The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-05-30

I>fo"""eiSiai iIOIu TIC IlttIe OH Town
Rising Sun, Indiana. and thus pleasant
~ disconrses Of the birthplace and boy
hood Of General Candy:
-Four miles below this place is th
birthplace Of the lamentcd Canby
olIhc Ohio River having sudden turI
forms peninsula or horseshoe, con
|taining several thousand acres Of ric
bottom land, or gentle unLulating up
D land. This has been known many wear
l.. as East Bend. Here. about the year Is
j, lo, the Generals Father, DR.. Israel I
/. Candy, Physician, came to settle upo
5 a large Kentucky estate, belonging to al
|, Ieldcrly maiden aunt, who, attendin,
him from Maryland ~and remaining a
Newport, ] believe, until he had prepar
led house for occupation made he
home with him. This lady, 1t seems
afterward gave the place cc-consisting O
lperhaps, a thousand acres with man,
NEGRO slaves, to her nephew. Abou
the year 1916, DR.. Candy married Eliza
beth, daughter of Major Robert Piatt
Il paymaster in the United States Army
whose equally extensive anG beautiful
farm lay just above his own upon the
river. And here, in the year 1919. the
future frontier officer was born. Led
chiefiy by some early and dear personal
associations with that locality, / took
the opportunity, a day or two ago. to
visit East Bend, and while there learned
a few particulars Of General Canbv's
early life, which, perhaps, may not be
nninteresting to the public at this time.
The ferryman who rOwed me across the
river remembered the General in his
early boyhood, and was a schoolmatc at
his first country school. The ferry it.
self, by the way, is owned BY the gentle
man who married one Of the Generals
Youngest sisters. These were absent
from home. but saw All uncle and aunt
of Canby's the former of whom, born the
same year, was his early playmate AMI
companion. This Uncle had the tempo
rary impression that "Kichard." as Cen
cral Candy has always been designated
by his kinsfolk, was born at Madison.
but afterward met an old female SER
want of his grandfather er-who spoke OF
fifty years ago as yesterday and she nj
once contradicted his testimony. "For
she said cmphatically. IL knowed dc wo-
man dat waited for him." and recalled
the laiters name and some reasons for
not doubling her own memory. Her
testimony was subsequently, affirmed
and corrOboratcd.
"Wcll, Aunt Ailsa," | said, sis the
house still standing where DIR. CanbyI
lived at that time -
NO" she answered. pointing with
her finger, 1T was log house dat was
orn down and moved. You'll Sc some
Die apple trees way down yondcr- de
house stood just dare" a young cousin
vt General Canby's. who accompanied
ne in my walk, auerward pointed outi
! willow tree chosen by Miss Spraguc. /
he Generals grand aunt above mentions
I'd. rs her place of burial at her own
was told 1.-The lovely old tree
her solitary monument. No,
,thcr grave is near.
DR.. Candy was, have been assured, al
Gentleman of the kindest heart, loving, I,
nd caring tcnderly for his children.
mt, ] am told, from the infancy Of Rich {
rd, his eldest child, he set him apart fora
he army. and began early to inure him
0 hardship, giving him, perhaps, by ae
crtaiD prescience. an experience Of sucbIl
as the War Department has ,
would seem. followed up somewhat !
crsis.rnily throughout his long military,
te, IN keeping the patient soldier far
az upon frontier duty. |!
While Richard Candy was yet child Il
lis father sold the Kentucky homesteadd d
nd removed to Madison Indiana. Att
lis time he had forty or fifty slaves to b
)me OF these he gave their freedom
le female domcstics chiefly, believe A
ie Others ne transferred to the purcha- y
II Of his lands-a Mr.. Carncal, of Gin p
nnati. The house servants, kindly re- i,
lovcd from their house of bondage, ate
nee followed their master into Indiana ZIP
I'd for these he atterward provided IN
lilding dwellings for one or two, andIfl
caring for them. One of them e
, provided for, who followed DIR. Can d
Y to Crawfordsville, whittier he re- III
owed after ten or twelve years, resi- q
ence at Madison, is still living in thatst
lace understand. "
What q lasting strength ofattachment
lc very helplessness Of their slavery of Iif
m gave to the passive people held By Ift
le uprooted old terrible institution lie,
wo years ago was passing down the Il
hio on the mail boat, one night in sum- c,
Ter, when signal was seen at the Eastd
end landing the steamer ronnded to. Il
nd large col0red woman, well dress b
/, came OH board. Having heard f;a- -il
'iliar name called by the mate or cap- ft
lin before landing, / aftcrward ap- ct
reached the new passenger, and made jim
,me inquiries concerning the place and h'
,sidencs, offering her fair reason for B
~ curiosity. When she had given me etl
le information ! had asked she told me eo
Of her own history. She was n
orm at South Bend she said, but man ' at
ears ago she had been taken to South Ia