Norwood

Information obtained from Clyde Clayton Simmons of Glascow, Kentucky. My father was Captain of company G. 9th. Kentucky Infantry U.S.A. during the Civil War. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountai n, Missionary Ride, Chicamauga, and a number of minor engagements. Fayete Hamilton, who resides at Summer Shade, Ky. great grandson of John Hamilton, Sr., relates that his grandmother Hamilton had to ld him of many Indian attacks made on the station or settlement where the early Hamiltons lived near Crab Orchard, Ky. On one occasion, Robert Hamilton-referred to an Uncle Robert by his grandmothe r presumably the brother of John Hamilton Sr., killed an Indian who was hiding behind the "Ash Hopper" at their home. Fayete Hamilton is in possession of a silver trinket, of odd design, removed fro m the clothing of this Indian. It was presented to him by his grandmother, who requested that it be handed down from generation to generation, with the information of its origin. She also told him o f a hand to hand encounter by a negro slave and Indian during this same attack. It appears that the Indian was the stronger of the two, and was getting the best of the gray which took place on the fl oor in one of the cabins. In some manner the negro was able to hold the savage on the floor while one of the women of the settlement obtained an axe and struck it in his back. She then asked the neg ro if it had killed him, on being advised that it had not, she obtained the fire poker and knocked him in the head. (This attack is given in detail in Vol. II, page, 477, Collins History of Kentucky)