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Indiana Progress

Location

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Nov 19, 1913

Page

3

Basil Derry and Mary Hunt Laurel Ridge Marriage Tale

Basil Derry and Mary Shultz wed in early March 1813 and began a rugged Laurel Mountain life. He hunted turkeys deer and a bear on the wedding journey and carried game back to Haydenville seven miles away to pay for a cabin. The couple stitched a frontier story of wolves bears and a midnight deer chase with dogs under a moonlit sky.

Pennsylvania Té Ia Derry Southern Almeron Shultz Wayette County Buall Derry Basil Derry Laurel Mountain Mary Smith Andrew Shultz Basil Mary Mary Shultz Haydenville Haydentown Jow Put

Basil Derry and His Flint Lock Guns Burnt Eye and Black Snake

Basil Derry lived as a woodsman for 65 years with his wife Mary as partner in hunting and farming. They raised stout children and, near their end, Basil and Mary died within a short span of each other, Basil at nearly ninety. The old flint locks, Burnt Eye and Black Snake, remained his trusted weapons, with Black Snake kept for Mary in emergencies.

Burnt Eye Mary Basil Derry Basil

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