Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-01-15

but the author was not able 10 OBJ
tain the particulars, except that
the Indians were defeated.
The Indians killed Oliver Kremer,
in Short Gap, and took his wife
prisoner.
In the year 1864, n party of
eighteen Delawares crossed the
mountains. Furman's fort was
about one mile above the Hanging
Rock. on the South Branch. Will
liam Furman and Nimrod Ashby
had gone out from the fort to watch
deer lick in the Jersey mountain.
(a) The Indians discovered and
| killed them both, and passed on
into the county Of Frederick, where
they divided into two parties. One
party of eight moved on to Cedar
creek settlement the other Of ten
attacked the people in the neigh
borhood Of the present residence
of Mai. John White. On this place
DR.. White, the ancestor of the
White family, had settled, and on
his land stOckadc was erected
The people In the neighborhood had
taken the alarm, and we're on their
way to the fort, when they were
assaulted by these ten Indians.
They killed David Jones and his
wife, two old people. Some of
Mrs. Thomas family were killed,
and she and one daughter taken
off. An old man by the name of
Lloyd, and his wife, and several Of
his children, were killed. Esther
Lloyd, their daughter, and about
thirteen years old, received three
tomahawk wounds in the head,
was scalped, and left lying, sup-
posed to be dead. Henry Clouser
and two of his sons were killed,
and his wife and four of his daugh-
ters taken. The youngest daughter
was about two years old and as
she impeded the mothers travel
ling, when they reached the North
mountain, the poor little innocent
babe was taken by its heels, its
head dashed against a tree, and the
brains beaten out, and left lying on
the ground. Mrs. Thomas was
taken to the WappatOmaka; bat
the river being pretty full, and deep
fording, they encamped near Fur
mans fort for the night. The next
morning a party of white men fred
off their guns at the fort, which
alarmed the Indians, and they
hurried across the river, assisting
all their female prisoners expect
Mrs. Thomas, who being quite
stout and strong, was left to SHIFT
for herself. The current, however,
proved too strong for her, and she
iloatcd down the riyer-but lodged
against a rock, upon which she
crawled, and saved herself from
drowning. Before her capture she
had concealed half a loaf Of bread
in her bosom, which, dnring her
struggles in the water washed ont,
and, on her reaching the rock,
foatcd to her again. In this in.
stance, the text Of scripture. "Cast
thy bread upon the waters. for theu
shalt find it after many days. (b)
might have some application. 1t
was not "many days but there
appears to have been something
prOyidentiaI in it, for it saved her
from extreme suffering. The next
morning Mrs. Thomas made her
way to Williams fort, about two
miles below the Hanging Rock, on
the South Branch. (c)
The author has received from
Maj. John White, Of Frederick,
another account OF the foregoing
outrages, which he will give in
Maj. WIS own words.
"In July, 1863, information was
received by the late Maj. Robert
White, (who had n small foot
around bis house as an asylum for
the people in the neighborhood,)
that Indians had been seen on that
or the preceding day on Capon.
He Immediately went to tho sever
al families living near The base Of
The North mountain, as far rs to
Owen Thomas, five or rix miles
from the tort, told them OF tho re.
port. and advised them to 90 into
the fort until the danger should be
over. 1t being harvest time, Owen
Thomas was unwilling TO leave
home, and mounted a horse to 60
to his ncighbor Jacot Kackley's,
who had several soEs grown, to
propose TO arm themselves and
work together in their respective
grain fields but on his way TO Mr..
Kackley's he was shot dead and
scaIped, the Indians having con-
cealed themselves behind two logs
that lay one across the other near
the road.
ain June, 1864, similar informa
ton of Indians being seen was re-
ceived at the fort. Mai. White, as
on the former occasion, went in the
afternoon to warn the people of
their danger; when the widow
Thomas, Mr. jones and Mr.. Clous.
er, set oil with their families for the
fort but night coming on when
they reached Mr.. Lloyd's, (sbout
two miles from the fort,) they con