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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 257 drainage, and surrounded by springs and swamps. Yet the town being so near the hills was too much exposed for safety; hence, the move. The Fort, however, was never finished. J. P. PETERSEN, WIFE AND MARY SMITH KILLED NEAR GLENWOOD. A SKIRMISH AT GLENWOOD, STOCK RECOVERED. Early in the morning of March 21, 1867, Jens Peter Petersen and wife, and Mary Smith, a neigh-bor girl, aged fourteen years, left Richfield, Sevier County to go to Glenwood about five miles distant ( east) with an ox- team to do some trading. Stores being few in those days. Warren S. Snow had brought a load of merchandise to Glenwood to trade for stock and produce, and in order to get some needed articles, these people ventured out, think-ing that by starting so early in the day there would be no danger, but as the roads were muddy, they could not travel as fast they had expected. It may here be added that it was contrary to council at this time for anyone to travel between the settle-ments without armed escort. The Petersens left their baby girl, eighteen months old, at Jorgen Smith's at Richfield; she is now Mrs. Christine Christensen of Koosharem, and mother- in- law of Louis Hatch ( the Indian Missionary). When they got to the so- called Black Ridge east of the Sevier River, Indians were gathering the stock along the river bottoms; and the Indians seeing the people on the road, immediately attacked them and killed all of them, mutilating their bodies in a most horrible |