Lois Rebecca Wilde encounters a group of Indian people near her family’s cabin in Coalville; she cries out of fear, but they indicate to her that she isn’t in danger

Copied from the Life History of Lois Rebecca Wilde Boyer, recorded in 1961, and found on FamilySearch.org.

[Lois Rebecca Wilde was born in October 1885, to Thomas Wilde and Fannie Gunn. The following event occurred when she was around 14 years old.]

There were a couple that had come from England living in Springhollow not very far from father’s home [in Coalville]. They sent me in the morning with a small bucket of milk for those people. One morning when I was returning, who should be by the gate but a number of Indians. Being young, I began to cry. They, I suppose, tried to tell me not be be frightened. They would not harm me. Finally I ran past them down in back of the house. There was the rest of their tribe with arms full of vegetables, and other eats. I was alright when I could see some of my family.

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