Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1879-11-13

ot July, the Held officers had been mus
tered out and the companies and their
officers distributed into the Third and
Sixth Pennsylvania Regiments. Capt
Brady was therefore sent home by Gen
Wnshington's order, with Can't. Boone
Licutenants Samuel and John Daugher
ty, to assist Col. Hartley in protecting
the frontiers. lie joined Col. Hartley
at Muncy on the 18th Of September,
and accompanied him on the expedi.
ton TO Tioga. Col. Hartley, in a letter
TO Congress dated October s, l77S, Pa.
Archives, vol. 7. page 81 describes the
hardships OF this march. awe waded
or swan Lycoming creek upwards oi
twenty times, met great rains and pro.
dipious Ewhmps, mountain dciiles and
| rocks impcded our course, and we had
TO open and clear the way as we passed.
We carried two boxes OF spare ammu.
milton and twelve days provision. |
cannot help observing the difficulties
in crossing the Alps or passing up the
Kennebec could not have been greater
than our men experienced for the
| time" On their return, after they left
! Wyalusing, the enemy made Il heavy
attack upon his rear and the rear guard
I
! Captains Boone and Brady, and Lieut..
! King, with few brave fellows, landed
| from the canoes and renewed the ac.
! tion. We advanced on the enemy on
all sides, and the Indians, after brave
/ remittance, conceived themselves sur.
/ rounded, fed with the utmost haste.
/ leaving ten dead
/ During the whole Of the fall Of IT'S
I the savages ravagcd the settlements.
and Captain Brady was kept busy. He
/ was one Of those Of whom Col. Hunter
wrote on the 18th of December, who
told him, They would rather die fight.
/ ing than leave their homes again. 7"
With the opening spring of 1879 these
nroads were renewed and in such force
that william Maclay wrote, "Ilc bcliey.
ed the whole force of the Six Nations
was being poured down upon the West
Branch Valley"
Amid the scenes Of terror and confu.
sion Captain Brady stood maniully at
his post. and died by it, al time when
his services could i'll be spared. On the
fatal llth OF April, l779, in the golden
light Of morning its sunlight reflected
by the myriad rain drops lying on the
bushes and the trees, with the songs Of
birds among the branches, in all the
hope and glory Of coming spring, going
forth TO the duties of the hour, the
sharp summons came, and in the twink.
ling Of an eye Captain John Brady stood
before his God.
The af vlrtar, ibs plume tho vrraih
Defend ut from the bolt uf fAtr the brAtc b.
Glory light. the soldier. tomb
AB4 beauty vesIs ths brave"
The days Of Iicathenism are long
since past, and we no longer lay our
dead beneath the cypress shade 10 sleep
the sleep that knows no mourning.
The eye Of faith reveals to US more
glorious destiny, and tho firm belief OF
a reunion in the Heavenly home sweeps
the shadows from fills our hearts and our
souls with hopes that ucjN be realized
beyond the tomb. Spring shall yet
visit these mouldering graycs' Know
we not
The t4fur dfavt an
When ut e single tIsIi = buftal Earth
Nhsihsr uH Land 1T iu the spacious ssa.
Bot must Ei'' % its labR committed dust
Iusiols;s"
Yes, when the Arch Angels trump
shall sound, Biddle' will come, and
Conner will come, from their sea. weed
shrouds and their coral collins, far down
in the deep green waters of the Allan.
tic, and Capt. John Brady will leap ex-
ul,ant from his silent grave, with the
immortal light OF God on his counten.
auce.
To the valley his loss was we'll nigh
irreparAble. Death came TO its defend.
er and "Hell followed" hard after. In
May Buffalo Valley was oyerrun, and
the people left; on the Sth Of July
Smiths Mills, at the mouth of White
Deer creek. were burned, and on the
18th Muncy Valley was swept with the
besom of destruction, Starrett's Mills
and all the principal houses in Muncy
township burned, with Forts Muncy,
Brady and Freeland; and Sunbury be.
came the frontier. But why picture
the sadness and sorrow which on this
happy day, cannet be realized Time
has long since assuaged ii all. The
broken hearted widow has long since
clAsped hands with her brave husband
in a better world, where there are no
garments rolled in blood" and their
children and their grand children nave
Joined them beyond the food.
After the death Of her husband Mrs.
Brady removed with her family TO her
fathers place, in sunderland county,
where she arrived in May, 1879. She
remained until October Of that year, and
then removed to Buffalo Valley, to what
is now known as the Frederick place,
three miles west Of Lewisburg; where
she died on the 10Th of October, 1888,
at the early age of forty.eight years.
Over her remains in the beautiful GENE.
terry at Lewisburg, in the same grave
with those Of the youthful hero Of
Brandywine John Brady, who died on
the 10th of December, 1909, at the same
age--forty eight, is a marble slab with
the appropriate inscription, "All tears
are wiped from her eyes."
To Captain Brady's descendants, time
fails me in paying a proper tribute.
When border tales have lost their
charm for the evening hour when
oblivion blots from the historic page
tho elorious refsord of pennevlvauia in