Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-07-02

ulu not see III, DuJ III was ueScflOeuf
by several intelligent, respectable
gentlemen who had repeatedly ex-
amned il. On the summit Of q
high mountain, in the county of
Handy, five or six miles from
etersburg, small village on the
main fork of the South branch of
the WappatOmaca, this spring
makes its appearance. 1t ebbs
and flows every two hours. When
rising, 1t emits a gurgling -
similar 10 the gurglingof a.
running out at the bung.hol. n'|a
hogshead-rans freely two hours,
and then Gibbs, and the water en-
, tirely disappears. AT every flow,
sand and small pebbles are forced
out with the water.
Samuel Mcdonald was wounded
at the battle Of the Point, under
Col. Lewis. lie belonged TO the
company commanded by Capt.
Dickinson. The ball passed through
both his thighs, but neither was
broken. lie recovered from bis
wounds, but continued a little lame
az long as he lived. Mrs. Ellen
Mcdonald, his widow, (eighty-three
years Of age, and still liying,) in
formed the author that she once
had two sisters taken by the In.
dians-One ten years OF age and
the other seven. They we're pris-
oners seven years, lost their mother
tongue, and spoke the Indian Ian
guage perfectly. Two Of Mr..
! McDonald's sisters were taken by
the CherOkees.
In the year 1854, the Indians
killed, at the house of Jas. Clana-
han, Edward Sampson and Joseph
Mayes. They killed and took
prisoners all the families, except
three individuals. A woman seven.
ty years of age had left the house,
but returned and took q small
trunk, in which she kept her caps
and money, and carried it of, while
the Indians were killing a number
of persons around her and inally
made her escape. There we're but
two other persons who escaped.
The Indians then passing up the
Cowpasture river, stopped at the
house of William Fitzgerald
Thomas Thompson was there at the
time. They barricaded the door,
so that the Indians could not force
il open. The savages Immediately
set fire to the house, and Fitzgerald
and Thompson were burnt to death.
\ little girl OF Fitzgerald's was
, cruelty burnt. They killed its
mother the next day, and took the
? child of. 1t was rescued by the
whites and brought part of the
way h ONE ; but died at Marlow's
ford, Greenbrier river. Mrs. S'"'1.
, son and her daughter
of by the Indians, a'dm
found they would be ovortakeu 10y
the whites, young warrior shot
Mrs. Simpson through the body.
She was found in a languishing
t condition, and brought part of the
way home, but died Oh the way
Her daughters were never more
heard Of.
In l779 IA man by the name OF
Mckeever was killed, and Thomas
Grcning and George Smith were
/ fired at by the party who killed
McKrrver, but made their escape.
Both their wives and children were
taken off prisoners. Mrs. Smith
made her escape from the savages,
and on her way homeward was met
by Col. Jno. Hill, now OF Pochahon-
tas county, and conveyed to her
friends in n. Carolina.
: John DAYS Fort nor Prices old
Fort, formerly KeckIeys Fort
About 1772 John Mcneil settled IN
{ the Little Levels; at that period
there were very few settlers in that
; neghborhood. Mrs. Sarah Brown,
, the mother of Col. Brown in this
. neighborhood, at the age of ninety
one years, was able to walk about
the neighbour ood, and rode by
. herself to visit some of her chill.
dren, who lived ten or fifteen miles
' off. Col. Brown stated to the au-
! thor that a sugar tree of immense
h. size, lat least six feet In diameter,)
j. stood in one of his fields, and that
T. it yielded him at least fifty pounds
of sugar yearly. The Indians did
! no mischief after the war Of 1863,
t until the year 1913. There we're
T some Buffalo and Elk to be seen in
5 the country at this period.
William Meeks, his wife, six chill.
T dren, and his mother, we're taken
;, off four or five years after the bat
e tie of the Point. Capt. Woods Of
e the present county o. Monroe,
y raised a party of seventeen men,
pursued the enemy, and after sew
= eral days march, overlook them
!, late in the evening. The Indians
n had halted and been encamped
0 three or four days. Capt. Woods
D and his party approached within q
a short distance of them without be
j. ing discovered. Early the next
J. morning, it being very foggy, the
y whites rushed in among the enemy.
e Capt. Woods and the Indian Capt.
if fired at each other, the muzzles OF
e their guns almost touching; but