| In 1867 there stood on the south bank of the Leon river in Hamilton County a small log school house. Miss Ann Whitney was teaching. There was a small window on the north side.The time was 2 p.m. Thursday July 11,1867. Olivia Barbee a twice year old girl lived northeast ten or twelve miles away from the school Her farther was going to visit her that week. Alexander Powers had looked through a little hole between the logs. she was certain they were Indians, so she told Miss Whitney what she had seen. She looked again and started to cry "They are Indians" she cried. She grabbed her little brother and climbed out the window, then hid in some bushes. Then Miss Whitney noticed they were Indians. Then she got the children and told them to climb out the little window.They all escaped except Mary Ann a sick little girl and two boys and their sister. Miss Whitney was a very large woman and weighed about 230 pounds and was not able to get through the window. The Indians were very very close. One Indian was a white man. Miss Whitney had yelled to kill her but to let the children go. Through the spaces between the logs they fired some arrows at Miss Whitney, but still she managed to get the two little girls the window . For that she reserved another arrow in her back. This left Miss Whitney with the two little Kuykendall boys. Then an Indian entered the building to finish his work. She was already down on the floor gasping.Then the man who spoke English asked the two little boys if they wished to go with him. One said "yes". The other said "no" which was John Kuykendall. He then ran out the school. Then the Indians saw Olivia Barbee under the floor and they left her then she ran out. On the falling day she was found by a man named Josiah Massengill. |
