The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1914-09-05

| VI lut hCthOuiob AIistoidA Shuitl
South which was presented to her b,
her father" 1t is more than one hun
dred years old, and it. contains tn
names of her mother and father, Han
nah Louise Gale and George Gale, an,
the names and births of their ffteel
children. 1t also contains the reeOr,
of all the children born to her exeep
wo. She well remembers the time whel
her mother and all her sisters and
brothers except one brother and he
father, who belonged to Andrew Bird
were sold down South, and the very
day she babe her mother farewell for
ever, who died with a broken heart on
her way to the land Of sugsreane and
cotton, she gave her a black and green
colored silk shawl which she has kept
unto this day, and she has promised
this priceless relic Of bygone days to
US if she should be the first to pass
on into the next world. Her father
George Gale, was not sold South, but
remained with his master until near the
close of the war. Then he started out
in an unsuccessful attempt to locate his
children, but he was compelled to give
up in despair, and he returned to Vir-
ginia, where he died, and was buried
near the place of his birth. He was
IS years old.
With much interest she related to
US how careful she had to be with
her Sunday clothes when she was a
young girl. She wore one bright red
calico dress each Sunday for three
years, and three tueks were put in at
the time it was made, and each year
one tuck would be let out in order to
make it come down to the tops of her
Sunday-go-to-meeting shoes, and when
ever she would start for church she
had to wrap up her shoes and stockings
in a cloth and carry them under her
arm until near the church. Then she
would sit down on the roadside, wipe
the dust from her feet, put on her shoes
and stockings and enter church, and at
the time our father was sparkling her
she had to 60 through the same process.
In her girlhood days and even after
she was married she had to work in
the fields right along with the men,
and do a man 8 work in the day, and
then cook and work around her master s
house in the evenings.
On one occasion her mistress, Mrs.
Sally Seibert, few into a towering rage
'ver some trihing matter, and attempted
to whip her, and she did succeed in
striking her twice over her back with
q hickory stick. Then, as quick as
lash Of lightning, she sprsng at her
ike a maddened tigress. She wrenehed
the stick from her grasp, and struck
her two severe blows across her back
with it, and after Mrs. Seibert had
related her side of the affair to her
husband that evening he wendell his
way into mothers two-roomed cabin,
which stood right across the yard in
front Of the big old-fashioned white
house which We can still see in our
minds eye, and after seating himself
N an old splint-bottomed wooden chair,
he requested her to tell him why she
had struck her mistress. She in
straightforward manner told her side
If the story, and at the same time
'old him "that she was willing to
work in the fields, in the house, and
70 do everything Mrs. Seibert asked her
10 do, but if she ever attempted to
whip her again she would end her life"
md to the everlasting credit Of William |
Seibert he was a very eonsiderate man,
md he informed her "that it would be
wrong for her to kill his wife, and if
he did she would be hung up by the
neek until she was dead" and she
declared "that she did not care what
'eeome Of her; that no one could whip
Ter as long as she had the strength
o fight back" and she and Mrs. Sci
'ert, who possessed very naughty and
OntemPtible ways, continued to hght
md spat until at last Mr.. seibert was
compelled to hire her away from her
O-ealled home and children for three
ears, and while absent from home she
ooked for Noah Higgs, who ran the
0ading tavern in New Market, Va.
The great struggle was on between
reedom and slavery shortly after
nothsr returned to her masters home
rom New Market, and when General
Phil" Sheridan made his famous raid
trough the Shenandoah Valley, and our
Ather, who had been sold to Robert
nd samuel Bowman by Louis Circle
eeanse he was unable to whip him.