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My father, Jacob KJepinger. ami .my Uncle, Aaron Yarnell, were the jearliest settlers in the south part of j ! Prairie township, both of them having j entered land on the south line of the iI # 1county about 1832 and improved so j thev could live on it. The Indiansi *were still here and were a source of1 much dread to the carlv settlers, notfrom any actual harm thev had suf-1 ^ *] fered from them. bufr from what thev* •ij had heard of their conduct elsewhere.\l have often heard mv mother tell ofj • ' *a hole in the ground under the floor house, which sh^ :used _4s „ atJ place of refuge when threatened with | danger in the absence of the men ! folks. When she saw the Indians| coming she would seize her t wo chii-! dron (my oldest brother and si ter) and lifting the trap door in the Iloorj would disappear with then- into the| hole. There with bate-1 breath shej would watch the Indian.' movements,1’through the open space under .the ‘ i 1 ills of the house. Through this out- [took he could see their yellow lee ;ns thev lifted the lids of the milk ' ■crocks on a bench near the house am? 1 drank their fill of milk. This fur- -funafelv seemed to sntisf'v them, and•i ■they would move -m without even en- ' N*rin«r the house. lt;.
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Monticello Herald
Monticello, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 28, 1922
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