rer: Coker's Settlement of the Back Country - stenn150
Subject: rer: Coker's Settlement of the Back Country
From: stenn150
Date: February 24, 1998

Part 2  White Child kept twelve years by Indians
The bereaved mother with her son, Joseph, in front of her on the horse, rode
all day and at night fall, comming to a vacant house which had to be lefft
by somefamily , took refuge in it, following her flight from the indians, in
her desolation andbreavement, with no eye to see, no ear to hear, no hand to
help saveGod, she gave birth to a son and called him PATRICK. With her
husband and murdered children behind her and danger all around her, daring
not to stay where she was, and not physically able to go forward, here was a
situation seldomed seen equaled in life, but hers as a stern Pioneer
Character, and realizing she must move on even if she lost her own life, to
try to reach Fort Toblus and save the lives of her two sons, she mounted her
horse at dawn, and with little JOSEPH and with the new baby rode forth
safely, nursed backto health and strength. It may be said here that PATRICK
( of wonderful birth )grew to be a fair youth and fought in the War of the
Revolution and was killed in the last year of the War at the age of
twenty-nine.
Nothing but doubtless bravery saved the men of Long Cane. The Calhoun
brothers , with thirteen other white men, maintained a desperate fight with
the Cherokees, until over-whelmed by superior forces they had to reatreat.
In the massacre was fifty persons killed, mostly women and children. PATRICk
Calhoun returned to Long Cane three days later, to bury his mother and three
little nieces, Catherine, Rachel and Mary who had been killed,and, besides
his own kin, he found twenty dead bodies. inhumanly mangled. Another man
found nine little children wandering in the woods. Some had ben wounded and
left for dead, others in the boody field scalped.
For twelve long years Ann lived with the indians, enduring untold hardships,
at times nearly starving to death.
On the day of her capture she had seen her sister Mary scalped and her body
thrown into the creek, because she was too young to walk. Ann escaped the
same fate only by promising to run and whenever the poor freighten child
would stop for breath, she would be severely beaten.
After Ann was exchange by treaty, near Pendleton, she came back to live with
her parents," Ann said that her life among the indians had been a hard one,
the indians nearly beat her to death to make her eat lizards, snakes, and
raw meats, and when she got to her own people,they woul punish her to make
her stop eating such food and forced her to eat cooked things.
to be contiued


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