From Wikipedia.
Lt.Col. Mills Srephenson's father and family moved to Washington, Kentucky before going to Ohio. This town was founded by famous Indian fighter Simon Kenton.
(April 3, 1755 to April 29, 1836) We're coming up on the 180th anniversary of his death.
Famous American frontiersman (whom I'd never heard of before) and soldier in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. A friend of Daniel Boone and other frontier folks.
He served in the American Revolution, the Northwest Indian War and the War of 1812. Simon Kenton was born in what is today Virginia and in 1771, at the age of 16, was forced to flee to the wilderness after he killed a man in a fit of jealous rage over a girl and lived under the assumed name of Simon Butler. While there, he learned that the man had survived and he took back his real name.
During the American Revolution, he accompanied George Rogers Clark, (uncle of the hero of Fort Stephenson George Croghan) in his famous capture of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, Indiana.
In 177778, he waas adopted into the Shawnee tribe after running the gauntlet and ritual torture.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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