While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Old Carron or Vieux Carron,
said to be the son of a French trader, was born about 1700 and died in
"the old king's village" in 1780 He was a fierce old warrior, having
served in all the French wars and with Montcalm on the heights of Abraham.
He assisted Lieutenant Gorrill, with the English garrison, to escape from
the Green Bay post in 1763, when the Pontiac Beaver war was on. Sir
William Johnson sent a certificate to Ogemaunee for this service which
must have been his Indian name. He was for many years head orator. His
children were Glade, Tomah, Shequanene, Iometah and three daughters.
Glade, or Glode, or Con-note, the son of old Carron,
was born in 1739. He was the orator of the tribe, and a fine speaker, who
made sensible remarks and to the point. He was a very successful hunter
and trapper and great warrior, going on the war path for the French, and
fought on the plains of Abraham and he took an active part with the
English in the American Revolution. In the fall of 1803 he was on a hunt
with his two wives and five children and all contracting some malady, they
all died, except two children. His only surviving son was Carron, made
chief at Little Buttes des Morts the same day with Oshkosh. Glade was a
tall and well proportioned man of great personal prowess. At ball play
when two or three would pitch on him to keep him back he would dash ahead
not seeming in the least to mind them. He was a splendid athlete.
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