Grandfather Kenworthy purchased a good portion of these fields, including the old Indian burying-ground. He built a store and employed two six-mule teams to carry supplies from Cincinnati. One day, when Grandfather was plowing near this graveyard, a number of chiefs in war-paint came to his house. [Illustration: ANSON MILLS. W. W. MILLS. EMMETT MILLS. ALLEN MILLS. MYSELF WITH BROTHERS. (TEXT, 27.)] [Illustration: JAMES P. MILLS. MARIETTA BURCKHALTER. ELIZA JANE SMILEY. CAROLINE MILLS MARTIN. MY FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTERS. (TEXT, 27.)] After the Indians had smoked awhile, one of them drew a long knife, faced Grandfather and, pointing toward the graveyard, said: "Kinwot, bimeby you gee-haw; gee-haw cut my brudder!" Grandfather replied: "No, I will never plow the land under which your dead are buried," and it is today preserved as a graveyard. Subsequent experiences with Indians led me to realize more than before the seriousness of this interview. PRIVATIONS OF THE EARLY PIONEERS My early life was primitive. For instance, there were no machine-made nails in this country. All nails were made by the village blacksmith from nail rods, and I often watched him while he wrought those I was sent to buy. All pins and needles were imported from England, and none of the pins had solid heads. They had wire-wound heads brazed upon the stems. There were no shoe factories in the country, and no shoe stores in the villages. We were shod by itinerant cobblers, who made their lasts and pegs from maple wood from our wood pile. There were no rights or lefts, but each child had his own last. We children were so curious to handle the cobbler's tools that father authorized him to draw a chalk line around the corner where he worked, and use the knee strap, with which he held the shoe while pegging, to chastise us if we crossed it! Farmers made their own brooms and axe helves from young hickory trees. We raised the wool and flax required for our clothing, all of which my mother spun, wove and fashioned, as did all other housewives. Stockings and mittens were all knit by hand; there were no knitting machines, sewing machines or cooking stoves. Practically everything necessary for existence was raised or made on the farms, save coffee, spices, tableware, hardware, glass and cutlery, which came from abroad and up the Mississippi by boat. Our nearest market was Cincinnati--two hundred miles away over rough and at times impassable roads.