Re: Polly Crippin

lfourt — 2009-08-31 23:58:35Z

Thatcher Crippin & his son James Crippin (1910 news article) "Massacred by Indians" about 1874

RoseStout54 — 2008-12-19 17:05:11Z

(newspaper clipping)

Massacred by Indians.

Skeleton of Reno County Settler Found.

A dispatch from Guymon, Okla, tells of the finding of a skeleton in the hills near there, with Indian arrows clinging to the bones, mute evidence of some Indian tragedy.

Thirty-six years ago, seven Reno county men were slain by Indians while hunting in those hills and there is good reason to believe that this skeleton, uncovered from the sand after so many years, is that of these victims.

About noon, one sultry, sweltering September day in 1874, two horsemen rode up Main street into Hutchinson, then still a frontier town, hitched their sweating, staggering ponies, ran into the post-office and announced that Indians had slain all in their party excepting them, they being the sole survivors of a party of nine hunters.

Those men, Van Emmons and Broadwell, were settlers in the southwestern part of the county about where Arlington stands now. They had started two weeks previously, nine in all, with four wagons, for the antelope hills, 150 miles to the southwest.

The intended to spend a week or two hunting buffalo, filling the wagons with the hides. They had good luck, found plenty of buffalo and were just about ready to start for home with their loads.

Van Emmons and Broadwell had left the main camp to get a few extra hides. When they returned they found the camp plundered, everything movable take, and a bloody arrow stock sticking upright in the center of the camp, a silent Indian sign that they had been there.

Reported the Massacre.

The two hunter, finding no trace of their comrades rode for their lives back to the settlements and hurried to Hutchinson with the report of the massacre, for they were convinced their companions had been slain.

The alarm aroused Hutchinson. There had for weeks been reports coming in from Dodge City and other points to the west that Indians had been slaying hunters. But this massacre of Reno county settlers brought the depredations of the Indians home.

Two months before and in fact ever since spring, the depredations had become alarming to the west. The Hutchinson News, of which H. Whiteside was ten publisher, announced on July 15: “Last week things west of Dodge City and on the trails in the territory were squally. Quiet a number of hunters, emigrants and teamsters were chased and killed.”

Hutchinson had a company of militia then; not the crack company that Co. E. is today, but they were ready and willing to go after Indians. Chas. Collins was captain, and he and his 45 valiant soldier boys all mounted, set out the last of August to assist in driving back the Indians.

The massacre in the Antelope hills occurred just about the time the Hutchinson troop set out. Work was gotten to them and they reached the scene, found the scalped and mutilated bodies of Jas. Coster, Jas. Crippin and his father, Thatcher Crippin and two others named Boles and Dasher, all Reno County men. The bodies of two others ere never found but all were convinced they had been slain.

Courier Brought News.

On Sept. 24 a courier dashed to Hutchinson with the rumor that Capt. Collins and his Hutchinson troop had been surrounded near Sun City, Barber county, by Cheyenne Indians and all slain. For a fortnight the town was in mourning, but finally shortly after the first of October the troop came home, all safe and sound after skirmishing with several bands of Indians.

Another company, under Captain Ricker, 25 men in all set out from Medicine Lodge, found Indians encamped on swede creek, barber county and in a skirmish killed five of them, captured forty ponies and sustained but one casualty.

Some News Bulletins.

Between July and October, 1874, the Hutchinson News printed the following among the Indian bulletins:

July 16 ---- Things look bad west of Dodge City. Many settlers killed.

Aug. 13 --- Medicine Lodge militia attacked and killed five Indians in Barber county.

Aug. 20 --- Four settlers killed and scalped near Aubrey. Santa Fe bridge west of Spearville burned.

Aug. 27 --- Militia company under arms and left on trail of Indians.

Sept. 3 --- Four Reno county settlers chased by Indians, 60 miles southwest. The opened fire with needle funs, drove off Indians, emptying three caddles and escaped.

Sept. 10 --- Settlers bring in reports of massacres by Indians in Antelope hills.

Sept. 17 --- Gent Reid and ______ Anderson of Langdon, attacked by Indians while hunting buffalo on Elm creek. Escaped.

Sept. 24 --- Reported that Hutchinson militia had big fight with Indians near Sun City.

Oct. 8 --- Capt. Collins and his company return and are awaiting orders.

These bulletins give some idea of the alarms that Hutchinson people were undergoing thirty-six years ago.

Here is a sample news item of the News of those days: “Mr. Legate, of Barber county, showed us the scaalp of an Osage Indian killed in the fight in Barber county. It was the first scalp we ever saw and our curiosity is sufficiently stisfied.

Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas
Thursday, November 3, 1910
page – 4 *** column – 7

Polly Crippin

carclamcc — 2008-02-29 13:49:38Z

Would anybody have any information on Polly Crippin who married Jedediah Graves on 5 Mar 1778 in Spencertown, Columbia County, New York? Any information on this family will be appreciated.

DIADEMA CRIPPIN

knoteware47 — 2002-12-06 05:12:09Z

PLEASE SEND ME ANY INFO OH HER-BORN AROUND 1794 IN NY

3 CREPPON gravestones photographed in Medlin Cemetery, Trophy Club, Denton County, Texas

2002-08-08 07:19:47Z

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I photographed these tombstones in the Medlin Cemetery, Trophy Club, Denton County, Texas. Feel free to use these pictures for your records.

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Re: Polly Crippin

Thatcher Crippin & his son James Crippin (1910 news article) "Massacred by Indians" about 1874

Polly Crippin

DIADEMA CRIPPIN

3 CREPPON gravestones photographed in Medlin Cemetery, Trophy Club, Denton County, Texas