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4- PRESTON COUNTY JOURNAL- Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - Kin
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. ... Massacre
of the Crow Sisters
• Part 2
by
Clyde Cale Jr.
Then Christina
loose and
Many
believe if she
had been hit in
the back with a
tomahawk, it would have killed
her, while a blow from the butt
of a gun wouldn't have been
quite as severe, once she recov-
ered from the blow in the back,
Christine hurriedly got up and
fled for home. She then avoided
the main path, made her way
home and gave an account of
the tragedy in a breathless and
terrorized manner, that her three
sisters had been scalped and
left for dead. As soon as the
family heard the terrible news,
they fled for Fort Lindley, near
Prosperity, Pennsylvania. It
was about a twenty mile walk,
in which the family walked the
entire distance. Michael Crow,
around twenty two years of age,
carried his four year old baby
sister, Mary, on his shoulders
most of the way to Fort Lindley
which was about ten miles from
Washington, PA. Fort Lindley
was one of the strongest forts in
the western frontier; while the
Crow Fort was very small and
unprotected.
In their haste to leave, Spicer
and the Indians had not scalped
her deeply and inflected serious
enough injury to Lisbeth to kill
her. She had been left for dead,
and slept, as it seemed to her,
from the time of the attack, ten
o'clock Sunday morning, till
the dawn of the next morning,
when the first sound to great her
as she returned to conscious-
ness, was the gobbling of a wild
turkey. She then managed to
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crawl down to the creek to drink
some water and quench the fe-
verish thirst that had overtaken
her. She then dragged herself
back on the bank to the root
of a tree. She was found still
slave two days later on Tuesday
morning. A hunter by the name
of Enlow, from the rescue party,
carried her to a clump of trees,
a short distance down the road
or path in the direction of the
Crow Farm. She was laid down
in front of a great boulder which
is still there today.
Lesbeth then told her broth-
ers and father how Susan and
Katherine had been killed. She
gently chided her brother, "Oh!
Michael, why didn't you come
sooner?" A posse had been
formed at Fort Lindley to pur-
sue Spicer and the Indians; once
there they learned of the ter-
rible tragedy. The Indian who
had scalped Lisbeth, had then
stuck her scalp in his belt as a
trophy of his victory over the
white man. In going through a
clump of bushes, the long hair
of the scalp caught in them and
was found by the rescuers. A
doctor was sent for -from ei-
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Crow Sisters captured by In-
dians and Renegade Wioo-
iam Spicer. Christina mak-
ing her escape. Drawn by
Not Youngblood of the Pitts-
burg Press, Sept. 3, q 96q.
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He stitched the scalp back on
her head, but the wound had
became so irritated and her ex-
posed head so dried with clot-
ted blood that the scalp would
not again adhere. In scalping
her a piece of the skull was bro-
ken out and stuck to the scalp,
leaving the brain exposed. The
hot rays of the sun had affected
the unprotected member of the
brain, making it next to impos-
sible to save her life. THe doc-
tor said she might have lived if
she ha not laid so long with
her scalped head exposed to the
hot sun. It was to late to save
her, and she died the next day,
Wednesday, May 4, 1791.
The little Crow family grave-
yard was started with the burial
of these three sisters, n older
brother, John, had died two
years earlier, and his body was
buried on Crow's Run, in Wet-
zel County, WV, where he was
killed by Indians while on a
hunting trip with his broth-
ers, Fedrerick and Martin. Su-
san and Katherine who were
found dead were both buried in
a single grave, lined and cov-
ered with puncheons in a burial
plot near the cabin on the Crow
homestead. Rough hewn sand-
stones were set up to mark these
graves, the first in the family
burying ground, with the year
1791 and the roughly carved
initials L.C. (Lisbeth Crow)
on one stone, K.C. (Kather-
ine Crow), and S.C. (Susanna
Crow) together on another
stone.
The large sandstone rock
where the Indians and renegade,
Spicer, his behind stood in the
same location until the spring of
1968, when it toppled over into
the road. It is said that the rock
may weigh close to twenty tons
and measure roughly twelve by
eight by three feet.
There had been plenty of room
for the renegades to hide be-
hind. The first Crow reunion
was held in August of 1929, in
a small sycamore bottom about
half a mile above the massacre
site. At this reunion money was
extra savings
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taken up so that a plaque could
be placed on this historic rock.
This was done even though it
was the time of the depression,
and money was very scarce.
Only enough money was col-
lected to have a man, somewhat
talented, carve on the rock,
"May 1, 1791 Sus. and Cath.
Eliz-Tina Crow." This inscrip-
tion did, however save the rock
from destruction. Several years
later, as mentioned earlier, in
1968, the rock, during a very
wet spell in the early spring,
fell onto the road and blocked
off the flow of traffic. Road su-
pervisors were going to blow it
up and throw it into the creek
below the road. A man by the
name of Charlie Day talked the
men into moving it upright.
The rock, at one time, was said
to be covered over with fifty
feet of water where it now lies.
In the early 1970's the Wheel-
ing Creek watershed project had
plans to build eight flood control
dam in the area, and although at
this time, dam construction was
delayed due to problems with
choosing a site, these plans re-
mained int he works for many
years to come.
The planned site of the dam,
across Dunkard Fork above En-
low Fork, (these two streams
join to form Wheeling Creek),
would have been colas to the lo-
cation of Crow Rock, but would
not have affected the rock. The
elevation of the rock is 890 feet,
while the dam would have been
848.8 feet above sea level.
To locate the Crow Rock and
the massacre site continue on
Route 21 west through Waynes-
burg until you get to Ryerson's
Station. Then go 2.4 miles and
turn right on Dodd Ridge Road,
follow it for 3.7 miles to a "Y"
in the road and take the left
hand turn and proceed 0.4 miles
until you cross over a bridge.
Then turn left onto Crow Rock
Road which follows the creek
and drive this for 0.8 miles. On
the right side, at the edge of the
hillside, the marker to the me-
morial of the Crow Sisters and
the hugh rock can be seen.
Officers will continue
Tunnelton Woman's Chris-
tian Temperance Union met
on Tuesday, September 20, at
the Denver United Methodist
Church. Devotions were led by
Loretta Goff. She read "Prison
Testimonies," from the Mira-
cles and Missions Digest.
Several readings, including
"Bloom Wherever God Plants
You," by Barb Frame; "This
is the God I Serve," by Dick
Frame; and "Eyes That See,"
by Loretta, were shared and
pondered. Loretta led the group
in prayer after prayer requests
were asked for Betty Metheny.
Kitty Johnson, Yvonne Thorn.
June Haught, Charles Fortney,
Friday Zetty, Stephen Sigley,
Marvin Cline, and Wilma Cart-
er.
Jim and Polly Whetsell shared
their talents as they sang. "Will
the Circle be Unbroken."
"When the Roll is Called Up
Yonder," and "One Day at a
Time."
Secretary and Treasurer re-
ports were given and dues for
the new WCTU year were col-
lected from those present.
An election of officers was
held and it was voted to retain
present officers with the excep-
tion of Promotion Secretary,
with Mazel Williams elected to
that office.
Members voted to donate
money to Barb's and Mazel's
Operation Christmas Child
Shoeboxes and Salvation Army
Christmas Stockings proects.
The State WCTU Convention
and Banquet was announced for
September 29-30 at Fairfield
Inn and Suites at Fairmont. The
meeting closed with the sing-
ing of "Blest Be the Tie," and
prayer. Those attending were
• Mary Lou, Loretta, Regina, Ma-
zel, Barb, Dick, and guest Mar-
ily Bell.
The next monthly meeting will
be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
October 18, at Denver United
Methodist Church. New mem-
bers or guests are always wel-
come.
Public input sought
The West Virginia Department
of Environmental Protection is
seeking public input on its Well
Site Safety Plan Standards and
Casing and Cementing Stan-
dards that are referenced in
the DEP's Emergency Rule for
horizontal drilling, filed Aug.
22 with the Secretary of State's
Office.
As part of the rule, all appli-
cations for well work permits
involving well sites expected
to disturb three acres or more
of surface, must include a well
site safety plan to spell out what
steps will be taken to protect
persons on site, as well as the
general public and the environ-
ment. The plan is to be devel-
oped in accordance with stan-
dards developed by the DEP's
Office of Oil and Gas (COG).
The Emergency Rule also in-
cludes operational rules intend-
ed to protect water quantity and
quality and instructs operators
to construct wells and conduct
casing and cementing activities
of all horizontal wells in accor-
dance with COG standards.
Public input on the COG stan-
dards will be accepted until
Sept. 30, • and can be mailed to
the Office of Oil and Gas, 601
57th St., S.E., Charleston, WV.,
25304 or emailed to DEP.com-
ments@wv.gov.
Copies of the COG standards
can be viewed by clicking on
the Office of Oil and Gas sec-
tion on the DEP homepage at:
www.dep.wv.gov.
As directed by Gov. Earl Ray
Yomblin on July 12 in Execu-
tive Order No. 4-11, the DEP
filed its Emergency Rule to in-
crease regulatory oversight of
horizontal well development in
the state. __
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