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At one time there was a rumor of ] an Indian uprising*,- and all the 1 (settlers in the neighborhood fled to; u certain loti' house about six miles 1♦ ^north of Lafayette, perhaps a half- ! mile north of the present Tippecanoe , 1 t fount v poor larin. The building was often pointed out to me in later years, j but it has long- ago disappeared. The 1 | Indians failed to attack, and the ru- * ( mored raid proved only a scare. My 1 j father and another man were detailed 1 . to go to Lafayette and find out if that 1 village had been attacked. When 1 | they came back and reported every- , thing quiet the refugees of the log 1 j fort returned to their homes. My *i father often laughed as he recalled 1meeting a distressed-looking man 1 while he and his scouting comrade J.were on their wav to Lafavette. The I♦ *' *. m^n said he was looking for his wife, ^ who had gone with some neighbors to 1 Lafayette for safetv. He seemed 1 concerned lest she had given him the 1slip and gone back to her home in ’Ohio, fae was hiding in a grove, even j sleeping there at night, and between ; the fear of losing his wife and the danger of losing his own scalp he was , ar. object of pity.i T have related these incidents from , hearsay but upon reliable authority.I will only add one personal reeol- t lection from mv early bovhood. It , was the killing of a bear which a -squad of neighbors had brought to , bay. and having no guns they wore trying to kill it with clubs. My i father's youngest brother had the! honor of striking the blow that felled I hr* brute. A piece of the meat came , to our table, and it was the first and , last liear meat I ever tasted. At that time.we were living just across theline in Tippecanoe county,- but I think the bear possibly Jiad his homo *, in White county and so it is entitled to a place in this story. At the time of the Indian scare above pientioned my parents were living on their Whitecounty land southwest of Brookston.
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Monticello Herald
Monticello, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 28, 1922
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