The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09

lips resided in Clarke County Cor per
 haps in Clarke and in Washington). Al one time he owned a saw mill In Clarke County. This fact Is evidence of an en- terprising spirit. The date of Colonel Phillips's death seems unknown.
 In another part of the chapter all ready mentioned. General Dale is rep resented as saying: My next enter prise was to move Judge Saffold and family to the Tombigbee in June, 1915. I knew that a detachment of troops had been ordered from Fort Mitchell to Mo- bile and my plan was to obfain their convoy. When our party reached the fort the detachment was two days in advance; but we pushed on in their
 wake. and I had the satisfaction of lodging the Judge and his estimable family safely at their new home" This Judge Saffold" was Reuben Sanold, the younger.
 The party" of which General Dale was the conductor. passed through the
 settlement on the site of the present city of Montgomery. and would have spent a night therein but for disaf-
 lection among the Indians on account of the killing. in difficulty on the pre-
 vious day. of an Indian the slayer be-
 ing a white man. After travelling
 throughout the short night, very early
 in the succeeding morning the party crossed to the northern side of the Ala
 bama River and encamped. the crossing
 being effected from a point afterwards
 included in Lowndes County. Indians
 were about and were not hostile. but were Inclined to pilfer. watch having to
 be kept to prevent the stealing of bis
 cults from an oven while the cooking of breakfast was in progress.
 Reuben Saffold settled at or near
 Jackson. Within a brief time the Creek War began. and" says Pickett in his History of Alabama 'he at once be- came actively engaged in the protection of a suffering people and an exposed frontier" He was a private in Col. James Callers command. at the Battle of Burnt Corn, and was one of those who fought until victory for the In- dians was unavoidable. Of Mfr Saffold 6 additional services in the war. Colonel Pickett says: Holding at the time the
 rank of colonel in the military. he new ertheless raised company of sixty volunteers, and as their captain, SCOUT ed the thickets from the mouth to the head of the Perdido River upon which occasion several Indians were killed
 while others were driven to the more remote parts of Florida"
 Here may be introduced some par ticulars In the life of Mrs. Saffoid: "The period of her arrival in Alabama was one full of peril to the settlers of the new territory. The Indians were al-
 ready contemplating that extensive
 union resulting in the Creek war, dis tinguished alike for their complete
 overthrow and the sore extremity to which the white citizens were reduced Accustomed as Mrs. Saffold was to the comforts and conveniences of life, In an | older State, the vicissitudes to which she was unavoidably subjected. bore hardly upon her. Her husband was of ten absent from home. engaged in the necessary defense of the country. and at such times she and her little chil- dren were frequently alarmed by gangs of vagrant savages begging for bread and sometimes meditating fearful mis- chief. She had taken refuge in a neighboring fort when the dreadful massacre at Fort Mims occurred" She heard the firing during the conflict in 1 the course of which the horrible slaugn- | ter was committed
 Mrs. Safrold's recital of a pretty and | exciting incident of her sojourn at the l fort which afforded protection to her IS
 remembered. A party of girls and grown ladies. including Mrs. Safold | went to a spring near the fort and were conversing. strollng and gathering | flowers. leisurely enjoying their recre- ation Suddenly the Indian whoop was neaTO. LOOktnB III tuc cStioi ol sHN sound, .he party saw several lndians and also settler who had been hunt | ing and was accompanied by pack of dogs. The huntsman, interposed him | self and his dogs between the party and | the Indians and kept the latter in check | until the ladies reached the fort. --: While living in Clarke County, anc after times became comparatively quiet Mrs. Safrold was kind to Indians who
 
 them. She cheerfully gave food tc them and learned to converse with | them. In some instances when In dians, desiring to be fed. stopped at hei l house, they would turn the backs ol their tomahawks or the lower ends ol their guns toward her In order to show | that they were friendly. Some times becoming uneasy. Mrs. Saffold. taking one of her children (two boys) and ac' companied by a nurse. carrying the other, would walk to her fathers place not far from her home. She was In | formed that on one or more of these l occasions, Indians observed her anc | placed themselves behind trees so tha she might not see them and be frighten'
 ed by their presence After the estab | lishment of peace, Colonel Sanold re- | stunned the practice of law. His resi- dence at or near Jackson continued I served during different sessions, as z member of the Legislature of the Mis- sippi Territory, or the Alabama Terri | tory. In May 1919 he was elected as delegate to the convention called tc frame a constitution for the proposed State of Alabama, and as member oi | the convention held in Huntsville, ht aided in preparing the first constitution l for the State.
 At the first session of the Legisla | ture of Alabama. held in the fall oi 1S19, in Huntsville-pursuant to the
 work of the convention. Colonel Saffole | was elected, without opposition. to tho position of Judge of the Second Judicia | Circuit of the State In December oi l the same year. the month In whicf | Congress admitted Alabama to the Union, he removed to Dallas County l The place which he selected as hi: | home, and which he named "Belvoir, 1 is about sixteen miles southward from Selma, and on both sides of the roac