The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1853-12-29
JACKSON G. Fl, OHIO THURSDAY DECEMBER 2o, 1858

sailants. But he came and went without
speaking. tie never greeted any man,
and no man said farewell 10 him. The
border people looked on him with respect
and fear; the Indians shud ddered at his
name, and the Sbawnees especially look.
ed on him as a curse sent from the Great
Spirit to exterminate their race.
Al last they became so terrified by this
phantom OF the silent hunter perpetuaIly
hunting their paths, thatthey all collected
and fed across the great stream Of Ken
lucky. But he followed them over, and
was over on their hunting grounds. So
they fled again and passed over the Green
river He passed it too and never cross.
ed il again. Still the Indians were aP.
palled by hearing of the braves slain in
the forest and at their camp fires, by an
arm which they now SO fully believed to
be the arm Of some avenging spirit. that
they never dreamed Of conflict. The
silent hunter never lost the trail. Then
they once more burned their wigwams and
went away forever from that county
And when the last OF the Shawnees had
launched his canoe upon the Ohio
Bill Smith rose from amid the bushes on
the shore, and fred on the little bark.
Revenge was his monomanla. When
he buried his vile and children rash
and bloody resolution fixed Itself on his
mind. 1t became madness. lie never
spoke to man, but silently and remorsely
haunted the trial of the Shawnees TO slay
every one that came within the range Of
his far famed rife Then after the lndi.
an tribe had gone he retired mute and a.
lone to the most inaccessible part OF the
Green River Hills. There in shady
dell, remote from the habitations of men,
he built himself a hut, where in solitary
quiet he passed the remainder Of his days.
He hunted to supply himself with food
and skins to exchange for powder and
shot, which an old man at an out settle.
ment down on the Green River was accus.
toned TO supply him with. His lite was
prolracted to the age OF eighty.eight.
One day the old man a, the settlement
was heard to say that something must
have happened 10 the silent hunter for he
had not come as usual, to fill his shot bag
and powder pouch. Bidding no one to
follow him, he went out to the Green Riv'
er Mountains and when he came back
though many questioned he said nothing
of what he had seen or where he had been
For that day, however no man saw the
silent hunter, No one heard OF his fate
but it became dim tradition in the coun'
try that his spirit was still among the
mountains OF Green River. .n.aa s.
u Not many years ago however, w ebber
the naturalist. hunter, started with com
panion in search OF game among the
Green River Hills. After wandering
many days among their solitudes, they
came to the dwelling OF an old traPPer
living alone with his dogs-an hermit
the forest full of its traditions and fanI
lar with all the spots they hunted. H'
: said that near the place an old black oak
lay the grave of mighty hunter. liz
had been mysterious nhabtant OF thes'
mountains, and bisresling bed was marked
by stone. He had chosen il hmsel
years before he died. ,,. 2. 1#...
1t was neer a spring of W ich he hat
drank and an old man had buried him
, though no one since had visited the grave
Webber offered the uapper some none.
it he would lead him to the spot. but h'
shuddered and refused though with ylsl
bic trepidation, he consented to guld
him in sight Of it. ,.. I'd.
He walked in front of them for SOM
time, among cliffs and trees, over stream
and through hoIlows, till from bluff EN-
inence they looked down on a narrow
Y wide plain. Over the surface Of this, la
S what seemed number Of rocks; but wer
y. in reality stone sarcophagi, or grave
a which are 10 be found in thousands, some
d times covering miles Of ground in tn
y southern part of Kentucky and portion
o Of Tennessee. The people who use
: this curious mode Of SepuIcher are no'
e extinct. They existed long before tn
$ Indian nation--loDg before the dskln
D hunted through those woods and savanna'
d Their burial grounds are all that remain
y Of them, They were apparently Plgmle'
for graves are not on an average NOR
than three feet in length. Some have IN
Il agined that these we're graves oil IN
II children of thu Aztec nation in this CASE
n must have died ty thousands when the
d we're about three feet high, and the oldt
d people must have been buried secretel.
e In one of these curious sepuIchers III
Ie body of Bill Smith was discovered.
r was sarcophagus sunk into the cart
N almost eighteen inches by the same
:, width. The explorers examined tt
d grave-they even disturbed the remain
r but they laid them again in their place
~ rest and left once more to his solitary r
a pose the Silent Hunter Of the Green Rlv
u Hills. rH.a n.e 7er.
Or What a dark mournIul story. lilo
strange and checkered a life. 1t was Il
III faith of this man 10 his early love, al
~ the affection OF his heart tor her chlldr'
ir that made the terrible, silent, remorsele
IT, being he afterwards became. But hew
''r not in his nature a wicked man. Durll
% the latter part oflife his mind was shak
!, bv remembrance of that melancholy da
o. when Matte and her little ones mad 6e
D. buried by his hands in the '"VaIe
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