The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-23

cinating eloquence in the graphic and sim
ple language and tremulous tones OF the
good old Squire.
RESISTANCE VAIN.
"well,- said ne, ssmy grandmother soon
found resistance unayaiing. The house was
broken into and several OF the children
tomahawked, and my grandmother and the
baby and also my two little aunts were all
carried awSy. There was also young girl,
named Matte Evans, that was staying
here. In the confusion Of the attack on the
house she managed to escape and ran just
here TO this place that we are now
approaching. You see that ledge Of rocks.
There used 10 be two logs resting on II
which led across this little glen TO the spring
lust over there. Well, Matte Evans hid
herself Just under the ledge Of rock. that
used TO shelve rather more than at present,
because it has since filled some. she was
unnoticed. but accidentally an Indian came
here and sat upon this rock 10 fix his gun
lock. lle would probably never have noticed
her, but she supposed that he had seen her
and was aiming bis gun at her,
so she voluntarily came out and
gave herself up and went with
the others into captivity. The party had
not been travelling very far before.an Indian
took the baby from my grandmother, and,
telling her TO 90 ahead. dashed the little
fellows brains out against tree. some
time after this my Aunt Mary, who was
about eleven years old, had the horror OF
witnessing my grandmother and oldest
aunt burned to death at the stake. She
gathered up the few bones that were left
and buried them in a small trench which
she scraped out beneath the trees.
"My aunt was carried to the Ohio, near
| ChilocOthe. NV father had also been carried
TO the Ohio, and was adopted by an Indian,
who treated him very kindly. He had TO
| his dying day great respect Tor
the ability OF the Indians, and said
/ if they had been educated and Christianized
they would have been useful nation. My
father renamed with the Indians two years
and was then sold to the French. lie fell IN
the hands OF a man who treated him very
well, About this time he met my aunt
whom the Indians had also sold to the
French. They remained near Detroit about
three years. Friends in Virginia had mean
while heard OF these captures, and finally
they were brought back 10 Virginia and
/ lived for a time in ROckbrdgc, near Lexing
ton. Here my Aunt Mary married Pres
byterian minister. She had eleven chill
dren. five of whom became ministers OF the
Gospel. She was plOus woman, and had
Testament which she Carried on most Of hel
wanderings, but finally lost it in Pennsyl
uania.
twenty-five OF her descendants have be
come ministers Of the Gospel.
RETURN FROM OHIO.
any father finally returned here and set
tied with his wife, whom he hadimarrled II
Rockbridge. lie had three children, o
whom am the Youngest by his first mar
riage. and nine by his second. My lathe
died only five years before the war. anC
often talked about his experience in earl
life. ] was at the time Of his death ility
four years old lie ais buried in that GENE
( terry lust up there on the hill. lie died "a
( ne had lived, good Christian man. being
member of the Methodist church"
"Well, Squire, you forgot TO tell me wha
became Of Matte Evans, the girl who wa
carried away with the rest
? ooh. she was brought back 10 R0ckbridg
with the others, and afterwards married
and settled in Ohio, Many OF her descend
= ants have become very prominent men.
And now, how would you like for me I
ride with you up the valley piece, an
then we will come back and get dinner
To this proposition your correspondent
readily assented. The old gentleman 500
] saddled his horse and mounted from th
ground as gracefully as a man Of one an
| twenty. He afterwards told me that b
often rode twenty miles, and had recent
, won the prize as the best rider at the c0ur
! ty fair. IL once drove a wagon" said hC
all the way to Baltimore. Ii took me tw
months to make the trip, and got one hur
, dred dollars from the merchant for whom
j took the load. Ii was when | was yOun
e man. The wagon was loaded with skin
and gymsum weed.
'The first money made was from KILN
= wolves. The country was then full Of then
The county authorities offered five dollar
: for every scalp, so | took worthless oil
sheep out Of my fathers ilock-it was tn
! only sheep ever stole, said the old gentle
man humOrOusly-l killed the sheep and ST
my trap, and caught eight wolves, for th
: scalps of these / got forty dollars. This
I laid out in calves at one dollar and quartz
: a piece, and turned them I'm the pasture o
| the mountains at Elk Horn. Three year
after | sold them at thirty dollars a piece
which was the best price cattle had up
that time brought in Abb's Valley.
80 you see did good TO my father in tai
ing the old and worthless sheep. / did goo
/ TO the country in killing the wolves. di
4 good 10 myself IN getting start in life
The MethOdsis were the pioneers OF thi
: country in religion. There were no othe
: people around here in my early days. hay
. erected on my place the Moore MemOria
. Centenary church. The old settlers were
f good and temperate people. There was II
moonshine whisky drank there, and no OK
/ cessiye use Of tobacco. The only tobacco
! ever used was eighty-four years ago.
. took one chew, that was enough. | sol
, 1000 acres OF the land where POcahontas
, for 81 an acre. do not regret, and wanted {
4 see the country developed" That eyenin
!. as we were riding towards POcahontas th
! old gentleman showed me, one after al
other objects associated with some event j
the early history Of the Valley.
i And now the shadows are beginning
e lengthen and the sun il Fastening toward
b its western hiding-place. Good old '>qur
.. Moore has bid me farewell and as he ride
e slowly up the valley towards his home ia
: thought forces itself sadly on me that "
i will soon miss that venerable figure frOI
b. among us. He will 90 TO his long hom'
and another link that binds the preser
P busy generation within the dreary an
e distant past will be forever broken.