The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-10-05
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In ONO ICI tihne ne xras hold m
much regard, notwithstg, a,og bis nov.
erty. lie was 9 scldie.@ =, .,s, w. ~
1872, and for ting was : B,igadier.
General in the stato militia After tbs
:" AZ u ~ z it was called, he re-
turned 10 Els cabin in the woods, near
Urpana, =. FIN 1920 he moved to Mad
hlVer' III hight of the old Indian town
Oh aPSatomica, where ne had once
Deeh Fed to a stake.
hXn here the poor old man was
pdfinoled by judgments and executions
II & kentucky courts. He still had
es. NJ .racts of mountain lands in that
"a the but they had been forfeited for
( tips "hough the amount of such taxes
or w to-day be considered ridiculous
~ Euall He tried boring for salt.
TEese\ventures We're failures. His last
.sespnDSc6 was to apply to the Kentucky
File -islature to release his forfeiture.
| In 1924 a broken old man of seventy
years. mounted on a bony old nag,
started southwark from the little cabin
in the Mad River woods. At last he
reached Frankfort, the capital Of Ken
lucky There, in what he had known
as an unbroken wildwood. stood a city.
VITA towering church steoples. busy
factories, and the ZONES Of 4 thriving.
happy people.
He rubbed his eyes as he looked at
this scene Of enchantment. AS lie
rode into the city his Strange appear
ance and ragged attire, the shaky. bony
old horse, whose ribs were so strongly
outlined against the hide. brought
hundreds TO the doors to see the aged
wanderer
There was not n face he knew. There
was none VINO recognized in the broken
old man the hero of whom all had
heard. the Simon Kenton of the laugh
Ing gray eyes. the curling red locks.
light OF heart. ready of hand. feet OF
foot At last one in the city OF stran-
gers recognized him. II was General
Fletcher. who had been a companion
in-arms in the War of ~. He grasped
the veteran by the hand with gener-
Gus warmth that brought tears to the
wan and wrinkled cheeks Of the old
man.
General Fletcher saw to 1t that the
second man Of the early history Of the
Stale, Boone having been the first
should have true Kentucky welcome.
lie made the old man the lion Of the
day Keuton was taken to the State
House He was given the place OF
honor seated in the Speakers chair,
and here legislators, distinguished
judges and citizens were introduced
TO him
He had been fixed up" by General
Fletcher to meet this company. the
General having bought him a suit Of
new clothes. a new hat. and a shirt
with rufles. Better than this his lands
were released. and shortly afterward.
by the exertion Of a number OF men
Of influence and position. the Congress
of the United States voted him, in rec
ognition Of his great services to the
country, a pension of $3.50 a year,
enough TO secure his old age from alb
solute want
The simple-mlnded old man during
the ten or more remaining years of
his life, wore, it is said the same
clothes and hat that he wore when the
guest Of the people of Kentucky, and
he always declared tnat his visit to
Frankfort was the greatest and hap
piest period OF his life.
He died in 1886 at the age of eighty.
one years in his little cabin in the
woods, surrounded by his family and
in sight OF the very spot where. nearly
sixty years before. lie had saved him
self from the torture fire by means of
his wonderful burning glass.-Indian-
apolis News