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Reference: Mrs. Samantha Hough [or House], 93 year old resident.
Never were there many negroes seen in the vicinity of Lexington. My grandfather Pattison lived one and a half miles east of Lexington, where we lived later, and some time about 1840 two very frightened runaway slaves came to his house. Grandfather hid them for a couple of days till something could be done with them, they were so nervous and afraid.
One finally decided to go back to his master and grandpa gave him a ticket so he could go and he started the other on north, but the agents that hunted the escaped slaves surely heard about them, for mother said they sneaked around our house all summer. Logs had been piled in the yard for a new barn. And at night they could be seen peeping and punching around in these. It was a shame a snake or something didn't jump out and scare them just a little.
Ghosts and Dreams
A man in our neighborhood started to church at Concrod one evening. As he walked along the creek he saw a young girl walking ahead of him. He thought she was a stranger; he walked a little faster in order to overtake her. As he neared her, she arose and faded into the skies. He arrived at the church very pale and frightened. What it was we never knew for he never drank or told lies. He really had seen something. Another man, rather wealthy, also told of seeing the vision of a woman, which looked very much like his wife, only she was so pale, as he crossed the same stream going to his farm.
Dreams "I believe a little in dreams. To hear bells ringing in your ears is a sure sign of death. I have had them so much this winter, and so many cousins, and cousins by marriage have died, and last my own son. One time I dreamed my husband got his pension rejected and everyone said that was impossible when I told it, but he did. Again I dreamed of a lost knife being in a certain place and sure enough there it was.
Hunter, Lillian Jefferson County, Indiana (Grace Monroe)
