Thanks, Clyde. That is a great site. Thanks for sharing. Cynthia in Ann Arbor --- [email protected] wrote: > Morning All, > > I took another ride on the Dixie Bell up the > Kentucky River the other > day. I thought about you folks that were here > earlier this year for the > Fest. You left some very good memories here, not > only for myself, but > many others. Speaking of memories, let me share > this one with you. > > I WAS THERE THE DAY THEY DUG UP WILLIAM HUDSON. > > I lived in Lincoln County, about 75 yards west of > the site of Logans > Fort. We had managed to get a small grant to do a > dig at the fort site. > Not knowing the exact site of the fort, someone > came up with this idea. > We knew that the people living in the fort had dug a > tunnel from the fort > to a big spring down over the hill. The big spring > had been filled in > many years ago. But, we were able to plat it's > location. Any how. It > was taught, if we could find the tunnel, we could > follow it to the fort. > With a Back-Hoe they started digging a ditch. They > had not went 10 > feet, when everything came to a stop. They had > uncovered some human > bones. It's was William Hudson. The Indian had > killed and scalped he > there in the summer of 1777. You ask, how did we > know it was William > Hudson? Several others had been killed at Logan's > Fort, but Hodson was > the only one that had been scalped. > > It you had early ancestors in Kentucky, if a good > chance that some of > them came through Logan's Fort. > > Last year Ken Houp and I went to Shelby County and > found the grave sites > of Ben Logan and James Knox. It was a little sad. > Here were two of > Kentuckies most famous men, buried in a little > family plot, that looked > as bad as any that Howard and the others here are > clean up. > > I taught you may enjoy reading the report on William > Hudson. Look at the > scalp marks. Can you get much closer to history? > > http://web.utk.edu/~herrmann/Logan/LOGANS.htm > > Clyde > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for > less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/