The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1883-02-27
Selerf Shry.
LocHREY'S DAUGHTER.

A bevy of girls. grand-aaughters o.
the aged lady of the mansion, were as.
sembled for their usual summer visit al
the old Bea',v homestead. Acting out
child nature every where, they bese,
Grandmother Beatty one evening for q
story, and when she assenftd and gave
them their choice among several incl.
dents OF her early days, they naturally
preferred the following, as it relates to q
wedding and a baby; subjects of partic-
uIar interest to girls OF their age-twelve
to sixteen
She always hogan this oit.told tale in
the same words of hslf-apology:
81 head it so many times when / was
a child, and have iold it so often since ]
became old, that it does seem as If re-
member it; though that cannot be, for ]
was only fifteen months old when it hap
pened. But it is just as true, girls, as il
| could recoll ct it myself, for heaI d
my father and grandmother and others
tell it oyer and over so many times. And
SO you will forgive me if l tell it just as
though ! remember all about it, for in
deed cannot tell it in any other way.
Il was born 10 nv fathers little log
cabin just fortnight after it was built
the 18th of April. 1881, and my cradle
was roll of bark with Two crooked
sticks for rockers. That was in West.
moreland County, Pa at place called
Miller's Station, two miles from Hanna's
Town. Both these places we're destroy
ed by the Indians and never rebuilt
they were no. far from the present vii.
lage of Greenburg.
"Those were years of war all over
America, but the frontiers had the hard
est of it. for British agents kept the In.
disns stirred up and supplied them with
guns and ammunition, but The colonia:
had all the iyh,ipg they could do along
the seaboard. and so had no help to
spare to the borders Countless mur'
ders OF women and children were com
milted by the savages and hosts of peo
pie were carried into captivity. Those
we're awful times on the frontiers
"Well, the incident you have asked
me to tell occurred on the 18th OF July
1882. when l was baby just running
alone nicely. There had been many set
tiers farther into the wilderness thar
Miller's Station and Hanna's Town, bu
gradually they had been driven back til
our places were the last on the borders
Among The settlers thus returning wer,
two Scotch families who stopped and
built cabins near ours. the Courlas an(
Dunlaps. Others also settled down a
Miller's until, with the great double man
sion of Mr.. Miller the fine house of Johl
Brownlee, and several smaller ones, W,
had quite village.
I,tiful Scotch girl, for her praises were il
eyerybofy's mouth, and as I fret recall
her, though thirty years old, she was
lovely woman And Jsmes Dunlap va
worthy of her few men ever saw equal
ing him in looks and hearing. 1t seem
that love, like wild violets, blossoms Ii
the wouds as we'll as in the fields. aut
perhaps it is s~eeter there than 10 tb,
tuwns where II makes so much gaudie
appearance. like oyer-cultivated pansies
| At any rate James and Mary courted
loved, married and lived a great man,
years OF welded love, all on the Dor
ders
"Thev were general favorites in ou
little settlement. and when il was whis
pered ahou, that their wedding-day va
set, Mr.. Miller went to James and inyi
ted him to have the wedding at the man
sion and ask in a huuseful. James as
sented, and when the day came, July l:
it was q goodly COMPANY that gathere
10 see the lovers united Numbers cam
from Hanna's Town. chief among ther
being Mrs. Hanna herself and her tw
hesu,ifnl daughters, The arlstocracy G
Westporeland,