The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08

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battle of Point Pleasant distinguished
themselves. Six Of them afterwaTd,
occupied seats in the American
House of Representatives; three OF
them were members of the United
States Senate; four of them became
Governors of States: one of them a
Lieutenant Governor; one of them a
Territorial Governor; one of them
military and civil eommandant Of
Upper Louisiana; one of them a
Surveyor General of one Of the thir-
teen original States; one the father
of a Governor of Virginia: one the
father of a supreme Judge of Ken
tucky; one ofthem the largest manu-
facturer and wealthiest man in East
ern Ohio at the time of his business
career; one of them President of the
Bank of St. Louis; one of them a
framer ofa constitution for Ohio;
one of them receiver ofpublic moneys
in Western State; and hundred
of them State Legislators and trainers
of State constitutions; while more
than thousand of them went forth
to conquer again, not with a rife,
but with an AK, that they might fell
the forests from which they bad
driven barbarism and change the
lands into fruitful fields. .
Within this same park of glory
rests the dust of Ann Bailey, hero
inc whose deeds of bravery in the
Revolutionary times were never ex-
celled. In 1871 she made a famous
ride of one hundred miles and return
through the Wilderness to secure pow
der for the garrison at Fort Lee,
where Charleston now stands, by
which the besieged fort was able to
drive away the savage bands. Her
deeds of bravery would fill volume
were they all told. She died in 1925.
at the age of eighty-three; and in
1901 her noble dust was brought to
Point Pleasant, where it will teach
stalwart patriotism through all the
coming years.
In the courthouse yard stands a
stone shaft some ten feet high, on
which is inscribed the one word
"constaIk, /" which was unveiled
October IS, 1899. The story of
which it is the sequel is pathetic.
Cornstalk was chief of an Indian
tribe of Shawnees, who were driven
across the river by General Lewis.
Soon after the great battle at Point
Pleasant the Indian tribes northwest
of the Ohio River began to form n
mighty coalition for the purpose of
waging war against the colonists.
Cornstalk was opposed to an alliance
with the British, and was anxious to
maintain cordial relations with the
eolonists. So he came back to Point
Pleasant to communicate the news
of the hostile preparations of the
Indians and to say that only the con-
sent of his own Shawnees was neces-
sary to make the confederacy com
pIete. He gave much valuable in
formation regarding the geography
of the country beyond the river, as
he had Travelled much through that
western wilderness. The colonists
held him and his companions as hos
tages of peace while they awaited
the arrival of fresh troops. His son,
Ellinipsico, became uneasy at the
long delay in his fathers return and
came to the river and hallooed. His
father answered, and the son came
over and greeted his father Affection
ately. On the next day two men
from the fort crossed the Kanawha
on a hunting excursion, and as they
were returning one was espied by
two Indians who were concealed on
the banks of the river and was shot
and scalped. As soon as the news
of this deed reached the fort the in
furiated soldiers, who thought there
were no Indians in the neighborhood,
spread the cry: Let US kill the