The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1883-02-22
L0CHREI'S DAUGHTER.

A bcvy O. girls, grand daughters of
the aged lady OF the mansion, were as
semblcd for their usual summer Wis t at
the old Beatty homestead. Actiny out
child nature evcrywher they besct
Grandmothcr Beatty one evening for Il
story, and when she aSScntcd, and gave
them the choice am no several Incl
dents OF her carly days, they naturally
preferred the following, as it relates to
wedding and II baby; TO su Djccts 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
IL heard it SO many times when [
was child, and have told it so often
since became Old, that it does seem
as II L remember it: though that can not
be, Tor L was only fifteen months old
when 1T happened. But it is lust rs
true, girls, rs if | could rccollect it nv
self, for | heard my father and grand
mother and others tell it over and
over ever so many times. And so
YOU will forgive mo if | tell it lust as
though | remember all about it, fer in
deed can not tell it in any other way.
81 was born in my fathers Httlo
log cabin just fortnight a|tcr it was
built, the fifteenth OF April, 1871, and
my cradle was Il roll of bark with two
crooked sticks for rockers. That was
in Westmoreand County, Penn, at u
place called Nliller's Station. two mi es
from Hanna's Town. RCth these places
were destroyed by the Indians and ncv
er rebuilt; thoy were not far from the
present village OF Grecnburg.
'IhOsc were years of war all over
hI,tf !, f,.,>,N L., IL
est OF it. for British agents kept the In
dians 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 holp to
spare to the borders. Countless muir
ders of women and children were COM
mltted by the savagcs, and hosts of
people carried into captivity. Those
were awful times on the frontiers.
Well, the incident you have asked
me to tell occurred on the 18th of July.
li82, when | was a baby lust running
alone nicely. There had been MANI
settlers farther into the wilderness than
Millers Station and Hanna Town, but
gradually they had been driven back till
our places were the last on the borders.
Among the settlers thus returning. wcro
Two scotch famiIcs who stopped and
DullL cabins near ours, the Courlas and
Dunlaps. Others also settled down at
Millcrs until, with the great double
mansion OF Mr.. Miller, the line house of
John Brownlcc, and several smaller
ones, we had quite village
Mary Courla must have been q
beautiful Scotch girl, for her praises
we're in everybody's mouth, and as 1
first recall her, though thirty years old,
she Was ii iCTcly woman. And James
Dunlap was worthy of her, few men 1
ever saw equaling him in looks and
bearing. 1t seems that love. like wild
VioletS, blossoms in the woods as we'll
as in the fields; and perhaps it is sweet
er there than in the towns whcro it
makes so much gaudier appearance,
like over-cultivated panscs. At any
rate, James and Mary courted, loved,
married and lived Il great many years
OF welded love, all in the borders.
"Ihey were general favoritcs in our lit.
tie settlement and when it was whispered
about that their wedding day was set,
Mr.. Miller went to James and invited
him to have the wedding at the man
sion and ak in houscIul. James
assented, and when the day came, July
IL, it was n goodiy company that
gathered to SEQ the lovers united.
Numbers camo from Hanna's Town,
chief among them being Mrs. Hanna
herself and her two beautiful daughters,
the aristocracy of Westmoreland.
lin old times the wedding day was
tho brides day, and the next was tho
groom's, and was called tho infair.'
and this was q moro festive occasion
than the marriage itself. SO Won see
my story happened not at n wedding,
really, but at the infair
Everything went merry enough
until the middle Of tho afternoon,
There had been dancing. and PLAYING,
and great glee after dinner, when sud
denly, like q clap of thunder out o.
clear sky, terrible war-whoop burst
on their ears, aHu host OF painted
savages rushed into the mansion 1t
seems they had attacked IIanna's Town
about noon, mo7c of the people escaping
into tho fort; NJ d then, before anybody
could get away to give us warning at
millers they hat como 'aawares upon
our place.
'Most of our people were captured; a
10" men who were moving grass in the
meaaoWs, and some who we're at home
IN thelr CABINS, fled into the woods and
escaped. All tho wedding company
were taken; the bride and groom. Mrs,
Hanna and her daughters, John Brown
lee and all his family but one little
child, which was rescued by a vonno
man and hid in a rye-fiold, in all, forty
five souls. Most of them were released
and came home within couple of
years. among them the young married
couple; but some were tomahawked ON
the march Brownlee was one of these.
He had been leader against the In
dians ia several exped.t ons. and some
of the red men recognized him and re.
paswbsEaa With eager bic brsYaFy, On.