The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-04
LOcHREY,s DAUGHTER.

A Oevy OF girls, granQ-QaugnterS OF
the aged lady of the mansion were as
semb1ed for their usual summer visit at
the old Beatty homestead. Acting out
Grandmother Beatty one evening for a
story, and when she assented, and gave
them the choice amnng several Incl
preferred the following, as it relates to
q wedding and a baby; 10 su jects of
particular interest to girls of their age
twelve to sixteen.
she always began this oft-told tale
in the same words of half apology:
"f heard it so many times when 1
was q ch Id, and have told it so often
since / became old, that it does seem
as if remember it though that can not
be. for was only fifteen months old
when it happened. But it is Just as
true, girls, as II could recollect it my
self. for heard my father and grand
mother and others tell it over and
over ever so many times. And so
you will forgive me if tell it .ust as
though remember all about it, for in
deed can not tell it in anv other way.
81 was born in my fathers little
log cabin iust fortnight ter it was
bu 1t, the fifteenth or April, 1871, and
my cradle was a rol of bark with two
crooked sticks for rockers. That was
in Westmorel nd County, Penn, at a
pla called Nj ler's Station, two mi es
from Hanna's Town. 10th these places
were destroyed by the Indians and nev-
er rebuilt ey were not far from the
present village of 'ireenburg.
Those were years of war all over
America, but the rontiers had the hard
est o. it. for Br sh agen kept the In
dians stirred up and supplied them with
had all the fighting they could do along
the seaboard, and so had no help to
snare to the borders. Countless muir
ders of women and children were COM
mitted by the savages, and hosts of
people carried into captivity. Those
were awful times on the frontiers.
swell, the Incl lent you have asked
me to tell occurred on the 18th of July.
1a8', when was baby just rum ng
alone nicely. There had been many
settlers arther into the wilderness than
Miller's Station and Hanna's Town. but
gra !ually they had been driven back till
our places were the last en- the borders.
Among Il settlers thus returning were
two S, otch families who stopped and
built cabins near ou s, the Co irlas and
d. Maps. Others also settled down at
Miller's until. with the great double
mansion OF MIR. Miller. the line house of
ohm Brownlee, and several smaller
ones, we had quite village.
"Nary Courla must haze been q
beautiful Scotch girl. for her praises
were in everybody's mouth. and as
first recall her. though thirty years old.
she was lovely woman. And ames
Euulap was worthy of her, few men
ever saw equaling him in looks and
bearing. 1t seems that love. ke wild
violets, blossoms in the woods as well
as in the fields; and perhaps it is sweet
er the! Q than in the towns where it
makes SO much gaudier appearance,
like. over-cultivated pansies. At any
married and lived q great many years
o. welded love. all in the borders. .5
"They were general favorites in our lit
tie settlement and hen it was whispered
about that their wedding day was set,
Mr.. Miller went to James and vited
hins to have the wedding at the man
sion and K in housefuL James
assented, and when the day came, July
IL, it was q goodiy company that
gathered to see the lovers united.
Numbers came from Hanna's Town.
chief among them being Mrs. Hanna
herself and her two beautiful daughters,
the aristocracy of Westmoreland.
"In old times the wedding day was
tho brides day, and tine next was the
groom's, and was called the Unfair.
and this was q more festive occasion
than the marriage itself. So you see
my story happened not at wedding,
really, but at the Unfair.
Everything went merry enough
until the middle of the afternoon.
There had been dancing, and playing.
and great glee after d nner, when sud-
denly, like clap of thunder out OF
clear sky, a terrible war-whoop burst
on their ears, and q host of painted
savages rushed into the mansion. 1t
seems they had attacked Hanna Town
about noon most OF the people escaping
into the fort: and then, before ANYBODY
could get away to give us warning at
Miller's. they had come unawares upon
our place. aa
..Most of our people were captured; a
Few men who were moving grass in the
meadows. and some who were at home
in their cabins. tied into the woods and
escaped. AL the wedding company
were taken, the bride and groom, Mrs.
Hanna and her daughters. John Brown
lee and all his amily but one little
child, which was rescued by young
man and hid in rye field, in all. forty
fl g souls Most OF them were released
and came fome within a couple OF
year /, among them this young married
couple: but some were tomabawked on
the march. Brownlee was one of these.
! hid been q leader against the IN
d ans in several ped ons, and some
OF the red men recognized him and re-