The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-08-11
from the Cleveland Herald. |
The Pioneer Mother.

The Pioneer Mother.
How much is comprised in this simple
title How much of woman's daring,
woman's trials, and woman's enduring
and ennoblng virtues The pioneer mo-
Their Of the West meet companions Of
the bold Boones. the Shelbys, the Harri-
sons, and their worthy compatrlot5 in re-
claiming, civlizing, and popping the great
garden valley. Most of the pioneer mo-
theirs have given place to the solve bran
ches' that in early times crowded around
the rude table of the still ruder home-ca-
bin, but their memories should be cherish
ed from generation to generation by the
millions of in-dwelIers of the goodly her
tage that now buds and blossoms like
the rose" Few live in written history,
for much of the early annals Of the West
is treasured only in fading tradition, and
seldom even in this does the pioneer mo-
Their hold that prominence merited by her
life of devoted sacrifice and self denial.
= We are pleased to find in a recent mum
Der OF the Cincinnati Chronicle an interes-
ting account Of one Of these mothers,
which is thus introduced by the editor;
TIE Pioneer N0iher for so may be
called Mary Craig, who's story Is in this
paper, was one of the first settlers of Gin
cinnali. The story Is not fiction but fact !;
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