Alexander Piles
b.Bef 1800
Facts and Events
The following is copied from chapter 20 (Miller Township), page 210 of History of Dearborn CountyS1:
EXPERIENCE OF A PIONEER GIRL.
Alexander Piles settled in the township in 1807. His son, George Piles, married a young lady who has been raised in the vicinity of Boonesborough, and whose mother and father were pioneers there. Nlrs. George Piles was very athletic. and on one occasion when she was about seventeen years of age. she was staying in the stockade at Cambridge with her parents, on account of the Indians being seen nearby and were thought to be on the warpath. Her parents’ house was only about a mile from the stockade and she remembered that they had left at home a cedar churn and she needed it for churning, for they had brought their cow along. So she and another girl of about the same age started to their home to get the churn. She says. “Out we went and got well on our way to the house, when going through a hazel copse I saw a dog sitting watching us with his ears cocked, and I said to my companion: ‘Jessie, look at that dog,’ when just as I spoke up jumped an Indian. As soon as we saw him we started and ran for the stockade, the Indian in chase, but we were too quick for him and when we got into the open ground lost sight of him. As soon as we got to the fort we told the rangers and they started in pursuit."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Experience of a Pioneer Girl, in History of Dearborn County, Indiana: her people, industries, and institutions. (Evansville, Ind.: Unigraphic, 1980)
Page 210.
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