SOURCE:
History Of The Western Reserve - Vol. 1, p. 586
Harriet Taylor Upton
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
i thought miss. upton would be the last person to describe the indians as savages
I'm sure the Native Americans of that period viewed some of our own ancestors as
"savages" also - for killing them and taking their lands from them. Something
Ms. Upton was no doubt aware of.
Some of my ancestors were Iroquois of the Seneca tribe. My great Grandmother on my
Dad's side of the family was half Iroquois. She was born in 1891 - the only person I
ever knew that was born before the beginning of the 20th century - and lived until
I was in my teens. It's hard to even imagine what life was like in her early years,
before electricity, indoor plumbing, radio, TV and internet.
The house that she and my great grandfather built is still standing on Western
Reserve road in Canfield - right up the road from the log cabin that my Grandpa
Alden and Grandma Louise built.