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Subject: Re: mary polly bruner
Date: 13 Aug 2005 15:20:57 -0600
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If you are a member of the Owensboro Public Library you can access their online site known as Heritage Quest. There is a book online titled the Inventory Of The County Archives. In this book is the establishment of Hardin's Station at what is now Hardinsburg. Below is the mention of Mrs. Bruner's capture.
Disaster frequently overtook bands of pioneers as they made their way to the new fort in hte wilderness. William McDaniels and John Bruner brought their families and household goods by flatboat as far as the "Falls" in Sinking Creek. The men departed to ontain assistance in transporting their possessions to Hardin's Station, leaving a negro slave with their families for protection. In hiding, awaiting their opportunity, Indians closed in around them shortly after McDaniels and Bruner had left.
Terrified, Mrs. McDaniels fell in the water and drowned; Mrs. Bruner, her child, and the slave were captured. As they were being taken toward an Indian settlement in Illinois, the child and the slave were brutally killed. But for the intervention of an old chief who agreed to take her for his wife, Mrs. Bruner would have shared the same fate. Months later she was rescued by white men and returned to her husband.
There is no mention of any children with the Indian chief.
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