Week Two of the
Boultinghouse kin
in this County Continued from 1/1/1998
Last week the column began an article written by John Sherman
Boultinghouse
in 1938 in which he tells of the death of young Joseph
Boultinghouse at the
hands of five Indians in 1813.
Later, Joseph's father was able to find and
kill all the Indians.
This occurred on Boultinghouse Prairie northwest of
Grayville in Edwards County.
The narrative continues:
"On the night of March 30, 1813, it was thought the same band of
Indians
killed another young man named Hezekiah Davis and wounded his
father,
Richard Davis, by breaking his leg from gun shot, which left him
a cripple
for life.
The Davises and some other men were shelling corn after night by
the light of the cobs burning in the fireplace in the log cabin
they had
built the year before.
"When the Indians began to fire through the cracks between the
logs of the
house, one of the corn shellers jumped on the fire and
extinguished the
blaze, and the firing from the outside ceased.
Before the men could get
their guns, the Indians had fled, leaving young Davis dead and
his father
with a broken leg.
The next morning, they buried young Davis and started
with their corn to the mill, taking Mr. Davis with them.
They had to go
about 50 miles to the nearest medical aid, Shawneetown.
"My grandmother Boultinghouse, who was a stepdaughter of Mr.
Davis, also
made the trip, and she often told me how Mr. Davis suffered with
his
broken leg dangling down as he rode horseback that 50 miles
through the
woods all day before he got to the doctor, who set his leg and
gave him
some ease.
"Mr. Davis thought so much of his son, his request was that at
his death
the remains of his son be buried in the same grave with him.
They are both
buried in the Charles Cemetery [in] Calvin, Ill.
When the body of the young
Mr. Davis was disinterred, there was found two pieces of money
which looked
like a silver dollar that had been cut into four pieces, as that
was the
way they made change in those days.
A Mr. Mack Davis of Grayville, a
descendant of the family, has one piece of these coins.
"Zachariah Boultinghouse, born 1809, my grandfather, was the son
of John
Boultinghouse, and a brother (but much younger) to the slain
Joseph
Boultinghouse.
There were several other brothers and sisters, but I know
of only Daniel and John.
"In 1832 Zachariah, my grandfather, enlisted in the Black Hawk
War and was
with Abraham Lincoln, who was captain of another company that
drove Chief
Black Hawk and his warriors out of the country.
In 1833, Zachariah was
married to Margaret (Peggy) Green, a stepdaughter of Richard
Davis, who has
already been mentioned.
"My father died [in] September 1885. His name was Green
Boultinghouse,
having been given his mother's maiden name, Green.
Born Feb. 14, 1834,
Green Boultinghouse was the oldest of nine children: Louise,
John,
Annice, Harriett, Margaret, Mary, Sarah and George.
The last three died
young. Father, Green Boultinghouse, married Sarena Driggers, the
daughter
of Wasden and Hannah Hodkins Driggers.
Sarena was the eldest of four
children.
The others were Nancy J., wife of Gillison P. Calvin; Sarah,
wife
of William Clark, and a son, James, who died in infancy."
To be Continued
1/15/1998
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1/22/98 Posting 4 of 4
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Library will be closed until Feb. 4.
1998
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join us.
Notes from the Genealogy Library
White County Historical Society
located downstairs in the Ratcliff Inn, downtown Carmi
By CHARLENE SHIELDS
Posted with permission from
THE CARMI TIMES
and CHARLENE SHIELDS
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