The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-10-01

about q Judge pn..hal out iu Texas
ho tha auH maus
suppose ihal hf Haa. ior paaehal
Iid NFelu Ersa. fHe several wears and
mb.I bed H paper Boo Austin. aud Boa
$50 contributed largely 10 thcrIcctiou
Hlm. ir.rai Sam I.au tom, as COVER
Far ur.at..rl HrHt 30 Arkansas ami
ar...el .aa aHI aHu Uau distinction
Hl Ws# u.o...I judge 80 lbe supreme
alau iu 1884, Iu 1860 ben moved 20
Washington cIiy and founded tho law
apartment of Georgetown Unworthy
ad became iu president aad there
ees.sfd thr degree ~ LLp. Ho
published and complied many law
BOOKS and also wrote % biography of
ieupal Sam Houston n b. with
lrilo that we give this sketch OF this
notable and gifted man, for he was
Georgian born To- Greene county. edu-
uted no Mrrcor and admitted 10 the
par in 1881 at Washington, in Wilkes
county Tie died Ina 1872. wonder
b. there were any qualroon children
born 20 his Indian wife No doubt he
has relatives living IN Georgia who can
tell.
In perusiug these ancient records L
find that Governor Troup, the uoblest
Roman of them all, was a full -hluudcd
'ousin 90 that famous Indian chief.
tain, General William Mcintosh, and
that the generals father was, as is
usual, a Scotchmau who took an Iu-
lian wife. Governor Troups mother
aud McIutoshs father were brother
and sister Mcintosh was chief of the
Creeks, aud like Ridge and Boudinot
was assassinated for signing the treaty
that ceded the Creek lands 10 Georgia
/ tell you, these Scotehmen, or Scotch
Irish, as George Adair calls them,
were on the Wild hunt for Indian
wives, and they had tho pick and took
the best of them. Even OsceOla was
the son OF a Scotchman, Maybe my
friend George Adair has a streak Of
iniuu blood in him, who knows? II
Evan Howell hasn't, then all signs fail
in the face.
II is sad 10 realize that in few
years more not man or woman will be
left who mingled with the aboriginal
owners Of Georgia soil-thcse Greeks
and Cherokees and Semiuoles, who
gave kind welcome to our ancestors,
only to be despoiled Of their homes
not mau left to tell OF their trials and
I tribulations.
Big John Underwood, the Roman
runagee, who fed from the foul inya-
| der and for lack Of any better trans
/ portatiou drove a steer in the shafts Of
q one-horse wagon, and for lack of
/ harness bored a hole through the dash
/ board and drew the steers tail through
and tied the end in a knot, used to
| tell me many stories about the indians,
for he lived among them away back in
the 3O's. He, too tried to marry an
Indian maiden, but he wasn't Scotch
man and couldn't shoot the crOssbow
nor the long bow and so she wouldn't
have him. These Indians had great
admiration for the archer's skill. I
remember visiting the wigwam of an
old Indian on Sawnys mountain,
near Cumming, Ga. l, too, was then
q lad of twelve years and got the old
| mans grandsOns to shoot for me and
my young cousins. Splitting the up
per end Of a small stick that was
about three feet long, I inserted
silver quarter in the split and stuck
the other end in the ground. At thirty
yards the boys would hit the quar-
ter with an arrow almost every
time, and, of course I gave it to
them. How did they ever learn to do
this? 1 asked of the old man. They
begin, he said, almost as soon as they
can walk. First they shoot at big
tree, and then a smaller one, and then
still smaller one, and keep on from
year to year until they can knock out
a squirrels eye. In 1916 | visited an
uncle in Smith county, Mississippi,
and found a remnant of the Chicka-
saws there. They were friendly and
kind and very expert in killing deer
by shining their eyes at night. My
cousins and | went with them one
night, but unhappily they shined the
eyes of q yearling calf that belonged
to one of the neighbors and shot him,
1t mortified and troubled them very
much, but as they went hunting on
our account, we quoted their fears by
paying for the calf the next day.
forgot to mention that(Elias Bou-
dinot, the philanthropist, wrote a very
learned treatise to prove that the
Indians of North America all descend
ed from the lost tribes of Israel, and
his book made many converts to that
belief.
And now the sad news comes that
/ General Avery is dead-my genial,
: loving friend of forty years-a man
, whom always loved to meet whether