The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1907-11-06
THRILLING ACCOUNT
OF Early Times in Green
River Country.
HARTFORD IN THE LONG AGO
Graphic Narrative of Danger
GUS Travel and EncOunt-
erS With Indians.
CONTINUED from last week.)


had been at Mr.. Rhoades's about
a week, when his son asked me. to go
into the woods with him to hunt the
horses, and readily agreed to do
so, but insisted on having a gun. His
mother forbade him loaning me the
glln and directed him to take the gun
away from me. l entreated her to
let me have it, and was about to sur
render it, when her husband, coming
up, interfered, and told me to take the
gun with me. l merely mention this
fact as one of many instances of the
doubtful and suspicious relation that
l bore to the people of the place.
The young man and / went out into
the woods. The good old Dutch lady,
who had objected to my having the
gun, was that day the victim of Sc
rious alarms concerning the safety
of her son, and was greatly relieved
in the evening when We returned
home safe and loaded with wild game.
t1eT Suspicious elSoAiSI "SAS WIN
pletely dissipated next morning when
she discovered me reading Dutch al
manac, and said to me, is it posi-
BILE that you can read Dutch?'
told her that my parents were
Dutch, and that understood the Ian
guage. This clever old lady after
wards treated me with marked kind
ness and respect, which amply re-
paid me for any injury | sustained
from her unjust suspicious.
Rarnetts station was situated about
two miles north of Hartford, and the
people of both places were contin-
ually harassed by slight depredations
from the Indians. 1t had been rumor-
ed that the Indians meditated an at
tack upon the station. and in April,
1880, they did assail Barnett's station
and killed two children of John An
derson and wounded Mrs. Anderson
severely. She came very near being
killed. A large, powerful indian
had hold of her, and was attempting
to scalp her with a sword, when John
Miller came to her rescue, and when
within a few steps raised his rifle
and snapped it at the Indian, who
dropped his sword and fled, but TOOK
with him the scalp of Mrs. Ander-
SON This lady afterward recovered
and lived ten or twelve years after
wards. The Indians in this foray
captured and carried off with them
Hannah Barnett, a daughter of Col.
Joseph Barnett, then a lovely young
girl about ten years of age. They
conveyed her across the Ohio river
into Indiana territory. She was ran
somed from the Indians by her broth
er-in-law, Mr.. Robert Baird, who bar
gained with q trader to have her
brought in to a post opposite Louis
Vile and she was accordingly rescu-
ed in the month of October follow
ing.
I'm August of the same year, | had
the good fortune to recover my gun,
which | did under the following cir
cumstances: company of about
fifteen persons, myself among the
number, had been raised in Hartford
and Vienna to pursue some Indians.
We traced them to "Robertson's Lick
(since called Highland Lick, and
abandoned the pursuit We were
about to return, when l prevailed on
two of the company, Dudley Miller and
M, SEES Springton, to accompany me to
see if / could find it, We reached
the river opposite and near to the spot
where had lost it. Miller stood guard
whilst Springton and | swain across
the Ohio. In u short time ! found the
place where ! camped and upon eX-
animation / was satisfied that the
tree to which | had tied my gun, was
now distant about twenty or thirty
yards from the water. In searching
down stream a short distance from
this tree, Springton raised the gun
up before him and cried Here she
is" It took a great deal of securing