U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lipscomb, William D. (b. 1819) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Pages 434-435 William D. Lipscomb (Autobiography): I was born 1819, in Preston County, am a son of James Lipscomb; married 1861 to Eliza H. Biggs, of Garrett County, Md. I live on the head of Hansford Run, and own the only grist-mill on it. I have killed fifteen bears. The biggest one I ever saw piled on me. I plugged it to it four times with my butcher knife. It scratched my shoulders, but did not do much further injury. A short time afterward I knocked an old bear down with a "sang" hoe and took a cub away from her. There were two others in a tree near by, but I could not get them. I killed a ferocious big panther on Laurel Hill. I went to watch a "lick" for a deer. I lay in a root hole and a log lay over me. The panther slipped along and got on the log over me, not five feet away. I curled my gun up and shot the whelp in the bosom. It jumped 90 feet, and came down so hard that its feet ran in the ground a foot deep, and it stuck fast until I went up and whipped it to death. I killed another panther that had slain 17 dogs, and the next day killed another with a little pistol. I killed a rattlesnake 9 feet long on Laurel Hill. It had swallowed 126 ground hogs. I killed 160 rattlesnakes, on Laurel Hill, in one day with a club 18 inches long. Another day I killed over 300 rattlesnakes with a club 10 inches long. One of them had 60 rattles on, and another had 187. I am a curious fellow. Whenever I tell a thing the truth has to come. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------