Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-01-20
Brad,luck's Grave.

In connection with BraddocS Grave
We cannot resist the temptation to give
some historical incidents derived from
! the Hon. Andrew Stewart. About the
year 1902, Mr.. Stewards father lived
/ about two miles east of BraddocSs ;
grave, on what is called "Braddock 5
| Old koad" the old military road Be
ing supervisor Of roads, lie went with
some hands to repair the road, taxing
with him llr Stewart, then a boy of
or y years OF age. While the men
were at work on the east bank OF Brad
docks Run. Thomas Faucett, (bon III
l7I2, and died in 1916, aged l04 years.
and vino was with Braddock's 5 army. at
the time of MS defeat and DEATH an old
mountain hunter. then living on the
road less than mile east of liraddocks
grave, i'll cabin. some OF the ruins OF
which are still visible, came along, with
his rifle on lis shoulder, a hunting knife
in his belt. dressed in q blue hunting
shirt. bear skin cap, aud buckskin pants,
standing straight rs ~ arrow, about SIX
feet four inches in his moccasins. Fau-
cett SAID Take care, wen, o: YOU will
die up Braddock's bones We-buried
him here where he died, right on the
bank OF this run. We dug away the
bank, and drove the baggage wagons
over the grave, SO that the enemy could
not find the grave. | will show YOU
the spot. The water has washed down
nearly to the bones. Dig down here 4
foot or two and you will find them.
The men did SO, and found the bones.
"Er.ddock, said Faucet to the work
men. was a brave NAV, bur to save his
men shot him" Why 50 WAS asked
81 will tel YOU Ny brother Joe and /
we're lighting behind trees, when Brad
dock came riding along and struck Joe,
saving, You coward, stand out and
ti@ht like a man" Considering him our
worst enemy, turned around and shot
him instead Of an Indian. When Wash
ington took command, he told US 10
Tree. We did 50, and the remnant o!
us were saved.
In confirmation ofFaucett's story.his
tory says that it was thought Ut the
time that braddock was shot by one ot
his own men and it was upon this oc-
clsion that Bladdock, when W Washington
advised him TO lct the men tree, sald
High times, when a Virginia Buck
skin undertakes TO teach british Nen-
cral how TO fight.
Mr.. Stewart further says the bones
were rcinterrcd at the foot OF 4 large
white oak tree, except few which his
father took home and afterwards sent by
some western merchants, going east,
with directions TO put them III the Nu-
scum at Philadelphia. The merchants,
Mr.. Stewart says, then Travelled III com
paues, armed with pistols, to protect
their money, consisting oi Spanish dol
lars Zach pack-horse carried two or
three thousand dollars, in small leather
BAGS. The merchants would carry
back, on the same horses, iron, salt and
other merchandise, for the supply oI the
Western people, the whole in i year
amounting perhaps to not much more
than one iron horse now takes over
the mountains in single train. Slaves
from Virginia were driven through
l-niontown in those days, carrolcd to
gcther like horses, for the W estcrn mar
kct This may seem strange To youn@
ears, but there are many old persons st!ll
living who witnessed II.