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Clark Co. Chronicles (Clark Co. Historical Society) [Excerpts from] Early Settlements in Clark County History A Scrap of Clark County History Submitted by Susan Kerr ("Editor's note -- In the early 1920s, The Winchester Sun began publishing a series of columns on Clark County history prepared by the Historical Society titled Clark County Chronicles. The Sun is republishing the series, one a week until the reprinting is complete. The Chronicles have not been edited to conform to modern newspaper style -- they are being reprinted in the original form.")Document located in the Genealogy Department of the Winchester Library. Surnames mentioned below: Allan, Allen, Beall, Bedford, Bogg/Boggs, Boone, Brown, Brandenburg, Bush, Calmes, Chorn, Clark, Clay, Combs, Cunningham, Davis, Deuet, Durrett, Eastin, Eubank, Fishback, Gay, Greene, Gist, Hainey, Halley, Hampton, Hanson, Harrison, Harrod, Hickman, Hinkston, Holder, Hood, Howard, Hulett, Huston, Jackson, Judy, Kidd, Kinkston, Ladd, Lewis, Lily, March, McDonald, Nelson, Payne, Petty, Pool, Prewitt, Proctor, Ragland, Ramsey, Riddle, Rupard, Shipp, Shull, Sphar, Stoner, Stuart, Sumpter, Swope, Sydner, Thomson, Tracy, Wade, Walker, Wall, Welch, Wills, Winn] Chapter II Apr 5, 1923 Edmond Ragland was several years the oldest man in the colony, and was also the wealthiest man, that is, he had more negroes, more horses and more cattle. So far as silver and gold was concerned it was not worth a baubel for there was nothing to buy. So it was decided by the colonists that he should build a much larger and much stronger house than any other in the colony in order that his house might serve as sort of fort for the colony, in the event of a raid by the Indians, which they had many reasons for believing might at any time occur. Accordingly they built a house twenty by thirty feet, two stories high, of very heavy poplar and white oak logs, and made it in every way very strong, having a special reference in its building for a defense of the colony from the outside. This house was divided into four rooms, two below and two above, by means of a heavy plank partition being sawed with whip saw, with very large stone chimneys at either end of the house. ....................................................and other places, not a single Indian was seen or heard of in the vicinity of Big Stoner Settlement during the year 1783. It is probably that they had not heard of this settlement, and accidentally failed in their rambles to stumble upon it. All possible arrangements had, however, been made by the colonists for their coming, Mr. Ragland's strong house had been put into the best possible condition, guns and ammunition were ready at a moment's warning................................ ....................................................................An agreement had been made with other settlements to warn them by a swift messenger of the approach of savages. It had been agreed by the colonists that a certain shrill intonation of the horn, sounded from house to house should serve as a note of warning, and that each family should run with all possible haste to Mr. Ragland's strong house. One of Charles Tracy's daughters, Jahoba (who became the wife of Edmond Ragland's son Robert) told the writer that at the time of which we write she was eight or ten years old and how well she remembered the shrill note of the horn and how at its sounding (to give her words) all flew to Mr. Ragland's. But these alarms, to use their expressions were frequently false alarms and it was not until sugar making time in early spring of 1784, that they actually received a visit from the Indians. They had been warned by a swift running messenger from another settlement of their coming. All the people and valuables had been collected at Mr. Ragland's and everything made secure for the safety of the women and children, and then the men sallied forth with guns in hand, eager to meet these savages of the forest. Traveling northward and keeping near the line of the big buffalo trace, they had gone scarcely a mile when from the top of a hill they discovered fifteen or twenty Indians around Mr. Halley's house trying to effect an entrance, and having failed to batter the doors down............................................................................. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: two other Indians were known to have been killed, and several others seriously wounded. The Indians retreated............................. ................................................they [the settlers] hastened to return only to find all quiet in the settlement, and the women and children greatly rejoiced at their safe return. ............................... On another occasion not long after this the Indians made their appearance on Stoner in considerable numbers, but were surprised by the whites in their camp and quickly repulsed with a loss of several of their number, retreating in the direction of Strode's Station. They were overtaken about the spot where the Newport News and Mis- sissippi Valley depot at Winchester now stands, and a fight that then ensued an Indian was killed on the spot now occupied by the residence of Robert Winn.. In this fight the whites suffered a severe loss by the death of one of their number, a gallant young man whose name the writer regrets has been lost, but remembers that he was a cousin to the Sphars...................................................................................... : ..................................................................................... Mrs. Jahoba Ragland told the writer that after one of these raids and Charles Tracy's family and returned to their home from Mr. Ragland's, they found a favorite cow, "........... Horn" and a faithful watch dog "Ruler" had been killed by the Indians during their absence and related how the children and servants of the family wrung their hands and wept in grief over the death of these favorite animals that had accompanied them from the banks of the Potomac. Some time after this Ezra Brown's family had gone to Charles Tracy's to spend a social day. Mr. Brown being at home all alone and having finished the job of work on which he had been engaged decided to take his gun and go into the woods and kill a deer and being desirous of making a still hunt fastened his dogs, Brylo and Sylo, in a house so they could not follow him. He was not long in the woods when he was attacked by a pack of half a dozen wolves; he quickly dispatched one of them with a load in his gun, the other five made not the slightest halt, but came at him snarling and snapping. He clubbed his gun and at the first blow killed another wolf, but still being so hard pressed he sprang into a tree with the four remaining wolves jumping at his legs as he went up. He climbed quickly to the top of the tree and began calling lustily for his dogs Brylo and Sylo, who hearing their master's exciting call after much scratching and gnawing finally effected their escape from their prison and went with all speed to their master's rescue. The dogs cleaned up the wolves and Mr. Brown came down from the tree, and picked up the fragments of his gun and walked home, fully resolved never to go into the woods again without his faithful dogs, Brylo and Sylo at his heels................ The settlement having relapsed into comparative quietude about the year 1785 or 1786, Richard Hainey proceeded to build the first water mill ever built upon the waters of Big Stoner, the site of this mill being upon the land now owned by and within a short distance of the present residence of deaf Jimmie Ramsey, and about a quarter of a mile, a little east of north of Goshen church. The name of the millwright who constructed this mill for Mr. Hainey was David Petty............................... It must be borne in mind that the "Big Stoner" of which we write, a hundred years ago, was quite a dif- ferent stream from the Big Stoner of today. Then it contained within its banks almost as much water as the Red River of today......... Charles Tracy, who was probably the most successful fisherman of the colony, did not think any- thing of going to Stoner with hook and line and catching forty or fifty pounds of fish in a day, many of his catches weighing several pounds apiece. The writer remembers forty or fifty years ago when the Brandenburg mill (situated a short distance above where the Hainey mill had once stood) was in operation nearly the entire year, except in very dry seasons, with two sets of stones and saw mill, being propelled by a stream that would not now furnish power enough to run the same machinery thirty days in a year...................... During the year 1785 the colony received accessions to their number from North Carolina, from near the former home of the distinguished pioneer, Daniel Boone. Among them were John Rupard, the grandfather and great grand- father of all the Rupards now living in Clark county. He built his house a short distance south of Edmond Ragland, about a quarter of a mile from the present site of Dodge, or K. U. Junction. Absalom March and two brothers built their houses on the northern border of the settlement near William Halley, William Jackson and Mr. Ladd..................... ........Several other families came with those named from North Carolina, among them David and John Hampton, who after a short stop at Big Stoner went on to Strode's Station. David Hampton was the father of our highly esteemed and venerable fellow citizen, A. Howard Hampton. After a time the Hamptons left Strode's Station and settled upon the land that Mr. Howard Hampton now lives on. And William Hainey and two or three others being rather afraid to risk their scalps in the unprotected wilds of Big Stoner, went on with their families to Strode's Station and Boonesborough. There perhaps never lived in the County of Clark a man who possessed to a greater extent the love, the esteem, the perfect confidence of his fellow citizens than Thomas Boone. His remains now lie in the church yard at Lulbegrud, covered by a handsome monument erected by his brethren, and not by other people, as has been falsely written and published. It is true, however, that a few men, prominent members of other denominations, of the character of Thomas Boone, came forward and asked to be permitted to contribute to the monument of this humble servant of God................................. April 12, 1923 Early Settlements in Clark County Chapter IV In the years 1788 and 89 the Big Stoner settlement received large accessions to their number and for the first time there were a few houses built on the western bank of Big Stoner. David Brandenburg came and built a house at the foot of the hill just below the present site of the Goshen Church. Mr. Brandenburg was by trade a miller and a mill-wright and in the course of a few years erected a mill on the site known to many still living as "Brandenburg's Old Mill.".........................................................................................................it is certain that the first mill erected in the eastern portion of what is now Clark county, was Brandenburg's mill (about the year 1790) in which wheat could be ground into flour................................................................................................ Alexander Ramsey came to the settlement in 1788 and settled not far from Mr. Brandenburg and near the present site of Sugar Ridge Church, and by great industry and frugality acquired a large landed estate, so that he was enabled in after years to settle a large family of children around him in comfortable circumstances. He was the grandfather, the great, and great, great grandfather of all the Ramseys now living in Clark county. There came also from Virginia in company with David Brandenburg and Alexander Ramsey, William Wills (note) who settled on the west bank of Big Stoner and near the original site of Sugar Ridge and near the original site of Sugar Ridge Church, close to Mr. Brandenburg and Mr. Ramsey, and about one mile west of Charles Tracy. These three gentle- men, to-wit, Brandenburg, Ramsey and Wills, had been soldiers throughout the Revolutionary War, serving in the same brigade with Ragland, Tracy, Brown, Hulett, Hainey and others of the original Big Stoner Settlement. Mr. Wills was an industrious, thorough-going man, possessed of far more than ordinary mental capacity and soon became well-to- do, and one of the leading citizens of the settlement. He had seven sons and four daughters, but all of the Wills of Clark county sprang from his three sons. Washington, Isaac, and Thornton, the other four sons having left the county in their early manhood. One of the first marriage ceremonies ever solemnized in Big Stoner settlement was Mr. Wills' daughter, Fannie to Mr. Luke Hood. From this union sprang all the Hoods of Clark county and several of their children and grandchildren became very distinguished citizens of the county. Two of their sons, Andrew and John, are numbered among the most eminent physicians that the county has ever produced. Dr. Andrew Hood's son, James was considered not a whit behind his father in medical skill and two or three other sons were physicians of ability. Dr. Andrew Hood was chosen by the people of Clark County over an eminent lawyer to represent the county in the Constitutional Convention of 1849, and his son Thomas, one of the brightest and most talented young lawyers of the State, was chosen to the same position by the people of Carter County, thus it will be seen that Mr. Wills had a grandson and a great grandson members of the Constitutional Convention of 1849. Dr. John Hood's son, John B. Hood, received a military education at West Point and was a Lieutenant- General in the late Confederate Army and was numbered among the hardest fighters in that army, as the historian can learn by reading of the battles he fought at Atlanta, Georgia, and Franklin, Tennessee. William Wills was a Jeffersonian Democrat, as have been nearly all his descendants. His son, William, and his son-in-law, Luke Hood, were soldiers in the War of 1812, and narrowly escaped with their lives from the human butchery of Dudley's Defeat, and but few men who ever lived in Clark County had as many descendants in the Confederate Army as did William Wills. Sometime during the year of 1788 the colony of Big Stoner learned through emigrants just arrived from Virginia that General George Washington was a candidate for the Presidency of the then thirteen United States. So some time during the fall of that year, Richard Hainey, and Charles Tracy, who by the way, were brothers-in-law, leaving their families in care of two young men, cousins of theirs, recently from Virginia for the pleasure of voting for their beloved old commander. It will be understood that at this date, Kentucky was still territory......................... : ..............We only know that they returned safely to their families sometime during the winter of 1788-89, bringing with them several emigrants and several pack horses, laden with various articles essential to their families in their wild new homes. Among the articles that Charles Tracy brought home with him were a couple of pear sprouts, which he carefully transplanted on the ridge just above his home, near the spot where he intended in the near future to build a better residence that he was then occupying....................... It may be stated here that Charles Tracy's next presidential vote was cast for Thomas Jefferson and his last for Andrew Jackson, and that he and his descendants have voted the straight Democratic ticket from Thomas Jefferson to the present year 1890, and if a single one of his descendants ever scratched a ticket the writer has not heard of it.................................George Tracy, a grandson, was constable of Kiddville precinct at the first election held under this present Constitution of Kentucky and was reelected at the expiration of his term, which is the only instance of one of his descendants ever asking office at the hands of the people. Chapter V By the year 1790 the Big Stoner settlement had increased to several times its original number............... It was this year (1790) that Edmond Ragland had brought down the Ohio River to Limestone (now Maysville) and from thence in some way transported to his home, a small copper still, and in that year erected the first distillery ever operated upon the waters of Big Stoner. Apr 19, 1923 ------------------------ (Note: William Wills mentioned here is recognized by genealogists as Frederick William Wills who married Frances Durrett of Virginia. Their descendant Col. O. T.Wills of Anderson, Indiana, is in the process of compiling a Wills family history which already lists ten thousand descendants of these Clark County pioneers. Kathyrn Owen) ================================= ........................................................................................................................ The writer has been unable to ascertain definitely, but it was probably about the year 1790, that Ebenezer Chorn and Septimus Davis, with their families came from Virginia and joined the Big Stoner settlement. Ebenezer Chorn settled nearly a mile east of Absalom and John March, on land now owned by Mr. John T. Prewitt, better known as the Proctor farm. This was a very fine section of land, and having brought with him quite a number of able-bodied slaves, soon had one of the very best farms in the settlement. It has been ascertained by the oldest settlers that the first blue grass ever seen in Kentucky was found growing around an old deer lick about three miles north of Ebenezer Chorn's in what is now Montgomery County, near the banks of the creek which derived its name from the spot "Grassy Lick." There was not more than an acre or so of this grass but it grew thick and luxuriantly and from this patch of grass Mr. Chorn stripped seed with............ .........the settlers that this much desired grass would not grow anywhere except upon Ebenezer Chorn's land. People often came from quite a distance to see the wonderful grass................................ So this is the history of the origin of Kentucky "Blue Grass" as handed down to the writer. We are very aware that there are certain very learned agriculatural writers who would jump astride of this reputed origin with whip and spurs and quickly ride it out of existence, nevertheless what we have written is no doubt the true origin of Kentucky blue grass, at least as far as the Big Stoner settlement is concerned, and there we leave it. Septimus Davis settled about a quarter of a mile west of Edmond, on land now owned by John Sumpter, Alvin Beall and others. Mr. Davis was said to have been an educated, polished Virginia gentleman. He took more than ordinary pains to educate his children, and two of his sons, James and Herchel, are numbered among the most distinguished teachers this county has ever pro-duced. Major James Davis later in life became a very able minister in the Christian Church and was still living only a short time since in the state of Mississippi. Mr. Davis' daughters were said to have been beautiful women and were belles in the settlement. The writer does not know whether Mr. Davis was a Revolutionary soldier or not, but supposes he was from the company he stopped in. Our fellow citizens, W. B. Kidd and James Septimus Kidd are his grandsons. It was at this spot, Grassy Lick, that Capt. Sphar and three companions while watching for deer, were ambushed by Indians and .....................were killed on the ........... the fourth man was badly wounded in the thigh, but in some way managed to effect his escape and by a circuitous route reached the Fort at Boonesborough after several days of great suffering. Friends were sent out to recover the bodies of Captain Sphar and his comrades, but they had been devoured by wolves. He was the great grandfather of Mr. Asa Sphar, of this county. William Payne settled a half mile southeast of Ebenezer Chorn, on the site of Mr. Shields Cunningham's present residence. Mr. Payne brought with him from Virginia quite a number of slaves, horses and cattle and being a man of nice refinements soon became a popular and leading citizen of the settlement. He is the ancestor of the Paynes now of Fayette and Scott counties, but we shall have more to write of him hereafter. David Petty settled in the spot now occupied by the residence of deaf Jimmie Ramsey, a quarter of a mile north of the present site of Goshen Church. William Petty and Peleg Petty settled close by. The country was now being rapidly filled up, but as has already......................and it is only those who became permanent settlers that we wish to write. NOTE: The above concludes the very interesting account of the early Big Stoner settlement, so cleverly and capably written by the late Captain B. A. Tracy, whose untimely death prevented the completion of this very valuable historical narrative. The names of all these fine old pioneers are still perpetuated in Clark County's best citizenship and will be referred to from time to time in these Chronicles. April 26, 1923 The Creeks of Clark County and Their Characteristics The creeks of Clark county, over thirty in number, and their nomenclature form an interesting unit the county's history and topography................................................................................................ The principle ferries in the county are Combs' Ferry formerly Holder's boatyard, Boonesborough, Jackson's Ferry and the one at the mouth of the Red River....................................................................... Large inspection warehouses were located by acts of the legislature at Holder's boatyard and Boonesborough. Red River ................................................................... and is crossed by ferries at the mouth of the river.............................. at Vienna and at Lilly's Ferry or the mouth of the Lulbegrud............. ................Red River became known to Dr. Thomas Walker, in his expedition to Kentucky in 1750, when, after spending the summer near Barbourville, he returned home in the fall by way of the Warrior's Trail, crossing Red River at the mouth of Lulbegrud and following the Warrior's Trail to Indian Old Fields and then by Blue Licks to Virginia............................................................................... Boone's Creek Daniel Boone discovered and named many of the creeks of the county. He owned a tract of land, including a cave in which he took refuge from the Indians, and this was situated at or near the mouth of Boone's creek, which was named for him. Other forks of Boone's creek are Bogg's Fork, which lies altogether in Fayette, Middle Fork, Welch's Fork, which is the real line between Clark and Fayette, from its mouth to its source, and the Fishback Fork, which lies altogether in Clark County. Two Mile and Four Mile creekss were so named by Daniel Boone, because he considered them to be at their mouths, two and four miles above Boonesborough, respectively. Two Mile creek has its source just south of Winchester, while one branch of Four Mile has its source in the south side of the town and another in the east side, while the east fork of Four Mile has its source in the Beechwood section of the county, just south of the Iron Works pike. The Howard's Creeks The two Howard's creeks, Upper Howard's and Lower Howard's Creeks, were so named in honor of Col. John Howard, a Revolutionary soldier and distinguished pioneer, who owned a thousand acre tract of land at the mouth of each of these creeks. He was the father of Benjamin Howard, a very brilliant young man, who was educated at Eastern colleges and elected to the legislature shortly after he was eligible. He was then elected to Congress from this district for three terms, and so attracted the attention of President Thomas Jefferson that he appointed him Governor of Missouri Territory, which then embraced all of the Louisiana Purchase north of Arkansas and extending with the Mississippi River to the Canada line and westward to the Rocky Mountains. Howard County, Missouri was named for Governor Howard and but for his untimely death he would doubtless have become one of the country's most distinguished citizens. Along Lower Howard's Creek the main road from Boonesborough to Winchester and Strode's Station extended and there were at least half a dozen big water mills and several factories along its banks. Practially all of these old mills have passed away with the exception of the Bush mill, near the mouth of the creek, which is still standing and of which two fine oil paintings have been presented to the Clark County Historical Society by Captain C. E. Bush, a grand- son of the original builder of the present structure. ............................................................................................................................. Jewett's Creek Between the mouth of Boone's Creek and Lower Howard's Creek, is a small stream now called Jewett's Creek, but originally known in the early land surveys as Deuet's Creek, and is said to have been named from an early settler named Henry Deuet, a Frenchman............................................................ (missing a page or more after this last entry, Henry Deuet) Quest. 5th by the same will you be gainer or looser if the land Claime'd by this Entry is saved or lost Ansr. not a farthing further the Deponent sayth not Daniel Boone .........................Test Jilson Payne Peter Shull It is also related on the authority of the members of the party that Boon himself christened the creek at the conclusion of the young man's statement saying, "Hereafter this creek shall always be known by the name of Lulbegrud." At another time Boone camped for some weeks a short distance above the mouth of this creek, on the Warrior's Trail that crossed Red River at this point and led up the creek and along the Pine Ridge to the Indian town at Indian Old Fields. Another incident occurring at one of the falls of Lulbegrud with the Boone party has been given to us by one of our members, Hon. John W. Swope, and is as follows: He says, "Squire J. Harvey Boone, a son of Rev. Thomas Boone, a pioneer preacher of the old hard-shell Baptist faith, a collateral descendant of Daniel Boone, told me when I was a boy some fifty years ago that Daniel Boone told his grandfather that on one occasion when he was going from the fort at Boonesborough to the high mountain known as Pilot Knob, which Daniel Boone himself had named and used as a pilot, he and his two companions came to a large creek, which he had christened as Lulbegrud, and as they traveled up the stream some distance until they came to a riffle below a high falls in the creek........discovered large fish................................. The largest tributary of the main stream is Combs' Creek which was named after one of the largest pioneer land owners in that section and empties into the main stream just above the old Stuart and Halley mill-dam south of Kiddville. This stream and one of its branches drains a large portion of the William Rupard place............. . The famous Oil Springs, known to the Indians for centuries before the coming of the whites are situated on the banks of Lulbegrud, at the mouth of what is called the Oil Springs Branch....................................The Oil Springs buildings were erected by Thomas Eastin, who was usually called Lord Eastin, and his wife was a daughter of General Marquis Calmes and inherited the property from her father, it being a portion of a three thousand acre grant which not only embraced the Oil Springs tract, but a large portion of the Indian Fields................ It may be remarked here that the Oil Springs tract proper is still in the Calmes and Eastin family, it being owned by Squire W. Z. Eubank having been a direct descendant of General Calmes, who received a grant for the land more than a hundred and forty-five years ago. ..::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: September 20, 1923 (Notes: In 1964 Richard Clark deed the Oil Springs tract to the Wilderness Road Girl Scout Council "for the perpetual " use of the Scouts. The Camp was named "Camp Richard Clark" in honor of the donor. Kathryn Owen ) CREEKS OF CLARK COUNTY AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS Stoner Creek Stoner Creek was named for Michael Stoner, one of the earliest pioneers of Kentucky, having been on a hunting expedition with James Harrod, a companion in 1767, two years before he returned with Daniel Boone and looked down on the green fields of "Kentuckee" from Pilot Knob. Again in 1774, Michael Stoner and Daniel Boone were sent out by Governor Dunmore, of Virginia, to look out for and give warning of a hostile Indian incursion to a party of surveyors then operating near the Falls of the Ohio, now Louisville. On many other occasions Captain Stoner distinguished himself in many of the stirring occurrences in pioneer days in Kentucky. He also owned several tracts of land along the stream which bears his name. This stream was originally known as Stoner's Fork of the Licking, but it was not for some years after it was joined by Hinkston Creek, near Ruddells' Mills in Bourbon County, that the united streams became known from its confluence with Hinkston to Falmouth as the South Fork of the Licking. Hinkston Creek was first known by its present name of Hinkston Creek. It was so named after John Hinkston, a pioneer settler on the creek, whose name was also spelled in three different ways as is the creek............................................ ........................The main stream [Stoner] in the pioneer was so large that it was navigable for flat boats along the creek's entire length up to the mouth of Strode's Creek and for a short distance above. In this conjunction it will interesting to note that the Legislature in 1793 deemed the stream of so much importance in this line that is passed an act for the improvement of navigation in the stream as far up as Strode's Creek, by providing money for the removal of minor obstructions in stream, such as fallen trees and snags. This act is as following: An Act for Opening the Navigation in the South and Stoner Forks of Licking Approved December 19, 1793 Whereas, it hath been represented to the general assembly that the navigation of the South and Stoner's forks of Licking would be productive of private convenience and public utility: And whereas individuals would contribute by subscription for the purpose of raising a fund, to be applied to the purpose of clearing and removing the natural obstructions in said stream:
.........................Stoner Creek has many interesting features along its course, among them what was known for a long time as the ford of Stoner, situated at the mouth of the long branch which heads near Union Church and empties into the creek a short distance below the bridge of the Wade's Mill and North Middletown pike, just below the residence of the late John McDonald. Between this residence and the bridge is what is known as the "cut-off" from the fact that at this point the creek makes a bend of over a mile through the old Alpheus Lewis mansion and between it and the Gay residence and the stone house of Rezin Gist the creek makes another great bend and returns so close to the original point that the narrow ridge........................................ During this time a sale was advertised to take place at the old Rezin Gist stone house and after the crowd had assembled for the sale a messenger came galloping up to the spot and announced that the Devil had reached North Middletown the night before........................................................................................ At the west end of the [Devil's] "Backbone" on the Gay farm begins the great prehistoric burying ground and this extends for quite a distance in the direction of the great Gay mound on the northwest and for some distance to the west and southwest towards and along the Lewis lines. ...................................... There were many noted mills on Stoner in pioneer days, among them Sydner's Mill, just south of the Bourbon line, Judy's Mill (now Wade's Mill), Brandenburg's Mill, Thomson's Mill and many others, nearly all of which are no longer in existence. September 27, 1923 =========================================== Original grammar and spelling as copied.
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