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His grandfather Isaac Zane had been
buried in 1813 - and of course
he attended the funeral.
He gave me the family history of Isaac
Zane and his wife - whom
of course he distinctly remembered and
told me of the marriage of
Isaac Zane to the daughter of Tarhe, who
he said was his great-grand-
father. At the time he left for Canada
they were just cutting the brush
out of the main street of Bellefontaine
the new village.
There died here lately Mrs. Garwood, a
grand-daughter of Wm.
McCulloch, the son-in-law of Isaac Zane,
and she and her brothers who
visited her some time since, were full
of the family tradition as I have
given it to you, both of them being
between 80 and 90 years old.
P. Zane Grey, of Columbus, uses the
story of Zane's marriage to
the Chief's daughter, but I think he
does not give the name of the father
of Isaac's wife. (His book is
"Betty Zane").
Grey gives an account of the attempted
escape of Isaac and his
recapture by the Chief's daughter,--all
of which I think fiction for
Isaac did not care to escape, and never
attempted to do so.
If I have given you any information of
value I shall be glad of
it. It is written quite hurriedly, and
quite disconnected possibly-but
I have not had time to hunt up any
histories and I presume that you
wanted something not found in histories
as we understand it.
ROBT. P. KENNEDY.
P. S.--I should have said that Robert
Armstrong, Mrs. Dawson's
father, went from Solomontown to Wyandot
County and became head
chief or chief man of the Wyandots, and
remained with them until his
death. If I am not mistaken he went with
them to Kansas in 1844.
A LOGAN MONUMENT.
The unveiling of the Cresap Tablet, and
the erection of a log cabin
at Logan Elm Park has revived the
interest, of the people residing in
the vicinity of the Elm, in the memory
and speech of the Mingo chief.
This interest has found expression in
some of the newspapers of Picka-
way county, and the suggestion is freely
expressed that a monument
or tablet should be erected near the Elm
that bears the name of Logan.
Curiously enough this idea of a monument
to Logan was proposed by a
correspondent in the year 1843--nearly
three-quarters of a century
ago--in the "American
Pioneer," a monthly periodical, as the title
page announces, "devoted to the
objects of the Logan Historical Society,"
and published in Cincinnati. The
communication is in the form of the
following poem, written by Joseph D.
Canning:
EPITAPH FOR THE LOGAN MONUMENT.
Logan! to thy memory here,
White men do this tablet rear;
On its front we grave thy name -
In our hearts shall live thy fame.