The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-03-04


pirate o the lower Mississippi there
was an old song Of which these lines
survive:
"Bard upon the beach oar,
She moves too slow,
All the way 10 Shawneetown,
A long time ago "
There is q flavor Of romance that
llBgers round the place, like the scent
Of some strange perfume in the habili'
ments found in some chest hidden
away for scores of years in a garret.
Across the street is the home in which
dwelt Mrs. John A. Logan when a
blooming girl, the daughter of Mr..
Cunningham who held the important
office of register OF the U. S. Land
Office, and in that house she was
married to "BlaCk Jack" Logan. An
old gentleman here says Logan was as
unpromisiDg a young fellow as was
ever seen when he came TO town from
the farm to study law. Here Bob
Ingersoll was an official and the people
say, did not pay his debts. Gen. John
H. Wilson the best cavalry general IN
the federal army was born here, and
an old docket OF the territorial justice
shows that his father, Harrison Wilson,
had 8 hard struggle for existence
| His brother Bluiord was a determined
prosecutor Of the Whiskey Ring. The
| Blufords came from the northern
neck, Lancaster Co. ! think, neal
where the Lincoln and Hanks families
we're in colonial times.
As a boy used to see on the neal
side of an old log store building OF
the levee at home the sign "LimricE
| & Marron." Both csms from here
John Llmfick, father of our William
ia said to have been tall fne.lookinl
man from Ireland, but his wife wa
short and not as good-lockiDg
William wGs born in house on a fn
farm east of town, and just across th
road my mothers father lived and sh
was born. Tho east Of town the plac
was called "Westwood" which is tn
name of one of the ancestral homes O
the Streets in England. The oil
people tell yet of what a beautiful plac
it was IN the old times. Nothing
now left but the one-story ell OF tn
house, and all the trees arc gone. o
T the next hill east is the cemetery, sti
called "Street's Grave Yard" the
! now in general use Mclean, one
Illinois first senators is buried there
Not far from hlm IS the tomb OF Ger
, Thomas Posey whose epitaph recil'
t that he was the one who gave the CT
e "The Forts our own" at the stormin
S of Stoney Point. This was agreed Q
D to be given by the first one in Il
r enemy's works. From its beginnir
to Its end he was in active service
. tho revolution, whose arduousness
= proved by many letters and repor
:, from him in the Historical Society
/, Philadelphia, the state library
= Richmond, the library of congress
, Washington and bis own diary. Fro
. Northern New York to Georgia
;, marched aud fought, and up to b
. death in 1918 had covered it is sai
- in official travelling, many thousal
:, miles, between Saratoga and Ne
n Orleans. The gentle plasbings OF t
. waters OF the Potomac lulled /
n infant slumbers and ncw he takes
+. long sleep not far from the mouth
> the beautiful Ohio. One of the b
IN business houses in town still goes
the name Of the "Posey building
built and once occupied as a store
his son Washington A. G. Pose
10 From this town came to LeXingt
70 the older John MeFadln who
b. murder will long be one of Lexington
NC legends.
- This town has little street paviI
hc the primevAl mud is on top yet, a
y not many blocks have paved sldewal
oi 1t shows q queer mixture Of
as ramshackle buildings and handso
he modern residence. A new block
Is gone up lately where stood the
house In which La Fayette '
ne entertained in 1926. 1t vas on
=! river bank and calico was spread fr
in the steamboat to the house for him
ess walk on. He made the acquaiuta
eft Of Posey as a captain In the celebra
fe, regiment of sharp-shooters that
'ill such terrible execution and was M