The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 15, 1921, Page SIX, Image 6
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It has been erroneously said that
tfefere is no allusion in any reputable
history to Cateechee, the captive
sfeve girl of Keeowee, who saved the
weak settlement of Ninety-Six from
destruction by the Cherokee Indians.
TJloro is })nworor nno roforonco
from a very worthy source that
sfeould ohallenge our attention. I reft*
to Logan's history of Upper South I
Carolina, f)age 285. Mr. Logan,
speaking of the decline of the peaceable
disposition of the Cherokees
through the corrupting influence of
unprincipled white traders among
tljfem, says:
"In the latter periods, however,
when both Indians and white men had
sadly degenerated from their former
h&rdy virtue, the endangered trader
w*s much oftener indebted for his
safety to the devotion and cunning
of his corrupt Indian mistress. Many
rahantic instances of this kind could
bff related. There is one connected
tradition, with the historv of old
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Nfc?ety-Six which w* will relate in
its proper place/'
Unfortunately, Mr. Logan never
cfjnpleted his charming story of CJpjfpr
South Carolina and, doubtless,
far that reason, he Hid not write intn
his first volume the legend of the
heroic Indian maid who gave NinetySix
its name and saved the weak settlement
from massacre by the Cher***""
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period of the first settlement of
' Ninety-Six, probably between 1740
aa|d 1750, the son of an Indian trader
accompanying his father into the
eotmtry of the Cherokees, came to
love a beautiful Indian girl, who was
enslaved to Caruga, an Indian chief
a# Keeowee. The girl was a ('hoct*w,
and had been captured by thej
old chief m one of his forrays against
tne Choctaw warriors. She pecame
"Wltrmly attached -to har young lover!
wfw resided with his father at NinetySfcr.
At some time just prior, most
probably, to 1750. the Cherokees determined
to sack the settlement and
afessacre the settlers. The captive
s$pve girl heard of the plot and determined
to s4ve her young lover
fpom murder. "Therefore, one night
sfoe stole away from Kseowee, mount
/ ea an inuian pony, ana roue a ruin j
J$peowee to the settle:neit where her
Iftver resided, and betrayed to him the
secret plot to destroy the few settlers j
%aad rob them of their goods. It is saidj
t|zat she made the heroic ride in about
twelve hours and put the settlers on
guard, thwarted- the , design of the
Cherokee warriors, and remained with
her lover until both were subsequently
captured and carried back to Keeo"W?e.
After several years of captivity
' t$iey made their escape and returned
to the settlement of Ninety-Six.
One mile creek, Six-mile mountain,
Twelve-mile river, the Eighteen-mile
creek,'Three and Twenty creek, and
Sftx and Twenty creek arid NinetySix
were all respectively those distances
from Keeowee. They afe alii
?<u move ucch n<smpu lit foiaiueni-1
p oration of the captive Choctaw maid's J
heroic ride to save her lover.
la my investigation of the legend;
I became convinced that it was more
tradition?that it was a realhistoric
fact. I shall, therefore, produce
the evidence of its validity and
l&ave the reader to draw his own con"T
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elusions as to whether or not it is:
worthy of our credence.
Having been reared within twenty
' miles of old Ninety-Six, the writer
^inew of the tradition from earliest
childhood, it having been related to
him by his father and mother, who
were ootn residents irom cnudnooa
in the vicinity of the old town. His
7 father was born in 1811. His life,
therefore, extended back to within
sixty-one years of the middle of the
eighteenth century, 1750, just about;
the time the heroic ride of the Indian!
nitid is said to have taken place. He j
had heard the tradition related by old i
whpn hp was a small hnv as
an incident that no one at that date
doubted. Mr. Logan, a most schol'
arly man, a resident of the old Ninety-Six
community, and a school
teacher, as we have already seen alludes
to the tradition and promises
to record it somewhere in his incompleted
work. It would have been interesting,
indeed, had Mr. Logan, who
was so intimately associated with the '
r?1H of tho Vi'npfv.^iv fnm. I
munity, all of whom knew the tradi-!
tion and never doubted >t, been spared
t? fulfill his promise.
In the year 1880 I was in the hor.ie
* of Col. Robins who iived within a
short distance of the site of the
rIndian town, Keeowv. Mr. liobiris
was a most repucatb gentleman of
the old school and possessed a lemarkable
memory relative to the old
traditions of the early settlement of
Pickens and Ocor>ee counties. He
was born in 1800 and had known the
fraHifir?n frnm parlies*", childhood. He
had been told it i>y his father, to
whom it had been told by the earliest
settlers, but also by the last remaining
Cherokees of Oconee county.
They all explained the names of the
creeks and Ninety Six in connection
with the ride of the Indian ma:J to
save her pale-face lover.
In the early autumn of IS79 I
spent the day in the homo -?t \lrs.
Norton, the then .aged mother of the
late Judge J. J. Norton of Waihalla.
Mrs. Norton, who was a very inteMigent
woman, lived or> the Oconeo side
of the Keeowee river and in almoei
rifle shot of the old Indian town of
Keeowee. She was the daughter of
Col. Gresham, who owned large landed
interests in Oconee county. He
entertained Wm. Gilmore -Simms at
his home for weeks (see Wigwam and
Cabin) and, Simms says, entertained
him most pleasantly with many traditions
of the early settlement of the
county, some of which Simms recorded.
Mrs. Norton related to me the
tradition of the Indian maid and its
relation to the streams an Ninety-Six.
She told me the name of the maid,
Cateechee, and said the traditional
meaning of the name was "The Dear's
Head," also that she was a Choctaw
slave girl. She had gotten her information
from her father.
Col. Gresham was a very intellicentleman
and honored in his day. He
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sold twenty-five thousand acres of
Oconee land to the German colony
that settled Walhalla, generations
ago.
Gen. Sam McGowan was born and
Teared in Laurens county in-the vicinity
of old Ninety-Six. In '77 or
'78 I heard this distinguished jurist
and Confederate hero, in a speech at
Walhalla, advocating the completion
of the old Blue Ridge railroad to
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iwioxviiie, lenn., renearse cue suuij
of Cateechee's ride, showing the fact
that the Columbia and Greenville
railroad from Ninety-Six to Belton
and the Blue Ridge road from Belton
to Pendleton followed Cateechee's
trail, and argued that these pioneers
of the forest, the Cherokees, sought
out the best grade when they made
paths and that, therefore, the old Indian
trail through the Rabun Gap was
the most direct and the most feasible
route across the mountains.
So it must be conceded that the
tradition of the maid of Keeowee has
been sustained from the most trustworthy
and intelligent sources. So
much for the tradition. But is this
well established tradition wort'hy of a
credence beyond and above the misty
atmosphere of traditional lore? The
writer thinks so from the following
deduction.
(To Be Continued)
A Prize Winner
Mrs. Odalite J. Wallace, daughter
of Mt1. and Mrs. William Johnson of
this city won first prize, $25, in a
content through the Charleston News
& Courier, the contest ending last
week. From the nature of the contest,
and the many contestants, ,the
winning of this pries is well worth
cheriihing by the recipient and she
is being congratulated upon her success.
The content is fully explained
in a notice below from the News and
Courier of the i'.h instant, which contains
valuable information for the
benefit of the public, which it would
be well for all to study.
Mrr. Wallace received a letter from
the management which we take pleasure
in reproducing here, but we contend
that she was right in the instance
in which she was regarded ai Dcmg
wronf. She tyrote a given sentence
in one advertisement thus: "Neither
water nor wer.ther can affect NertJe
Wave tresses." They churned that
"affect" should have been written
"effect," which is net right in that
sense. Following is a copy of the
letter:
18 Broad St., Charleston. S. C.
March 3rd, 1921.
Mrs. Odalite J. Wallace,
1237 Calhoun Street,
Newberry, S. C.
Dear Mrs. Wallace:
We take pleasure in enclosing you
herein our check for $25.00, you
having won the first prize in our page
of presidents contest.
Col. George Martin, who handled
this contest for us, told us that it was
not often that a contestant has only
one mistake, as war, the case in your
answers, and while there were several
others who only had two mistakes,
yours is the only case in which
there was only one mistake.
It may interest you to know what
your mistake was. It occurred in
your turning for Madame Gibbes'
Beauty parlor the word "effect," j
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'which you will see is not misspelled,
: instead of the word "curley," and
I which should have been spelled "cur|ly~
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; Please acccpt our congratulations,
1 and with best wishes we beg to re-1
i main,
Yours very truly,
J The News and Courier company,
i per: (Signed) R. 0. Seigling.
| The News and Courier's article is!
,as follows: I
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Lady Wins the Prize
The "Page of President" has again j
created great interest and replies;
i came in every mail during the period j
j of the contest until they amounted to j
j hundreds. 4 . j
The advertisers received postal j
cards and letters from practically'
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every town ana smai; postoaicu jiui, j
only throughout South Carolina, butj
some from Georgia and North Car- j
olina, telling that their advertisement j
was read. After going over each re-;
ply very carefully, and checking the j
mistakes, it was found that Mrs. Oda- j
lite J. Wallace, 1237 Calhoun street,]
Newberry, had the nearest correct
answer, with only one mistake. She
said that only six served two terms {
and gave the right names. Most everybody
thinks George Washington
icarvo/l tivn fprms. hut. hp did not: hd
served only seven years, ten months
and four days. This lady is to be
congratulated upon answering that
question, as only a very few even
answer it correctly, and when some
claim only six served two terms, they
will name Washington and leave
Cleveland out. The contest created
qujte a diversion, and many of the
readers of The News and Courier
know more about the presidents of
the United States than they ever
knew before the advent of this interesting
feature.
The intentionally misspelled words
were: Extravagence, evrything, fone, j
telaphone, quallity, survice, mor- j
gages, diziness, garantee, curley,
clame, satisfactory, promply, wastes,
streat, curtsey, buisness, porteers, j
fastideous, depositers, especialy, pat- {
erns, surve, fone, scientificaly, bet-!
tur, administrater, polisy. j
Many of the replies showed deep
study, and that they were compiled
i with cjirii nr?H miirii thnncht. Thp
j con test editor wishes to thank all who
j helped to make the page a success,
, and feels that The News and Courier
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can congratulate itself on having given
its readers and advertisers a feature
that proved that it had a real
purpose.
Many mistook the words "specialty,
mete, distributers," for ronie of
the intentionally misspelled words,
but they were not?they can be found
! in Webster's dictornary with a definition.
Contest Manager's note: There!
was only ono with ono mistake, five ;
I with two mistakes, and six with three {
1 fhpn r>11 thf> ivnv tr? Ihirhv-!
. two mistakes. One claimed five had
been assassinated, W. H. Harrison,
Zachary Taylor, Lincoln. Garfield and
McKinley. One said Wilson wasj
elcctcd from Washington. Many said j
I hs was elected from Virginia, where 1
he was born; Lincoln from Kentucky I
where he was born, Taylor from ;
Kentucky where he was buried, several
claimed Grant was elected from
j District of Columbia, when in fact
. ni national officer could have b?c,i j
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Schedule of Passenger Trains Effec
tive 12:01 A. M., Sunday, January
30, 1921.
Southern, No. 15, for Greenville
due at 8: 48 a. m., daily.
due at 12:30 p. m., daily.
due. at 10:11 a. m., daily excepl
due at 8:25 p. m., daily.
Southern, No. 17, for Greenville
due at 3:40 p. m., daily.
Southern, No. 18, for Columbia
Southern, No. 16, for Columbia
C.. N. & L.. No. 55, for Columbia
Sunday.
C., N. & L., No. "52, *f or Greenville
due at 1:00 p. m., daily.
C., N. & L., No. 53, for Columbia
due at 3:38 p. m., daily.
C., N. & L, No. 54, for Laurens
duo at 6:10 p. m., daily except Sunday.
C., N. & L., No. 12, Mixed train
for Laurens, due at 9:30 a. m., running
one hour and 30 minutes lati
account A. C. L. connections, expect
o/l oKaiif 1 1 -Afl u m
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C., N. & L., No. 13. Mixed train
for Columbia, due at 5:20 p. ir*
These trains run daily except Sue
day.
T. S. Leftsv,
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lowing interesting account of her rc
covery: "I w^s in a weakened con
dition. I was sick "?hree years in bed
suffering a great deal of pain, week
nervous, depressed. I was so weak
I couldn't walk across the floor; jus
bad to lay and my little ones do th<
work. I was almost dead. I triec
every thing I heard of, and a number o
doctors. Still I didn't set any relief
I couldn't eat, and slept pcorly. j
believe if I hadn't heard of and takei
Cardui I would havo died. I hough
six bottles, after a neighbor told mi
what, it did for her.
"I began to eat and sleep, began t<
gain my strength and am now wjel
and strong. I haven't had* any trou
ble since ... I sure can testify to th<
good that Cardui did me. I don'i
think there is a better tonic mad<
and I believe it saved my life."
For over 40 years, thousands of wo
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If you suffer as these women did
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if ESTATE NOTICE jte
; The creditors of the estate of W.1 tc
F. Coats, deceased, are hereby noli-! at
5 fied to render to the undersigned, oriel
> their Attorneys, Dominick & Work- tl
. i man, at Newberry, S. C., an account t(
j ] of their demands duly attested, arid
all persons indebted to .-'aid estate |r
are notified to make payment like-' J.
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I A few doses G56 break a cold.?
Adv.
NOTICE QF FINAL SETTLEMENT
Notice is hereby given t.'int the undersigned
will make final settlement
J ef the estate of Godfrey Himnn,
s deceased, in the Probate Court for
; Newberry County, South Carolina,
on Monday, the fourth day of
April, 1921, at 11 o'clock in tho
forenoon and will immediately thereafter
apply to the said Court for leic
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OTfCE TO ROAD WORKERS.
All persons liable to do road duty i
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on Tax of six dollars by March 15th ;
i?xt will be required to do six days j
:bor 021 the public roads of the
ounty.
To all licenses not ]
15th day of March th<
order of the Town C
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GEO. P. BOULWARE, Chairman.
VIarch 3, 1921.
MOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
I will make a final settlement of
he estate of Mrs. A. T. Brezcaie in
iie Probate Court for Newberry
L'ounty, S. C., on Monday, the 14th
lay of March, 1921, at 10 o'clock in
he forenoon and will immediately
thereafter ask for my discharge as
Administrator of said estate.
Al! persons holdm? claims against
said estate will present the same,
proved as retired ??y law, and claims %
not presented will be forever barred.
Ml persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
A. T. BREAZBALE, \
Qualified Administrator.
Newberry, S. C.,
Feb. 7th, 1921.
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