The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-17
SOME PION LEE II HISTORY
From y. tayu,onds Hstoryo Of Harrison County, u. va

vol Harrison County, W. Va.
you know the place. johnson had
gone ON Saturday to watch q HEX. On
his return home he found his house
in q dreadful sttuation The bed tick
had been ripped open, the feathers
scattered, q COW killed, and 1 believe
. hog In the yard He Judged the
catse and Immediately started for
Clarks burg, but took the contrary
course. He went the same or nearly
the same course the Indians did for
Q short distance. however, he got to
Clarksburg about o'clock. About
twenty OF u started, some on. horse
back and some on foot, ran nearly the
whole distance and got to! the house
Of johnson about one hour before sum
down, took the Indian tran, in about
two or three hundreds yards we pass.
ed Q deer that johnson had killed
and there brought on his horse. We
went about one mile on the trail to
the top of the ridge, some OF the men
stopped to parley, some OF US pro-
ceeded Q little further and found
Johnsons wife and three children ly-
ing dead. They had been tomahawk-
ed and scalpeds and were laid with
their feet pointing east, west, north
and south. This was an awful sight
TO me and; the rest OF the men. 3but
nothtng In compassion TO that Of Nj.
Johnson. The bereayed husband and
father seemed to be unable to bear
the shock. II It was hard to bear IN
those days Of hardships, how do You
think ft,would be borne in these days?
We laid the dead together and COW
cred them oyer with q bed cover, and
returned back to. the house, went IN
20 the woods ana staid till the next
morning when we dug grave and
buried the four together. AS we were
about finishing Col. Lowther with
about fifteen men came to US. We
then took the trail. They. kent along
the ridge, up Ten Mile creek. cross
ed the creek, raised the hill ON the
west side and fell on the head Of 4
small stream Of Rush Run near the
mouth OF the latter, crossed Rush Run
and took the hill, Just leaving Owen
Davis's now. Marsh.s place to the left.
Here we held consultation and II
Yves decided that the Indians had too
long the start, and II overtaken would
Kill the prisoners and the chase was
given up and we returned home. THIS
Indian tale may perhaps be out of
place. but thinking Of those days I
could not forbear giving you an ac-
count OF this sorrowful event.
must tell you little anAcdote.
A Mr. Amaziah Dawission, who for
merly lived about three miles east OF
Ciarksburg, had travelled the road
from Marietta to Clarksburg. saw
him some time after this, and he told
me that he had been very uneasy for
some time past as he heard that my
father had called him q liar. He had
said there was one hill on said road
that It would take 1000 horses to pull
an empty wagon up. When my father
heard It he said 1t was a lie for 500
could do 1t. After his hearing how
he happened to be called liar he
was pleased at the Joke.
Informed you that my, father had
taken two certificates for, land in
Harrison q suppose assigned to him(,
one ON the West Fork for. valuable
tract, some person claimed It and he
gave It up. The other was for 400
acres on Roofing creek where Simon
Arnold now lives. remember It be-
ing said that he got this tract sur
veyed and some person who lived on
the branch claimed the land and he
assigned him the plat. Adjoining this
he had presumption warrant Of 1000
acres which he got surveyed. ] helped
he nj a1s A..
going to survey George Arnold, whs
made the 1000 survey, asked my faith
er II he intended to take the land be-
tween the 400 acres survey and Grigs-
by's survey. MY father said not and
Arnold located 1t. believe that this
was the best land in the bounds Of
the 1000 acre survey. My father, 1t
seems, had made Ids calculations to
make his survey above the resident
right. and would not change even for
better land do mot make this state
ment with any reelection on him. /
am perfectly satisfied, but to show
how little he cared for anything in
this world. The land he sold for lit
tie but l expect 1t IN part Is now VAL
liable.
Poor old Slider and Prince died. /
believe, while we lived at that place.
They had lived in the times that tried
mems souls. but this they knew but
little about. shall have but little to
say hereafter In this narrative except
you wish to hear some other Of my
adventures with the Indians. &c. 1
think Nicholas Carpenter, who lives
IN your place, Clarksburg, w. Va, was
with US at Johnson's at the time his
family was killed. Ask him.
Yours, &C.,
VIM. RAYMOND.
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