The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-08-14
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his perturbed state Of mind partaken
of some whiskey saved from the last
raid in Virginia. On the following
morning he was found with his head
split open, and the tomahawk re-
naming In the skull crack, while the
newcomer had fed. Mary, simulat-
Ing or being in ignorance of the mur-
der, at once aroused the The Whlts
Woman's Town with her screams
The warriors were soon out at her
wigwam, and comprehending the sit
uation, at once started in pursuit of
the fleeing murderess, whom they
tracked to the Tuscarawas thence
to an Indian town nearby, where they
found her. She was claimed as a
deserter from The White Womans
Town, and under the Indian code, was
liable to be put to death, whether
guilty of murder or not. She was
taken back while Gist was at the
town, and he relates in his journal
that she was put to death in the fol-
lowing manner: She was set free and
ran OFF some distance, followed by
three Indian warriors, who,7 overtaK-
ing her, struck her on the side of the
head with their tomahawks, and 9TH
erwise beat and mutilated the body
after life was extinct, then left 1t ly-
ing on the ground Andrew Burney,
a blacksmith at The White Woman's
Town. obtained and buried the BODY.
Mary Harris insisted that the new
conner killed her husband with his
own hatchet, I'M revenge for being
brought into captivity, while she, as.
tradition gives it, alleged that Mary
did the wicked work out Of jealousy,
and intended displacing her also, but
she was defeated in her project by
the fight of the newcomer Be that
as it may, Eagle Feather was sent
to the spirit land for introducing po-
lygamy among white ladies in the
town to which she fled was thence
forward called The Newcomers
Town by the Indians as early as
1755.' This name it retained during
Its occupancy byI the Indians, and
when plated into lots by the white
settlers in 1927, the old name was
adopted for the new town, and 1t re-
Mary Harris married again, had
children, and removed west about the
time Pipe VOLTS tribe removed to
Sandusky in 1889. After that she
became oblivious in history; but the
river from Coshocton to the mouth
of Killbuck is still called by its orig
lnal name, "The White Woman's
River"
In September, 1881, Zelsberger, the
missionary, was driven out of the
: Tuscarawas valley and remained a
wanderer, from one place to another,
laboring to establish missions among
, the Indians, until the year 1898, pc
riod of seventeen years, during which
} time he had no real resting place on
3 the earth. During these years of
: wandering he was subjected to priva-
l tion and persecution by his enemies,
and his life was one of untold anx-
J lety and hardshlps. When at last the
period of his exile and wandering
came to a close, he was permitted to
return again to the Tuscarawas val
ley, and after journey of fifty one
days with a number of his converts
; in frail canoes, coasting along down
the Tuscarawas to his old home, and
i finally landed in sight of the OLE
ruins. Here they laid out the town
of Goshen and proceeded to erect a
new chapel which they dedicated to
2 God on Christmas day, 1898.
4 "One of the first persons baptized
at Goshen was the widow Of the In.
l dian chief, White Eyes; next came
chief of the Delawares, who bore a
: message from the Delawares on White
} river, in Indiana, asking that mission
= aries be sent from Goshen to settle
3 there, Two missionaries and several
n Christian Indians were sent from Co
{ thereafter Joshua and Ann Charity,
9 aged Indians from Goshen, were de-
a nounced by an Indian prophet as
e witches, and sentenced to be burned,
4 which was done by placing the vic.
: tins upon a large pile of wood, bind.
< ing them and tomahawing them; after
which setting fire to the pile, the In
:, dians danced around 1t until all were
consumed. believing that each vic.
;, tim thus sacrificed relieved the tribe
!, of witch. This Ann Charity was the
:. person who so terrified the leaders
: of the bands who committed the Mo
ravian massacre, and the contem
, plated massacre at Sandusky Of the
;. remaining christian Indians, by march
Q ing her band of skeleton spirits near
: their camping place in the valley
9 The Indian Joshua, her husband, had
: lost two daughters at the Gnadenhut
0 ten massacre.
T "In May, 1879. Paul Greer, Peter