Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-03-22
resolution of coincidence with the Rus
sian Government was adopted, when
the Senate, soon after, adjourned. :
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Kings Mountain.

the Senate, soon after, adjourned.
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From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Kings Mountain.
, SOME INTERESTING HIsTORY-A sERI
: GUS OMISSION IN THE INSCRIPTION
: ON A COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT
|, To THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
Away back in the far distant past
perhaps about 1719-the county Of Au.
gusta was formed from Orange county
Virginia. 1t embraced all the Territory
west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from
what was then called Dunmore, the
present line between Shenandoah anc
Rockingham counties, away up to thu
Lake of the Woods, If you please, in thu
Northwest. The States of Kentucky
and. of course, the illegitimate daughter
of Virginia, with dozen or more coun
ties of West Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin
dc. were parts of Augusta county. Ita
County Court met at Pittsburg, and had
we time we could give you some inter-
esting incidents connected Herewith.
lts hardy pioneers, many of them the
Scotch Irish, who, after the bloody per-
secuti0ns that caused them to flee from
Scotland and the North of Ireland, at
first emigrated to the eastern counties OF
Pennsylvania Thence they by degrees
moved toward the Southwest, between
the North Mountain and Blue Ridge.
remaining In the same great valley, ex-
tending from the Brandy vine into Ten
nessee at Bristol. They were the bold
and fearless mountain men who aided
| BraddOck in his unfortunate expedition,
1 r,f l
of Fayette aud contiguous counties of
West Pennsylvania. They were the
principal strength of the army that met
COrnstalk at Point Pleasant, the intro
duction to the Revolution. It was of
them General Washington spoke, In the
darkest hours of that memorable con-
| f1ict, when. at Valley Forge, he uttered
those memorable words, Leave me but
standard, give me but the means to
plant it on the mountains of West Au-
gusta, and I will yet call around me
those who will lift our bleeding country
from the dust and set her free." They
were the brave and undaunted men
who made the Cowpens a name that
twas not born to die," and who, led by
Shelby, Sewer, Campbell, and Mellow
ell, the four heroes of Kings Mountain,
forced CORVALLIS to play that import
ant part in the great drama on the spot
so soon to witness its first Centennial,
that will have at its celebration the
third generation from the French and
American soldiers who forced its capit-
ulation.
tits of the recent Centennial at Kings
Mountain design to speak, and through
your widely extended journal, refer to
the unexplained end uncalled for injus-
tice to one of the heroes of that memoir
able battle to which my attention has
recently been called.
On the morning of the 18th inst on
my. return from New York, I break
tasted In Charlottesville, Va, with my
OctOgenarian friend, John Cochran,
Esq, the father of Judge John Lewis
Cochran, married to one of Ohio's fair
daughters. He is very near descen-
dant of the prominent man of whom I
design to speak.
Referring to the celebration at Kings
Mountain, and the erection of the mon
ument to commemorate the memory, as
he bad supposed, of its four heroes, he
asked me if had learned that while
the names of Colonels Shelby, Sewer,
and Campbell had been properly in
scribed on three of its sides, from some
unknown and unexplained cause that
of Colonel Joseph Mcdowell is omitted.
replied had not heard it, and felt
panied at such an annunciation, and
sincerely hoped that it was not so. I
need not say to you. Mr.. Editor, that
this annunciation will carry surprise
and modification to the thousands of
the descendants, relatives and connec-
tiOns of this brave man, scattered over
so many of the States and Territories,
but it will affect alike those of his three
associates, deserving as 0W were of q
common Immortality. I cannot con-
ceive of any motive for such an outrage,
because if true it we'll deserves this very
mild designation.
My venerable informer asked me if I
had known that Colonel Joseph Nc
Dowell had emigrated from Linville's
Creek, Rockingham county, Va, to
West North Carolina. some years before
the battle of Kings Mountain? 1 re-
piled that not only was surprised at
hearing this fact, but had believed that
he was born in what is now Mcdowell
county, originally portion of Burke
county, N. G. He said Colonel Nc
Dowell was accompanied by several of
the Chrisman family, who were natives
of Linville's Creek. and Major George
Chrisman is now the owner of what
was no doubt the old family home of
that very extensive family, who not
only peopled in part the beautiful valley
of the Catawba, in West North Caro-
lima, but the counties Of Jessamine and
Fayette, Kentucky, and Saline county,
Missouri. Two of Colonel McDowell's
daughters married two of the Chris
mans, of Jessamine, KY. Harvey H.
Mcdowell, his oldest son, mraried Nam
cy, a daughter of the late Captain Sam
Miller, of Messy. creek Iron works, in
Augusta county. He was the oldest son
of Henry Miller, cousin and contem-
porary of Daniel Boone, both natives of
Berks county, Pa. They made several
trading expeditions with the Indians to
this part of Augusta about 1725, when
Miller selected this spot and built the
first furnace in the Valley of Virgins.
His wife, q Miss Winters, was sister of
Abraham Lincoln's 3 grandmother The
six sons of Captain Miller, with their
brother.in law, III. H. Mcdowell, with
their elegant caravan of wagons, car
riages- aud retinue of slaves, as they
passed through Lexington, Va, toward
Missouri, were observed by Colonel
Thomas H. Benton. He inquired who
they were, and where they were going?
On being informed 1t was to Saline
county, Mo-, he shook his head, saying
he was sorry for it, THAT they would
die off like rotten sheep" 1t was soon
fulfilled as prophecy. General Joseph
J. McDowell,t of Hilllsboro', Ohio, the
father of the popular member of your
staff and who represented that dis
trict several terms in Congress. was the
youngest son. 1t will be proper for you,
Mr.. Editor. representing, as your paper
does, so many of the descendants of
Colonel Mcdowell, to inquire into the
truth of the rumor of this slight upon
his memory, and vindicate it.
A VIRGINIAN.
| *This sister was the maternal great grand
mother OF Judge John b. McCue, and another
sister the grandmother of Hon. Marshall Ham
ger. She married Maj. Crawford.
| This General Joseph ]. Mcdowell married
Sallie, daughter of Rev. John McCue Pastor OF
Tinkling Spring church, who was killed by a
| fall from his horse. She still lives.
! Kidney Diseases.
Kidney diseases afflict the greater
part of the human race. and they are
constantly on the increase, but where