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m. 30 Jun 1788
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In 1791, the Shawnee-Mingo Indians made prisoners of Mrs. Andrew Davidson and her children. She was carried by way of the old Indian village on Indian Creek in the present Wyoming County, where she was bound overnight to a beech tree with rawhide thongs. She was the first white woman to pass through the county. On the second night she gave birth to a child under the famous "Hog Bed Cliff" at Island Creek where Logan now stands. The following day the baby was drowned and Mrs. Davidson was carried prisoner to the Indian village on the Sciota River. She lost trace of her other children and she was later sold as a servant to a French farmer in Canada near Detroit. Here Mr. Davidson found her after General Warner's victory in 1794 and brought her home. from "Baileys Among First Of County's Early Settlers" (Beckley Post Herald Saturday, August 26, 1950 Written by Rev. Green Pendleton Goode "G. P. Goode", Wyoming [county] historian) References
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