Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-09-06
From the Irouton Register.
THE FRENCH OF SOUTHERN OHIO.

MoNsIEURs CABOT AND DUTEIL.-
MONSIEUR CABOT was one of the very
many Frenchmen who were hastened to
their grave, short time after landing in
the New World by that fatal Bilious
Fever. 1t arose, no doubt, from the
miasma generated by the luxuriant veg
citation which lay in pools of water COL
lected about two hundred yards from the
river bank. on the level grounds, and
which the heat of the sun made to de.
compose very rapidly. A little more
than five years had passed, and NJ. Ca
dot was numbered with the dead. am
informed that he was the first person
buried in the ground now occupied by
the cemetery at Gallipolis. He had
some education, and was an honorable
man. His three children all survive
They are, Marie Louise, Claude (Clau-
dius and Lemuel. There is one fact
here worthy to be remembered, that the
above Marie Louise was the first child
born in Gallipolis, January 28th, 1891,
about three months after the French ar
rived there. She was married to NJ.
LeClercq, in the autumn of 1909, and
still lives at Gallipolis, a widow. The
two sons, Cladius and Lemuel, are af-
fluent farmers in Scioto Co.
MONSIEUR CHARLES FRANCIS DUTEIL
was born June 6, 1865. He was of
moderate education, had been a farmer
in France, and was therefore better suit
ed to the wilderness than many others.
At Gallipolis he was laborer, possess
ed town lots, made garden, etc.
NJ. Duteil was the only Frenchman of
Gallipolis that ever killed a buffalo
(Duduit and Lacroix killed them at the
Grant. He was out hunting, and came
across a herd, and without much expect
ing to kill one, or aiming at any one in
particular, he fred, and large buffalo
fell dead. So elated was he that with
out stopping to examine his prize, he
ran as fast as he could to the town, and
all, male and female, started for the
spot. Before he got back nearly all
the people of the town were there, so
great was the exultation over this feat
Of Frenehman, although it was almost
a daily affair for the New Englanders to
kill these beasts.
On another occasion Duteil was out
hunting with a brother Frenchman.-I
While out it rained severely, and the
creek which runs back of Gallipolis and
empties into the Ohio just below. was
so swollen as to prevent their crossing
at the usual place. They went up the
creek TO find crossing place, and soon
some Indians, only a few
hundred yards off, who gave them chase
The Frenchmen separated, and leaped |
into the papaw bushes, one going up,
and Duteil going down, leaping from
thicket to thicket with all the energy
which danger of life viii give, until he
reached the Ohio, just below the creek.
Here he was hemmed in by two bodies
of water, which kept him from town
and from Virginia, and the Indians not
far behind him. He pushed a log into
the water, which lay near by, and had
dry limbs standing out from it, on which
he put his gun, to keep it dry, and leap
ed into the river behind the log. SWIM
ming with all his power, yolley of bul-
lets soon fell around his head into the
water. Turning the log quartering up
stream. he kept his eye on the Indians,
who fred on him as fast as they could
loed, and as he would see the smoke,
dipped his head under the water, and
thus avoided the ball; and finally reach
ed the Virginia shore safely, with his
gun dry. He went up opposite town,
where he attracted attention, and was
taken over the river by his friends. His
companion was also saved
Three months after the death Of Mr.. |
Csdot, Monsieur Duteil and Madame