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He was wounded in the battle of King's Mountain, and after his wound had healed, before rejoining the army, he managed to make another short visit to Kentucky. Upon his return, on his way to join Lafayette at Yorktown just before Cornwallis' surrender, Hite stopped at Lawsonville.
"How long have you owned Uncle Tony? He talks like a Virginia darkey." "So he is. He's not only frum my own State, but frum my county an' town ole Lawsonville. Cynthy Ann 'lows Tony's done got the measure o' my foot, an' thet I spile him dreadful.
"Certainly," his uncle replied; "for your mother was undoubtedly living at the date specified in the will." "Yes," Abner said, "that can be established by your testimony, which is corroborated by the inscription on her tombstone at Lawsonville and by the record in your family Bible both of which give the date of her death as that of August 21, 1782, three months after the will was written."
Drane's informant also wrote that it had always been the impression with the people of Lawsonville that Mary Hollis had not been legally married to Abner's father, but that she had been entrapped into a form of marriage with John Logan at a time when he had a wife still living.
He then related to his nephew what James Drane had already learned from Tom Gaines; namely, that Mary Hollis and her second husband, with her little son, then four years of age, had emigrated to Kentucky in the spring of 1782. "I think you once told me, Uncle Richard," Abner said, later in the conversation with his uncle, "that Andrew Hite visited Lawsonville while my mother was living with you."
During the Virginia campaign several years later, when Stump's regiment was with Lafayette around Yorktown about twenty miles from Lawsonville he had intended to ask for leave of absence, and go to see how it fared with his former comrade's widow; but, hearing that she had married again and removed to Kentucky, he did not go to Lawsonville.
"About five shillings per week. I'm told that is the usual " "Five shillin's! The granny's hind foot! Why, boy, whut you tek me an' Cynthy Ann fur? We shan't tek five shillin's nor yit five cents. A boy like you, not much older'n our William, ef he'd 'a' lived, an' frum Lawsonville, too! Didn't I tell you you'd be jes' lak my own frum this time on? Board, indeed!
I brought my bride to Lawsonville, and she never saw her Pepper connections, who lived, as you are aware, in quite another part of the State." "There is another fact in regard to your mother which I had better tell you now, Abner," Dr. Dudley went on after a time. "She did not die at Lawsonville, although I erected a stone there to her memory."
"They came from Maryland, and joined Marshall and Mary at some appointed place I do not now recall on the road, many miles from Lawsonville." "But when the man returned with me," asked Abner, "did you not then learn his full name, and something of his history?" "I did not see him," was Dudley's reply.
"Did I understand you to say Uncle Tony was from Lawsonville?" "Egzactly! Do you know the place?" "Why, it's my native town," said Dudley. "Whut!" exclaimed Rogers. "Shake agin, suh," striding over to Dudley, who also had risen. "Then you're jes' lak my own kin frum this time on. Frum Lawsonville!" he repeated, a tear on each swarthy cheek as he grasped the young man's hand.
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