Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-04-14
LOCHREYS DAUGHTER.

! LOCHREYS DAUGHTER.
A bevy of girls, granddaughter
of the aged lady of the mansion
were assembled for their usual sum
mer visit at the old Beatty home
stead. Acting out child natur
everywhere, they beset Grand
mother Beatty one evening for ;
story, and when sh9 aSsented, an(
gave them their choice among sew
eraI incidents of her early days
they naturally preferred the follow
ing, as it relates to wedding anC
a baby; to subjects of particular in
terest to girls of their age-twelv'
to sixteen.
She always began this oft-told
tale in the same words of half apol-
ogy:
al heard it so many times wher
1 was child, and / have told it 81
often since / became old, that il
does seem as if / remember it; tho
that cannot be, for / was only tif
teen months old when it happened
But il is just as true, girls, as if !
could recollect it myself, for l heard
my father and grandmother and
others tell it over and over ever sc
many times. And so you will for.
give me if 1 tell it just as though ]
remember all about it, for indeed ]
cannot tell it in any other way.
81 was born in my fathers little
log cabin just a fortnight after ii
was built, the fifteenth of April,
1881, and my cradle was roll OF
bark with two crooked sticks for
rockers. That was in WeStmore-
land county, Penn, at place called
Miller's Station, two miles from
Hanna's Town. Both these places
were destroyed by the Indians and
never rebuilt; they were not far
from the present village of Green
burg.
"ThOse were years of war all over
America, but the frontiers had the
hardest of it, for British agents kept
the Indians stirred up and supplied
them with guns and ammunition,
but the colonies had all the fighting
they could do along the seaboard,
and so had no help to spare to the
borders. Countless murders of
women and children were commit
ted by the savages, and hosts of
people carried into captivity.
Those were awful times on the from
tiers.
"Well, the incident you have
asked me to tell occurred on the
18th of July, 1882, when l was a
baby just running alone nicely.
There had been many settlers far
ther into the wilderness than Mil
ler's Station and Hanna's town, but
gradually they had been driven
back till our places were the last on
the borders. Among the settlers
thus returning were two Scotch fam
lilies who stopped and built cabins
near ours, the Courlas and Dunlaps.
Others also settled down at Miller'S
until. with the great double man.
sion of Mr.. Miller, the fine house
of Mr.. John BroWnlee, and several
smaller ones, we had quite village.
"Mary Courla must have been a
beautiful Scotch girl, for her praises
were IN everybody's mouth, aud as
1 first recall her, though thirty
years old, she was a lovely woman.
And James Dunlap was worthy Of
her, few men | ever saw equaling
him in looks and bearing. 1t seems
that love, like wild violets, bios
SONS in the woods as well as in the
fields; and perhaps it is sweeter
there than in the towns where it
makes so much gaudier appearance,
like over-cultivated pansies. AT
any rate, James and Mary courted,
loved, married and lived a great
many years of welded love, all in
the borders.
"They were general favOrites in
our little settlement, and when it
was whispered about that their
day was set, Mr.. Miller
went to James and invited him to
have the wedding at the mansion
and ask in hOuseful. James as
sented, and when the day came,
July II, it was goOdly company
that gathered to see the lovers uni |
ted. Numbers came from Hanna's |
Town, chief among them being Mrs.
Hanna herself and her two beautiful
the aristOcracy of West
"In old times the wedding day
was the brides day, the next was
.he groom's, and was called the
infair,' and this was Il more festive
occasion than the marriage itself.
So you see my story happened not
1t a wedding. really, but at the in.
air.
"Everything went merry enough
until the middle of the afternoon.
There had been dancing, and play
ng, and great glee after dinner,
when suddenly, like a clap OF thun-
Ter out of a clear sky, terrible
burst on their ears, and
. host of painted savages rushed
nto the mansion. 1t seems they
lad attacked Hanna's Town about
loon, most of the people escaping
nto the fort; and then, before any
)ody could get away to give us
at Miller's, they had come
lnaWares upon our place.
"MOst of our people were captur-
ID few men who were moving
,rasS in the meadows, and some
Who were at home in the cabins,
led into the woods and escaped.
All the wedding company were
AIKEN the bride and groom, Mrs.
Hanna and her daughters, John
and all his family but one
title child, which was rescued by a
young man and hid in a rye-field,
n all, forty-five souls. Most of them
we're released and came home with
n couple of years, among them
he young married couple but some
we're tomahawked on the march.
3rownlee was one of these. He
lad been a leader against the In
lians in several expeditions, and
ONE of the red men recognized
i'm and remembered with anger
lis bravery. On the retreat Brown
ee was loaded by them like pack
lorse with great burden of things
hey had stolen in our cabins and
Ie had taken in addition his young
st child, about my age, and so was
beside his wife. At one
pot he stopped slightly to arrange
Iis load, when an Indian sunk a II
in his brain. AS he fell