Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-11
1913 YEARS OLD.
MRS NANCY ALLISON FROST DIES AT MARI
ETA, OHIO.
Her Father Was One of the Original Ohio Hen
She Was Perhaps the Last Who Could Re-
member Ohio Indian Wars-A Short
Sketch Of Her Life.
SPECIAL Telegram to the Register.

| SpectdL ItieOToUa " dto 11eyteseT-
MARIETTA, o., February 10.-Nancy
| (Allison) Frost died at her home near
this city last night
Nancy Allison was born in Fayette
county, Pa, October 22, 1884. She,
with her father and his family, moved
to Marietta in the fall of 1889, the year
after the first settlement Of Ohio at that
point, and consequently she has been
dweller within the boundaries OF the
State almost from its beginning. Two
years after the arrival of the family
the terrible Indian war-179l-l795-
broke out, and these fearful years
of anxiety and peril were passed
by the residents of Marietta in the
two forts they had built for their
projection. The Allisons lived during
this time in the celebrated Campus Mar
titus. OF those early pioneers who suf-
fered and hoped together during these
| tedious years, Nancy Allison Frost was
the last survivor, and it is thought that
she was the only living person in Ohio
who has any personal recollection OF the
Indian war. She remembered distinctly
the CONSERVATION Of the garrison upon
the arrival of the news Of the massacre
of fourteen persons at Big Bottom.
| Court was in session at Marietta at the
time, and the feelings OF the husbands
and fathers who had left unprotected
wives and children in their little de-
fenseless cabins can not be described.
Mrs. Frost speaks Familiarity OF Gen.
eral Rufus Putnam and Major Anselm
Tunper, the leaders OF the forty-eight
| pioneers who made the great State OF
| Ohio a possibility, for she saw them
every day OF those long years OF incar-
ceration in the fort. She speaks with
srecial interest of Major Anselm Tup-
per, afterwards commander Of the gar
rison, but at this time the teacher for
at least three years in Campus Martius,
and the first person to show the young
idea how to shoot in the Northwest Ter
ritory. She talked in saddened tones,
lately, when she told OF the death OF
little schoolmate, and how Major Tup-
per had helped herself and three other
little girls pass long handkerchiefs
under the box which contained their
little playmate, and carry her, them
selves, to the grave, followed by all the
sorrowing inmates Of the garrison.
She remembered we'll Arthur st. Clair,
first Governor of the Northwest Ter
ritory, and his beautiful daughter Lou
lisa, who at the time was eighteen years
old and the belle Of the garrison. Full
of health and animal spirits, ready TO
enjoy everything, fine horseback
| rider, beautiful skater, an excellent
markswoman, is it any wonder that half
the young men in the garrison were
madly in love with the brilliant girl,
who seemed formed for the life she led.
Mrs. Frost remembered Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Williams and their pretty daugh-
ter, Drusila, well. Readers may not
recolect that this family, as early as
1856, were living in West Virginia, i'm
mediately opposite Marietta. Nothing
could exceed their Kindness, Mrs. Frost
said, to the Marietta pioneers. Isaac
Williams, in 1.-The starving year" OF
1890, had good crop Of corn, for which
he refused the offer, made by specu-
lator, of 50 bushel, that he might sell
it at fifty cents bushel to each family
as they had need for it, as long as it
lasted. After this was gone, though,
the people had a weary time for months,
some of them having to eat even nettle
tops and the weed known as pigeon
berry. Mrs. Williams showed her kind
heart by the salveS and lotions she made
for the weary, bruised pioneers, and by
the readiness with which she cursed
the sick and put in place the broken
limbs of unfortunate Woodsmen.
Mrs. Frost attended what was prob
ably the first Sunday School taught in
the Northwest Territory. Mrs. Mary
Lake, a most estimable, benevolent
woman, was the instructor, and gath
cred every Sunday afternoon, fifteen or
twenty young people in her room in the
garrison. Here she taught them the
Westminster CatechiSm, the Apostles
Creed, the Lords Prayer, and
told her little listeners about
John Rodgers and many a
winning story from the Bible. Their
accommodations were the simplest i'm
aginable, a chair, even, being quite a
rarity in Campus Martius, but Mrs.
Frost doubted whether. with all the
organs and lesson leaves, and libraries,
and Christmas trees of the present day,
there are more interesting schools now
than this primitive one taught by good
Mrs. Lake.
Mrs. Frost smiled as she told Of lit
tie playmate Lamed Maria Green, who
was the happy posSessor OF the only
doll in the garrison. Mrs. Frost des-
cribed this much-envied treasure as
infinitely as If she had only seen it yes
terday, whereas ninety years have flown
since she left Campus MartiuS. In 1875
her family moved upon the Muskingum,
almost opposite where the village OF
Lowell now stands. Five years after,
when sixteen years old, Nancy Allison
married Stephen Frost, who lived upon
the farm adjoining her fathers, and
this spot has been her home almost ever
since.
TO see a woman one hundred years
old shovel up and carry in bucket of
coal with entire ease 10 herself Is GER
tainly wonderful. She sewed and read
with ease, and made most of her cloth
ing, her dresses included, up till short
time ago. She showed the writer some
time ago with great pride the pretty
white curtains at her bedroom windows,
which she had made herself. She used
"All she lacks of beauty
IS a little DlumDness"