2 - June 27, 2013 Your Hometown Newspaper News Outlook
Heaven Is
A Lot Like
By Charles Mattox
"(Simon) Girly was the fla
bearer, white flag, and when
he went in he said hundre&
of rifles were pointed at him.
He told them if they did not
surrender, they would all be
hilled as the Indians were so "My father (Joseph Con-
angry, he could not save them. way) and two others went out
They surrendered... I heard about a mile and a half from
him speak of (John) Hinkson Ruddle's Station reconnoiter-
and how he frequently man- ing when my father was shot
aged to getprisoners away." by a party of Indians and
Interview with Sarah Girly wounded in the left side, and
Munger, in Flemingsburg, was caught and tomahawked,
Ky. Munger was a daughter breaking his skull and scalped
of Simon Girly; the inter- and left for dead."
view is located in volume Interview of Samuel Con-
20S page 200 of the Draper way, son of Joseph Conway.
Manuscripts. Draper Manuscripts volume
24S pages 169-171. Joseph
~We were taken June 22, Conway survived and lived
1780 by Captain Henry many years.
Byrd... My father (Patrick
Mahan) was taken prisoner ~I first became acquainted
(at Rgddle's Station) at the with Tecumseh at the age of
twelve years, and being the
same lime we were and car-
ried to Detroit. He died there same age myself;, we became
two weeks after he got there, inseparable companions - Te-
All had the Sickness-the fever, cumseh was always remark-
He traveled two days with his able from his boyhood up for
two sons holding him under the dignity & rectitude of his
the arms and helping him deportment. There was a cer-
along. He begged us to leave tain something in his coun-
him at several of the Indian tenance and manner that
towns, but we feared if we left always commanded respect &
him there, the Indians would at the same time made those
kill him. It was very scary about him love him."
times." Stephen Ruddle, a captive
From Rev. John Shane's white prisoner from Ruddle's
1841 interview with Mrs. Station which was destroyed
Wilson of Woodford County. in June 1780; on his assess-
The interview is located in ment of his closest Shawnee
The Draper Manuscripts and friend, Tecumseh. This ac-
was later published in Vol. 16 count of Tecumseh is from
of the Filson Club Historical Stephen Ruddle, procured
Journal in 1941-42. by Maj. 1L Graham - Ruddle
lived at the time, in Missouri
- a man of great veracity,
Benjamin Drake; From the
Draper Manuscripts Volume
2YY.
~The world breaks every
one and afterward many are
strong at the broken places.
But those that will not break;
it hills. It kills the very good
and the very gentle and the
very brave impartially. If you
are none of these you can be
sure it will kill you too but
there will be no special hurry."
From Pulitzer Prize-win-
ning writer Ernest Heming-
way, from chapter 34 of his
semi-autobiographical novel:
"A Farewell to Arms".
army. managed to escape into the
The spring and summer The children of Ruddle's darkness.
of 1780 had been exception-and Martin's Stations, par-There were no stars to
ally wet and none of the new ticularly Ruddle's, were not guide the veteran woods-
pioneer families who estab-so lucky, man but he dipped his hand
fished stations in the Blue- British Officer Henry into water several times and
grass were concerned about Byrd could not control the holding it aloft felt the direc-
an invasion from the British undisciplined Native Ameri-tion from which the wind
and Native Americans. can warriors and following was blowing-it almost always
But the invasion came and the surrender of Ruddle's came from the west and he
with it came death and de- Station a minor massacre immediately got his bear-
struction, occurred and children were ings and was among the first
And so I find myself think-separated from families, to warn other settlements
ing again about the horrible Byrd became disgusted and of the invasion. He also was
chain of events that hap- the invasion lost most of its able tip free other captives
pened in June 1780, dear military cohesion with pris- as the invading army moved
reader; thinking about the oners under British controlnorth.
destruction of Martin's, Rud- starving and many in nativeSimon Kenton and Charles
dle's and Grant's, Stations. hands killed outright or tot- Gaitliff were scouting and
Martin's and Ruddle's was lured, also discovered the horrible
never rebuilt. Grants was Infants who cried were situation. Galtlifflost his wife
abandoned for several yearskilled instantly, and five children as a result
and then rebuilt-sometimes The infant Johnnie Iail and they remained prisoner
being called "The Burnt Sta- was tossed down a steep for over three years with one
lion." incline and rolled to the child perishing during cap-
Young Jacob Stucker and bottom without crying and tivity.
some of his family had sur-thus was spared as a futureMany of the captives were
vived the attack on Grant'swarrior along with his older released after three years-
Station and Jacob would brother. Their mother Eve others were held by Native
forever seek revenge on thewas also held many years inAmericans for 30 years, like
Native American clans who Shawnee villages. Stephen and Isaac Ruddie-
were responsible for killing Captain John Hinkston, children of Captain Ruddie.
his parents and others dur-who had been the original Several children adopted
ing the attack, builder of the structure that by Native American Tribes
Jacob wouldn't let any of grew into Capt. Ruddle's became warriors and fought
his siblings be captured. Station, was also captured-against Kentuckians in fu-
He was a crack shot and but on the first night-withture years!
defended the fort even as conditions being as wet as Many eventually returned
it burned-keeping away the they were, the invaders hadback home to Kentucky.
splinter group of warriors a hard time starting their Others were never heard
who broke off from the mainevening fires and Hinkston from again.
YOUR PERSONAL INVITATION
OUR 2013 ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Meeting is a great way
to eat, meet & learn together!
By Cecil Lawson
I was looking forward to
writing a column this week
about being in the woods, but
politics had to rear its ugly
head.
Ms toliow
June 18, 2013, wasf6rwarded
to me by my employer Tues-
day afternoon. This letter re-
fers to the current tumultuous
state of the Menifee County
Board of Education. The body
of the anonymous letter reads
as follows:
I am writing to you as the
principal owner~Operator of
the Menifee News. I wish to
communicate to my displea-
sure with your current writer/
Editor Cecil Lawson. Mr.
Lawson only writes a one sided
article when it comes to any
school related business or news.
He is in C. Mitchell and Lori
Franklin's pocket as they must
approve any article pertaining
to the schools. Lawson needs
to write articles covering all
sides ofthe issues. He has yet to
speak of any of the board mem-
bers in a positive light. This is
unfair and poor journalism at
best. Lawson writes solely from
Franklin's point of view and
that leaves many of us in our
county with a poor impression
of your paper. Please rectify
this situation or I will be forced
to discontinue my subscription
and rely solely upon your com-
petitor for local news.
Mr. Lawson needs to just
present the facts and allow the
reader to form their own opin-
ion of who is right and wrong.
Just so you know, the superin-
tendent of schools is currently
under investigation from the
Public Notice
"l'be regular Salt Lick Council Meeting
will be moved from July 2, 2013 to
July 9, 2013. The meeting will be
held at 7:00 P.M. at the Salt Lick Fire
Department.
All citizens are invited to attend.
Published in the Bath County News-
Outlook 06.27.13.
A set of stairs is proposed to
be installed at 922 Cave Run
Lake Road, Salt Lick, KY
40371, for recreational pur-
poses. The Kentucky Division
of Water requires that public
notice be given of this action.
Published in the Bath County
News-Outlook 06.20.13 and
06.2Z13.
LIEU
OF A PROPER PERSONAL COLUMN THIS WEEK...
school's main media contact
- all schools have one - and
Mitchell is, as far as I can still
tell, the district's superinten-
dent of schools.
I don't submit articles to
anyone for approval. I am my
own boss in that respect. But
I suspect you don't care about
that, either.
As for the board members
not appearing in a positive
light, all I can say is, if you
don't want to look bad in the
newspaper, then quit acting
that way in public. It's not my
job tdpalnt a pretty picture Of
anybody. It's my job to hold
up a mirror.
As for you saying that I
haven't mentioned the audit
of the school's Disaster Re-
fief account, I refer you to the
Menifee County News Out-
look for the weeks of March
28 and April 25. Nothing was
brought up during the May or
June regular meetings about
the audit, but I am aware that
the audit is still ongoing and
is going to cost the school
district thousands of dollars.
I feel confident that state au-
ditors will likely find nothing
wrong with the account or the
handling of the disaster relief
funds.
That is money that might
have been used to hire back
some of those 30 pink-sfipped
personnel, but I suspect you
don't care about that, either.
Let me tell you what I think.
You, like certain other peo-
ple in the school district, don't
want me to report what really
happens at Menifee County's
auditor's office and just may
be facing some heavy sanctions
or even removal. Lawson has
not mentioned any of this news.
How will this look on your pa-
per if this audit comes back
and people are terminated? Its
commonly known in Menifee
that this audit is underway. I
can only guess how this will ef-
fect your publication. Again,
please stop this tactic by Mr.
Lawson. I'm afraid your paper
will suffer if he doesn't stop.
Sincerely,
a c ce,n:d Rea, r, fo:.ow
Well, concerned Reader,
I'm not sure exactly how to
respond to this.
But I'm going to try.
Concerned Reader, I do
presents the facts of what
happens at each school board
meeting. Why would I bother
to spend 4 to 6 hours each
month, sitting on uncomfort-
able gym bleachers, and tak-
ing notes by longhand, then
spending another 2 to 6 hours
the following day trying to
write up what happened?
If I only wanted to present
one side of things, I certainly
wouldn't have to work as hard
as I do, and maybe only half as
hard.
But I suspect you don't care
how hard I work.
I also suspect that you don't
care for Supt. Charles Mitch-
eli or Mrs. Franklin, other-
wise you wouldn't accuse me
of being tainted by any asso-
ciation with them.
The problem with your
argument is, Franklin is the
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school board meetings. It's News and its ilk have spoiled ployer's attention. I do sup-
the same mentality that drives you with partisan reporting port the free expression of
some people to push to get dressed up as fact. opinion.
rid of the video-taping of the I dealt with the same thing And I certainly appreciate
meetings, when I was coveting the Bath you wasting my time, accus-
Or else, you want me to County School Board in 2011 ing me of things that aren't
present a distorted version and 2012. Because I didn'ttrue.
of what happens, where Supt kowtow to certain people'sAs for finding out anything
Mitchell always looks bad and expectations, I was alwaysabout the school board, or any
the actions of certain board viewed as defending Supt. other public meeting, in the
members always looks good. Nancy Hutchinson prior to her competing newspaper, good
I don't think you know stepping down. I could never luck. But I suspect that's just
what objectivity is, and I don't suit those certain people,fine with you.
think you truly care what fac- I do appreciate you bring-I'll be writing about the
tual reporting looks like. Fox ing your concerns to my em- woods next week.
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