The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-07-11

wife of q man by the name OF SournsVer'
Elizabeth the wife of man by the name
of King, both French traders. The girls
wanted to come home, and KING not ear
ing to leave his his pursuits, sold his vile
to q soldier by the name of johnson, who
took charge Of her and her little Son, by
the name of John King. AS the Indian
marriages were not recognized as valid,
johnson married Mrs. King according TO
our laws and returned TO this neighbor-
hood, some seventy.siI years ago.
Sourhaven returned with his wife, re-
maining at her mothers for short time,
sole out their interest in the Green lands
TO nv father, and returned to, the In
dams. Their descendants may be In
dian chiefs, now brsvely contending for
the golden treasures Of the Black Hills;
at least, they chose their lots among the
rowing tribes of the Great West" john
son and his wife lived and died in this
county, leaving besides John King, i've
children, Jesse, Isaac, Greene, Sarah, and
Rebecca. All the children of Elizabeth
settled in this county. Jesse married
Miss Crowley, q cousin OF the late VIM.
Royse, the former owner of this grove In
which we are to-day assembled.
have been thus particular because OF
the large connection of the Greene tamil
", and because the Greene murder does
not appear, SO far as 1 know, in any Of
the sketches of the border warfare with
the Indians.
MURDERED BY A SLAVE WOMAN.
A planter from the South purchased
some eight or ten slaves in the neighbor-
hood of the city of Baltimore. They
were all women or small children, except
boy they called Ned. A good looking
Young moman named Hetty was among
them, and had q child IN her arms; she
had been separated from her husband,
who was a very valuable slave, that could
not be purchased because his master was
rich and would not part with him. The
planter with his light wagon and his en-
igrants, AS they we called, started bio
reach the Ohio River ut Parkersburg.
where he proposed going by water to the
State of Mississippi. On his way, near
where Portland now stands, they camped
Tor the night, all happy enough except
Door Hetty, who in state of desponden-
cy conceived the idea of killing her new
master, hoping she might be restored to
her husband. After spending sleeplsss
night, in the solitude of a wilderness, IN
state of frenzy she stole from the pocket
of her master his revolver whilst he was
taking his soundest nap just at the break
of day, and placed 1t In the hands of Ned,
and prevailed on him to give the fatal
shot Ned was a good marksman, and
placing the pistol to his masters Gar, fired,
and as he said, he never awoke.
The negroes were captured the next
day and lodged IN the Jail of this county.
The murdered man was decently buried,
and his money and property cared for.
Slaves in Virginia not having the hene-
fit Of a trial by jury, they were tried BY
the County Court l defended Hetty
and Ned Hetty was cleared on the
ground of insanity arising frem
the deep grief Of being sepa-
rated from home and husband;
but poor Ned paid the full
penalty of his rash act. He was con.
demned to be hung, and his earthly re-
mains steep Dehealn "nere HIS Salio"s
stood, about one mile northeast Of King
wood. Who knows but that some future
Harriet Beecher Stowe, with her ready
pen and vivid imagination, may not
treat the Americans with thrilling
novel founded on these facts; or that
this tragedy, ombellished by the hands
of Shakespeare, may not be success
fully played upon the stage; or that
some distinguished artist may not
rise and chisel out the queenly form of
Hetty with her babe in her arms, and
place her by the side Of the Greek Slave
to compete with that master piece OF
scripture. This is the more likely rs the
children of Ham are fast coming to the
surface; and us revolutions never 60
backward, they may have the honors
and uelp control the affairs of State in
com non with their blue-eyed cousins.