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BATTLE CREEK BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN
Isaac Thomas had much of the worthiness and simplicity of character that per-lained to the patriarchal worthies of Bible memory. His name, wherever it was mentioned was a synonym for good faith, candor, and honesty. He lived here amid his relatives and neighbors on Goguac as the patriarch of the settlement. In fact his commodious log house was a home for all his kith and kin whenever they needed it. This was one reason why he sold out here in 1839 or 1840, and went to Illinois, where land was cheaper, and where he could give his numerous proteges a portion, of land that they might have homes of their own.
During the fall of 1831, the settlers had missed hogs and young calves at different times. They were pretty sure they had been taken by the wolves. John Luckett, brother-in-law of Uncle Isaac, one night as he was returning-home from the woods south of the settlement, was chased by a band of these marauders. He barely escaped being captured by them, as they were at his heels as he reached Uncle Isaac's enclosure. They now built a very high log-pen, shelving inwards, so that a wolf could get into it but could not get out again. In this pen they put a calf. The next morning they found a large wolf and the calf unharmed in the pen. The former was captured and his brindle hide ripped off while he was alive, and he was taken to the center of the prairie and let go at the mercy of the dogs. It is said he fought them then. This was a revolting scene, and must go for a wild freak of the settlers, exasperated by the ravages of the wolves.
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