The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-11-05

then thE the weak site Of the earrisol
would not Justify the absence Of more tia
one mEn, and that & Easf for themselves .
DECIDE Who thai person should Be. HI
eageFness felt b. each volunteer TO under
GaEe the honorable mission pFeveate.
them from making the arrangement pro
posed By the commandment, and 50 muei
time EEs consumed In the eontenti0a ths
fears beg1n 70 arise that the INDIANS E0Gli
renew the attaek before the powder eoah
Be procured At this crisis I yo1ng lady
the sister Of Ebeneser and Sil2s Zane, cam
iorEr1 and desired thAtshe might Be per
mit1ed 70 execute the service Iii
R1Uposition seemed 80 extraEaSant tia
IL met With . peremptogy refusal, b
she insanity renewed her petition Z
terms Of redoubled e1rnestness, and q
fhe remonstrances Of the Colonel and hei
relAtiTes failed to dizsrade her from be.
!, heroic purpose Il Vas finally represent
I ed 70 her that ether Of the y6ung men O
account Of his superior feetness and tauh
iarity With scenes Of danger would be NOR
likely than herself 70 do the work success
fully. She replied that the danger Ghict
would Gttend the enterprise vas the Men
teal Feasoat that induced her 70 offer be.
services, for, - the garrison Vas YER
Il weak, no soldiers lie should be placed II
needles jeopardy, and that Il she were II
Ell be: loss would not be felt Her PED
ION vas ultimately granted, and the 2atC
opened tor her TO pass out. The opening
q the cate arrested the attention Of sey'
cal Indians Who we're struggling through
the VILLAGE. L Vas noticed that their eye
were upon her - she crossed the open
space 70 reach her brothers house; bal
seined, perhaps, With sudden freak o.
elemeney, or believing that Eom1ns life
Ms not worth load Of gunpOEdeF, Of
Influenced By some other unexplained
motive, theg permitted her to pass with
out noIeStzfion. When she re-Eppeared
With the p0Eder in her AIMS the Indians
suspeeting, no doubt, the character OF heE
burden, elevated their ireloeks and dis.
CHARGED . vulley n her Is she swiftly
giided towards the gate, bat the balls al
/ Dew vide Of the marx, and the fearless
girl reached the tort N safety With hez
pine. he pages Of history may furnish
) paaIIel 70 the noble exploit Of Elizabeth
Zane, bot IN instance Of greater self-6eTO-
ton and moral intrepidity Is not 70 be found
anywhere"
Il ia significant faet, Inst no other ae-
count Of the event narrated IN the histories
quoted above, EAs erer given until the
rear lSS9,-IxtysSvea years after the
event. MrsELydia CEuger, then 3 veneer
able Woman of eghty-fOUr years, made =
statement, claiming that the powder wGs
carried By Molly Scott, and not BY Eliza
beth Zane. her statement was UnsIp-
ported BY any evidence whatever. Al
persons Ehs could contradict her from
persez1 knowledge were dead. During
thar lifetime she made no such statement
and N 1859, according to Col MeEie-rAn,
s-ated that Elizabeth Zane E4s the heroine
Of the poEder kes. L Is not necessary 10
SEX any reason for this discrepancy or
raise any question Of motive, The bare
| faE4 that her statement Of 1879 IS wholly
uusrsszined, and vas made after the death
OF Al her contemporaries who had knoEi-
edce Of the eFelt-m1de also m extreme
| old as-ts fGtal % l. The history pub
Iished during the lifetime and In the very
presence Of the parties IN interest,", and
maintained unbr0kea and unimpeacbad
for 4 period extending 10 stxfy-seven
years altar the event. would require IN
duhitSble and overwhelming evidence 10
disprore OF upset The statement al
single witness even II in the tnll vigOr Of
lffe, would til 70 effect sGeh > purpose.
As corr0borGtiSe Of the account con-
tAined in Withers History, ! submit
mn srATENSr OF MOLLY scoTT's GRANDSON.
He Sas neh = t1Torite with her that
she nade him her heir. BE Is thorough
Il reliable man.
wAEG71ASD, Angus, 1870.
NJ. y. &. BOdEaRio, EEnsiias, v. "a:
Sm-I have no hesitation in replying TO
the inquiries YOU make ! am the oldest
surviving descendant Of Molly Scot, some
Whist mated a. one OF the early. settlers Of
Wheeling Ian her grandson the only
one nov living. Molly died near Wheel
ing, March 5, 1850, aSed 50 years Ny re-
lationship, Of course, brought me into
zlmoSt constant assocsaticn with her from
infAney uati her death, and have often
heard her tel incidents connected with
the early settlement Of Wheeling, and
about the Indian var and troubles. and
many "reminiscences Of the principal per-
sons Of the settlement hsTs heard her
tel frequently tbs s'0Fy Of the siege Of
Fort Henry. She WIS an inmate and as
loading guns, and sueh other employnents
Is they were able 70 do, She has told me,
snd IN ny preserve, many times, shout
the exploit a Betsy Zane carrying powder
in her apron from Colonel Zane's dwelling
10 the toEt. during the siege, and Of the
courage and inrrepidity with which the
act vas performed, a. vel q the narrow
escape she bad from the bullets Of the In
dt1Rs. she always told me the same story,
Gad anH S1N Gzy uthr AGae tkGa Elisabeth
or Bay Zn<, a Gtkoa7nf la, a IL ar rio
e|Tied tie polnS4, She nerer daimed the
credit for herself, and fze 4 AoOGhG tradi-
ton In the Scott famiy. Elizabeth Zane
vas, believe, the sister Of Col. Ebene1er
Zane, the original ioundes q Wheeling.
This i ahaut Al the information / can
gre you, hGt my remembrance Is clear a
70 the Correctness Of the foregoing state
meat Yours J.E. SoUTT,
Iaiso submit
r1TnHST OF Ne TosT,
I venerable citizen Of Belmont county.