Georges Township High School - Georgian Yearbook (Uniontown, PA)

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HISTORICAL SKETCHES We have attempted to make this annual in- teresting and instructive. We have gleaned the following Historical Sketches from the tales of the Western Border as told by relia- hle Historians. We feel that the boys and girls of Fayette County should he proud of the history of their native county. To this end we have attempt- ed to reproduce some of the stories connected with the early days of South Western Penn- sylvania. -EDITOR. 85

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A LAD KILLS A RED-CRESTED GOBBLER l:-ooo-si In Wood county, West Virginia, a man had a son, twelve years of age, who had been used to firing his father's gun, as most boys did in those days. He heard, he supposed, turkeys on or near the bank of the Ohio, and asked his father to let him take the gun and kill one. His father, knowing that the Indians frequently decoyed people by such noises, refused, saying it was probably an Indian. When he had gone to work, the boy took the gun and paddled his canoe over the river, but had the precaution to land some distance from where he had heard the turkey all the morning, prob- ably from fear of scaring the game, and perhaps a little afraid of Indians. The banks were steep, and the boy cautiously advanced to where he could see without being seen. Watching a while for his game, he happened to see an Indian cau- tiously looking over a log, to notice where the boy had landed. The lad fixed his gun at a rest, watching the place Where he had seen the Indian's head, and when it appeared again, fired and the Indian disappeared. The boy dropped the gun and ran for his canoe, which he paddled over the river as soon as possible. When he reached home, he said, Mother, I have killed an Indian I and the mother replied, No, you have not. Yes, I have, said the boy. The father coming in, he made the same report to him, and received the same reply, but he constantly aiiirmed it was even so, and, as the gun was left, a party took the boy over the river to find it and show the place where he shot the Indian, and, behold, his words were found verified. The ball had entered the head, where the boy aflirmed he shot, between the eye and ear. 86