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our land
Mary Ann my next oldest sister Married S L Cooper Nov 27 1857 and is
now living in the neighborhood
Margaret Married B F Martin the 23rd of December 1856 and is now
living in the Walnut Bottoms `of these two I will say nothing further at
Present beleiving they are contented and Happy I Hope th? may ever remain
so
And will endeavor to give a short sketch of the Life of My Father
He was Born in West Moreland County Pennsylvania on the 19th day of August
17814 From which his father removed to Monongehala Co Virginia where they
Lived untill the year 1796 when they moved to this county and settled in
what is now known as the Horse Shoe Bend above the town of Henderson where _
they hved about a year when they moved and settled on this Place where
my Father lived up to the time of his death Removing to this country at
so early a period they necessarily went through many hardships incident
to Pioneer life at the time his father removed to this county it was
oomparitively a wilderness The town of Henderson which has now a Popula-
tion of some hOOO Persons was composed of two or three Log cabins I have
merely to this to show the rapid advance of civilization at the
time he came to this county it Presented More attractions than allmost any
other part of Kentucky to the Pioneer rich in soil salubrious climate
requiring but little land to raise a small corn crop & and the other
necessaries of Life the Game abundant the river Bottoms covered with
a Growth of cane Furnished an abundance of food for stock in the winter
thus requiring but little to keep their stock winter and sunmer and I have
often heard my Father say he had killed Bufalo near his house stood
Bear were also it allmost one · ‘
of his Temperament a good shot a strong Healthy man one in fact just
suited for Pioneer life Early in life he Married Letsey Rollefson by whom
he had Five children Three of them are now Living viz Hosea SmithSgSarah
Nesler and Eliza Weaver The other two Cynthia Floyd and Matilda Dixon died
several years ago both of them left several children -
During the War of 1812 he volunteered and received the appointment of
Captain in which capacity he served at the memorable Battle of New Orleans
he was also in Harrison Camp against the Indians and went with the
command of General. Hopkins into the then Indian Country beyond Tere Haute I
Indiana but was too late for the Battle of Tipacanoe returning from the
Battle of New Orleans he settled down to the quietude of a Farmers life and i
although he filled various civil stations this was his main occupation up to
the time of his death
I could did I deem it necessary in this brief notice of My Father give V
numerous incidents of his early life of the many privations through which
hz passed 1: the early portion of his life as he related them to me but will not
a n
But one year after the death of his first in the 18 he Married My
Mother Elizabeth Carrington and by strict economy he acquired considerable
property before his death although he was one of those Men whose uniform
goodness of heart Leads to as it were the utmost confidence in one
as he often Tad security debts to pay few of which were ever paid back again