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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:01:16 -0500 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <014b01c1bd09$7e5d8ce0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio -- Ohio Shawnees -- Part 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------Original Message------- From: Darlene & Kathi kelley Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 17:03:21 To: MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com Subject: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio -- Ohio Shawnees -- Part 3 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Feb 11, 2002 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley Ohio Shawnees -- Part 3. *********************************************** Ohio Shawnees -- Part 3. The Shawnees in Relation to other Native American Tribes-- The Shawnees were and are Algonquian speakers. Their name comes from the term " Shawun " meaning south or "Shawunogi" meaning southerner. The French called the Shawnee "Chaouanons" and the Iroquois, with whom the Shawnee historically maintained a hostile relationship, called them " ontwaganha. " meaning those who utter unintelligible speech. Other names: Ani-Sawanugi [ Cherokee ], Chaskpe [French], Santana [ Iroquois ], Shawala [Lakota], Savannah or Savannuca [ South Carolina colonists]. In fact there are some 150 different names an spellings that have been used to refer to the Shawnee. However, the Shawnee prefer to call themselves the Shawano. Linguistically the Shawnee are identifiable with the group of Central Algonquian speakers includng the Miami, Kickapoo, Illiniwek, Sauk, and Fox, whose original home of the entire Algonquian stock lay somewhere in the eastern subartic region of Canada. The hunting and fishing practices of the Algonquian speaking groups have led scholars to believe that the early Algonquans lived in the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg. It is thought that the Shawnee were one of the earliest groups to move south from this region. However, the precise route taken, the length of time spent in migration, and even the approximate time of departure are unknown. Thus it is difficult to separate fact from fiction when dealing with tribal legend and tradition. The migration legend of the Delaware called " The Walam Olum " somewhat gives a clue about the time of the Shawnee migration to the south. The tradition goes; " When Little Fog was chief, many of them [Delaware] went away with the Nanticoke and Shawnee to the land of the South." The date of this occurrence is estimated at about 1240 A.D. Later the tradition states; " When White Horn was chief, they were in the region of the Talega Mountains and there were the Illinois, the Shawnee, and the Conoy." The very next verse mentions a landlocked lake, suggesting that the region occupied was the area from the Alleghenies or upper Ohio River to Lake Erie. The estimated time for this occupation is about 1500. Some central Algonquians, particularly the Saux and Fox, have preserved a tradition of migrating from the Atlantic down the Saint Lawrence to the Great Lakes. So perhaps, they moved east first, then came back west and south. The Saux and Fox also maintain, and linguistic evidence supports this, that the Shawnee belong to the same stock as themselves. The Kickapoo, located in the Great Lakes region, and the Shawnee also were related, and the two tribes share a legend about their separation. The split, it is said, was caused by a hunters' quarrel over the division of some roasted bear paws. The only difference as told by the two tribes is that each lays the blame for the incident on the other. Major Morrell Manston, a commander of a frontier post in the 1820's tells of a Shawnee chief who describes the same incident except that it was Saux and not the Kickapoo from which the Shawnee separated. The early location in the Great Lakes region is supported by the anthopologist Erminie W. Voegelin, basing her analysis largely on burial practices. She concludes that before the arrival of Europeans, the various Shawnee divisions were locaed in the northeastern part of the Great Lakes region, for their strongest cultural affiliations are with the Huron, Senecca, Winnebago, Ojibwa, Delaware, and Nanticoke. From here the Shawnee apparently continued in a southwesterly direction, for the Ohio Valley yields the strongest archaeological evidence of late prehistoric Shawnee occupation. Ethnographers disagree over what areas the tribe occupied before the mid-seventeenth century, but by the 1650's, they were living in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Quarrels with neighboring tribes caused their dispersal scattering bands of Shawnee from the Gulf Coast to the Delaware valley in western New Jersey. Some went south, occupying parts of Georgia and South Carolina, where they assisted the English in their against the Westos. Others fled first to Illinois, then to Pennsylvania and Maryland, settling near their "grandfathers". the Delawares. By 1725, most of the southern bands had rejoined their kinsmen in Pennsylvania and Maryland, but pressure from the expading white frontier and from the Iroquois slowly pushed the Shawnees westward, where then they established new villages in the Wyoming and Susquehanna valleys.The Ohio Shawnees settling near the Great Miami River. Shawnee Traditions; Shawnee cosmology asserted that they were a people chosen by the Master of Life or " Good Spirit " to occupy the center of the earth [ the Shawnee homeland ] and to bring harmony to the universe. To assist his choosen people, the Good Spirit provided the Shawnees with Sacred bundles, containing objects possessing a powerful medicine that could be used for good. He also gave them a series of laws instructing them how to live. If the tribe used the sacred bundles properly and followed the precepts of Shawnee law, they would prosper and their world would be orderly. Discipline among the Shawnee tribe was one of the highest priorities.The children were taught at an early age that good conduct would earn a reward and evil would bring sorrow. A set of ethics that all Shawnee was urged to obey was; " Do not kill or injure your neighbor, for it is not him that you injure, you injure yourself. Do good to him, therefore add to his happiness, as you would add to your own. Do not wrong or hate your neigbor, for it is not him you wrong, you wrong yourself. But love him, for Moneto [ God or good spirit ] loves him also as he loves you." Shawnee people used this code mostly for their own tribe and certain closely related tribes, but they never applied to the white man. Perhaps the White man, did not use the same code for the Shawnee, as they were in search for land and prosperity and did not take the time to understand the Shawnee and his way of life. Peculiar to the Shawnee was the tradition of women chiefs. These were often chosen relatives of the principle chiefs and like them, they were separated according to peace and war functions. Apparently, they were a kind of auxiliary, but held a great deal of power and their decisions on questions of peace and war carried equal weight with those of male chiefs. Law for the Shawnee tribe was largely a private matter. Most infractions, from petty theft to murder, were normally handled by the accused and the accuser or their families. Often wrong doings were atoned by feasts and presents in proportion to the nature of the offense and the rank and sex of the injured party. The worse infraction was the killing of a woman. For this infraction, the Shawnee demanded double atonement, since a woman bore children. Chiefs served as judges but usually only concerned themselves wth offenses of a criminal nature, often appointing others to care for lessor matters. The word of the Chief was law, and any refusal to obey the Shawnee's unwritten code of honorable behavior was punishable by a severe beating or death. Anyone who refused to accept the punishment for a crime was ostracized, a punishment considered worse than death. Shwnee's had more respect for fellow tribe members than for property. For an example; deceitfulness or slanderous gossip among Shawnee tribe members was considered a crime, but nonpayment of debts was not. If a person did not pay his debt, the creditor was allowed to come in and take whatever property would make up the debt. Theives were given three chances to reform themselves, but if the person stole a fourth time, he was tied to the post and whipped. If the thievery continued, the thief's fate was put into the hands of those he stole from-- normally the victim would ambush and shoot the thief. Tecumseh, born in 1768 in the Ohio valley, is a good example of a war chief. Very early in life he gained a reputation as a fighter and lead many raids into Kentucky against white settlements. He was a an eloquent speaker and often served as the spokesman for the Shawnee at councils between white officials and the tribes of the Ohio Valley. His white contemporaries, both British and American, described him in glowing terms and when he died, historians have echoed their praises. His attempts to unite the western tribes seemed both persceptive and logical. He was a magnetic individual, a leader whose personal qualities attracted large numbers of followers and enabled him to forge them into a multitribal confederacy. By Tecumseh's boycott of the treaty conference at Greenville, resulted in a serious break with Black Fish's replacement as the principle chief of the Shawnees, Catahecassa, or Black Hoof. Tecumseh and his follwers went to Deer Creek in western Ohio and in 1795, founded a village made up of native American warriors, linked by their militancy, not by their tribal affilation. Although Tecumseh is generally revered by Shawnee today, many of his followers were not Shawnees, and many of the Shawnees at the time, viewed him as a troublemaker and an upsurger of tribal authority. His achievements sometimes blind students of Shawnee history to the fact that at the time there were three main groups of Shawnees; the Shawnees in Missouri, the Shawnees under Black Hoof in Ohio, and the relatively small group of Shawnees that followed Tecumseh. Black Hoof-- Little is known about the early years of Black Hoof. It is estimated he was born in 1717 in northwest Ohio. Although it has not been confirmed, historians believe he took part in St Clair's and Harmar's defeats. We do know that Black Hoof took part in the fighting at the battle of Fallen Timbers and represented the Shawnee at the signing of the Treaty of Greenville. Using his influence with the Shawnee, he encouraged the Shawnee to adopt the way of living of the whites. By 1808, farms were established and a Quaker visitor to Wapakoneta reported that over 200 acres were being farmed, there were several head of cattle and hogs and other improvements included the construction of a saw mill and a grist mill. Black Hoof suppored peace with the Americans and encouraged the Shawnee to do the same. He encouraged some education of the children and many were taught to read and write. However, conflicts between the Shawnee and the Americans continued. In 1826, Black Hoof organized the Shawnee at an emigration camp set up at Wapakaneta. 250 Shawnee left for the Kansas territory. The migration took over a year and one half and was a difficult journey and a sad one. At some point, Black Hoof returned to Wapokaneta and he died there in 1831. He was buried along side his Shawnee friends and family. ******************************************* Continued in part 4. . --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:15:30 -0500 From: "Maggie" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <015401c1bd0b$6d559620$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: Fw: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnees - Part 4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------Original Message------- From: Darlene & Kathi kelley Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 19:35:59 To: MaggieOhio@columbus.rr.com Subject: Bio History -- Know Your Ohio-- Ohio Shawnees - Part 4 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley Feb 12, 2002 *********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio Know Your Ohio by Darlene E. Kelley Ohio Shawnees -- Part 4. *********************************************** Shawnee Captives -- Part 4. Boone-- " Sheltowee " -- [ Big Turtle ] On May 1, 1769, Daniel Boone, who was a great woodsman and hunter, his brother in law John Stuart, John Finley, and three others, journeyed over the Blue Ridge across the Holston, Clinch, and Powell Valleys. Beyond lay the seemingly impenetable wall of Cumberland Mountain. They had heard of huge buffalo herds, feeding on great strands of cane, deer at every salt lick, and lush land for the taking. The men soon found a hunters trace that lead them to the gap discovered by Dr. Thomas Walker and named for the Duke of Cumberland. There they turned north up the Warrior's Path, a route traveled by hunting and war parties of the Cherokee and Shawnee. This was one the Indian's sacred land's. Except for brief periods, the Indians built no villages in Kentucky, reserving the land for hunting. The absence of Indians, was one reason white settlers were attracted to the region. By the end of May, Boone and his companions set up a base camp on a creek called Station Camp. After about seven months of excellant hunting, they were surprised by the Shawnee, where they were robbed of all the horses and all the deer skins. All except Boone and Stuart returned to the settlement, but they were not alone for long, as Boone's brother Squire found the hunters, bringing fresh horses and ammunition, a feat he was able to do and duplicate two more times, carrying skins to the Yadkin and returning with supplies, which he had done before during Boones two year hunting and exploration trip. In February 1771, Amaghqua or " Beaver," with a Shawnee hunting party captured Daniel Boone and John Stuart in their camp along the Psquawwetheepi [ Red River ]. Amaghqua, who understood English well enough to converse brokenly in that tongue, learned who they were and that one of the others the Shawnee had treated so kindly and allowed to enter their country, provided he would only trade and not hunt or trap or try to settle there was also with them [ John Findley ]. The game and furs that they had accumulated were confiscated, along with their horses, and Boone and Stuart were taken prisoner and were held for seven days before they were released with a stern warning and just enough supplies to sustain them on their return home. " Now brothers, " Amaghqua had said upon setting them free, " you go home and stay there. Do not come here anymore. This is Indian hunting ground and all the animals, skins, and furs are ours. If you are so fooish as to come here again, you can be sure the wasps an yellow jackets will sting you severely." But the released men did not go home. Keeping out of sight, they trailed Amaghqua's party, slipped into the Shawnee camp under cover of night and recovered their horses. Amaghqua was both impressed and angered at such audacity and immediately followed their trail, captured them again and reconfiscatd the horses. During the night however, Boone and Stuart managed to escape on foot and thi time eluded Amaghqua's determined efforts to recapture them. Early the following spring, John Findley was again captured descending the Ohio and though he protested that he had only come to trade, he was killed. At about the same time another Shawnee hunting party discovered Boone, Squire, and Stuart had come back into the Kan-tuck-kee hunting grounds and were again killing game. Stuart was overtaken and wounded with gunshot, but he escaped and could not be found. Though the Shawnee made a determined effort to capture Boone, he earned their grudging respect and fear by beating them in woods lore, living in various caves and consistantly managing to elude them while occasionally making phenomenally long shots to kill the Indians he encountered.On the brother's journey home in March of 1771, they arrived empty handed. The Indians had confiscated their furs from them once again. Daniel Boone first attempted to settle in Kentucky in 1773. The Boones and a few score others, including some in laws, set out with a packtrain, cattle, and household goods. Near Powell Valley, Boone and his eldest son, James, went back for more supplies. Dark caught the sixteen year old and his companions only three miles from rejoining the pioneers, when the Indians attacked. James and his friend Henry Russell were tortured to death. They were buried there, wrapped in one of Rebecca Boones [ James' mother ] linen sheets. Scared and disheartened, the would be settlers convinced Boone to turn back. the first effort to settle Kentucky was a failure. A man with a grand design for settlement, a whole new colony, was North Carolina's Judge Richard Henderson, an old friend and advocate of Boone. Britain had forbidden further westward settlements, but the American rebellion was beginning to boil. Henderson proceeded with his plans. HisTransylvania Company paid 10,000 pounds in goods to the Cherokee for 20 mllion acres between the Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers. Not all the Cherokee were in favor. " Dragging Canoe" took Boone by the hand and said, " Brother, we have given you fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble in settling it." Hired by Henderson to cut a path for the new settlers, Boone on March 10, 1775, assembled 30 mounted axmen at Long Island in the Holston River. Then on March 24th, he and his exhausted party camped on gently rolling hills country south of todays present Richmond. They were fired upon by the Indians about an hour before day. Captain Twitty was shot in both knees, and died the third day following and Felix Walker was badly wounded. Some of the men panicked and ran, others grabbed their rifles and fired back. When the skimish ended, the men hastily threw up a log fort and cared for the wounded. Courage failed some of the men, and they returned home. The remaining trailblazers placed Walker on a liter and followed Otter Creek to the Kentucky River. There they made a station, and named it Boonesborough. In those first days of Boonesborough most of the men were too busy claiming land to build fortifications. They busied in putting in crops. Henderson, who arrived with his group on April 20th, complained a month later of no meat but bear fat, and almost starved. They drank coffee and trusted to luck what they could catch for dinner. A convention to form the new government of Transylvania was held at Boonesborough beginning May 23, 1775. Among those attending was James Harrod, who in 1774 had beaten Boone in founding the first permanent British settlement in Kentucky.[ Harrodsburg ]. Courts were established, the militia organized, the laws to protect game. Speeches of the day referred to the British crown; no one knew of the battles of Lexington and Concord had been fought a month earlier. Kentucky soon felt the effects of the war. Raids by the Indians allied with the British became common. Fearing for their lives, more than half of the new settlement left. At one time only 12 women remained in Kentucky, among them Rebecca Boone and her four daughters, Just after the first Independence Day, a small band of Shawnee and Cherokee watched from a canebrake as Jemima Boone ad her friends Betsey amd Fanny Callaway drifted down the Kentucky in a canoe. Suddenly the girls were overpowered and kidnapped. When they were discovred missing, Boone and others set off in pursuit. Guided by signs the plucky girls had managed to leave, the men caught up with the band on the third day. As the long rifles fired, you could hear Jemima yell, " That's Daddy!" The rescue was major news in the settlements and the story was told over and over again. Daniel Boone and his family was slowly becoming a legend. In January of 1778, Boonesborough was desperately in need of salt. The Indians usually kept cloe to home in winter, so Boone took 30 men to boil a supply at the mineral springs at Blue Licks, 70 miles to the north. Weeks later, Boone off hunting alone, was surprised and captured by the Shawnee. At the camp, he was shocked to find a force of more than a hundred warriors. They were eager to avenge the murder of their Great Chief, Cornstalk, who a few months earlier had been killed by the whites, while on a mission of peace. The Shawnee were led by Chief Blackfish, who knew of the saltmaker's camp and intended to attack Boonesborough. Boone promised to surrender the men at Blue Licks, but he persuaded Blackfish that it would be better to take Boonseborough in the spring when the women and children could more easily survive the trek north, either to be adopted by the Shawnee or sold to the British. The captured Kentuckians were marched to old Chillicothe, a Shawnee community on the Little Miami River, near present day Xenia, Ohio. Boone and ten others were taken to Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton in Detroit, who paid a bounty for all but Boone, whom Blackfish refused to surrender. Taken back to Old Chillicothe, Boone, who hd been adopted by Blackfish, became known as " Sheltowee " [ Big Turtle.] ******************************************* to be continued in part 5. . --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Release Date: 2/19/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:02:03 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <60.1b7f58b9.29aa687b@aol.com> Subject: surname Dowden Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" THOMAS A DOWDEN Harrison County Green Township DOB 11-16-1822 DOD 8-20-1890 buried Greenwood cemetery, Green township, Harrison County, Ohio Lot 129, grave 1, upright marker, with GAR emblem Served: Civil War ------------------------- WILLIAM DOWDEN Shelby County, Jackson township DOB 1799 DOD 3-6-1851 buried Dowden Cemetery, Township Rd. 2 miles north Maplewood, Lot --, section 1, block no R-1, grave 4 upright marker Official Ohio Roster Served in The War of 1812 Enlisted Feb 21, 1812---Discharged 3-21-1812 Army, Rank Private Company: Capt. Benjamin Schooler's Co. 3rd Regt. Ohio Militia - ---------------------------- JOSEPH DOWDEN Address Charles, Penna DOB 1840 DOD 1-6-1914 Cause: Myocardial Insufficiency Buried Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio Montgomery County Lot 2, section 1, block --, grave 15, upright marker Next of kin John Dowden, Jacobs Creek, Penna. Served Civil War Enlisted 5-15-1861---Discharged 1-4-1864 Cavalry, rank Private Co. D 5th W. VA Cavalry Marker reads Co. D. 5th W. VA. Cavalry, Jan 5, 1865---Sep 3, 1865, K. 6th W. Va Cavalry perhaps he transferred? -------------------- GEORGE DOWDEN Shelby Co, Jackson township DOB 3-2-1840 DOD 4-22-1872 buried: Elliott Cemetery, section 9 Jackson township, Lot 4, grave 14 next of Kin Uncle John Dowden, Maplewood Ohio Served Civil War Enlisted 9-6-1861---discharged 6-4-1863 Army, rank Musician Co. H. lst Ohio Vol. Inf. **a note indicates information was provided by Uncle John --------------------------- ANDREW DOWDEN Montgomery County Address: Cincinnati, Ohio DOB 1835 DOD 10-23-1908 buried: Soldiers Home Dayton Ohio, Montgomery Co. Row 2, section P, grave 1, upright marker Next of Kin Catherine Dowden, 9th St. Cincinnati, Ohio Hamilton County Served: Civil War Enlisted May 1861---discharged Sept 1861 Infantry, rank: private Co. I, 2nd KY, Infantry, Marker reads Co. I, 2nd KY. Inf. ---------------------- Searching Family Stories with Sandy ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:49:55 EST From: SCHcrochet@aol.com To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <74.189407dc.29aa73b3@aol.com> Subject: obits surnames: Merle, Blue, Baker, Easter, and Young Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Jan 13, 1955, Pickaway County News, Ashville Ohio WALTER SCOTT MERLE Walter Scott Merle, 71, of Groveport, passed away Jan 4. in St. Anthony's hospital, Columbus, Ohio. He is survived by his wife, Gertrude, a daughter, Betty Ann Ruetsch of Groveport, two son Walter of Columbus and Russell of New London, Conn; seven grandchildren. Services were conducted at the Darfus Funeral home and burial was made inn Obetz. --------------------- MRS. ARTHUR U. BLUE Mrs. Flora Chester Blue, 83, passed away Wednesday, Jan 5 at her home in Circleville. Surviving are her husband; three sons, Chester, Lloyd, and Kenneth Blue all of Circleville; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Davis, Columbus, and 14 grandchildren. Services were held Jan 7 in Mader funeral chapel with Elder Gail Hanover officiating. Burial was made in Amanda twp. cemetery. ------------------- ELIAS BAKER On Monday afternoon, Jan 3, Elias T. Baker, 80, passed away at the Fairfield County home, where he had lived the past two months. He formerly lived at 721 N. Maple St. Lancaster. Survivors include two sister, Mrs. Frank Bressler, Lancaster and Mrs. Sherman Clark of Columbus, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Jan 5 in the Ward Halterman funeral home with the Rev. T. R. McGinnis officiating. Burial was made in the Forest Rose cemetery - --------------------------. ROY EASTER Roy Easter, 61, of Yellowbud, passed away Sunday Jan 2, in the Chillicothe Hospital. Mr. Ester was born in Pickaway County, a son of Clayton and Katherine Griffith Easter. He had been in the popcorn sales business for 29 years. He was a member of the Circleville Fraternal Order of Eagles. Surviving him are his wife, Ollie Mick Easter, four daughters, Mrs. George Cline of Circleville, Rt 2, Mrs. Lloyd Shaw, Jrs, of Williamsport, Mrs. Howard Brumfield of Yellowbud and Mrs. Betty Bryant at home; two sons, William of Circleville and Guy of Jamestown; two sisters, Mrs. Caris Bennett of Yellowbud and Mrs. Birdie Holloway of Chillicothe; a brother Clarence Easter and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday in the Yellowbud church with the Rev. Jack Noble officiating. Burial was made in the Spring Bank cemetery by direction of the Root funeral home of Chillicothe. - ----------------------------------- MARY C. YOUNG Funeral services were held Sunday in the Leonard funeral home, Logan, for Mary Catherine Young 81, who passed away Thursday, Jan 6, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rolland Carpenter, New Straistville, Rt. 1. Burial was made in Amanda township cemetery. She lived most of her near Amanda, leaving that community several years ago to reside in Hocking County. **sorry folks my page ends hear. Sandy Searching Family Stories with Sandy -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #43 ******************************************