This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Headley, Rawles, Jackson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Hi.2ADI/2175.1 Message Board Post: This is a transcription of a letter in the Lafayette Journal Courier, date unknown. THE INDIAN MARCH Editor Journal Courier: I see a request in today’s paper for information concerning the Pottawottamie Indians. In answering the question of the inquirer will say they crossed the river, but cannot say at what point. There were no roads at that time except mere paths southwest of Battle Ground, the direction toward the place selected for their camp. My mother was the daughter of George Headley, who came to this neighborhood in 1834 from Circleville, O., and settled on what is now known as the Headly lake farm, five miles northwwest of Lafayette. When the Indians came through my grandfather took his children, including my mother, who was then about 14 years old, to visit the camp, which was located on the old John Rawles farm on the part now owned by his sons, Edward and George Rawles, about six miles northwest of the city. This is probably their first camp after leaving Pittsburg, as it is about eighteen miles southwest of that place to the camp on the Rawles farm. William F. Jackson. Lafayette, Ind., R. R. A.