KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 9 April 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 148 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 14:28:50 -0400 From: Bob Francis Subject: MISC: Interview with Robert Jones, Part Five, Bourbon Co From: The Kentuckian-Citizen, May 22, 1935 Pioneer History of Kentucky Interview with Robert Jones >From Draper Manuscripts Courtesy Mrs. William B. Ardery NOTE: This completes this series--Bob Francis SIXTH INSTALLMENT Crooked Creek emptied into the Kenhawa, where Lewis' battle was. The Indians crossed at Old Town Creek, and at the mouth, and then came down & hid in the banks of the gully that came into the Ohio, About 300 years or 400 yards above the mouth of the Kenhawa and headed nearly up to Crooked Creek, leaving only a little marshy place. The fort was about 50 yards from the top of the Kenhawa bank, mostly cabined, a little picketing, that was between. Then 150 yards to Van Bevars. Then 100 or 150 to the gully. Crooked Creek came in about a fourth of a mile of the point, and spoiled all the bottom along up the Ohio running so crooked, The Indians got in that gully, and passed over into Short Creek, and thought from behind to drive Lewis into the Ohio. He left 400 men with the baggage, and brought 700 into the engagement. Tother side of Johnson's fork, and facing the creek hills, one lawyer Jones was killed, and thrown against the logs. This before I came out. On the side of Hinkston, on a little branch that headed way back towards the Blue Licks, a man and his family, moving to Ky., were all killed. His wife alone, who had been left for dead, came to. Was afterwards married, and I met her, on the banks of the stormy branch, leading to Blue Licks, moving to Tennefore? Cumberlands. Israel Donaldson was with us when we were out to the heads of the Little Miami, within 12 miles of the Indian towns, where were 200 warriors, & only 67 of us. We turned back where we crossed the prairie where Downing got away. We saw where they had spilled the bear's oil on the grass, it looked like it had been singed by fire. Lytle lived at that time 7 miles from Lexington, on the Bethel Meeting house road, within a mile of the meeting house. Nat. Mapie's town was up by the 3 islands. After Flinns left Belleille, a Frenchman came and settled there, and the riffle below there, in the Ohio, got the name of Letart's falls. Pa. line crossed at the mouth of little Beaver. Fort McIntosh was just below the mouth (Big Beaver). All our drafts for guard, while we lived on the Monongahela, were for out towards the Alleghany. When we were driven back, it was from down the Ohio, and off the Allegheny. Our settlements were in a row there, and not more than 30 miles wide, from the passage of' the Allegheny, at Buson town, to the forks of Yough & c. on down. , In the fall of 1773 I went down to Wheeling country, to a sister and sister-in-law’s. Staid there the winter. Spring 1774, the Indians became so bad, we had to go back to the Monongahela. (We had at first moved from Virginia, before coming to Pa.) One Grant made an expedition to Pitt after Braddock, and the Indians ambushed and cut him off, They met Forbes way at Ligonier, & were defeated, and then he took Pitt. The upper end of Ohio was settled before the parts of Pa, above the Allegheny, west of the mountains. Hannah's Town was removed 3 miles, and called Greensburgh. The first buffalo I ever saw, was on the last day of March 1786, 6 miles above Limestone, feeding on the Cabin Creek bottom. One (Dick or Arch) Langberry was defeated, & his whole company of men taken, before we came down at all. He was a regular officer. June 16, 1790, I went out from Millers station to kill a deer for my father before I starting to go to Pa. I shot one on the creek, and it ran on down, & I followed it till it got nearly night. I could trace it by the. blood very plainly, till it would run into the creek. I knew I could get it next morning, and turned back, but had pursued so far down, I was below my coming out trail. As I passed in I stopped at the sound of footsteps, and waited with the determination of firing. A little run crossed the road diagonally. Five Indians came down the path, and passed down to their left, right down the run, without seeing me. I then, passed into the fort, but being a perfect stranger, never mentioned it, because they would laugh at me, & not believe it. Next day I told father to keep in and why. There were 2 stations Wm. Miller's and John’s. (John Miller). That night the Indians came, June 17, 1790, and stole all the horses from Wm. Miller’s station, and came right down the road, & rode right in the lane, through the Irish station. Suppose they hadn't known it was there yet. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:06:35 -0400 From: "Kelly" Subject: OBIT: Obit, Edith L. York, d. 2000, Fayette Co Submitted by Barb Rice Lexington Herald Leader 3/27/2000 Edith L. York, 79, widow of Alvin T. York, died yesterday. Arrangements incomplete, W.R. Milward Mortuary Broadway. Visitation 6-9 p.m. today ______________________________X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:12:22 -0400 From: "Kelly" Subject: MILITARY: Rev War Soldier's Bourbon Co LIST OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS INSCRIBED ON TABLET AT BOURBON CO. COURTHOUSE Erected by Jemima Johnson Chapter D.A.R. In memory of the Patriot Soldiers of the American Revolution Who Died Citizens of Bourbon County David Allen John Allen Philip Ament Nicholas D. Ament John Ardery Nicholas Arnold John Baird Henry Bonta Elijah Barbey Alexander Barnett Elisemond Bayse Samuel Batterton Walker Baylor Archibald Beale David Bowles James Bradley Wm Bourne Branham John Brannon John Breast Alexander Breckenridge Alexander Brown James Brisby William Coldwell William Campbell Samuel Cutright John Champe Robert Clark John Clay Samuel Clay Isaac Clinkenbeard Andrew Cochran Thomas Conn William Cook Lewis Corbin Henry Crose James Davis John Debruler Daniel Delaney George Edwards John Edwards Moses Endicott Henry Ewalt Reubin Field Hugh Forgey Peter Forgneran Jr. James Garrard Jacob Ham Nathaniel Harris William Harris Benjamin Hennis David Hickman Daniel Hicks Robert Hill John Hinkson Ezekial Hopkins Thomas Hutchcraft Joseph Jackson David Jameson John Jameson James Jones Thomas Jones William Jones Thomas Kelly Benoni Kendrick Benjamin Kendrick Thomas Kennedy James Kenney Charles Lander Samuel Lockwood George Loyd Robert Luckie Edmund Lyne Thomas McClanchear (McClanchan?) William McClelland Daniel McClintock John McCloud Andrew McClure William McConnell Daniel McDowell David marshall John Miller (founded Millersburg) John Miller William Miller Benjamin Mills Sr. Joseph Mitchell Jeremiah Nesbit William Nesbit Joseph Palmer Aquilla Parker Thomas Parker John Parks Robert Porter William Patton Joseph Penn James Pritchett Joseph Pugh James Purviance Nathaniel Raine George Reading Nathaniel Rogers Thomas Rodges Archibald Ruddell Isaac Ruddell James Sandusky Benjamin Schooler John Shaw Thomas Smith Weathers Smith Hesekiah Speakes Christian Spears Jacob Spears James Stark Wm Steele John Stipp Henry Talbert John Talbot John Terrill Moses Thomas William Thomas Anthony Thornton Jr. Thomas Thornton George Trible John Varnon John Whittington Henry Wigginton Robert Wilmott Hubbard Williams Henry Wilson James Wright Jacob Yocum _____________________________X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 21:13:33 -0400 From: "Kelly" Subject: OBIT: Ellen Estes, d. 1949, Clark Co Winchester, Clark County, KY "The Winchester Sun" December 12, 1949: Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Estes, widow of James Estes, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the residence at Becknerville. Burial will be in the Winchester Cemetery. Rev. George Jacobs, pastor of the Georgetown Christian church, will conduct the service. Mrs. Estes, a native of Estill county, died at 12:15 a.m. Sunday at her home in the county. She was a daughter of the late Garrett and Nancy Barnes Tipton, and was a member of the member of the Mt. Zion Missionary Society. Survivors include two daughters, Miss Lillie Estes, Winchester, and Mrs. Thomas M. Todd, Lexington; three sons, Ray, Claude, and George Estes, all of Winchester; 29 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Sheridan Dunaway, Beattyville, and Mrs. Arthur Shearer, Irvine; two brothers, Courtney Tipton, Grant county, and William Tipton, Cold Springs; two half-sisters, Mrs. Alma Robinson of Ohio and Mrs. Alice Hall of Irvine, and half-brothers, Clemons Tipton, Cincinnati; Clarence Tipton, Pryse, and Ben Tipton, Irvine. Pallbearers will be Howard Goodpaster, Verlon, Russell, Thomas Lee, Donald Estes, and James Todd; honorary, Allie Estes, Owen Puckett, Spencer Pinnell, William Jones, Allie Johnson, Walter Young, Dr. J. A. Snowden, Dr. Eugene A. Snowden, C. S. Bishop, and E. E. Freeman. The body has been moved from the Scobee funeral home to the residence. End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #148 ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.