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Among these were John Wetzel, whose five sons, Lewis, Jacob, Martin, John and George grew to be such frontier fighters that Lewis was called the Boone of West Virginia; there were the McCollochs John, William and Samuel whose sister Elizabeth had married Eb Zane; and another of the Zanes, Andrew. Those were days of large families.
Another company of men, ahorse, were galloping across the bottom, for the top of the bluff, and the fort gates. "It's Major McColloch! It's Sam McColloch, from Short Creek! Huzza! Huzza!" Short Creek was a dozen miles north. The McCollochs lived there. Here they came the Short Creek settlers, business bent.
He is not a bully, for I have never known him to do anything mean or cruel. It is just sheer love of fighting." "Ha! Ha! I fear you will not break him of that," answered Col. Zane. "It is a good joke to say he gets it all from the Zanes. How about the McCollochs? What have you to say of your father and the Major and John McColloch? They are not anything if not the fighting kind.
Had the Indians struck at once, they might have scored heavily, in spite of the fighting Zanes, Wetzels, McCollochs, and all. But they delayed, and by the last week of August Colonel Shepherd reported to General Hand: "We are well prepared. Fort Henry is Indian proof."
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