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Career of a Remarkable Old In dian Slayer. Sixteen of His Sons Served In the Union Army. When western Pennsylvania was the frontier and the Indian fighter was the most important and indispensable person in the settlements, saya a Pittsburg let. let ter to the New York Sun, Charles Bran don was one of the best and most daring, of all the active foes of the red men. At ‘the age of $ years, in 1764, he was cap tured by the Indians, who killed his father at the same time. ‘This was on the banks of the Ohio River. For twelve years the boy was kept among the sava ges, but he disliked them, and escaped when he was 15 years old. He found a white settlement, and learned to talk his native language. From that time on he gave his life to Indian killing. In 1790, when the Indians were get ting scarce, Charles Brandon married a young woman named Mary Meyers. She bore him two children, and died. He then married Fannie Slusher. She bore him eighteen children, and died in 1830. Brandon was then nearly 70 years old. When he was five years older he married Sarah Barker, who was only 16. She was the youngest of sixteen children. She lived with him twenty-one years, bearing him in the meantime, fifteen children, ‘Then she got a divorce from him, he being 96. ‘The separation from his wife broke his heart, and although he was at the time as agile, strong, and active as he was when he was married, he pined away and died the same year the divorce was obtained. He then had thirty-three living children. His divorced widow had had the care of all of them, and she raised all that were young enough to need raisin Brandon had been the father of 35 ci dren, but two died, one a child of his first wife, and the other one of the 18 his wife had him. Th divorced widow moved to Moundsville, West Virginia, and the most of the children went with her. Among them were two hns and two Charleses. One of the Johns and one of the Charleses were the third wife’s el There was a mesh was old enough to go to the Mexican war, where noun When the war of the rebellion broke out the two Johns, the two Charleses, Josephus, he was Alexander, Da d Reese, of the sons, enlist in Ohio and third Brandon's John and prisoners at Chi They were in Andersonville prison, John ¢ months; Charles was there ynths and escaped. Pet was killed at Shiloh while his regime the Seventy-second Ohio, was making a charge. All the other sons served through the war and came home, the third wife of the remarkable old Indian killer, and mother and step mother of his remarkable family, still lives at Moundsville. She is 70 years old. Until three months ago she was in Then she got just is six feet in an arrow, as strong and excelling nine out of every to only a few ¢ of the hottest—she walked to St. Clairsville, twen in five hours, and back again in the same time. She has only one one was shot out about thirty years ago by one of the second wife's boys. She had occasion to correct him. He got his bow and arrow and shot her, putting out ‘th This remarkable woman knows the whereabouts of only nine of the thirty-three children. They live near her. “But, takin’ them an’ their children, an’ their children’s children, there must me by this a pensi the governme height, as st as a man, nin power of enduranc es ago—on other bhe nigh to a time,” on
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Romney South Branch Intelligencer
Romney, West Virginia, US
Fri, Aug 12, 1887
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