Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-02-16

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"but my own share in that fearful
event remains to be told
My mother was az the mansion, aud.
as | said before, was taken prisoner and
slain. NV father had also been there
most OF the afternoon. but as nv grand
/ mother remained in our cabin in charge
OF me, baby, he had stenred home for
a few minutes 10 hook after our welfare.
Ii was at this moment that the war
whoop sounded and the attack began
A glance told my father that nothing he
could do would avail to save my mother
or rescue any but grandmother and me.
If even this could be done, But as our
cabin was at the farther side OF the
hamlet, 1T the very foot of Georges
| Hill, he decided to try and escape into
the thick woods a little distance up the
slope Catching me in his arms and
taking his mother by the hand he hur,
! rled us toward the forest. Hardly had
we started when the rowing eyes of sew
I eral Savages spied us and pursuit was
instantly made, Grandmother was old
and :eeb.e, and the fright and haste al.
most oyercame her SO that she conld
hardly walk. My father, seeing this
and noting how fast the Indians
were gaining on us, balanced in
his mind which TO give up and
! which 10 try and save, his mother or
his child. And this question was settled
when he reached the edge OF the woods;
Tor at that ONT, he dropped me upon
the ground, and. devoting all rs
strength 10 his mother, escaped the saw
ages and reached Georges Farm. y few
miles distant What would become of
me he could not imagine. though he
said that until darkness shut down. and
he came back to search for wife and
taby. he had constantly before his eyes
vision of my scalp of glossy ringiets
in a red mans bloody hands. When
night came he stole to the clearing 10
examine the state of affairs. AS he
crept out from among the trees and
listened and gazed all was still. but not
all dark. Below him at saN eral points
were glowing beds of Goals, and the
smoky air told him that the hamlet was
not only bereft of its people but burned
70 the earth. Warily crawling down
the hill he came first to the smolderinr
remains of the Couria cabin. next were
the embers of the Dunlaps' little house.
and next TO this stood our own. But,
as he approached, what was his amaze
ment to discern, instead of bed al
ashes, the outlines of tho cabin dimly
seen i'll the darkness, A fire had beaa
built against its walls, but owing TO th;,
green state of the logs il did not burn
LAS he stood before the open door
thinking how much of love and happ-
ness had been suddenly snatched from
beneath its roof. a sweet, sad longing
possessed him to enter. He did so. and
by some instinct of his mind. or inf,..
cnce of higher power, CROPPED his WAY
to the bed, where at that hour but 10
the awful disaster, his wife and bahg
would have been peacefully sleepin%
Putting out his hands with almost wa
for his lost ones, what was his astonisa.
ment to feel human form on the cot
With shudder of mystery, hope and
fear. he cit along--it was q living form.
for ii moved-it was chld's form
and lifting it 10 his breast, his heart
told him it was |, his baby girl, alive.
AMI IS he clasped me i'll his arms, thn
events of the past six hours seemed Ike
horrid nightmare. But too sadly did
he learn the reality of things before
another day passed. Knowing tho
craftiness of the Indians. he dared not
remain longer in the cabin lest some
party o. them. proving to catch such
returning settlers rs he, might come
upon him; so he carried me to the
woods and waite for morning.
q How such . mere infant as escaped
and found my way back to the cabin
was never known.
AS the dawn came, my father peercd
into tho valley for signs of friend or
foe, but none appeared; the little set
Element was a deserted ruin.
"At broad daylight we crcpt from
our hiding place and cautiously wan
dered among the rema ms of the houses.
At one point we found where the SAY
ages had taken their departure, an
from some unaccountable inclination
nv father followed the trail Ii led
partly in the DIRE etion of Hanna
Town, along n stream called the crab
tree. Hard Y mile had we gone whcH
we came upon the CORY forms OF Mr
Brownlee and the child; and a few fcet
farther, among the Wild crab trees, lay
a sight more awful still: my own moth
er, dead and cold, lay stretched on the
bloody ground With uncomfortable
sadness my father put ME down from
his arms, when instantly | ran to the
lifeleSs form and began calling in ba-
by's way, Nanny! Mammyr But
never again would the dear mother and
wife answer to the voice OF love.
"This was the sorrow OF jeremiah
Lochrey, and this was his motive
through many years when his name and
deeds were such power along the
frontier and such q terror to the saw
ages. You have often heard, girls, that
your REORGANIZATION was great In
dian fighter, but he was led TO such
life by his sorrow; not because he de-
lighted in bloodshed, but he saw
through his grief how he might save
others from the cruelties of the red men.
AS l grew to womanhood my
fathers fame gave me importance, and
was known far and wide as 'Lochrey's
daughter title which has always
chung to me, and of which / confess |
was never ashamed. "-IrtIag /. Be-
man, IN Christian Union.