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February 18, 2021 7 ,:
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Heaven Is
A Lot Like
Kentuclqrm
By Charles Mattox
“We started the
(where the battle
to the and
when we
Estill, on the
ground, on which him
took out of Es-
till’s bob and
and took a
out of
and took them, and
them to their widows,”
Deposition of Joseph ‘
Proctor Draper
scripts Volume 12CC pag-
es 208-209, regarding the
Battle of Little Mountain,
also known as Estill’s De-
feat.
Knight, a
sent with
the 4th instant
to this
of the
of The
day the
the Colonel,
and nine others, were over-
the of by
a of whom
they They were
taken
where
were to
The that a
Simon who
in
and with
Cecil Lawson
It’s Tuesday morn-
1
side the
There’s stiff north-
west wind that bites at my-
19
the is like
the tundra. I hear a
and is now to a
commission in the British
of Girty shoot him,
but he no to
' ‘
11 1782.
from a letter from Wil-
Irvine, Commander
at Pitt (Pittsburg),
to
_\ the
Battle of San-
[ones one
of the at
10, 1782)...
where
had
and a
so to sign
follow
and down
to
john
and
and
did
ing the
to we
River we
be
Jones, son of
and
of
in an interview now
in the
21
“We can
a
us the some
by Our
ows and are nu-
Boone in a
1782, letter to the Gover-
of Virginia,
felt Ken,-
tucky following
the Battle of Lower
Licks.
An a of
weeks ago, from fourth,
>
with
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off to work,
still
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of here
do ,
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SEARCH E R9
great-grmdson of an
Kentucky frontiersman,
set in motion
for me and intensified my
er’s was
great—
ther an
settler sol—
dier of Estill’s
unit, near
Boonesboro, Estill’s
Station,
in the and summer
of 1782.
Samuel
brother, were
of the 25 men,
with Captain Estill fought
a similar-sized of
Wyandot warriors near
present-day Mt. Sterling
that spring. South
was killed and Samuel was
woundec in
Hamptor was looking for
burial of the
killed,
who were bur-
fell.
research, including
historic
plotted on
provided
by those fought in
the Ken-
tucky Historical Marker
of the
burial field, is a couple
miles off on the
wants find the
a
flower or two a
good where
ancestor is buried.
I intend help find
the exact location
if the Lord is
willing.
I am something of an
obsessive researcher and
once I grab hold of spe-
cific of historical
well I just
seem to let until I
satisfied my thirst, by
drinking in every little de-
r, in; r-
I it.
I have a lot of ends
out there still be tied
up, but I am satisfied
my research over the
40 and particularly
I revealed within
contents of weekly
column over two
decades, shed light on
otherwise been
in darkness.
A of
research centers on the
individuals and
greatly our
Kentucky in
the spring and summer of
1782. '
On 8, 1782, Amer-
Colonel Wil—
liamson, force of 160
men of the western Penn-
murdered
96 "Christian‘Indians" at
of Gnadenhutten (translat-
ed as of Grace").
The
darkest episodes of
the conflict in Ohio
River Valley during
Revolutionary era, it
the Wyandotte
Nation (the keepers of the
swear re—
venge. The
and children were
bludgeoned to while
they prayed.
The Wyandottes,
nee,
Ottawa their
the
in particular Kentuck-
and thus the spring/
summer of 1782
one of darkest times
history due to
that conflict.
On 22, 1782, the
Battle of Little
or Capt. Estill’s
near the
present-day community of
following
attack of Estill’s Station
by two—dozen Wyandotte
warriors, lash out in
revenge of the
murder and
young in
the presence of her broth-
and fort’
During the
Estill seven men are
killed, one dOZen are
wounded.
On 25-June 11, C01.
William Crawford, leads
about 500 mili-
tiamen, mostly from Penn-
sylvania, from Pitt,
into American
territory. The campaign’s
goal was destroy enemy
American
along River
Ohio Country. After
a of indecisive fighting
the Sandusky
Americans them-
selves surrounded and
retreat. The
retreat turned a rout,
but of Americans
managed to find their
back to Pennsylvania.
About 70 were
killed; Indian and British
losses less one
dozen. Colonel Crawford
others are
and slowly. tortured to
death.
I begun
to research Rhon-yau-Tee-
Rah (Sky Burning) or his
name Isadore
Deshene (Chene or some-
times spelled Shane).
a son of trap-
father Potawatomi
mother. sever-
while living among
Native Americans and one
wife Ottawa
while another
Shawnee woman named
Chene
established a well—known
trading post Ohio. By
marriage relat-
ed high-ranking
Shawnee chiefs and sub
chiefs, particularly Black-
fish and Blue He
THE NEXT TIME
Photo by Cecil Lawson
to prepared us for
few more
Winter lends itself self-
reflection, but for many it is
a time of restlessness and
fever at worst, and
best, dreaning of the return
of warme‘
no that
we make resolutions at New
just the
of the winter season. The
daylight hours by then
started to slowly longer,
and it is with our hope for
better in months
to come.
But some colder
lingers well into the
springtime, longer than we
hoped.
me to that
we should learn to hope not
for times to come
also for the strength to
endure hard times.
A writer blogger I
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It’s I have be
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as I have sought to reduce
time the and
at meetings only
necessary, to pare
stories to the bare
mum, to focus my time
on high stories
affect the majority of read-.
ers instead of top
.ics. It’s long-time
learning You need
feedback, and you have to
be in your judge-
ment of the of your
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helped Blackfish, (married
to his sister) the
siege of Fort Boonesboro,
and Chene became very
active in Native American
political
Chene purchased a fron-
tier captive
Shelton around 1780. Shel—
‘(Chelton) was friends
with Simon Girty his
(who led the
1780 capture of
and Ruddell’s
leader of Native forces at
Battle of Lower Blue
Licks and dur- 7
ing torture of Colonel
William Crawford in
summer of 1782. Shelton
was seated near
when Crawford ~
slowly burned to
I r
.l,.
"3 an?
Crawford beg—
ging to shoot V 1
and put him of his
misery, while all Native
were upon him, Girty
refused the pitiful request
laughed instead,
Shelton said he believed
Girty was of help-
Crawford, though
refused. Shelton bravely
gave Crawford drink of
water during his two—hour
torture was himself
nearly killed for kind
being saved only by
adopted Ottawa
family members.
Shelton’s fascinating de-
taken in Wood-
ford County 1840,
found in volume 11
of the
it much light on
incidents circum-
stances surrounding the
terrible year of 1782.
And so; as
searches for the
final burial place of an-
cestors, too do contin-
ue with my
am, after all, a searcher,
reader.
continues.
good
Winter a time of person-
»; ‘3 I afar“
a e
a] testing. Spent the i-
warmer months
and prepar-
mg, and you to
sometimes with what g;
you have Whether *
it’s shelf full of to
read, or five cords of wood
neatly in the barn,
or few extra of food
in the cabinet, or a few extra
and
generator, you be tried
on your own Some-
times the trial is bigger than if
as with a bad winter,
if we survive, we learn
be for the next
time.
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next time. ..
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