Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-03-14
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

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The old grand-daddys used to tell
their children and grandchildren their
ups and downs in early life, more than
the grandfathers of this day do. us
ed to sit and listen to the aged people
talk until my hair would almost push
my hat off. My wife's mother, when
a young girl, lived in the Creek Ma
tion near Wetumpka, Ala. The In
dians Were very numerous in that sec
tion at that time. Granddaddy used
to hire the Indians to chop cotton for
him and jalst as many Indians would
come to work as he gave them ears of
corn. If he gave dogen ears dozen
Indians would come. She said that at
dinner granddaddy would allowance the
Indians in their meals, for, she said,
to give an Indian all he would eat not
another lick of work would he do, but
go off and lie down in the shade She
said when an Indian came to their
house he wouldn't come in like white
folks or holler but would slip up and
peep in and keep doing that way until
he saw them and then he would come
in. She said one day they were eat
ing dinner and young Indian squaw
came and began to peep in as they us
ually did, and the dog being loose dis
covered her and made rush at her
The Squaw jumped into the house and
said, "Ephaw Gle bucha daw," mean
ing the dog would bite her. One day
another came and Aunt Adeline was
then the baby. This Indian woman
brought her papoose along. She seem
ed very fond of Aunt Adeline and
wanted to know her name They told
her "Adaline. Then they asked the
name of her baby and she said, "A-d-
Lime, tpo. After Aunt Adaline grew
up to be almost a young woman they
would tease her about her Indian
namesake.
My wife's mother said the Indians
would go every Saturday over to We
tumpka, and all would get drunk ex-
cept two, both men and women, and
then they would fight and scratch near.
ly half the night She saw them when
the soldiers came to take them west
and told ms how the soldiers managed
to collect them together She said the
J soldiers would go around and play
their music and the Indians would
hear itran{ run into camp. She sale
that just before the Indians left there
, was lot of mad Indians and they
would pass their house painted in theil
5 war paint and march in single file, ON,
behind the other, and wouldn't look a
, you. She said they would eat any
thing and that she had seen them com
: by their house toting old dead COW
9 with the maggots dropping out of tn
carcass. She would talk for hour
about the Indians and how they woul
do.
Now, will close this narrative an
/, the next time l will tell you abou
. Grandfather Smith tussles with In
dians around Beech Grove, Tenn. M
:. great grandfather Smith was hunte
:. and also an Indian fighter. CAM t re
member him but can remember m
g great-grandmother Smith, for she iN
n ed until after our civil war. So frol
her lips and the lips of my grandmotl
. er and my father, have clear il
n sight into what took place in the knoll
>. of Beech Grove, when the whole cour
J. try was covered in cane. The reco
: lections Of the past and the remini
I sences of the same is rich food fl
/ Young America. They have but Ii
,, tie idea of the heroes and heroines wi
j. came here and made their homes
l. and among blood thirsty savages..
= UNCLE GID.