USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ========================================================================== GEORGE BEATTY This is quoted from the book "History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties,Indiana" Uncle George BEATTY, who in 1881, was still living, settled in the western part of the township in 1815, in section 6. But few trees had then been felled in the county, at least in that neighborhood. The family put up a cabin with a single room, in which they lived until 1825, when they built and moved into a two-story hewed log-house, which is yet standing, and a peach orchard started by planting peach stones, and in a few years they had an abundance of most delicious peaches. They dried many, which sold for 50 cents per bushel; large quantities were distilled into brandy, which sold at 50 cents per gallon. The deer and bear were plenty in those days, and uncle George became a noted hunter. In 1816 or 1817 John GIBSON- father of George and Hugh- and John and Kittle, told Uncle George they had been deer hunting and both aimed at and shot a deer at the same time; the deer ran a short distance and fell down, and they went up and cut its throat, but in a few moments it got up and ran off, and they lost it. Uncle George said they were truthful boys, and he questioned them closely, and found they had hit the buck, one on one side and the other on the other side. I thought the deer was enchanted, but eight weeks after I killed a big buck, he had a monstrous big frame, but was poor, and that attracted my attention, I examined him closely, and to my surprise, found two bullet scars, one each side of his back, and on looking at his throat I found it had been cut by the windpipe, and just healed up. That satisfied me that the boys told the truth, and this was the same buck they had tried to kill. THE END! Tami Bearden