An address in commemoration of the first settlement of Kentucky; delivered at Boonesborough the 25th May, 1840

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AN ADDRESS

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The following incident has been communicated to me by Orlando Brown, Esq., to whom it was related by his deceased uncle. Dr. Samuel Brown :

"An old lady who had been in the forts, was describing to Dr. Brown the scenes she had witnessed in those times of peril and adventure: and, among other things, remarked, that during the first two years of her residence in Kentucky, the most comely sight she beheld, was seeing a young man dying in his bed a natural death. She had been familiar with blood and carnage and death, but in all those cases the sufferers were the victims of the Indian tomahawk and scalping knife; and that, on an occasion when a young man was taken sick and died, after the usual manner of nature, she and the rest of the women sat up all night, gazing upon him as an object of beauty."