From an article written by G. Webb Bertram and published in the Oberlin Herald, November 1, 1923:
"On our way to Buffalo Park to the railroad to sell buffalo hides in September of 1872 we ran into Abernathy and his son-in-law Fred Walters, residing on the headwaters of the North Solomon; twenty miles west of their nearest neighbors. Considering the times and locality, Abernathy was richer than Henry Ford or Rockefeller. He had six or eight rifles and shotguns, lots of ammunition: eight or ten sacks of flour, and same in sides of bacon, and other eatables in proportion. We asked if he was not afraid of the Indians. He said no, he had treaties with all of them." BUT !! These men were subsequently killed by the Indians in the raid of 1878. In 1872 Abernathy had a boy sixteen or seventeen years old, who, he said, could boast of what few boys could--- that he had never gone to school or done a day's work in his life."
For more information email the Decatur County Museum [email protected]
"On our way to Buffalo Park to the railroad to sell buffalo hides in September of 1872 we ran into Abernathy and his son-in-law Fred Walters, residing on the headwaters of the North Solomon; twenty miles west of their nearest neighbors. Considering the times and locality, Abernathy was richer than Henry Ford or Rockefeller. He had six or eight rifles and shotguns, lots of ammunition: eight or ten sacks of flour, and same in sides of bacon, and other eatables in proportion. We asked if he was not afraid of the Indians. He said no, he had treaties with all of them." BUT !! These men were subsequently killed by the Indians in the raid of 1878. In 1872 Abernathy had a boy sixteen or seventeen years old, who, he said, could boast of what few boys could--- that he had never gone to school or done a day's work in his life."
For more information email the Decatur County Museum [email protected]
From an article written by G. Webb Bertram and published in the Oberlin Herald, November 1, 1923:
"On our way to Buffalo Park to the railroad to sell buffalo hides in September of 1872 we ran into Abernathy and his son-in-law Fred Walters, residing on the headwaters of the North Solomon; twenty miles west of their nearest neighbors. Considering the times and locality, Abernathy was richer than Henry Ford or Rockefeller. He had six or eight rifles and shotguns, lots of ammunition: eight or ten sacks of flour, and same in sides of bacon, and other eatables in proportion. We asked if he was not afraid of the Indians. He said no, he had treaties with all of them." BUT !! These men were subsequently killed by the Indians in the raid of 1878. In 1872 Abernathy had a boy sixteen or seventeen years old, who, he said, could boast of what few boys could--- that he had never gone to school or done a day's work in his life."
For more information email the Decatur County Museum [email protected]
"On our way to Buffalo Park to the railroad to sell buffalo hides in September of 1872 we ran into Abernathy and his son-in-law Fred Walters, residing on the headwaters of the North Solomon; twenty miles west of their nearest neighbors. Considering the times and locality, Abernathy was richer than Henry Ford or Rockefeller. He had six or eight rifles and shotguns, lots of ammunition: eight or ten sacks of flour, and same in sides of bacon, and other eatables in proportion. We asked if he was not afraid of the Indians. He said no, he had treaties with all of them." BUT !! These men were subsequently killed by the Indians in the raid of 1878. In 1872 Abernathy had a boy sixteen or seventeen years old, who, he said, could boast of what few boys could--- that he had never gone to school or done a day's work in his life."
For more information email the Decatur County Museum [email protected]
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