Abigail Rachel Shipley
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Feb 1757 1
Christening:
Death: 1 Apr 1793 - Morgan's Station, KY
Burial: in Slate Creek, No Markers, With Kids.
Cause of Death: Killed in indian raid on Morgan's Station, KY
AFN :
Events
• Event, 2 Apr 1793
Sometimes the clues of wildfires come from the most tragic
accounts of the early Kentucky pioneers. The rescue party
searching for the victims of the 1793 Easter Sunday attack
on Morgan’s Station for example, noted that two of the
victims had been forced to march through a recently burned
section of the woods. James Wade recounts that on April 2nd
“…just above the head of Little Slate we found Mrs. Becraft
and her suckling child ‘six or eight months old’ lying
tomahawked. It was a very plain case. They had marched
her that far in her shift, as was visible from the scratches and
marks on it from a burnt wood they had passed through. And
there she had given out” (Hogan 1991:24-25). This location
is very near a large rockshelter known as Newt Cash Shelter,
which would later provide the first archaeological evidence of
prehistoric anthropogenic use of fire.
Spouses and Children
1. *Abraham Becraft
Marriage: 25 Feb 1777 - Middletown Evangelical Luthern Church 2
Status:
Children:
1. Josiah Becraft
2. Betty Becraft
3. Benjamin Franklin Becraft
4. Rachel Becraft
5. Abraham Becraft Jr
6. Ruth Becraft
Notes
Death Notes:
killed by indians
Sources
1. Amy Rummelhart (azureami@hotmail.com), "Amy's Tree" (http://www.gencircles.com/users/daygirl/5/data/4565).
2. From Mildred, All Saints Parish, Maryland, Vestry Records 5 vols, Vol I-IV at.