The story of the return of Asher Warner's remains to his home is a pathetic one. The Warner family -- Asher, Mrs. Warner and two boys (children of Mr. Warner by a former wife) -- lived about one-half mile from the Brick Church (near Wallington).
Word reached the family that Mr. Warner had been killed. Twelve year old Daniel harnessed a horse to the lumber wagon and drove his lonely way through the many miles of woods to Sodus Point, reaching there between sundown and dark.
Isaac Davidson and another man helped take his father's blood-soaked body from the tavern and place it in the wagon. In utter darkness and with his gruesome burden, the boy wended his way back, counting every hoof beat that brought him nearer home. But he arrived to find the log house dark and deserted, His stepmother, displaying shameful callousness, had taken five-year-old Jonathan with her and departed fo a neighbor's house two or three miles away.
Daniel had to go nearly a mile for help. He got John Peeler, a boy about his own age, and the two children alone and at midnight carried the body from the wagon to the house, keeping watch over it until nine or ten o'clock the next morning when neighbors came and prepared the remains for burial.
--Brock-Perry
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