News articles from Wayne County Newspaper Submitted by June White and Wayne County News,who gave permission to research its old editions, and Nina Johnson, resident genealogist at Cabell County Library. December 2001 This file contains: Verteran tells of his Civil War Experiences NAMES OF 36 CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN THE COUNTY FORMER WAYNE COUNTIAN VISITS HOME AFTER ABSENCE OF 35 years KLANSMEN DECORATE GRAVES OF THEIR DEPARTED MEMBERS JAMES FERGUSON'S LETTER TO THE EDITOR RECALLS CIVIL WAR SERVICE MRS. SHUFF REFLECTS UPON EARLIER DAYS WAYNE BLACKBERRY FORECAST HARRISON GIVES OFFICIAL TABULATION OF HIS RACE IN 6th SENATORIAL DISTRICT TEACHERS FAVOR COUNTY AS TAX UNIT AND OPPOSE DARWIN THEORY GOOD PROGRAM IS PLANNED FOR 24th AT WILSON SCHOOL COUNTY COURT NEWS Local News Did you KNow? JURORS FOR COURT TERM NEXT MARCH Births More news... ***************************************************** VETERAN OF CIVIL WAR TELLS OF HIS PART IN CONFLICT The following letter has been written to Wayne County News by Uncle Hance Gilkerson, well known citizen of the Beech Fork section of this county. A picture of Mr. Gilkerson accompanies this article. In his letter which follows, he gives an intimate glimpse of his part in the great conflict between the North and South in the days from 1861 to 1865. Here's his letter: Wayne County News Wayne, W. Va. Gentlemen: I saw a request in Wayne County News for a list of Civil War veterans of Wayne county. I am one of them. My name is Charles Hansford Gilkerson, better known in Wayne county as "Uncle Hance" Gilkerson. I have passed the middle of my 84th year. I joined the army in 1862 and fought on the Confederate side. Kindreck was captain of Company H. Ferguson was Colonel of the 15th regiment to which I belonged. Jenkins was our general. Now I will not go into detail to mention all of the minor engagements in which I had a part, but will only mention a few of the things that might be of interest to your readers. We left Wayne County Court House and went to Kanawha and went with Lowbern when he left the Valley. We went on and pitched camp in Roanoke County, Virginia, near Salem. We wintered there, and when Spring came we started on the raid to the North, going down the Shenandoah Valley. At Winchester, Virginia, the Confederates met the Union army and we routed them. We followed on North and we had been fighting every day till we got to Gettysburg. There we had plenty to do, as you all know. For three days it was the bloodiest of bloody battles. From Gettysburg we had to fight our way back till we got to Culpepper Court House in Virginia. At that time I got a furlough for ten days to come home. So when I went back I got with the regiment in Greenbrier County and from there we started another raid toward the border. And it was on that trip that I was taken a prisoner on the hill between Twelve Pole and Beech Fork at the John Barbour place. From there they took me as prisoner to Barboursville and then to Charleston and from there to Wheeling and then to Camp Chase, and from there to Fort Delaware. So from the time I was taken prisoner it was eighteen months until I got out of service and back home on June 21, 1865, after Lee's surrender. Charles Hansford Gilkerson June 10, 1926 ************************************************ 33 VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR LISTED IN THIS COUNTY Following is a list of names of veterans of the Civil War still living in Wayne County. These have been received since the publication of the names of sixteen veterans in last week's paper. JAMES WARD, a Union soldier, who lives on Big Branch in this county. ALLEN CHRISTIAN, Union, of Pyles Branch. ISOM NOBLE, of Fort Gay Route 1. Mr. Noble was a Confederate soldier in Company E, 10th Ky. Regiment, volunteer cavalry, and was born in Breathet County, Ky., in 1845, but he has lived in this county since 1866 and is 81 years old. SAM MAYNARD, age about 88. Mr. Maynard is at present in Logan County, but he is a native Wayne Countian, having lived in the vicinity of McComas Creek. He was a Union soldier. CALVIN MOORE, Confederate, age 87, of Whites Creek, Wayne Route 1. GEORGE W. MOORE, Confederate, age 80, of Wilsons Creek, Wayne Route 2. ALBERT SMITH, Confederate, age 86, of Wayne Route 2. Mr. Smith lives with his daughter, Mrs. Tom Mills. ED FERGUSON, Confederate, age 82, of Louisa, Kentucky. Mr. Ferguson now makes his home in Louisa, but formerly lived in Wayne County. MARION STONE, Confederate, of Louisa, Kentucky, who formerly lived in Wayne County. ANDY PERRY, age 82, who lives in McComas Creek, Dunlow, Route 1. He was a Union soldier. REV. JOSEPH M. MARCUM, age 78, of Dunlow, Route 1, a Confederate veteran. BILL BRADlEY, who lives at the head of Moses Fork, on Dunlow Route 1, a Confederate veteran. Mr. Bradley participated in the famous battle of Saltville. TOM MUNCY, of the head of Moses Fork, Dunlow Route 1, a Union veteran. SAM SPAULDING, who lives at the head of Missouri Branch, a Union veteran. REV. MAT SMITH, of Dunlow, a Union soldier. Mr. Smith is the father of Luke Smith, Dunlow postmaster. JOHN "MUCK" MAYNARD, who lives with his son Charley Maynard near Stiltner. He was a Union soldier. SAM FERGUSON, who lives on Tick Ridge, Dunlow, Route 1. This brings the total of old soldiers in Wayne County who have been reported to this paper up to 33, including both Confederate and Union veterans. NAMES OF 36 CIVIL WAR VETERANS IN THE COUNTY REPORTED TO THIS PAPER The names of 36 Wayne County veterans of the Civil War have been reported to this paper, since its request for a list of the names and addresses of local veterans who are still living. The names of 33 old soldiers were reported in our columns last week and the week before, and three more have been received this week, as follows: ALDERSON WATTS, formerly of this county, who now lives near Portsmouth, Ohio, who is 81 years of age. A news story concerning Mr. Watt's recent visit to this county appears in this issue. He was a Confederate veteran. JESSE QUEEN, a Union veteran, who now lives at Salt Rock, on Guyan River. He makes his home with his son, Jim Queen. Mr. Queen is 86 years old, and is in very poor health at present. JOHN ADKINS, who lives with his son William Adkins, at the mouth of the Parker Adkins Branch, just above the mouth of Raccoon Creek. He is a Union veteran and served for 18 months in the Civil War. Mr. Adkins formerly lived in Cabell county. RANKS OF THE BLUE AND GRAY IN WAYNE COUNTY ARE THINNED OUT The ranks of the Blue and Gray in Wayne county have been thinned out by the Grim Reaper within the past few years to an extent that is hardly realized by the average person. It was only a few years ago that there were hundreds of veterans of the Civil War in this county, but today there is only a scattering handful to answer roll call. Reunions that were held in the county only a few years ago always attracted veterans by the scores, but now the few remaining survivors of the conflict of '61 are so advanced in years that they are not physically able to get together for reunions. Only 9 Confederate and 7 Union veterans in the county, a total of 16, reported so far to this paper, in response to the request for names which we carried in the past two issues of the paper. Following is a list of the names of both Confederate and Union veterans in the county, as have been reported by our readers up to the time of going to press Wednesday of this week. ROBERT C. FOSTER. Mr. Foster was a Union soldier in Company E., 7th Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. He now lives on Fort Gay Route 1, in this county and has lived in the county for forty years. He is now 83 years of age. Mr. Foster was born April 26, 1843, at Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia. He was honorably discharged from service at Wheeling, W. Va., August 15, 1865. JAMES JOHNSON, Union, lives on Wayne Route Two, near Armilda. THOMAS OSBURN, Union soldier, age 85, lives on Camp Creek, near East Lynn. JAMES DAVIS, Union, of East Lynn R. F. D. JOHN D. CLARK, Confederate, of Stiltner. ROBERT OSBURN, WILLIAM PARSONS, JAMES E. HOBBS, C. H. GILKERSON AND J. W. LLOYD, all Confederate veterans in the vicinity of East Lynn. Mr. Hobbs, who is now 85 years old, belonged to General Jenkins' Cavalry Brigade, 16th Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, and served under Colonel M. J. Ferguson. ALEXANDER ADKINS, who lives on Wayne Route Two. Mr. Adkins is 85 years of age. He was a Confederate veteran. SAM MEAD, age 81, of Hubbardstown, was a Union soldier. Mr. Mead has moved to the Kentucky side, but still gets his mail at Prichard in this county. JAMES H. FERGUSON, of Wayne, Union soldier. JAKE MASSIE, of Fort Gay Route 1, was a Confederate soldier. He is now 86 years old. JOHN BILLUPS, of Fort Gay, age 85, Confederate soldier. R. A. CHAFFIN, of Hubbardstown, now 80 years old, was a Union soldier. Mr. Chaffin was in the following eight Civil War battles: Middle Creek, Ky.; Dalton, Georgia; Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga; Lost Mountain, Georgia; Kenasaw Mountain, Georgia; Lookout Mountain, Tennessee; seige of Atlanta, Georgia; and Johnsonville, Tennessee. If any of our readers know of any other Union or Confederate veterans of the Civil War who are not listed above, we would appreciate it if they would send them in to this paper, giving name, post office address, age and something of their record in service if possible. ********************************************************* FORMER WAYNE COUNTIAN VISITS HOME AFTER ABSENCE OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS After an absence of more than thirty-five years, Alderson Watts, Sr., former well-known citizen of this county, returned last week for a few days' visit with friends and relatives in Wayne and East Lynn. Watts is 81 years old, having celebrated his 81st birthday [in] May. He is the son of John Hansford (Hanse) Watts and the only brother of Harrison Watts, who died a few months ago at his home near Huntington. Watts was born near East Lynn on what is now the W. R. Osburn place and lived for many years [near] East Lynn. He later lived at the mouth of Wilson's Creek and at Buffalo Shoals in this county. At the present he is living near Portsmouth, Ohio, where he is farming. Although advanced in age, he still possesses a strong constitution and agile mind. He is raising a big crop this season, and he engages in the most interesting conversation. . . Watts is a veteran of the Civil War, having served in the 16th Va. Cavalry of the Confederate Army under Col. Jim Ferguson. He enlisted when he was only 15 years old. An ususual fact about his service experience is that he served in the Civil War with his father, who was also a Confederate soldier in the 8th Va. Cavalry under General Corns. Another interesting angle is that when John and his son Alderson went to war in the Confederate Army, Attison Watts, a brother of John. and his son Milton Watts went to war in the Union Army. It was a case of father and son fighthing brother and uncle and visa versa. During his trip here last week, Mr. Watts discussed the days of conflict between 1861 and 1865. He was in the war three years, fighting most of the time in Virginia and Pennsylvania, but principally in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Although he endured hardships, Mr. Watts says he enjoyed the experiences he had in the War. Being a boy of 15 when he went in, he regarded it as a thrilling adventure. He recalls that one time he went for [days] without any food and the first thing he ate was an ear of raw corn which in found on the road and which had been trampled by the feet of many horses. He said that he ate every grain of corn on the ear and thought it was one of the best morsels of food that he had ever tasted. Mr. Watts participated in the Dry Mountain battle in Virginia. The location is called Dry Mountain because the crest of the mountain is above most of the rain showers. In one particular engagement on this mountain, he recalls that the Confederate Army fought in sunshine on top of the mountain while the Union soldiers were struggling in rain and mud at the foot of the mountain in preparation for their attack. In this instance the Confederate Army of sixteen hundred men met the Union forces that numbered thirty thousand (hundred?). He had a close call in the Battle of King's Salt Works, near Tazewell, Virginia, and also in other engagements, but finally survived the war a little worse off for the experience. Mr. Watts returned to his home in Ohio last Friday. Before leaving he expressed great admiration for the progress that has been made in his home county during the 35 years that have intervened since his last time home. He spoke of the present modern school system in comparison with the first school that he ever attended which was taught by "Uncle" Thomas Napier, one of the pioneer teachers in this section of the state. The school building was made of hewn logs and had dirt floors. The building was heated by an open fire built of wood on the dirt floor in the middle of the room. There were unsatisfactory means of escape for the smoke, and Mr. Watts says that the pupils' eyes were filled with tears from the smoke most of the time. In that school everyone studied "out loud." That was the custom in all schools then. "It sounded like bedlam," Mr. Watts says, "for everyone seemed to be trying to make more noise than anybody else, but somehow we managed to get along and to learn something of our three R's--Readin', 'Ritin' and 'Rithmetic." Next to our schools, he believes the most progress has been made in our roads. He said that when he had to make the trip from Wayne to Huntington by automobile last Friday, he was amazed at the splendid condition of our roads. Other roads which he traveled in the county made it possible to go by automobile to places that were practically inaccessible for any kind of vehicle only a few years ago. "Wayne is a great county with a glorious past and a wonderful future," Mr. Watts said in an interview with this writer, "and my advice to the young men and women is not to leave home, but instead remain here in Wayne county and lend your efforts helping to make it an ever better place to live than it now is." ****************************************************** KLANSMEN DECORATE GRAVES OF THEIR DEPARTED MEMBERS On the night of May the 29th about fifty Klansmen in robes and masks climbed to the top of Well's Mountain with beautiful wreaths of flowers and placed them in token of their friendship and love on the grave of Y. B. Salmons, who had been a loyal and faithful Klansman. The Klansmen came from various parts of Wayne county, some from a distance of at least twenty miles, and after parking their cars at the base of the mountain, they ascended on foot to the brow of the mountain where they assembled themselves in due form around the grave. The service of the memorial was introduced by prayer after which a very fitting talk for the occasion was delivered by a well-known and well-informed minister of the gospel. After the short service the Klansmen all in white and by the light of the bright burning candles circled around the grave to deposit a wreath as a last respect to their brother, after which they started for the vicinity of Coleman to do likewise to another Klansman's grave. ********************************************* JAMES FERGUSON'S LETTER TO THE EDITOR RECALLS CIVIL WAR SERVICE Wayne County News Wayne, W. Va. Dear Editor: In response to the request recently published in your paper, I shall give you a brief sketch of my service in the Civil War. I first enlisted in the First Kentucky Capitol Guards where I served for seven months. I re-enlisted out of State Service into the United States service in the 53rd Regiment, Company K, on April 5, 1865, and served until September 15, 1865. I was in service altogether over twelve months, and my discharge record shows me now 79 years of age. I lived in Kentucky during the War and for a few years afterwards, moving to Wayne county about forty years ago, where I have lived ever since. ************************************************ James H. Ferguson ARTICLE PROMPTS MRS. SHUFF TO REFLECT UPON EARLIER DAYS AND RELICS Branchland, W. Va. Route 2, Box 45 June 8, 1926 Wayne County News Wayne, W. Va. Dear Editor: In last week's paper I read an article by Mrs. Donald Clark, stating that she believed she had the only trundle bed in West Virginia, and naming some other rare relics, which was very interesting for me to read. At the same time, it caused my mind to reflect back to childhood days when I used to fill the bobbins for my mother to make the winter clothing for the family. I will say there is yet another trundle bed in the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. McClellan near the Wayne-Lincoln line. You can see also two of the four-poster beds in this home, well corded and laden with the homemade blankets and coverlids which Mrs. McClellan made on her big old loom which she also has yet with its many belongings. She also has drafts of many designs for making coverlids and she has not forgotten how to use them. She has a shawl that was woven on her loom, size five by seven feet. Mrs. McClellan has the cards for making rolls, also the spinning wheel used to spin the rolls into thread. This wheel has been in use for ninety years. She also has the old-time reel. Another article of interest is an old bread tray in which she has made hundreds and hundreds of pounds of bread. This tray is made of lynn timber and has been used by Mrs. McClellan for over fifty years. She also has in her kitchen a cupboard, with metal doors instead of glass, carved with flowers, which was made by "Uncle Billie" Rice of near Nestlow many years ago. The shawl which I have mentioned is woven in "Bird-Eye Twill." Mr. and Mrs. McClellan have lived in Wayne County for forty-eight years, coming here from Scott County, Virginia. Mr. McClellan is 74 years old and Mrs. McClellan is 70. Mrs. Sarah V. E. Shuff Wayne, W. Va. June 8, 1926 **************************************************** WAYNE BLACKBERRY FORECAST A heavy bloom indicates that there will be a big crop of blackberries in Wayne County this year. According to J. W. Mitchell, postmaster at Wayne, one of the old signs for determining in advance whether there will be plenty of blakberries is that rainy weather on June 7th means few berries and dry weather insures a big berry crop. Sept. 16, 1926 ******************************************************** HARRISON GIVES OFFICIAL TABULATION OF HIS RACE IN SIXTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT J. Floyd Harrison, well known Wayne attorney who received the Democratic nomination for State Senator in the Sixth district at the August primary, announces that he will wage a vigorous campaign for election this fall. He addresses the following letter to the voters of his home county.--Editor's Note. Wayne, W. Va. September 15, 1926 Dear Wayne County Friends: Through the columns of Wayne County News, I desire to express my appreciation to my neighbors and friends for the splendid vote that I received in Wayne County in the race for State Senator. For your information, I furnish the following primary tabulation: Wayne County, Curry (Lee Curry) 659, Harrison 2, 476; Mingo, Harrison 851, Curry 1, 726; McDowell, Harrison 872, Curry, 656; Wyoming, Harrison 402, Curry 113. This gives me a majority of of 1447 in the Sixth district. The thing that makes me doubly thankful to the voters of Wayne County is the fact that owing to my law practice being particularly pressing at this time it was not possible for me to get out, even in my own county, and solicit the voters. Since this fine showing in the district, it leaves me no choice but to put up a strong fight for the office. This I shall do to the best of my ability, and in the process I shall try to show to my good Wayne County friends my true appreciation. Wayne County is entitled to a State Senator, for since the election of the Honorable R. J. Prichard this district has been represented by people from without the county. The pendulum is swinging back, and there is little doubt in my mind that at this time it is possible to elect a Wayne County man for this office. When I succeed in the general election, my home district will be the first in my thoughts, and I shall try to deport myself as fitting for a native son of Wayne county so to do. Again, thanking my friends and neighbors for the splendid showing, I am, Faithfully yours, J. FLOYD HARRISON ****************************************************** TEACHERS FAVOR COUNTY AS TAX UNIT AND OPPOSE DARWIN THEORY The annual Wayne County Teachers' Institute at Wayne came to a close last Friday with the adoption of resolutions that had been prepared by the respective committees. The Committee on Obituaries deplored the death of two Wayne County teachers, namely Miss Ona Wilkinson and Mrs. Effie Wilkinson Blankenship. This committee was composed of J. N. Tabor, Chairman; H. B. Thompson, secretary; E. A. Buckingham, Anna Copley, and Rachel Ratcliff. The Committee on Resolutions was made up of one representative from each district, as follows: Rexford P. Plymale, Ceredo; T. B. McClure, Union; Una Baisden, Butler; W. C. Mollett, Lincoln; Frank Maynard, Grant; Jean M. Fraley, Stonewall; and Eugenia Wagonlander, Westmoreland. In its report this committee extended special thanks to State Supt. Ford, Supt. Berkley and the various instructors and speakers and others who had contributed to the success of the Institute. The report of this committee, as adopted by the Institute as a whole, contained one clause of special importance, reading as follows: "This Institute desires to go on record, not in a formal way but in a most emphatic manner in an unanimous way, in favor of the plan that the county be made the Unit in school taxation, rather than the districts. We have for many years made this resolution, but at this time we desire to call this matter to the special attention of the State Educational Department and to the officials and candidates." The Committee on School Law was composed of the following: J. M. Vanderpool, chairman; App Queen, H. F. Fry, Blanche B. Frazier, L. Burgess, and Luther L. Frasier. Five points were covered in the report of the Committee on School Law, as follows: We the committee . . . beg to submit the following: 1. That we ask the next legislature to enact a law authorizing the Boards of Education of the several magisterial districts, where needed, to lay an additional levy of 3 cents for each $100 for the period of one or two years to create a fund to be used exclusively for the payment of teachers' first and second months salary. This fund when created shall not be used for any other purpose and shall be refunded each year from the regular school fund. 2. That we favor making the county the unit of taxation. 3. That the legislature enact a law creating a teacher's compensation fund, similar to the workmen's compensation fund, to be funded and kept intact by making 1/2 of one per cent deduction out of each month's salary of teachers for the purpose of pensioning and caring for incapacitated teachers. 4. That we ask the legislature to amend section 128 of the West Virginia School Law that it may carry a penalty for the violation of this section of the law, but not otherwise to be altered or changed (Section 128 refers to compulsory attendance of children between the ages of 14 and 16 years.). 5. Resolved, that we the teachers of Wayne County do no endorse the Darwin Theory of Evolution, with reference to the origin of man, and that we hereby petition the next legislature to enact a law prohibiting the teaching of this theory in the public schools, colleges and universities in the State of West Virginia. ********************************************** GOOD PROGRAM IS PLANNED FOR 24th AT WILSON SCHOOL Five schools will take part in a Public School day program that will be given at Wilson Graded school beginning at 9:00 a. m. on Friday, September 24th. The five participating schools and their principals are: Genoa Graded: Blanche Frazier Greenbrier Graded: Mrs. C. L. Matthews Patrick Graded: App Queen Wilson: C. L. Matthews Joels Branch: Fred Bartram C. L. Matthews will be the chairman of the day. There will be a grand march made up of all the pupils of the five schools at 9:00 a. m. This will be followed by pledging allegience to the flag, singing, school stunts, etc. At 11:00 a. m. there will be a discussion of various school problems such as hot lunches, adequate books, etc. Penmanship and Arithmetic drills will follow with all schools having a part. This will be followed by a spelling match. At noon there will be a sumptuous basket dinner on the ground. The afternoon, beginning at 1:30, will be given over to various athletic events which will include 50 yards dash for boys of various ages, over-head relay for boys and girls, standing broad jump and running broad jump for boys classified according to age, shuttle relay for girls and other interesting events. The closing exercise of the day will be the announcement of individual winners and the winning school in the day program. Friday, September 24th, is the date, Wilson Graded School is the place and a profitable day is promised for everyone. ****************************************************** COUNTY COURT NEWS Awards $100 Damage The county court recently awarded damages of $100 to Frank Adkins for a slide on Adkins' land on the Wilsons Creek and Prices Creek road. The building of the road caused Millers Fork to cut away part of the bottom land belonging to Adkins. The $100 covers future as well as past damages. Accept Road Project Wayne County Court has accepted the road construction contract of Allen Adkins on the Bowen-Winslow road. To Be Made Notaries C. M. Fraley, Henderson Maynard, Valentine Pyles and J. P. Crabtree have recently filed applications with the county court for appointment as notary public. Awarded Infirmary Coal Adam Collins, of Garretts Creek, has been awarded the contract for furnishing coal for the county infirmary this year. Collins was the only bidder and his price for lump coal over a four inch screen was 20 cents a bushel, which was accepted by the court. Johnson Gets Medical Practice The county court recently awarded a contract for the county medical practice to Dr. Glen Johnson of Wayne. There were two bids received, one from Dr. A. G. Wilkinson of Wayne for $72 a month and the successful bid from Dr. Johnson for $70 a month. The work includes medical practice at the county infirmary and the county jail. Let District Road Contract The county court has awarded to contract the construction of a sixteen feet wide county road on Big Hurricane Creek, Butler district, from the residence of T. B. Crabtree to the top of Crabtree mountain at the residence of Chas. McKinsey. There were two bidders on this job of work and their bids were close, namely Chas. McKinsey for $972.50 and B. P. Toney for $975.00. The contract was accordingly awarded to McKinsey. Murphy Replaces Hunter Grover C. Hunter, for several years a deputy sheriff in this county, has resigned to accept a position as private detective for the N. & W. Ry. On motion of Sheriff J. C. Wilson, the county court recently named Brady Murphy of Kenova to succeed Hunter as deputy sheriff at a salary of $150.00 a month. Will Let Docks Creek Road County Commissioner B. B. Cyrus, County Road Engineer H. O. Wiley and P. J. Staley have been named to a committee to go on the Docks Creek road leading from the the end of the work completed to the mouth of Docks Creek, and the committee will go over the survey on this route and make such changes as they deem necessary. A county order further provides that this road shall be advertised and let to contract from the point where it is constructed to the mouth of Docks Creek to the county road along Big Sandy River. Finishing Kenova Road The C. E. Price road contract on the Lavalette--Kenova route is now completed with the exception of the final dressing, which will require another week. County Road Engineer H. O. Wiley has the county road force on the Lavalette route getting it in shape to turn over to the State for maintenance shortly. This is state route number 75, and it accommodates a densely populated section of the county. ********************************************************* LOCAL NEWS ITEMS 96 STILLS ARE TAKEN IN LOGAN COUNTY THIS SUMMER A total of 96 stills have been confiscated in Logan county during the summer, according to reports of state police, federal and county officials. Twenty-one stills have been brought into the sheriff's headquarters within the past two weeks, as well as 1,800 gallons of mash and 80 gallons of moonshine whiskey. LOCAL MEN NAMED OFFICERS IN GRAND CASTLE OF EAGLES Harry C. Bloss, of Lavalette, this county, was elected Sir Herald in the Grand Castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagles of West Virginia at the recent annual castle meeting in Parkersburg. J. O. Miller of Wayne, Route 1, was named one of the castle trustees. it was voted that the next annual meeting be held in Huntington. MRS. B. B. CYRUS ENTERTAINS Mrs. B. B. Cyrus was hostess at an enjoyable dinner at her home at Cyrus, W. Va. recently. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Stewart of Portsmoth; Mr. and Mrs. B. K. Malcolm and daughter, Mary, and sons, George and Bayless, of Portsmouth; E. R. Malcolm of Huntington; Mrs. Julia Sprencher of Huntington; Mrs. Sophia Malcolm and Miss Josephine Malcolm of Kenova. LAWRENCE DICKERSON RAISES BIGGEST APPLE SEEN HERE THIS SEASON Rev. A. W. Damron of Wayne received this week from Rev. Lawrence Dickerson, of Prospect, Ohio, the largest apple that has been seen in this section this year. The apple, which county agent Click says is a Wolfe River variety, weighs one and one-half pounds and measures fifteen inches in circumference and is a perfect specimen. It is of light red or pink color. Rev. Dickerson, a former Wayne County man, produced the big apple on his farm at Prospect, Ohio. ENROLLMENT AT HI SCHOOL HERE BREAKS 1925 RECORD 180 pupils enrolled in the Wayne County High school at Wayne Monday of this week. This is an increase of 40 over the enrollment of last year, and Principal H. E. Berisford believes that the enrollment will reach the 200 mark before the year is over. 80 of the 180 enrolled are members of the Freshman class. DON CHAFIN VISITS HERE Don Chafin, widely known Logan county citizen, motored down to Wayne Monday of this week and spent the day renewing old acquaintances here. Don says he is in good health and happy, but declares that he is out of politics. May 27, 1927 EDMUND THOMPSON IS NOW ABLE TO SEE AFTER REMARKABLE OPERATION Eyesight has been restored to Edmund Thompson, aged blind citizen of Sidney, this county, who underwent an operation at Hawes-Marple hospital in Huntington two weeks ago for the removal of a cataract from each eye. Mr. Thompson is 79 years of age. He has been blind in one eye for five years and completely lost sight in the other about a year ago. In telephone conversation with Bascom Thompson, son of Edmund Thompson, at Hawes-Marple hospital Wednesday morning of this week, Wayne County News was informed that the operation had been successful. Mr. Thompson is able to see with one of his eyes, while the other has not healed as rapidly and the bandages will not be permanently removed from this eye until tomorrow, Thursday. Mr. Thompson was able to see well enough Tuesday to clearly recognize his son Bascom when he walked into his room at the hospital. Hospital authorities are hopeful that the operation will restore sight completely to the other eye also. The operation is regarded as unusually remarkable due to the advanced age of the patient, Mr. Thompson, widely known merchant of Sidney. Attending physicians believe that he will be able to be removed from the hospital to his home at Sidney by the latter part of this week. Dr. C. M. Hawes, who operated on Mr. Thompson, gained national fame last winter when he performed an operation removing cataracts from the eyes of Mayme and Fay Cook, age 24 and 17 respectively, of Lorado, Logan county. The young women had been blind since birth, and the sight of both was completely restored by the operation. Newspapers throughout the whole country heralded the operation as a remarkable feat in optical surgery. Jan. 28, 1926 FIRST DEED RECORDED IN THIS COUNTY 84 YEARS AGO; 2,100 RECORDED LAST YEAR *********************************** DID YOU KNOW That Wayne county is over 21 years older than the state of West Virginia? That the first deed ever recorded in Wayne County was entered of record of record over 84 years ago? That 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds were recorded in this county within the past year? That you'll never find the answers to these questions unless you read the article below? ********************************* The first deed ever entered of record in Wayne county was filed at the local clerk's office on the 12th day of April, 1842, nearly 84 years ago and nearly twenty years before the Civil War was declared. How County Was Formed It might be of some interest to many of our readers to note here that Wayne County's eighty-fourth birthday was last week--Monday, January 18th. It was on the 18th of January , 1842, that a bill passed the general assembly at Richmond, Virginia, by which a part of the county of Cabell was cut off and designated as Wayne County. The counties of Wayne, Cabell and Lincoln were at first all a part of Kanawha County, then in the State of Virginia, for that was before the State of West Virginia had been formed, which was June 20, 1863. In fact Wayne County is over 21 years older than the State of West Virginia itself, since the county was formed before the two Virginias were divided. It was a long way for people from Wayne, Cabell and Lincoln to travel to Charleston, their county seat, to attend court. So the General Assembly was petitioned to divide Kanawha County, and this petition wasgranted, and it was thus that the county of Cabell was created on the second day of January, 1809. What is now Wayne County was still in Cabell until the assembly voted another change January 18, 1842, and created Wayne County by cutting off this section from Cabell. The county was named in honor of General Anthony Wayne. The First Deed The first deed ever recorded in the county is still preserved as a matter of record in the offices of the present County Clerk, Hezekiah Adkins. It was made by Zattu Cushing, Edward Tupper and Rachel, his wife, to William Ratcliff . For the sum of $1,500 the following described tract of land on Tug River in this county was sold, the following being the description given in the first deed in the county: "Beginning at a large rock at the upper end of the narrows above the fall bottom near the lower end of a new field made by the said William Ratcliff, and from thence running a straight line to the summit of the low gap where the road crosses leading up Tug River to two beech trees where it intersects the back line of the original survey which runs up the river; thence with the said back lines until it strikes the said Tug river, thence down the same with its meanderings to the place of beginning, the quantity of land being unknown." From the above description we are not able to decide just exactly where this land was located on Tug River but probably some of our readers will be able to identify the tract from the foregoing description. This deed was written and acknowledged May 30, 1840, while Wayne county was still a part of Cabell county, but it was not put to record until nearly two years later, April 12, 1842. The deed was acknowledged before Samuel Webb and Frederick Moore, who were justices of the peace. The first county clerk in Wayne county was Hugha Bowen, with whom this deed was filed for record. In the 84 years which have elapsed since that time, the ink has become dim and the paper in the deed book yellowed, necessitating that the book be recopied, which was done; however, the original deed book is also preserved. Record Work Has Grown In the 84 years that Wayne County has been in existence a total of 144 deed books have been used up. These books average over 500 pages each, making a total of over 72,000 pages in deeds that are preserved in the office of the county clerk. This number does not include trust deeds. The work of recording deeds is increasing by leaps and bounds in Wayne County every year. Last year seven large books were used up in recording deeds, which was three more books than were ever required in any previous year. County Clerk Adkins reports that in the year 1925 that his office recorded a total of 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds. In addition to these the clerk recorded 1,000 reservations of title in 1925. The amount of work required in handling the 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds recorded last year is indicated by the fact that each deed and trust deed must be handled eleven times and in eleven separate operations in the office of the clerk. This means that in 1925 deeds were handled 23,100 times and trust deeds 11,500 times. These eleven operations necessary for each deed and each trust deed are as follows: Deed is received; charged; recorded; compared; mailed out; slips made out for each deed for purpose of indexing; these slips compared; deeds then indexed direct; deeds then indexed reverse; direct index compared and checked; reverse index compared and checked. The mounting of record work in this county is due to numerous causes. First, the population of the county is growing. People trade in real estate more than formerly. Many large tracts have been cut up into lots, making separate deed for each lot necessary. The lively activity in the sale of lots in the Kenova and Westmoreland sections have been a big factor in the increase of property records each year. Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JURORS FOR COURT TERM NEXT MARCH Following is a list of the grand and petit jurors drawn to serve at the regular term of circuit court at Wayne, which begins on the second Monday in March, the 8th: GRAND JURORS Ceredo District: G. L. Freeman, Howard Wilson, W. J. Drown; Union District: W. L. Banfield, A. G. Smith, Theron Drown. Butler District: Henry Rayburn, Thornton Crabtree, Ralph Plymale. Lincoln District: Stanley M. Copley, G. H. Marcum, L. B. Crum. Grant District: Jarvy Fry. Stonewall District: Thomas Griffin, Henry Justice. Westmoreland District: E. J. Hunt. PETIT JURORS Ceredo District: D. G. Thacker, Albert Cole, W. K. Ferguson, Walker H. Bromley, H. S. Simpson Union District: Albert Peak, Sylvester Pack, Burnie Adkins, J. D. Smith, John H. Beckley,G. T. Farra, William F. Marshall, Allen Smith, J. B. Dean, Theodore A. Ray,Vermont Adkins and William Wilkinson Butler District: Julius Lambert, Bert Webb, Okey Bartram, P. C. Brumfield, Wayne Dean, B. B. Cyrus, C. C. Hatten, Herbert McComas, Claude Holt, Curtis Ellis and Jesse Frazier Lincoln District: Elbert Parsley, Jesse Parsley (son of John), G. W. Gillispie, Sol Marcum (son of Jim), P. H. Wilson, E. L. Kidd and Taylor Parsley Grant District: Noah Queen, Pat Moore, Charley Maynard, Jay Maynard, William Wiley, W. A. Napier, and Oscar Dyer Stonewall District: F. W. Tabor, John McClelland, Lucian Skeans, E. L. Jarrell, M. J. Stiltner, John B. Beckett, Everett Watts, John W. Crabtree, Charles R. Morrison,W. A. Mills, Edgar Maynard, H. H. Davidson, and James H. Smith Westmoreland D.: R. R. Rucker, James A. Hughes, L. H. Umphrey, Donald Clark and Lloyd Malcolm Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIRTHS BORN TO Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. Scaggs of Wayne, January 24, an 8 pound son. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Adkins of Westmoreland, January 18, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Eastham of Kenova, January 18, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Will Crossen of Kenova, January 20, a son. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Napier (son of Rev. P. H. Napier) of near Hany, a baby girl on January 10,which has been named Susie. Mr. and Mrs. Carter Wilson of Wilsondale, a son named Ronald Earl. Mrs. Wilson was before marriage Mrs. Georgia Williamson. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elliott of Russell, Kentucky, January 21, twin girls. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cook of Huntington, January 15, a son. Mrs. Cook was before marriage Miss Thelma Adkins. Mr. and Mrs. Freelin Robertson of Hurricane Branch, twin girls, named Ida and Imogene. Imogene died. Mrs. Robertson was before marriage Frances Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Wye Wellman of Fort Gay, January 20, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. App Queen of near Stiltner, January 18th, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Bee Vanhoose of East Lynn Route, January 13, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Donahoe of East Lynn Route, January 3, a girl, name Reetha. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parsons of East Lynn Route, January 25, a son. Mr. and Mrs. Maxon Jeffers of Huntington, January 14, a son named Claude Maxon. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Corns of Crum, January 21, a 10 pound girl, Beulah Fay. Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WAYNE COUNTIANS IN RITCHIE COUNTY A number of Wayne county men are working on a road contract near Smithville in Ritchie county this winter. The contract is in charge of C. A. Eblin, who has been in road work in Wayne county for several years, his last job here being the contract between East Lynn and Stiltner. The local boys who are in Ritchie county with Mr. Eblin are Cain Lloyd, Lee Dean, Lisa Marcum, Everett Marcum, Jay Thompson, Emery Thompson, Otis Thompson, John O'Dell and Harry Conners. Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks, also of this county, is house-keeper for the Eblin road camp. W. Frank Harrison of Wayne is also assistant superintendent of the contract there, but is home at the present. Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12-POLE FLOODED ROAD LAST WEEK The rains of last week flooded Twelve Pole last Friday to the highest stage that has been seen here since the year 1913 according to opinions expressed by many. There is no record available here of the various high waters since 1913, and some were of the opinion that the river was little if any higher than it was about two years ago. The stage here last Friday morning was 21 feet, according to the local government river guage. The river was in the road between Wayne and Lavalette in three different places: at the Sanders Spurlock farm, at the mouth of Wilsons Creek and at the mouth of Garretts Creek. Traffic on the road was held up for only one day, however, as the cold weather checked the rising water. Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS BRIEFS George E. Byer of Lavalette was in town on business Monday. Mr. Byer and family formerly lived in Huntington, but purchased a farm near Lavalette sometime ago. He says that they like Wayne county and have enjoyed better health since they moved to the country. H. E. Berisford, principal of the high school, has bought the C. H. Saunders property in Wayne and moved into it last week. Miss Rinda Meade, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Meade of Maynard, and Mr. Lark Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett Maynard of near Kiahsville, were married January 19. He and Mrs. Maynard will make their home at present with the groom's father. Wayne County News Wayne, West Virginia January 28, 1926 June 3, 1926 INTERESTING LETTER WRITTEN BY WAYNE MAN IN 1864 STILL PRESERVED Wayne County News this week came into possession of a most intimate momento of the Civil War--a letter written by a Wayne county soldier to his family back home in July 1864. The letter was written by Benjamin Dean to his wife Nancy Dean, and has been preserved by Mrs. A. G. Toney, of Wayne, a daughter of Benjamin Dean. It should be explained that Benjamin Dean had one of the most unusual service records of any Wayne county man who served in the great conflict of 1861-1864. He served for the full four years of the war and engaged in thirty-seven battles, but lived to return to his family after Lee's memorable surrender. He was born at what is now the V. H. Dean farm, about two miles South of Wayne, and he lived on Wilson's Creek. His brothers were Wm., John, Joseph, Wayne and Lindsey Dean. His sisters were Sarah Wilson, Rebecca Huff, Elizabeth Workman, Cynthia Bartram and Emily Osburn. Lindsey was killed in the Civil War on the old James River Turnpike near what is now Westmoreland in this county. Lonzo Booth, a brother of Jim Booth, of Wayne, was killed at the same time. During his four full years of service Benjamin Dean had but few furloughs home and at one time was away from home and in constant battles and raids for eleven months. He married Nancy Booth, and they had two children: Will Dean, now deceased, and Mrs. A. G. Toney, who now lives at Wayne. The following letter is addressed to his wife. The paper on which it is written is yellowed with age, but it is still legible despite the fact that it was written sixty-two years ago. The letter reads as follows: In Camp Near Winchester, Va. July the 19th, 1864 Dear Wife: I embrace the opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you know I am alive, and I am hoping when these few lines come to hand they may find you all well. We are under General McCaslin. We have been on a raid ever since the 11th day of May. We started at Lynchburg, from there back to the Valley of Virginia to Winchester, from there to Maryland to Frederick City. We fought 25,000 there. Lieut. T. S. Walker was wounded, his jaw was broken. Lieut. Harris was wounded and captured. Hiram Grizzle's thigh was broken. Abraham Vaughan was shot through his body. I had two holes shot through my clothes in this battle, one through my pocket and one through my shirt sleeve. We went near the city of Washington. We came back through East Virginia. I am near Winchester today. We marched all night. We have had a mighty hard raid this Spring and Summer. Nancy, I am very poor and feeble. And, Nancy, I want to see you and William and Lummy once more. I now want to see you worse than I ever did in my life. Nancy, I haven't had a clean shirt for over five weeks. We manage to get enough to eat. We hook the Yanks at every point we can. Tell my father and mother that I would like to see them again before we are all swept into Eternity. Tell Father Booth and Mother Booth that there is not a day but what I think about them and long to see them once more. We have been commanded by Col. Graham. He does nothing but drink and curse, and if Colonel Ferguson isn't exchanged by next season, I never expect to make another raid in this war. Nancy, tell Mate I would like to see him but not in any war. Nancy, do the best you can, for at best you now have a hard way of getting along. Nancy, tell Charity that Enoch Bartram has fallen in love with her and says she is the prettiest girl he has ever seen. He asked me to come and see her for him. He says he is going to write her. We left Enoch Bartram at North Mountain with Hiram Grizzle, who was wounded. Enoch is a fine young man. Nancy, when I return I want to see you fat and well, but war is very uncertain and I may never be able to see you again. I haven't drawn any money yet since I wrote last. Tell William and Lummy to be good children until I come home, and the Lord will bless them. I have got two mighty fine horses and if Peace was only made sometime soon I would bring them back. I am worried sick to think I can't enjoy my home and the thought that I am banished from my wife and two little children grieves me daily. Tell Lummy and William to save me some apples to eat after I get back home from this war. So no more at present. I remain your affection husband until death. Benjamin F. Dean NOTE: Mr. Dean lived to make it back home. ************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OFFICERS NAMED BY WAYNE R. A. M. FOR COMING YEAR Following is a list of the officers elected by Wayne Chapter No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, for the coming year, last Saturday night: Clyde Scraggs, High Priest; M. N. Lester, E. K.; W. R. May, E. S.; C. E. Walker, Treasurer; P. P. Lester, Secretary; B. Mosser, C. of H.; E. F. Walker, P. S.; F. M. Curnutte, R. A. C.; G. T. Saunders, Master 3rd Vale; Isaac Ball, Master 2nd Vale; H. B. Booton, Master 1st Vale; W. J. W. Ferguson, Sentinel. August 26, 1926 NEGRO HANGS NEXT MONTH FOR ATTACK ON MINGO WOMAN Harry Sawyers, a Negro of Williamson, will pay the death penalty in the penitentiary at Moundsville on April 19th. Wednesday of last week Sawyer confessed to the robbery and assault of Mrs. Cullen Amburgy, wife of a Williamson dentist. Within a few minutes a special grand jury was empanelled, Sawyer entered a complete confession to the crime and was sentenced to hang in the penitentiary. Sawyer's trial was one of the speediest held in Mingo County in many a year. He was in the court room less than five minutes from the time he entered his plea of guilty until the death sentence was passed by the judge. A special grand jury was empanelled and an indictment was returned charging him with criminal assault. When asked by Judge Bailey whether or not he was guilty of the crime as charged, Sawyers admitted his guilt. Sentence was then passed, and it ended with the words, ". . .you shall remain in the Moundsville penitentiary until five o'clock in the morning of April 19, when I sentence you to hang by the neck until you are dead." The grand jury deliberated only half an hour before it returned its indictment. Only one witness appeared, that being Capt. J. R. Brockus, who presented the signed confession of Sawyers. Immediately following the sentence by Judge Bailey, the convicted man was taken back to the county jail, and preparation was made for his departure for Moundsville. He was taken to the state prison Wednesday night. The crime for which Sawyers will pay the death penalty was committed about nine o'clock the night of the 18th. After beating and choking Mrs. Amburgy into unconsciousness, Sawyers admitted that he assaulted her after robbing her of jewelry worth about $1,000. In his confession, he said that as Mrs. Amburgy passed the several camp cars on a switch near Williamson Ice and Cold Storage Company, he attacked her and robbed her of the jewelry. He also admitted that after she lapsed into unconsciousness he committed the crime for which he shall pay with his life. Sawyers had been working in Williamson since March, 1924, on the extra force of the Norfolk and Western. His home was originally in Grim, W. Va., though he had been in North Carolina just before coming to Williamson. Within a few hours after he was sentenced, Sawyers was placed on a train handcuffed and in the custody of the state police who immediately took him to Moundsville, where he was at once placed in the death cell to await his execution before sunrise on the 19th of April. Most men who have been hanged in the West Virginia penitentiary in the past several years have paid the death penalty on Fridays. The case of Sawyers is an exception to the rule. He will die on Monday morning, April 19th. **************************************************************** INDICTMENTS OF LONG STANDING ARE NOLLED HERE LOCAL CHURCH IN NEW HOME; FOUNDED IN 1874 The Ceredo Congregational Church recently dedicated a new building, which is one of the recent outstanding accomplishments in church history in this county. The new building is a beautiful frame structure, English architecture being the predominate note throughout. The color scheme is unusually attractive. The building was constructed from general ideas suggested by the pastor and formulated into exact plans by John R. Gieskie of Huntington and the late S. Floyd Hoard of Ceredo, joint architects. The new building was dedicated January 24th and 25th. The pastor of the church is the Rev. E. Turner Stump, who assumed the pastorate on March 2, 1924. During his pastorate the church has increased in membership and interest. The present building project was launched only after the coming of Mr. Stump and is a tribute to his vision and leadership. Mr. Stump is also head of the public speaking department of Marshall College and coach there of debate and dramatics. Associated with the pastor on the building committee were the following: James W. Collier, cashier of the Consolidated Power and Light company of Huntington, treasurer of the building fund; Henry J. Stark, president of the First National Bank of Ceredo; and Maxwelton Wright, Sr., president of Wright Brothers Company. The church history is very interesting. The group was organized in 1874 by a group of pioneers from Massachusetts, establishing the church of the Pilgrims in the settlement on the banks of the Ohio, Ceredo. The first meeting place was a second floor room in the old Crescent Hall, now destroyed. In 1886, through sacrificial effort and donation, a church was built. It was outstanding in its beauty and design and serves today as the nucleus for the present structure. Ground was broken for the new addition on July 16, 1 925, and construction begun immediately thereafter. The ministerial record of the church is one of which the congregation is happy. Among its first pastors was the late Mr. Bowers, for 15 years pastor of the First Church, Huntington. A child of the parsonage during this pastorate, now serving one of the great churches of Cleveland, Ohio, was Dr. Roy L. Bowers. Another pastor of the church was Rev. John L. Hoyt. He too was pastor of the Huntington Church and numbers his friends by the hundreds in this locality. Mr. Hoyt is now pastor of one of Cleveland's largest churches. The late Mr. Gadsby was for over 12 years pastor of the Ceredo church. He later went to Pittsburgh, where he had charge of a leading church. ************************************************************ M. E. REVIVAL IN WAYNE PROMOTES CHURCH COUNCIL A revival has been conducted at the Court House by Rev. L. D. Icard, local M. E. pastor in charge, assisted by Rev. J. O. Black of Ashland, Ky.; the singing has been conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Evan Evans of Huntington, prominent singers in Evangelistic work in the Western Virginia Conference. The revival has been marked with success, both from the interest manifested and in a number of conversions, and the attendance has been good throughout. Growing out of this revival, a movement has been started to organize the men and women of all the churches in the community of Wayne into a non-denominational Christian movement, having for its object the community welfare in things spiritual and moral. The following officers for this organization have been elected: M. E. Ketchum, president; Claude Newman, vice-president; Mrs. A. E. Evans, secretary; S. J. Vinson, treasurer; and Ervin Blankenship, director of music. The next meeting will be held at the Christian church, at three o'clock p. m. Sunday, February 15, 1926. All men and women interested are cordially invited. ********************************************************* PIONEERS FROM THIS COUNTY IN WARS OF 1812; 1861 Pioneer Wayne Countians figure in a history of the community of Barboursville, which has been written by J. W. Miller. In his history Mr. Miller tells about a company of cavalry being organized in the War of 1812 by Captain William Brumfield, who was the grandfather of Bostic Brumfield, Sr., of Wayne. Many of Captain Brumfield's men died of disease at Norfolk. Wayne County men also figured in the Mexican War when Elisha McComas organized a company which became part of the United States army during the Mexican War. In his history, Mr. Miller also explains that one of the first battles of the Civil War was fought at Barboursville, and a Wayne County man was a colonel in this battle. It was on July 11, 1861, between the Wayne and Cabell county militia, under command of Colonel Jamison Ferguson, and the second Kentucky regiment. The bayonet charge was too heavy for the militia, making it necessary for them to retreat. One boy named Reynolds, of near Milton, was killed and Absolom Ballengee was wounded. The Yankees paid dearly with five killed and eighteen wounded. The forefathers of hundreds of people now living in Wayne County were participants in several Civil War battles fought near Barboursville and Point Pleasant, as well as in the more important battles fought in other sections of the country during the great conflict of 1861 between the North and the South. ***************************************************************************** The indictments against the following defendants were dismissed in Circuit Court of Wayne this week on motion of the State and with the assent of the court, and the defendants ordered dismissed. The indictments against the defendants were dismissed for various causes. In some instances the principals of the cases had died or were convicted on other indictments, and in nearly all instances the cases dismissed represent charges that have long been carried on the docket. Following are the cases dismissed: Robert Coffin, having moonshine liquor; Walter Ferguson, revolver; Clyde Holbrook, moonshine liquor;Grover Lester, selling liquor; Roy Lycan, revolver; Sherman Marcum, having moonshine liquor; Charles McCoy, selling liquor; Lewis McCoy, selling liquor; Elba Davis, non-support; John Ferguson, revolver; John Lancaster, having liquor; Bill lett, having liquor;Sherman Marcum, having liquor; Charles McCoy, revolver; Charles McCoy, selling liquor; Lewis McCoy,revolver; Lewis McCoy, selling liquor; Golden Spaulding and John Koger, having liquor; Thomas A. Adkins, obstructing public officer; Warney Collinsworth, appeal for revolver; W. B. Ferguson, appeal for traffic violation; Seymour Marcum, assault andbattery; Sam Marcum, revolver; E. E. Nutter, having moonshine liquor; George Payne, appeal for having liquor; Monzola Vinson, sellng liquor; Everett Blankenship, felony; Eskeline Davidson, felony; Wetzel Queen, revolver; J. M. Ward, trespassing on Railroad property; Gilbert Brooks, revolver; Marion Stepp, assault and battery; Golden Maynard, appeal for non-support; E. E. Nutter, transporting liquor; Henderson Payne, appeal for having liquor; Hayes Adams, felony; Abb Counts, felony; Bill Lett, felony;Thomas Davidson and Eskeline Davidson, felony; Roy Lycan, felony; Charles McCoy, felony; Uland McComas, felony; Silas Mills, felony; Carson Spence, felony; George Stedham, felony; Elmo Houchin, felony; Charley McCoy, felony; G. C. McCoy, Charley Fraley and Flora Maynard, felony; Silas Mills, murder; J. H. Newman,felony; and Klerzont Spence, felony. ******************************************************************* TEACHERS ARE EMPLOYED FOR LINCOLN DISTRICT The Board of Education of Lincoln district, in session Saturday, appointed teachers for the various Lincoln district schools for the coming year. Following is a list of appointments for the several schools, as announced by C. H. Salmons, secretary of the Lincoln district Board of Education: VINSON: Violet Perry GLENHAYES: Maxie Vinson DRAGG CREEK: Anna Little CAMP CREEK: L. B. Copley VANDERVODT: Vacant YELLOW POPLAR: Anna Branham LOCUST KNOB: Gladys C. Frazier BULL GRADED: Vacant CRUM GRADED: C. F. Harris, Principal; Belle Mills and Myrtle Marcum STONECOAL GRADED: Lindsey Baker, Principal; Mae Stepp WILSONDALE: Vacant MARCUM GRADED: J. M. Queen, Principal; Erie Branham, Assistant WALNUT GROVE: W. C. Mollett, Principal TICK RIDGE: Vacant TURKEY CREEK: Edmund Napier PERRY RIDGE: Anna Deerfield DOANE: Vacant WELL'S BRANCH GRADED: C. H. Salmons, Principal WELL'S MOUNTAIN: Mary A. Salmons, Principal HOOKER KNOB: Nancy J. Perry DUNLOW GRADED: Vacant FERGUSON GRADED: H. W. Vanhoose, Assistant RADNOR GRADED: Ruth Vita Adkins JACKSON BRANCH: Vacant GENOA GRADED: Blanche B. Frazier, Principal; Alma K. Walker, Assistant EFFIE GRADED: Della Parsons, Assistant BILLIE'S BRANCH: Fred Vinson THOMPSON GRADED: J. M. Vanderpool, Principal; Jessie M. Vanderpool, Assistant GRASSY: Moses Marcum PRATT GRADED: Bertha Marcum, Principal WALLACE: Hazel L. Perry VARNEY: Minerva Ratcliff STEPP GRADED: W. M. Queen, Principal BEND: J. C. O'Neil LEFT FORK BULL: J. J. Perry UNION: Mildred R. Ratcliff RIGHT FORK BULL: Vacant WEBB GRADED: H. K. Curry, Principal; Maude Curry, Assistant LOWER MILL CREEK: Fred C. Perry HORSE CREK: Florence Meade HICKORY GAP: H. B. Thompson HURRICANE BRANCH: Vacant ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. B. SMITH CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLATURE W. B. Smith, widely known and well-liked citizen of Whites Creek, this week authorizes announcement of his candidacy for Member of the House of Delegates from Wayne County on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Smith lives near Centerville on Wayne Route 1. He is 52 years old and has been a life-long resident of this county. He received his education in the public schools of this county and at Morris Harvey College at Barboursville. By profession, Mr. Smith is a successful farmer and dealer in livestock. He was at one time member of the County Board of School examiners. In this capacity he served with Boyd Jarrell, now editor of the Huntington Herald Dispatch. This was about 30 years ago, when Rufus Lester was superintendent of schools. Mr. Smith is an active church worker and a leading citizen in his community. He is widely known throughout the county. Mr. Smith, both by educational training and practical experience, is well qualified to represent the county in the legislature. If nominated and elected, he would make an able and loyal representative of his home county. His candidacy is cheerfully recommended for the careful attention of Democratic voters at the August primary. ************************************************************** CROP CONDITIONS IN WAYNE COUNTY SHOWN IN REPORT The farmers of Wayne County have reported the estimated condition of crops throughout the county to be as follows: Wheat has a condition of 83 per cent against last year's May 1st condition of 78 per cent, and a five year average 1921-1925 inclusive of 79 per cent. Rye has a condition of 85 per cent compared to last year's condition of 80 per cent and a five year average of 92 per cent. The hay crop is reported at 67 per cent against last year's figure of 85 per cent and its five year average of 91 per cent; while the pasture condition is given at 63 per cent against last year's conditon of 87 per cent, and a five year average of 88 per cent. . . . The lowered condition of crops at present as compared to the average was caused by the continued winter weather through most of April, causing growth to be retarded. Wheat and rye are reported as being in fair condition, but short. Much damage has been done in the bottom land of some sections where freezing and thawing have occurred. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y. W. C. A. TO OPEN CAMP AT DICKSON AGAIN THIS YEAR "Camp Tawanka," the Huntington Young Women's Christian Association camp, will be held in Wayne County again this season. The camp will open in June. The Y. M. C. A. is located on Twelve Pole Creek, just below Dickson. It is reached by taking the road down Twelve Pole from the end of the bridge on the opposite side of the creek from Dickson. The camp has been improved and enlarged since its opening last year. This year it will be in charge of Mrs. C. H. Carpenter and Mrs. George Riggs of Huntington. The camp is designated as both a vacation and a week-end camp and is open to any girl or woman who wishes to spend a few days in the country. Special week-end parties will be held during the summer for business girls and Girl Reserves. On Sundays, vesper services are held at 4:00 o'clock. These are in charge of some of the girls and the counselors. Special visitors always attend these services. Dinner parties and other forms of entertainmnet are given each Saturday and Sunday during the summer. The camp is a permanent one with every facility for comfort and pleasure. The Natalie S. Walker lodge is the largest of the buildings. This serves as a dining room and recreation hall. There is a well-equipped kitchen in the rear. Large porches are built on all sides, and these are furnished with lounging chairs and hammocks. Three bungalows furnish sleeping quarters. Swimming, tennis, hiking, stunts, bacon and marshmallow bats, treasure hunts, baseball, horseshoe pitching, handcrafts and boating are among the most popular activities at the camp. ************************************************* GRAGSTON NEWS ITEMS Ernest Romans was a Wednesday visitor at Fort Gay and Louisa.*** Sidney Huff, who has been at work in Westmoreland for the past month, has returned home.*** Harve Kites spent a few days last week with his brother in Huntington.*** Earl Boothe of Patrick was a business visitor here Wednesday of last week.*** Wesley Huff of Trace was a business caller here Tuesday of last week. Albert Ronk of Wayne Route was a recent business visitor here.*** Prince Kitts left Monday for Ironton, where he has employment.*** Charley Hatten of Black Fork was a recent visitor here.*** Dr. A. E. Evans of Wayne was a Monday visitor here.*** Mrs. Mary Jane Viers is very ill with flu.***Ed Wellman and sons were Wednesday visitors at Fort Gay and Louisa.*** Sanky Pyles of Whites Creek was a business visitor here last week.*** Howard Shannon of Elijahs Creek was a recent visitor here.*** Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Frasher of Fort Gay spent a few days last week with Mrs. Frasher's mother, Mrs. Rachel Wellman.*** Lafayette Ferguson was a recent visitor at Echo.*** Mrs. Nancy Huff spent Thursday and Friday last week with Mrs. Carrie Huff of Big Hurricane.*** Richard E. McCoy was a business visitor at Patrick last week.*** Wm. Huff was a Thursday caller on Twelve Pole.*** E. H. Wellman was a business visitor at Wayne last week.*** Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Thompson spent a few days last week with Mr. Thompson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Thompson of Patrick.*** Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Christian and children of Westmoreland spent last week end with relatives here.*** Mr. and Mrs. Toney McCoy had as Sunday guests: Mr. and Mrs. Jink Frasher of Fort Gay, Jessie and Ernest Romans, Blanch and Richard McCoy, and Frank and Edgar Wellman. ************************************************* PRESIDENT LAKES-FLORIDA HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION TO STOP IN WAYNE SATURDAY R. P. Johnson of Wytheville, Va., president of the Lakes-to- Florida Highway Association, of which the Tug River highway through Wayne County is a part, will stop in Wayne on Saturday afternoon of this week, enroute over the Tug River highway on an inspection trip. The trip is being arranged by Dr. W. S. Rosenhelm of Huntington, who is vice-president of the Association. Dr. Rosenhelm was in Wayne Wednesday arranging for Mr. Johnson's stop-over here Saturday afternoon about 4:00 o'clock. He will accompany the inspection party from Huntington as far as Williamson. The grading of the Tug River Highway between Williamson and Bluefield is now practically complete, and the last gap near Iaeger in Wyoming County will be opened for traffic next month. **************************************************************** FORMER PUPILS OF L. DICKERSON WILL AGAIN LIVE SCHOOL DAYS AT REUNION Former pupils of Rev. Lawrence Dickerson are planning a reunion and picnic, to be held at Armilda on Monday, July 5th, which promises to be one of the most pleasant social affairs in the county next month. Rev. Dickerson was born and raised in Wayne County and spent years teaching here. He was recognized as one of the foremost educators of his time, and numbered among his former pupils are scores of men and women who have gone out into the world and made good in a number of endeavors. Rev. Dickerson how resides at Prospect, Ohio, where he is a minister in the Baptist church, but he still retains strong affection in his heart for Wayne county and Wayne county people and always visits the folks "back home" at every opportunity. For the past few years he has looked forward to a reunion of all of his former pupils, but not until recently was a date and place decided. Since July 4th comes on Sunday, Independence Day will be celebrated on Monday, which will make the day of the reunion and picnic a legal holiday, thus enabling many folks to come who would otherwise not be able to be there. The reunion will be held on the grounds around Armilda Graded school on the Wayne-East Lynn road. Rev. Dickerson is anxious to see nearly all of his former pupils at the reunion. Every former pupil is cordially invited and expected to attend. Each one should bring a basket dinner which will be eaten on the ground at noon and this promises to be one of the big features of the day. It should be a great occasion for all of Rev. Dickerson's former pupils. Each one of them should make arrangements now to be there without fail and enjoy good eats, fine fellowship, and a pleasant reunion of friends and class-mates. Those attending the picnic are requested to assemble at 9 o'clock. Adjourment will be about 4 o'clock p. m. Rev. Dickerson began teaching years ago at Bartram Fork. He was always well liked by his pupils. A prominent feature of the reunion will be the playing of games of days-gone-by by the former pupils. Rev. Dickerson will join with them in such play as Puss Wants a Corner, Jumping the Rope, etc. In writing about his plans for the reunion, Dickerson says in part: "Sure we are going to play the old games again, even though some of us are a little stiff and complain of rheumatism and other ailments once in a while. We especially want to have an old fashioned game of Base so that Tom Mills can have a chance again to fall in Twelve Pole." ************************************************** CUTS EARLIEST CABBAGE June 14th, Buryl Cyrus cut the first cabbage grown in Wayne County this year for market. Mr. Cyrus was the first one last year to put tomatoes on the market, and indications are that he will be the first this year. Last Monday, June 14th, he sold cabbage on the Huntington market for 8 cents a pound. Only three of the South Point, Ohio, growers were as early as he, and the South Point growers are regarded as the earliest in the Tri-State region. Last Saturday the first maximum car of cabbage left North Kenova for Pittsburgh. R. R. Gillette and Buryl Cyrus, both truck growers of near Wayne, helped load the first car. They also helped load the car that left Tuesday of this week. Wayne truck growers are having meetings every Monday evening at the County Agent's office at the Court House at Wayne. . . ************************************************** DOG RACE TRACK IS BUILT AT CEREDO; IS MOST NOVEL OF ALL LOCAL SPORTS Our own Ceredo, located right here in our own Wayne County is going to be the home of a first-class Dog race track. The race track is already well under construction and will be completed next month, it is planned. Dog racing has been a thriving sport in many sections of the United States for sometime, but the Ceredo track will be the first in West Virginia, it is announced. Duke Ridgley, widely known and widely-read sporting editor of the Huntington Herald Dispatch describes the coming of Wayne County's new sporting venture in the following news story. *********************************** BY DUKE RIDGLEY "The greyhound races at Ceredo are getting so close that you can almost hear the dogs barking." But this is not to be taken that Ceredo has gone to the bow-wows. Gracious me. Nothing like it. T. W. (Tom) Scott, guiding genius of the new quarter mile track in Wayne County and general manager of the Ceredo Kennel Club, is author of the above statement, and young Mr. Scott is not in the habit of talking just to exercise his chin. "The contract for the grandstand and the track has been awarded," said Scott, "and a big staff of workmen are now engaged getting the new plant in order for the Fall meeting." The Ceredo course will be one of the finest dog racing courses in America, the cost of construction being estimated at $50,000. When asked regarding the opening of the Wayne County track, Scott, who hails from Lexington, Ky., and is one of the best- known greyhound promoters in the business, stated that Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 6, was the day set for the kick off and that he was reasonably sure the plant would be completed by that time. The Ceredo Kennel Club meeting will be a 30-day--or rather night--affair, as all dog races are held at night. There will be eight events each evening and eight dogs in each race. General Manager Scott has also announced that the celebrated Heintz rabbit will be used at the meeting. In the meantime construction on the new track in the thriving little Wayne County city goes merrily along. As the time for the inaugural of greyhound racing in this vicinity approaches, many Huntington sportsmen are becoming interested in securing a stable of racing dogs which they expect to enter at Ceredo. Big purses will be hung up for the owners of fast steppers to try for in the racing session in Wayne. It doesn't cost much kale to support a racing dog. As long as the owner can furnish his runner with a soup bone when he's losing and porterhouse steak if he wins, everything is lovely between the dog and his owner. It's not like buying oats for a horse, to say nothing of the expense of a jockey and other incidentals. While on the subject of dogs and horses, there are many critics who will wager real money that a greyhound can beat a thoroughbred sprinter in a race. Horsemen, however, refuse to admit the truth of this statement. Dog racing is a great sport. In real thrills it does not [place second] to any other sort of contest between animals-- it compares favorably with all of them. General Manager Scott , of the Ceredo course, knows more about greyhounds than Babe Ruth does about home runs, and Scott tells us that a greyhound is as fast as any animal that runs on four legs--maybe a bit faster. Scott also says that a Whippet, which is an undersized greyhound, isn't as fast as a greyhound. The electrical equipment and mechanical apparatus for the Ceredo track have all been ordered and will be installed within the next few weeks. Powerful arch light with Mazda globes, 15 feet apart and completely circling the quarter- mile course, will make the plant as bright as day. The dogs will be in plain view of the spectators in the stand, as at no time will the greyhounds be more than 200 feet away as they chast the elusive bunny. Races at Ceredo will be held every night during the 30-day meet except on Sunday. Post time is at 8:15. This will constitute the State's most novel sporting event. The greyhound plant at Ceredo is modeled after those which have been in operation in Miami, New York, Sarasota, Atlanta. . . Petersburg [and] St. Louis. . . Special street car and bus services will be available at all hours during the 30-day carnival at Ceredo, and parking space for thousands of automobiles will be free gratis to the public on the field which adjoins the plant. ********************************************************** CEREDO-KENOVA TEACHERS ASSIGNED R. R. Hanner, superintendent of Ceredo-Kenova schools, has announced that all schools in the district will open Monday, September 6th. The new building and the installation of the modern system of heating and ventilation in all other buildings will be completed by the opening date The assignment of teachers for the ensuing year is as follows: FERNDALE First Grade, Meta Fluty; Second Grade, Wills Perdue; Third Grade, Virgil Castro; Principal, Virgil Castro. CEREDO First Grade, Kathlyn Holt; Second Grade, Hazel Wright; Third Grade, Mrs. Stella M. Stump, Martha Griffith; Fourth Grade, Lelia Litteral; Fifth Grade, Kathlyn Griffith; Sixth Grade, Mrs. Margaret Meredith; Principal, Mrs. Margaret Meredith. KENOVA First Grade, Ada Moore, Ruth Thompson, Anna Ray Tussey and Margaret Daniels; Second Grade, Nannie Ellen Fry, Mrs. Gladys Peters and Opal Hutchinson; Third Grade, Ruth Cole, Clara Fry and Margaret Greenslait; Fourth Grade, Mrs. Ethel Staley, Josephine Banks and Dorothy Rife; Fifth grade, Mrs. Eustace Adkins, Marguerite Kelly, Gladys Smith, Mrs. Florence Payne; Sixth Grade, W. B. Morrison, Fay Stewart, Mrs. Mary Johnson; Principal, Narcissus Roberts. HIGH SCHOOL Junior-Senior high school, Max Wright, Jr., Principal. English, Joe M. Bailey, Margaret Miller, Louise Murray, Lucille Cracraft. Music, Anna R. Brand. History, Fred H. Reeder, Elsie V. Falwell. Home economics, Melville Rice, Alberta Wright. Commercial subjects, Ernest W. Gibson. Mathematics, J. W. Bowen, Etta M. Henry, T. E. Dandelet. Geography, Florence Blackburn. Coach director, physical education, Thomas E. Dandelet. Science, Elanor H. Marshall, Maxwelton Wright, Jr. Economics, sociology, civics, Mayne Morton. Librarian, Alice La Foliette. Latin will be taught by Joe W. Bailey; Public speaking and dramatics will be taught by Lucille Cracraft. **************************************************** GEORGE FERRELL MEETS DEATH IN AUTO ACCIDENT George C. Ferrell, 37 years old farmer of Little Seven Mile, on the Ohio River Road, was instantly killed Monday afternoon this week, when a seven passenger Packard car he was driving swerved from the road and turned over on the Wayne-Huntington road near Dickson. Two small sons of Mr. Ferrell, 7 and 9 years old, were with him at the time of the accident but miraculously escaped serious injury. They suffered only slight cuts and bruises and were taken to their home after examination by a physician. The accident occurred on a sharp curve in the road, almost directly in front of the home of Zeke Bloss. Ferrell was driving at a high rate of speed toward Dickson when the crash came, according to reports of Mr. and Mrs. Ham Turner and others who were eye witnesses. He had swung around one curve and was starting around another when, they said, he appeared to lose control of the machine. It darted to the left of the road, and then at a quick swing of the steering wheel, it shot back to the right and tore down three posts, plunged over an embankment, ploughed through the field, and smashed headlong into a steep ten-foot bank. When the car landed, the front wheels were lifted in the air, and the car turned a backward summersault, coming to rest bottom side up. The right side of Mr. Ferrell's head was terribly crushed and lacerated. His right ear was torn off as was also one finger on his right hand. Mr. Ferrell formerly resided with his wife and family in Mingo County. Several months ago he purchased a farm on Little Seven Mile and moved his family there. His widow and six children survive. The oldest child is only 13 years of age. ************************************************* JENNY WILEY'S ESCAPE FROM INDIANS RECALLED BY MRS. VINSON'S DEATH The death of Aunt Vicie Ann Vinson, age 76, at Glenhayes, this county, recently recalls one of the most famous of Indian experiences that ever happened in this section of the county. It is the story of Jenny Wiley, who was held captive by the Indians for eleven months before she found an opportunity to make good her escape. Aunt Vicie Ann Vinson was a direct descendant of Jenny Wiley. The story of Jenny Wiley's capture has been handed down from generation to generation in this section of the county largely by word of mouth from parents to their children. We publish below the story of the capture, which has been preserved from the pioneer days and is believed to be exactly accurate: For generations the story of the captivity of Mrs. Jenny Wiley has been transmitted by father and mother to son and daughter, until today a traveler would scarcely call at the home of a descendant of one of the early settlers of the Big Sandy Valley in which he would not hear it related. The facts are furnished by Judge Archibald Borders, judge of the court of Lawrence County, Kentucky, who formerly resided near Peach Orchard, Kentucky, and who was a nephew of Jenny Wiley; Dr. G. W. Murray of Louisa, Kentucky, whose step-mother was a sister; also by Mrs. William C. Crum and Rev. John Jarrell, both of Wayne County, West Virginia, all of them of unimpeachable authority in the matter. Husband Away From Home The maiden name of the captive was Jenny Sellards. She married Thomas Wiley, a native of Ireland, who had immigrated and settled on Walker's Creek in Wythe (now Tazewell [Bland] County, Virginia), where they were living at the time of the capture. She had a sister living near by who was married to a man named John Borders, father of Judge Borders, before mentioned. There were also several families named Harmon residing in the vicinity, several of whom were good Indian scouts. Thomas Wiley, her husband, was absent in the forest gathering ginseng at the time of the capture. The year was 1790. The destruction of the Wiley family was a mistake on the part of the savages. Some time previously in an engagement with a party of Cherokee Indians one of the Harmons had shot and killed two or three of their numbers and now a party returned to wreak vengeance in the murder of Harmon and his family, but ignornant as to the exact location of his cabin, they fell upon that of the Wileys instead. The day before, Mr. Borders, thinking from various indications that Indians were prowling about the neighborhood, called on Mrs. Wiley and requested her to take her children and go to his house and there remain until her husband returned. She was engaged in weaving and told him that as soon as she got the web out of the loom, which would be that evening or early the next morning, she would do as he requested. In approaching the house, Mr. Borders found it very difficult to get his horse to pass a patch of hemp, and it was afterwards presented that at the time the Indians were concealed within it. The Delay Was Fatal The delay upon the part of Mrs. Wiley was a fatal one. Dark came on, and with it came the attack upon the defenseless family. The Indians rushed into the house, and after tomahawking and scalping a younger brother and three of the children and taking Jenny Wiley, her infant (a year and a half old) and Mr. Wiley's hunting dog, started toward the Ohio River. At the time the Indian trail led down to what is now known as Jenny's Creek. Taking it, they proceeded until they reached the mouth of that stream and went down the Tug and Big Sandy Rivers to the Ohio. No sooner had the news of the horrible butchery spread among the inhabitants of the Walker's Creek settlement than a party, among whom was Lazarus Damron and Mathais Harmon, started in pursuit. They followed on for several days, but failing to come up with the perpetrators of the outrage, the pursuit was abandoned, and they all returned to their homes. The Indians expected that they would be followed, and the infant of Mrs. Wiley proving an incumbrance to their flight, they dashed out its brains against a beech tree when a short distance below where William C. Crum presently resides. This tree was still standing and was well known to the inhabitants of this section during the first quarter of last century. Camped on Big Blaine When the savages with their captive reached the Ohio, it was badly swollen; with a shout of O-high-o, they turned down that stream and continued their journey to the mouth of Little Sandy. Up that stream they went to the mouth of Dry Fork and the same to its head, then crossed the dividing ridge and proceeded down what is now call Cherry Fork of Big Blaine Creek in Kentucky, to a point within two miles of its mouth, where they halted and took shelter beneath a ledge of rocks. There they remained for several months, and during that time Mrs. Wiley gave birth to a child. At this time the Indians were very kind to her, but when the child was three weeks old, they decided to test it to see whether it would make a brave warrior. Having tied it to a flat pice of wood, they slipped it into the water to see if he would cry. He screamed mightily, and they took him by the legs and dashed his brains out against an oak tree. When they left this encampment, they proceeded up Big Blaine to the mouth of Hood's Fork, thence up that stream to its source; from here they crossed over the dividing ridge to the waters of Mud Lick, and down the same to its mouth, where they once more formed encampment. Awaiting Her Chance About this time several settlements were made on the headwaters of the Big Sandy, and the Indians decided to kill their captive, and accordingly prepared for the execution, but just when the awful hour had come, an old Cherokee chief, who in the meantime had joined the party, proposed to buy her from the others on the condition that she would teach his squaws to make cloth like the dress she wore. Thus was her life saved, but she was reduced to the most abject slavery and was made to carry water, wood, and build fires. For some time they bound her when they were out hunting, but as time wore on they relaxed their vigilance, and at last permitted her to remain unbound. The Escape On one occasion when all were out from camp, they were belated, and at nightfall did not return, and Mrs. Wiley now resolved to carry into effect a long cherished object--that of making her escape and returning to her friends. The rain was falling fast, and the night was intensely dark, but she glided way from the camp fire and set out her lonely and perilous journey. Her dog, the same one that had followed the party through all their wanderings, started to follow her, but she drove him back lest by his barkings he might betray her into the hands of her pursuers. She followed the course of Mud Lick Creek to its mouth, and then crossing Main Point Creek, journeyed up a stream (ever since known as Jenny's Creek), a distance of six or eight miles, to its source, thence over a ridge and down a stream now called Little Point Creek, which empties into the Louisa Fork of Big Sandy River. When she reached its mouth, it was day-break and on the opposite side of the river, a short distance below the mouth of John's Creek, she could hear and see men at work erecting a block house. To them she called and informed them that she was a captive escaping from the Indians and urged them to hasten to her rescue, as she believed her pursuers to be close upon her. The men had no boat, but hastily rolling some logs into the river and lashing them together with grape vines, pushed the raft over the stream and carried her back with them. As they were ascending the bank, the old chief who had claimed Jenny as his property, preceded by the dog, appeared upon the opposite bank, and striking his hands upon his breast, exclaimed in broken English, "Honor, Jenny, honor!" and then disappeared in the forest. Returned To Her Home That was the last she ever saw of the old chief or her dog. She remained here a day or two to rest from her fatigue, and then with a guide made her way back to her home, having been in captivity more than eleven months. Here she rejoined her husband, who had long supposed her dead, and together, nine years after-- in the year 1809--they abandoned their home in the Old Dominion and found another near the mouth of Tom's Creek on the banks of the Louisa Fork of Big Sandy. Here her husband died in the year 1810. She survived him 21 years and died of paralysis in 1831. The Indians had killed her brother and five of her children, but after her return from captivity, five others were born, namely: Hezekiah, Jane, Sally, Adam and William. Hezekiah married Miss Christine Nelson of George's Creek, Kentucky, and settled on Twelve Pole in Wayne County, where he lived for many years; he died in 1832 (Some say 1845.) while on a visit to friends in Kentucky. Jane married Richard Williamson, who also settled on Twelve Pole. Sally first married Christian Yost of Kentucky and after his death was united in marriage with Samuel Murray; she died March 10 1871. William reared a family in the valley of Tom's Creek, and Adam also in that state. Dec. 9, 1926 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------