Person:Elizabeth Yeary (1)

The Story of Elizabeth Yeary Ball's capture by the indians. One night Jemina Yeary (born 1776) went to milk the cow. She saw an Indian hiding behind a log. She pretended she didn't see him, milked her cow, and went back to the house where she told her sister, Elizabeth, and an old Negro slave. (Elizabeth was Moses BALL's wife). They could hear the Indians whistling to one another and giving signals. They broke down the door, killed the old slave, scalped him and put the scalp in a belt. They found Elizabeth and captured her. She recognized the scalp they carried as that of the old Negro. Jemina had hidden in the chimney and the Indians did not find her. The Indians traveled with Elizabeth for three or four days. She broke off twigs from the trees and bushes as she went along the road. Another of the slaves had tried to follow her but was found and killed. They would travel by day and at night they would tie her. One night she got loose and ran away. They followed her, and once got so close, that she hid in a hollow log. They looked everywhere, even stood on the log, but failed to look inside. She stayed in that log for a day and a night, picked up her trail of broken twigs until she came to across-roads and she couldn't tell which road to take. A little bird flew down, twittered and flew away. She went in the direction that the bird had flown and soon met her husband, Moses BALL, and her brothers who were coming to hunt for her. She is a sister of Henry who fought in the Revolutionay War.

1.   [1], in Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).