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Events for April 2022:

Sunday, April 24th
Virginia Glenn<br>(Local Historian - Topic; Local Native American Indian Stories/History

Guest Lecturer - Virginia Glenn, local historian.<br>
Virginia will tell the story of Mary Wells.



Guest Lecturer - Virginia Glenn, local historian Virginia will tell the story of Mary Wells (in the photo).

It will begin with two young Castleman sisters taken by Indians at the mouth of Croxton's Run in 1791. The younger sister Margaret was sold as a slave to a trapper. The older sister Mary was married to a Half Indian Chief named Issac Williams who became drunkard and threatened to hurt her. Mary left her two Indian children, a boy and a girl and found her way back to Holiday's Cove to her parents. That's not the end of the story. Mary's Indian children had been raised as Christians and the daughter married a preacher named Journeycake and they traveled with the removal of the Shawnee Tribe when some of them left Ohio. Mary's 6 X Grandmother wrote a book about the girls and how their story was passed through oral history. Helen York Rose could find no proof so she started hunting and asking questions and wrote the book "I Walked The Footsteps of MY Fathers".

First of the Lecture Series for 2022
Guest Speaker - Local Historian, Virginia Glenn
FREE and OPEN to the Public
Stratton Municipal Building 1:00 P.M.
Parking is available beside and behind the building.