overcome with cold, ^so that^ I could not travel. I crawled
into the hollow of a large apple tree a man in the
distance seeing me go into ^it^ the tree hastened to my
rescue, realizing my danger more fully than I did
when he arrived at the spot I had fallen asleep and
was nearly insensible, he had much difficulty in arousing
me to a sense of my situation, he procured means
to carry me to my father's house, and through
a kind providence my life was again preserved.
At 14 years of age, I split my left instep open with an ax
which went nearly through my foot; and it was 9 months getting
well. At 15 year of age, I was bitten in my left hand
by a mad dog in the last stage of hydrophobia; he only
dented my hand with his teeth but did not draw blood &
I was again preserved through the mercies of God
from an awful death. At the age of 17, I met
with an accident which caused me much suffering
and came near ending my life, I was riding a
very ill tempered horse, which I was not acquainted
with, and while going down a very steep ^rocky^ hill, the
horse took the ^taking^ advantage of the ground, suddenly
leaped from the ground ^road^, and ran down the
steepest part of it ^the hill^, amid the roughest of the rocks
at full speed, and commenced kicking up at
the same time, and attempted to throw me over
his head upon the rocks, but I lodged upon the top
of his head grasped hold of each ear, as with
a death grasp, expecting every moment to be dashed
to pieces among ^against^ the rocks, while in this position
sitting astride of his neck with no bridle to guide
him but his ears, he plunged down the hill under
full speed until he ran against a rock, which ^and^
dashed him to the ground. I went over both his head on
and the rock, about one rod, and struck the ground
square on my feet, being the only thing visible that

overcome with cold, so that I could not travel. I crawled into the hollow of a large apple tree a man in the distance seeing me go into it hastened to my rescue, realizing my danger more fully than I did when he arrived at the spot I had fallen asleep and was nearly insensible, he had much difficulty in arousing me to a sense of my situation, he procured means to carry me to my father's house, and through a kind providence my life was again preserved. At 14 years of age, I split my left instep open with an ax which went nearly through my foot; it was 9 months getting well. At 15 year of age, I was bitten in my left hand by a mad dog in the last stage of hydrophobia; he only dented my hand with his teeth but did not draw blood & I was again preserved through the mercies of God from an awful death. At the age of 17, I was riding a very ill tempered horse, which I was not acquainted with, and while going down a very steep rocky hill, the horse taking advantage of the ground, suddenly leaped from the road, and ran down the steep, amid the rocks at full speed, and commenced kicking up and attempted to throw me over his head upon the rocks, but I lodged upon the top of his head grasped hold of each ear, as with a death grasp, expecting every moment to be dashed to pieces against the rocks, while in this position sitting astride of his neck with no bridle to guide him but his ears, he plunged down the hill under full speed until he ran against a rock, and dashed to the ground. I went over both his head and the rock, about one rod, and struck the ground square on my feet, being the only thing visible that