The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-19
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Location of Creek Path
le Editor of The Age-Herald.

TO the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 It sometimes happens that the bitter gets bitten and sometimes even the critic has to be corrected. This is one of the times that the critic has to be corrected
 am not surprised that Hon. O. D.. Street could conclude that the home of Capt. John Brown was located as he
 states in your Wednesdays edition and that Creek Path village was located on the present site of Guntersville. But it so happens that have in my possession a little publication. issued by the same people or organization that was at the
 time maintaining the school not only at Creek Path, but also the mission
 schools, located at Chickamauga after ward renamed Brainerd), and Carmel.
 Willstown, Candy's creek and Haweis. and the location of each of these mission
 schools is given, but the mission at
 Chickamauga and Creek Path are the
 ones whose locations are most minute.y
 and definitely described.
 The home of John Brown (and the place
 also where Catherine Brown was horn.
 about the year 1S0O. is in Wills valley.
 in between Lookout and Raccoon moun-
 tains. % miles from the Tennessee river.
 Creek Path is described as being two
 miles from the home of Capt John
 Brown. further on. travellers from Creek
 Path to Brainerd, passing the home of
 Capt. John Brown en route. It Is further
 stated that on certain occasion services
 at the Creek Path mission church were
 attended by white people from across the
 river, most of the white people in at
 tendance being from across the river.
 which river must have been the Coosa.
 and not the Tennessee, which the record states was 25 miles away This little
 book states that tfis Capt John Brown referred to was the father of Colonel
 Dick Brown, who commanded the Chero-
 kee allies with Jackson, and that Col Dick Brown was severely wounded at the battle of the Horse Shoe Bend, but thai
 he recovered and died later of either con sumption or fever. The preface to this little book is dated Missionary Rooms Boston. Mass. December 1924, though the appendix gives dates and incidents on up to 1929. and the work further shows that 1t was published in 1881.
 The petition that induced the mission aries to locate the school at Creek Path reads as follows: We, the headmen chiefs of Creek Path town. Cherokee Ma Il0Il, nave LHiS ddy d6ScHDleQ ourselves together for the purpose of devising some plan for the education of our children We daily witness the good effects arising from education, and therefore are ex- tremely anxious to have school fin oul neighborhood. as the distance from this part of the nation to Chickamaugah is SC great as not to suit our convenience. We therefore, solicit your aid in carrying oui plan into execution. We can raise 20, oi perhaps 25, children. You will please write us immediately on receipt of this Given under our hands, this 16th day ol February 1920" A footnote adds tn, observation that the paper must have been written by some white person ther at Creek Path, but the letter or petition was presented at the Chickamauga mis sion by Capt John Brown in person. The book states. however. that neither Capt | John Brown nor his wife. the mother O Catherine and David, understood the Eng llish language, Col. Dick Brown and hl. mother were both then dead
 ] It will be observed that this little bool was in reality the publication of those running the mission. and 1t would be fool, lish to even suggest that they did moi know tho location of their own school