Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . es the journey to the Occidental lands, whereit is hidden by the shades of night, the people learned to travelin like direction until lost in obscurity by the shades of wandering around in the mountainous regions and form-ing some acquaintances she met a man, and after traveling fourmiles up the rocky branch, over the mountains and down
Early life and times in Boone County, Indiana, giving an account of the early settlement of each locality, church histories, county and township officers from the first down to 1886 ..Biographical sketches of some of the prominent men and women .. . es the journey to the Occidental lands, whereit is hidden by the shades of night, the people learned to travelin like direction until lost in obscurity by the shades of wandering around in the mountainous regions and form-ing some acquaintances she met a man, and after traveling fourmiles up the rocky branch, over the mountains and down thecreek, in a lonely ravine hard by a spring that gushed fromamong the stones of a mountain which, with its s])arkling,cooling looks, gave inducement to the wearied wanderers toquaff a portion and satiate their thirst, they rested. The sweetsongs of the many-luied birds, and the breeze that played uponthe boughs of the cedar and pine trees, awakened that feeling inthem that was created in Adam when God said, It is not goodfor man to be alone, and made woman for him. They satdown on a log far away from any inhabitants, and in oldpioneer style talked business. They came to the conclu-sion as neither of them were incumbered with worldly goods. 0## !!!^:!!^!illf0f^:^: MRS. CYNTHIA WOODY. BOONE COUNTY, INDIANA. 81 they had better form a co-partnership. While in that moodan old man came along, and in conversation with him theywere put in the possession of the agreeable news that he was ajustice of the peace, and he was asked if he could unite them inmarriage. He replied that if they wished it he could, and theceremony was soon said, when they went on their way rejoic-ing. After struggling together, barely having a competencyon which to subsist, and being the parents of five children,they held a consultation and decided that twelve years waslong enough to sojourn in this out of the way mountainouscountry, where a wagon could get no nearer than five miles totheir habitation, and wher
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