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http://www.joepayne.org/genealogy.htm
Interesting link
http://www.geocities.com/geneybeney/addington.htm
Near the bottom of the website mentioed above, is the following:
An authentic tradition relates the following story concerning the last appearance of Indians in the vicinity of the Stony Creek Settlement.
About the year 1817 the people in the neighborhood of Fort Blackmore were startled by the appearance of a band of Indians under the leadership of a chief whose name was never learned. These Indians, crossing Stone Mountain at the High Knob, had entered the settlement, it seems, by coming down Stony Creek. The excitement of such a visit can well be imagined. Many people were then living who remembered the forays of Benge and his gang. The route, too, by which these late arrivals had come was the one over which many hostile bands before them had traveled in their efforts to surprise the settlers at the fort. Why had they come now? Was their mission one of peace or war? Every man who saw them instinctively thought of his loved ones and his rifle. But while the people were thus perplexed as to whether the motives of their redskin visitors were friendly or hostile, the Indians, without delay, marched Indian file, the chief in the lead, to the mound located on the farm of the late Emory Cox.
On reaching the mound, a rather elaborate ceremony of a memorial character, it is supposed, was begun. This ceremony consisted mainly of gestures, the chief leading. Approaching the mound, the chief circled about it, making gestures in the direction of the four cardinal points of the compass. He then ascended the mound to its summit, still continuing to gesticulate, slowly and solemnly, toward the four cardinal points. His followers imitated the movements of their chief. When the ceremony was finished, the Indians again formed themselves into Indian file and marched toward the west. They were never heard of afterward. (W. S. Cox.)
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has anyone ever heard of the above story?
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