The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-05-14
A MOUNTAIN GIRL.


College. Kentucky, wbe Is In the city a,
present, gave the fosioving history the
Other morning. At the residence m Miss
heies Gould. concerning true daughter
Of the resoiutiea, the said daughter being
one Of The pspiis At Beres. II IL stady.
not onls IN The degsnersey that follows
ISOLATION, but IN the power Of inherited
rePse.'i,ies 10 respond 20 new environ
asas.. in the oides, and puiss, Of Aueri-
] ekn stock
Jobn GabbArd was bible reading aud
psalm singing Englishusn. Who came 10
America beeause crom~eii was dead and
he would not join the Episcopal church.
His son Adam learned to read. write snd
cipher. and served under Washington.
After the revolution. having previously
married a Scotch Irish girl. be settled in
a rich river bottom ia Western Virginia
and raised family Of twelve children.
His son David bad few school privileges.
but learned 10 read write aud cipher
His wedding journey was 10 a claim us
miles west Of bis old home. His wife and
he made the trip on horseback. and trans
Poriaiion being difficult, they carried only
three books Bible, cstechism and
small life Of Washington"
This move Of the family took IL into the
dark and bloody ground" Of Kentucky.
and David, who was famous fighter. vas
killed before fpany years while out with
Daniel Roone. His son Daniel never saw
schoolhouse and never learned 20 read.
The land was divided among four children.
giving each 200 acres. This family had
nov lost the ar, Of reading. which IL had
possessed for three generations In the
next generation Il also ceased 20 own
property winch 10 had possessed for the
same length Of time. Daniel had sixteen
children, none Of whom ever thought Of
learning 10 read. Their father had been
man of substance, thou ID iliiteratc. bat
bic 200 acres did not 90 far among six
teen, aud, the rich river valleys nov being
att taken up, the brood was Obliged 10
scatter out over the stony son OF the Ken
tucky mountains
The generation lived aud died in entire
isolation. Several were killed among
mountain leuds. The last ofthat genera.
ming moonshinc siili on Hell Fer Sar-
tain creek. Bot his son Bud got In con-
tact uith the world again. lu 1861 Bud
took raft oilogs down the Kentucky
rlferi and to bic astuuishmcnt found that
a VAR VAS in progress. he cnioyed fight
ing. and enlisted in The Union army De
ua- disordcrly boz camp. bot made a. snien-
eid hghtcr, and marched With sherman
Co che sea. When De won't back hom. be-
possessed broader ideas than bic family
bad known log two generations. When
me free school system was established
nud hccamc school trustee. although UNI
able Co read or write Al fret be auc-
TONED Of che postum OF teacher 10 the
highest bidder aud rockctcd the proceeds
"a feature ui The puhiic echool system sim
obtaining iu that section
hut after vhnca nerca graduate
tnuslt school in sn adjoining distri,f
nud was capable oi seeing aud partially
aprrcciaiiug The difference. he deter
mlucd nos only Co have a better school in
DDS ditirct, hut alec Co educate bis dauah-
tcr ~atrcta Co teach school This ua.a
mix iy progressive idea fora man like
hud. Who could DOT read any more than
hit father before him Tie determined
nevertheless, Co sct aside whatever might
accrue from a certain Joe oi hocs that ,car
ior scrpeia's education But that rcar
an epidemic broke out among the swine.
ami Scrpcta's education went over
When Bod Ola get ready 90 educate Ser.
pcfa thc cir's oNu notions bad 10 De tax |
eu into account. She was nov fifteen. aud I
-eNefAl bows were already talkiu' 60 her I
right pert
laiAin Co her has o. technical mean /
'nE Dob the kentucky mountains Sarneta I
lid not know whether she wanted to h. /
educated og not hut just then 60 han
eurd THAT certain teacher from Rcrea I
Nt-. loeum, making one oi those horse.
back ipurs among She mountains much 4
iNrDira n1 hcrra teachers. stopped over /
i ilhi 900 Bud p cabin aud talked o. ~arne- /
"a. lHst settled &C. Sarrrfa. nka her
athcr, bed brain cells somewhere iu her
ranium, created generations before.
hicn responded Go Mrs Nocum'- rcpr.-
mutations. She decided Co hc educated
" ben Safpcia came riding up 90 Rerca.
o. Beg white suuhouuct and uolicn mits.
nc dismouutcd her horse aud proceeded
% climb the fence square in frout OF the
ft-idents house Iruc. there WAS a
.aie right beside her, iot that didn't DO
,afpeia any good. She didn't know what
: WAS for
Don't think Too hardly OF her irno.
auce, SAYS nr. FROST. 81 have heard that
large proportion OF the school chin.
rea in Boston. when examined in uatur,
iedlcs, didn't kuoU that milk came from,
cos Environment means good deal.
ou knoa. Sarpeta doesn't know she b.
Daughter 90 the revolution She is
utc unconscious OF hcr pedigree. Bat
Die daughter oi Bud. the Union veteran
alestine. the moonshiucr. Daniel. the
indian hehtcr David. the hackwoodsmsu.
dam, che revolutionary hero. aud John
DO Nas Cromvclls man. b. not only an
itercstlng study, bat joy TO her teach
rs.-Nee lork Tribune.