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rIAYo rrenia.LaneHallhiser■mlthtieetsrazerRail?amerEiner.peona It on yton, ate),cityman.inhuntMonument To Honor MenIndianBa ttleMemorial services will be conducted and a monument unveiledto ten men who lost their lives in the spring of 1779 at Old 'I ov.n Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The monument is to be of stone and will be placed in the Old Town School yard. The services will be under auspices of the Greene County Historical Society and the Xenia Ministerial AssociationChief Thomas Wildcat Alford, official historian of the Shawnee Indians, will speak at the services. He will give the Indian side of thebattle at Old Town, which resulted in the rout of the militiamen under Gen. Benjamin Logan and ColJames Bowman, which group had come out from Cincinnati to pun ish the Shawnee Indians at what was then known as Old Chilli-cothe, now Old Town. The council house of the Shawnee nation stood in this village. The nine whiteJmen were killed at Old Town andthe Indian near Waynesville in the Little Miami River.Dr W. A. Galloway, local historin on Indian lore and presidentof the Greene County HistoricalSociety, has made erection of the monument possible. The legend contained on the monument has been carefully edited by Chief Alford and is considered correct both from the history of the white invaders and the Indian official reports.Dr. H. B McElree, president of the Xenia Ministerial Association,will preside and the Rev. \V H. Tilford, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, will deliver the memorial address. Music will be furnished by a male quartet, composed of Glenn Reed. Thomas McClelland Jr., Carl Ervin and Herman Eavey. Ample parking space w be provided for machines.AUIA ithori; ing c appriw ill iallowCou n “Tlwillourrevisedandtow mcouncXenl*MMMMMMN *•*“Tl ues ti al be tion lt;tor e “Tlthe i com it creas ticall
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Thu, Oct 15, 1931
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