SOURCE: Chronicles of Border Warfare by Alexander Scott Withers, 1912.
The savages then moved on toward Cheat, but meeting with James BROWN & Stephen RADCLIFF & not being able to kill or take them, they changed their course, & passing over Leading creek ( in Tygarts Valley) nearly destroyed the entire settlement. They there killed Alexander RONEY, Mrs. DOUGHTERY, Mrs. HORNBECK & her children, Mrs. BUFFINGTON & her children, & many others; & made prisoners, Mrs. RONEY & her son, & Daniel DOUGHTERY. Jonathan BUFFINGTON & Benjamin HORNBECK succeeded in making their escape & carried the doleful tidings to FRIEND's & WILSON's forts. Col. WILSON immediately raised a company of men & proceeding to Leading creek, found the settlement without inhabitants, & the houses nearly all burned. He then pursued after the savages, but not coming up with them as soon as was expected, the men became fearful of the consequences which might result to their own families, by reason of this abstraction of their defence, provided other Indians were to attack them, & insisted on their returning.
As soon as the fire was opened upon the Indians, Mrs. RONY ran towards the whites rejoicing at the prospect of deliverance & exclaiming, " I am Ellick RONY's wife, of the valley, I am Ellick RONY's wife, of the valley, & a pretty little woman too if I was well dressed." The poor woman ignorant of the fact that her son was weltering in his own gore, & forgetting for an instant that her husband had been so recently killed, seemed intent only on her own deliverance from the savage captors. Another of the captives, Daniel DOUGHTERY, being tied down & unable to move, was discovered by the whites as they rushed towards the camp. Fearing that he might be one of the enemy & do them some injury if they advanced, one of the men, stopping, demanded who he was. Benumbled with cold, & discomposed by the sudden firing of the whites, he could not render his Irish dialect intelligible for them. The white man raised his gun & directed it towards him, calling aloud, that if he did not make known who he was, he should blow a ball through him, let him be white man or Indian. Fear supplying him with energy, DOUGHTERY exclaimed, " Loord Jesus! and am I too be killed by the white people at last!" He was heard by Col. LOWTHER & his life saved.