Still looking for Sarah - as time permits...have found a Susannah, but
no Sarah yet. The early Cavitts seemed to be notorious for NOT
recording the names of their daughters.
I don't know how long you've been on the list, but did you see the
photos of the Cavitt Massacre Monument in Knoxville?
The massacre is an interesting story. A band of @1000 renegade Creek
Indians and Tories decided to raid Knoxville. At that time the Creeks
and Cherokees were peaceful. Alexander Cavett had a Station for
travellers which was exactly one-days journey from Knoxville (today - 8
miles from downtown Knoxville).
The band of warriors reached Cavett Station early in the morning
(September, 1793). Shortly, after the attack, the soldiers
at the fort in Knoxville fired their cannons, a routine morning event.
Hearing the cannons, the Indians mistakenly thought they had been
detected by the soldiers, and they decided to burn Cavett Station.
According to historians, they "brutally" massacred all 13 people there,
including Alexander Cavett and his entire family.
The Cavett Station massacre was, therefore, credited with saving
the residents of Knoxville from the same fate. Since Alexander Cavett
had received the land as a grant for his services in the Revolutionary
War, the Sons of the American Revolution placed a monument at the site.
Would you believe I lived only 13 miles from Cavett Station for 21
years, and never knew anything about it...in fact, in those days, I
didn't know I had a Cavitt ancestor.
Last August, I was in Knoxville for a couple of days, and managed to
track down the monument. It is located on what is now private property
occupied by a Cavitt descendant. Adjacent is a beautiful, very upscale
subdivision on the property originally owned by Alexander Cavitt.
I photographed the monuments and sent copies to Listowner Rita Bryant;
she has a scanner and posted them on the Mail List recently. If you
haven't seen them, I'll forward to you.
Still looking for Sarah,
Helen
Mentor9800(a)aol.com wrote:
b. 1775 Westmoreland Co., PA, m. Jesse Nash. In 1816 traveled by flatboat
down the Ohio R. to Posey Co., IN, where she d. 1857. Looking for her
ancestors.