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Show 230 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS right, you must correct that ; ' ' and by the time it was finished she said, " I wish you would just lay that aside and write the whole story in your own way, and I will help you with the facts. I think we can in that way make it more clear than by correcting this.; ' I have done so, and Mother says, this is the only really true version of the story that has ever been told. She is the only survivor of the three grown persons present at the affair, and you are the only person in all these years who has ever asked her for the facts. She hopes you will thus apply at headquarters for all your other Chronicles, and get them as true and straight as this one is. With kind regards from Mother and myself . L. L. Dalton, Lucinda Lee. THE INDIAN ATTACK ON LEE'S RANCH IN BEAVER COUNTY. In the fall of 1866, Mr. John Percival Lee, with most of his family, was on his dairy farm ( called Hawhorne Dell, situated about eight miles southeast of Beaver on a bright little stream called South Creek,) busily pushing preparations to return to town for the winter. He usually spent the winters in town, employed in teaching school, and the summers at Hawthorne Dell, farming and dairying. Already he had turned out some thirty milch cows with their calves along with the dry stock, to forage on the good bunch grass until spring. The grain was standing in stacks ready for the thresher, and Mr. Lee and his young hired man, Joseph Lillywhite, were gathering potatoes, |
