The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-08-14

uuceu TO garrison Oh one hundred
men In January, 1873, it will be recol-
: leoted that the pack-horses bringing
provisions from tn eeast to supply the
fort were stampeded by the joyous
firing of guns in the fort, and the
horses and provisions to a great ex-
tent we're lost. A party of Mingo
warriors were at the time coming
down the Tuscarawas trail, which
crossed the river at what was after
ward called the Canton Ford" about
Philadelphia, and hear the ford was
a large spring called the 'Federal
Spring" These Mingoes caught some
OF the pack-horses laden with pro-
visions and brought them to this
spring where they camped until the
provisions we're eaten UP. Among
them was warrior chief of great
stature, who had with him a white
squaw, who had been captured in
Pennsylvania, and after many hair
breadth escapes had out of gratitude,
II not love-, became. the warriors wife.
When the, Mingoes broke camp.
this warrior and wife proceeded on
a visit to New Shoenbrun, one and
one-ha1f miles southeast of Now Phil
adelphia, where they heard Zeisberger
preach and manifested some outward
feelings Of religion; the chief and wife
were solicited to join the mission.
She assented but the warrior refused,
and she would not join without him.
The Indian women about the mission
then undertook to gain her over by
strategy. At the mission was Creole
squaw of great beauty, who gave the
missionaries much trouble by her
lasciviousness. She possessed such
fascinating charms that she was the
envious terror of the other women,
and 1t is In tradition that Zeisber
ger himself being then unmarried
was nearly ensnared by her conduct
and her wanton approaches, but sue
ceeded like Joseph of old in with
standing the temptress.
The Mingo was told of her and es-
escorted to her cabin. His white
wife was informed of the fact, by the
Indian women, they believing that
she would abandon him and become
convert. In Jealous rage she de-
creed that both should die If found
together, and repairing with her tom
ahawk to the woman's cabin, found
that they had both left for the woods
She followed their tracks to a high
bluff on the edge or the river, short
distance above the Federal spring,
the precipice forming the bluff being
at that time more than one hundred
fee high and descended perpendicu-
larly into the river. On this bluff the
Jealous white squaw met her chief
and paramour face to face. 1t was
but look on his part and he sprang
up with his knife to strike but in
raising she struck him, and, as he fell
back over the ledge, she bounded at
the Creole beauty, who had thus
( wronged her, and She too, went over
the precipice, dragging with her the
white sQuaw to like speedy death.
Some Indian converts who had follow
ed her to the bluff descended to the
river, took the three corpses from the
shallow water, carried them to the
mission house at New Schoenbrun and
related the tragedy. The mission
ary refused them burial in the Chris
tian grave yard; directed the bodies
to be taken to the forest, and in
TERED beyond the sound of the church
bell, that once echoed from old Shoen-
brun"
IN 1875.
In the summer of 1875, farmer
named Hensel, while digging for ore,
found on one of his hills not over
mile and half from Shoenbrun,
the skeleton Of giant (supposed to
be that Of an Indian) with the skull
broken in, and by his side the bones
OF two females. They had been hur-
riedly buried, the remains not being
more than couple of feet below the
surface and bore evidence from their
condition of having been there from
eighty to one hundred years, and 1t
is altogether probable that they were
the Mingo warrior and his squaw.
"On a dividing ridge in Belmont
county issue two little streams, one
flowing into the Ohio, called Wheel.
ing creek, the other taking north.
west direction through parts of Harri.
son and Tuscarawas counties, and
emptying into the Tuscarawas river
six miles southeast of New Philadel.
phia. On one of these small streams
called by the Indians Ge-hel-e.muk'
pe-ohuk, by the whites stillwateT,
there was an Indian town called
Three Legs Town. and located neal
its junction with the Tuscarawas.
Tradition says 1t was so named
after chief who first resided there