The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-07-28
MAJOR DOkxE.
Ms Gareer n Europe as a Nob7en'o,',
an" m d H'erica as a Stare and a
Ctftzen'- lis recent death.

own residence on ~ 10Th day Of
June, 1876. The history of this re
rs early part Is unknown only from
the words OF his own lips, which no
one who knew him would dare to
doubt.
lie was the son Of a nobleman, and
was born IN the city Of Amsterdam in
1893. His parents were very wealthy,
and stood first anon, die families OF
Holland As was the custom in Eu-
rope, his education received early at
tenuon and 1t may be due to this fact
that he so well sustained himself in
America, his adopted home, for he al
ways managed to live independently
BY bis own labor, even in his old age.
At the age of nine he entered the
army OF Napoleon Bonaparte, under
the command of bis father, who was
one of Napoleons officers. His com
mission was that Of drummer boy
aud who knows how much the success
of that grand Frneh army depended
upon him In 1872 he was with
Napoleon in his gand march to Mos
COW. He heard the glad shouts Of
triumph over thaiproud city, and saw
her ruined walls All a prey to the de-
vouring flames.
He was one ofthoac who survived
the march to Alscow. He returned
+ home. But-<wi-l9f cue day he was
porting with his eimpauions upon the
banks of the Rbi,e, he was dec0yed
into ship boundfor New Orleans
and before he wusaware OF his condi
ton, the ship ha, sailed far out upon
the sea. Seeing his condition he be
came alarmed. AID cried out for help
but he was dragged to the cabin, aud
there confined till the ship reached
the harbor of New Orleans Here he
was exposed IL the market for sale, to
be slave for SIX years. His age was
then fourteen.
After three years Of servitude, his
master died. aud he was again sold
\ oeotleman of Kentucky bought
him, and brought HIM to Springfield,
XIV where he serfed his time out a.
a keeper of hores. He afterwards
removed 90 HARRISBURG and then to
this Casey county, where he cOntIn-
ued 10 reside ill lIs death.
At the age Of twenty seven he was
married, and became the father of two
children, a sou, Npodemus A. Doane,
and a daughter, Elizabeth Doaue.
But. from the uDwiaiugness of his
vile Tor him to enier the Mexican war,
he lett her, and ale went to California
with her childreb while he was en-
gagged in recruiting the United States
army tomarch aslust Mexico. From
his ineticicucy 90 bear arms, he was
never called uponby the Government
to be soldier. But, of his own &C
cord. ne helped to organize and recruit
mauy of tho Ktntucky regiments,
both the Mexican and in the late
war.
Major Doarc, as he was always
called, was verJ honorable citizen.
He WIS loved asd respected by all
who Knew him His efforts to make
living were always independent
lie engaged in any work by which he
could make an honestly earned penny; /
and in this way he sustained himself /.
and family hondably aud iudepend /
emily. His statue was short, but be I
coming. His drss was plain, but al /
wavs neat and clean IN short, he was /
a nice man and a Perfect gentleman. +
He had a pecu.nrig OF pronunciation, /
which resulted haa biting his tongue
when he once tel from buggy. I'll
was an amusing fact that he would I
often get lost in lis own corn field OF .
ueighboriug WOO, and inquire at home /
of his wife wher he was, before he /
could recognize Is own house. This /
is supposed to haze been the result Of .
having been rai~d 10 "a city.
After his separation from his first /
wife, he became parried twice more I
and surviving th>e two, he married +
again, and his burth wife was his
first. She's having survived two other
husbands and him still lives.
Successive, butunayaijiug attempts I
have been mads to induce Major
Doanc to return % his old home, and /
there enjoy his nheritauce Friends +
have offered to 90 with him, and have
gotten as far as New York, but yet be /
would not 90. Letter after letter from
Holland was received by him, but not
being able to read, he remained in il
norance of their contents aud would not
20. But there uay be a handsome
legacy left, yet, T. his descendants, il
ever found, wheh will make them
wealthy.
Thus the drummer,b boy of Naro
Icons army, the Eidnapped youth, the
American slave aud citizen, finished
his earthly career No costly monu
mcnt, DO grand inelosure now guards /
his grave, but
Far, far away, in an alien land
HIS relics in the cold grave arc lying,
Unhonored, unknown, in his dear father
land,
BY his friends who for him have been
signing.
0, let us give him parting sigh,
A tribute of our love as token,
For his remains viii sleep in the grave
where they lie,
TIL their slumber by the Archangel s
broken.