Private Collection. Logan meets with the surviving family members . Daughters Alice, age 18, Martha, age 16, and Susan, age 14 were out watching over the family's flock of sheep with their youngest brother James, age 11 about a . Statement of Jesse Logan, aged 106 years old and Great Grandson of Chief Shikellamy I would love to see any books or copies of information if you would like to share. I was taught to hunt by my grandfather, who died in 1820. A tribesman named Snake took hold of the crying infants feet and bashed its head against the side of the cabin. Over the course of the evening/night of April 21-22, 2021, someone entered four separate homes in Pike County, Ohio, and shot eight members of the Rhoden family. Andrew Sheeley The Logan Cemetery as it appears today north of Interstate 44. It would also be a reason for Stacy not to call 911 after the murders. Found dead in the family massacre were Raymond and Ruth Gee, approximately 46 and 39 years old, and their three children ages 11 to 16. Joshua, I had the family history book you mentioned but lost it in a fire. James later in life was referred to as "Logan, the Mingo." Theres been no proof made public that he initiated a sexual relationship with Stacy before the murders. Logan and small parties of Shawnee and Mingo soon began striking frontier settlers in revenge for the murders at Yellow Creek. [citation needed]. This was a reunion of descendants of John and Liddia German and descendants of Medicine Water and Calf Woman whose destinies met at this site on September 11, 1874. He takes care of the ailing old Professor X whom he keeps hidden away. Low 38F. I married Susan, a Seneca maid, and we had one child, James Logan, who died at the age of thirty. The action insulted Tomlinson, and when the Indians discharged their weapons at a target, he grabbed his rifle and shot Petty as he stood in the doorway. Since her initial lengthy interview with Deputy Sheriff Jon Stout, conducted on the scene before her transfer to hospital, Stacy has been adamant that Scott was not the killer. And that's simply too terrifying for her to face. Their fear was well founded. While dismissing McKee's words as lies, the Shawnees refused for the moment to go to war with the Virginians. Thank you. Greentree Learning Center recently invited Missouri S&T Miner basketball players Michael Appiah-Brefo and Lovell Williams to come play basketball with preschoolers as part of its continuing effort to build and sustain relationships with people and organizations within our community. Logan delivering his . Who is there to mourn for Logan? However, an autopsy and analysis of his brain at Johns Hopkins Hospital found no abnormalities.[2]. The roots of the Dec. 14 massacre by Scots-Irish Presbyterian militia lay decades earlier in the settlement patterns of the region. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. He took revenge for family members killed by Virginian Long knives in 1774 in what is known as the Yellow Creek Massacre. On October 5, 1878, still in the midst of unpacking their belongings, the Dowdy family was going about their normal day. } to John Gibson near Chillicothe in 1774. You can take an airboat ride down the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia and get an . I'm a Spicer/Bowen descendant through my mother's paternal line. This was about 21% of all the recorded Logan's in USA. Award-winning journalist Lara Logan dives deep into the 2019 massacre that left nine Mormon women and children dead at the hands of a Mexican cartel. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Nice to meet you! The Netflix series 28 days haunted (2022) shows the place where the victims were embalmed and describes what happened. Logan, whose power to self-heal is dwindling, has surrendered himself to alcohol and now earns a living as a chauffeur. The site contains the remains of Malcolm and Anna Logan as well as their four children killed in the 1886 massacre. Mass murderer Charlie Lawson shares the same headstone as his family victims. In the new settlement young Benjamin Logan wooed and married Montgomery's daughter Anne. Betsy Spicer is my 8th great grandmother. That angle and location is, however, consistent with the wounds of every other victim. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Next summer, if I live I hope to visit Logan Valley, where my grandfather resided, and view the scenes that my father loved to talk about. The pair are accused of killing Raymond "Rick" Gee, his wife, Ruth, and three of their children last month. If Stout's sexual predation of Stacy pre-dated the murders, his early presence at the crime scene and interviewing of Stacy would have compromised the investigation beyond repair. In 1929, days prior to Christmas, Lawson (age 43) took Fannie (his wife age 37) and their seven children, Arthur (age 19), Marie (age 16), Carrie (age 12), Maybell (age 7) James (age 4) Raymond, (age 2) and Mary Lou (age 4 months) into town to buy new clothes and to have a family portrait taken. Any info about my grandfather's family would be appreciated. "James Logan." Contact me at omiakron@gmail.com. Investigating, they discovered an Indian apparently in the act of stealing the animal. Have you reached the part of the rabbit-hole where Stout finds out his 3yo son is another man's? Scholars agree that Logan Elrod was a son of Chief Shikellamy, an important diplomat for the Iroquois Confederacy. Is there any explanation given for why Stacy made three calls, all to family or friends, rather than calling the police first? She would of been my 6th great grandmother. He is supposed to be son of William Spicer who was captured by the Seneca Indians, and Fair Cloud the Seneca woman William married. This wasn't a plot to get Stacy the inheritance money. The following morning, unaware that the perpetrators of the previous evenings violence awaited them, eight members of Logan's band crossed the river to Baker's. The bodies of the family members were found with their arms crossed and rocks under their heads. When the United States entered the global conflict on April 6, 1917, the country was unprepared for modern warfare. Members of the Fundamentalist Mormon group were ambushed while driving in three vehicles, with authorities believing a drug cartel may be responsible.WATCH T. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. Grabbing the infant from her cradleboard, he took hold of its ankles and was about to dash its brains out when one of his companions intervened to save the child's life. His pacific outlook was changed in the spring of 1774, when a party of white settlers massacred eight Indians at Baker's Tavern across from Yellow Creek. 72.4k members in the missouri community. I remember Cornplanter, my maternal grandfather, very well. William was the "White Renegade" man involved with the massacre of the Crow sisters. My mother was a Spicer, and I am only now learning the long history of her family. But Jennings identifies Tachnechdorus as Logan the orator's older brother. On November 5, 2009, 13 people are killed and more than 30 others are wounded, nearly all of them unarmed soldiers, when a U.S. Army officer goes on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in central . The most surprising part of the story is that the victims were known quite well to Christopher Harris. I took after my grandfather, as I am of large stature. The white People killed my kin at Coneestoga a great while ago, & I thought nothing of that. The indictments offer the first hints of what prosecutors think took place at the Gee home in the tiny town of Beason, about 35 miles northeast of Springfield. Area property owner Bill Buchanan and Missouri Humanities Council Archaeologist Erin Whitson next to the suspected old cellar remaining from the Logan family homes 1886 razing. Thank you! During the Seven Years War, Shikellamy and his family had sought refuge at Thomas McKee's trading post. I hope to travel to Green County by the end of May 2022, to do some investigating, do I have any cousins up for the trip. John Cole, 40, will serve a minimum term of 29 years in . And if so, could you share his lineage? When Betsy saw the woman in her mothers dress she assaulted her violently, tearing the clothes off the Mingo womans back. She is my fifth great grandmother. Early in life he married Annie, a daughter of Cornplanter, who bore him fine children, three daughters and two sons. Logan and Michael Cresap resolved their differences after Cresap proved that he was innocent of the massacre of Logan's people. John was the oldest of the siblings. Logan the Orator was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. As a boy I excelled at the Indian games of long ball and snow snake. LINCOLN, Ill. (CBS/AP) Indictments released Wednesday claim two brothers, Christopher and Jason Harris, armed with a tire iron broke into a family's home in Beason, Ill. to rob them and assault a teenage girl before beating five people to death. The day before the book was to be published, the author received a phone call from Stella Lawson, a relative who had already been interviewed for the book. A group of Virginia Long knives led by Daniel Greathouse murdered a number of Mingo, among them Logan's brother (commonly known as John Petty) and at least two other close female relatives, one of them pregnant and caring for an infant daughter. Is it possible he didn't/wasn't (and wasn't involved in the murders), but saw a vulnerable teen girl he could exploit to have a relationship with after he got to know her because of investigating the murders? Following a prevailing Native American practice, the young man who would become Logan the Mingo took the name "James Logan" out of admiration for his father's friend.[4]. Real Audio by Eloise Lane. Ancestors at that time could be listed in Virginia or Pennsylvania. On April 30 some members of the hunting party, Chief Logans wife Mellana, his brother Taylaynee (called John Petty by many English speakers), Taylaynee's son, Molnah and Logan's sister, Koonay, who was also the pregnant wife of John Gibson a prominent trader with whom she already had one daughter. They came upon a man and a small child floating in a dinghy. According to investigators, on Sunday, May 29th 2005, the morning he was to graduate high school, Scott Moody walked across his familys failing dairy farm to his grandparents' farmhouse and shot them both dead with a .22-caliber rifle. The gunshot signaling Lawson's own suicide was heard by the many people who already had learned of the murders on the property and gathered there. Among the dead were several members of Logan's . To Captain Cressap - What did you kill my people on Yellow Creek for. The Rolla Board of Education is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Tori Snitker as the next Lead Principal of Rolla Junior High School, effective July 1. As she rolled over she was shot in the neck. "Only several hundred yards distant" that the last massacre occurred, where Jane Logan McKee lost her life. The bodies of the Mingo victims were mutilated. Posthumously it was speculated that he had impregnated his eldest daughter (Marie, 16). She also picked up the habit of smoking a pipe, a habit that her descendants recall fondly. So did he? Two days later, on May 5, McKee met again with many of the same representatives. The brothers pleaded not guilty to all the charges during a Wednesday court appearance. #inline-recirc-item--id-d445f4ac-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child(5) { Crawford County Historical Society President Dennis Roedmeier is also author of Death of Innocence. The historical short story recounts the 1886 Logan Family Massacre and its aftermath. I couldn't get past the first couple pages. Logan the Orator (c. 17231780) was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. -- The grandparents of the lone teenage survivor of a Houston massacre are "in awe" of her courage that allowed her to call the police . We still live, and raise cattle not 2 miles from where the spicer cabin stood. Full Episode. A new burial marker for the six deceased members of the Logan family will be installed at the Logan Cemetery later this year. Man sold possessions to move family west.
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