Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-05-18

accustomed, when a third generation
|, gathered around him, to designate tn
e localities so closely associated in hi
t memory with the rapid alterations o
hope and dispair on the foregoing occa
sion-the apprehension of torture anC
the prospects of rescue.
, "When in 1880 Gen. Clark led an ex
: pedition against the Chillicothe of tn,
! Little Miami and the Piqua of Mao
: River, Kenton was CAPTAIN of com
pany, but even more active and usefu
as the pilot of the march. In 1889, be
: performed a similar service under the
same distinguished leader, in an expe.
dition against the Indian towns on the
Great Miami between the present town
of Piqua and the mouth of Loramie's
Creek-the store of French trader in
the British interest, named Loramie, be-
ing destroyed at this time by detach-
ment under command of Col. Benjamin
Logan. After the conclusion of peace,
Kenton settled about three miles from
Limestone, now Maysville, and one mile
from where Washington, in Mason coun-
ty, KY, now stands; and in 1876 once
more commanded "a company under Col
Logan, in campaign against the Mach
acheek towns within the present lin
its of Logan county. In 1897 a SINH
lar blow was struck upon hostile vii
lage on Paint Greek, and until the paci-
ication of the frontier in 1895, Ken
tons collisions with Indian war parties
were frequent, fully sustaining his rep
utation as the most noted partisan of
the Ohio border. In 1899, particular
ly, severe engagement occurred on
the east fork of the Little Miami, about
five miles above where Williamsburg
now stands, in which Kenton encounter
ed as the leader of the Indian band, the
youthful and afterwards celebrated Te-
cumseh. In this affair, Kenton's skill
was in requisitiou to effect safe retreat
for his party, their force being inferior
to that of the enemy. Wayne's cele-
brated campaign followed, Kenton COM
manding a battalion with the rank of
Major, and with the successful issue
of that expedition, closed his military
career until 1918.
"Dispossessed of his lands in Ken
lucky, by the want of skill of caution
in legal fOrmalities, the latter portion of /
Kenton's life passed in comparative poY-
erty. In 1919 he settled in Urbana,
Champaign county, Ohio, and after
gqaaTd gEqaaTTdS tbeldd ddntfb ntbe iako rank of brigadiel gen
his biographer, Mcdonald, { Sketches,
&C., p. 1854, when Governor-Shelby
came to Urbana, at the head of the
Kentucky troops, Kenton would not re-
main in inglorious ease, when his coun-
try required defenders. He shouldered
his rifle, mounted his horse, and joined
the army as private, but privileged
of the Governors military fam
lily. He crossed the lakes and accom-
panied Gen Harrison to Maiden, in Up
per Canada; from thence up lake st.
Clair and the river Thames. He was
present at the glorious battle of the
Moravian Town, and played his part
with his usual intrepidity. Here ends {
the military career of the famous ST.
mon Kenton--a man who, it is proba- !
BILE, passed through more hair-breadth l
than any man living or dead
"About 1920, Kenton moved to the I
township of jefferson, in Logan county, '
rearing log cabin in beech forest;
and in 1924 pension of twenty dollars
l month was secured by the exertions '
and influence of Jacob Burnet, then a !
Senator, and Joseph Vance, represen- {
.ative of Ohio in Congress. For eigh-- S
,een years he had been an exemplary S
member of the Methodist church. s
"'General Kenton, adds his biogra- '
,her, was of fair complexion; six feet
'ne inch in height. He stood and
walked very erect; and in the prime of
life, weighed about one hundred and {
ninety pounds. He never was inclined
@ be corpulent, although of sufficient !
ullness to form graceful person. He {
lad soft, tremulous voice, very pleas {
ng to the hearer. He had laughing
yray eyes, which appeared to fascinate
he beholder. He was pleasant, good I
lumored and obliging companion
When excited, or provoked to anger, S
which was seldom the case, the frery $
glance of his eye would almost curdle 1
he blood of those with whom he came g
n contact. His rage, when reused, was I
/ tornado. In his dealings he was per- s
ectly honest; his confidence in man, b
md his credulity were such that the n
'ame man might cheat him twenty times; e
md if be professed friendship, he might Il
heat him STILL P
"Your committee are clearly of opinion
hat no name can be selected so suita-
lie for the slight commemoration which
he bill proposes as that of Simon Ken
on. He is the Representative man of .
rontier life in Ohio. He is, in reality, :
What Cooper has presented to an admir- !. .
ng world in successive volumes of fc
ion, a noble child of nature-the heroic =
,ioneer of the Revolutionary era-com- u
lining, in one vivid personality, the !. :
)eerslayer, the Hawkeye, the Pathfnd- :
r, the Leather Stocking and the Trap y
er, as the hand of the great Ameri- = =
an novelist has wrought those concep u
ions into the tapestry of our literature.
Kentucky entreats for the boon of
emoving the bones of Simon Kenton to v ',
he cemetery of her caDital. and depos- u