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                            MILTON


PAGE 389  Robert Conway settled here in 1800; raised a large family, who 
have received many honors, both as private citizens and public men.  
While watching a lick for deer, three large panthers came into the lick. 
The odds being vastly against him, he retreated unobserved, well content 
at that.  Jones shot Hutchinson, mistaking him for a deer.  It was a 
deadly and a fatal shot.   Colonel James Hastings, an old settler, and 
much respected, cut his throat with a razor, in a most fear- ful manner, 
and was a corpse in a few moments, in 1851.  James Woods hung himself upon 
an apple tree, in 1832.  James Pomeroy was drowned, in 1845 - all men of 
families.  A German hung himself in the woods, in 1852.
  Elias Greathouse, wife and three children, were drowned, in 1845.  
A sudden flood swept their house away in the night time, and all perished 
together.  The mother was found many miles below, with a piece of cradle,
in which her infant slept, still in her hand.  Poor mother!  
A Mr. McIntire was fearfully mangled and killed with a threshing machine. 
Allen Boyce and Mrs. Hiram Scranton both badly bitten by snakes - suffered 
much, but recovered.  A man was killed by a log, which rolled over him, 
and an- other one one by the falling of a tree.  Old Mr. Thatcher, father 
of my friend, E. Thatcher, fell of the fence and broke his neck.  
"Such is life."  Improve it well.  My venerable friend Kittle (the honored
father of A.J. Kittle, a graduate of Greencastle College, an excellent and 
a promising young man), resides here, at an advanced age.  My friend 
Turner, and the Rev. Mr. Records, rather and eminent minister, have both 
removed.  The blessings of all attend them.  John Walker, brother to Henry,
once shot a deer; and Indian rushed in upon him to seize and carry it away.
 Walker drew his rifle upon him, and then told him not to move his rifle 
upon his peril, but to move off in double quick time, with his gun at a 
trail, which was forthwith done accordingly.  What intrepidity!  Chester 
Thair, an insane person, set his house on fire, and perished in the flames.
       Poor fellow!



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