The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-08
An Autobiography OF
James Mcbride
Abridged by Elam w. Mcbride

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Mcbride and Catherine John, wai
born May 8, 1918, in New Lances
ter, Fairfield county, Ohio. II
April, 1920, my father moved t.
Wayne county, Ohio, and leased
eighty acres of land on the Rec
Haw, a branch of the Mohegan river
In April, 1881, two Mormon ell
ders, Thomas Trip and Harvey
Green, preached the first sermon Oh
the Red Haw in my fathers home
Soon after, my father, mother and
sister Isabella were baptised. In
August, 1893, we started to emf
CRATE to Missouri, but stopped in
Richland county, Ohio We resumed
our journey in the spring of 1884,
and arrived in Pike county, Missou-
ri, in June of the same year. In the
spring of 1886, we made another
move to Ray county, Missouri. Here
the bowling of the mobs was heard
on every hand. In September, 1886,
the family moved to Coldwell coun-
ty, Missouri, and father filed on an
eighty acre homestead on Shoal
creek, three-fourths of a mile from
Hauns Mill. In Shoal creek I was
baptised in June, 1898.
At Hauns Mill, on October 80,
1888, there was a dastardly massa-
ere committed by a disguised mob.
1t happened just before sunset. The
mob consisted of about two hundred
forty mounted men, bedecked in
feathers and smeared with paint. =.
The Presiding Elder of the Hauns
Mill branch of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, per-
ceiving their evil intentions, raised
his hands as a sign of peace. Brt
the mob, needing him not, continued
their rushing advance and COM
menced firing. The stricken and
Mortified settlers fled, endeavoring
to escape and find shelter. There
ensued a volley of rapid musketry
of many hundreds shots that lasted
about six minutes. Then there fol-
lowed a ramsacking search A mi
litiaman came up to where my IA
less, with his gun by his side. The
picked up the gun, which
was Kentucky cap and ball muzzle
loading rifle. Seeing that the gun
was loaded, the militiaman deliber-
ately discharged it into my dear
aged fathers breast. (Father was
hen sixty-three yearsof age,) The J
then picked up an old
.usty piece of a hand moving scythe,
commonly used as a corn cutter, and
hacked and cut my father until his
lrms, hands and body were fright
ully mangled. All the while father
vas holding up his hands, with some
# the fingers already cut off, i'm
'loring for mercy, but It was in
ain.
October 81, 1898, my brother
AMOS, my brother-in-law JaJmes
)ayley and others carried the dead
cdies on a board, one at a time, /
nd dumped them into an adjacent
'ell, about twelve feet deep, and 1
overed them with straw and dirt. I
1y brother Amos turned his back {
Ii the we'll when James Dayley slid
ather's crops off the carrying hoard {
ito the heart-rending resting place [
} await the morning of the first G
ssurrection. There were fifteen i
odies buried in that one tomb. {
hree more of the wounded finally /
led. Some of the dead and some (
the wounded were mere boys, as I
)ung as eight years old. One Of L
lie mob later boasted of killing one v
the youngest boys, saying, "Nits b
axe lice. If he had lived he would a
i've been a Mormon" a
My brother Amos lived about Z
rec miles from the mill Some
me later a mob went and relieved v
m of his gun and took him from h
s home in the night. without al Il
wing him to dress, they drove him {
his night-shirt and bare feet O
out mile and a half into the ic
pods. They tied his arms around IL
tree; gave him eighteen lashes N
tn long hickory, cutting blood h
ch lick clear across his back; and W
en- they turned him loose with pro-
ne vile threats and with blood bi
ckling down his back III
At still later date, my brother tb
omas, while going to the store fe
Itch was near his home. was seized ia
a mob. They put rope around br
! neck and hung him to the porch. w
Mr.. Gray happened by just in the ell