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BATTLE CREEK BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN
they could, and about ten o'clock that night they were led to the log cabin of Josiah Goddard, on Goguac Prairie, where a large fire of logs shed its genial warmth upon the travelers as they camped on the floor. On the return of McCamly from Marshall, in company with one Kennedy, the way was also missed, and the night was spent somewhere in the south part of Newton or Leroy, on a bed of twigs laid upon the snow, by the side of a huge log fire. This was Michigan traveling forty-three years ago. "
In the summer of 1832, Judge McCamly left Nottawa, and settled in Marshall. While here that terrible scourge, the cholera, made its appearance in the little colony. Some were frightened and left the place, others shrank in terror of the disease, from rendering aid to those attacked with it, or even to assist in burying the dead. Rev. J. D. Pierce, Sands McCamly, Isaac E. Crary and some few others, courageously and nobly stood by the afflicted and dying, forgetting every danger in their self-sacrificing devotion to the victims of this dreadful disease. The frightened little colony had previously dispatched Dr. Thompson, an emigrant from South Carolina, to Detroit to learn something of the nature of the disease, and to procure proper medicinal remedies, in case it should break out among them. But no sooner had he returned than the disease seized Mr. Hurd, a proprietor of the town, who had just arrived there, and he died in a few hours.
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