Notes for CHRISTINA CROW:
The following article is found on page 689 and 690 of the Book "The Indian Wars of Pennsylvania" by C. Hale Sipe, of Butler and Pittsburgh bar.
"The Crow family also lived in what is now Richill Township, Greene County (PA). One of the daughters worked for the family of James Davis, whose murder we have just related, and came home every Saturday evening to spend Sunday with her parents. On the afternoon of the day of the murder of the Davis family, this girl, accompanied by her four sisters, started for the Davis home. They sat down under a tree, not far from the mouth of Wharton Run, to crack nuts, when their brother, Michael, who had been searching for a strayed colt and found it, passed them and told them not to delay as it was getting late. Two of the girls then started up Wheeling Creek and the other three started down the stream. Presently two rifle shots broke the stillness of the autumn afternoon, and two of the girls fell mortally wounded, while the other three fled with the Indians in pursuit. One of the girls named Taner, was knocked down with a tomahawk, and the Indians thinking she was dead, pressed on after the others, one of whom was captured. The youngest girl, Mary, outran her pursuers, and was taken up behind her brother, Michael, on the horse. She and the surviving children, except Taner and Michael, fled to Ryerson's Station. Michael was too young to run that distance and too large to be carried. His father concealed him under the floor of the cabin and told him to remain there until help arrived. In a short time the Indians pillaged the cabin but did not find the boy. He remained hidden for three days without food or water, before he was rescued. Tanner Crowe, after being knocked down, crawled into the brush and concealed herself beyond discovery. She recovered from the sound, and lived to raise a large family."
NOTE: Taner was a nickname for Christina Crowe, who recovered from her experience and married John McBride and raised a family of ten children, one of them, her son William, became my grandfather. Ira F. Archer, Sr. (6/9/1967).
