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WPA L. C. PROJECT CAI ArL+4.11-41 UNIT
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Grace Monroe Morgan's Raid
Dist. 4, Jefferson Countya,L.-e 4,„/J
496 Words
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Ref. 314.dison Courier --July 20, 1937
"Recollections of 7ormer Madison Woman Then But Little Girl.
Lakewood, Ohio
July 19, 1937
I personally remember very vividily the panic, agitation, repudiation
his crossing the Ohio aroused in Madison people. I was six years old
when the war began. Lverybody went to work hiding valuables. Same rushed
to the country and hilltrops. My father, John G. Sering owned the home
now the property of Miss Drusilla Cravens on the hill. Jimon+1 the relatives
who came to our place or refuge was my grandmother who had been a pioneer
in the days when Indian raids were frequent. While with us she would not,
at ni6ht, sleep in a bed but on the floor. She said by placing her head
on the .1.00r she woule, her better when the rebels came. She had picked
out a place in the thick woods on the hill back of Georgetown, as it was
called at that time. The trees were covered with wild grape vines and she
thought it would make a Food hiding place for the fsily when the raiders
C cline
She Lad seen the home guards march valiantly out tie Michigan road
to protect Madison. My father followed with a sprinf, wagon loae of
supplies donated by the patriotic women of Fairmount, in fact, taeir
Sunday dinners, solicited by Hattie Serin:; and Alice Hite, two young
laeies of the Mu. s she
saw him rz,o the threw up her hands and cried,
"There goes my last son to the war." I often wondered what the home guard
would have done ii Morgan hae come. Would they have been able to defeat
him?
Homer Serin and John Cravens went riding out, as scouts, to find him.
They :pund hiz Dupont and were shot at but escaped. Lt John Morgan
took different route. I think he went from Dupont along hg Creek.
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have heard the farmers along Big Creek tell of the hams they found along
the road. He had raided the Mayfield pork house in Dupont. Macy cut
out what they wanted from a ham and threw the rest away.
I also heard Mr. Lloyd* farmer on Big Creek* tell of hiding, a very
fine young horse in the deep woods and leaving his two old work horses: U
the barn yard, hop they would satisfy the rebels. But he said* "That
Billy colt* when he he -rd the rebel horses, commenced such a whinnying he
could be heard for miles. They found him.
They made a mistake in not returning across the river from the Ind.
side. The Ohio pecele had tii4e to rally strong forces to defeat him and
took him prisoner. Those were stirring times. Peelings were biter in
those (lays.
Two summers aeo I spent five months in the south, met the steaauOfters
of John Morgan. One of them told me she had no hard feelings toward the
natl. I did not hear any bitter words of hate from anyone* although I
was in the vicinity of e.arar battle groun,s. I visited Lookout Mountain*
Mission,ry ride, MUrlrees'eoror, etc.,
of veterans.
where there thousands of graves
LAV"
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