The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-27

ages mead to the bone But, notwithstand-
ing their cries and struggles, they vera
bound and carried away before help could
reach them.
As soon as Boone and Galloway came in
! they organized two parties, one on horse
back the other on foot. and started on the
trail of the retreating savages. Every
energy was now eXerted to overtake them
bet re they could cross the Ohio CT.
Boone led the party ON foot, and among
them were Col John FLOYD, Maj. William
B. Smith, Capt. John Holder, Flanders Cal
laway, Bartlett Searcy, Samuel Henderson
and Catlett Jones' The girls had taken
every precaution, with that self possession
and torethOught born of the dangers of the
frontier, to mark their trail by breaking off
1 twigS and leaves and bending down bushes,
which they well knew their lurSuers would
read like printed book They were cap
tured on the afternoon of Sunday, July IA,
and before night set in pursuit was COM
menced. All day Monday 1t was kept up,
but night closed in before the pursuers
gained a sight of the fleeing savages and
their captives. Early Tuesday morning the
chase was resumed, and after proceeding
about five miles the SavageS were diScov-
ereu. Says Col. Floyd in a letter to Col.
William Preston, a few days after the oc~
currence:
Our study has been how to get the pris-
oners, without giving the Indians time to
murder them after they discovered us We
saw each other nearly at the same time.
Four of us fired, and all of us rushed on
them-by which they were prevented from
carrying anything away except one shot
gun without any ammunition. Col. Boone
and myself had e. oh pretty fair shot, rs
they began to move off. / am well con-
WINGED | 81 OF one through the body. The
one he shot dropped his gun; mine had
Ia oh
cane, and, being so much elated on recover
ing the three poor little heart-broken girls,
we were prevented from making any further
search.n
The capture of these girls and their rescue
was not without touch OF romance. Three
of the young men who were active in the
pursuit were Flanders Galloway, Samuel
Henderson and Capt. John Holder They
atterward married the girls, and were even
then their lovers, although the girls were
only IA and 10 years old. But manageable
| girls were scarce on the frontier Ill those
days, aud what few were there were not left
| long, like the last rose of summer, to bloom
alone Samuel Henderson, who was the
youngest brother of Col. Richard Hender-
son, of the Pennsylvania Company, mar
| ried Elizabeth Galloway, and their mar
riage was the first celebrated in Kentucky.
The ceremony took place in the fort at
Boonesboro, and was performed by Squire
Boone, Aug 7, 1776. Their first child, whose
name was Fanny. and who was born Nav
%, 1777, was the first white child born of
parents married in Kentucky, and the fifth
white child born in the State. Jemima
Boone married Flanders Galway. 1t was
at the house of Flanders Galloway that
| Daniel Boone died Sept. 20, 1920, at the vii
lage of Charette, in Missouri.
Collins history Ct Kentucky has the fol-
lowing of the rescue of these girls Another
| circumstance of the recapture is preserved.
Elizabeth Galloway was dark complexioned,
made more SO by fatigue and exposure. She
was sitting by the root of a tree, with a
red bandanna handkerchief around her,
| and with the heads of her sister and Jemima
Boone reclining in her lap Oae of the
men, installing her for one of the Indians,
raised the butt of his gun, and was about
| bringing it down with all his muscular
power upon her defenceless head, when his
arm was arrested by one who recognized
her. No harm was done; but the narrow
| escape from the most horrible death at the
hands of "A friend, produced a melancholy
! sensation never forgotten by the actors"
Other depredations followed to keep alive
the general alarm, and were not inspiring
to the settlers already in Kentucky, nor did
| they tend to promote immigration. Indeed,
they exerted an influence directly opposite,
| causing quite an exodus to the older settle
mehtS beyond the mountains. In all this
danger the settlers found themselves de-
pendent principally upon these older settle
ments for ammunition, and for many other
things that the frontier did not yet afford.
In June Clark and Jones had gone to Vir-
ginia for the purpose of procuring the need
ed supplies. But their absence was pro-
longed so remotely that Robert Patterson,
with six others, started for Pittsburg to re-
plenish the almost exhausted stock of am
munition. Just at the mouth of the Hook
hooking river, in the present state of Ohio,
they were attacked by Indians, one of the
party killed, and Patterson and all of the
others, except one, more OF less severely
wounded.