The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

woman. and Ketch. . man: they were brother and sister. He raised one daughter from Nina. and called her Barbary. She married an Irishman by the name of Holmes.
 At Galphin's death Nina was set free. and died at old Timothy Bar nard's. on Flint river. Ga. many years back. Ketch was an interpreter among the Indians for Galphin--was his stock minder-kept stock at Galphin's cow pens. where Louisville in Jefferson County Ga., now stands. and which was once the seat of government of that state. Ketch helped put up the first cabin at old Galphinton. on the Ogee- chee. for an Indian trading house. At Galphin's death Ketch was sold. and was purchased by Gen. TwiEgs of the revolution. He was the body servant of Gen, Twiggs during the war. At the close of the war. Ketch left his master and went into the Creek Nation Tn 1883 the present Gen. Twiggs. who has performed more real. active and hard service (such as required great bodily exertion as well as great cou- rage) than any one man living--1 can not even except the greatest military man of this or any other age. the vet eran Scott when severe bodily ex- ertion was called for. There is scarce ly an Indian tribe on our borders that Gen Twiggs has not had to war with. or deal with. in some way or another; and in addition to this. the battles Of Paio Alto. Resaca de la Palma. Mon- terey. Vera Cruz. Cerro Gordo. and praise of Twiggs, Quitman. Worth and others. Gen. Twiggs gave Ketch to me. He (Ketch) was about six feet six inches high. very straight. and retained his bodily strength as well as mental faculties, to a most astonishing degree. The Gen. did not give me Ketch expecting me to profit by 1t. but wished him cared for in his old age, as he had been faithful ser want to his father in trying times. purchased Ketch's family, and he lived until about 1s4O. buried him under a large oak about a mile from Tuskesee. A place that he had selected for that purpose. I had little mill on creek near Tuskegee, where l kept Ketch and several other Indian negroes, and here I used to spend much time in listening to them tell over occur- rances of by-gone days. From the hest calculation we could make. Ketch lived to be near hundred years old.
 Modern Negroes.
 While am sketching off little nerro history. I will mention one or two others I buried Barnards old Kitty near Tuskegee, at a time when Tiny, her youngest daughter or nine children. had great grand children. Old Kitty was an African py pir'h, but she was a very old woman, at least to live since Noah's time. Another. and the most remarkable negro that I have known in my time. was Polly Perryman, by many known as Chehaw Micco Polly She was raised by an English family at Nassau on the Isle of New Providence. She was taken to Mobile when about grown-that was but a short time after the French evacuated Fort Du Quesne, or Pitts burg. I have often heard her tell of making the acquaintance of some Vir- ginia negroes who were with the French. Polly was sold to one Jas. Clark, and taken to Pensacola. Clark sold her to an old Indian countryman by the name of Theophilus Perryman. who was the father of the old half breed, Jim Perryman. of the octiyokny town, and Jim was the father of as many children as Priam.
 These were the Chattahoochy 1ndi- dians below Fort Gaines. Polly was then sold to Lauchlan McGillivray and taken to the Coosa river a short dis tance below Proctor's Island, at the old Bob Corneils place. known by some as Little Tallasee-named after Bobs wife. who was a Tallasse. and the mother of Alexander Corneills the Y. S. interpreter. Polly lived In the McGillivray family when Sophia and Alexander were born. She lived with Alexander after he was grown. and after his death Billy Panahon sold her to the half breed. Jim Perryman, and he sold her to Chehaw Micco.
 When the Indians emigrated in 1896, she and old Rose were left with me, and carried them to Arkansas. Polly was the mother of the celebrated Slro. who was supposed to have been killed in the Pea River fight in 1897. Polly died in 1846. and said she was 115 years old. and I think she was but little short of that. She was as in- telligent as negroes ever get to be.
 I purchased Holmes old Ned from Horse Shoe Ned". He had been raised at an early day by family of Powells. one of whom was the father of Hossa Yoholo. a reckless fighter of the old war. Ned followed this chief to Florida, where he died on Indian river, from disease in his feet, caused by an in- sect known as the digger. And from