Autobiography of a Simple Soul

In the seventeen hundreds they came. At first it was but a trickle, but still they came. They came from the North, the East and the South. They were of many different tongues, Indian, French, English, Irish, Scots, German and Italian. They came with all that they owned tied in rolls across their backs or “jist” the very clothes they wore.
They came by boats across the great waters and followed the rivers, the streams and the brooks until they couldn’t follow them anymore. They came by horse...