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Gems from Rena Shelton
That little Johnny Norton that got away there. He had crawled under the bed and covered up with an old bear skin that was there. And as they started marching them down the road, they said, "No, there was another one of them," because Pete McCoy had got away from them that night. I'll have to tell you that story when I finish up with this one, and little Johnny Norton covered up with that. And they said, "No this is all of them," the man said.
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And they passed down just as you come around the curve, down here on the lower end of this bottom across the creek where James Shelton, the old man lived. As they passed (Mother always said they told her this.)that when they passed his house, the little 13-year-old came out crying, wanting to go with his daddy and or wanting his daddy to come in. And he said they opened the gate and made him to come out, put him in line and marched him along with them. That's what she said she always heard them say.
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You know how Pete McCoy got away? He had to go to be excused, and they sent a guard out with him. He felt around while he was being excused, picked him up a rock and knocked the guard in the head and ran off. They called him the weasel. They never could catch him.
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Solomon in later life
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After they killed these people, Judy took her little children and made a lean-to on the other side of the mountain, afraid they would come back and kill her and her little children. And she stayed in it all winter. In fact, she stayed so long they got to having the food they took with them, they had eaten it all up. They had worn their shoes out, the little boy said. They got to eating the bark off the trees.
And she left them one day when there was snow on the ground. She came to her potato hole to get some potatoes to take back with her to eat. And Solomon, who was my husband's grandfather, was a little fellow, and he said that after his mother left, he followed her, and he stood with his shoes worn out, and he was bare footed. He hit that snow and he followed her bare footed. He was just a young fellow, just a little fellow too. They got food and went back on the other side of the mountain.
Pete McCoy that escaped.... These solders found where her potatoes were, and they went down to get some food for them to eat! So Pete was alying (There was some woodland right in there). And they (the soldiers) came to get them (the potatoes), and Pete was lying on that hill there, and he killed both of them. And they are buried just on the other side of the road, just as you go up there where they are making a flower garden. They were the ones were making it down there, and I said, "Don't move them rocks!" They said "Why?" I told them the story about two Confederates.
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