The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1897-09-23

find that Governor Troup, the noblest
Roman of them all, was full-blood
cousin to that famous Indian chieftain,
General William Mcintosh, and that
the generals father was, as is usual,
a Scotchman who took an Indian wife.
Governor Troup's mother aud Nc
Intosh's father were brother and sister.
Mcintosh was chief Of the Greeks, aud
like Redge and Boudinot was assassin
ated for signing the treaty that ceded
the Creek lands to Georgia. l tell you,
these Scotchmen, or Scotch-Irish, as
George Adair calls them, were on the,
wild hunt for Indian wives and they
had the pick and took the best of them.
Even Osceola was the son of Scotch
man. Maybe my friend George Adair
has a streak of iniun blood In him. who
knows. If Evan Howell hasn't, then
Ill signs fail in Che face. te
1t Is said to realize that in a few years
more not man or woman will be leIt
who mingled with the aboriginal own
ers of Georgia soll-these Creeks and,
Cherokees and Seminoles, who gave
kind welcome to our ancestors, only to
be despoiled of their homes man
left to tell OF their trials and tribular
tions.
Big John Underwood, the Roman
runagee, vino fed from the foul inva-
der and for lack of any better transpor-
tation drove steer in the shafts OF .,
one horse wagon, and for lack of har-
ness bored hole through the dash
board and drew the steers tail through
and tied the end in knot, used to tell
me many stories about the Indians, for
he lived among them away back in the
S0s. He, too, tried to marry an Indian
maiden, but he was nos q Scotchman
and couldent shoot the crossbow nor
the long bow and so she wouldent have
him. These Indians had great admi-
ration for the archer's skill. remem-
Der visiting the wigwam OF an old In
dian on Sawny's mountain, near Cum
ming, Ga. I, too, was then a lad OF
twelve years and got the old mans
grandsons to shoot for me and my
young cousins. Splitting the upper
end of small stick that was about
three feet long, 1 inserted silver
quarter in the split and stuck the other
end in the ground At thirty yards
the boys would hit the quarter
with an arrow almost every
time, and of course 1 gave 1t
to them. How did they ever learn to-
do this? asked Of the old man They
begin, he said, almost as soon as they
can walk. First they shoot at big
tree, and then q smaller one, and then
still smaller one, and keep on from
year to year until they can knock out q
squirrels eye In 1916 l visited an
uncle in Smith county, Mississippi,
and found remnant of the Chickasaws
there. They were friendly and kind and
very expert in killing deer by shining
their eyes at night. My cousins and l
went with them one night, but unhap
PLY they shined the eyes OF y yearling
calf that belonged to one OF the neigh.
bors and shot him. 1t mortified and
troubled them very much, but as they
went hunting on our account, We
quieted their fears by paying tor the
calf the next day. =.
forgot to mention that Elias Boudl-
,ot, the philanthropist, wrote very
learned treatise to prove that the In
disns of North America all descended
from the lost tribes OF Israel, ano niS
book made many converts to that be-
lief.
And now the sad news comes that.
General Avery is dead-my genial, low
ing friend of forty years-a man whom
l always loved to meet whether l was
in the Office or the counting room or
On the sidewalk. How full of good,
pleasant cheer he was. What kind
greetings he always gave. Whist
thoughtful comments on men and tho
events of the day. Georgia can III
afford to lose such men as General
Avery and Judge clark, but still the
world moves on. "Close mp, close up!"
is the word from the Great Commands,
and the gaps that death makes in our
ranks are closed aud soon forgotten
RrnL ARP in Atlanta (Ga.) Constitu-
ton.