The Charleston Daily Mail from Charleston, West Virginia • Page 10

a i LAST COLONIAL OUTPOST WAS ON TOMPKINS FARM By FORREST HULL Daily Mall Feature Writer Oti a night near the turn of the last century a summer storm swept over the Kelleys Creek area of the upper Kanawha Val ley. It was mostly sound and fury with litae damage, but at daylignt it was noticed that the giant pear tree on the Tompkins farm had fallen. It was quite a noted tree in the, rerion. It was around 105 years: old, having been planted by William Morris, the Erst permanent settler in the Kanawha Valley, in 1774. There had been two pear trees out one had died some time before.

They had stood near the Morris and when they fell the last evidence of an outpost of an KnElish king disappeared iorever. William Morris came to the mouth of Kelleys Creek on the eve of an Indian war. He brought with him besides his wife, Eliza beth, ten children eight boys and two girls. Probably he owned a few slaves. His married sons had wives and children.

Other persons may have come with the party. With their cattle, household plunder and farming tools it was quite a large Dana to travel the 70 odd miles from pres ent Lewisburg to the Kanawha through a trackless wilderness. The party carnc by the way of' Ansted, over and down Richj Creek, along Gauley and up Belli Creek to the head, then down Kelleys Creek to the Kanawha Riv er. In time this came to be the main road to the frontier. KELLEY WAS FIRST Morris was not the first settler to the mouth of Kelleys Creek.

Some months before' a North Car olinian named Walter Kclley had built a log cabin here and had re sided with his family until warned away by dispatch runners from government authorities in Lewisburg. He had sent his family eastward hut remained at his cabin. He was visited by Col. Fields and a Scotsman, surveyors, who were hurrying back to the settlements. A war party of Indians fell upon them, killing his Negro servant woman, and the Scots man.

Col. Fields escaped into the! woods and made his way to the: fort at Lewisburg. Morris came and took ley's land, buried the dead settlers, and began the construction! of a fort which he called Kelley fitauon. In a short time the place became an important spot on the route to the west. Morris was an Englishman who had come to America at an early age.

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ARMY PAUSED In 1774, the year of the arrival jof the Morris clan, an army of I frontiersmen under command of Gen. ADdrew Lewis came down jthe trace from Lewisburg enj route to Point Pleasant. They FT driving several hundred head of cattle and pack horses tor use ot ule army. Tne army. paused for a day before chopping and Hacking its way to the mouth of Elk! Two or more of the Mor ris men went with the army.

Gen. Andrew Lewis was an of ficer of the crown and the commonwealth. He was a stern officer and a stickler for formality. and it is probable that his army lugged a British flag with me col umn. He was acting under orders ot Lord Dunmore, though it known that he held no love for "the old Scotch villain." The great American Revolution was just around the corner.

Trea son was in the air. The insane! King George had pushed the col onists to the very limit. Dunmore knew it as did Gen. Lewis. campaign against the Shawnee in Ohio was fraught with the crown.

What if the army of woodsmen should turn against the authority oi Dunmore? But the army did not revolt. It! fought the battle of Point Pleas ant and marched back home to Lewisburg. The next year Lord Dunmore fled the Colony and the war for independence was on. MORRIS USED FORT All through the long war years' William Morris stayed behind his; strong fort at Kelleys Creek. constructed flat boats and sold them to immigrants bound for the western country.

He died in 1792, and his son, William took over leadership of the growing family. William Jr. deserted the old fort and built a large east of the creek which became known as the "White During the Indian wars, Kelley btauon housed many widely known frontier people: Boone, Mad Ann Bailey, Kenton, et al. John Bailey, husband of "Mad stayed at the fort. The rec ords show he was "a hireling of I William Bailey died on the Carroll farm at present Dick CROSSWORD PUZZLE Nautical Bit ACROSS 1 Oriental skiff 7 Indian boats 13 Everlasting (poet.) 14 Prayer 15 Dormice 16 Grumble 17 Afresh IS Sumatran.

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Clendenin were members of the Assembly in Richmond. Dan'l Boone, who could read and write, and was a surveyor of sorts, wrote that "from the Pint to Elk, no inhabitence, from Elk to Bote Yards (Kelleys Creek) 20 miles all So the land filled up. the old set tlers went to their graves, and old stockade fell into ruin. The Morris clan scattered, leav ling the name upon the land. Only I ri site to Aaron Stockton, who in turn sold it to William Tomrjkins.

Today the old fort site is cov ered by a railroad track. The creek along which the army of Lewis marched is black with coal silt. Route 60 by passes the site of the first settlement and the town of Cedar Grove is hidden from tourists by rank weeds. Only a bronze tablet in the at the eastern' end tells the story of the last outpost of the crown the Kanawha Valley. Russian Lauds Plane! 'Fixing' By U.S.

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