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March 22, 2012 -7
Heaven Is
A Lot Like
By Chades Mattox
ALON THE
"I first became acquaint-
ed with Tecumseh at the
age of twelve years, and be-
ing the same age myself; we
became inseparable corn-
#anions - Tecumseh Was
always remarkable from his
boyhood up for the dignity &
rectitude of his deportment.
Tllere was a certain some-
thing in his countenance
and manner that always
commanded respect & at
same time made those
about him love him."
Stephen Ruddle, a cap-
rive white prisoner from
Ruddle's Station which
was destroyed in June
1780; on his assessment
of his closest Shawnee
friend, Tecumseh. This
account of Tecumseh is
from Stephen Ruddle, pro-
cured by Maj. IL Graham -
Ruddle lived at the time, in
Missouri - a man of great
veracity, Benjamin Drake;
From the Draper Manu-
scripts Volume 2 YY.
Spring 1785 near
the present-day site of
Maysville Kentucky, along
the Ohio River.
The two young Shawnee
warriors were the best of
friends and their friend-
ship had been one forged
in the time of war.
It had been a friendship
unlike most for the Shaw-
nee youth that grew into
young adulthood north of
the Ohio River.
The two youths were
members of the Hispoo-
koo sept of the Shawnee
Tribe.
One was called Sinnan-
tha or simply Big Fish.
The other was called Te-
cumseh, or Blazing Pan-
ther Leaping Across the
Sky-or a similar variation
as he was named after a
comet, which streaked
across the sky on the night
of his birth in 1768.
Tecumseh had been
born into the Shawnee
Tribe while his closest
companion Sinnantha, had
been adopted into the tribe
in 1780 following the great
Native American and Brit-
ish invasion of Kentucky
and the destruction of
Capt. Isaac Ruddle's Sta-
tion.
S'lnnanth'a had been
born Stephen Ruddle and
was adopted into a Shaw-
nee clan family very close
to the family of Tecumseh.
Sinnantha adapted to
Shawnee life completely
and soon his knowledge
and remembrance of-the
English language was
just a memory, as was his
former white family mem-
bers.
The two youths were
children of war and their
home village of Chillicothe
had been destroyed on
four separate occasions
before they had embarked
on this, one of their first
raiding actions against the
Kentuckians.
They were both very
young teenagers but
Shawnee warriors trained
at an early age and were
sent into battle soon after.
The dozen or so white
men had stopped their
boats and were preparing a
meal on the Kentucky side
of the Ohio River when the
attack began.
Within only a few min-
utes the attack was over
and all but one of the white
men had been killed and
scalped.
Tecumseh had started
them all with his athleti-
cism and hand-to-hand
skills with his war club,
knife and tomahawk.
He had slain three white
men individually and as-
sisted his fellow warriors
who struggled with two
others.
The s'm le white prison-
er was tied to a tree along
the river, kindling piled
beneath him and he was
burned to death.
The older warriors
shouted insults at the pris-
oner as he burned and
would have caused seri-
ous problems had he not
bested them all in the en-
gagement.
Though the Shawnee
warriors continued to prac-
tice the torturous methods
of burning prisoners well
into the next several de-
cades, there has been little
or no evidence to support
that Tecumseh ever par-
ticipated in this act.
Stephen Ruddle praised
him for his civility even
during times of otherwise
great violence between
Native American forces
and Kentuckians.
I continue my research
into these two young
Shawnee warriors who
helped decimate a group
of Kentucky traders near
brought about many con-
frontations between them-
selves and the Kentuck-
ians.
Tecumseh would often
raid into northeastern
Kentucky and was fond
of stealing horses from
the forts of Michael Cas-
sidy and George Stockton
in present-day Fleming
County.
Sinnantha would go on
to be reunited with his
father in 1795 and would
eventually return to Ken-
tucky and the neighbor-
hoods of Bourbon and
Harrison County where he
grew up.
The complexity of the
relationship between Ste-
phen Ruddle and the great
warrior Tecumseh is one
tormented him further in Maysville in 1785.
every way imaginable, but
Tecumseh and Sinnantha
held back-silently, until
they were berated by their
fellow warriors.
Thus began the time
in Tecumseh's life when
he elevated himself from
skilled warrior to skilled
statesman.
His hatred for the entire
white race was great, but
he reminded them that the
torture of prisoners was
the act of a coward and
his words struck deeply
to those around him and
we will examine further if
Both would continue the Good Lord is willing,
to fight for the freedom in future columns, Dear
of their people and this Reader•
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Bath County recently hosted the District Tournament.
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