Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-03-14

Soon Concluded that it was better
to put considerable DISTANCE be-
tween Dim and the Indian camp
And then his thoughts turned to
the Cherokee girl, the child Of the
forest, who had risked Der life TO
.hsave him. Unable to talk with her
4 in her own language, he attempted
.lby signs to make her understand
his depth Of gratitude. A Fart Of
his blankets had been left by the
indians in the wagon-bed and these
were placed in one end Of the bed
and he motioned Kadizhaha TO sit
down upon them. The exhausted
i girl sank down obediently, while
4 Robinson took a position in the
front end and like an experienced
raftsinan guided the frail craft
throughout the silent hours of the
long night. Before daylight he
could tell by the stars that the
course had changed and that the
westward course indicated that the
Cumberland river was MT many
miles away. Kadizhaha had been
sleeping like a tired child during
much of the tempestuous voyage,
and when she awoke al daylight
she found that they we're once more
in a strange forest, and little later
the canoe, if such it may be called,
crashed upon a rock and cut hole
in the bottom, that made it neces-
sary to seek the land without delay.
Fortunately this was not difficult.
With the pole to steer the craft, it
was drawn to the shore and the
rope was used to fasten it to an
overhanging tree. Robinson and
Kadizhaha found themselves
ashore at a point twenty miles west
of the starting point, although they
had travelled at least thirty miles
following the course of the crooked
river. They also noted that the
river was falling rapidly and in
little while their canoe had settled
upon firm ground, we'll out of the
banks. This was fortunate, for
it served them as tent as we'll as it
had as boat.
The rest of the story can be brief
ly told. Robinson was not slow to
form two resolutions. One was TO
make his home upon the Pictur-
esgue spot where he had been cast
ashore. The other was to make
the Indian girl bis wife. 10 a day
or two a hunting party found the
lovers in their retreat and they
willingly returned with them to the
camp of Limping Bear. Glad to
regain his daughter alive, the old
warrior listened to her pleadiDgs
and consented to adopt ''Allfaos"
as his son. BY the simple rites of
the Cherokee nation the Indian girl
became the wife of the bald and
bold pioneer and they returned to-
build a cabin in the forest to the
west.
Robinson thus became the first
settler in what is now Trigg county
and called his blockbOuse Cadiz, in.
honor OF his Indian wife And al
though it was Eve years later be-
fore the last Indian invasion was
made into the Dark and Bloody
Ground, the Cadiz pioneer and his
dusky sguaw were never molested.
by the Indians.
Davis, the Red river pioneer,
was killed a year or twolater while
hunting in what is DOW Lyon
county, having gone up the Cum
berlan6 in a boat. Robinson was
with him, but the Indians spared
his life as soon as he removed bis
cap and they recognized him as
I Allface, the soD-in-law Of LimPang
Bear.
Soon other settlers came and in
few years Allface Robinson, as
he was ever afterwards known, and
his Indian wife returned to join
with other pioneers in forming a
settlement at the Rock Spring.
Here soon afterwards daughter
was born to the couple. The child
was given by her father the En-
glish name of Elizabeth. The first
child in the settlement, she became
the pet of the pioneers and when
the village was given a name in
ll792, by one accord it was called
Elizabeth, in honor Of the little
halfbreed, which name it bore until