The Blount County News-Dispatch, 14 Jan 1892 A True Story. The following true story was related to me by my mother, who is 76 years old and who is one of the oldest settlers of Blount county, Ala., having gone there in 1816. On the 25th of October, 1824, a company of men went to a place about three miles north of Blountsville, on Brindley Mountain, for the purpose of killing deer. It was a place where there had been a hurricane, and the timber was nearly all uprooted, twisted off and broken, had had lain there until it was thoroughly dry. It was also a place where deer were known to resort. There were eight men and they decided to make a ring fire, thinking that they could kill several deer before the fire closed up; but alas for the shortsightedness of man! The timber was so dry and burned with such rapidity, they were very soon surrounded with fire and hardly knew what to do. James Scott, Wallace Jones and a man named Eberly ran through the fire and were not much burned; Patrick Scott, better known as Judge Scott, Giles Jones, Richard Nation, and Joe Brooks climbed a high tree and were not very badly burned, and Judge Scott badly burned, but all of them escaped with their lives. This occurred about seven years after the county was settled, and of course is stale news, but I give it for its antiquity, and I have penned it hoping it may interest some of your readers. I derive much pleasure in reading the letters in The Blount County-News Dispatch, especially the Florida letters and those written by my old and esteemed friend Captain Frank Burns. This is written by a homesick and lonely lady. Fort Payne, Ala., January, 1892. [Note: The homesick lady from Fort Payne did not identify herself or her mother. Patrick Scott was born about 1786 and died 1869; buried in the Salem Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery. No monuments for any of the other men were found in Blount County except for Frank Burns who was buried just south of the Blountsville cemetery in 1909.