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| Sign At The New Madrid, Missouri, Museum |
"...we learned...that my aunt Susanna was lying very dangerously ill of a fever, and word had been sent by them for some of us to go up and pay a visit, and bring back word whether she was living or dead. Accordingly it fell upon me to go, and after getting my horse shod, on the morning of the 16th of December, 1811, I started for old Fayette.
On crossing the river at Wellsburg I was asked if we had felt any shocks of an earthquake up Rush Run the night before, but I said that we had felt none. They said that they had felt several shocks in the night, and we afterwards learned that it was no wonder, as the seat of a young earthquake had its home on the Mississippi River bordering on the State of Tennessee, where considerable damage was done. [Source - The Sherrard family...]
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| Sign At The New Madrid, Missouri, Museum |
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