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RIFLE OF LEWIS WHETZEL IS ONEXHIBITION AT TODD’S STOREiLouis Todd, the clothier, has ia the tibow window of his store the rifle tbat was carried ill th* war of the American Revolution by Lewis Whet* zel. With the rifle ie a sword that belonged to Jacob Whetael who with his son, Cyrus, blazed the trace'from Franklin county to the bluffs of White river at WaverJy. It was over this trace that the first settlers came into the terriory that ia now Shelby couuy. The story of the Wbetael family fs too Jong to condense into ja mere narrative. The rifle in’Mr, i Todd's window, a number of years (ago, was modernised by a man who did not realize Its worth as a relic. Inthe war of 1776 credit Lewis Whetzel !* with having been one of the moat dar- jT lug as well as one of the most use- !fiful Indian scouts or that period. He \l was one of five brothers. They all i Ilived in Virginia, The father was murdercd by the Indiana when the wras^fits original form the barrel wan sixInches longer, the atock reached the | muzzle, tie barrel resting in this stock and the lock w*a the old flint lock. With the exception that the barrel is six Inches shorter the barrel is 1o Its original form. Historians ofturned Indian, hunters With this rifle Lewis Wbetzel killed scores of Indians. Books have been written of the hundreds of escapades and of the daring of these men They hud one sister, Susan Whetzel, who married Na- • than Goodrich, also a soldier in the-war of 1776. Both Mr. Goodrich and • his wife arc buried in the city cemetery on*West Pennsylvania street. The rifle and the sword now on exhibition aro owned by C. W. Mackenzie of Waveriy, who is the grandson of Cyrus Whetzel, who with his father Jacob Whetzel, blazed the trace above mentioned. Mr. Maekenzfe ia not iu good health but If possible ho will be here on the Fourth of July.
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Shelbyville Shelby Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1922
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