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For county seat, twenty-five votes were cast for Township 88 north, Range 4 west, southeast quarter of Section 17, and, says the Commissioners' record, " the old location received six votes." The "old location " was " Elizabeth," located by William Smith, who was also one of the County Commissioners of Dubuque County at this time.
The County Commissioners elect, met at the house of William Eads at Eads' Grove, November 19, 1841. There is no record of the appointment of a Chair- man, and the presumption is that Whiteside, being first on the roll, acted as Chairman. Charles W. Hobbs was appointed Clerk of the Board " during its pleasure."
Mr. Hobbs made an admirable Clerk. It was no easy task to perform the duties of Clerk and Recorder in a new county, without knowledge of the numer- ous details, and without guide or precedent, yet Mr. Hobbs was equal to the emergency ; his records compare favorably with those of other and older counties, and Delaware owes a debt of gratitude to its first Clerk that it cannot repay.
Having selected a county seat, it became the duty of the County Commis- sioners to secure the land, but there was no money in the treasury, and, as sub- sequent events proved, the credit of the county was not remarkably good. To provide for the exigency, on the 20th the following order was passed :
Ordered, That William H. Whiteside be and he is hereby authorized to borrow money to enter the county seat, and he is not to exceed 40 per cent. interest for the loan thereof; and that he enter the quarter section on which the county seat is located, for the benefit of the County Board.
Judge Bailey says that the quarter section selected was pre-empted by the county, that is, it was marked, in the land office at Dubuque, so that it could not
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be entered by any other parties, but it was necessary that the county should raise the money ($200) within the time specified by law.
The first deed recorded in Delaware County was one bearing date January 4, 1842, signed by John Hinkle and his wife, Cynthia Hinkle, witnessed by Thomas G. Eads and William H. Reed, conveying to John Clark 120 acres of land in Township 88, Range 5, in consideration of $1,500, and acknowledged before Daniel Brown, Justice of the Peace. It would seem that the considera- tion of $1,500 was a large sum for 120 acres at that time.
January 17, 1842. the Commissioners met at the house of John W. Penn, when it was ordered that Favette Phillips be appointed County Assessor ; Chas. W. Hobbs, County Recorder ; Robert B. Hutson, County Treasurer, and Joel Bailey, County Surveyor, for the year 1842. Joel Bailey was also Deputy Treasurer in the same year.
At the election, in August previous, all these had been elected, except Hobbs, who was appointed in place of Padelford, who probably did not qualify, and this action of the Board is not explained.
On the 18th, John W. Penn was appointed County Collector, and Daniel Beck, one of the County Constables, in Eads Precinct, for the year 1842.
By an act of the Territorial Legislature, approved February 17, 1842, entitled " An act for the organization of Townships," a former act, approved January 10, 1840, was repealed, and County Commissioners were authorized to divide their respective counties into townships of "such shape and size as the convenience and interests of the citizens may require."
It appears that Mr. Whiteside was not successful in raising money, notwith- standing the enormous rate of interest offered, sufficient, one would think, to tempt the cupidity of the money loaners of that day, and at this meeting the order of November 19, 1841, relating to the matter, was rescinded. The Com- missioners evidently thought that if settlers could get money to enter their lands at 25 per cent. interest* the county ought to be able to drive as good a bargain. Accordingly, on the 18th of January, 1842, the Board passed the following order :
Ordered, That Daniel Brown be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money on the best terms he can, not to exceed 25 per cent., to enter the county seat, and if he can get the money, he is authorized to enter the county seat as soon as the money is procured, without any delay, for the use and benefit of the county.
Until now, the county seat had no name, and it became necessary that a name should be designated. The Commissioners did not like to take the respon- sibility without first consulting their constituents, and they therefore requested the settlers, many of whom had gathered at Penn's, for the session of the County Commissioners' Court was an important event, to select a name. Several were suggested. Mr. J. W. Penn thought that " Chester " would do; the name of Marysville was suggested, in honor of Mrs. Mary E. A. Hobbs ; and Joel Bailey and John Keeler proposed, inasmuch as Delhi was the county seat of Delaware County, N. Y., that " Delhi " would be a suitable name for the seat of justice of Delaware County, Iowa. A vote was taken, and " Delhi " received the greatest number. This was reported to the Commissioners, who thereupon, January 18, passed the following :
Ordered, That the county seat of Delaware County be and it is hereby called and named DELitt.
* The early settlers found It very difficult to raise the money with which to pay for their land, and many of them were obliged to borrow. Judge Bailey states that the usual rate was 25 per cent., to be paid annually. The lender entered the land in his own name, giving the settler a bond for a deed, if the interest was paid when due and the principal at maturity, and these loans were seldom made for a longer time than two years. It was hard for the pio- neers, but many of them had no other way of paying for their land.
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Ordered, That the County Surveyor proceed to survey and lay off the county seat into lots, on the 15th day of March, or as soon thereafter as the weather will permit.
Ordered, That the County Commissioners shall meet the County Surveyor at the county seat on the 15th day of March, or as soon thereafter as the weather will permit.
It was important that the county should be provided with a seal, and the Commissioners
Ordered, That the present seal of this Board be [C C ], and that it shall be affixed to any instrument of writing appertaining to this Board, which may require a seal thereto.
By act of the Territorial Legislature, approved January 18, 1842, Joel Bailey, of Delaware County, Edward Steel, of Dubuque County, and Mahon Lupton, of Jones County, were appointed Commissioners to locate and estab- lish a territorial road " from the county scat of Delaware to Dillon's Mill; thence, across the river, and running the east side of the Maquoketa, to the falls on said river, at the town of West Cascade."
By act approved February 16, 1842, " Maquoketa " River was declared to be a public highway for all navigable purposes whatsoever ; and owners of mill dams and other dams were required " forthwith to construct such shutes or locks, at least twenty feet wide and one hundred and twenty feet long," for the pas- sage of "flat boats or other boats, crafts, etc."
THE FIRST COURT HOUSE.
It has seldom occurred in the history of this country that the people of a county have turned out en masse to build a court house as they would to help a neighbor build his cabin. The people of Delaware had selected a quarter section of wild prairie for their county seat. There was not a single cabin on it, and the nearest settler was two miles away. They had elected county offi- cers, but they could not meet at the county seat, and it was necessary that there should be a court house erected. The Commissioners' Court must be provided with suitable quarters ; besides, at no distant day, the settlers expected they must provide for judicial courts.
Accordingly, during the Winter of 1842, in February or March, the set- tlers gathered at "Delhi," with their axes and teams, to build the "Court House." The spot selected was near the southeast corner of the quarter section, a beautiful spot, a few rods from the lake. While some engaged in cutting the logs in the timber-mostly hickory, on the south side of the lake-others, with their teams, hauled them across the lake, on the ice, to the designated spot ; and others still raised a commodious log building, 18x24 feet, two stories high, de- signed for a court room on the first floor, and a jury room on the second. The gable ends were " cobbed up," and the " ribs " and " ridgepole " placed in posi- tion ready to receive the "shake" roof. This was the first building erected at the county seat. Lumber was afterward hauled from Olmsted's mill for the floors, but it was some time, as will appear, before the roof was put on and the building finished. Mr. Hobbs says the "Commissioners held a meeting in the Court House before the roof was put on. During the meeting it began to rain, and I had to take off my coat to spread over the ' papers,' to keep them dry."
Delhi was surveyed and platted by Joel Bailey, County Surveyor, in March, 1842. He was assisted by Charles W. Hobbs and Fayette Phillips, chainmen, and John W. Penn, who cut the stakes. The plat, however, was not recorded until the county acquired the title to the land, in March, 1846. When the sur- vey was made, it was found that the Court House was upon two lots ; the line between Lots 11 and 12 passed through it, leaving three or four feet of the build-
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ing on 12. The eastern tier of lots, of which 12 is one, was afterward vacated for a street.
The original plat, certified by Joel Bailey, March 31, and approved by the County Commissioners, April 3, 1842, is still preserved, carefully framed, in the Recorder's office, at Delhi. The vacated lots above mentioned have been obliterated.
April 4, 1842, the County Commissioners met at the house of John W. Penn, and appointed Ezra Hubbard, David Moreland and Montgomery Seur (probably Montgomery, Senior,) as Judges of Election in the Moreland Pre- cinct ; Clement Coffin, Reed and Henry W. Lyons, Judges of Election of Eads Precinct, and Abraham Whiteside, John Corbin and John Keeler, Judges of Election in the Schwartz Precinct, for the year 1842.
At this session, the Board provided for the payment of Surveyor Bailey and his assistants for laying out the town of Delhi.
Mr. Brown does not appear to have been successful in raising money to enter the county seat for April 5, the following order appears of record :
Ordered, That William H. Whiteside be, and he is hereby, appointed to attend to the entry of the county seat, and if it is entered to obtain a bond from H. W. Sanford, for the execution of a deed to the county upon the payment of the entry money with twenty-five per cent. interest.
Ordered, That William H. Whiteside be and he is hereby authorized to sign a note in the name of the County Commissioners for the payment of the money borrowed to enter the county seat.
April 6, the Board ordered the place of election in "Schwartz " Precinct, changed to the house of John Corbin. The Court House needed some work done on it to render it habitable. It needed a roof, windows, door, etc., and the Commissioners
Ordered, That William Eads, be and he is hereby authorized to contract with a carpenter for work to be done on the Court House at Delhi according to a bill of particulars, and he is limited not to exceed sixty-five dollars for the same, to be paid in county orders.
July 5, 1842, the Board met as before, and ordered the payment of twelve dollars each to Samuel Clifton, Joseph Hewett, Calvert Roberts and Alfred Brown, for their services in laying out the road from Dubuque to Camp Atkin- son, and for paying Alfred Wilson and Moses Hewett as chainmen, and George Culver as stake driver.
By an act of the Territorial Assembly, approved February 10, 1842, the County Commissioners of Delaware were required to pay Wm. Smith, Sr., William Jones and Thomas Denson, three dollars per day each for their services as Commissioners in locating the county seat of Delaware in 1840, " out of any money in the county treasury of said county not otherwise appropriated." Mr. Smith was prompt to present his bill, and inasmuch as the county treas- utry was entirely guiltless of having any money, and there did not appear to be any immediate prospect that the Treasurer's wallet would contain any, there is a grim humor in the following order passed by the Commissioners :
Ordered, That William Smith, Surveyor of Dubuque County, be paid forty-two dollars out of the treasury in any money not otherwise appropriated, for his services in locating the county set of Delaware County, as per account filed in this office.
The first action of the Commissioners in relation to county roads appears of record at the July session, when it was
Ordered, That the road running from the Dubuque road, near Mr. Floids, to the White Oak tirove, from thence to pass the school house and intersect the road running from Prairie du Chien to the county line of Delaware, be and the same is hereby established as a publie county road, and that David Moreland, Missouri Dickson and W. Wiltse are hereby appointed Commissioners to locate the same, and that Ezra Hubbard is hereby appointed Supervisor of the same.
Orders were also passed at this meeting establishing the rate of taxes for the year 1842 as follows: " Levy on taxable property for county purposes, four and
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three-fourths of a mill on the dollar ; Poll tax on every white male inhabitant between 21 and 50 years of age, one dollar ; Territorial tax on all taxable prop- erty in the county, one-fourth of a mill on the dollar.
THE FIRST TAX.
Among the early records of Delaware County preserved in the Treasurer's office, at Delhi, are the abstracts of the assessment rolls of 1842, 1843, 1845 and 1847. The first tax assessed in Delaware was in 1842, and the first assess- ment roll is an interesting historical document, as it not only shows the amount of taxes paid and the names of the tax payers, but indicates, with tolerable accu- racy, the number and names of the actual settlers in Delaware County at that time, as very few were non-residents. The document, of which the following is a copy, was written upon two sheets of letter paper, by C. W. Hobbs, Clerk, and it will be interesting to compare them with the tabular statement of valua- tion and taxes levied in Delaware County, for 1877, as showing the results of thirty-five years of growth and progress :
ABSTRACT OF THE ASSESSMENT ROLL OF DELAWARE COUNTY, AS RETURNED AND ACCEPTED BY THE
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR 1842.
Taxes Due.
Ilow Paid.
Taxes Due. How Paid.
John Corbin ..
3.1434 4 Is to pay $3.30; paid.
Thomas Coal (Cole) ...
2.2715 Eads pays.
Lucius Kibbee, Jr ....
2.1714 Hobbs pays; paid.
Wm. Montgomery .. .
1.121/2 Over age; $1.00 paid.
William Eads ..
3.471% Paid.
Albert Baker
1.30
Paid 30 centa.
Henry W. Lyons
1.95
Ilolt pays.
Cylus (Silas) Gilmore . $1.75
Paid.
Robert B. Hutson ....
3.4716
Paid.
R. Torents (Torrence)
1.25 Paid.
Thomas Eads.
2.081 2
Paid.
Moses Dean.
1.40 Paid.
John Clark
2.25
Paid.
John Bradley
1.96 Paid.
Adin Paddleford.
1.75
Paid.
William Ilite.
.25
Paid.
W'm. R. Paddleford ...
2.0415
Paid.
Ilawley Lowe.
1 45 Paid.
Clement Coffin
2.1216
Hobbs pays ; paid.
O. A. Olmsted
1.4715
Paid.
Charles Osborn ....
.25 25
Paid.
Hugh Livingston
1.30
Paid.
James Cole ..
1.4512
Paid.
Angus Madison
1.421%
Paid.
2.10
Paid.
Hugh Rose
1.571%
Paid.
2.4212
Paid.
John Livingston
1.60
Paid 60 ; L. J. 60 paid.
Wellington Wiltse ...
2.271/2
Paid $1.271%; $1.00.
1.60
Over age; $1.00 paid; 60,
David Moreland
5.13
Paid; over age; $1.00.
1.13
Paid.
Jacob Landis ....
1.70
Paid $2.70.
Arthur Laughlin
1.1315 Paid.
John Melugin ...
2.20 Paid.
Roland Aubrey ..
1.55
Paid.
Missouri Dickson ...
4.40
Paid.
Leroy Jackson ..
2.2212
Paid ; L. J.
James Rutherford ..
2,05 Cr. 60 paid ; paid.
Henry A. Carter ..
1.40 Hobbs pays ; paid.
Ezra Hubbard ....
2.35 Paid : Cr. Blacker, 65.
Hannah Carter.
.85
Hobbs pays; paid.
Gilbert D. Dillon 3.00 Paid L. J.
Jefferson Lowe.
1.1216
Paid ; L. J.
Duncan McCullom. Joh Benson
1.65
Paid.
IIenry W. Hoskins
1.00
Paid.
William Burnham ...
2.00 Over age; $1.00.
Jolın Paddleford
1.00
Paid.
Samuel Whitaker ....
4.65
Paid.
Allen Fargo
1.00
Paid.
Joseph Rutherford ... Orlean Blanchard
1.00
Paid.
Liberty Coale (Cole) ..
1.00 Paid.
Joseph Ogleby.
1.00
Paid.
Joel Bailey
1.00
Paid.
Simeon Phillips.
1.72
Paid.
Amesy(Amasa) Wilt-e Theodore Marks ...
1.00
Paid.
.James Crawford
4.00
Paid.
John Keeler.
2.771/2
Paid.
W. H. Whiteside, pole
1.00
Paid.
Wm. Hite, 66
1.00
Paid.
William McMullin ... Joel Pike ...
.75 Paid.
Credit $177.6134
By error in Barrett's
tax.
.25
Abraham Whitesides Jolın Cutler
1.50
Paid.
D. R. Dance ..
2.25
Hobbs pays; paid.
Josiah Fugate.
1.0614
Paid.
A. J. Black man ..... ...
1.00 Paid.
James t'avinow
.50
Paid.
W. L. Woods.
1.25
Paid.
Edmund Scoggins
1.40 Hobbs pays ; paid.
Daniel Brown
1.65
Paid.
Franklin Culver ...
1.20
Paid.
Alexander Browne .. John Hinkle.
2.173%
Paid.
Iria A. Blanchard
.25
Paid; L. J.
Hiram Minkley (Minkler)
1.38
Paid.
Jacob Landis
1.00
Paid.
Horace Tubbs
1.30
Abner Eads 1.00
Paid.
Henry Baker
2.2215 Paid,
177.34
Jacob Clark
1.14 Eads is to pay.
Joseph Lull
1.501% Over age; $1.00 paid. ·
Charles W. Hobbs.
1.921/2 Ilobbs pays; paid.
SI80.79
50
Burnham to pay 25.
Jacob Moreland
1.00
Paid.
Fayette Phillips
2.401% S. Philip is to pay 2; paid.
Cyrus Keeler
1 00
Paid.
Richard F. Barrett Eleazor Venters (Frentress).
9.50
Paid.
Jno. Stansberry, paid,
1.00
Paid.
John W. Penn ..
1.20 Paid over ; 30 due J. H. P. 1.50 Eads paid.
James Eads ..
1.531,
Paid.
$177.3634
(The following are in a different handwriting, but the payments noted are by the same hand as the foregoing.)
John B. Bennoist
1.621
Frank Mefet( Moffatt) .50
Daniel Thornsburg ... 1 00
1.50 Paid $1.00.
Morris Reed
1.411%
Paid.
Samuel Kelly ..
Laurense Mulican ....
1.00
Theophilus Croford ..
.50 Paid.
William Davis.
.75 Paid.
George Cutler. .
1,00
Paid.
Phipps Wiltse
3.00
William Hoag.
2.05
Paid, $1.05.
William Nicholson ...
1.25 Paid; L. J.
2.631/2
John Delong.
1.8215
Emily Tubbs
James Montgomery .. Leonard Wiltse.
James Livingston
Rheinard Kameron ..
Hobbs pays.
1.00
4.00 Paid $2.00 (illegible), 2.00.
Charles Bennoist .. 1.00 Paid.
2.8712 Paid.
Hobbs pays.
1.3712 Paid.
$186.79 6.00
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY.
DELAWARE COUNTY, IOWA TERRITORY, 88 .: In the name of the United States of America, Iowa Territory, to wit :
Leroy Jackson, Collector of Taxes for Delaware County : You are hereby commanded to collect the taxes charged in the foregoing abstract of assessment roll, by demanding payment of the persons charged therein, and sale of their goods and chattels, severally, or by sale of the tracts of land or lots mentioned in said abstract, according to exigency, and that you pay over all moneys collected by you by virtue of this precept, as directed thereby, monthly, and that you return this precept, together with the abstract of the aforegoing roll, and an account of your acts thereon, to me on or before the 1st day of January next ensuing the date hereof.
CHARLES W. HOBBS.
Clerk to County Commissioners of Delaware County, Iowa Territory.
Sept. 5, 1842.
The closeness with which the tax of 1842 was collected is remarkable. Modern tax gatherers would be glad to see the example imitated in later days.
At the general election in August, 1842, William H. Whiteside, Simeon Phillips and Missouri Dickson were elected Commissioners.
In October, 1842, the carpenter work on the county building had not been done. Mr. Eads had not been able to find a carpenter who would do the work and take his pay in " county orders," which were almost worthless. Accord- ingly, when the Commissioners met on the 4th of October, at the house of Mr. Penn, they appointed Simeon Phillips as " contractor for finishing the Court House, according to a bill of particulars furnished, the same not to exceed in cost sixty-five dollars, to be paid in county orders." John Hinkle was ap- pointed Supervisor for that part of the territorial road from Dubuque to Camp Atkinson, running through the Eads Precinct, according to the lines of said precinct.
The first saw mill in the county was built by Oliver A. Olmstead, on the North Fork of the Maquoketa, where Rockville was afterward laid out, in the Summer and Fall of 1842.
In the Spring of 1842, a new school house was built by the settlers at Colony* and vicinity, and in the Summer of that year, Miss Maria Phillips taught the first school in it for a term of three months. She had about fifteen scholars, received $1.25 per week, and " boarded around." During the next Winter. the first school at Eads' Grove, of which knowledge remains, was taught by William H. Reed, who died the following Spring of consumption.
The population of Delaware County did not increase much in 1842. Very few settlers came in, and but a few of those who had settled here were able to enter their land. Job Benson settled in the southeast part of the county. Archibald Montgomery, who came in May with his family ; Lawrence MeNa- mee and family, September; John D. Klaus, August; these settled near Moreland's.
The Fall and Winter of 1842-3 was one of unusual severity. Snow fell early in November and remained until late in April, and the hardships and sufferings of the settlers during that terrible Winter are almost incredible. One or two incidents of that time will serve to illustrate the severity of the Winter and the sufferings of the settlers, as well as to give some idea of frontier customs at that time.
*Mr. Lawrence McNamee states that in the Summer of 1843, Mrs. McClelland taught the Colony School, followed in the Winter of 18J3-4 by William Hall ; that during Hall's term the school house was burned, and that the next Summer, Mrs. Mcf'lelland fanght in James Cole's cabin. There appears to be a conflict of authority in relation to the first school houses of Colony, and, since the above was in type, Judge Bailey, then County Surveyor, has furnished the following from his minutes: "Surveyed one acre of land for school house, described as follows: Commenced at red oak tree, ten inches diameter, south 46 west 13 chains from quarter section post in the center of Section 4; thence west 4 chalns to mound ; thence south 21,, chains to mound; thence east 4 chains to mound ; thence north 216 chains to the place of beginning, V. 10º. April 8, 1842." Mr. Bailey states that at that time the school house was standing there, and he thinks it must have been built a year previous, at least. In the light of this additional testimony, the presumption is that this way the first house referred to by Mr. Moreland; but that he was in error as to the date of burning, and that, perhaps, the house was simply finished in 1842, giving rise to the impression that it was built in tint year.
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Soon after William Bennett had started the town of Democracy (now Quas- queton) and built his mill, it is related that a stranger, who gave the name of William Johnson, accompanied by a young woman whom he represented to be his daughter, located at the geographical center of Buchanan County. (Johnson claimed to have been the hero of the Canadian revolt, which took place in 1838, and was the occasion of considerable diplomatic correspondence, and came so near causing war between Great Britain and the United States.) This excited Ben- nett's jealousy, who feared that Johnson would thus secure the location of the seat of justice of the new county on his own claim. Meantime, Bennett had gathered a few congenial spirits about him, among them Evans, who was a com- panion of his on his first trip from Missouri northward, all of whom were under his influence. Bennett and his associates went over to Johnson's, loaded up his effects for him, then tied him to a tree and flogged him, the accounts differing as to its severity. Johnson went to Marion, where he lodged complaint against his persecutors, and the Sheriff of Linn County rode up to Democracy to arrest Bennett. The latter awaited him at his cabin door, armed with his rifle and a pair of pistols. The Sheriff modestly retired and went back to Marion for a posse. Bennett and his associates-Evans, Jeffers, Day, Walls and Warner- became convinced that they had better leave Democracy for awhile.
Accordingly, just after dinner, one bitter cold day, they started for Eads Grove, Bennett with a horse and "jumper " (a sort of rude pung), and the others on foot. Bennett came through to Coffin's Grove that night, but the footmen, when they reached Buffalo Creek, at nightfall, encamped there. The cold was so intense, however, that they were in danger of freezing if they remained, and they concluded to push on to Coffin's Grove, about nine miles, where they would find shelter. They started, but Warner soon became exhausted. His companions wrapped him in deer skins, dug a hole in the snow, laid him in it, and struggled on. Evans and Jeffers reached Mr. Coffin's about 4 o'clock the next morning, some what frost-bitten. Mr. Coffin and Henry Baker, started out immediately, with a team, to find the others ; found Walls, who was but a boy, about a mile outside of the grove, badly frozen, and a little further on, Day also. Returning with them to the house, Mr. Coffin remained to care of them, and Mr. Baker started out again with the ox team, with two feather beds on the sled, to hunt up Warner. The cold was so intense that Baker became alarmed for his own safety, as he was freezing; and being bewil- dered by the driving snow, ensconced himself between the feather beds, and the oxen came home. Upon his arrival without Warner, Bennet at once started with his "jumper," and fortunately found Warner, who was delirious, near where the party had left him, and brought him in to Mr. Coffins. He was not much frozen, but was so thoroughly chilled that he died about a year after- ward from the exposure of that awful night. Day was not frozen much, appar- ently, but he never rallied from the effects of the cold upon his system, became de- lirious and died a few days afterward. Walls, as soon as he could be moved, was taken to Mr. Alexander Brown's, at Eads' Grove. The flesh decayed and fell off his feet, and the bones of the ankle joints separated so that Mr. Brown severed the remaining tendons and amputated them. The flesh sloughed off above the ankles and the naked bones were sawed off by Mr. Brown, for there no was surgeon in Delaware County at that time. Walls became a public charge and was subsequently sent to his old home in Indiana. Bennett, very uneasy, and being convinced that the Linn County Sheriff was still in pursuit, soon left Eads' Grove and started northward, toward an Indian camp on the Turkey. He took a companion part way, whom he sent back, and made his way alone to the
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