit his grave rejily : "I do not think any thing less thiin my whole regiment Avill be siifKcicnt." I SHAV that ho AVas deteriiiined to go. forward and leave me to get an escort AvhercAcr I could. 1 Avas unable to hire Indians at Wiiiiuchiiiitii. I Aveiit to rrbaiia to sec (Jeneral Shelby, Avho Avas on his AViiy Avitli the Kentucky militia, and asked him to furnish me an escort for twenty-six wagon loads of pnivisions, then at Piqua. He utterly refused, siiying that " his men came tofight, and not to escort pro­ visions." I Avas at my Avit's end, imd consulted Schonataft', an Indian of good sense, in the ho[ie of inducing liiiii to prcviiil on the friendly Indians to cs(^'Ort me. He siiid that they had all gone forAvard Avitli General Ilar- L.AWViaiS. 83 risoii, and laughing, ho told me to send the Avagoiis Avithout ill! escort, because the enemy kiioAv as AVOH iis Ave that Shelby Avas coming Avith the Kentuckians. He also said that there Avas not a hostile Indian this side of Detroit. I sent the Avagons Avithout an escort, iind they Aveiit safely to Fort Aleig.s. This is a sample of the very iiiiiny difficulties thaf had to be eiic(niii- tered. After the battle of the Thames, Colonel Alor­ rison resigned and took the contract to supply the United States troo[)S in liidiiina, Illinois, and Missouri. He Siiid thiit ho did this to lienefit an old friend, Miijor Aliirtin. Ho Avrote to mo to resign and ittteiid to the contnict in Indiana and Illinois, Avhicli he feared would be il losing business otherwise. I resigned and went Avith a power of attorney to superintend the contnict myself iiiid to let it out to subiunitriictors. After riding oA'er the country, I became satisfled that the contract for those two states wiis worthless. I let the contract to subcontractors, by Avliich move Colonel Alorrison imido about -^3,000.00, but the snlM/oiitractor was imjiovorished. The next yciir, 1815, I Avas ein- iiloved the AVIIOIO vciir surveyiiiij: the lands of ncAV residents on the Avaters ofthe Cumberland, Kentucky. Licking, and Sandy rivers. The next year, 1810,1 had nothing else to do, and I got married. AftcrAViird 1 formed a partnership Avith my brother-in-law. Air. Downing, to carry on-a brick-yiird in Cynthiana, and at MoscoAV,Ohio, intcndingto collect my means, not ex­ ceeding -?3,000.00, and buy a tract of land and cultiA'iite the soil for a liviug,but Avas laughed iit by Colonel Alor­ rison and Air. DoAvning. They siiid that if I Avould become a merchant that I.Avould be able in five years to buy il plantation and indulge my partiality for 84 CHRONICLES OF CYNTUIANA.

farming, if I chose to do so. I yielded to their solici­ tations, formed a partnership Avith Colonel Alorrison, bought a largo stock of goods from Philadelphia, and o[iened a retail store at CVnthiiina. The times were unpropitious, the \>i-\co of goods Avasfiiiling, and money matters Avore stringent in Kentucky; bi^sides, 1 jirobiibly never Avould have niade ii good merchant, for, idthough I Avas a f"air salesman, I Avas, and idways have been, a poor collector. To complete my mis- fbrttines, in iiiv idisence on the ni,

-Fudge Curry's grandfatlier AA'as the brother of Dr. Curry, of Edinburgh, Si-otland, Avho Avas the patroii iind biograi>her of Robert Burns. John Cui'ry,'the uncle of Avhom .Judge .Curry speaks in his sketch, had many poems of Robert Burns in bis, the poet's, OAVU handwriting. They Avere destroyed at his death Avith other paper. Persons Avho did it Avere ignorant of their A'alue. -Fudge Curry's mother Avas Ali.ss Man- love, of Edinburgh. The dark cloiids of Avhich the judge speaks at the close of his sketch Avero lifted and obscured bis life's sky no more, and the sunset AA-KS bright and beautiful. His granddaughter, Aliss Aliittie Dee Dodd, suiiported him and his iiged Avife for many years before their death, and by her noble exertions freed these old servants of God from financiid care. .Judge Curry died iit the ago of ninety-fcVur, and his AA'ife, AVIIO Avas younger thiui he, liA'cd some years after his death'and reached the adA'anced age of iiinety-tAVO. Side by side they sleep in peace. No hand stretched out to fliom for alms Avas ever AvithdraAvn empty. They laid up their treasures in Heaven by their unbounded charity. 86 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIlI.AX.A.

The incident about to be recounted has boon jiub- lislied in school and story books for nearly ii hundred years; but as it properly belongs to Judge Curry's life, it shall find a place here. Some time after .rudgo Curry's father's death, his mother returned to DehiAvare to look after some property she had there. She left Judge Curry Avitli his grandparents and a faithful negro fenialo serA'ant named llamiiih, AVIIO had a little son a year older than Judge Curry. To keep her boy, DoA'cr by name, (piiot Avhilo she milked the COAA'S iit evening, she Avas in the habit of giving him a boAvl of broad iind milk and sciiting him on the flooro f the cid)in. The boards that floored the cabin were rough, punch­ eons, iuid placed Avide iqiart. One evening Aviieii Ilaimah came in from milking, Dover, AVIIOSO A'Ocabu- lary Avas not very oxtensiA'e, said : " Oh, niainie, seed sicli a pitty sing." Ho .seemed much excited. The next eA'oning she gave Dover the bread and milk and secreted herself to Avatch DoA'er, unseen by him. AVhen he began to eat and rattle the spoon against the sides of the boAvl, a large cojipcr-bead snake craAvled up through a crack of the cabin floor and be­ gan to eat Avitli him. If the snake put his hoiid too far to Dover's side of the bowl, he slapjied him Avitli the spoon, am.l the snake, thus reproA'ed, kejit to his OAVU side. Hannah Avas paralyzed. She hardly dared draAV her breath. AVhen the milk Avas gone, the snake disappoareil. The next evening the snake came in search of Dover and his supper, but llaiimdi dis­ patched him, much to Dover's sorroAV, Avho had formed quite an attachment for his vicious friend. Not long after this, -Judge Curry's grandparents LAAVYERS. 87 went to Lexington on some pressing business, and left the judge in Hannah's care Avithout the IciLst uneasiness. Late in the iifternoon, Hannah heard the Avar cry of a biiiid of Indians near the house. She knoAV that if she hesitated to IciiA'e the cabin, thiit she and the children Avould be murdered. She tied Judge Curry and Dover together, placed thom in a sack Avitli their heads out, and tied the sack securely to .her back and Avatched her oiipor- tuiiity Avlion the Avar cry Avas most distant, and slipped out of the cabiii and made her Avay to Flournoy's station or fort. Some time after Airs. Curry returned from DehiAViire, this faithful negro AViis on her dciitli- bed. Airs. Curry promised to rear DoA'cr as her own child, and she kept her AA'ord. In the division of the property after Airs. Curry's death, Dover bocanio -Judge Curry's shn'o. -Fudge Curry, mindful of the great service Hannah had rendered him, had him tiiught the trade of brick-maker, Avbicli in those days AViis a vet'}' lucrative business. When DoA'ci- Avould make money, and ho niiide it rapidly, he Avould place it in -Judge Curry's hands for iiu'cstiiient. When he, DoA'cr, Avas tAventy-oiie years of age, -Judge Curry said : " You are a free man. I Aviil ar­ range your emancipiitiou papers." Dover replied " that he Avas not ready fiir freedom yet." When he bad accumulated -SLOOO, he said thiit he Avas ready to be free. -ludgo Curry made him a free man and bought his Avife for him, and be lived and died in Cynthiana. Judge Curry had a stone placed at his grave after his death, on Avliich is inscribed: Dover Adams. He liA'ed and died an honest man. CHAPTER III.

I'HYSICIANS.

Since the days of Aristotle and yEsculapius physi­ cians have not given quite so many snails and frogs to be taken as medicines, but have given great bottles full of mixtures iis uiipalatable and e(pially iis startling to the sense of smell. Since the days of Aristotle, likcAvise, physicians liiive not advanced one yicli in diagnosis, but they Inive traveled leagues in surgery. No man is so great and godlike as a learned physi­ cian. Why should be not be? He deals continually Avith machinery constructed by infinite Avi.sdom, miniely the body of num; Avliich is a mysterious electric poAver clothed in fleshan d blood. Somewhere in the brain dAvells the solitary and invisible operator—the soul— Avhich sends messiiges to the objectiA'e and receives them into the subjective Avorld through the charged Avires of the nervous system. If physicians Avere not so afraid of striking out on an unbeaten path, as niai,iy discoveries might be made in the spiritual kingdom as have been made in the niii- terial. ButAvhon some soul, more daring than another, reaches out its best energies and performs some AVOU- derful feat in the darkness that surrounds it, iind id- most acts independently of its tabernacle of clay, that jtoor soul has to beat a hasty retreat, or jierbaps ends its earthly career in the mad-house. Be careful there­ fore—yes, children of men—not to shoAV yourselves (8S) I'HVSR'I.ANS. 89 something stnuige to the multitude Be careful not to iuA'cstigate spiritualism, and do not suggest that it may be the dinvu of ii new science and not due to some supernatural agency! The soul (loos aril Avlieii it does its best; physicians and metaphysicians knoAV that. They have Avatchod the dissolution of soul iuid body; they liaA'e seen the body almost lifeless, and the soul unable to send a messiige, save through the sense of sight, but through that medium would come- the assurance that it AVIIS strong in all its functions, and a moment afterward it would be gone. In this tOAvn tlir(;'e years iigo Colonel ;-, Avho had been ii brin'o rebel soldier, liiy dying. He re(piosted that the sister of one of his companions in arms should A'isit him. She Aveiit and Avas much impressed by the AA'ay bo looked at (Iciith. He Avas not a })ro- fessed ('bristian, but ho Avas calm iind fearless about entering eternity, and he believed that his .soul Avas immortal. After talking a long time of the mys­ teries of life and death he promised the sister of his friend that, if possiljle, he AA'Ould manifest himself to her soon after death. He liA'od tAVo Aveeks after he had made this promise, and the night before he died the liidy to Avhom be had made it heard that he Avas niiicli improA'od and that he might linger simie time. The next day about noon .she stood in the dooi'Avay, thinking of any thing but the death of Colonel , Avheii, iill at once, there shivered through her Avhole being the consciousness of his dciith. The impression ciinie from the air in front of her, but she saAV tuid heard nothing. She exclaimed: "Colonel is dead!" She looked up the street and SUAV a lady 90 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHI.ANA.

walking rapidly toAvard her, and Avlien she came Avithin speaking distance she said to her: " You need not tell me, 1 kiioAV that Colonel is dead !" But hoAV did she knoAV it':' Aletaphysicians and physicians say . The above is a digression. I'liysicians all Inive one peculiiirity—they never lo.se a case. Some old AVoman or niVi'se kills the patient that might have been cured except for their iutormoddlingl The adA'cnt of mi- , crobes has been ii great protection to old women and nurses, in as much as they are UOAV made to share the blame along Avitli them. As a class jdiysicians are to be pitied. Their rest is broken; their best ettbrts 8C(>riiod and misundor.stood by the class called " clod- hopjicr." But the charlatan! He is/icrrv misundor- stood by thiit class. " He slays his thousands and his tens of thousiuids " Avitli his OAVU jaw-bone, and is a lineal descendant of that friend of Balaam's, AV1I6 surprised him so much Avlieu he " opened his mouth and spake in a niiin's voice." The first physician of Cynthiana AA'as Dr. James McPhoeters. Ciiptain L. G. Alarshall says of him : AVo place here, by wjiy of ominence, a brief sketch of the first phy.sician AA'IIO (wcr prai'ticed medicine in Cynthiana—-Dr. James AfcPheeters. This AVC are en­ abled to do in the Avords of his brother, the ROA',. William Alid'heeters. wholeftin manuscript dated 1842, Raleigh, North Ciirolina, a A'cry interesting history of the family. We make room only fiir the notice of oii.e member, though the story is full of the stir­ ring events peculiar to the early settlement of our country. PHYSICIANS. 91

The family Avas hirge; one hundred and seventy- nine are named in their proper places in their re­ spective branches, and Joseph Aloore, maternal uncle of Dr. AlcPheeters, had sixteen children (!!), A\'hile the Rev. William, the doctor's brother, Avho is author of the history from Avhicli wo make this extract, had the goodly number of fourteen children (!!!); the latter was married three times, and gives a carefully Avritten account of his three Avives. Alany clergymen appear in the family, and all, or nearly all, seem to biiA'o been Presbyterians. AViliiam AlcPheeters, father of the doctor, Wiis born in Pennsylvania in 1729; remoA'cd to Rockbridge county, A'irginiii; married Rachel Moore, of that county, and died in 1807. Ho had ten children, of Avhoni Jiinies Avas the fourth, and William, thcAvriter from Avliom AVC cojiy, Avas the ninth. We preserve both the form and the iiiinigraphs of the original, as folloAVs: 4. -James, born ALty 5, 1705. He acquired a liberid education, c(mimeiicod the study of medicine in Staun­ ton, Augusta county, A^irginia, and afterAvard attended the medical lectures, Philadelphia, Dr. Rush being at that time one of the lecturers. He married his cousin, Elizabeth Coalter, a daiigb- fer of Alichael Coalter, Alay 25, 1791. For ten years ho practiced niedicine in the toAvn and neighboriiood of Fincastlc, Botetourt county. Aftei-Avard, ho re­ moved, in the year 1795, to Kentucky, and settled in the toAVii of Cynthiana, Harrison county.

In fbo years 1796 iind 1797, he Avas a great sufl"crer. He lost liis eyesight, in a great measure, and Avas otherAvise afflicted, being confined to his room and 92 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. bod for ton Avooks, and unable to sit uji. He, hoAvever, gradually recovered his health, and, to some extent, his eyesight, so as to enable him to resume the jirac- tice of medicine ; and for more than tAA'o years ho en­ joyed comf(n'tid)le health. But he Avas again visited Avitli sickness; and departed this life NoA'cmbor 9. 1799, aged tliirty-fmir years and six months. He died iit the home of Air. Barr, a foAv miles from Lexington (Kentucky), to AA'bich toAvn he had jirobiibly gone Avith^ the A'iew of obttuiiing medical aid. lie A\'as buried in a graveyard near Air. Barr's, on ii road loading from Lexington to C3'iitliiana. "Very nciirly, if not (piite, coiitemporary with Dr. M(d*hootors AA'as Dr. Septimus Taylor; also. Dr. Rey­ nolds. Li 1807, Dr. David Holt;* in 1808, d)r. Tim- berlake, Avho died in 1828: in 1812, Dr. Joseph Holt, and Dr. AndrcAV AIcMillin; in 1817, Dr. Joel C. Frazer, of groat distinction; in 1820, Dr. Ilendershot; in 1816, Dv. Duncan. In 1825, Dr. George II. Perriii began practice here; in 1822, Dr. Samuel AIcAIillin; in 1828, Dr. Abram Addiims began hero, and prac­ ticed a full liiUf century; in 18:>0, Dr. Harmon; in 1832, Dr. Jack Desha; in 1837, Dr. Lewis Perriii be­ gan'jiractice here, and in 1870 returned to his native ])liie(>, Abbeville, South Ciirolina, Avliore he died, in 1880. In 18.32, Dr. Thomas Alagee begiin practice, and continued till 1849, Avheii he died of cholera; Dr. John Kimbrough began id)out the same time, and idso died of cholera in 1849; in 1850, Dr. .J(diii A. Kirkpatrick, Avho died a fcAV years iigo ; in 1850, also, Dr. AViliiam IL Adidr; in 1858, Dr. II. AICDOAVCH, still in cxtensiA'c iiracticc among us; in 1859, Dr. A. -J. Bold; in 1800, Dr. AlcCloud;''in 1865, Dr. Riitlicr- PHYSICIANS. 93 ford, Avho died some years ago ; also, in 1805, Dr. Au­ gustus'Alurray; in 1802, Dr. Johii Righter; also, Dr. J. H. Smiser, the latter being the firstlionieopathi c physician resident in our city; in 1870, Dr. Janies;P Miidison, eclectic; in 1878, Dr. Thackcriiy M. Hedges; in 1880, Dr. E. W Alartiii; also, in 1880,'l)r. F. Gray; idso. Dr. AV T. Al.-Xees." Physicians of the present day : Dr. AV. T. AIcNees, Dr. Thackeray Hedges; Dr. John Righter, Dr. J. II. Smiser, Dr. -Fames P Aladison, Dr. J. .Martin, Dr. Heiwey AICDOAVCH, Dr. Scott, Sr., Dr. 0. Scott, Dr. Lamme Givens, Dr. -Joseph Boyd, and Dr. Ilervev AIcDoAA'cll. T. M. Green says, in his "History of Kentucky Fatnilios: " Blajor JIerre>/-3IcDoa'ell.—Another son of Captain .Fohii Lyle AI(d)owell is Dr. Harvey AICDOAVCH, ,of Cyjitliiana. AVith a large, Avell-forined head, a high, scpiare forehead, and prominent broAV, a very clear, li;do-blue eye that looks squarely at you, and some­ times glitters like steel, a full jaAV and cliiu,indiciitiiig the utmost resolution and force, an athletic person, with features peculiar to his race, Alajor AIcDowell combines in a remarkable degree the family traits. About his inanncrthere is a quiet reserve; his ap|)ear- aiice and bearing impress all AVIIO meet him as those of a man ab.soliitely impenetrable to fear,"and iibsolutely incapable of falsehood or any kind of meanness. The soldiers Avho fought liy his side in tlm Confederate army describe his courage as heroic,-his coolness and composure under the heaviest fire as phenomenal. These characteristics were most amply tested. Grad­ uating at the military school near Frankfort, in 1850, he abandoned a large medical practice at Cynthiana, ft4 CIIUONICLES OF CVXTIIIANA. in 1801, to recruit ii company for Roger W Hanson's Confederate Second Kentucky Infantry, in Avhicli In; Avas made a captain. With this ri'gimcnt he remained until the close of the Avar. Captured and badly Avounded in the head at Fort Donelson, he Avissiii pris­ oner for six months at Ciimii Chiise and -Johnson's Island. Exchangir'd at Vicksluyg, in September, 1802, he returned at once to his connnand and to the front. At HiirtsA'ille, in NcJvembcr, 1802, he AA'IIS in the thick­ est of the f'riiy. At Aliirfreesboro, he Avas 'm the des­ perate charge of- Breckinridge's division, in Avhich Hanson fell—Avas shot through both arms,iind AVounded in three other phices. At -Fackson, Chickamauga, Alissioii Hidge, Dalton, Resiiea, Dallas, Kenesinv, Peach ^I'ree creek, in the intrencliments iit Utau creek, in all the fights around Atlanta, at Jonesboro (Avbere he AViis again captured), in se.A'orid battles in South Ciirolina, one of them on the old biittle ground of Camden; Avounded fiirthe seventh time at Resiica,and six times iigiiin in other battles; in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alis­ sissippi, Alabama, Georgiii, and South Ciirolina; in jirison, in ciim[), on the march, in the hottest fightso f the bloody war; in victory and in defeat; jilAvays un- eomplainiiig, calm, energetic, and daring, be exhibited tlie best qualities of a soldier. Promoted to the imijor- ship for gallantry on the field at Chickamauga, and to the lieiitcniint-coloneley for meritorious eonduct at -lonesboro, coA'oring the Confederate retreat before Sherman's march to the sesi—the regiment having been liiounted fiirthe purpose—no iiiaii in that serv­ ice hiis a more honorable recm'd." No man is more honored and loved in Cynthiana than he. NoAV, then, young Doctors Givens, Scott, and PHYSICIANS. 95

Boyd, do not lie enrioiis of Dr. AIcDowell's Avar record. ^'oii liiiA'e done your best—being young—and it is shrewdly suspected by one old AVonian of Cynthiana that cai-h of yoa lias kitted, his man. Dr. Jiiel C. Frazer (written by L. (3. ALirsliiill).— One of the best-remeiniicrcd iiiimes in Cynthiana and Harrison county is Ihiit of Dr. Joel C. Frazer, altboitgh he died in ISO:;. He was born in 1788, iit the Williaiii Ikcdmon idace, about ii mile from town on the Liiii's Mill [like. Ilis father, John Frazer, wiis the original owner ol" the I'ariii, and when he moved to Falniouth, Keiiliicky, about 1S20, he purchasi'd ii fiirni one mile south of that place; and his liouse beciime-the hospitii- ble home of the Methodist clergy of the surrounding region. He died lit IS:)."), loved and res|iectcil by his fiieiids and neighhois. Ills fiiriii is now oAvned by the heirs of Henry Dills, children of his gi'iind- daiighter. ^'oiiiig .l('>el read medicine iit an early age with the well kiioAyn Dr.'fimiierlake, who was a leading pliysi- ciiilioi'tlu'iilaccNi'romlHlOto 1S2S. lnlS22,Dr. Frazer married Mi.ss Kiilh Warlield, who died two years ai'ter- ward. ., Tlic doctor Wiis still reading iind practicing, and having attcndeil niediciil lectures at Transylviinia I'liiversity, gradnatiHl in niedicine in 1S24. He iit oiice, after gradiiiitiiHi, |ir(n-ee(U'd to St. Chai'les, Mis- >r)iirl, intending to establish .himself there. But the place turned out to lie (listressingly heidlhy, so much so, in I'act, that the doctor iind severiil,. other young pro­ fessional nicii, there found it impossible to pa_\- theii- hotel e.\|H'ns.es; iind. as ii last rescu't, tluy coiicliuK'd fo get into il skill", without saying "good-bye" to any body, and Ib-iat down the river to some more favor- 96 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. able locality. At the last numieut, however, the in­ nate manliness of Dr. Frazer revolted iit the measure, and he refused to proceed, Avhilc his conqianions iictn- ally carried out their intentions, and thus disappeared from St. Charles. With Dr. Frazer, the Avhole scheme Avas, no doubt, only a piece of pleasantry, for he AViis, all his life, thi^ embodiment of wit and merriment. But he soon thought best to return to Cynthiiina, where he married, in 1820, his second Wife, Airs. Stiii- ders, Avhose maiden iiiiine Avas Nancy Williams. F"'or a few years his [iractiiio seems to liiive been great, though he carefully remitted all his dues left unset­ tled with his St. Charles creditor. To improve bi.s business, he remoA'cd to Piiris, Kentucky, in 1833, but returned in about a year to his iiatiA'c place again. All this time bis character as a physician was con- sti'intly rising, for be Wiis devoted to the science of medicine iind fond (jf the practice. He bcgiiii UOAV to tiike rank as a iihyslcliin of the first order, iind en­ tered on a most successful career of nearly thirty years" diiriitioii. As to business, ho had more than he sometimes Avislied. Ho soon fiiuiid himself able to jnirchaso the fine farm iind residence once oAviied by Colonel William Brown, half ii mile from toAvn.

He died at the ago of sixty-fiv(>—not A'ery old, but he had boon eminently successful, both fimincially iind professionally. In iiddition, ho AA'as beloved as a citi­ zen and greatly respected by the profession. Dr. Frazer bad one son, llubbard AVilliams, born in 1827, AA'lio also beciime a physician, graduating at Tran.sylA'ania in 1850, but died before his father, in PHYSICl.ANS. 97

1859. ite Avas a young man of splendid mental en­ dowments, hut of delicate constitution. He had his fiither's po[iular turn of manners, AViis even more Avitty and brilliant, scholarly and intelligent. His short career, hoAvever, did not admit of groat jirofes- siomd achieA'cments. Dr. Joel Frazer Avas the only physician, of Cyn­ thiana, Avho CA'cr trciited people Avho Avere afflicted from imagintiry diseases Avitli signal success. AV^hen called to see a malingerer he gave him or her his deepest sympathy, iind (U)sed him on bread |iills ciire­ fnlly coated, Avliieh ahvays brought about a cure. Dr. Harvey AICDOAVCH, of our time, uses dift'erent tactics. He wiis called to sec a niiin Avho Inul been coni|ilaliiiiig forAvccks; ho visited him two or three times, and found that there Avas nothing the matter with him but byiiochondria. He finallyjerke d him out of bed and iniinmeled him soundly, to the groiit aniazement of the patient and his Avife, iind then left him to get iilong flic best way he could. Dr. Abram Addams (Avritten by L.

in Transylvania, acting sometimes as iimanuensis for Dr. Cook; iind finally graduated (1828) from,the first great medical school of the West. During his residence Avith Dr. Estcii Cook, he wrote, in his ciipaclty of iimanuensis, the whole of that author's noted Avork on "C()iigcstiv(! Theory of Fevers," as also .scA'cral other Avorks Avell known to the profession. From Lexington, Dr. Addams r(^nioved to .Athens, Alabama, in 1828-29, Avliere IKS Ingiin the ]'iractlce of Ills [irofessioii, and beciinus acqiiainted Avitli bis future Avife, AIlss Alary A. Colciiian, iiti accoiiipHshed young lady i'roni Harrison county, .Kentucky, then on ii visit, to Athens, Alabama. In 18;!0, Dr. .Addams relurned to Kentucky and to Cynthiana, in whose vicinity re­ sided Aliss Coleman, who AViis the daughter of Ciiptiiiii .lames (Coleman, AVell kiioAvn as the coniiiiaiider ol"the large Harrison county conipiiny of mounted inianlry In the AVaroflS12. The same year, ]8:!0, Dr. Addaiiis iiiiirried Aliss Coleman, by Avliich marriage he had three children, two of Avboiii died of cholera in 18:!:), and in 1S:)5 his AVH'C iind iiil'ant child died. Tn IS:!!!, Dr. Addams married AIlss Alary T. A\'iill, daughter of Alajor AVllHam K. AVall. By this marriage he bad tell children, eight of Avliom still survive. Dr. Ad­ dams died in Cyiilhiiiuii on the 15th of April, 1875. In 1S73, Dr. .\(l(hims visited Colorado, and returned ill 1.S74. His scieiilllie iittaliimeiits and liidiits of close observation r|nalifled him to understiind and ajipre- clate the Avonders of that Avestern coimtry, iind few travelers could tell so Avell Avluit they had seen. His ]prol'essioiial lii"e in ("yiilhiaiia covers a ]ieriod of ibrty-livis years, during most of Avhich his practice PHYSICIANS. 99 was extensive. He A\'as ii surgeon of eminence, and siicceHsfiilly performed numerous major and cajiital operations in that department of his profession. He was il competent writer on subjects pertaining to his art, and the medical journals Avere enriched by many il contribution from his pen. Abovi' all, to his honor \n\ it said, he was a man of strict trulhfulness. There Wiis not a spark of (leceit in his nature. AVheiKiver Dr. vVddams siiid any thing as a matter of fact, this subject Avas ended by common consent. Of ii kind and genial dis[)ositioii, he Avas the favorite and com- [liiiiioii of all: happy Avitli the merry, and as rciidily synqiathizing Avitli the sorroAvful. He Avould liot in- (entloiially siiy a Avord that Avould impinge on the leeliiigs of any one; but of so ])ure a gentfeiiiiin we may be allowed to repeat Avliat has been siiid bv more than one good judge in our bciiring, namely, tlnit Dr. .\(ldaiiis AViis the best physieian, take him all in iill, lliiit CA'er resided in Cynthiana. His griiiidl'atlier had the second "d " inserted in his name to distinguish it from others of the saiiu! iiaiiic

Xo jihysician ever resident in Cyiithlana had so obedient a negro servant as Dr. Frazer. In proof of tills assertion, note the following: Dr. Frazer's good old horse, fliiit hiid boriiis him to see his patients for yciirs, liiy dying one evening, and the doctor said fo Wyatt, the negro beforis mentioned : "Drag this horse off in the morning; he Avill be dead by that fiiiie." The doctor AA'iis called away i'li the night, and Wyidt arose in the morning and tied his master's horse to ii 100 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. sled and began to drag him aAvay. Some one saAV the horse kicking and struggling to free himself from the rope that Avas choking him, and said : " AVyatt, what do you mean by dragging that horse aA^-ay before he is (lead ?" Wyatt replied: " Dr..Frazer said he AViis dead. Guess he knoAvs. Ho is de bes' doctor in dese parts."

Dr. Georye Jl. Perrin.—Dr. George II. Perriii prac­ ticed medicine in and iiround Cynthiana for many years. His OAVU AVords, cojiicd licloAV, Avill giA'c per­ sons who read them a perfect understanding of his mind and character: " In Kentucky, AVC have dcA'oted much time to our animals by breeding, and have reached a degree of ex­ cellence in this resfieet Avhieli has given a world-Avide reputation to our studs, herds, and flocks.

"Is it not time AVO Avere devoting onn.elvos to the culture of the hiimiin animal, lest our stock should become siqicrior to their proprietors, groimismen, herdsmen, and sheiihords?"' Dr. Perrin died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years, but his mind Avas clear to the last day of his life CHAPTER IV.

TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS—MINI.sTERS.

THE first school-house erected in this toAVii Avas put up on the corner of the old ccnietery. The ground Avas not used as a eemetery then, but many a boy iind girl sported above the bed "Avliore they should shortly lie." Air. Endicott Avas thefirst teacher, and, if tins traditions that come down to us arc true, he did not give his pupils much time for mehiiicholy reflection. He Avas a thorough scholar, but he folloAved Solomon's direction, and spiired not the rod. Dr. (Jeorge 11. I'errin and (Jeneral Lucius Desha Avero taught by him. It is impossible to giA'o little more than a list of file teachers Avbo IniA'c taught here since Cynthiana has boon a toAVii. " Samuel Endicott, .Fosse Olds, .Fiinies Kelley, William Garmany, Rev. CoAvgill, Rev. Charles CroAve, Barnes, Sheidierd, J. M. Elliot, George Clark, J. AV Peck, -Jidiii Henry Smith, William II. Crutchfield, Rev. Carter Page, Misses Alice and Alary Diincanson, Kev. Joft'ries, Rev. Isaac AI. Reese, R. W. Alc(!rery, L. (J. Alarshall." This list of teachers shall not bo completed until a tribute of respect be paid to Profcs.sor Marshall. He was oduciitcd in the best schools iind colleges of this country. He fought in the civil AViir, on the Confederate side, from its bogiii- niiig to its close, and Avhen he laid aside his arms his sectiomd prejudices slept Avith them. He came here ill 1869, and serced the people as a teacher until his (101) 102 CIIUONIChliS OF CYNTill.ANA.

death, in 1885. Any one Avho knew Professor Miir­ shall Avould say that his teaching Avas a labor of love, iind that his AVIIOIO heart Avas in it. To make the (Jradcd ('ity School a success, ho spared neither money, health, nor energy, and his perseverance in that direction deseiTcs a mominieiit. It was talked of soon after his death; but gratitude is seldom born, and Avhen it is its life isfleeting. A soldier, a scholar, a benefactor to this toAvii, iind an humble Christian, but bis grave is still unmarked, save by a small stone bearing the date of his birth and death. A cenotaph should adorn the city school-grounds to pro\e that till! people of ('ynthiana would kee[> bis memory green. J'roj'essor /jKinnrd.^Vvofi'UMtv C. T. Leonard suc­ ceeded Professor .Miirshall, iifter a short interval,,and has taught until the present time lie is the de- Kcendant of ministers of the (Jospel and scholars, who hiivi! idso been tciichors. He is a man Avliom neillier ]>riju(llee nor censure can turn from the path hetlilnks it right to ])ursiie. A more vigilanl, indiLstrions, iind conscientious teacher no ]ieople ever bad. Ho is a young man. In Ibrty years from UOAV some one will jiraise him, Avheii he hasfinished hi s Avork. 3Irs. Loiiisr A. DeUiny.—Mrs. Louise Delling, for­ merly .Mrs. Louise Ornisby, began teaching here in February, 1851, and continued in that employment until -Fune, 1801. She Avas a teacher of high standing and of more than usual accomplishmeiits. She had, too, fimmciid idiilities, and saved money. In 1801 Mrs. Ornisby married C. T. Delling. Since the death of Air. Delling, Airs. Dolling has resumed her old cidl- TEACHEUS .AND SCIKHII.S, ETC. KCj iiig, and has a small select school. She is said to be the best grammarian in the Avliole toAvii. Professor ./. .1. Broirn.—In 1S78, Protcssor BroAvn established the lltirrison Female College, since Avhich time it has groAvii in iiopiilarity, and is noAv in a flourishing coiidition.

.AI INISTE us. MiNisTKtis I Phi/.^ii-iinis tij'.• iiiinlster on the field of ]iopiiliirity. A young military student, dressed in uniform, Avalking the streets of a strange toAvn, will ciiuse iill old Avoinan of eighty to liobbh' to the door to gist a good sight of liliii, and the young girls— inII, 1 It hath been said that religion has caused the bloodiest wars that ever have been fought. Let it be said unto you, fellow-men, thai religion (//'/ mil cause these Avars, but the AViint of it brought tlieiii about. Drap the sidijrcl, ilrop il! The ministers ol' the present diiy are Rev. Afr. A'ouiig, of the Aletho­ dist Church ; liev. Mr. A'amy, of the Christian ; Rev. Mr. Cox, of this Baiitist; Rev. Mr. Dyer, of the Ejiis- coparmn; Rev. Fiither AlcCirady, of the Catlmlic These ministers ditt'er about the modes of Avorsliip, but they are all foHoAvers of; Christ. Drop the sub­ ject, drop it! 104 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

OLD MINLSTERS. BoloAV is a list ofthe old ministers of the Gospel of this toAvn Avho made their Avay to Heaven over Avound- iiig shards; but around AVIIOSO heads shone unceas­ ingly the light of the Son of Righteousnes.s. They luiA'o, long since, entered into rest; and if they did ([uarrel, and sometimes fight,ove r the AVord Ih-zitr/ia, they all laid doAvn their carnal Avoapons at the foot of the cross, at hist, Avheii they came in sight of the beautiful city of the NCAV Jerusalem ; and they all entered into CA'crlasting rest. liach one drcAV his OAVU conclusion from the fol­ loAving: "And they stoned Stephen, calling on God, and saying, Lord Jesus, rocciA'o my spirit. "And he kneeled doAvn and cried with a loud voice, Jjord, lay not this sin to Iheir charye. And Avhen be had said this, he fell iisleeji." Jjist.—Joshua Irvine, .Folin AI. Ibdton, -lohn A. (iiuio, John G. Tmniikins, R. C Ricketts, Samuel Rogers, -J. R. Barboe, -F(diii Rogers, John T. Johnson, Johiidrviiie, Rev. Air, Forsytho. Jier. J. C. Waliten.—'' The parents of this noble and gifted man AVcre from AHrgiiiia. His father, William AV^alden, AA'IIS born and grcAV up to manhood in King AVilliiim county, on the Alataponi river, anil Avas mar­ ried to Alildred Rhodes, of Albemarle county, Seiitem- her 25, 1780. Of their olevon children, -ioliii Coal AValdon Avas the youngest, and Avas born in Barren county, Kentucky, Fobruiiry 25, 1822. Soon after this, the family removed to Trigg county, Kentucky, Avliero J. C. AVidden passed his childhood and youth. TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS, ETC. 105

In that region AVUS a very scholarly and devout preacher of the Roformatiou, (Jeorge P Street. It is most probable that under the influence of this excel­ lent and distinguished man, AValdon, having obeyed the Gospel in his young manhood, had his mind and heart turned toAvard the ministry. He began to preach, and about this time became acquainted Avith liouisa B. AVinston, daughter of Alajor William Win­ ston, of Union county. She AA'as a beautiful, brilliant, and fascinating Avoman, and a dtwoted member of the Christian Church. To her he AA'as married, Septem­ ber 14,184-^. By this marriage, J. C. AVidden had six children born to him : " Dr. Algernon, a successful physician of OAvingsville, Kentucky, Winston, Ihillitt, Airs. .Martha Lizzie Speed, Mrs. Louisa B. Johnson, and Airs. Alary A. Williamson. Winston is in South Amorica. Bullitt is in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has become distinguished in Utah as a business num and successful financier. ".f. C. Walden removed to NCAV Liberty in 1802, AAdiero, in the following year, his beloved Avife, AVIIO had been a precious sujiport to him in his ministerial Avork, Avas called IKUIIO. Aju'il 20, 1804, he married Margaret E. Smith, of ('arroll county, another bright and excellent ('bristian Avmnaii, AVIIO lived in cordial sympathy Avith his AVork until his death at his home, ill Cynthiana, May 16, 1892. J. C. AValdon leaves a widow and seven children, six by his first niarriage and one by the last." The people of Cynthiana read­ ily indorse every Avord Rev. Air. Grubbs has Avritten in praise of -J. C. AValdcn. No man ever led a more iictivo Christian life than he. He had climbed so high on " Zion's Hill " thiit his horizon inclosed the 100 CHIioNirLKS OF CYNTHI,AN,\.

•sinful iind sufferilig of all the Avorld ; and he would have gladly ministered to their wants had it been pos­ sible. No Avay AViis too dark tor liini to travel, no dive of sin too deeji for him to enter, if bv so doiiiij: he could redeem a .soul. In ju-osperily his heart was chasteiiecl by the sorroAVs of others; in advei'sity it AViis upborne by the hope of another and a better life than this. At last his horizon, iilready so broiid, touched the borders of the Promised Land, and the faithful, loving, old pilijiim crossed over and entered into his inimortal inheritance. CHAPTER V

CLERKS (IE TIIE COURTS.

Perry Whi rrill.—The Wherritts Avero Welsh, but had lived in England many yciirs before they came to .America, which Avas in the year 10."U. Thomas Wlierritt, father of Perry Wlierritt, was born in this hitler part of the seventeenth century, near llagers- town, .Maryland, A\-liere tins Wherritts sell led when they ciiiiie to this country. The Kings camewllh this Wherritts, and were Si-otch-lrish Eplscopaliiiiis, and si'ttled at LeoiiiirdstoAvii, Maryland. Thoimis Wlier­ ritt married .Margaret King, of Leonanlstown, sister to .Major Henry King, wlio^i^^glit under W!ishliigt(Hi ill the Revolution. Triidition is still busy coiicerniiig "the a|i|)earance of Major King, who is siiid to liiiv<' been a grand specinieii of soldierly niiinhood. Thomas Wlierritt left .Maryliind. 17!>4, and came with his fiunily to Scott county, where they lived sev- j,il,'al yciirs, iind Iheii rciiiove(l to .lessamlne. where Thomas Wherrilt died in 1 si Land bis wife, .Margaret King Wlierritt, died in, 1S20. Perry Wlierritt w;is born Xoveinber 8, 1807, came to Cynthiana in his youth, and niilrried Zarehhi Morrison, granddaughter of Dr. (iiivin .Morrison. In 1851, Air. Wlierritt was elected clerk of the county court, and held the ollice, except during the short interviil of his iniju'lsonnieiit in Cami) Clia>e in time of the civil Wiir, iiiilil 1SS5, when he died. From the lime he Avas elected until (1071 108 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHUNA.

the day of his death, be sat in his office, like " AliitthoAV at the recei(it of customs," and gave adA'ice to all poor people of this county, and charged thom nothing. Ho Avas not slow to [lUt bis hand in his pocket and l»roA'e his sympathy for the impecunious. The Presi­ dent of the United States could not have defeated him for the office bf coimty clerk. His family in Wales had a coat-of-arms, but so great a deinocriit Avas ho that he Avould have placed a spreading adder on his letter lioiid more readily than his crest. He is mourned for to this day, and missed siidly by the poor of this county. The children of Zareldii and Perry Wlierritt are Sandi, who marriod William Worden; Ann, who married Judge W. W. Cloary, of Covington; Alargaret, who married .Mr. Alexiindcr, of "Alexander Farm," New .Fersiy; Thomas, of .Arkansas; lliiiinah, AVIIO married C T. Wilson, of this jilace; iind Ellen, Avho married ROA'. Mr. Rains, of Tennessee David Whcrritt died in the South, iifter hiiviiig been niarried to Alary Rutherford for a tcAV years. Jl. 3J. Co/Z/rr.—Thomas AVherritt took his father's |»lace as clerk of the'coiinty for a few months. Then R. AI. Collier was elected to till Mr. Perry Wherritt's ])lace. R. .M. Collier is (h'sceiided on bis iiiotlier's side, who Wiis il Miss Aloore, from Revolutionary grandsires: on his father's side, he is ii lineal descend­ ant of that' Bacon ivbo Avas the author of " Novum Organum Scieiitlarum." When asked iibout his Avar record. Air. Collier re­ plied : "Oh, T Avas in a fcAV skirmishes, but nothing Borious. On iiupiiry, it Avas learned that Air. Collier volunteered in the Confederate army at the age of CLEUKS OF TIIE COIUTS. 109 sixteen, and that the little '^skrimmayts" he speaks of Avere such as Colonel E. ('lay and (Jeneral Humphrey Marshall led him into. A modost man is a jcAVi'l. W. W. Lonymoor AViis descended from a Scotch fam­ ily. He Avas born June 21, 1840, in Kenton county, Kentucky. AV^hon the civil Avar b(gaii, hiss^'inpathies being with the South, he joined the Confederate army. He enlisted in Company 11, Second Kentucky C. S. In­ fantry. After serving three months ho Avtis scA'erely injured by a fall. " On his recovery he assisted in orgiinizlng two companies under connnand of Ciiptain Corblii, of Booiie county, Kentucky, and acconipiinled them as far as Alt. Sterling, Avhcii they Avere routed, and several of their number killed, by the Federals, who Avere concealed in the court-house and in this dwelHiigs ofthe toAvn." Air. Longmoor A\'iis cajitured iind innirisoned on -Johnson's Island for simie months, iind was exchanged at A'lcksburg in the fall of 1802. •• Ho reiiorted to Colonel JliUison, of the old Second Iiifiintry, and then joined Basil Duke's comniiind. He was ciqitnred during Alorgan's Ohio raid, and im­ prisoned 111 Camp Chase, and aftenvard in Camp Douglas. During his iniprisonmont in Catnp Doug- Ins he suft'ered much from the severe cold of that (Tmiiite, and determined to make his escape. The Avail iiround the camp Avas high and strong, and the parapet AVUS always AA'CH guarded, and tlie Avail beloAv It Avas ncA'cr free from the soldiers who Avatcbcd it (lay and niglit. Longmoor, one starlight night, pressed ;i Federal OA'crcoiit and .scaled the Avail. The guard on tlus ])arapct saw him iind leveled his gun at him. Longmoor held up a bottle as if to drink and the giiiird seeing his overcoat thought that he Avas a f'ol- 110 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIIIAX.A. loAv-soldier and let him pass. He had been captured in snmnior attire, and his overcoat could not prevent the piercing wind from taking luiii iit his unprotected lower extremities, and he suffered intensely. When be ciiiiio into the broad light of a bakery Avindow he siiAV a .squad of Federal soldiers, and fearing detection, he entered the baker .shop. Ho sat (hiwii to a table and asked for something to eat. The Avomaii Avho brought it eyed him, and he explained that he had been at a iiiiisqiiorade ball, and had dressed like a Southron. She did not seem satislied, and Longmoor took his leave, and made his way as secretly as possible to the liouse of Mrs. Judge Alorris, and received from her all the assistaiKsc necessary for his escape. "He made his way to .Miirfreesboro, Tennessee, reported to Col­ onel Hanson, and afterward joined .Morgan's men. in Compiiny B, Second Cavalry. Colonel Basil Duke coiiimandlng, and remained with him until the Battle of Cynthiana. Kentucky, -lune II, 1804. At tluit battle his career iis a soldier canie to an end, unless long and severe suffering may be reckoned as part of a .soldier's professloiiiil life. He was wounded in the thigh in such a manner that aiiiiiutatioii at the hip- joint became necessary." He slowly recovered. Feb­ ruary 5, ISOT, he was niarried to Louisa .Addams. daughter of Dr. Abram Addams, of this place. In 1S74, he Avas elected clerk of the Circuit t^ourt of Har­ rison county, which ollice be held until 1889, Avlien he Avas elected clerk of the Court of Appeals, and remoA'ed to Frankfort, Kentucky, Avlicre hedied. The people, the Avholc people of Cyiilbiana, loved .Mr. jjoiigmoor. Haiidsmiie, brave, sincere and lovable, no CLERKS OF THE CUUlU'S. Ill man can ever take bis place in the hearts of the peo­ ple of this toAvii. J)ar,id Snyder.—The first ancestor of David Snydd* came from Germany to Pennsylvania. George Sny­ der, the father of David Siiydor, came to Paris, Ken­ tucky, from Burks county, Ponnsylvania. He mar­ ried Sarah AlcLaughlin, of (JIark county, Kentucky. The AIcLaiighlins Avere Scotch, and eame to Virginia at an early day. The father and mother of Sarah AlcLaughlin were in the theater at Richmond, Vir­ ginia, when it took fire. Being near the door, they made their escape, Avliile so many |icrislied. David Snyder lost both father and mother in his infancy. He had throe brothers older than himself. He came to Cyntbiana in 1801, and has proved him­ self to bo an ex|K'rt in pharmacy. When the civil Avar broke out and .Morgan made bis first raid on Cyntbiana, Air. Snyder enlisted under his haiiiicr, and fought until flic close of the war. He was at Gallatin Avith Morgan Avlieii the phantom horses were seen. The facts about that strange occurrence are as fblloAvs: Coiniiany E, Hutchinson captain, was or­ dered to go around (jrallatin and on to Saundersville, and burn a bridge near by. .The adA'anced guard consisted of tAvcnty-five men, Joe .Jones command­ ing. They had gone some distance on their way; night had fallen, but the stars shone and made suffi­ cient light to guide them, except in the wooded fields. They came to a stream, and -James Cooley stojiped to let his horse drink, and cut the coluiiiii in two. Ash Wi'lch rode around ('ooley Just in time to see the fore [lart of the column make a sharp turn to the right and disaiqiear. Ho turned back, but not in 8 112 C'lIUONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

time to see Cooley and the hind part of the column disappear along the bank of the stream to the left. AVelch yelled and shouted, but received no nqily. Ho then spurred his horsefiirward an d overtook Captain Ilutchirtsoii and his men, and told him that half of his coiniiany had taken the wrong way and had been lost. Captain Hutchinson ordereil Whip Rog­ ers to go Avith Welch iind look for the missing sol­ diers. They Avent back to the stream at Avhicli the coliiiiin bad been severed, and up and down the banks to the risjchf and left, but SHAV nothiiii' of the mlssiiiii: men. They gave up the search as hopeless, and rode forward to ovortako Huti'hinson. They had not gone far in that direction, when )V^liip Rogers halted and said, " What are they in that clump of ti-ecsT' Ash Welch whis^iiered," Horses." Rogers dismounted and approached them cautiously, examined them care­ fully, and said: "Here they are I recognize Calc West's horse, and Wickliffe's, and Frank's; the men inust be somewhere about." Then he called at the top of his voice, but his only answer was echo. AVelch and Rogers both noticed that the horses made no noise, and stood as motionless as if carved in marble. All cavalrymen know that a horse used to military serviise will noigli and priinco fbr his rider Avlien he hoars a shout, but these horses never moved ajnuscle ; and so they left them silent and motionless in the dim stariight. They had gone out (if the direct course to be taken in order to r(join Hutchiii- son, and came in sight of a .railroad bridge. Said AVhip: "Ash, AVC must cross that bridge; of cour.so it is guarded by Fedcrid troops; if 1 fall, ymi ]iiiss right on as fast as you can ; if you fidl, I shall do the CLEUKS OF THE COURTS. 113 siuiio." Thcj' both took out their revolvers, cocked tlien), and made for the bridge, their horses in a dead run, crossed the bridge in safety—it had no guard. When they came up with Hutchinson and his men, the men for Avhoni they had been sent had arrivi'd. When West AV^icklirt'o and others Avore iisked about hitching their hoivses at the place described above, they declared that they iicA'cr had been out of their saddles, and had not jiauscd an iii.stant since Cooley had cut the column in two. Then the soldiers had somothing to talk about by their ciimp-fircs, and the phantom horses Avill one day bo woven into a legend. Williani Jhrrenee JIandy is descended on his moth­ er's side from Scotch-Irish ancestors; on his father's side, from English and French. The Haiidys came to this country in the early part of the sevciiteentb century, and settled in Alaryland. W T. Handy owns (dd family Bibles Avitli the birth records com­ plete from the beginning of the year 1000. One Tlaiidy is marked in those records as the happy father of tAventy children. None can deny that his "qulA'cr Avas full" Avlien the tAventieth child AVIIS born, and he must have been "blessed" according to Holy Writ. Another ancestor of the Handy name Avas a very Avoalthy nieiThant of Philadelphia in tinie of the RoA'olution, and gave thousands of dol­ lars fo the patriots to build ships for the service of their country. The immediate mido ancestors of AV T. Handy ofthe Handy name Avero laAvyers. Robert Dashiel Handy, father of W T. Handy, Avas a mem­ ber of the Covington bar and author of the "LaAV 114 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Reports"' that bear his name. He Avas distinguished for his extended knoAvledgo of the hiAVs of this coun­ try. R. D. Handy niarried Eliza Jane Torrencc, daughter of General Torrencc, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and grandniece of General Findlay, of Cincinnati. (Jeneral Fiiidla}' marriod -Jane IrAviii, sister to Alar- giirot Irwin, Avife of General Harrison. When Gen­ eral Harrison AVUS elected President of the United Stiitcs, his Avife AVUS ill, and -Jane Findlay, her sister, Aveiit to Washington and ]iresi(led in her stead at the inaugural rece[itions. This Torrencc ancestors of W. T. Handy furnished more than one Protestant soldier to languish boliind the Avails of Londonderry in time • of the siege. W. T. Handy married Mamie AVelch, daughter of Priscilla Addams AVelch and .Ashbol Welch, of Fninkfort, Kentucky. AV, T. Handy is the youngest commissioned officer in the A'ankce army, having ro- celved his commission in the seventh year of his age, in 1802. AVhen it canio to liiind he Avas ill of moasels, and receiving bis title of colonel in good faith, Avept bitterly that he could not mount iiiid ride Avllh the soldiers. Below is an exact copy of the commission that does honor to W T. Handy, and records the name of Governor Tod among the names of the most geiiiid of distinguished men: CLERKS OF TIIE COURTS. 115

COL. WM. T. HANDY, AIDE-DB-CAMP TO GOVERNOR, CINCINNATI, OHIO. In the name and by the authority of the State of Ohio, DAVID TOD, . GOVERNOR AND C0M.AIAN1)EU-IN-CUIEF OF SAID STATE. To 31aster William T. JIandy, Greetiny: If iipiioaring to me, that on the 19tli day of Febru­ ary, 1802, you Avere duly apjiointod Aide-de-Cani]) to Governor, Regiiiieiit Ohio Volunteer Alilltia, organ­ ized and mustered into the service of the United States under Proclamation of the I'rosident, dated Alay ;], 1801. NoAV YOU KNOAV, that by the poAvers A'csfod in me by the Constitution and laAvs of said State, and reposing special trust and confldonco in your patriotisni, valor, fidelity, imd ability. I do by these presents CO.AI.AIISSION you as Aido-de-Camj) as aforesiiid, for the term of THREE YEARS, unless sooner discharged. And I do hereby authorize and require you to dlscliarge, all and singular, the duties and services apportaining to your .said office, agreeably to liiAV and general regulations, and fo obey such orders and instructions as you shall, from time to time, receive from your superior officers and your (TUANDAIOTIIEU. IN TEjiTi.AiONY AviiEREOF, I havo hcreuiito sot my name, and caused the Great Seal ofthe State of Ohio to be affixed, at Columbus, the Ififli of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred 110 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIIIAXA. and SLxty-tAvo, and in the eighty-sixth year of the Indopcndenco of the United States of .America. By the Governor: DAVID TOD. B. R. CouAVEN, Secretary of State.

Governor Tod could not foresee that Colonel Iliindy Avould in future time, become desperately eiianiored of the daughter of a red-hot rebel soldier, and that ho Avould marry the sweet girl and livis happily over af"terAvard; that he would make Ken­ tucky bis home, and come to bcHove that rebels Avere not "such bad folks after all. Ila! ha! CHAPTER VL

ABUALLAII PARK.

W. H. Wilson established Abdallah Park, at Cyii- tliiami, Kentucky, in 1875. In 1870 he Aveiit to England and Egypt in its interest. From Egypt ho imported Cobman,and an .Arabian horse whose name was Ibn Alosk. Cobman died on the voyage to Aiiiisr- Ica, and "Ashstead was purchased to fill his iilace."' Mr. Wilson soon ceased to handle thoroughbreds, and turned bis attontion to trotters. The celebrated horses born and reared at Abdullah Park are Xew Vork Central, Semi-colon, Coralloid, White Foot, Indigo, Orinoco, .Vlembrino Kate, liiidy Thompson, Ophir, Senator Updergrapft", Black Storm, Riiynion, Moonstone, Amurath, (^ossiper, -lubllee de Jarnette, and Ilolstien. He purchased Sultan from L.-f. Rosis, of Los Angeles, California. This horse alone earned W. 11. AVilson the large sum of $75,000. He dropped dead a month after the death of Mr. Wilson. A short time before .Mr. AVilson's death, he had boon offered $40,000 for him. Thirty or more hands were omphjyed idiout the park year after year, and, al­ though it cost from forty to fifty thousand dollars per year to run it, brought in return to its oAvner an aver- iigo of $150,000 every year, and earned for the county §50,000 that reniiuned in it cloiir of all expense. Simmons is yet owned by the estate His gait Is' 2:28. He ih the only sire in America, UOAV alive, that (117) 118 CHRONICLES OF CVNTIIIANA. has sired four trotters with records below 2:14. Air. Wilson Avas a man of grciit energy, and perseveranco that never slept. Ho AVUS a fine convor.siitionalist. On his return f"rom Egypt, be giiA'o a description of tho"D6seh," never equaled by any tourist—so said knowing ones. His father AVUS an Irish gentlemim, and his mother an accomplished Italian. W. II. AVilson Avas born in AVhitesido county, Illi­ nois, in the year 1837. In a tribute to his memory, Avritteu by his daughter, Airs. -James, this paragraph occurs: "AA^e think of him iis the husband and father, \Adio, in his rare moments of leisure, found his pleasure Avitli us, and who made groiit sacrifices to give us the education thought best for each. He Avas a man of generous heart, and I have knoAvn by acci­ dent of many cases of his aid to needy ones, especially fatherless children." CHAPTER VIL

CHOLERA—"THE PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNES.S AND AVASTETH AT NOONDAY'."

UP front the foul wiiters id" the Ganges, in 1833, rose the invincible emissary of death—Asiatic cholera; and foHoAved the line of travel until it reached Cin­ cinnati. There it paused for a time to slay its victims. An old tin-peddler determined to leave Cincinnati and seek security from the deadly disease in the country. He made his Avay on foot, selling his ivares as he came, to Cynthiana, and felt secure as ho entered the clean, quiet little village. The citizens had no fear of him; they did not bolicA'o cholera contagious. A short time after his arriA'al Alajor W. K. Walls's first Avife Avas taken violently ill, and died in a foAv hours. The physicians pronounced her disease Asiiitic cholera. It spread rapidly, and-Avhole families Avcro SAvept aAviiy in a night. Alon left home in the morning apparently in good health iind before evening AA'CI'O brought homo dead. AVhen the cholera began to " rage " in Cynthiana, the tin-poddler fled,an d tried to return to Cincinnati, but took the cholera, a foAV miles out of toAvn, and lay dying on the road-side in sight of tAA'o country hotels. People began to think that cholera Avas in- (110) 120 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

fectious, and that the tin-peddler had been the cause ofjts iippcaraiice in (^yiitliiaiia. All the idle "bad boys" in toAvn had turned " Good Samaritans." so tluy Avoiit five or six strong to administor to the tin-peddler. The heat of the sun was scorching. The first thing they did Avas to build a shelter of planks over the dying man; Mr. Nicholas Coleman gave him a suit of good clothes iind bed-clothes to make him more comfortablo, but nothing done for him caused the 'disease to abate. Olio of the Good Siimaritans broke open a honip- biirii, and ho and bis fellow-laborers bore the tin- peddler to its friendly slieltur Avhero bo died. .Mr. X. Coleman furnished bis burial clothes and the Good Samaritans buried him. There is no doubt that many persons AA'OI'O hurled alive ill that time of terror. There Avas a Miss , at Lair's Station, AVIIO ap­ parently died of cholera. She AVUS prepared for the grave and placed in a coilin. .V relative went to take a last look, as she thought, at the remains of herlovedono. She placed her hands on thegirrs face and moved her head slightly. The dead girl oiiened her eyes and looked at her horrified relative in an uncoiiscioiis AViiy, but Avitli an expression that proved that she AVUS alive. The people in the honso took the u^irl from the coffin at once, removed her ut oipial betAveen those who used remedies and those who did not while suffering from cholera. All the time cholera AVIIS in Cyntliiaiia, and it AVUS here three months, the atmosphoro AVUS damp and in­ tensely AA'arin about "noon of the day, Init cold and damp nights and mornings. It began here in-lune. There Avero frequent rain sliOAvers almost cA'ory day, and after they Avould cease the sun Avould shine out on the Avet ground Avitli a pale light, but Avith hciit so intense that the earth would steam. Fruits, vige- tables and voiyefation of all kinds Avore abundant. .Many persons died from fright. Air. Harvey Alartiii liA'cd, in 1833, Avliere .Mr. A. Ashbrook foriii- erly lived. His wife died of cholera after being ill but a short time. Mr. Alnrtin wont to the room of his aged mother and told lior that his Avife AVIIS dead. SIKS fainted, and iioA'or revived, and was buried. C!holera AA'as a mystery in 18^13. Who knoAVs any thing about it to-day ? Somebody has discovered that iiiicr(djes of a certain kind cause the disease. I>ut of Avlifit avail is this discoA'cry 'i To cope AA'ith the myriads of microbes, or invisible death germs, that .cause cholera, one Avould bo compollod to go armed with a microscope and to magnify isvery drop of wa­ ter and CA'cry article of food necessary to snstiiin life. Living always in the fear of death is far Avorse than death itself. CHAPTER VIIL

DAVID SIIEELV ANU HIS (UIOST.

Should Cynthiana lie respectable Avithout a ghost? A very groAvsome one has Avalkcd here sliuse 1847. Anyone Avho wishes ciin see the papers, yelloAV and time stained, that sent DiiA'id Sheoly into eternity.

rirst tied witli a neat hlnck tape is this pajier: Coiimionwealtli CM.inionwealtli l^j.,,,,^^.,.p t 1S47, Sept. Venire swn. A'er- Pavid'sheely. ) "''^'"^ieuord . diist and sentence of doatii Next: passed to he execntod :!Oth Oct. Oist. L'Stli respited till Nov. I'Jtli, Coiniiionwpaltli A 1847, on which day lie was exe­ i-K. > Murder. cuted. David Slieely. J A true hill. J. I). Tii()M,\K. Fornniiii. Filed 14tli Sept., 1847.

David Sheoly Avas innocent of the crime of Avliich he Avas charged, and died a victim of circumstantial evi­ dence. It happened in this Aviso: David Avas a kind hearted man, and Avould have been a good citizen had it not been for his love of Avhisky. Ho Avould often got very much intoxicated, so much so that Avlien he Avas sober he could never remember Avhat he did Avliile ho Avas in his cups. One night he and some of bis boon companions (I'-'i') DAVID SHEELY AND IIIS (illOST. 123 got on a "big spree," as Kontuckians call it, and went fishing. There Avas one very desperate (diarac- ter among them Avliom all Avould have shunned in a s(d)or stiite, but, being drunk, they and he Avere jolly felloAvs together. It AA'as a mooiiHght night in the pleasant month of-lune, thirteenth day ofthe month in the year of our Loi^d eightoon hundrod and forty- seven. David Sheely never forgot that date. They fished until two o'clock in the morning. David Sheely then said, " (Jo with nie to my house and my wife, Nancy, shall got up and prepare and cook these fishes and AVHI have early breakfast." They all toidc a big dram apiece and repaired to Sheoly's house They Avere in a very uproarious state and biingcd on the door and ('lamored to be admitted to Nancy Sheely's room. Xaiicy Avas the mildest of Avonion, but she Avas a little refractory that morning and re­ fused to get up and draw thefishes, an d jwsitirely de- liiired that she Avould not have breakfast until diiy- llglit. The door Avasfinally force d open and the iiiaudlin crowd entered Mrs. Sheely s bed chamber. Tlioy llirciiteiied to kill her if she did not rise, but she si'eined iierfectly caiiii and collected, and le- maiiiod on her couch and looked at the reeling figiu'cs about her and said nerer another Avord. David Sheely lay down on the bed beside his wife, und soon he and bis companions Avere fiist aslee[i, somes on this floor of Airs. Sheely's bed-room and some on the grass out ill the yard. The next iiioriiliig David Sheely awoke and SHAV his wife lying dead besidis him, and hefied the house Suspicion Avas fastened upon him. His AVIIS i"oun'd, arrested, and brought befoius Justices of the peace. 124 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Exact cop3' of evidoiico made out by tAvo justices of the peace:

St.(itement of evidence produced in support of the charge ayain David Sheely for murder, to Avit, Will­ iam Smith dejioses as follows: sayetli that ho was at the liouse when murder Avas commited and srni the corps, and inu' of opinion that said Nancy Sheely AVUS choaked to deiitli, as there was sines of finguerz on the neck, furthermore this deponent saioth not. Zedikiah Miller made about the same statement. . .1. P. .-I.P.II.

These learned justices domandod David Sheely to give bail in the sum of §4,000. This he failed to do and Avas taken to jail. Then till' Circuit Court took up the case and Avit- nessos were suniiiioned after this fashion:

The Commonircalth of Knitueki/ lo ihe Sheriff of Har­ rison County, Greetiny: We command you to summon Byram .Marshall if lo be foundin your BalHwick to appear before the -ludge of the Harrison Circuit Court at the Court liouse in Cynthiana on the 4th day of our present term, to tes­ tify and the truth to speak on behalf Def"en(lt. in ii certain matter of controA'cr.sy now iieiidlng and unde- tormined in our said court Avherein The Commoii- Avoaltb is Pltfi". and David Sheely is Deft., and this they shall in no Aviso omit nudor the penalty of jtlOO. and have then there this Avrit. Witness: Tlionias 15. AVoodyiird, Clerk of our said DAVin SlIEElA AND HIS (illOST. 125

<;ourt, this 15th day of September, A. D. 1847, and in the 56tli year of the Commonweidth. Tii. 1>. WooDVARi), Clerk. By -). .M. Tl.MIiKULAKK, D. C.

Byron Alarshall iippeared and testified as iblloAvs: " Witness Avent to Sheoly s house this niorning, -lune 13tli. The door Avas partly open. Witness saw no jicrson stirring. Witness went in the house; siiw .Mrs. Sheely on the bed. AVitness asked .Mrs. Sheely if she was asleep this time of day. .Mrs. Sheely made no answer. Witness Aveiit to the bedside; discovered Airs. Sheely was (lend; saw marks of violence on her neck and face. AVitness left immediately and gave the alarm to the neighbors." And the neighbors were thoroughly iilarmed. Every Avomaii in the county kiicAV what she Avould have done in Naiuy Sheely s place. Looking over the transcript of record, one finds about two thousand saids and iit'oresalds; as many wlllfiillys, feloniouslys, and malices aforethoughts, l)a\id Sheelys and Niimy Sheelys, iind comes to the gist of the matter and the death sentence. Then the court becomes pollti' iind asks David Sheely Avliy the sentence of dentil should not be pronounced iipmi him. The lawyer talks beautifully for David, but David says for hini.self simply, " If I killed Niiiicy Sheely I (hm't knoAv it." This is said in an audible tone. In an undcrtoms he adds: " I had iiuthin' iigln or." lie Avas to have been executed 30tli October, 1847. October 28tli, Governor (Jwsloy respited him until NoA'cniber 10,1847. Just before the time of his exo- 12(j CIIUONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. cution ho niado his escape from jail. It Avas said that the best citizens of the town aided him to do so. But AA'aiit of the beverage he liiid ahvays imbibed, and confinement in a murderer's coll, had Avasted his eiiei'ii'les, and he AVIIS soon overtaken and aijalii lodffcd in jail. Peiqile began to believe that David Sheely AVIIS an iiinocont iiiaii, and that be was doomed to die for the crime another man bad committed. Eftbrts were made to procure a longer respite, but in vain. No­ vember 10,1847, diiAvned, und then the said and afore­ said David Sheely s time was almost come. A gal- loAvs Avas erected on a bciUitiful hill north of ('yntlii- aiiii, and the jieoplo began to gather and to bring their children to see the airfiil siylit of Sheely's execu­ tion. A rude coffin was placed in a cart, and the cart Avas driven to the jail door, and poor David Avalkod slowly out of prison and climbed in and sat upon bis own cofiiii. He Avas driven at a slow pace through toAvii in order that he might Avarii the citizens not to kill their wires. Ho seemed less moved by his hard fate than many around hi-ni. When ho stood on the scaffold, Avitli the fatiil ncckhico around his neck, iind bis hands tied, ho looked about him. P^rom his rantaye ground on the galloAvs tree ho could see, shim­ mering in the hazy light of Indiiin summer, miles and miles id' the hills Avhorcon he had wandered since his early childhood. He lovingly turned his gaze to the home from Avbieh ho had been absent so long. Then the sheriff touched him and said: "Any thing to say, David?" David gaA'e another longing, lingering loidc at the hills, then turned his eyes to the sea of faces beloAV liiiii, stretched his wasted •arms DAVID SIIKKLY AND HIS (iHOST. 127 toward them, as if in benediction, and said, in a clear,steady voice: "If I killed Nancy Sheoly I don't knoAV it; I had notliin' agin or." Stoj); hold your breath ! David Sliecly isin eternity ! lAirty years after David Sheely's life bad boon taken to Avarn men not to kill their AVIA'IJS, the dosporate character, before mentioned, but not by name, lay in .M , .Kentucky, on his death-bed. Ho sent fbr a notary public and made affidjivit that he had killed Nancy Sheoly, Juno 13, 1847. So the .siuds, the aforesiuds, the Avillfullys, the felo­ niouslys, the malices aforethought, Avere all Avroiig, and David Sheoly suffered death an innocent man! It should be rec(mimciided that transcript of record in the case of David Slicelv take oft" its mournintr, unless the court Avaiits to keep it on; to mourn for the fatal mistake it made in that novor-to-be- forgotten case, decided September 14, 1847. A lack-a-day, the temple of justice is simioAvhat like the "AVhitod Sopulcher," fair to look upon Avith­ out, but Avithin, among its moldoring records, are to ho found things Avorso than dead men's bones. But David'Sheoly could not rest in his grave; the young physicians Avould not suft'er him to do it. They took his body out of its graA'o-before it had hdii there twonty-foiir hours, and dissected the flesh from its bones. The physician AVIIO oAviiod the skeleton loaned a thigh bone to one young doctor and the skull to another. But in time the bones Avoro all collected in a box, and placed in a dark cellar, the doctor AVIIO owned them having crossed the same dark river that David Sheely had crossed over, but not at the same ferry. 0 128 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Still David Sheoly Avalk,Q(l the earth an injured, restless, unhappy shade, Avith a ropG4iround his neck that trailed far behind him on the ground. Afany persons in and around Cynthiana protest that they have seen hiin. Tradition hath it, that the first time he appeared Avas on a festive occasion. He left the neighborhood of the hill on Avhich he had suft"erod death, aiid hatintod a dark ravine above the house UOAV oAvned by Airs. Cidhoun. In that lonely spot, dense Avith un- dorgroAvth, years and years ago, a murdered man lay dead, and his blood stained the fallen leaves, and crept into the ground, and cried to God for vengeance. But the murderer Avas never found. This ravine is on the Loesbnrg pike. Not many miles from Lees- burg, in December, 1847, AA'as an old farm-house that had boon untenanted for months. The young ladies and geutlomou determined to have a dance in it on Christmas eve. Invitations Avere issued,and all prep­ arations Avero made by the young people ofthe neigh­ borhood fbr the ball. About dark, a little negro boy Avas sent to build a Avood fire on the Avide hearth of the dosortod house. He built the fire, and, AA'lien it AA'as blazing brightly, he started for home. On his Avay, he Avas compelled to pa.s8 a graA'o on the roiulside that luid boon there so long that the oldest inhabitant had no idea Avho slept beneath the sunken sod. AVlion ho came near this lonely grave, David Sheely's ghost arose out of it, Avhite and tall, Avitli the rope throAvn over his arm, and his eyes starting out of his head. He looked at iho negro boy, and said: "There's nobody bore but you and me to-night." The negro took to his heels, DAVID SHEELY AND HIS OlIOST. 129 and ran for his life, and" fell into his mother's cabin door in a breathless state of excitement. "AVhat's de mattali ? you done tuck leab of youidi sensible, you fool?" said the boy's mother. "Time I done shuck de life outin you ; you gAviiie talk ?" The boy found his breath, and fold what he had seen, and Avas a hero among the,negroes ever afterward. Bill, the fiddler,Ava s the firstt o arrive at the de­ serted house after the fireAva s built. He droAv a chair near the blazing logs, and said to himself: " Glad doe done gut a fior heah dis coll night, kese it am poAvful frosty." AVhen he Avas comfortable, he took his beloved fiddle from its case, and Avarmed and tuned it, and began to play a " dance tune." He had not been thus engaged long^Avheu he heard, in a room above him, a man Avalking, dragging something on the floor that itiiide a sound like a trailing rope. Ho heard foot­ steps descend the stairAvay. AVhen they came to the door, there wore three loud raps. Bill siud: "Come in ; you not gAvine scure me Avid youah foolishness." In it came, with the trailing rope behind it, and said: " Nobody here but' you and me to-night." Bill sprang to his feet, put his fiddlehurriedl y in its case, and cleared the front door at a bound, and took his Avay home as the croAV flies. But David Sheely's ghost pursued him, and ho never stopped to scale a fence or jump a ditch that ho did not hear, away oft", "Nobody here but you and me to-night." The next thing David's ghost did Avas terrible. There was a young man (who shall be nameless) returning froni a visit to his SAveetheart. He rode sloAvly; dreaming, perhaps, of his lady's eyebroAv. loO CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

AVhen be came to the ravine before mentioned, Shee­ ly's ghost jumped on behind him, and began lashing the horse Avitli a rope until it ran aAvay. The young man declared that the arms of the ghost, that sonio- timos " hugged him tight," wore as cold as ice, and that he never could have sat his horse if he had not been held on. The horse ran at breakneck speed until it ciiine to the bridge just above Captain Desha's house; there it jiimpisd over the idnitment, a distance of ten foot, and broke its nock. The young man Avas knocked soiisoless(?); Avhoii he recovered the ghost was gone. David Sheely's ghost groAV tired of Harrison county and of Avearing grave clothes, and made its way to Bourbon ; and appeared in broad daylight dressed in the garb of a Spanish cavalier, hut still Avitli the rope about its nock; and began fo pay attention to a very beautiful 3'oung lady named Betsy. It Avas the cus­ tom in those days to ride horsobiick to church, and Betsy had a palfrey as black as night that Avmild suffer no one to mount him but his mistress. She und other members of her family Avere riding to church one beautiful Sabbath morning Avhen they were surprised to see a m^ii dressed in foreign attire, mounted on a jet black horse gayly caparisoned, save for one thing: the horse had a rope bridle, and the cavalier a piece of rope around his neck, and trailing far behind him. Ho shoAved his preference for Betsy by riding directly in front of her Avhenevor it Avas possible. The ciiA'idier disappeared iit the " cross roads." He seemed to sink out of sight in a moment, and in a very mysterious Avay no one could account for. He appeared and disappeared every Sunday, un- DAVID SHEELY AND HIS GHOST. 131 til Betsy's family began to call him "Betsy's beau.'" One Sunday morning in early spring, in the year 1848, Betsy was riding to church Avith a young man Avho Avas much smitten Avith her charms. The ghost came in sight at the usual time and place, but he soeniod out of liuinor, and vented his spleen by lash­ ing his horse Avitli the end of the rope that hung from his neck. AVlieii ho came to the "cross roads" he went into the earth; horse and rider sank out of sight. A moment before he had been in full vioAv of Betsy and her iittondant. A gold spur Avorn by the caviilior gleamed in the sunlight for a moment, and then the ground closed over it. Betsy could never bo induced to talk about the ghostly cavalier, but she did not break her heart because he never re­ turned. A'ouiig girls gonorally proier cavaliers of flesh and blood to ghosts, no matter how handsome ghosts may bo.

THE GHOST'S LAST APPEARANCE. Near Broadwell, Kentucky, is a lonely farm-house, situated among bills and a groat distance from any other house. Airs. L., the wife of the gontloman Avho OAvned the farm, invited an old lady and two young girls to go with her and spend a few days in this solitary old house. Negroes occupied the kitchen part of the building, but the white people's apartments had been empty a long time. There Avas a large liiAvn before the house that sloped to meet a mud road that ran past it. A creek 132 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. AA'ound its Avay through the laAvn, and tall trees grow along its banks. When evening came on, Airs. L. and her visitors took their seats on the crumbling front porch and began to look about them. There must have been ten thousand frogs holding high carnival along the confines ofthe creek, to judge from the terrific noi.sc they made. A thin mist unrolled its filmy length and folloAved the line of the crook. Alillions of fire­ flies flashedi n their silent beauty through the night air. The scene Avas UOAV and pleasing to the youiiiii: girls, but the older ladies felt fearful of being alone in suidi a solitary place Avith no man for a protector. When the negro Avoman, Polly, by name, had fin­ ished her AViVYk' she came and sat on the piu'cli Avith the ladres. The youii£r srirls bcirsiod her to tell thom a ghost story, but she .said: " Not boah in dis handed house, Avliar Sheely Avalks continally. AVhy,, ho stilps study right uiidah dat blarstod locust tree, an' dlA'cj^s has seed him. Dat's de raison ob noAvliite pusson stiiyln in dis house." " Have you ever seen him?'' asked the old lady. "I ain't jist zactly seed mysof, but I done lioarn him many bees de times.'' Polly and the ladies adjourned to a large room, in Avhich Avere throe beds, a largo one for the young girls and tAVO small ones for their elders. It AA'as a summer night, but a wood fire Avas built on the hearth to make the old room look cheerful. Beds were looked under, and AvindoAvs fiistened down securely by nails being driven in above the loAver sashes. .Mrs. L. said : " Polly, have you a gun about the DAVID SHEELY AND HIS GHOST. 133 house?" "Yes, ma"am, I is; but hit's a ole fusee dat not gAA'ine kill a flea." She brought in the gun, a large, unlikely Aveapon, and Airs. L. placed it be­ side her bed. She and her guests tidkod many hours before they Avere Avilling to retire. The next morn­ ing, as the day broke and threw ba^'oly sufficient light in the room to make a moving object visible, Mrs. L., the old lady, and one of the young girls saw an object rise, dressed in a long Avhite robe, and pass slowly from the fire-place to the door, and disappear. None of thom saw or hoard the door open, but iill three sinv t{u' object Avalk across the fioor and disap­ pear. Airs. L. thought that the old lady had risen and AVUS Aviilking in hor sleep; but she ansAvered as soon as called, and sidd: " I saAv that, Avhatever it AA'as." The doors and windoAA's Avero looked to, but romainod as they had boon left the night before. Polly AViis calbnl and told ofthe strange incident, and said : " Umpli I dat's no iiCAV thing. Divers people seed dat in dis room." The ladies left for Cynthiana soon after breakfast. That Avas the last time Sheely's ghost AVIIS seen; but his bones began to clsftnor for decent sepulture. When the physician died who OAvned them, they fell to his daiighfer, and she put them in hor cellar, near fo a large furnace that heated her Avhole house and conservatory. One cold night in Avintor, she invited a young girl to spend the night Avith her, her husband haA'iiig ijono iiAA'av on business. It AVIIS a bricrht moonliifht night. About midnight, she and the young lady heard the front door bell ring three times. The lady of the ho,use arose at once and looked out of a Avin- 134 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

doAv that commanded a full vicAv of the front door; but she saAV nobody. She discovered that the house Avas getting cold, and kiicAv that if the fire in the furnace died out she Avould lose lierfloAvers. She de­ scended the cellar stairs, replenished the fire, and AA'as just opposite Sheely's bones AVIIOU she heard in her room above the loud report of a pistol. She hurried to her rooni,,4^.xpecting to find hor dresser on fire: but Aj'hon she opened the druAver Avliero the pistol lay, there AVIIS not a cartridge amiss. It Avas just as hor husband had left it. The next day she sent for her minister, and ho advised her to bury Sheely's bones. She took them in a box and carried them to the hill and near the place Avliore Sheely had sufibred death, and gave them decent burial. A few toe bones were lost through a hole in the box Avhilo crossing a stream, but Sheely's ghost has uoA'or come back in search of thom. Alaiiy people believe that the soul of man is im- mortal, a fcAV believe that it revisits the earth, tuid a very small number aver that they have .seen the ghosts of the departed wandering about familiar scenes, dressed in the very clothes they Avore in life. "If a man's clothes turn to dust, shall they live again?" In Avliat strange country does the shuttle fiy that fashions from the ashes of the past these ghostly garments 'i CHAPTER IX.

THE UNFORTUNATE DUTCHMAN.

CYNTHIANA, uutil somoAvlioro betAvooii 1830 and "40, had an PjUglish-speaking po])uhition only. One day there arrived in Cynthiana a Dutchman from the fens of Holland, who could neither speak nor understand one AVord of P^nglisb, and not a soul in this ])lace could understand Dutch. What be came hero for AA'as noA'or kiiOAvn ; but Avliat happened to him will never be forgotten Avliile tradition HA'OS. He made a man Avho kept a small hotel understand that he Avanted a room in bis house. He got it, de­ posited his luggage Avithin if, then put his hands in his pockets and strolled out in the H//rt_(7f prospecting. Any stranger Avould have attracted iittontion in Cynthiana at that early date, but the Dutchman, so strangely clad and bearing the physique of another nationidity, raised a gale of curiosity among children and the very ignorant class of citizens. They began to hoot and yell at him, and the children foUoAved him until the Dutchman, Avho Avas choleric Avithal, groAV tired of such treatment, and bogtin to menace the croAA'd, and vociferated threats, in his OAVU tongue, Avhich Avere all the more terrible, in that they could not be understood by the mob. I'inally, an officer, Avho took him fbr a lunatic, stepped forAvaril to ar­ rest him, but he fled to his room!, at the hotel, and locked and barred the door, and hoisted the front (i;35) 136 CHRONICLES OF CVNTIIIANA. AviiidoAv of his room, before which the mob had gathered, and began to pelt them Avitli all the missiles he could find loo.so in his place of retreat. When the last piece of his chamber set had been smashed on the ground beloAv, a man, more daring than the rest, forced his door open, and took him prisoner, after a desperate struggle had taken phici^ between them. Ho Avas taken to jail and locked up. Then a jury Avas summoned, and he Avas adjudged a lunatic, and or­ dered to be taken to the asylum at Lexington, Ken­ tucky. The proper authorities wont to the jail to take him out'and place him in a coiiA'eyiince they had road}' before the jail door, but they encountered an­ other difficulty. The jail Avas a tAvo-story building, and the Dutcliman had boon confined in an upstairs room; and had fastened doAvii the trap-door that opened on the stair-way. An otficcr got a ladder, and put it under one of the grated Aviiidows ofthe cell, and was about to force it open with some sharji instrument, when he Avas baptized by a bucket of cohl water thrown on him by the besieged Dutcliimt'n. The fight raged fiercely. The Dutchman broke the glass in the in­ side of the grating, and beat a tattoo, Avitb an iron poker, on the head of OA'cry man who ascended tli() ladder. At last some strong men lifted the trap-door Avhilo the Dutchman AViis defending the Avimbiw, and ho Avas secured, then tied bund and foot, and place(,l in the conveyance, and driven toward Lexington, Kentucky. About half Avay there, the horse hitched to the. AVagou, or Avhatever it was, cast ii shoe, and the driver stopped at a bliicksniith's shop to have it replaced. The Dutchman hud nevercoascMl to rave and talk since ho loft Cynthiana. The blacksmith AViis,li THE UNFORTUNATE DUTCH.AIAN. 137

Dutcliman hinisolt", but could speak English. He understood Avliat the supposed lunatic said, and madis those Avho AA'ore taking him to the asylum understand him also. They turned him loose, and sneaked back fo Cynthiana, no better, but a little wiser men, than Avbon they loft. The Dutchman did not prospect any* more about this place. CHAPTER X.

THE BARBECUE OF 1844.

THE first barbecue CA'cr held by Cynthianians Avas held at Avliat AA'as then called .XOAV Union,.situated about four miles from this toAvn. Polk and Clay AA'ore eaii- didiitcs fbr the presidential chair, and, having no amusoments of any kind here at that time, the peo­ ple, moil, AA\)nicn, and childrdn, turned partisans, on one side of the fence or the other, fbr their OAVU amusement. The men sometimes vindicated their rights to be Democrats or Whigs by going iit it fist and skull, and fighting in the open streets, there be­ ing then no marshal to prevent them or make them afraid. The Avomen quarreled across streets and fences, ami the little boys Avere Avhipped for singing the Avrong party songs, until finally Polk's election put a sto]) to ()]icn h(jstilities fbr a space. When the news of his election reached Inire, great bou-fires blazed on the public squares, and arrangements Avore made that very evoiiiiig to have a grand barbecue at NoAV Union. There Avere then fAventy-six (?) states in the Union. TAVenty-six young girls ivere chosen on account of their good looks to represent these states, and Avere requested by the maniigcrs of the aft"air to dress in Avhito and to ride Avbite horses to the barbecue, all save one out of the number. She Avas a beautiful brunette, and Avas asked to dress in black and ride a black horse in the procession to (KiS) THE BARBECUE OF 1844. 130 represent "Little Rhoda," Avbiidi had done some­ thing during the presidential campaign to displease Democrats. The day ofthe barbecue Avas bright and clear. The tAveiity-six young girls, rejoicing in hope and beauty, droAv up in front of the court-house to Avait for the procession to form. The AVhig boys Avere not invited to the festivities; they stood afar (di" like a pack of prodigals, and felt worse than they Avould hiiA'c done had they boon filled Avitli husks, as they Avatchod their Democratic riA'als escort their (the Whigs) SAveethearts out of toAvii. When the thing Avas over, there were more bleed- ina: noses and bhuskened eyes on the faces of Whiij and Domocrafllr boys than have ever been soon in Cynthiana before or since, and each side cried, no doubt, " Ducii amor patriae." CHAPTER XL

"P0LLA''S ACCOUNT OF MORGAX'S RAID."

AVnEN John Morgan come into Kentucky, AVO did n't look for such good luck as his comin to Cyn­ thiana, but he come, all the same. John Rogers came through Loesburg, and on here to marry a <;oupIe, an he seen John Alorgaii a comin, an rusliod here to tell the secosb. It got noratod around among 'em, and the feds got holt of it, too, fur thar AVUS a turrible stir among 'em. I Avas takin care of Bro. R.'s house; lie liad boon drove oft" for speakin his mind, and his Avife Avouldn't stay nuther, Avben he couldn't. I sot in the door a readin the Gospel NCAVS, Avbeu I siiAV a iiasel o' pickets splittiu past the house like mad. Now, I Avas a rebel to the back bone, and hated a, nigger like pizeii, fur, eft" you'd scrape 'em, and bile 'em, an pound thar bones, they'd be niggers still. AVell, sir, I Avas determined to know Avhat Avas the matter or bu.st. So I AA'alks out an says, Aiithin the matter Avifli our boys? Yes, says he, a d sight. Morgan's boss thieves is a comin. Lord, says I, you do n't say. Yes, old Avoman, I do say, an eft" you don'tAvant the top of your head bloAved often you, you'd bitter git in. I says to myself, Git in, indeed. / am agointosootliofight, eft"I'm killed fur it; an,efour boys Avhips, I'm gohi to crack my heels together, and holler for Jeft" Davis all night. Jist about that time the feds begun to gallop hither and yan, an Jimmy (140) POLLY'S ACCOUNT OF MORGAN'S RAID. 141

W come travrin down to mo, an says, Morgan s a comin; tliar's goin to be a fight. For God's sake, come to our house; you'll be killed here. I says, Jeomes riA'or, boy, I got this hero house to fasten up before I leave, or the feds '11 ravish it. He Avent ott homo like a crazy man. I fastened up the house, and tuck my time about it,too ; and then put oft' up toAvii. When I got to Jimmy's house, I looked oA'er street, and thar, on the public square, Avas Capt. Glass, with his ole one-boss cannon, and yelliu like the devil. Com­ mand the bridge; the cannon pintod that aAvay. Com­ mand the hill; it pintod that aAvay. Command Alain street; that aAvay it Avcut—and forty more fur Sunday. After a Avhile, the rebels begun to flingshel l like five hundred, and Avhou they busted, they farly tore up the ground. I Aveiit into the celJar; I didn't stay long; I looks out at the door, an 1 sees Johnny Mar­ tin, a young Irishman, standin by the cornder of the kitchen a pintiii his gun toads AValton's hill; that Avas as thick Avith rebels as it could stick. NOAV, my son Jeems he fit in the Alexican Avar, and lost his life, poor feller, an I had boon a furbishin up his pistol that come home to mo instid of him, an it Avas in good case. It could n't shoot but one ball, but that Avas a yaller good un, so I felt mistres's of the 'casion. So, says I to Johny Alartin, Avhat are you doin thar, you coAvardly devil; goin to shoot, an bring the firino n Avimin and children? Says he, a mon must shoot whurever he can, an Oim a goin to stay right here. ^Ireyou? says I, and I kocks my one shooter. You could a hearn it cock to the court-house, it made sich il noise. Johnny Alartin looks round, and takes bis- self off in a hurry. I Avent up stars, then, to look 142 CIIUONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

out, an they say I killed a man from that Avindow at the back ofthe house, and, after Morgan went aAvay, I Avas run outeii toAvn,and had to sleep in corn-fields and sich places months for that foolishness. I come doAVii and stood on the porch, an the firin had stop[)e(l by that time, an I seen a ominont hiAvyer atop of a fence, with his gun in bis hand. The fence Avas druv full of iiail.s, but the laAA'ycr thought it Avas neckornutbin Avith him then, so he dim on it, an sot flat doAvii on the fence, nails and all, and just slid down like; the fence Avas high. He Avalked oft", leaving the most necessary part of his breeches behind him on the fence, an I'll declar off lie Avariit as raggedey as a jaybird. I seen Avliar he hid his gun, though; I seen s(miethiii bettor tliiiii that; I seen the blue coats niii- nin like any dogs, God bless you, and I jist walks riijlit out onto the street. The first of our bovs I seen AVUS Og. Huft'mau; ho AVUS a out hitchin a boss. I says. Lord, Og., you aint a stoalin that boss ? No, says he; just a pressin of im. Haint the feds pressed a foAV round here? I walks oft", and lot him idoiie. The next feller Avas Whiii Rogers. I says, Ob, AVhip, has the good Lord spore my ole eyes to see you onct agin? I jist hoohoo'd like a baby. AV^liar you goin, ses I, AVhip? (loin to take Uncle Billy Shumate prisoner. Lord almighty, AVhip, ses I, he's as innocent as a unborn babe. Let him alone, can't you? Can't do it, says he. Whip Avas a good lookin feller, and had sich takin waysAvith him, so I follered him. He went into Billy Shumate's house, Avith his long saber a clankin, an hollered, Uncle Billy, it's Whip; come doAvn. While Shumate was a comin down stairs. Whip he just hugs Aunt Midiala, Billy's POI.I.V S ACCOUNT OF .MORGAN'S RAID. 143 wife, an ho kisses her spang in the mouth, an she Clod ble.s.ses of him like he'd ben hor son. Uncle Billy he cimios in, his face an hands all one smudge of sut (soot), an Whip ups an kissed his ole black face from stem to stern. I cried like a dog. Uncle Billy, says Whiii, I'd advise you not to make a fire in the grate Avliere you hid the pistols in the chimbly. I follered an says to Whip: Now just take all the good ohs feds, will you, an see that no harm comes to em. I Avlll, says he. 1 Aveiit into a Union Avomaii s house, an thar sot a great big six-footer cryiii fit to kill, dressed in blue et that. What's the matter, friend, says 1; Avounded iinyAvhars? No, says he; but 1 come to town Avith eggs this morniii—1 am goin to be married—not a knoAvln that .lohn Alorgan's boss thieves Avas a comin, an I can't git out; them thar d Texas rangers, is jist meiiii enough to shoot me fur havin on blue. Take ott" your bine, says 1 ; Morgiin iilift a goin to ])reveiit you a glttlii of your nuptials. Take oiY your blue an git out. Well, sir, ef he didn't go in the back yard, an take oft'every stitch of his close, an jump in tlio river, an swum iicrost the river naked as a jaybird, an tuck up the pike fur all the worjd like a staffer of Liberty runuln fit to kill. TAVO or throe Avomeii seen him a comin, iiii locked lui barred flier doors; an the dogs run from biiii like ho Avas a rattlesnake. "The bravest thing done, time of Morgan's fight, Avas done by Altiry Iluftinan. A Avliole passel of peo- ])le bid in the house UOAV belonging to John Spolin, oii Alain street. Among em AA'as John Rogers and Alary Huft'mau. Mary Avould look out all the time, 10 144 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. though the bullets Avas a Avhizzin thick as hail. She says, Oh, Lord! Whip Rogers is killed. John Rog­ ers Avas his brother, an Avas a preacher, but bravo as Cmsar when need AA'as; but ho hadn't ben used to fightin any thing but the devil, an him he could not see; but Avhen he bciirn that Avord he busted outon the house an run to the dead man, an turned Inm over an Aviped his eyes. He AVIIS young an Iiiuid- sonie an dead, ef he Ava n't his brother. He looked around, and thar stood Alary Iluft'man, cool as a cucumber, right besides him, in among the ftyiiibul ­ lets. Lord liiiA'e mercy, says John; git in, Avonian. But before the Avord Avas outen his mouth she screamed, an run to Ole Caleb Walton's house, Avhore he Avas a standin in the door, an a rebel Avas a ainiin at him. Mary Iloftinan just covered him Avith her own body, an pushed him in the house, an slammed the door. Caleb Walton Avas a good .man, of he had n't a ben sich a pizen fed. The next thing to be done Avas to hunt Sam . He Avas a niissin. The river Avas drug an divers jilaces sarchod, but no Sam. Oh! he is killed. You kiioAV how he's ben sayin Avliat he'd do when the rebels come. Yee, yes, pore Sam. Goin doAvii tlie Licking river, rob and feds idl together a buntin Sam. They sees a man Avith his head in a holler stump an the rester part of him" stickin outeii the stump for all the Avorld like a turkey a liidcii. TI103' pulls him out, they did, an Avhen he found the feds had him, he Avas as peart as a cricket. The secosb jist bogued oft home. Sam was like the Dutchman, of OAvings­ ville, Kentucky. He had n't ben thar long AA'lien a bustin big bully beat a little boy nearly to death. POLLY'S ACCOUNT OF MORGAN'S RAID. 14O

Says the Dutchman a roUiii up his sleeves: I know vot I vould to ef any potty vippod my boy dat avay, I know. The bully stepped up and put his fistun ­ der his nose and said vot vould you to? Says the Dutchmen, Iiont know.

GENERAL MORGAN'S RAIDS ON CYNTHIANA. COPIED FROM COLLINS. Says Collins: On July 17, 18G2, the Confederate (jeneral John H. Morgan, Avith a force 816 strong Avlion he started, nine days before, upon this first Kentucky riud, attacked the Federal forces at Cynthi­ ana, nearly fivehundre d strong (mainly home guard.s), under Colonel John J. Landrum, AVIIO, after a brave re­ sistance, were overpoAvered and dof"eatedand the toAvn captured. The Federal pickets Avore surprised, cap­ tured, or driven in, and before the commander had time to dispose his force, the Confederates commenced shelling the toAvn, producing a Avild consternation iiniong the inhabitants. Captain Williani II. Glass, of the Federal artillery, occupied the public square, from Avhich point he could command most of the roads. An(^tlier force took possession of the Magee Hill road south of tOAvn, along Avliich the Confederates Avere approaching. A third detachment AA'as in­ structed to hold the bridge on the Avest side of tOAvn, toAvard which Morgan's main force was pouring. Captain Glass opened on Morgan's battery, Avhich Avas planted on an eminence a quarter of a mile dis­ tant betAveen the Loesburg and Fair Grounds turn­ pikes. The Confederates were now appaoaching by 140 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. every road and sfroi^t, and deployed as skirmishers through isvery field completely encircling the Fed­ erals. Tlie battery on the hill having ceased its fire, (Jaiitiiin Glass, Avitli grape and ciinnister, swept Pike street from one end to the other. By this time the (soiitestanfs Avere engaged at every point. The fight­ ing Wiis terrific. The Federals commenced giving way. The force at the bridge, after a sliarji fight, Avere driven buck, and a C'onfederato cavalry charge made through the streets. A iiortion ofthe Federals made a stand at the rallroiid depot. A charge upon the Confederate battery at the Licking bridge was repulsed, and the Confederates in turn charged upon the forces at the depot, Aviiilo another detachment AVIIS jiouring deadlyfire fro m the rear about one liuii- (Ired and twenty-five yards distant. It AVUS here that Colonel Landrum was Avounded, and Thomas AVare, one of the oldest citizens, .lesse Currant, Thonias Rankin, C'aptiilu Lafe AVilson, and others Avere killed, besides a number AvoundiMl. Unable to stand the concentratedfire, the handful of Federiils that Avere left commenced a precipitate retreat. The Seventh Kentucky ('iivalry, posted north of toAvn to hold the Oddvllle road, Avere soon overpoAvered iiud compelled to surrender. Three-fourths (d' the Fedcrid forces liiid UOAV been killed, AA'ounded, or captured, and the (/Onfoderates hold nndispufed possession. The pris­ oners Avere marched into toAvn and lodged in the court-house, and their paroles made out and signed that night. POLLY'.S ACCOUNT OF MORGAN'S RAID. 147

SECOND BATTLE OE CYNTHIANA.

On Saturday, June 11, 1804, (Jeiieial .Tolin H. Alor­ gaii marclied a second time on Cynthiaiia, defeated and captured the f(^rcos under the command of E. 11. llobHOn. The first of these si'r'^esof eiigagemonts took place early ill the morning, botAveen the One Hundred and Sixty-eight Ohio Infantry, conimiinded by Col­ onel C'onrad (Jiivis, and Alorgan's Avhole commaiid, about 1,200 strong, 'flic Federals Avere soon over­ powered and fell hack to the old (le|iot buildings (whores ('olonel Berry fell mortally AVOundod), thence to Kankin's unfinished hotel; others retreated to the court-house. The Confederates, following closely, charged into these several places, causing the utmost consternation among the iiihabitants. While the but­ tle was raging, a stable opjiosito the liankin Hotel caught on fire, or AVIIS set (uifire, an d the terror of the flamc'S added greatly to the aliirin. Across the river, Avest ofthe town, another biitths bcgiUi'betAVeeii (Teneral Hidison, commanding the One Hundred and Sovoiity-flrst Ohio, and a detiichnieiit of ('^)iif"e(lor- iites. This is known as the Battle of" Keller's Bridge," one mile north of (^ynthlanii, Avliich had been de­ stroyed by the Confederates on Thursday previous, to prevent the sending of troops along the riiilroad. The trains Avhich had conveyed the One Hundred Seventy-first Ohio fo this point AVore backed doAvn the road tAA'o miles for safety, but Avere there throAvn off the truck by the (Confederates and burned. Upon being disembarked, the men Avere supplied with am- niunitiou, and [iroceodcd to eat their breakfast. Sud- 148 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

doiily their quiet Avas disturbed by the rattle of mus­ ketry at Cynthiana, telling that hot AVork Avas going on there between the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Ohio and the Confederates, and in a few minutes the fields around them Avero alive Avith Confederates. A volley of musketry Avas poured in upon them by a squad of Confederates mussed liebind the fence of a clover-flold. General Ilohson Avas UOAV completely surrounded. The Confederates displayed groat activ­ ity in firing, and considerable skill in keeping under cover from the firing of the Federal troops. The fight continued about five hours, the lo.ss on both sides unusually hoiiA'y. General Alorgan, Avho Avas in Cynthiana Avhen the fight at the bridge commenced, arrived on the fielda t 9 A. M., Avith reinforcements, and with those the line AVIIS draAvn still closer, and General Ilobsou AA'as conipolled to accept the flag of truce and MorgaiTs conditions of surrender—that private property should be respected, and the otticors retain their side arms. The Federal forces Avere druAvn up along the pike, their arms stacked and burned, and they Avero marched through Cynthiana, a mile oast, to a grove, where they found other Federal forces, who Avere prisoners like themsolvos. After resting an hour the prisoners Avcre marched three miles north, on the Oddvllle pike, where they passed the night. Early on Sunday morn­ ing, Avith the first anmninccment of the arrlA'id of Burbridge, came an order from Morgan to the guard over the Federal prisoners to start them north, Avhich Avas done, and that, too, on the double-quick. Alor­ gan's main forces were pursued by Burbridge, folloAV- ins; at a distance of a foAV miles. This forced them to POLLY'S ACCOUNT OF MORGAN'S RAID. 149

Claysville, tAvelve miles north of Cynthiana, Avliere they Avere halted, draAvn up in lines and paroled and alloAA'ed to depart. On Sunday morning, the 12th of June, the day after the tAvo battles aboA'e described. General, Burbridge, Avith a strong force, fell upon Morgan's men at Cynthiana, Aviiile they vA'ere at breakfii.st. Fatigued as they Avere b}' the previous (lily's operations, Avhich resulted in the defeat and capture of tA\'o distinct Federal forces, the Confed­ erates Avero in no condition to AA'ifbstand the shock of a fresh body of troops. Burbridge Avith his cav­ alry AVaseuiiblcd to flank them, and thus turn their lines, Avhile his infantry in the center adA'anced steadily, forcing thom baisk on the toAvn. The fighting com­ menced on the Alillersburg pike, about one mile east of (Cynthiana. But the Confederates, uiiidde to hold out against the rapid and determined adA'ance of su­ perior numbers of fresh troops, supported by artillery, soon gave way, and by the time they reached Cyu- thiaiia they Avere in full retrciit, and the retreat a roiit. One by olio tlioy fell back through the toAvn, crossed the river, and folloAved the Bavon creek pike. This ended the last battle of Cynthiana in the Avar fbr Southern independence. CH.XPTEU NIL

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1. ONCE upon a time there was a little girl.named 1'"ranees, who was so iinforlunate as to lose her falhei before she was five years old. She left lionie one sunny Sabbath niorning to stay some time with a kind friend, and when she returned Insr father was dead iind buried. Il Avas at his reipiest that she was spared the sad scenes of death and burial. Thefirst thing she did on her return AVIISUO run to the room her father had occupied in his last illness, and Avben she found his bed removed mid bis easy chair put out of sight, she cried idoud, " Aly father is dead!" and clasped her little hands iii agony. That was the Avail of an orphiin,, iind I'ranees' mother never forgot it. She vowed to'glve this baby orphan a double share of a mother's love and indulgence. One (lay a little girl gave Francos a (log. of the terrier and pug species coniblned. He Avas possessed of the beauty and iipiieallng helplessness of all ^'oiiiig iinimals, aiid as Frances's mother found it biird to say her nay, the dog was iiiade an humble niembisr ofthe family, and AVIIS christened Faithful. Wanton cruelty is the beginning of crime. A lit- tlis child Avho will abuse and iiialtreat as faithful a friend iis a dog alwuys proves himself to be, Avill do the B 'M § R

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FRANCKS AND F.VITllFfL. i:)i same to a man Avheii bo has attained man's estate A dog is invariably faithful to his master. Chaiigt! of face and fortune can not aftect him; long abson/e can not eft"ace bis IOA'C. Can AVC siiy as much of i/feii as a class? A dog can bo educated. It can be iinived that a dog can roiison. Ho possesses the fivis /eiises : he has the presentativo, the representative,/the re­ flective, and, perhaps, the intuitive poAvcr/f mind. Ho can not manifest the workings of the subjective, excejit by signs; hence AVO know not, Avhoii ho sees ;i bi^iutiful sunset, that he admires if. He \« capable of dovelopmont in an upward direction, and often shows a high sense of honor. Do many mqn prov!> that they have more exalted attributes of mind and heart? But metaphysics aside. Little Frances hav­ ing no brothers and sisters of fier OAVU age, /avislied her attbcfions oir Faithful, and he returned tme com­ pliment by licking her hands iind face, teiJi'ing her drosses in sport, and carrying ott' her Sum/ay shoes, and by sleeping in her play-house when she/vas absent at sishool. When she Avould come home in'om school of an alteriioon, the expression of his tailAvas a sight to SCO, and his joyous bark had in it the/very essence of gladness and love. When he wits too familiar, Frances Avould hit him a reproving tap on the head; doAvn Avould go his curly tail as straiglit as an arrow. Did she caress him, his tail Avould be in full feather over his back, as round as a ring, and Avagging away at an asfonislnng rate. All animals are unattractive iit feeding time. Faithful shoAved the brute then by snarling and groAvling at the cat, AVIIO Avould niouiif the fence and gaze afar ott" at him as he jiartook of his repast. If seems to mo that I have seen and heard 1o2 CHRONICLES OF CYNTUIANA. some mCli snarl and snap at the table, and some little boys, Avho all Avantcd the breast of a chicken and no other part, and AVIIO hoAvled mournfully because they all could not got it, there being but one chicken, and that having, as is usual, but one breast. It became necessary for Frances's mother to sell the luuno Avhore she (Frances) AVUS born, and to go to a distant city to sock her fortune. Let us pass over the broaking-up scenes—-the fiildingofgiirmeut s once Avorn by those AVIIO Avould use them no more forever; the farewell to rooms Avhere had rested the shadow of the Iinhu'ried dead; the last look at the tall trees around the old home and the moadoAvs beyond the river, and the river itself; and last, and hardest of all fiirewolls, Avas that said to dear friends loved, and loviiii' loiisj and AVOH. Then came the (juestioii,(Avliat Avas to bo done Avith Faithful? Faithful hadn't a selfish thought; he Avould have died fbr bis friends as bravely as any soldier of any time. Friiiicos"s mother know all this, and yet she hardly agreed to make hiiii the com­ panion of her Avandorings. But Friincos's heart, fresh from the hand of (}od, and undisciplined by contact Avitli this cruel world, begged that Faithful should accompany her and her mother on their journey. So Faithful AA'iis Avrapped in a SIUIAVI and smuggled on the cars, and taken to X , Avhere Frances iind her mother stopped to visit some friends, very dear to them, before leaving Kentucky entirely. They Avere made Avelcome by the lady of the house at N., but Faithful looked at hor askance and kept his tail A'ery straight, and stood in a corner and licked his chops at her by Avay of conciliation. The FRANCES AND FAITHFl 1.. 15:} lady Avas perfectly just to him and fed him Avell, but she could not make him feel at case for all thiit. Her little daughter, Lucy, Avho AVUS the age of Frances, Avas his good friend, and Faithful perceiA'cd it. He curled and Avagged his tail at her approach, and kissed her hand in knightly fashion; but after doing so, he Avould lower his tail at the lady of the house, and lick his chops humbly and crawl snake-fashion before hor. He iicA'or attempted to kiss her hand, although she often spoke kiiidh- to him. At last the day came for continuing the journey, and Frances took Faithful by the leash, and she and her mother went to the depot to take the cars for the capital of the United States. Faithful AA'as very much frightened at the noise and bustle of the great city of Cliicinnati, and he and his friends Avere re­ lieved when they entered the jiarlor of tlio Grand Central. But tlieir joy AVUS of short duration, for the janitress said that a dog Avas not alloAved in the up­ stairs' ladies" Aviiitinij-room, and that he should mo beloAV to the emigrants" apartments. Ho Avas taken beloAv. Soon an old colored porter passed Frances's mother, and she crossed bis palm Avitli silver, and he promised to take Faithful on the cars and not let the (sondiustor see him. Directly after this, a solemn-looking man came through the Avaiting-rooni, crying in an unearthly A'oico: "Persons bound for all points east, etc., etc., and. AVashington, D. (\, train Avaits." There Avere a foAV moments of breathless anxiety for Frances, and then she AVUS in a sleeper Avith Faithful at her feet, perfectly mute, scared by the rattle and motion of the train. Their route Avas the C. & 0. Tickets l.U CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

Avere taken, the berth miide down, and Faitlif"iil and his little mistress soon slept. But Fraiiciss's mother's mind AVUS too full of sorroAvfiil thoughts to sleep. All night long, jnoonlight and shadow alternately chased ciicli other across tlus faiso of the orphan child and her liumblo friend, and all night long, by the light of the full Octidnsr moon, Frances's mother saw jiass SAviftly in review before her hill and valley and Aviiiding stream and lonely farin-bouse, and iiiioii the distant mountiiiiis toAvering to the sky. Xext morning at daybreak, the porter jnit the berth in order, and said: "The siiperintendeiit gets on this train at the next station, and you will be com- ])elled to remove your dog to the biiggago-car." Frances Avrung hor hands and Avcpt, and her mother said: "Dear child, I will take Faithful to the bag­ gage car and tie him to our trunks, and AVO Avill soon see him again, for AA'C roach Washington at 4::!0 o'clock in the af"ternoon." Faithful AVU-I carried through'coach after coach ofthe swift-ruiinlng train, and tied to Frances's trunk, and Frances's mother begged the baggageman to fiike care of him. She then iiatted Faithful, who looked in her face and said as plainly to her as (Csesar said to Brutus, '• ei iu—"'

IL All day long trunks Avere burled in and out of the baggago-car at every station, and Frances ivas miser­ able, and feared that Faithful bud been forgotten and had perished. When the afternoon was far sjient, the dome ofthe cupitdl and Washington s monument came in sight, and soon after the cars steamed into the statiou. FRANCKS AND FAITIIFl'L. 155

Frances's mother took her by the band and Avent to look for Faithful. She culled, politely, to the bag- gagemiin, but the thunder of falling trunks and the cries of porters drowned her voice. The young sleeping-car conductor, AVIIO had boon very polite to Francos and her mother Avliile they Avero in his cars, divinod their trouble, and niade bis strong young voice audible above the din, and Faithful AVUS slung out and sus]iondod between the boiivcns and the earth, by his atriiig, like a malefactor. Ilis tongue AVUS out of his mouth, and in a fcAV monionfs moris his fate Avould have been sealed, but the baggageiiian jerked the string from the fastening, and Faithful ran under the cars. Frances screamed and culled him; he hourd her voice, and bouiidtsd to her arms iind kissed her face all over. She carried him out of the di^pot, and then took him by his string, and he ran beside hor and her mother as glad as they to bo at the end of the journey. Frances's mother had forgotten to ask any of her friends about the best hotels for travelers to lodge in ; and being a perfect stranger in AVashington she ac­ costed a young man, and he directed her to one cidled , not far from the depot. She Avent to it, and inquired the price of a night's lodging and dinner and breakfast. "Four dollars," said a coarse looklnu^ man. The place Avas not neat, and the odor of gas Avas stifiiiig. She Avent to another house and entered the door; to the right was a long bar, at Avhicli men Avcro standing drinking and talking in loud voices. She loft at owe., and stood looking about her. By this time evening was advancing, lUid along the memory-haunted Potomac the mists Avore gathering,. 156 CURONICLKS OF CYNTUIANA. and the chill autumn Avind sAvept doAvn the asphalt avenues, and Avhispered unploasant things in the ears of Faithful. He Avhined and shivered, and looked appealingly in the face of his little mistress, AVIIO said to her mother: "Oh sludl AVO have to sleep in the street?" Just at this time a poliisonian came by, and directed Frances's mother to the "Xational,"' Avliere she found a clean, quiet room, Avitli an open iire burning in an old-fashioned grate, and a nice bod and comfortablo chairs. After being refreshed by a good dinner, Frances and her mother took Faithful, and Avent out for a Avalk. The streets Avere brilliantly lighted by elec­ tric lights, and every thing looked giiy and cheerful. In their prom(]snade they passed a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and his benign face seemed to shed a bless­ ing on all Avlio passed him. The next niorning, after a late breakfast, Fraiiccs"s mother said to her: " A"ou and Faithful must stay here a fcAv hours alone. I must seek a boarding house." "Oh," cried Frances, looking at the street so many feet beloAv the AVIIUIOAA', "there might be fire, mother; and then Faithful and I might be burned iilive." After assuring Frances that there Avas no Janger, hor mother took the street cars and Aveiit to the Catludic University, and gave some letters of in­ troduction to the footman, to bo handed to the presi­ dent of that grand educational center; and then began to look about her. The university building is constructed of stone; its mas.sivc Avails look as if they might defy the storms of centuries. A semi­ circle of forest frees inclose part of the large grounds, which are kept iu perfect order. The trees, that FRANCES AXD FAITHFUL. i:.7 bright October morning, Avere clothed in their most brilliant garniture of brown and yolloAV, crimson and gold; and Frances's mother thought IIOAV much kinder mother nature is to her children of the vegetable kingdom than she is to those of the animal. A free is never repulsive iu old age, and a floAver in its de­ cline, and often after deiith, gives out its sAveefost odors. Just as she came to this part of her soHlo- qu}'. Bishop K entered, and greeted her kindly, and asked IIOAV he could serA'e her. The face of this young bishop is singularly handsome, and his man­ ner as unaffected as tluit of a little child. He gave Frances's mother, at her request, a letter to the lady superior of the CouA'ont of the Holy Cross. Armed Avith this document, she returned to Francos Avith a lighter heart. In the afternoon, Frances, her inotber and Faithful, drcAV up in a carriage before the gates of the Holy Cross. The lady superior of that con­ vent AA'ould attract attention among a thousand dis­ tinguished women. After reading the bishop's letter she Avelcomod the strangers, and Avas about to speak a Avord to Faithful, but he slipped the leash, and made for the coiivent cat, AVIIO AVUS dozing on a dis­ tant stairway. The cut, disturbed in hor dreams, bounded up the long fiiglito f steps with boAved buck and tiul erect and out on an arbor that mot a high gallery. Frances's mother, Avho had pursued Faithful, took him in her arms and Avent behind the door to administer to him a severe and deserved chastisement. But Faithful, never having felt a heaA'ier hand than Frances"s raised in anger against him, hoAvled in aftrigbt, and she Avas compelled to desist. She AVUS appalled. She 158 IIIKONICLES OF CVNTIIIANA.

approiushed the lady superior expecting fo IKS turiieil out of the convent, dog and baggage, but tlnil Christian hidy smiled and said," Never mind, madiinie, he is only 11 dog; AVO excuse him entirely."' So Fiiith­ ful Avas tied in a back court, wlnsre ho howled so that ho could bo heard for sipiares. This must have been the case, for dog after dog began to bark iiml make the air hideous Avltli noise. Frances AVUS in deep distress Avben a young nun said to hor: " (nt your llttks dog, darling, and you and ho may do jii-l as you did iit home."' Frances looked her gratitude, and Fiiitlifiil AVUS soon asleep in a clean, ((iiiet room that Avas destined to lie his homo for many months. The next morning, Frances and her mother took a boat for Alt. N'ernon at ten o'clock. The day was divine. On one side of the beautiful Potoiiiac lay A'irginia, and on the other "Alaryland, sweet Muryland." How shall one describe the brilliant trees that lined the shores and bowed their thanks lo the warm siinlight that AVUS Avilling to kiss tbeiii in their iiiitumn decHn'o! A lady at the convent had said to Frances's mollier Avlien she AVUS about to start to .Alt. A'eriion: " A'ou are going to a place Avliere you Avill rencAv your patriotism." Frances's mo.ther thought not so. " AIii(laiiio,I have some politics, but no patriotism since the civil Avar." There Avere about sixty pilgriins to Alt. A'ernon on the bout, the usual number of brides and bridegrooms oli their Avedding tours. There AVUS one very beautiful young bride AVIIO AVUS SO much in love Avitli her young hus­ band that she sat very near to him and pretended to read from the book he held in bis hand. The bride­ groom look(sd around at her every IIOAV and then to FRANCKS AND FAITIIFl'L. 159

bo sure that she luid eyes for none but him, but it was noticed that ho had eyes for every pretty girl that passed him. Francos and her mother took seats on the loAver dock, just outside the dining-room whore the spray could IIOAV and then baptize them Avitli its refreshing dew. All the AA'uy to Alt. A'ernon \Viishiiigtoii s ni'.sjnnient and the dome ofthe capitol followed lb..i!i, now hidden by a bend in this river for a few monieiits, now gloiiiiiiiig Avhito and tall in the morning smislilne. When the boat landed at 'Fort Washington, Frances's niotlier'.s patriotisms bogiin to rise from the dead, but it Avas still Avrapped in its cerements and was uncertain Avhether to live or die An Englishman said: "I noA'idi thought Wiishing- ton such a hero; if ho had have been comniiindor ofthe forces of Xapoloon or Wellington, ho Avould not liaA'o knoAvn Avliat to do Avitli them." Just then Frances's mother's pwtriotism shook ott'its cori'ineiils and arose f"rom the doud and stood alive and vigorous, and longed to say to the EiigHshnian: "If Wash­ ington could conquer the ' Allstress ofthe Seas Avitli riiAv recruits, Avliat might be not have done as coni- niiindor of the forces of Xapoloon and AV'^ellington"?'" The boat sloAvly .steamed UAvay toAvard Alt. A'^eriion. When it came in sight of tbiit sacred e(riii(se the old bell that bud hung in the belfrey for a hundred A'cars began fo toll sloAvly and solemnly, and the pilgrims fo the home of one of the groatost heroes the ciirth ever kiiCAV AVcre iis silent as if the Uevolutioiiiiry f"iitliers AVcre passing in revioAV before thom, A'isible ill their spiritual bodies. The passengers landed und Frances and her mother Avouild up the stoop ascent, n 160 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

hand in hand, to the tomb. An old whito-hairod negro, with hat in liaiid, receiA'cd them and their fel­ low-travelers Avith a courtly bow. The tomb is built like an ordinary vault, except the AA'IIOIO front is open and guarded by lioaA'y iron bars, set upright, and iibout six inches apart. One after another of the party took his position at the grating and looked long and in silence at the tAVo marble coffins that contain the remains of all that is mortuldf Wush- iiigton and his loA'cly Avife, aiid then they AA'OI'O con­ ducted to the great dining-njom. There is the fable at Avliicli AVashington once siit and outortiuiied his guests. It is to be imagiiied that Avlien ho entertained Jeft"ers()ii that he (.Ietter.son) AA'US a far better con­ versationalist than his host. Every one knows that AVashington was not a .scholar, as Joftcr.son was. His groutuoss consisted in the power that ho Avas alile to Aviold over rac'n. The inspiration ho could infuso into the commonest man, even causing him to fol- loAV him Avith bleeding foot to dlsustor and death. There AVIIS a mirror over the mantel that AVUS there in AVashington s time, and on a table by itself Avas a stone model of the Bastile and the keys that once belonged to that terrible prison. Frances took the huge iron key in her hand, and hor inothor thought how often it had turned in the doors that had shut out forever the listht of libortv from many of the fairest and Avisost sons and daughters of sunny France. She looked and touched the UKjdel of that once vast structure of tyranny and uuAAn'itton cruelty, and Avondorod from Avhicli door had been led out to meet the embraces of La Guillotine the long train of aris­ tocrats that perished in the lioigii of Terror. The l'Il.l*(CES AXD FAITHFUL. 101 last AA'ords of Aliiilame Roland passed her lips—"Oh, Liberty! Liberty! IIOAV many crimes are committed in thy naiiio!" Her meditations Avere interrupted by the guide, saying, in a shrill, vibrant tone: " Hero is !i chair that came over in the MayfloAver." She looked to see if there Averc any Avitchos or Quakers present, and there being none, nobody spit on the chiiir. IIL Francos AA'andorcd to the music-room of Wash­ ington's adopted daughter, and her luother foHoAved and gazed long at the quaint and old-fiishionod mu­ sical instrumouts that ivero arranged iu the order in Avliich that lady had left thom. The notes that had been printed fbr spinet iiud harp could be read easily across the roimi. At a door opposite her stood a young lady bf the party idoiie, having in her ll'and a largo bunch of pink roses. She soeniod unconscious of those about her and.lost in niedit;ition. As she turned from the door, Avitli a IOAV sigh, she threw the roses in the room. Those Avho saw her looked their gratitude. Xext they Avere guided up.stairs and shown the room in Avliich AVashingtim diisd. The bed, being six foot by six feet, had the appearunco of being very short, and one could fancy the Father of his Country sleeping Avitli his feet out of bod. Xcar the bed AA'US a small table containing the holsters tluit had soon service in the lioA'olutionary War. In a small room be^yond the large bed-room was « narrow louiigo, on Avliich the forni of that great hero was arrayed iind composed for the last journey, tu that room, thought Frances's mother, looking at the death chamber, Washington met the unseen and uncon- 1(i2 CURONICLKS OF CYNTUIANA.

quorable euoniy of mankind bravely as befits a Chris­ tian soldier ; no martiid niusic heralded bis approach ; silent and invisible he evorcume that victor in many battles, AVIIO coA'cred his face as he received the summons of the foe, and so passed from earth to heaven. After looking at the parlors furnished in the style of a by-gone time the party Avas led by the guide into the garden. . Walks and parterres were bordered by box trees more than a hundrod years old and of immense size. One palm remains in the grcH'ii-house, a relic from the time of the OAvnor of Alt. A'ernon. The party, after looking at the park Avhere a few deer AVere feeding, and at the old tomb AV he re AVasli- iiigton first reposed, Avound their Avay to the river, as the boat AVUS in sight. The hand.some bridegroom and beautiful young bride took their seats on the tide Avail, and Frances and her mother sat smne distance from them on a decaying log. The young liusbiiiid (lid not observe tluit any one AVIIS near enough to see his miiiiciivors,^so ho stole his arm about the Avaist of his Avife, and AVUS in the act of giving her a .sly kiss, but, as bo bowed his head, ho glanced around, t(;)^be certalii that it Avas ii stolen one, and so doubly sweet, and (d)served F'raiices and her mother. He desisted iit once, and looked as if he had been about to com­ mit a crime. Frances's mother longed to say, '•'Don't lot me interrupt you, sir; your act is liiAvful; pro­ ceed." SIKS arose, took her child by the band, and Avout to the boiit-house, and AvatclKsd this boat come in, iind saw the married kivcrs no more. The next day she and Frances Aveiit to the '• Na­ tional Aluseum." Two petrified trunks of trees AVere FRANCKS AND FAITIIFl'L. i<;.'5 on either side of the entranco, having the grain of the Avood and patches of bark plainly visible in pelrl- fiictiou. The firstthin g that greotcsd their eyes on entering the building AA'as the Statue of Liberty or Freedom, ninotoou and a half feet high, and executed in marble, standing on a pedestal rising from a mar­ ble fountain. To the right is "The Daguorre Ale- morial, by Hartley, in bronze and granite, "erected by the Pliotographors' Association of America, at a cost of .^10,000." One seldom places Daguorre among the great men of the earth, and yet, Avlion one thinks that by and through his grout endeavors the faces of the dead, great and small, are preserved from, obliv­ ion perfectly, they should fall down in adoration be­ fore him. lie caught and made the rays of the groat center of the solar systems, his pencils Avith Avhicli to trace the lineaments of Avell-beloved faces far more clearly and accurately than the brusli of the artist has overdone The jiictures tlius inude do not ilat- ter. Loiii; after the fiice of an, a'^ed iiarent has turned to 'dust, the dim and tender eyes look out from a sun-drawn picture, and live again. All honor and glory to Daguorre. To the left, iu the rotundii ofthe " museum," is a large glass case containing the con­ tinental dress suit in which AViisbington resigned his commission at Annapolis. It is of dark blueand yel­ low,and is slightly moth eaten. Then come the dishes of Martha Washington. Conspicuous among them arc tliose presented to her by Aliinpiis de Lii Fayette, and sent to her by liiin on his return to France. They appciired to be made of fine Avliito ]iorcclaiii. .Around the edges Avere obk^ng circles outlined in

The sandstone concretions are curious beyond de­ scription. They take ajl cqncoivable shapes, and one is inclined to believe Avliile looking at them that Edison is right When he Siiys: "Every atom of matter is instinct AA;itli animal life"', There are fruit- shaped eoneretions, Avitb stones iippa rent Avlieu broken open; acotus, with cup and stem perfect; snakes and animals, Avell enough shaped i for their similitude to-be rocoijnized. Ilidf-past fohr o'clock came all too soon fiir visitors to the museum, and Francos ami her motlier bet(.»o]v themselves to the convent. Faithful Avas overjoyed to see tlic.m. After dinner, at six o'clock,' Frances, her mother, and Fiutbful AVent out fbr a AA'alk, the evening being fine and the streets as light as day. They Avalkcd doAvn Massachusetts avenue, and passed Thomas's circle, Avith Thomas's equestrian statue in the center, Scott's circle and equestrian statue, and came to Dupont's circle, AA'bich is much larger than the tAvo before mentioned. Dupont's •statue is placed on a tall ]ied- estal and is of bronze. Tothe north bf this circle is the house of the Chinese legation. As Fraiices and her mother stood hioking at the somber house of these followers of C'onfucius, they missed Faithful. Frances called aloud, but no ansAVoriiig biirk tojd that she bad been heard. Tears ciinie to her eyes and her voice failed her. Xear by stood an old man, Avho said: " Had your dog a tag on him, my dear':'" "AVhat is that?" said Frances's niother. "The laiv of the city requires the OAvner of a dog to pay tax on him, and the dog must Avear a steel tag in token that the tax has been paid," said he politely ; and added: " I'erbaps the dog catcher has him, as he has no tag.'' FRANCES AND FAITHFUL, 1().7

Frances's rnother bogaii t<) call and Avhistle. as AVOH JIS she could, and to Aviindor up iiml doAvn the AA'alks and look under the shrubbery, and finally, in despair, she and Frances sat down on one of the seats to aAvait developments. Directly across from the house of the Chinese legation came Faithful's voice iis if at play, and Fra,nces ran across the avenue and returned Avith the recrciint Faithful in hor arms. AVhen she and her mother arriA'od at the coiivent, Fajtlifnl AVUS so much refreshed by his. Avalk that he Avas able, as soon as the door Avas opened, to take the'cat by the tail and be draAVii across the long corridiir and into ujiknoAvn regions beyond the refectory. AVhen the nuns Avere tbnio running from right to left out (if" the Avuy of the snarling cat and groAvling dog, and the hideous noise had ceased. Faithful returned, properly ashamed of himself, Avitli tail and oars doAvn hung, and idl and every oxprossioii of humility plainly visi­ ble; but Frances poulieed upon him nevertheless, and administered sundry cuffs of anger and displeas­ ure to her favorite. He AVIIS perfectly dumb under the punishment, and seemed to kiioAV that it was deserved. IV. The next morning P^'anees's mother 'ro.sc early and passed doAvn the dim corridors, and looked at tlie saints in their, starry niches, and beard tlio subdued voices of the linns at priiyor in the chapel, and felt IIOAV SAyoet and holy Avas such a place—IIOAV far rembved froni sin and its contamination, although it Avas situ­ ated in the heart of the great capital bf this our re­ public. At the rear of the convent there is a hirge paved court, shut in by a spiked wall. There Fran- 168 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. ces's mother could only""see the flush of morning, but could not seethe sun rise. She thought of her coun­ try home, the hills surrounding the town she loved so well. In imagination she 8a>v the sun come up beyond the tiill Avhite shafts of the necropolis, Avhere slept her buried loved ones, and she Avept for the BViiiges made by time and death. Her meditations Avere interrupted by some of the young nuns passing through the court to go to mass. When they Avore out of sight, Frances's mother took her pencil and Avrote TIIK XrX'S SOLII.O(^t'Y. I can not stso tiie sun rise ; Tlus (sonvent walls are hijiji; But somtswliisris in tiie rosy t'ast The dawnliglit tiooils tlic sky.

I M lovo to HOC Ilis level beams Klnsli town and lowfy vale; I 'il love to hear this spriiif; bird tell His mate tliat old, sweet tale.

A(srf)ss a wastis my cliildhood lies, \ wiiste of hliried yesirs; I only seii that iuipijy time Far oil" tliroiifili iiiist of tears.

I fiei? two pilgrims leave that land 15v Aiiril sfjit'S arciied o'er; Tliey do liot travel IIUIKI in liand, But meet in life oiide more.

One is a youth of nolile uiien, .\iid (Jlory loves him well ; Ills follows in tills warrior's track, And steps wlusre poets ilwelL

Ills name is written iiiaii on brass, That all the world may see: FRANCES AND FAITHFUL. luy

Ambition ! he who runs insiy reiad; This pilgrim, proud is he.

At last, beside a sullen stream tt(5 stands, Ills work all

The way is dark; renown's acclaim Is hushed ujion tlus air; Blit where Fume's shaft is rising high, His name is written there.

No blessings crown the eold white stone Whereon lie carved hishanas; A wan aurora gliiiimers there, .And nations cail it fame.

Hesido Ambition, Duty stands, A pilgrim pale iind worn, And Pity wipes with tcniler huuds The blood from feet all torn.

No poet willemUalin her name; Her (li-eds are all unknown; Oblivion follows on her steps. But patience lit lier (jwn.

And gazing backward o'er the way tlisr wounded I'ect have trod. She .sees ji glory bliiziug bright, Seen by, herself and (iod.

At nine o'clock, Frances and her mother Avbre at the Sinitlis(mian Institute. The firstfilin g that meets the eye is a steel plate, oiico nseddiy AuduBon ; dimly seen on its face is a narrow strip,of marsh haul, and standingiimoug the tall reeds and sedge are two life- sized American fliimingoes. Walking from ease to case of the great hall, one isimprossed by the end­ less variety of birds of every color and from every 170 CHRONICLES OP CYNTIIIAXA.

part of the ivorld. In close proximity are placed the huge condor of the desert alKlthe oiigle that roared its young on some tall peak of I'lie Kocky mountains. .Vbove the great adjutant bird is the smallest lium- niing bird ever seen. It quivers on an invisible wire over a nest libt much largcrthan a thimble, aiid, ivith its bright Avingsi outspread, seems to protect its egg— no larger than the smallest pea'. The nests and eggs of all the birds on exhibition are to be found in a smaH room full of shelves, and are as curious to a stranger as the birds themsolvos. The birds frtmi Africa are the most beautiful of the vast collection. Frances's mother thought, as she gazed'at a beaiitiful birij of Paradise, that perhiipa it had oiice screamed along the Xile, and rested its tired feet on the top of the tallest pyramid, or gazod curi­ ously in the eyes of the Sphinx, or had sat on the ruins of "Kiirnaek to trim its gay plumage. The capitol is- one of the finest buildings in the Avorld. The dome is modeled after St. I'ofers, at Rome, Avbicli Avas designed by Alichael Angelo. When one stands in the rotundu, and looks up one liiindred and eighty feet, he beholds a scene of en­ chantment. In the clouds AVasliingtmi is seated, Avifli freedom on his right and victory on his left. Thir­ teen angelic female figures represent the thirteeii orig­ iiud colonics. They eiiciiTle the dome, and hold,flut­ tering across its beautifully-colored expanse, a Avhite streamer, on Avbich, is Avritten, "E pluribus ITiiuni." I'ifjtures one hundred years old iidorn the loivor jiart of the rotunda, this most beautiful of Avhicli is "The Baptism of Pocabontiis.'" i When congress opened, Frances iiiid her mother FRANCES AND FAITHFUL. 171 took their seats in " Statuary llall," Avjiich is situated betAveen the soiiatb chamber and the house of repre­ sentatives, and a great distance from each. There could be seen, passing back and forth from the senate to the house, jieople from every state in the Union, and froin every counti-y under the sun. After Avatch- iiig this moving throng for hours, and not seeing u familiar i"ace, Frances's mother took her by the hand, and walked from one statue to another of the heroes of a by-gime horiiic age, ami felt more reverence Avliile she gazed at the pallid marble iniHgcs of the ahtliors bf our indepbudonco than she (fid Avheii among living celebrities Aylio foil .so far be.loAv them. There is Wusliington, Avith his strong fiice made toiider by its bisnign expression. Beside him is Jef- iersmi, the greatest sfatesniau America evei" kiioAV. .Tonafhan Truniluill, from Avlioni came the torni " Brother .louiithun," is there, and further on is Etbun .Allen ; so miturid is the expression of liis marble fiice, that one almost expects hiin to open his lips, und say : " In the name of the Croat .TehoA'ah and the (\)iiti- iicntid Congress." Fulton is to bo seen with his steamboat in his hands. ,Xo one ivho oA'or beiiofitfed his Avliole coiiiifry has been forgofton. Tlie hand­ somest statue in Statuary Hall is that of Alexander Humilton. He might represent a god, so perfect are his fbrm iind feiitures. Frances's niother hoped to (difaiii a posij^on, Avlieii congress o'Jiened, that AAtitild enable Iter A) support herself and child. She bad called on a "seiiiitor Avho was once ti friend of her lute liivsliand, und be bad promised to do his best for her. She, knoAving this man's great power in the land, bolioA'od that her po. 172 CHRONICLES OP CYNTHIANA. sition AViis as good as assured to her; for how could the best efforts of this yreal man end in failure! In the meantime, she and Frances visited all places of interest in this most interesting city on the Ameri­ can continent. They climbed liiauy times to thedomeof the capitol, and, stunding under the statue of Liberty, gazed at the distant Potomac Avithits shining Avater dotted by' sail-vessels, steamboats, and SAviftly flying caiioes. Then looked at the asphalt avenues srretching theii' Avliito lengths from the capitol like .spokes froin some great wheel. Then Avitli a sigh turned her eyes in the direction of Arlington, Avhich she had visited once and noA'er Avishod-to sei' iigain in its present condi-- tion. Washington's moiiument ascended, and the grand scene around it vi(3Aved at the eloA'ation of 555 feet, can never be. forgot ton. All those scenes Avere IIOAV and beautiful to Frances's mother and pleasing to Frances, but "hoiie deferred inaketh the heart sick," amj. Frances's mother began about this time to experience'this fearful midady. Christmas came aiid Aveiit. JSVAV'Year's morning dawned bright and clear. Frances ami her mother Avalked hand in hand many inilcs looking at the gay scene. Civilian and .soldieh stranger and citizen, each had oil his grandest iitfire. and \tere gbing two and two in carriages from house to house making culls. The most beautiful sight that gala day Jire- sontod was the young girls dressed in light evening costumes Avitli heads uncpvCfred going in carriages, the sides of Avhicli Avere glass, to make theirt3alls. The most beautiful thing in this'Avorld is a beautiful FUAXCES AND FAITH'FUL. 17=] young Avomiin., AVhat a pity time treats her so badly! After long Avaiting, 'Frances s niother called on Kentucky's, favorite congressman sit the capitol, and he told her ill so many Avords that thoroAvas no hope of her getting a position. She beUoA'cd him, and, Avith many tears slied in secret, she prepared to leave AVashington, but not to return to Kentucky if she could •diro\(\.it . One February evening, after saying fiiroAvell to tlnidear nuns, Avho hiid been so'kind to tliorfi, Frances, her mother, and Faithful made their Avay to the B. & O. depot, and Avere soon en route for X. A., Ohio. The lights of AVashington, " that city of magnifi­ cent disttinces,"' fiulod iiAvay from sight, and the cars rattled on till ton o'clock. Then came the cry " Harper's Ferry."' Through the open AvindoAV' was to bo seen the (iiiaint little village perched up(Mi the crugs, far above the dark, still AA'aters ofthe "Ferry." There, thought Frances's motlier, is the scone of .lohn EroAvn's raid, and where the first act of the civil Avar began. From AVashington to, W. the ground was AA'hife Avitli snow, and Avlieii the cars steamed into the depot of the last named place and Frantses, her mother and Faithful stood on the plutt'orm, they learned that the air that blew over the flats Avas keen toid piercing. They had yet three good miles to go before they reached their destination, and niiyht AV as comin sr on. The moon Avas fuH and tivilight took on u sih'er tint as the travelers seated themsoh'bs in a sledge and Avere driven out of AV. to X. A., a quaint little village Avith an old-fashioned church, Avith its church-yard full of 174 CHRONICLES OF CVNTIIIANA. momoriidS of rtiiin's mortidity. Situated side by side Avith the village greeii, noiir which is the school-house, and the busy mill. A boy playing bandy has often to hunt for his ball among the resting-places of his relatives. He does n't mind that; the allotted time of man is so fiiraAva y from him that he fools that t() live •scA'cnty years is to bo immortal. N. A. has one AA'ide street, oir either side of Avhicli'. the hoincly houses are ranged. At one of those luxusos the sledge drcAv till, and the three travelers Avere soon/in a Ayarni, Avell-lighfed room, and had received a kind Avcleomo from the friends they hiid come to visit. Fidthful AA'as placed in a lai'ge rocTviiiif chair before the fire, and occupied it'Avith much dignity, he having ju.st dciuirted from the halls of congress. After a Aveek's rest, Fi-ancos and her niother re­ turned' to AV., but Francos left Avith a full heart— Faithful was not to accompuny her. As the carriage ridled iuviiy, Fuithful stood with bis foropiiAvs on the IOAV AvindoAV-ledgo, and Avhiiiodand yelped iu a sorroAV-, fill maniiqr. Frances Avcpt aloud. Her mother hoped to make up a class in elocution, and speiiil the AA'iuforin AV., but, I'llas! for the hopes of this life She visited the city school, and AVUS treated very [lo- lifely. After trying- in A'liili to make'up a class she returned to X^. A. AVhen she and Frances arrived at the house iit.Avbich they had left Fiiitlifiil they heard a joyous bark, 'and the throe friends embraciMl. But IioAV changed AVUS Fiiifhf"urs appearahce; his chops "wore thin, bis eyes had a Avoe-beg'one expres­ sion and his plump form Avas Avasted as if ho hud mourned himself iilhiost fo death .for his friends. The lady of the liouse said that ho liad refused f"ob(l, PRANCES AND PAIXIIFL'L. 175 and that she believed tlmt he, Avould have died but for Frances's return. AH attempts to secure employment ba^ failed, and Frances, her mother and Faithful Avent to Oinciniiati. They stood at the back of the -lohn street depot in the bright afternoon light, on the day of their ar­ rival, and Frances's mother thoiiglit sadly of her hard fate and raiiny disappointments. As she did so, she raised her eyes and looked at the chalk-hills that rope Avhito and tall on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river. Xothing but the yearning that'Joshua-felt Avhen he SUAV the promised land Avill describe her feelings. "Ah," thought she, "beyond that river are the t"riends of my youth, who love me smd AA'liom I fondly love; and there .sleep my beloved dead, bo- side Avhoso ashes I hope to repose when life's jour­ ney is ended. How can I stay away." Thaf night Friuices had a fearful llream, that filled her mother's mind with sad fi)re,bodings., She dreamed that she Avas at the Convent of the Holy Cross, and that she AA'US dead. She Avciit doAvn one of the corridors Avhere hor little playmiiteS AVcre, and began to watch them play. A nun s'aAV her, and said: "Go, sAA'cct Frances, and get into your coffin; you Avill frighten the children dressed in your shroud asj'du are." She begged the good nun, A\'ho hiid been her kiiid teaehcr for nibnths, to .send to Kentucky'fbr a physi­ cian, whorn she had kiioAvn from infancy, an(l .jet him say Avhether she,were,alive or dead. She prom­ ised that if this kind jdiysioiini said that she wiis deiid she would lot them bury her. She wok^ her mother at midnight Avith a terrible 12 176 CUROXICEES OF CYNTIIIANA. cry, sinil begged to be taken home. Alas! alas! lier mother had no home, but that night she determined to return to Kentucky. The next evening at sun­ down Frances Avas in her native tpwn, and she and Faithful were happy. Frances's niother had another failure to record among the many she had made in her life, but she Avaa nearer to her beloved dead, and she was— CHAPTER Xni.

MARbARET GOUDY.

In tlje old cemetery is a tombstone bearing this ih- scrlptioh: " Here lies the Innocent—though persecuted-r-Alar­ garet Goudy, Avho was born May 6,179'2, and died October 12,1814." ' Lichens have darkened but have not obs'cured this BorroAvful inscription ;Hime seems to have been kind to tliffe stone that holds it, and to have preserved it there sis a warning to the uncharitable. Tall marble shafts have fallen around it, and huge granite slabs have been broken above the gravies of those vvho, in life, Avould not have deigned to so niitcH as look at Mal-garet Goudy, but Avho, perhaps, persecuted her, Her story Avaa told to a young gii"l» in 1832, by an old Avoman AvaveSring along the boundary of this Avbl'ld and the next. The old Avomati's name Avas Casey, aiid all the children of the town called her Granny Casey, and believed hor a witch. She lived in a eabin oppo­ site the red brick house noAv (icciiiued by Mr. Tidbutt. She xyas a Scotch Avomaii, and came here Avhen where Cynthiana now is Avas an unbi'oken wilderness. Her people, in Scotland, must have been of the liigher' class, judging by a foAV relics she had hi lief posses­ sion. One AA'as a sniall chest of dai:k, hard wood, haA'ing beautifully-carved armoriar bearings upon it. In this chest she had a packet of old letters, yellowed (177) 17H CURONICLKS OF CYNTHIANA.

by time, but Avitb a crest plainly to bb seen at the top of the paper. Margaret (Joudy Avas brought to ('ynthiana, from Scotland, by her father, when she was seven years old. Her mother had died a year before she AVUS re­ moA'ed from her native land. At the time her troubles began she Avas living Avith her father in the house Avhere Thonias lIofi"iiian and his sisters IIOAV reside. She had the fair eomploxion and yolloiv hair that be­ long to Scotch women, and when she Avas tAventy-one, the few peo]ile Avbo lived iu ('ynthiana pronounced her beautiful. Her luaiiner AVUS simple und modest, und hor dross AVUS ahvays api>ropriate. She Avore about her long luxuriant hair the snood, Avhicli, in Scot­ land, signifies " purity of miiidon i'aiue" A country­ man of her oAVii came fo Cynfhiiinu, and fell in love with her, but her father Avas not Avillinij that she should marry him. Ho sui,d to her: "You must wait until I Avrite to Edinburgh, and learn this young man's character from tliose AVIIO have knoAvn him long and AVOH, iind if I find that he is what be looks fo he, he sliiill have you." Air. (JoudyAvas n strict Prosbyteriuii, and Alurgaret liiid been reared in that faith also. She believed that the command in holy Avrlt, "Children, idiey your par­ ents,"' Avas as binding as any other, and she told her lover that she AVoiild marry him, but ho must A\'ait si year. Ho received horfiither's fiat Avifl i a bad grace, and AA'as a little vexed AVitli Alargaret on account of hor puritunism, but at last agreed to Avuit. Aliirgiiret Avas tAventy-one years old in Alay, 181-^. As the iiii- tiiiiin of that year approached, her lieidth bogaii to decline. Her lover AA'US absent, and her father .AI,Ua:,\RKT (iOUDV. 17!) thought that it Avas on that accoimt that she moped and pined, and bad lest her brilliant color, lle^ rousoned Avitli his beloved child; he told lier IIOAV Juc(dj hud served for Kachel, and had been blessed iit last; but all was of no avail, Alargaret groAv thin­ ner and jiidor dtiy by day. The gossips had been busy Avitli her good name, but she did not know it, although she AVUS aAvare that many lusrsoiis did not treat her us had been tlieir Avont, but she AVUS not suspicious, and knew nothing of slander and gossip. It was now October, and one bright Sabbath morn­ ing Alargaret arrayed iiorsolf in her best goAvii and put a iioAV snood around her ftur hidr und Avidkod to church. This cbiirch Avas Avest of Cynthiana and near the rosidenco of the lute A. Beniiker. Xothing is f() bo seen there now but a crundding stone Aviill, • a few tall freosij iiiid here und there a sunken grave. Miirguret AVidkod sloAvly, in order to enjo,y the beau­ tiful scene around lier. October had on her gayest riiiinent. She AVUS soon to wed bleak Xovember, but yet she smiled brightly, us if .she did not know that her Avedding garment must bo her Avlnding-sheet und her Avedding journey a long AViindoring in a" past eternity, among all the lost Octobers that have come and gone since " the inaking of the Avorld.'.' And .Margaret smiled tiloiig Avitli her, although a Avorse fate awiilte(l her tlian Avould befiill the bright October Avlion her race 'ivas run. When Alargaret reached the church, slip found that she Avas too early and Avaited among the graves until the congregation should assemblo. Presently there iqiproached her an old crone, a fiimous gossiji, who AVUS feared far and near. She eyed poor Alargaret until hor Avan cheek 180 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. took on the bloom, it bad lost for many a day, " IIoAv are you, Alargaret," said she " I have not seen you this many u day. But I am astonished that you should conio to church." Then, as .she sat there imiong the graves of the peaceful dead, unchasteneil by the stillness ofthe Sabbath niorning and the near­ ness of the liou.se of God, she told her sdl that the gossips had said about licr and all that she herself had suspected; then entered the church. Alargaret sat as still and pale as the dead Avho slept boneath. XV.ir her Was tlTe grave of a little child slio had knoAvii and loved through its brief life. She placed her thin hand tenderly on the loiig grass that covered it, and her tears began to floAv. Soon on the bright air floatedth e solemn notes of a hymn that gave her strcnffth to rise and begin her homoAA'ard iournov. She had not lost lier faith in God. Ho Avas her Father, and Avotild jirove hor innocence to the Avorld. Her earthly father sat in the door-Avay as sho approached hor homo, and noticed her falforing steps, her sunken eyes, and for the first time he noticed her di.sfignred form. As she entered the house, hor fiither's fiico Avas no less jiale and haggard thui'i hor OAVU. He felt thiit ho must rise and slay her Avhero she stood fiir disgracing an honest name. She A\ent upstairs to her room and tlircAV herself on her bed in a paroxysm of fears, and Avept for some time before sho kiieiv that hor father had followed her. She arpse from the bod und stood before him Avith a look of appoid in her young eyes, but hope died Avheii she SHAV IIOAV stern and dangerbuslio loxdced. Ho tore the snood from her hair, and said: " Well thiit your mother sleeps in her grave to-day, you MARGARET (^OUDY. 181

Avicked girl. You have ruined yourself and broken your fiither's heart. The name of your betrayer? Tell it quickly, duit I niu}' pursue and slay him." All this time Alargaret had knelt at his feet, Avitli her long liiiir covering hor face; but she looked up und said : " Father! father! believe me. I am not a ivicked yirl. I am innocent, and (lod knoAva it. T have not been betrayed. I sAvoar it, as I bojio fiirpardo n horo- ufter." Her fiither run from the room, brought a ladder, placed it against a trap-door that gaA'o entrance to the attic, and bade Alargaret ascend. She did so. Her futlusr said : '• Ilei'o is your prison. Ke'pont j'ou in that lonely place, if you can. God niuy forgiA'o you, but I never, never shidl." The afternoon Avore uAvay and the day burned out in the Avest with a lurid light. TAA'ilight gathered and deepoiied info night, but Alar­ garet lay on the floor as still as if she were dead. Some time after dark, her fiither took bod-clothos to the attic ami made a pallet bed, and forced Alargaret to lie upon it. He also brouglit such coarse food as he himself could ]irepare iind off"(4j'cd it to her, but she could not touch it. By the dim light of the candle her fiither hold, Alargaret scanned his stern face, and saw no relenting there. She said not a Avord and made no moan against this cruel fiitetha t Avas forced upon her. The Scotch are a fierce,prou d people, and as brave as the bravest. Mr. Goudy could have seen Margaret die, and (sould have better borne to see her burnt at the stake than to see her disgraced. Her disgrace Avould blight his life The virtue of their AVomeu is the special boast of the Scottish men. One tnun of 182 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

a family can not drag down to ruin a stainless es- cuthoon, but one Avojiian by her fall can darken a family's shield fiirevcr. All Avas darkness, desolation, and silence to Mar­ garet. The October moon rose far in the night, and tliroAv a ray of light upon the lowly bod Avhere sho had Avept herself to sleep. ' Before she had fallen asleep, she bad prayed to lior mother, Avhoni sho remembered AA'CII. God seemed .so A-ague to her, and far aAvay, that she called to her mother to help her, AVho shall say that she Avas not near the forsaken girl in her night of agony, and that she did not follow her until she Avas gathered to her embrace in that better country, along the confines of Avliich the young oA'or wander! The one AvindoAV in the attic looked to the north. A bird sat on the sill at dawn and chirped its morn­ ing song. Margaret rose from her bod and sat by the windoAV. She could see the riA'or and Flat-run. She could look far ott" at the wooded hills and see by the rising suli how the loaA'es wore ripening and tuk- ing on the gorgeous colors tlisit make autumn so boautiful. She thought of the last spring Avhen sho and her lover had gathered dog-tooth violets] and delicate Avind-floAvers on a bank the sjmjjeanis/wero just then coming IOAV enough to kiss, but she did not weep; her tears luul all been shod. V Her father never neglected to bring her food, and often sighed Avhon he found that it Ijad/ never boon tasted. At noon, when he returned from his Avork, he yilaced the ladder at the trap-door and fol-ced Mar­ garet to descend and take exercise in the yard, hidden from vioAv by u brushw.ood f'omse. MARUARET GOUDV. 18:i

Once Avhen she was doAvn stairs, she procured iioii sind ink. What she Avrote on the rafters of her prison, none Avill ever kiioAv. All are dead Avho could tell, and all that is loft of the miserable girl's Avriting are a foAv illegible Hues. The autumn Avore aAViiy. The first pitiless Aviiids of winter began to Avail and cry about the house-tops, and Ixsar the Avithored leaves in eddying siA'irls to the Avlndow Avhere Alargaret kept hor lonely vigil. The first snoAV fell and coA'ored all unsightly phices Avitli its Avhito mantle, and that nightthe moon Avas full. Mar­ garet Avas asleep and it AvaS near midnight. Sho dreamed she hoard hor lover call Alargai-et, Aiargaret! She started up, broad aAvake, and listened ; when to her iiiteuso delight she hoard to hor the SAveetest sound on earth, her loA'er's voice benoath the Avindow, Mar­ garet, Alargaret. It thrilled her through and through. Her Avasted frame could hardly bear the shock of so much joy. He would believe her innocent and fake her from, her prison and love and protect her. This she thought as she fore the sniall AvindoAV frtmi its fiiston- ings. When she looked doAvii, the moon shone lull oiKtlie handsome fiice of her loVcK Some moments elapsed before he could master bis voice to .speak, and Margaret's heart boat .so. rajiidly that it choked her utterance. Her lover spoke at last, " Murguret, dear Alargaret, I knoAV all. AVhy did 3'ou deceive me when I loved you so AVOII." " I am innocent," sho cried. " The good God knows it and Avill jiroA'o it to the AA'orld. I am ill, very ill, dying, I think. I)o not leave me." "I shall go to the Avar and tliroAv my worthless life aAvay in the very front of battle,"' said her lover. Sho severed a long curl of hair from her head 184 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

and dropped it at his foot. "Keep it," she said. " A'ou Avill be glad AVIIOM I am dead that you have done so. FarcAveH, and God bless you." When her lover had passed out of sight, Alargiiret restored the AviiidoAV to, its fastenings, and fell upon her knees bc- fiire it and cried aloud to God in hor agony : " Father, forgive them; thoykiiOAV not Avhat they do." Her last hope Avas gone, She turned her thoughts to eternity and prayed to die. AVlien So])tombor, 1814, came "round, Alargaret had been in prison almost a year. Iu all this time no Sis­ ter ol' Alercy, no famous Christian AVonian, had been to s(3e her. Xo minister had forced his Aviiy into the house, as a bravi' soldier of the Cross should have done, and climbed the rude ladder and offered con­ solation to dying, siitt"ering .Murguret. Who that re­ members the AVords of Christ to Alagdaleii can be a Christian and revile and shun a fallen sister. All Avomankind should pray to bo delivered f'rohi lemptei- tiitn. It is one thing to point out a long and dan­ gerous road fo a traveler, and it is another thing to journey that Avuy one's -self Alargaret AVUS not a fallen sister, and God Avas about t(.) prove it. A physician had been called Avlion she AViis firstimprisone d in the attic, but he htid only con- Hriiied her father's suspicions. It has never boon stated by those Avho have told the story Of -Margaret Oibudy that her father brought her down stairs iu the bitter winter AA'catbor, but he must have done so. There was no placo„f"or afire in the attic, and the fact of her having lived through the winter proves tlisit she was cared for; and tiusn it must be remembered that her father was a Christian. Before the summer MARGARET GOLDY. 18.-) of 1814 began to AA'UUO Air. Goudy belioA'cd that he had Avronged his child. The physician Avas again summoned, and pronounced her disease a tumor. iler father's'state of mind must be imagined; no Avords could describe it. And the physician, Avhat of him? Hill ho exclaim Avlion alone, "Here's the smell of blood still! All the perfiimos of Arabia Avill not sAveeten this little hand! Oh ! ob ! oh !" After Margaret Avas proved innocent her father re- iiioved her to the house Avliero Mr. K. M. C(dlier UOAV resides. Since the brand of shame had been re­ moA'ed from her name, Margaret thought of her loA'cr and longed for him to knoAv of her'innocence. She asked the physician if hor life might be prolonged. Sho Avas anxious to live yet a little while. He an­ swered, " No," and added, " A\)(i. can not surviA'o a Avook." Sho covered her face until she could master her sorroAvfuI emotions, and then asked that pen and ink be brought. When it Avas done she Avrote the epitaph tliiit appears on her tombstone. Sho requested the physician (the same Avho had so carelessly or ignoranfly diiignosed her case Avhen she Avas firsttake n ill) to hold an autopsy on her as soon after her death as pos­ sible, in order that tlie town miyhi know of her innocence before her buried. The physician ]ironiised her sol­ emnly that be Avould do so. And Alargaret said: " I fill-give those ivho have ]iersecuted me, and I am not afraid to die." October i-2, 1814, Margaret Avatched the sun go down behind the hills sho loved so AA'OH, and soon after she herself Avont to rest. Slander is a greater sin than murder! Long after .Alarffaref's storv had ceased to be talked 18(3 CHRONICLES OP CYNTHIANA. about there came to ('ynthiana a man yet in his prime, but bearing on his face the impress of a great sorroAv. Ho searched and found the grave of Margaret Goudy, and ssit by it day after day for many a iveek and then disappeared, and his fate ivas never kiioAvn. Tli^^bnes beloAV are the only ones that htive ever boon 'CVi'ittien, in memory of Marsyaret Goudv; there- fore, they art'transcribed here:

MAlKi.VlilOT GOUDY.

I H.it iinioiijj; iornotton fj^nives, AA'liile in tlii' west. \v;iii iiigiit, Luy 'lyiiiK mi tlic hills whose w.aves Broke into laughing liglit.

The (lawn was islad in darltest Rray, U'liile in tlie ea.st Wens seen llorstroaimsr lloutinf; liriglit and gay In gold and criin.sou slieen.

This songhirds filled the snmmcsr air AA'ith gladness set to tune; And fnmi the meadows evcrv-whcrts (!anie sweet Ihe breath of June.

The sickle moon, jialis in the sky. Died with the dying stars; One planet .still was trembling nigli Tlus criiiison eastern bars-

Till faint it dropped behind llic hill, AVhere dreamless sleep the dead ; When, lol a glory seemcil to Iill The trees above their bed.

The HHISU sun's first kiss divinis Fell on a tombstone old. And I could trace in chiseled line A storv Home time told^ MAIUiAUET GOUDY. isr

Of one whose heiirt through slander broke, .'\iid dying, ceased to iileed, 'Though false ones late tried to revoke Their crime l)y word and deed.

Full three-s(sore years has slumbered there, That broken-hisarted iiiaiil, With dust upon her yellow liair, And lily fiiise close laid.

And gone are they who wrought her fall, Sunk into silence

And careless feet above each heiul Crush flower and waving grass; And one now in his moldy bed Once trod the same, alasl

AVhen twilight, veiled in primrose flush. Steals round this lonely tomb, Pure niiiideiis come in the dee]i hush, .And gather in the gloom ;

Pluck off the lichens from the stone, .Vnd tell her cruel fate ; How slander markecl her for its own, When truth had lingered late.

.\iid in sad voice whose cadenc(s clear Kings like a harp wind smote. They niourii her curly doom, while near The light is fading and remote,

Th(sshii

AVhile inystiis voices of the night Breathe low their sad refraili, .\nd hosts of heaven are all iilight To guard her grave again;

And then they wonder in what star Her life is made complete; For somowhere, though unlinlslied here, That life is rouniUsd sweet. CHAPTEK XIV

HUGH ROGAN.

The Irish are marked as a distinct people among the races of men by their ready Avit, their reckless courage, their unconquerable love of liberty, their devotion to any religion they may profess, and by their\iiidoubtiiig faith in God. In the north of Ireland is Loch Derg, " a romantic s^ioet of Avator covering 2,100 acres. It is completely encircled by mountains." In this loch Saint's Island is situated. On the island is ii| deep, dark cavern, that holds Avithin it a shrine erected to St. Patrick. Monks inhabited a monastery near tfeis cavern, and guarded this holy'shrine iu years goiib by. At the present day,'only a foAv bid pilgrims make their ,way to this lonely place of prayer, and but a small body of monks guard the relics. The descent into the cavern is attended Avith great danger, but in other days hundreds of Aveary a,l'id footsore pilgrims have made that cavern their place to kneel to God and beseech him to free their country. Many a midnight moon has shone on .Saint's Island and kissed the boautiful face of some young girl as she knelt in prayer and vigil on the convent floor. Many a fair maiden has descended into that cavern, dark as a dungeon, save for the lights that struggled to burn on the sdtar of St. Piitrick, and knelt on the damp earth and Avept and prayed for an absent lover, (ISO) 1!lO niKONICLES OP CYXTHIANA.

Avhilo the rustle of wings idiove her lioud and the low moan of the Avators of Loch Derg Avoiihl have ap­ palled another Avith less faith in (Jod than she. Pil­ grims are ii6t always sinful; bfttimes only sorroAving. lint the (leA'otioii of the Iri.sli to their country and to (Jod is unique and Avell knoivn the Avorld over, as Loch l)erg and other shrines can witness. Hugh liogan AVIIS horn in County Donegal, Ireland, Sojitember I'l, 1747, and groAV uj) to muniiood siniong his oppressed countrymen Avitli the love of freedom inherent in his nutiiie. He was a fair comidcxioned niaii, with blue eyes and yellow hair, but tlie fair ex­ terior, with its pale and doliisate tints, clothed a beroiis soul, as the sad and romantic events of his life have clearly jiroA'cd. At Omiili lived Niiiiey Duft"ey, a perfect type of Irish beauty. She had milk-Avhite skin, jet-black hair, and violet eybs. Hugh Ivogan wood and won this fair girl of Omiib, und when he AVUS tAveiity-slx and she six­ teen years of age, they Avere married. In 1774, their son, nernard, was born, and Wiisjiist six months old Avheii his father aiinounced to liis Avife "and relatives that lieinleiided to leave Ireland and go to .Xinerica. He hud read and discussed at his fire­ side the first Continental Congress that had been held at I'bihuk'lpbia, September I'l, 1774, and was glad to learn that the striiggHiig colonies bad agreed to hold no intercourse Avith (Jreat Hritalii, //// country he de­ spised. Spring Avas approiiching. How bisaiitifiil looked his own beloved land, Avhere the rivers Avaiidered through pastures of emerald green and the May siiii- sbine kissed modest flowers of t-very hue! "HOAV UUdll ROGAN. 191 call I leaA'e my native land?" said be, in agony of soul. Then he thought of hor harbors, closed and opened by her mistress, England, and of the tyranny that perhaps for ages niiglit brood over Ireland, " the liiirest country under the sun ;" and since neither his anil nor the arms of all her downtrodden children could avail to free her, be determined fo leave her. On a bright afternoon in May, 177r), Nancy Kogaii, Avith her babe in her arms, stood aiuirt from her f"iim- ily to say fan-AvcH to her young husbaiid, Avho AVUS to sail on the morroAV for .'\iiierica. Said Hugh Kogiiii: " .\ancy dear, I go to that land of promise to prepare a lioiiio i"oi' you and our child. We shall tlien be free to \v(irshi]i (Jod according to the dlctiites of our OAVU consciences, and our son shall bo reared among free­ men."' He took her and tlieir babe in his embriuse, and then AVUS gone. .\s Xiincy looked at his retreat­ ing form, she knew, with that strange intuition that makes all women prophets, that years Avoiild elapse before she Avoitld see lilni again. She seated herself on a green bunk, und watched, the sun sink beliiml the distant hills of Donegal; his parting light fell like a benedictioii on ( bmili, and hope Avliispere(l to Xaney that slu' would see Hugh Kogan agirni. .She Aveiit ihe night away. Hugh IkOgiiii had reached mid-ocean on his Avay to .\iuericu. l'':ir awuy on the horizon he and the sailors saw an approaclring ship. Il AVIIS hailed Avheii it came near eiioMgh, and the IIOAVS wiis shouted from iiitin to man on ihe shlji in which Hugh Kogaii bad taken passage that the battles of Lcsiiigton and Ibinkor Hill bad been fought, and that the Patriots 18 102 OIIRONICIiES OF CVNTHIAN.A.

Avere determined to conquer or to die. This IICAVS •gladdened his sad heart. When he landed iu Philadolphia, after his stormy and perilous voyage, his first caro was to Avrite to his young Avife of his safe ai'rival, and to assure her of his undying love. After ronuiiiiing in Philadelphia SOUKS Aveeks, or until he could bear from his Avife and Avrito to her to announce his departure from I'hiladolphia, he made his way through the Avilderness to Avliat is now Tennessee and entered ,I3lo(lsoe"s Fort. Then not only the sea rolled botAveon him iWid all he held dciir on earth, but a\'ast Avilderness, infested by Avild beasts and siivages, divided him from his love. He could ni'itber write to Xanc}' nor bear from her. Xiiucy Avaifed patiently to bear from her hus­ band, but Avoeks, months and a Avhole year Avent by, and still no tidings from the Avanderer. Uev niother said: "My child, Hugh Kogaii is doud; his last letter told you that he AVUS going far­ ther into the Avilderness. He has fallen the ]irey of some Avild beast or Indian. You may mourn him as dead." But in her soul Xaney know that he was alive. One morning early she stole off to the fortune-tel­ ler's. There she heard from the lips of the old soothsayer AVords to coidirm her hopes. " Your hiis- bund lives, my child, hut ho is going further and far­ ther from you, smd almo.st a lifetime ivill elapse before you see him again. He will be true to you, sind some day, long hence, Avlieii ho is old and gray, he will come home for you."" Thus s])oko the fbrttine- toller. Such AVords ahviiys heguile the young. Xiiiicy returned liome, but that night at prayers hor eon- HUGH ROGAN. l!i;}

Science smote her. Sho had disobeyed the rubrics of her church, and she could not rest until she had ex- liiated her sin by a iiilgrimugo to some shrine. At the time Hugh Kogan sought shelter in Fort IHodsoe nearly all the progenitors of the distinguished people of the South-west were gathered there for mutual defense and safety. AndreAV .lacksoii, after­ ward President of the United States, the Bledsoes, Hulls and the daugbters.of .lohn .Vlontgomery, cousin of General Kichard Montgomery, Avho fell at (iueboc, Avere all living as one family. There Avore many, many more, Avhose names'it is not necessary to mon- tibii. John .Montgomery married Mai-guorlt(s Brielee, only daughter of a Ilugiienot physician, .lohn Mont­ gomery had one son iind five daughters—Katherine, AV ho niarried Isaac liledsoe; Xaney, married McKcr- raii; Kachel, married Neely ; Sarah, mar­ ried John IJoyd, (.le.sconded from the Clan Boyd, in Scotland, that hud the feud Avitli the Ilamiltoiis. Both clans Avere banished to the north of Ireland, Avliere the Boyds a.ssisted at the siege of Londonderry beliind the AVUHS Avltb the Protestants. Another sis­ ter, name unknoAvn, married the ancestor of the Montgomery Bells, of Tonnessoe. John Mmitgomery, only sou of Marguerite and John Montgomory, Avas a colonel in the AA'ar of the Revolution, but AVUS made brigadier-general just be­ fore its close. The Avar being continued by France and England after the independence of the colonies had boon aeknoAVledged, (General Montgomery oftbrod his services to the king of France, and Avas ordered to Natchez, and Avas killed by the LowertoAvn Chero­ kee Indians. 194 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

He met his death in this Avay : A friend of his, named (Jrant, AVUS wounded some distance from the fort, and General .Montgomery took him on his back and ran ivith him, Grant holding hiniself ou Mont­ gomery's back; and Montgomery carrying bullets in his mouth and loading and tiring his gun at the In­ dians as he ran. Just as be roiiched the fort, and Grant hud entered, .Montgomery Avas shot and killed. The Indians took his body and cut the bo^ad ofi"; I hen bent down two sapHiigs, and placed Montgomery's head on one. and a deer's bead (Ui the other, to sig­ nify lioAv strong and fleet AA'as Johnny Comdieat, iis they called General John Moiitg(nnery. Conabeut means fleet-foot{'l') Kichard Hall and his family Avoro also in Fort Bled­ soe at tliiiCfime. James, the son of Uiehard Hall, afterAvuril became goA'oriior of Teiinesseo. It ivoiild bo imiiossiblo, at this latis date, to telj the names of half the people Avho liA'od in that fort for safety iu those pi'rilous times. Shortly after Hugh Ilogaii arrived at Fort Bledsoe the fort was iittackisd. The fort luid two immense rooms, with a ball liotAvecn them. The doorways of this hall had never been made, the inmutos of the fort believing that the high stockade around the grounds of the fort Avould protect thom from ma­ rauding Indians. Peggy Bledsoe, daughter of Kiilli- erine Bledsoe, had a young girl to visit her named Polly Desha. P('gg.y and Polly were very young girls, but the}' Aveiit out of the fort one ovoniiig to visit Katy Shafi"er. The Indians thought Kafy boir a charmed life, all her ]ieople having been killed by them, and no bullet aiiii('(I at her ever having taken HUGH ROOAX. 195

efl"ect, so thev had ceased to trouble hor. The voiiiic: girls Avoie pleased to lieiir this old woman talk broken English, and they lingered longer than Avas safe, it was iiftorAA'ard learned. Peggy saAv the cows, as oveuing approachod, tossing their heads and lowing as if in fear of dauijor; and her sense of smell AVUS SO acute that she detected by that the presohce of In­ dians, at no great distance suvay. She said to Polly Desha: "We must return at once to the fort; the Indians arc coming." Polly impiired IIOAV she knew it. Peggy iinswisred, that cattle always showed signs of t"ear at the advance of Indians. The little girls made what speed they Avere able, and soon entered the stockade, and Averb safe in the fort. There AVUS a young mini named Hiimiltou AVIIO had been employed to touch the children of Isaac Bledsoe iind Others. He and fAVO daughtors of Katherino Bledsoe, Peggy and Polly, and Polly Desha, Avero in Hugh Kogan's room. The chimmy ol" this room was built on the halUvay; in the back Avull of the fire- |ilace Avas a hole luilf a foot s(piiire, through which persons standing in the ball could plainly dlscorn what Aveiit on in the room. Usually, after the fire was niado, this hole Avas stopped by placing the gar- ihsn hoe against it; but on this night it hud been for­ gotten. .Mr. Iliimilton sat before the fire iu biishfiil attitude, Avitli liis hand •bet"ore his face, either to pro­ tect it from the hoiit or to hide his blushes, for he was very young, and the girls had insisted upon his singing thom a song. Hugh Rogan AVUS reuding some distiince from the lire, and a little negro boy Avas diineing about the room. Just us Mr. Iliimilton hatl lifted up his voice in 1!t(j CHRONICLES Ol' CYNTHIANA. song, an Indian shot him through the hand from the hole in the back Avail of the fire-place. Hugh Rogan hiid laid some poAvder on the inijntel, and thought it had been thrown in the fire by the negro boy; he seized him, and was about to adniinistoi/ ehastise- meiit Avlien he was undoceived. The Indiiins, by hundrods, had scaled the stockade and entered tlus grounds, and gave one loud blood-curdling Avar- Avhoop, and began all the din of- saA'age warfare. This young girls tried to tniike theii: escape to their father's side ofthe fort; but Hugh Rogan barred the door, and yelled to the Avounded man Hamilton to drag them under the'bed. He did so. Riigli Kogan thou perceived that the Indians AVOI-(S forcingentruiicc flii-oiigh the siuull Avindow. He took his(iiieeii Ann, a long, uiiAvioldly musket, and took his stand by the fire-place, Avhieli AVIIS near the AA'indow. He banged'" away, und the (^iieeii Ann made such a terrilic noise, and did such good service in killing and Avouliding the Indians that they left the stockade. .Ml the time this deadly coniliet*9i-iig(>d, Isaius Bled­ soe stood, holding his door^ ajar, fearing that the young girls might seek his room and protection. He knew if they did they Avould meet ivitli (sorlain death, if he could not rush out at once and succor them. It is useless to say that doors Averc made to the hallAA'ay of Fort liledsoe afler that attack. In the year 17H0, Hugh Rogan cultivated corn in Clover Bottom, Tennessee. He AVUS very successful. After harvest, lie Aveut to French Lick, Avhich was situiited Avhore Xiisbvilhs UOAV stands, fo get a pirogue to convey his corn doAvii the river. He took his corn HUGH ROGAN. 197 / to the boat, but found others had been there before hiin. and HHed the boat, and there AVUS no room for his corn. He sat doAvn on the river bank, and looked Avith a sad heart at the receding boat. .Vnother boat apliroached it full of Indians, and every soul on board the pirogue liut a negro boy Avas massacred. Then he determined to return to Ireland. He mounted his trusty horse, and took his solitary AViiy iu the direction of Philadelphia. He luul triiA'ersed iniiuy hundrod miles; had slept iiloiio by his solitary camp-fire. Avitli bis gun .as his only defense iigailist the many daiigers that encom- pas.sed him. He had encountered and OA'ertliroAA°n iiiany wild beasts; hiul played llie dangerous giiiiie of hide and seek Avilli straggling Indians, and still felt supremely liap]iy. Love, the master imsslon of the human soul, gaA'e him strength to OA'crcome all dillicidtios, and to bravo all (lungers. He Avas going liiiiiie; he AA'ould .see Xaiicy and his child. One even­ ing, he halted at the ciibiii of one Ciirlin, a man he had knoAvn in Ireland, and iicceptod an invitation to remain for the night. Carlin had left a Avife and child in Ireland, mid had not beard from them for yoiirs, and had concluded that his Avife, if idive, must tiiive married agsiiii: so he took unto himself a young wife, iind had two or tlii'ee little children around hhu. W^lieii Carlin learned that Hugh Rogan Avas on his way to Pliiladelphia, and expected soon to sail for Ireland, his heart grew sick Avithin him. Rogan Avould tell thsit he AVUS married agsiin, on his arrival in Ireland, imd if Mrs. (Jarlin the first should happen to be living, wluit untold misery and disgrace he might be miule to sutter. Ho used every argument 198 CURONICLKS OE CYXT1II,\XA.

ho could devise fo dissuade Hugh Rogan from coii- tiniiing his journey, but in vain; bo left the next morning, and pursued his Avay to Pliiladelphia. Afler Hugh Rogan left, Carlin forged a letter Avbiisb he kiicAV Avoiild prevent his return to Ireland, if be could place it in the hands of some one Avho Avould deliver it to Rogan in a Aviiy that might not excite his suspicions. He forged the post-mark of Oinali, Ireland, on the outside of the letter, and hired a man fo folloAV Rogan fo I'biladclphia, und L'ive it to him. Just before lliisjli Roiran reached Pbiladolpiiia, the fatal letter AVIIS placed in his hands. lie never for ti nioment suspected that the letter AViis a forgery. He opened it, and read that Xaney, his X'^aucy, Avas married. This blow almost broke the bravo hoiirt tliat had fiieed death a tliousaii(l times. He turned back, and slowly retraced his steps to Bledsoe's fort. Hope wus doud within him. God, Avliom bo hud served, and in Avliom be had trusled, bad forsaken him. Ho Avas a changed iiiiiii from that time; and, if he did not actually court death, he seemed to caro nothing i'or his life. AAvay in Oiuah, in the pleasant Holds of Donegal, Xiiiicy Rogan, never doubting her husbiiiid"s |o\e, prayed each day, as the sun rose and set, for his re­ turn. When Hugh Rogan again ontored HIedsoe's fort, all marked the change on his handsome liice, but Katherine Bledsoe alone know its caus(>. Hugh Rogan did not sink info inaetivity, us many men Av

gerous errand for a man AVIIO had family tics and soimsfbing to live for tlnit had been denied to him. On returning from the survey of the line between Xortli Carolina and Touiiessee, Hugh Kogan Avas seriously Avounded at the mouth of Duck riA'or. He and his liarty Avere surprised by Indians, and Kogan Avas Avounded by a ball ]iiissiiig in beloAV the right collar bone and coming out below the left shoulder blade. Some mombers of his party Avere killed, others Avounded. Those Avho renuiined iinburt made for tlieir boat with all speed. .Morliilly Avounded as Kogan believed hiniself to be, he slood between his men and the boat Avith his gun ready to fire on them, and commanded them to rescue their wounded coin- jianioiis, and Tain .Miirry among them, und bring them to the boat. They did so, and Averc soon on their Aviiy down the river, ('ontrary to his own ex- lieetatioiis, Hugh Kogan recovered. Some tliiio after this Richard Hall built a cabin two miles from Fort IHodsoe, and he and his family reiiioAcd to it. He had a daughter who had married a .\lr. Ilanna, and lived many miles di.stiint from her fafber's house. She and her < scort came one day to visit Rlchiird Hall and his family. She reimrmed soine Aveisks. When the time came for her dejuirt- iire, her two little brothers, .lames iind Kichurd, Aveiit to a distant pasture to ietch the horses. This pasliire AViis foiiceil in by huge trees felled and biiving their Huibs on one side cut off smoothly in order that the trimmed sides might He close fo the ground. The remaining limbs AA'CI-C SO interlaced that nothing but a child could piiss through thom. There AVUS a gate, rude and strong, through Avliich the children passed. 200 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

The Indians Avero in hiding, and as soon as Richard and James Hall entered the pasture and began to call the horses, Richard Avas shot dead on the spot ; dames fled. There Avas a small oiiening under one of the trees that formed the fence; through this .lames made his escape. The Indians Avere compelled to go around the pasture in pursuit of him. James AVas fleet as a deer, and reached Rlodsoe's Fort, and giive the alarm. Hugh Rogan an.d a number of men from Fort Bled.soe armed tbcmsolA'os, mounted horses, and were soon at Richard Hull's house. They told the family of Richard's (Jr.) death, but there Avas no time to mourn for him ; the Indians Avore yelling in the Avoods and Avould soon be ujion them. A horse was fastened to a sled, and such things asAvere neces­ sary to bo taken to the fort Avere hastily fhroAVii into it. .Mrs. Hall and .Mrs. Haniia Vvore jihiced on lior.so- back. .Mr. Hall rode the horse attached to the sled. Prudence and William Hall, IAVO little children, AVidkod behind it. Hugh Rogan s jiarty Avalked in the roar, and the cabin AVIIS deserted. They had not proceeded far on their AViiy when Richard Ilall's little dog rstn to a fallen tree and roturned Avith his hair ruilled and marks of "fear and displeasure on his countenance. Mr. Hall, fearing an attack from some Avild beast, dismounted and approached the tree cautiously, gun in hand. He loaned OA'or the tree and Avas shot by an Indian in the head and Avas dead a moment after. The horses ritldon by the AVOIUOU took fright at the report of the gun and ran aAvay. TheyAvere able to guide them to Fort IHodsoe. The horse iu the sled ran iiAvay also. Little Prudence and William Hall fled Avhen the firing began fo the de- HUGH ROGAN. • 201

sorted cabin, and hid themselves as AVOH US they were idile. Hugh liogau and his parly fired in the di­ rection of the crackling timbers, but could not see the Indiuns on' account of the thick undergrowth. They soon missed Brudence and William Hall, and Avent to the cabin and found them and returned Avith them to,Fort P>ledsoe. .Mrs. Hall did not knoAV that her husband was dead until the party returned. Antholiy l>leds(ie AVUS the last man killed by In­ dians in Bledsoes Fort. One night the Indians drove a number of horses rapidly past the fort, and .\ii- tlioiiy IHedsoe, thinking that,the horses belonging to the inmates of the fort had escaped and AVoiild be lost in the Avilderness, rushed out tol stop thom, and was shot in the bowels at close range. Katherine Montgomery Bledsoe, knoAving tliut ho must die, suid : " Brother Antli(niy (he wus her brother-in-hiAv), voii must make your Avill and provide for your diiugli- ters. Lot smiie one Avrite it at omse Avliilo you are able to sign if."' Ibit how was tlioAvill to be written I There was no light in the fort. Flints Avere struck in vain. In the meantime .\nflioiiy Bledsoe was dy­ ing fast. Said Hugh Kogan : " By the help of (Jod the dying man shall make his will."' Outside the fort lived Ivatty Shaffer. Avho the In­ dians said bore a churmed Hfe. She kept a tire burn­ ing day and night. To hor cabin Hugh Rogan ran, and snatching a burning brand from the lire, returned with it to the fort, thus making himself a target foi* the Indians. The AA'ill Avas Avritten and signed that fias hocoine so famous in courts of hiAV. Hugh liogiin had fVvo 202 CHRONICLES OF CA'NTHlAXA. little friends iu Fort Bled.soe, in Avhoso (sompany ho spent the only pleasant hours of his unhappy life. One AA'US Prudy Hall, diinghter of Richard Hall, Avho AA'as murdered, and fhe other Avas little Polly Bledsoe, niece of Anthony Bledsoe and daughter of Katherine Bledsoe. Hugh Kogan was anxious to adopt Polly Bledsoe, and dower her Avitli his lands at bis death. But her mother said to him, " Take Polly into your heart, .Mr. Kogan, if it Avill comfiirt you, but you should not forgot that you have a son at (.)miih, to whom it is your duty to leave your property. You should Avrite to him and let him know that you still live. He might come to you and bo a comfort to yon."' " Xo, no," said Hugh Rogan; " I shall not disturb Xancv alter she has fhougbt mo dead for so many years. I shall die and make no sign."' Almost twonty-fbroe years Avont by, iind in that time Hugh Kmi'iin had not hoard from Xuiicy, nor she from him. But one day as be Avalked iiboiit the fort with his tAVO little friends, a yoarning to see Xaney and his son came upon him Avitli such force that " it drove him into solitude." He took the children in­ side the fort and wandered far into the Avood. His sat doAvn and thought of his past life, of his child­ hood, of his iKune in Ireland. He could see Xaney, vounsr and beautiful as he left her at partins;:, and a kind of lu-escience urged him to write to her. He Avi-oto that uigHf. •; Weeks Aveiit by, and although letters came sloAvly to that ]iart of the country in those days, they could come. It Avas not as it had been AVIIOU ho first took refuge in Fort BJedsoo. HUGH ROGAX. 2ii:5

He had almost despaired" of ever hoaring from Xaney, so long a time bad elapsed since he had Avritten her. One evening the iuniiites of the fort Avero seated at their eveuilig meal, Avlieii a stranger entered, and AVUS kindly invited to take bis seat at table and refresh himself Ho Avas a young man aiid oxtromely hand­ some. Ho had not cared fo toll his name, and no one asked Avliat it Avas. lliiirh Rogan jjazed at him sis if spell-bound, so great AVUS his resemblunce fo his sister whom bo bad left iu Ireland. When the young niiiii bad finished his repast, Hugh Rogan fonched him on, the shoulder and said, '• Come with me."" When they were alone he asked the young man if he were not his slster"s son. " Yes," said he, "and here is ak'tter for you from your wH'e. She bade mo never to jiart with it until I placed it in your hands." Hugh Rogan opened tli^it'ttor and read that Xaney had been true lo him afwtiys, and that she hud iievei-„ believed him dead, and had always prayed and hoped for his re- iiirii. If Joy could kill, Hugh Rogan Avould have ilied t+lat night. In consideration of services rendered to his country (so the deed reads), (i40 acres ot" land liiiik boon granted Hugh Rogan on the site Avliere Xashville now stands. He niade haste to sell this large tract of laii(\,')yj^4 invested tlie greater part of the money thus obtained in flax-seed, his nOpboAV having in- roriued him of the great demand for it in Ireland. lie sailed froili Philadelphia in a sliiji laden with his tliix-seed, and, after ye;irs of sorrow, was happy. He looked iicross the shining Aviiter and counted the days until he should bo Avitli X'ancy and their child. He 204 CUROXIOLKS OF CYNTHIANA. did not then know that Bernard Avas a soldier, iiiid had fought under the banner of the gifted, unfortu­ nate, and murdered Robert Emmet. All Avent AVOH until the vessisl reached mid-ocean, and then sho " sprung a leak." Sailors and passengers were forced each to pump IKU hour in turn. Hugh Rogan pumped Avitli a Avill as luf stood wiilst deqi in water. lbs thought be must soon sleep at the bottmn of the sea, and his hope must find death and not fruition. The captain shouted that the ship must he relieved of her liuling, and Hugh Kogan SHAV bis fortune in flax-.seed sink beneath the durk Avaters Avithout u groan. The ship then camo far enoiigb out of the water for the car­ penters to mend her, and she slowly Aveiit on her way and landed her passengers at Londonderry one " shin­ ing sundoAvn." XiiiKsy Rogan, in tolHiig her story to her desceiid- unts, always droAV the veil over the meeting betAveeii hor and her long lost husband. Hugh Kogan. Nancy, aiiir Berniird sailed for Amer­ ica, and landed in Xew Castle, DelaAvare, .Viigust lo, 1797. They Avoiit into Pennsylvunla, and remained at Fort Diiqiiesno, the scene of Braddock's det"eat in 177"). When the rlA'ors that form the (,)liio bad risen sufliciontly, thev continued tlieir journey to lJiedsoo"s Fort. Hugh Rogan ii'iid Naiicy liUd but fivo sons born to thom and no daughters. Francis Kogan AVUS born September 14, 1798, and Avas tAventy-four years younger than his brother, Bernard. Hugh Rogaii and Xaney accumulated groat Avoalth in land and slaves, and Avore famous far and near for thoir kindness to their slaves, their abundant charity. HUGH ROGAN. 20.'-) and their uiusonipromising integrity. Near Gidlafin, Teiinessoe, they sloop side by. side. Their sou Ber­ nard joined tliom iii the silent valloy at the oxtromo old iigo of niuety-nine and a half years. Francis Kogaii died at the age of eighty-seven. He had no illness; he passed fnun oartli to heaven in a few ino- iiionts. His (k'litli Avas like a translatiou: ".\iid Kiioch Avalked Avilh (Jod and AViis not, fbr (>od took him." So Avith Francis Rogiin. Peace be with those iiorvants of God and of their country. Anion CHAPTER XV

TWO ABOLISHIONISTS IN CYNTHIANA—DOYLK AND GRAHA.AI.

ABOUT the year 1847,,a man iianusd Doyle, fr

BEHAVIOR OF NKGROES AVHEN FREED.

IT is to be learned from histoi-}' that the civil war Avas brought about by the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas (piestion, Drod Scott decision, Fugitivi' Slave LaAV, and -Tobn Rrown s raid,f() say nothing of Unele Toin"s Cabin, that shook this continent from ocean to ocean, and the Democratic party that burst in tAvo just Avhere it should have been past division. But the Xorth Avhipped the South, not half as easily as sho expected to have done, and tliC'South met de­ feat as she thought she never Avould have done. The negroes Avero freed, and have sictod far better sis oiti- zons of this Republic than any one Xorth or South believed tliat„tlioy Avould do. The negroes, hoAvever, were greatly disappointed Avlieu the Avar Avas over. They Avero misled byAvhom it is not knoAvii; they ex­ pected to receive habitations and lauds for their serv­ ices in the a'rmy. Just before the Proclamation, January, 18G3, tAvo old negro men mot,and this conversation took place: "Good mawniii, Brer Bodkins, hoAv is you dis maAv- nin ?" " X^)t Avell, not well, Brer BI-OAVU, pours to to me dat sumpen's do mattali Avid my insect. I sut- tenly does hope dat I not gwinter die fore Mistue Lin­ coln does wbut ho gwiiiter do." " Lawd, Brer Bob- kins, Avhut he gAviiie do?" " BroAvn, you poAvfiil ing- (2091 210 CURONICLKS OF CYXTHIAN,\.

nerint; Mo.ss Lincoln gAvintor free us all an den he gwinter turn all do.so lioali rebels outen house an home, an put us all in do places Avlior (ley done lef."" " Umph." "Well,"" siild Brown, "I gwinter to git (Jiiioral Desha's jilace; me an my fifteen chillin kin AV lick dat farm an niek a passel ob money.'" "Tell mo. Brer Bodkins, whuts de rciison .Moss Lincoln don't put a stop to .lohn Morgan's boss thieves u saschayin arouii heah an sciirin us all to death ''. A colnd pusson mought es AVOH be killed as sciired to death all de time. Wish to GiiAvd .Vmighty Moss Lincoln Avould do Avliut he's gwinter, kase I gettin mighty trired ob Avaitln."' When the Proclamation camo Bodkins Avas boiling corn to food the COAVS in his mistress" hack yard, and sho Aveiit out and said to him : " Y'ou arc a free man this niorning. All the slaves are free." Bodkins ceased to stir the corn fortlie s[iiice of a minute ; then ho fell to stirring so vigonuisly that ho almost over­ turned the kettle. Ho looked at his I'ormor mistress, iind said, Avith a tone of triuiiipli in bis voice: " Woii- dah Avhy Avliife folks makes kittles Avld three legs stid ob fur? Ef dis hoiih durned pot done hub four legs hit iiiout be wiitli siimpon. .Mistiis, I not gwino leab you jist yet. De Avintah am poAvful cole, an I gwinter Avait toll hit git Avarm, an I's gAvino to de 'bio state an leab my ole oinan heah. She sutiinhj is gut de Avust temper in dis roun Avorle. Last night I went to see her an Sub I I blogod for to take myself oft" an sloop in the Avood-liouse. Bein a free man I gAvinter be free shore 'iioiigb." "You certainly are not making preparations to BlillAVIOR OF NEGROES AVIIEN FREED. 211 marry another Avoman, Avlien you have boon Avitli your old Avife so long," said his mistress. " Prepiira- tin to marry agiii! me! LaAvd (JaAvd Amighty! Ef uvor I git red ob dis 'onian, I nuvah gAvintcr git an udder." Time wont on, and after Bodkins had boon gone about a year, his former mistress asked liim IIOAV he \yas prospering. He ansAyered: "I haint done iiuthin biit Avuck an Avuck, an I haint gut uougli money fur to lookdoAvn on de po' Avliitc trash yit. De govmont bif-^ liidut giv us nutliin, do AVO niggers AVUS put in front ob the Avhite soldiers, an shot all to ]iioces, an hacked all to miiichmeat, and Ave AVUS promised great things. Freedom haint Avliut hit AVUS cracked up to be, bless youah soul, lesson you gut money long Avid it. I nuvah gut to go to do 'bio state yit. My ole oman jis sticks fo mo like a leach, an (piarrelin long ob me idl do time, too." There has boon but one iiftompt at insurrection since the Avar. When Cleveland AA'as elected Presi­ dent the first time, some ofthe very ignorant negroes thought that they Avere to bo luit back into shiA'cry. .Vbout forty negro men armed themselves and gath­ ered together near the old bridge. Some man jiassing by, at midnight, hoard one negro say : " Xow les paint the tOAVii red." The night Avatchiiien Avere informed of the throat, and gatbored around them six or eight fearless men, soon disarmed the nudi, and put the leaders in jail. They AVoro tried and dismissed, after being assured that President Cleveland Avould not make thom slaves again. The greatest trial southern people Avere called 212 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIIIAXA.

Upon to endure Avas on the oA'oning after Lee's sur­ render. Xiglit and darkness hovered over the little city of Cynthiiina. The rebels sat in darkened rooms with bowed heads and heavy hearts. They Avere a coii- (piered people, and they felt it. The Repiibliciins 11- lumiiuitod their houses, and bunds of negroes wiilked the streets and talked in loud und angry voices bl'I'ore the houses where no lights Avero visible. The ne­ groes did not seem to realize that tlii\y Avore f"reo until fhe Avar was over. The refined and educated Kepiili- Hciiiis did not act as if thoy.Avishod to pariido the inourning rebels at their chariot Avheols. Some of thom Avere brothers and kinsfolk to the Ropubjicans, and might havo been dangerous, if aroused. By and by, the disbanded and Avoiiry rebel soldiers came straggHiig home—those that Avore left. The luothors and sisters of those who would never come back, took the broken reninant that rotiirnod, and set them by their liresldos, and AV<5pt over thom as they listonod to the story of their defeat. They wercs somoAvhat surprised ai"tei-war(l, Avlion they SHAV rebel iiud Union soldiers Avalking side by side, and on a [lorfoctly friendly footing. One lady asked a rebel soldier to explain Avliy and how he rould he friendly to a soldier wlioiii ho bad been trying to kill fbr four years, and Avho had boon trying to kill hiin for the same length of time. "Oh," said he, "AVO fought it out, and AA'O learned on the battks-lield to res)ioct one another. Women try to talk out tlieir ill-fooling, and can not do it. .Mere talk never settles a difhculty be­ tween mon, nor Avome'n either for that niattor. I BEHAVIOR OF NEGROES AVIIEN FREED. 213

AVont into the army, and Avas gone four years. I left one Avomaii talking Avlieii 1 Aveiit away; I came b.ick, and she still had not exhausted a certain subject of coiiA'ci-siifion." Then the prophets opened their mouths and began to prophesy. Said they: " XOAV we have an internal enemy in the negro. Look out Ibr poisoned Avells and houses burned to the ground."" But no houses Avere burnt and no AVOHS Avere ]ioi- soned. The negroes Avorktsd for their former masters for very sksiider Avages, and many negroos did not leave their homes at all, and lived and died to all in­ tents and purposes us slaves. One negro, .lim Gray by iiiiiiie, who had been born free, in Kentucky, left for Ohio. lie wus gone six months, und returned on 11 visit. In tulkliig to one of his whltis friends, he said: " De peo]ile ob de'IIio state doiTt know nuthlii bout niggers. One Avliito 'oman over thar loAvcd to 1110 dat she Avur fciired my A\ite Mary"s blai'k liiiiis mought rub olf in de brade. An unnuder thing, sich a thing us otrerin a man a toddy, Lawd aniiglity ! I went one day fo git me a little drap ob whisky, an,, lores (lUAvd, hit Avouhfn burn. Hit wa nt iiuthin but watah and-logwood. For good geonuino Avblsky, glinnie oks Kaintuck fiirebberl"" Few revolutions escape the baptism of blood. The extirpiifion of slavery from our system of goA'ernment wus bathed in that precious fluid, thiit ran a criiusou river all through the lieloved South. ft is considered in very bad tiiste to write in the iirst person. But porniit iiie to express my seiiti- inonts clearly and iis my sentiment. 214 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

1 have been the mistress of slaves. I understand perfectly the faithful attachment that obtained be- tAA'oon a good master and his slaves. What is'to be the future fate of the negro, a prophet could not say; but I for one Avish the poor souls AVOH, and pray that they may work out their salvation here and for the <>reat hereafter.

• AA'ii.M; 1 i;\MM, ^nuN. l-'.\ |,;N MP, rdMK, L.wvii |l>Cs,' CHAPTER XVH.

" PO' RACHEL."'

1. Ann stirred the smoldering fire that burnt Avintcr and summer alike on the wide hearth, at cveniui''. A. ' ~ and said: De night de stars fell. Moss an all ob us live in Woodstock, P'aginny, in de Shendoor Valley. Bout eleven o'clock 1 Avur Avaked outen a soun sleep by hoHorin. I jumps outen bed, an runs to de Avindor an looks (Hit. Dali I sees sunipon shinin like stars an a fallin clean to de groun. De .stars Avbut fell Avur bouten es big es big SUOAA', an Avur thick in de ele- niontary, an fall fas. I slaps on my clo.se, I did, an runs out inde yard. LuAvd amossy! I nuvah seed sich a purty sight bofq, nur sense. De stars Avliat fell all slants one Avay es dee falls, an makes no noises an jos go out es dee fetch de groun. I runs to de house an ax ole Moss what all dis heah mean. He say he nuvidi kiioAV nuffiii like hit befo'. Jis den long come a mean ole Avhite man an say, " De Avorle am a comin to a eeiid; pray fur me, some­ body, pray fur me." I say, go long Avid you, an hunt u]) de preachah. We all hab nough fur to do to pray fur ourself, 'dout bothorin long Avid you. Den he say, I done ben to de proachiih, an he tole me be got fur to pray for dis one an dat one, an Dicus all fore (215) 216 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

he kin pray fur mo. Moss ho kiioAv de ole man done ben poAvful Avicket, an ho tuck hole ob 'im an shuck him an say, "Hush youah noise; es you done lib so sliill 3'OU die. You done SOAV youah crap, an ef de time hub come fur you to reap, you jis go at it." Do (do man went ou a hoAvlin an a hollerin. Moss say to me, de stars am not a falHii. Look at de El-en- yards an all do stars up dab, doe not falHu. I look up an see 'em a shinin jes es bright es day; an I sot doAvn an look an look. ToAv'ds daylight doe began to git ptile, an Avhen de sun come up deo quit; IcastAvays AVC nuvah si^'d no mo' ob 'em. Dat hap])eii in November. What I gwino toll you happen bout dat time, or gun to bap- pen don. / One cole eronin duh come into Woodstock in a ole kivcred Aviigon—you see in dem days dab Avant no kyars, nur steamboats, nur iiothin, un you could'n jis jump \\\) an go to do eeud ob de worle in a week, nur come fum Faginny in a day or tAvo es you kin IIOAV. 1 )ah wan't no tilegi-a[iht a carriu do IIOAVS like lightnin fum hither to yan, an ef a man ups an kills aiinddah ebery chile in de county didn't git Avind ob it. Well, es I AVur gAvine on to say, dat cole eveiiin dab come into Woodstock, in a ole kivered Aviigon, si young Irishman an his young Avife an baby. Deo stop at Ole Moss' do', an ax ef AVC know any place dee could git a night's quarter. Ole .Mo.ss he look at em, he did, an seed do young 'oman an de baby both ii cryin, an de young man wur mighty nigh it hiss(sf. So he say to me, Ann, you tek dese young people to dat cabin dats empty, an mek em comfutable. Ole Moss Avur rich den, in\ sense he mek good use ob his money I'O KACHEL. 217

T (loan see Avliut it Avijr tuck away fiiiu "im fur. 1 tuck de young people to do cabin, an inok up si big fire, an git si passel of my things, an flx {\e bed, an warmed de po' things iqi, kase doe Aviir chilled to de bono. Moss he sauiit em meal an meat, an dee niouf done Avi'll. But still oli Hvin (hih es you mought thought deo gwliie do, dee up an die dab in a Aveok ob one anii(l(liib, befo deo done ben dab six Avooks, an de little gal baby wur loft a orfling. .Moss he done loss his wil"e, iin not gwino git anuddilh to kick and cuft" his siirvants an chillun bout, so he c()uld"ii tiike de little Kiiebel. es de orHliig chile Avur name. .Miss (Jray, a rich Avbite oman, live close by Ole Moss, an she Avur a red-hot ('anipbeUite; an she sity she gwino take Kachel an fotcli her up a Christian, kase no telliii wliiir lior iiiii an jia wur gone, kase dee AViir (Jiitllcks. .Mine you, 1 Aviir wld dem po" young crit­ ters es deo died. Dee hub a piissel ob Avoodeii beads, an de way dee hiin"le dein beads an call on God fur mercy wur a sin to Davy Crockett—an (Jod lieiirn em 111 be bound, kase I'd a lu'iirn em, an I"s iinflin but a po nigger, ('oiirse Ho lioarn (sm. Well, things Aveut wrong wld ole .Moss an AA'rong Avid de (ii'iiys, and des busted up an bloeged to sell Ian an niggers and leave do counti-y. Moss say be not gwino sell me, kiiso ho AVUU me fur to close his ole eyes Avlieii be die. I done it, I kin tell yiui, Avlion de time coiiRs, do 1 could liarly see fur cryin IIIA' OAVU eyes outen my bead. Ole Moss and de (^ruys come to Kiuntuck. De joiirnoy wur long an not safe. De wile beastos an varmints wur mighty ploiitiful in dem days, an de people live so fur apart dat AVC bloeged to camp out ob nights an cook our vlttels do bos Avay 218 CHRONICLES OF CYXTHIANA.

Ave could. Wo hab a heap to contain Avid, but AVO git heah an settle ou " (ii-iiy"s Kun,"' an de Grays settle in the knobs totlier side ob Cynthiami. I alius did Avondah at do (Jrays, rich Avliite folk like deo used to be, a softksin inongst de Knohltes. De Kiiobitcs am do poest po Avliite trash in dis Avorlo dat doe is. Dee doaii kiioAV hoAV fur to dress nor yit IIOAV to bo miiu- iiardly. Deo (jrays fotcli Rachel longAvid om fum Faginny, an Miss Gray an her husbund hab but otie chile, name Allen, jis four year older don Rachel, an i"ur a dark chile ho wur purty os a plctiir. Deo Grays hiib mo money lef after dee bust den olo Moss, so ;lee buy some race bosses and mek money pOAvful fuss. After AVO moA'c lioiili, I ncA'ali see Rachel tell she am ton year ole. But mine you, when I do see her, sho am de purtiest chile 1 cbber sot hxdviii liyin eyes on. She Avur fur os a lilly, and Avid bar like yalloAV corn- silk AvIion it fust bust outen do shuck, an eyes gray os a mouse, an teeth jes Avhite an even osi a ciit"s, an sho look ebery inch a lady. Allen Gvny Avur in love Avid her den, do Miss (iray nevali tliniik so, do 1 did soon es eber 1 slapt eyes on om. Allen Gray Avur saunt to school to ('ynthiaiin, an fas as he got hirniii he put it into Kachers head, an she wur mighty peart an lariit like five hundred. When Miss Gray fotcli Rachel to church, de people dee turn roun fur to git a good look at her, she Avnr so beautiful. Pears to me she mought (d) ben vain, but she iiov'ab Avur; she Avur idlus sad an still, like orfling chilluns alius is. Well, sub, AA'lien Allen Aviir eighteen, Rachel AVur fourteen, and .Miss Gray tuck notice dat .VHeii paid a heap ob teution to her, an she proved him fur it. He PO RACHEL. 219

floAv sdl to pieces in a minuet, an declare be gAvino marry Rachel Avliuther doe willin or no. Miss Gray kick iqi a big dust an got mad as a hornet. She pick up po' Rachel, po' little chile, an git her a home fur- dor in de knobs, long Avid a ole .Miss Cleaver, a Ciimpbellite, too. Miss CloaA'cr ivur a olo Aviddor onion, an hab nuther chick nur chile ob her oivn, an hab right smart money. Den she mek Alloirs pa pack Allen up an sen liim olt to Faginny to school at (!harl()ttsvillc. But .\lloii Aviir six to his ma's half-dozen do, an de night befo he start iiAVsiy he steal outon do house atter dee Avur nil good asleep an tuck a nice boss an mounted liissef ou him an fur like mad to ole Miss Cloavor's house. Rachel Aviir spoct- iiig ob him, an she creeii outen do house, she do, an meets Allen. Den dee both dim up on de iippeii block. De moon she shine jis os bright o.'-' day. Dose po' young things talk a long time, an Allen tell Racliol ho gAvine marry her jis os soon es ho am twenty-one, an Rachel she promise to Avait fur him. By an by, Allen pull out a nini'penco ho done cut in tAVO, an mek hides in de tAvo pieces, and driiAV rib­ bons through. He ]uit a piece roun Rachel's neck ail a piece roun iiiseii, an don deo git oftbu de uppen block an vow do troff" plight on doe knees. Dee ris up an cry a spell, an den deo parted. IT. 'Pears to me, Avhcn I think Avhut follered po' Ra­ chel attar dat night, dat de good Lawd must ob fur- got or; kase Moss used to say dat He tuck perticlar kyaro ob de Avidder an de orfling. Ef ole Miss CloaA'cr done ben Avuth a snap, she 220 CHRO.VICLES OF OY'NTIIIANA. mought ob tuck kyare ob her. But she AVur a kiiob- ite, an not flttin to rar no gal—loastAviiys a purty one like Rachel. Ebery Saturday, reglur es de day Avould come, Rachel, she Avould mount a boss called " Flyin Cloud," an uiA'ay she'd go to see of Allen Gray had Avrit to her. She nuvah got but one lettah a iiiontb, kase the mails come SIOAV fum Faginny den—an ebery Avhurs else. Rachel Aviir so harnsome diit de great gaAvks of knobites got to stariii at ,'er, tell she Avur niost afeared to go to toAVii. But she Avhip up Flyin Cloud, an farly fly,sh e did, an Avoiit Avhur or no. One oA'eniu, she meets Miss (Ti'iiy at de post-ofKct, and she look at her Avid a face dat mought stop a clock, an Rachel jis scringe befo 'or. She did"ii git no lettidi dat evoiiiu. nur no udder oveniii while she Avur in dis Avorle, do she Avrit an Avrit, Miss Gray must ob in- torsoctod de lottahs. But Rachel went and Avent to toAvn Saturday after Saturday, an when sho nuvah got a lottali for months, .she gun to pine. Miss Cksavor seed it, an Avur right peart at guessin of she Avur a knobite. One cvenin, AVIIOU Rachel done ben to town, she come home looking ptde un down­ hearted like. Dat night, es dee bof sot at doe knit- tin by de candle. Miss Cleaver say: "Rachel, you jis gib u[) dat Allen Gray; be doan kyar nuften fur you. Doan break youtih heart bouten im; you mought hub mo spin-it." Dat struck fire, fur Rucliol hsib spunk nough, ef she do look soft an tender like. She siiy nuflen, but she mek 'or knittin noodles farly fly. She

an, jis OS she gAA'ine mount ni, ole Miss Cleaver stand in the do' Avid er cap strings a flyin an 'er eyes Avar- toi-lii, smd say: "Ott'sigin, Rachel, chtisin a shadder." Rachel look 'or in de face, she do, an rid aAvay. When she git to de post-oflict, she nuvah got no lettah, an she git on Flyin Cloud, she do, and she kin liarly set orloue on 'im, her heart am so heavy. She let Flyin Cloud ereo|) outen toAvu, an she doan kyar Avliur he Avalk or .fall, she am so misubbul. When she gits bout tAVO mile er mo' from Cynthiunn, she lietdi a boss' feet clattorin on do rocks, an treckly hit cotch up Avid 'or. She nuvah look roun; she hab no­ body to look fur. But, by an by, dali rid up long side ob her a young, harnsome man, dressed es flue OS a flddle, an his lio.ss Avur a thoroughbred, an his bridle AVur silvor-munted, an his saddle, Avhat you could see, Avur a beauty. lie Avur dark like Allen (jpiiy, an bottah lookin, ef dat could be. He tuck oft" his hat, an boAv an smile at Rachel, an she see how curly his black bar am, an hoAv white his tooth Avhen he smile. Jis don, Rachel's horse git skecred, iiii mek ott' like de Aviiid, but Racliol knoAv hoAV to hole him, all she kiioAv his tricks, an she stick onto him like a Philamadelpha major. But Ruchel's hair got unfastened, an amost kivered deJioss'back Avid long Avavy curls. Mr. Archer, fur dat wur de young man's name, soon kotch up Avid de runniii boss, un tuck him by do bridle, an nuvah let go till deo bof git in ole Miss Cleaver's yard. Den Mr. Archer liolp Rachel ott"en oh him like she done ben a queen. All dis heah time, do young man done ben tryin fur to strike up a chat Avid Rachel, but she hab nufTen to say. When dee 222 CHRONICLES OF CYNTUIANA.

Avalk in do house. Miss Cleaver say: "Hi, Rachel, Avharyou pick up dis flue feller?"' Fore Rachel says a Avord, Archer say : " Why, aunt, doan you know youah own novy Xed Archer?"' Miss Cleiiver say, bless my life. Nod, I nuvah Avould ob knowed you agin, you is growin so. Don dee all sot doAvn, an Archer could"n keep his eyes often Rachel. Miss ('leaver tuck notice ob 'im treckly, an utter a .spell she say, Kucliol,you go in de kitchen, an mek do Are, and git suppah. You can kill de top-knot puHet for suppah. When Kachel git out ob heariii. Miss Cleaver say: " Sho not gwino kill dat topknot; she Avoaii kill a spider nor yit a ily."' Atter do fire Avur made, Kachel stand in de do"; she do Avid de topknot in 'or bans im say I not gAvine kill dis heah chicken, .Miss CJleaver, I done food do po thing all siiiumiib ; I not got do heart. Up jumps ole Miss CleuA'or an takes do chicken outen Kachers bans an snatches hit bale- beaded in a miiinot an says, wbisb 1 mought git ii dollahfurall de chickens I've killed. Kachel looks at do [lo'chicken jumpiii i>bory which way fur Sun­ day, an takes do Avalitali biud-cet and starts to do spring. Up jumps Xod Archer an tuck do bucket outeii Kachel's ban, and goes to de spring an toats up a bucket of Avahtah jis like he ben iison to sich, but Kachel know bottah den dat. When she look at do diiunond shinin on his ban, Racliol thank him, but sho doan smile iiur niiftbii. and pears like all Archer do ho karnt .iiiek no lioadAvay Avid Rachel. All de boys do likes fur to Avait on purty gals ; do ugly ones kin git along de bos Avay dee kin. When siippiih Avur roady. Miss Cleaver try to koo]) Rachel outori sight I'O RACHEL. 223 an mek her bake bsitttdi cakes in de kotchcn Avhilo her an her novey et. But Archer he ud jos jump up an run in de kitchen 'iiii git do (sakes jis es spry es a cricket. Hit Avould ob tuck a smartah onion den ole Miss Cleaver to kop dem two apart. You mought es Avell say to Are an toiv doan burn Avhen you fliug em together es to say to two young harnsome people in de same house doan tek notice. .Miss Cleaver saunt Rachel to her room utter she done Avasbod de dishes. Den she turn in and tell Archer aU she kiioAV bout Rachel, and IIOAV Allen Gray done sarved her an all. She try to dlsoncouriigo him by tellin him dat she am jio', of she kin read and hab a passel of book Isiriiin. But Xod Archer say : "Ah, aunt, she am a f"ar beauty and looks like a lady."" "A lady," says ole .Miss Cleaver, snapiii hor eyes at Archer, "she am jis ftfteen year olo." Don olo Miss Cleaver calls RiKshel down stars and mek hor road a chaptah in de Testament whur Philip fuck dounick and baptized 'im ill II Avliole luissel ob Avahtah ; den .«be done her OAVU ])rayin an doe all rotore fur do night. l)e iiox morniii .Miss (^leaver sensed hersef to Xod kase she ffAvine roun do farm Avid a niiin dat gwiiie buy her cattle. Xod-laugh in his sleoA'-e as she rid iiAvay, and Avlien she Avur good outon sight, he up and mosied liissef to de kitchen. Dab sot Rachel a churnin an a cryin fit to break hor heart kase .\llon Gray done fursuck hor. P>ut Archer he think she Avur cryin kase she got to Avork. He Avtdk up to Rachel, he do, an tuck de churn hanel outon her ban an lead her onto de pouch and doe_bof sot doAvii mi do settee. He tole her she Avur too purty to AA'ork; dat shoAvur buAvn fur a grand ladv. Gids alius Avill listen to secli talk es dat. Atter ^ 15 224 CHRONICLES OF CYXTHIAXA.

Avliile be pull a little book outon his pocket an gun to roiul. Rachel listen anforgitde cluirii an olo Miss Cleaver an sdl. Treckly de ole onion rid up and kotch em. Rachel jump like she sim shot, but Archer jis tuck ole Miss Cleaver in his arms an hug an kiss hor an mek out like ho love her. So do ole oinoii jis say to Rachel do churn am done an do biit- tab tuck up, I rccons. But Archer, de sly dog, be rush in do kitchen an snatch one of .Miss Cleiiver"s aprons often a cliiir and gun to churn i'or dear life. He .spanged de cream niuii scanlus, but his aunt bloeged to laugh at liifu. Boys kin iillus git roun ole omen. But Archer look so hansoiiie iind good natered dat no oinou twixt dali an de Rockey .Moun­ tings could liolp Hkin him. He stay Avid his aunt bout a week mo' iin read fur cm ob nights an mek liissef pleasant, un den say he gwino tother side Indianopolus ho got buseiiost fur to settle, and ho go aAViiy. De night after he Avont iiAviiy Rachel sot at de wiiidiih. De moon Avur full. Right befo do windah growed a great big poach tree. She sot ii long time thinking ob Allen (jiray an .\i-ch(sr, and how mean Allen done treated her an how kind Archer alius had ben, Avhon all at oncot a siiuiiich OAVOI in do tree befo dcAvindah sot up sich a schroech dat it mek her blood run cole. Sho know right Avell Avlien she lioarn it dat trouble gAviiie come, kase a s(p-iincli OAVOI crying at youah AA'indah Avhen de moon am full am a shore sign ob a token, Dat night she seed hor dead mother in her dreams. She pearod befb her in her Avindiiifihoot. She nuvah seed her mother fur to remember, but she say atter dat sho kiioAV Avho she hersef look like, an PO' RACHEL. 225

she kiiOAV too louff sitter\A'ards Avheu it Avur too late Avhul lier mother come to Avarii her giiist. Xext Saturday she git on Flyin Cloud and mek hor Avay to- town, do she doan sjiect to git a lettah. But lo an beliolo, she sjit one shore iiouifh! She mek do boss farly fty outon town, an Avlieii sho Avur outeii sight ob de bouses she gun to read, sho do. It Avur friiiu Aljeii Gray; leastAvays his name AVur Mgiied to it. It gun mighty purty, an atter Avhile he say, " 1 doneftiid a ymiug oman in Fagenny mo fitten to my station den you is, un you mought es well quit thiukln bouten mo. Fum all I kin heah, you done flue a young mail Avlint pleases j'ou. May you bo happy, is do priir of__.\llen

you see Rachel AVur jisfifteen year ole. Time Avent on an on, and Archer wur so kind to Rachel, dat one OA'onin atter dark es doe Avur Avalkln iu do starlight Rachel up an tole Archer all her troubles. He listen, he do, an Avlieii sho got through and deo Avent in an sot on de settee on de pouch. Archer .siiy: " Riicliel, I is 11 very rich man. Marry me. I kin mek u lady ob you. .Mek a lady ob you. Dem bery words done ben do ruin ob many a gal in dis Avorlo. But at fust Kachel woiiii boah to it, but after Avliile she gun to think lioAV hard she bleogod to AVork all her life an IIOAV po' she wur, and nex time Archer ax her she cornsent. One night atter dat .Archer druv up to ole Miss •Cleiiver"s house at do dead hour ob midnight, an Rachel met him, she did, way down by de'gate un srot in do kerridij'e, and de bof went tiwuv. Jis es do kerridge druv outen do las gate on de fariii,ii sipiiiich owl sot up a mournful scrooch, an do moon wur full. Rachel shiver an .shake like she hab do agor, an Arishor ax Avliiit wur the mattah ^vid er. An she say: "Sumpeii iiAvful gAvino to happen. Leiiime go buck; oh, |i|case leemine go back."' But .Vrchor not gwiiie heah to sich es dat,, so he say: "No, no, Rachel; Avlieii fou is my Avife I gAvine bring you back. I gwino marry y(}u at do fust big town AVO comes to."' So Rachel says no mo'. Dee got to Maysville airly nex day, or dTif duy.you mought say, kase dee started at 12 o'clo<;k. Rachor look out an see do town, an say: "NOAV beuli am do place AVO gAviiio git out." "No," say Archer, '*(lis heub am not de place. I gAviiie tek you clean outon Kaintuck fore I kin marry you." So be put Rachel oft" an oft" tell dee come to Indeunopoliis, an den he tuck her to a big,fine tavern PO RACHEL. 227

;iu introduco her to all do people es his Avife. Doe call her .Miss Archer. After a Aveek ho tuck hor in do country bout ton miles fum do city an sot her doAvn in ii big house, all fixed up es line esfine could bo. But Rachel Aviir misei-idilo. She kuoAV dat ruin done ovortuck lier, an sins did'n hid) do tCOurag(^ a older gal mought ob had to up an say, I am not djs boah man's Avife; save mo fum disgrace. Arclior tolo de people doe mus come an see hlsAvifo, an a foAV Avliiit bed kerrldges come, but Racliol nuvah Avent to seis dem atter do call, an deo all drop her like a hot tater. .All dis dobelmcnt Avotit on bout a year, an Archer swuro to Rachel dat soon es do year Avur out IKS gwino marry her; dat ho done hub a good reason fur waltlii so long dut sho knoAV nufliii bout. Ho toll Kachel dut ho love her so well dat he bloeged to fi-k her Avay fum Miss C'leavor fear some udder niaii mought come along an tek her Aviiy fum him. -lis fore do your wur out Rjichers baby ivur buwu. Archer tolo hor when it Avur four Avoeks o]e ho gwino marry her. She did'n say nuflin, ony she prayed an prayed t()»die, kase hor baby wur a child ob s.liamo. But she did'n die—do time Avu'nt com/ yit. When de bidjy Avur a monfh ole, dat bery niiiAvniii Archer iruii to mek roadv to inarrv Riichol. ShoAviir too weak to go to toAvn, so he Avrit for a preacher to come to de house, an ho hod de kerridge at do door, an jis gwino git in and go fur him, Avheii do officers ob de law bust into de roonijUn say befo him an Ra­ chel: "Wo done come to rest you for marryin IAVO wives." Ho turn pale es death, he do, an say, os he stiiggidis back ugiu de Avail: "I not got tivo wives. Kide Avid mo to Indiiinapolus, an I gwino show you 228 CIIIIOXICLES OF CYXTHIAXA. my invocement papidi. De lawyer jis got it ready tutlior day. De officers say: "You hub a Avife iu Kaintuck. Kin you deny it?" lie say: "Yes, I kin; I got a invocomoiit fum her, an gwine marry dis chile dis IHSUII bery day." De officers look at Archer an say: "You come long Avid us. We gwino see dis thing out." All tlis time Raishel look lek sho ben turned into marblo. Archer tolo do oificers ho Avur ready to go Avid em. He turn to Kachel an say: " I gAviiio to bring de preacher Aviion I come back an nick a spcctable onion ob you in do eyes of men. You am a angel in de sight ob God UOAV." SIKS nevidi open her lips ; jis sot an look an look an novidi move. When Archer an de officers wur out ob sight, Iviicbol git up, she do, lek she Avalkin in her sloe]!, an sho tek do baby outon de criulle, an git a few clothes fur him an a few fur herself, an put on her bonnet an tek out down de road. She say to hersef: " Ef I walk all do Avay to .Vliss Cleaver's, in Kaintuck, I gwine die." Sho walk on an on, an treckly a miin come long Avid a Avugoii full of grain in bags, an she ax him of she iiiii ou de Kaintuck road, und ho say yes, an ax hor to git in de wagon. She am glad to git in, fur fear Archer mought come biusk un finehe r irone, un sarcli fur hor an stoii her fum

Avliite an defish loo k like silver. She tuck notice ob de lau—liOAv level, an de trees—how tall deo groAvod. It done ben pictni-"d on Riichefs mine dat of she walk all do Avay fiim de liidiiiiin to Kulntuck it gAvine kill hor. When she git in dis heuh stute she Avar iinrdly gone shore nough. She done ben bleogod to stop at obory liouse to res an ax fur wutah, all one day. An do do baby wur little, it wur beiiA'y to tout, all Kachel Avur Avoro out by sundown. Treckly she coino foil little house settin buck fum de road,an she wur sorry to see people roun do door, kase sho bloeged to stop, .she AViir perished fur Avatali, an (lis baby Aviir jiowful fretful. Shis went up to a man an ax, please mought she git a drink ob AViitiili, an mought she res. Do man look at her an tuck notice ob de baby, an' say, sartin', my cliik-, go in by an set down. Treckly a young "oinuii come to her un cried, un tolo her (hit sho hub a po" biil)y,iiot two year ole, dat she gAvine lose wid de fevali. Kachel go in an look at it siii (siy ober it jes es hard es its OAVU mother. When de night come on cool like do sick chile lay/itill, an Kiichel an its mother think it Avur bottah. De peo­ ple go lioiiie. an Kuchol an de sick baby"s mother sot n]i. r>ouf daylight de slide baby ax its mother to take it up. She fuck it in her amis, an it fool fur her I'ace, an don she know it am bliiie. Its buns am cole—it am gAvliie las. .Atter Avliik- it wur outen its nilsry. She put it in Kachers arms, an fall on de flo' an tarhorjiar. Hor hiisbaii Aviir (df on businest, an nobody to say nuffin to her but Kachel. Rachel, irtfor she dime Avash an dress do dead baby, say to its mother, Sense youah heart am tender fum sorrow, I gwine toll you my troubles; an she toll her all, I'lim PO RACHEL. 231 fust to las, an say, noAvyou sees dab am AVUS troubles in do Aviirle dell death. I ben ruiinin fum sliaiuo, but it fidlor me like a blood houii. Nobody kin outrun disgrace, try it AVIIO AVIH. When Kachel Avur tolliii hor troubles it Aviir hard fo suy Avho cry do iiios, IKSI- or Ruchol. Atter AVIIHO de motbor (d' de ded baby say, Ruchol, let mo hub youiih little boy, of yon Avlll, I gAvino rar him jis like my OAVU, an nobody eber gwine know wliose chile he am. You go to ole .Miss (Cloav­ or's, iill you mought do AVISH yit. Allen (Jray nuvah, nuvah writ you dut lettah sayiii he doan kyar fur you no longer. I is older dan you is. Dat Avur Archer. 01i,suy Raislusl, I kin nuvah see Allen no mo'. I done los my good name an my fust lovo along wid if,'- I not gwine be in dis Avorlo long. , When diiylight come, Kiushel say to db yming oman, I hopes an prays dut de good LuAvd gAvliie bless you furyouuh goodness to a po' orfling ontcust, but I Avoan louvo my baby. I done fotch disgrace on it; T not gwine forsook it toi). T mus go on. f done SOAV, an now I iiius reaj), ef dat am in (ks Avhlrlwlud. I not gwine to live; d(s sliiiddiih ob doutli um diirker dun de shadduh ob diso-riice. 1 ijwlne bides all in do valley un sbiiddub. Goodbye, un LiiAvd ble.ss you. She git to .Miss Cleaver"s house after (hit, in about a Avook, an it AVur night, and sho stand at do do' mos foard to knock. She knock, do' timid like, an Miss (^Iciiver ris up an tuck hor in, an cry ober her an de baby, an siiy, liiichel, T not l"oi-got Avliiit do LuAvd say to de sinful oman, go in peace, an sin no mo', f got no stone to fling at you; you am a chile, an AVur lod astray. Miss Cleaver AVur a Knobite an a Campbell- itc. She nuviib bloeved nobody could git to heaven 232 CHRONICLES OF CVNTIIIANA. tell do done made a tunnel iindab Avatali, went in at one eeud an come out at tother. But she served (Jod, an He tuck hor to Hissef at las, I'll bo bbun dat lie did, fur'do way she stirved Kachel. Rachel tuck hoi-bod, and lav for weeks an weeks, an try to die, but she did'n do, and Avhen sho got np an about, sho wur piirtler"ii ovah. The people wluit come to Aliss C>leavor"s seed Ka'-hel, an seed de babA', and dee put dis and dattogeder, un mek up wiiat doe kayu find out,an Rachel Avur all de fidk. 7\.1I (le ugly gills swiir she ought to bo hung, and do meaniih un de uglier deo isj do mo dec turns up doe noses at her. Rachel -nuvah push herself noAvliar. Sho creep round do yuril utter durk, un she cry herself to sleep ebery night. , Often she look amongsr her dead moth­ er's close, tek out her trof-plight, an kiss It, and cry over it, ail say, I done hab a good name onct; why di(rii I die befo" 1 los it ? One evoniii, Kachel sot on do up[)on block, an she heurn a boss a comin at a gallop up the rocky hill (lilt lead to do house. When de iio.*s comes in sight, Rachel s;iw a man on him, an know in a mliinit dat it wiir Nod .Archer. She ris up an run in do house, and Archer lie Avalk after-her, slow and timid like; be (loan know wliiit Miss Cleaver gwino siiy. But ho go in, ho do, un kiietsl down befo Riicbel, un ax liiichel to forgive him, an beg to see bis chile. Olo Miss Cleaver tiiisk him up one side an down tother Avith hor tongue. Sho tuck him fore an aft by, an flue gAvine an comin, and sarpeut and scorapeiin wur de bos words she got fur him. But ho beg his uunt to suado Riichel to miirry him. He pull out his in­ vocement pupuhs, un show dem to her, iiu tell her de PO' RACHEL. 283

omau be, Avur miirried to onctdonomarried iigiii. Do ole oiiian gun to think, an she Avhispered to Riichel, but Rachel mek out she nuvah hearn her, an tell Arclior to go away; she nmidi wan i"iir to lay livin- lookiu eyes on him agin. (Jo Aviiy ; loiiimo die in peaco. You fourged lettuhs to me fum Allen (jlriiy. You bruiig disgruco on mo. I gwine die liiitin you. You bon my ruin. Den Aliss Cleuver gun to tongue- lush him, un ho flung hissef outen do house, un rid siAViiy. Do nex niornin, Kachel ris up airly, an ax Aliss Cleaver, Avmi she keep de baby? she gAviiie Aviilk. Aliss Cleiivor suy, surtin she gwine keep him; she AVur gliid Riichel coming to her senses. It AViir in do spring, an all do works hxdv lek it done bad its face Avasbed, an hab a clean dross on. Do robbins wiir 11 lioppin an siiigln, an do lambs wur playlii, un do trees jis bustin out an de corn comin up. Rachel say, I gAvino die to-duy; I gwine eend all dis; 1 Is Avore out; 1 AVUU I'ur to sloop. She Avont to de rl\';ili, ail sot on a rock wbut overhung do deep Avatuli. She sot, she did, an study bout hor AVIIOIC life. She wiir not yit but seventeen years olo. She say ugiii,do grave hides all; 1 gAvine die to-da}'. She ris up, an look at de sun shinin on do Inippy lambs an birds, an tears fill her oyiss. She turn to de dark watah, and mek readA>'to juiii|) in. She tuck oft' her bonnet, an pin a note to it, an tie it to a tree fur Aliss (Cleaver tofiiie. •lis es she gwino jump, across de rlA'ab uiusle Diiiial struck up a olo hynin^ie Aviir plowiii in do .Airly corn—" Do Lawd am iiromisc good to mo. His AVords iiiy;hope secore.'" His Moss done larii iiiicks Dauiil to read, and bo sing powful sweet Avhite und 234 CIIUONICLES OF CVNTHIAN.A. bliick say dat. He sing de song from eend to ooiid. Kucliel listen, an when de song stoji, she fall on her knees an prays, an her tears run like a rivali. Dat night she say to ole AIlss Cleaver, as dee sat knittiii, I gwine jine meetiu. Is yon? say AIlss Cleaver; whose meotiii you gwino jine? she say. sharp like. Kiichel say, youidi moetin ; Avlll you go Avitbnie? Dat I Avill, suy .Miss CloaA'cr, an she hug Ruchol, an .say, she hope she gwine fine dat pouce Avidoiit onder- stundin. By un by, deo hub a grout big moetin in Cynthiaiiii, an ole Air. .Folin T. -lohnson, a soldier ob the Avar of '12, Avur carryin it on. Ho jis uii an charged at do sinners lek he Avtir on do battle field, an il poAA'cr come forad an jine. One Sundaj'olc .Miss Cleaver fotcli Kiichol an come to hciili Mr. Johnson. He Avaiit tariii roun dat day. He tiiidv his tex bout de .son ob man liabiii no Avliurs to luy his bead, und tiilk bout his mother Alary at do cross ; den tolo hoAV de crusifictod him an be ris agin dat AVO mout live. 7\11 do olo omen wur farly siiubiu an cryin, and de men look like a pacel ob sliisep kiUlii dogs, so sbiimed ob de sins doe done. Trectly dee struck up a song; f sot in de back ob de cliiiridi ; an de brutliren an sisters gun to sing an sliiiku liitiis. Don Misfali .Tolmson say come one come iill, do youah sins am as scarlet de Lawd kin iii(d< dem Avliito as suoAV. Den Kachel ris. she do. an her un ole Miss Cleaver Avalk down de uislo. AIlss Cleaver Aviir u cryin an a shubbin lek her hoiirt gwino break; a passel cried Avid her. De preacher. Air. Johnson, took Rachel by do ban an siiy : " Does you bleove dat .Jesus um de Christ de son ob do liviii (TiiAvd?" Rachel say, " 1 does."" "Thank (iuwd fur dat good confession," say PO RACHEL. 23;-)

Allstah Johnson. Den do people gun to sing an shako bans agin an till shook Avid Rachel. .Atter all de Avhite folks got done 1 goes up, an de po chile look so pitiful an pale dat I bust right out an cry so I con kin say nuflin. Dut atternoon toAvds evoiiin Rachel Avur babtized in Lickiii river. It Avore cole, kase do spring wur back- iird (lilt year, an do rividi run deep un muddy. Rachel AViilk ill de AViitah long ob do olo soldier, un he tuck hor Avaist deeii in de Avtitah, an suy : " I biiiitlzo you in de name ob do Father an de Son an de Holy (Jhost. Anion I'" .All he drappod her under. She nuvah fit un struggled lak I done seed om do. He ris her up an gun to sing, un de ]iooplo sang till yon mought hearn dem a mile. Loud an clur bove do white ]ieoplo"s voice Aviir do voice ob Uncle Diiiiol. Jis es Allstah .lohnson got Rachel lo shore de las ob de sunlight fell upon Rucliol, and she lo(d

OLD FA.AIILIES.

J\iinbroiiyhs. The first Kimbrough of Avliom AVO have any account came from the Pamunky river, Virginia, und settled on Puddy's Run, in Hiirrisim county, Kentucky, about the your 1780. While living in Virginia, ho followed the tiiide of brickuiuker, and built a chiiiiney for Patrick Henry. .lohn AI. Kimbrough, siiii of the Kimbrough above montionod, married Susan .loiios, and lived on a farm in sight of Cynthiana. Their children are -lohn ,1., Aloxiinder, Samuo!, Henry, Aloses, Williani W., now judge of the Circuit Court, and Airs. Elizabeth Clay, .Mrs. Nancy Lebus. The sons AA'ere and are brave men, and havo the courage of tlioir convictions. More than one Kim­ brough Avas in the late civil Avar on the Federal side.

Jjcift'erty. James Laftbrty came from Ponnsylvania to Ken­ tucky about the year 179;'); married Susan Sniitli, of Bourbon county, Kwntucky, in ISIo. Ho was ii sol­ dier of tlu' War of 1S12 under (Jenoriil Shelby, and Avas at the battle of the Thames, .lames Laftbrty moved to this county about the year 1825. Three sons and tAVO daughters Avero born to him. The 238 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. father of .Iinlg.! .John A, Lafterty, of Cynthiiina, Ivontucky, married Fannie E. lloiiiy, Avhose fiithor, doliii Henry, camo from Virginia. .John A. Lafterty and Fanny, his Avife, had boru to thom fAveU'c chil­ dren, seven sons and five daughtors. .Tobn A. Laf- ' forty.and two of his brothers served through the late Avar ou the Confederate side. John A. LiiHbrty AVUS a soldier from his earliest cliildhood. Before the cars came thnuigh this part of the country,grain and other produce was taken in Avagons to Cincinnati fo bo shipiied. John A. Lafterty, Avho AA'US only fifteen years old, Avas with his father in a Avagoii on bis Aviiy to Cincinnati. They Avere both iittucked by robbers, and John A. Liilforty killed one robber, AVIIO hud knocked his futher senseksss, und doleiided himself und his futher from the remulning robber Avitli a butcher knife. This occurred iit night, Avbile they Avore in cam]). The elder Lufferty did not recover froni bis dangerous AVOUIKIS for six mouths. W T. liiifterty, son of .John A. Lufferty, AVUS educated at Kentucky Unl\'ersity, Lexington, Kentucky, studied la(v Avitli A. 11. & J. (2. W^iird, begiin the practice of liiAV in 1879, has hold the offiise of county judge for two terms, and is a romarkablo man in that he is a lawyer, a truthful man, and a Chrl.stian gentleman.

Redmans. Williani Redinon camo from Scotland to Pennsyl- vaniii; niurriod a Aliss Csistleinaii,also from Scotland. AViliiam Rednion had four sons, (^ooi-ge, WilHam, John, and (Charles. Charles Rednion, son of George, married Miss Mary Ribolt after he came to Kentucky. OLD- FAMILIES. 239

Their children are AViliiam, Georgis, .Tobn, and Hope; the daughters are Alinorva, Alargaret, Eliziibetb, and Sarah .Aim. Hope Kedmoii, son of Charles, marriod .Miirgiirot Bruce, at oiiis time a very beautiful Avomun. They have one son, Hope, who is un artist and a genius. He makes a beautiful picturo from a homely face and preserves the likeness as well. Ho is totally without ambition. Some day, long bonce it is to bo liopcMl, there AVHI rest in the grave a "mute, inglo­ rious "" Kembrandt.

The JIassehnans. Christopher Alnsselman camo to Pennsylvania, 1'roni Avliat country is not IIOAV kiioAvn. lie Avas a soldier of the Kevolutlon, and when that Aviir Avas over, he came and settled iioiir Bryant's Station, Ken­ tucky. Ho Avas 11 i'iiriuer iind stock raiser. His furm contuinod several hundred acres of blue grass moiid- ows and Avooded fields. His stock d'ql Avell, und ho wus in a fair Avay to amass a fortune. He, hoAvever, becaine dissatisfied, and removed to Kutland, Avliere there AVUS little blue grass, but a wealth of wild pea vines covering the ground for mikss around Rut land. Air. Alussolmau moved bis family und stoc)v in the iiutumn to Rufliind, and a severe Avinter folloAved the ^ that your, and his stock all died, and he regretted his change of iilace. He turned his attention to other bii.siiiess, und accumulatisd a largo fortune. Cliristoiihcr Alusseliuiiii married Patsy White, Avho wus born in (Ttreenbrier county, \'irglnia.- The father of Franklin .Vliisselniiin and .T(din Alus- selnuin, of this jiliice, was a man of nioaiis, and K; 240 CHRONICLES OF CYNTIIIAXA. owned a large number of SIUA'CS. Franklin Alussel- nian married a Aliss Burgess. Their children are Alyra, Nancy, and Joseph. John Alussolmau married Alary Roland. Tlioir children are Etta and Aland. Etta niarried (TIIUO Ammorman; .Maud married Walter Lee X'orthcutt. CIIAPTKK XIX.

.MEN BORN HERE, BUT DISTINGUISHED ELSEWHERE.

.James Lindley. JAMES LINDLEY, born here, once a laAA'ycr in LOAVIS county, Alissouri, and roprosouted lijs district in con­ gress fbr several terms, and stood high with that body of select men as a man of the highest attaininents. After the civil Avar he removed to St. Louis, engaged in the,practice of laiv, and in 1.872 was elected judge (if the Circuit Court, served until 1888, aiid then re­ tired from active life and sought quiet in his old age at NcA'ada, Vernon county, Missouri, Avliero he died in 1892. Says a Alissouri man, Avho knoAV him Avell : "Judge Lindley had a grand character, und his name is a household Avord in the state in Avhlcli he lived."'

James C. Barkley. The grandfather of James C Barkley AVIIS a soldier of the Revolution, and his father Avas a soldier in the Avar of 1812. Mr. Barkloy's mother Avas a Aliss Hart, and hor uncle .lohn Hart, of XCAV .lerso}', was one of signers of the Doclai-ation ol' Independence. James C. Barkley. once of this town, is one of the editors of the " C'hlllicothe Constitution," and lives now at Cbillicothe, Alissouri. His son, R. AV Biirklo}', AVUS educated fbr the United States miA-y, at Annapolis, .Maryland, served in the nuA'y six years ul'tor he griid- uated. He then traveled for a time, and visited many (241) 242 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

])urts of the world. When ho left the mu-y, he made his home in Wusliington, District of Columbia, and Avas appointed, under Cleveland, examiner of patents. He studied law three years, and makes his homo in N^oAV Y'ork, Avlicre he practices his profession. R. AV Barkley married a groaf-grandduughtor of the dis­ tinguished scholar and Christian, Alexander Canqi- bell, long time president of Bethany College, Virginia.

Judye Hcrvry Ireland. .Tiidge Ireland left Cynthiana in his youth; Avas judge of the Circuit Court in Alissouri for one term. He bus been elected more than once to represent his Democratic constituents in the himse of reiiresentii- tives in Missouri. Judye JI. D- Bed-- .Tiidge Poisk AVUS born in Cynthiana, educated at Harvard, marriod Aliss Wold, of Boston, smd has made his lionie in C'lncinnati, Ohio, for years. He has served more than one term as judge of the Su­ perior C'ourt of Ohio. He is now u pructiciiig lawyer of Cincinniiti, and loctur(?s to the IUAV students in the Ohio University. Judge Peck, Avheii a boy, did not think it neces­ sary to sow any Avild oats in Cyiithiaiia, believing that if he did his pareiifs AVoiild follow him into the sultry field, and suftbr Avbilo he gathered in his use­ less crop. Governor Caleb W. West. Caleb W. West was born here and made IUAV his lii'ofession ; Avas judge of the County Court for one term, thou appointed goveriior of Utah by President .MEN HORN HERE, DIS'l'lNGUISIlED ELSEWHERE. 243

Cleveland, when Cleveland AVIIS president the first time. CloA'ohind being president now, has again ap­ pointed .Judge West governor of Utah. Governor West is loved und honored in his native toAvn, and is. no less appreciiitod abroad.

.Imlyc John W. Henry. The ancestors of Judge Henry ivere Scotch-Irish, and csinie to Virginia after the W^ur of tlus RoA'olu­ tion. Jesse Henry, father of Judge Ilonry camo to Cyiitbiana just at what date is not kiioAvn. -Jesse Henry married Nuiicy Porter. Five children Avcre born to them : A duughtor AVIIO died young, Porter, John W., Joseph, und Xmicy. .lesse Hoiiry removed Avith his family, in 1841), to Indejiendenco, Alissouri, at which place he died in 1852. His Avife died there in 1870. and his son, .Joseph, in 1883. X'lincy Henry, only daugliter of Jesse and Nancy Henry, niiiiriod a Air. Mcintosh, brother of AVallaco Alcliitosh. He died and she niurriod J. B. Hurvey, an eminent law­ yer, Avho died in 1878. Airs. Harvey still lives in Kiinsiis ('ity. Dr. Porter Ilonry liiis been a practicing physician at Indopondonco, Alissouri, I'or more than forty years, und bus become distinguished in his pro­ fession. In 1847, .Judge John W Henry wus elected attor- iioy for the brunch of the bank of the State of Alis­ souri, located at Fayette, Alissouri. In 1849, he married Aliss Alaria R. AVilliams, a native of Lynch­ burg, A'irginia, but reared iind educated in Missouri. They havo four living children—Frank W., an Epis­ copal minister in charge of a chiirish at Ouray, Colo- rada ; .Jesse AV., grocery merchunt, .leftbrson City, 244 CHRONICEES OF CYNTHIANA.

Alissouri ; Robert W., K. C. clerk in the recorder"s office lit Ksinssis City; and Nancy, Avbo married , and is living Avitli her father at Kansas City. In 18r)4^ (Jovernor Sterling Pri(se appointed Judgis Ilonry state,superintendent of public schools. When his term Of office expired, he returned to the bar. In 1871, tie Avas appointed by(iovornor Hardin judge of anew circuit established embracinsj .Macon countv. In 1877, be AVUS elected judge of the Supreme ('ourt of Alissouri, Avhich office bo held one term, ton years. In 1888, be removed to Kansas City, and was ap- pointe'd by (Jovernor Francos one of the judges ofthe county, and AVUS elected by the people to fillth e office, Avliicb he holds at the present time. In all the high and responsible positions held by Judge Henry, he has so discharged his duties as to cover hiniself Avith honor, and to reflect it on Cyn­ tliianu, bis birtbpluco, and the grand old isommon- wealth of Kentucky that is jifoud to claim her .son.

Richard Musser. Among the names of the men born here, but dis­ tinguished in other states, none is mentioned with hiore pride than the naiiie of Kichard Alusser, the "gifted son of a gifted race," who resides at Bruns­ wick, Missouri, and makes laAv his profession. CHAPTER XX.

THE CYNTHIANA CEMETEKIES.

" Can storied urn or animated bust buck In its niansien ciill the ileetinf; breath. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust or tluttcrvfiootlie llif dull, cold ear of death','"

THE nations of the earth have disposed of their dead in various Avays and havo shoAvu grief at their do- parfure in a miinuor us varied us their niodi-s of sepulture. The ancient -fow.s prepared tlieir tombs in solid rock, and conslderod it a culiimlty to the living to refuse burial to the (load. They shoAvod i^rief for the dead by rending their garmenrs and Avearing sackcloth for their iiinor covering, and by putting ashes and dust upon their heads. X'o one AVUS re­ fused sepulture, (sxcopt a suicide, iind fo him it Avas only refused until after sunset. The Greeks buried their dead with great pomp and ceromony, and the Romans did the same until some tinio. before the Christian era, Avhen the custom of burning tl(e dead became universal—as if there Avas not mystery enough concerning the whei-oabouts of the soul Avitli- scattering the ashes of the body to the four AVIIKIS of heaven. The Egyptians embalmed their dead by an art that is IIOAV lost to the Avorld. When America Avas first settled the people buried their dead in private burying grounds, or in their gardens. In the monnfains of Kontiieky nothing is iL'-l.".i 246 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. more desolate looking tliiui the resting places of the dead. Few old farms in this statu, iire Avithout crunibling stone Avails and full trees that msirk the phices where the dead IUIA'IS reposed, so long, that their niinies huvo been forgotten. The old comotory sit Cynthiuiia was given to the toAvn and county by Robert Harrison : but citizens of this place buried in fhe grounds long bokiro 1793. Avlion the deed AVUS niiide to the tOAvn und county by the donor. It bus been used as a griivoyard for Hourly a hundred yours. A distinguished geiitloman Avrjtes from Kansas City, Ali.ssouri, that his little sister has slept there forfifty years . Ho and others Avill bo glad to kuoAv that this grounds are AVOH cured for, und fliiit it is still a beautiful resting place Ibr those Avho have i'allen askseji. Tliore the old trees AvaA'o their branches to meet the bright-/blue sky, and in thom, in the SAVoet spring and summer Aveiilher the birds rear their voiiuir iind lead theni, undisturbed, iiinon"- the lowly graves. It is not ii loiieh'place ; at tAvilight, Avlieii the day is fine, the (diildren guflior there, and merry huighter is lieurd Avliero, long iigo, the uir Avas full (if the Avails for the dead. Few bury their dead there now, and fcAV visit tlie spot. But the dead who re­ pose there iiro not i'or-gotlen. Said little Xell to the good schooliuastisr: " 1 rather grieve, 1 <{o rather grieve to think,"" said the child, " bursting into tours, " that those who die about us are so soon forgotten." And do you think, said the schoolmaster, marking the glance she had thrown iiround, that uu nuA'islled gruve.u Avithored tree, a fiidod flower or two, ure tokens THE CYNTHIANA CEMETERIES. 247 of forgetfulnoss or cold neglect? Do you think there are no deeds fur UAvay from hero, in AA'liich those dead may be best i-cmouilHsrod ? Noll, Xell, there maybe, people busy in the Avorld at this instiuit, in Aviiose lus- tlons and good thoughts those very graves—neg­ lected as they lobk to u.s—are the chief instruments.

AGED It).

[One waiidcrcr, if yet lUivc. will iiiiilcrstancl the followin);.)

" (>ne name ' w;is . "The other, let it rcsl with death."

She fled while in Ihc il.-kiiplcd sky The heralds of IIK; iiKirn went by.

.And swift her w;iiidrriii'_' sti'i)S to Inico Coursed the fell liloiMllioiiud of di.s^^racis.

No shadow hid his fjhiislly form, He IOOUIIMI besidi' her in the slorm ;

And when beside the way she slept, ilissiiadow through her vision crept.

.•\nd from her path friends lied away. And straiifjsers sneered—'•Shf inul iixlrnij."

One iiiLrht. brsidc her troiihlcd bed, .\ pilyiiiir aiiirel soflly said:

"The sliailes of dcalh arc dark and dcisp, |)i>;:racc ran not dlstiirh Iiud slci>p.'

AVhcii heralds of the morn went by. They kis.sed a piliriiin young to die. 248 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

The New Cemetery. When John Morgan made his lust raid on Cynthi­ ana, the battle ivas fousjlit on a beaatiful hill east of the town. Alore than thirty-eight acres of that ground has become a cemetery. It looks like a Ne­ cropolis indeed. It is said to bo the most beautiful burial place in the state. AVhite columns riuse their gloaming length up among old trees that have boon there for centuries. Slender shafts appear here and there among magiKdias and choice shrubs planted by friends of the doiid. Alaiiy statues, sculptured in Italy, adorn the graves of the young. When one Avauders among these splendid monuments, he is re­ minded of the lines of Alice Cary :

" AA'cll, tl^N^^s is a ciuict valley AA'hcrc we all sluill sleep the same.

The loAvHest grave, unmiirkod though ic may be, is as dear in the sight of our Father as the most costly mausoleum, for has \lv not said : " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints,'" and how many of them sleep in graves unmarked by stone or epitaph.

" r like that ancient Saxon phrase wliidi rails Tlus burial-ground (lod's acre! It is jusl ; it cousccratos each {jnive within its walls, And breathes a bisnison o'er the skscping dust. THE CYNTHIANA CEMETERll-.S. 249

With thy rude ploiifihshure, Dciilli, turn up the .sod, .And spre.ad the furrow for the scisd we sow; This is this field iuul Acre of onr (iod. Thin is the place where human harvests grow!" CHAPTEK XXI,

'• iHiE GHOST'S AVALK."

IF idl bo true tluit poets suy, a ghastly procession moA'es to and fro on All Souls' Night on Pike street. On that street alone, since Cynthituiu bus boon a toAvn, * -^ * men have been murdered. There young men of promise havo turned their faces to the midnight sky and yielded up the ghost, Avitli time only to suy, " (Jod have mercy on my soul.' And there the gray beads of the aged havo fallen on the cruel stones and boon dabbled Avith blood. And Avliat of the miirdorers? Do they go unpunished? Yes; often. The hiAvs of Kentuck}' are very lenient to murdorers; they are brave men, you see; they neither fear God nor man. But if the IUAV of man does not roach thom the vongeunce of God lays hold of thom, and the murdorod niiiii, Avitli his wounds sigapo and weeping blood, sits side by side at the feast Avith his niurdorer, and s'tands with uplifted fingerbe ­ tween him and his ivife and childi-cn, and Avatchos all night by his bedside, and often leads him to stand on the very spot Avliere the aAvfiil deed AVUS done. What is the cause of this bloodshed? Any and every man is alloAA'od to carry deadly, coiicouled Avoapons. Boys of fiftoonan d sixteen years old carry pistols, and tlioir elders, sometimes, consider it a hopeful sign. The reckless use of firearms is a blot on the escutoheon of Koiitticky—the dear old state (L'5()) THE (IHOST S AVALK. 251

AVO love SO Avell. AVhy docs not the legislature in­ terfere ? Umph ! The legislators are often elected because tliev are " game as rattlesnakes,"' and then many of them liiiA'c such a good time in Frankfort that they will not legislate on unpleasant subjects. The county court days foster crime. At that tiiiio the clans gather f'i-0|in every direction and the Avhisky runs not cpiite to the bridle bits. When certain lioi-.se- jockios are sufficiently \.varniod up Avitli " bust head " the SAvapping begins, and scraps of conversation may be heard by one in a coiu'eniont iiosition: " I say. Bill, ho"s dead, did he make a Avill?"' " Wsdl, the proscription run tliusly : I ho([uote to all my chil- (Iron Avliut are of a materior nge—' " and stopped short. " There goes , AVIIO killed . Look IIOAV he timlks; a felloAv bettor not kiol Avitli him." Then the speakers stand und lo(dv Avith iidmiration at the sAA'iiggering murderer AVIIO iiorhaps that night staggers into the bosom of his family Avith si broken arm or an eye knocked out. Another cause: Santa Claus brings little boys toy pistols at Christmas tide, and in place of being reminded by them that Christ Avas born to bring peaco on earth and good Avill fo men, they think of the brave man they have-heard talked about, who AA'ould not tsike a Avord oft" of any body smd killed his friend. But the Avlves und children of fbo murdorers Avho cryin secret, " Thou, (di (7od. soost mo/' may,God huvo mercy on their broken hourts. Alon of Kontucky, think of the Avords of Aladaino Koliind: "Oh, Liberty I Liberty I IIOAV maliy crimes iire committed in thy name I" It may not bo iinpar- 252 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA. doiiiible to say that to put men to death by hang­ ing, etc., for their crimes is as uncivilized as to murder. It is a pity that this unploasant truth must 1)0 told. Kentucky has not graduated in civilization, and Avbile it is considered an honor to take life ou slight provocation her diploma Avill rest in the shade. We have thousands and thousands of brave, truly brave, citizens, Avho Aveep over this OXE fault Kontucky has as Christ Avept over Jerusalem, BUT THEY AR.; NOT LEGISLATORS. CHAPTER XXH.

OLD RALLADS.

[Never ftiiblishccl imlil new,] Jim in;/. The boys in our town, they 're jovial and cheery, The girls in our town, they're jolly and merry; There's .'^usan iind I'olly, aiid also .Aliss Sally, Hut I fell in love by courting Miss I'olly.

Miss Polly sat down, :ind 1 sat,by her, And with these few words I began lo try hor: Saying, it's ail but ii folly to look melancholy, And we'll get married, what .says you, Miss I'olly?

I'lith/. Miss I'olly, she blushed, and looked like Vemis— Oh I .linimy, says sho, there 's but one thing between us; Oh I where is your canister, teapot, and kittle? And Where's your stand of Chana mettle?

Jiiiinvi. Oh 1 I have pots and I have kittles. And a plenty of money to support our wishes; I 've a tlircc-lcgged pot and a ten-gallon kittle, yo say no more about Ghana mettle.

I '11 not rise in the morning to wash your lining, Neitlier will 1 .set ;it your wheel :i spinning; J'.iit rilslei'i) in my bed till the clock strikes seven, And if that won't do, 1 '11 sleep till eleven.

.11 mill 11. Ii that is the case, my chiinniiig I'olly, All of our courtship is but ;i folly. I'll court .Aliss S;dly. That lives in the vallisy. Adoo! adool my charming I'olly. (253) CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

When I'olly she found that .liinniy was going, With these few words she began to woa him:

J'ollij. I'll rise in the morning to wash your lining. And also set at your wheel a spinning. —AuTuou UNKNOWN.

FAIR ELEANOR.

Oh! raothcr, dear mother, come give your advice, Come giA'o your .advice jis one— yhnulil I go to hord Thomas's wedding; Or stay and tarry at home?

Miiliirr. Oh! you have thousands of your friends, .\nd hundreds of your foes; Do not go to Lord Thomas's wedding, 15ut stay and tarry at home.

Sho dressed herself in a scarlet of red, And her maid she drcs.sed in green. And every town that she went through They took her to be a queen.

She rodo up to Lord Thomas's hall, And there she knocked loud. And who so rcaily as Lord Thomas himself To rise and let her in.

Is this yfuir bride. Lord Th

The brown girl having a knife in her hand, AIKI it being keen and sharj). She pierced fair lOlcaiior through the short rit Anil pierced her to the heart.

Lord Thomas being a bold forester, lie stepped through the hall; lie drew his sword, and I'lit lirr head oil'. And slung it against the wall.

I.iinl TlioiiiM. Oh! make my grave both deep and wide, .And dig it long at length. And lay fiiir I'-leanor in my ;irms, .\nd the brown girl at my feet.

NANCY \VILSON"S LA.AIENTATION.

IWritteii by a young hilly of FayellocuuiUy in l,sio. Afler wriliiigUiese linos she cominitteil suieiile.l Ye guardian jiowcrs that rule ai)ove, Thou kiiowcHt how fondly I do love; Oh, grant to ease this torturing j)ain, Nor BuH'er me to love in vain. '

T once defied the jiowcrs of Jove, .\nd laughed at those who talked of love; 15ut now the powers of my mind To one dear object is inclined.

Kut tiy his father's strict connnand He banished him from hisiiiitivc hind, AA'hcrc I no more shall .sec his fjice, Kor more his lovely lips embijice.

Oh, how my soul oppressed with grief, And not one friend to givts relief; - No hand to wipe tlus falling tear. No sooibiiig friend to ease my care. 256 CHRONICLES OF CYNTHIANA.

\\'hen I refleist on what he swore, 1 sometimes think I'd donbl no more ; But isruel fear returns iigain. And lills my mind with grief and pain.

" If I forsake you, dear,'' said he, " I wish that Heaven may forsake me— And niiiy God's A'cngeancedii me dwell, And burn my soul in flames of Hell.''

"Cheer up, my girl," he often said, " My foes shall ne'er your jieace invade ; Though they should all again me join If life is spared, you shall be mine."

The day before he went away He kindly thus to mis did say: " You must not weep for me, dear, Your tears are more than 1 can bear! "

"Though 1 am bound for a foreign port, You iire the mistress of my heart — No other mind, though e'er so line. Shall ever shake my constant mind."

I oiKse was liapj)y, once was hles.sed ; No care of mind disturbed my rest, I was beloved by rich and jioor, And must those pleasures be no more ?

The world now views me with disduin; 1 own my faults, ciuifess my shame ; And my life iitonement make, This wickeil world I now for.sakc.

If Siitan destines us to jiart, No more can pleasure reach my heiirt; Why should I wish on earth to live, Sincis earth can' not one plciisnri' give? NANCY AVILSON'S LAMENTATKJN.

Each diiy my mind is full of care; Ivicli night my pillow's wet with tears; Oh, that my (iod who rules above. Would prosjx'r those who truly love.

If I am not to he his wife. Adieu ye transient joys of life; Not all the gold on India's shons Can ever raise my spirits more.

Hut, like the lonesome, wedded dove, I'll mourn the absence of my Inve, And ill some lone, si'questcrcd ]>liiee I'll spend my tew remaining davs.

And when our souls are away heneis To fairer worlds of joy and sense, I hope to gain that happy shore, Where none can ever part no more. CHAPTER .\XI1I.

TO THE IIISTOUIAX OF lOO.'J : (JREETI.NG.

Sir Cnkmiirii:—(Jood moriiincf: or [lorluips it is eveniiifr, and you sit, us 1 do now. lookiiiii: at the Avest and at the sumloAvn id' a spriiiir eveiiin-lit that yet remains aloiijr the hill-tops, Avbei-e tall trees are etched aj^aiusf the fadinij sky. The robins siiiir on the buddiuir trees, and the lilacs are in bloom, iind the scent of springing grass Hoats in at my winihiw. Tins scene of beauty was here long before 1 AViis boriu and will be here long iiffor I am done Avith time. But if momory uliides in the spirituul body, I sludl see it again by the wuters of, the River of Life, und often as I wiinder through splice, un immortid pilgrim, but still ii stranger in a strange land. I have put no maii"s cout-of-arms bonoufli bis name in this book, but I niiglif liavis brightened many a ]>agcAvith crests lung unused and us strange to Amer­ ican eyes as ivould lie tlie faces of tlnisc who won them in ages past. Xelllier havo 1 spoken evil of any man, and yet AVC have and luiA'e Inul innni people in Cynfliiiina. Wo'have now Aniiiiiases iuid Sapphiriis by the scores, and .ludases ,tliat no niiiiican uuinbor. But Avho AA'ants to Avrito or read their histories. It may be that yoU' do not knoAV to Avhom 1 refer Avbon 'L'.-,S) TO THE ULSTORIAN OF 1993. :i."lO

I say Aniiiiias, etc. Do you read the Bible? If you do not, read it IIOAV, and you Avill learn all aboiif thom; and vou will learn to believe, h\ readine: fbo stoning of Stoidion and the Story of the Cross, fbat tliore is a poAvor iu the nniverso greater than your­ self, and that It can and Avill help you, if you trust ill It. AnsAver this iL'ttor, tind tell me all that has been done since my siiul sliook of!" the dust that incum- liorcd it here on earth. I shall come for my letter December lOtb, tAvoh'o o'clock at night, 199S. I shall find the ,|i()st-oflice, move if Avhere you Avill. And IIOAV, faro, fare you well., When you roiul this " sad word," the hand fliaf has Avritfon it will be Avith the body to which it belongs, und both AVIH be dust. The S(iirit that ruled and dictafod to the body Avill be ,

IISTDEX.

PAOE. Addams family ; .10 Andersons., 4;$ .\shbrooks 27 Uroiidwells , ...;.., .^ l'>7 ,l!rown, Williiini. ...; 7;; Oiison, 'Wioinas. .' ()4 ('rem wells 63 Crosdell, .\hram. : 5 Curry, •lames (I 7,5 Days (-,4 Desh.i, Captain .lo. , 49 Deslui, (Jeneral Lucius. ;!7 Desjia, Major Ben ' ... ,")2 Frazier faniily. , li;; Oivcns family.. , 44 Grinnans ,. .'•,,'•, Hamilton, Captain .lohn ;!;) 1 landy, W. T.., <) Harrisons : .,..'. ? } Iii viland , (i) Hays, Williiini , .'. ,, 9 Henry, .ludge ,(01111 W , , 24;i Hinkston 2!) Hogg, Michael ..:,..,,.•. 9 Hnod, T. II ....." 48 Ireland, .Judge Ilervey •. ',. 242 Joiies, Robert . 59 Kiinbroughs ; ,,, 2;!7 l.afl'ertys ,.; 2:!7 Lairs, .; ., ,,,,;; 44 Lainines : ...... ,:, 14 Liiidley, .lames. 241 •Miigees , , ,; 22 .C.'Cl), 2()2 INDEX.

.Martin, Mon. ,1. T 54 .McDowell, A. K. M ...,..,.. 21 Megibben, T. .1 .....';...; ..,/..... 30 Miller, Isiiac...; :...:...;:. ^^'..,.; 19 Morrisons ....,.,,. 24 Musselinuns ,...... : ,,. . 2','>9 Mussers ,...;..,,. fiti .M us.ser, Kichard ;., .'.. 244 Northcutt. W. L '.. (« rattersons ... 41 I'eck, .fudge IT. I) /...... 242 I'ccks.....,.., '...... : ;...... 45 Kankin W(jmen 27 Hemington • 41 Kedmons ,.....;..., 238 Kenakers '. ..." ;!4 J{ieekel, C'harles '. 03 !