HISTORY OF HUGH AND RUTH WEBB BRISON
Given by Mrs. Jennie Ailes Crawford and Her Sister Emma.

Ruth Webb married Hugh Brison at the age of 17 years, and started with him from old Virginia with a small amount of clothes tied up in a bundle, and some bear skins to ride on. They both rode one horse when the loads were good and when rough she would ride and he walked and led the horse. They were several days on the road. At night they made their bed of leaves and had the skins for covering. They came to some friends in White Water' Valley (White Water River IN ) and in a short time Hugh, with some other men built the White Water Valley Fort, near the site of Old Gap school house between Laurel and Metamora in Franklin County, Indiana. In this fort the two oldest children, Virginia and Hiram were born. Virginia, the eldest, born 1813, married David Weston, a brother of John Weston, who married Nellie Lewis.

Great Grandfather Hugh Brison was a great Indian fighter but he did so many good deeds among them that they both loved and feared him. Our great grandmother, Ruth Webb Brison, used to tell us how the big buck Indians would come to their cabin and stand and look down at her baby in its cradle and say," Dam Blice."  That is what they called great grandfather Brison. Sometimes they would kick the ashes and coals out of the fire place and dance in it with their bare feet and almost scare her to death, but when she would go to the door and call to grandfather,they would all run for the timber as fast as they could go. She lived to be past 100 years old and we have heard her tell this story many times. Our grandmother, Virginia Weston, lived to be 93 years old and was very proud of the fact that her grandfather Brison and her grandfather Webb and six brothers were in the Revolutionary War. Her father, Hugh Brison and his three brothers were in the War of 1812.

 (Editor's Note: In the Revolutionary War records of North Carolina may be found the names of only seven men by the name of Webb, who served in the Tenth Regiment. They are as follows: Joseph Webb, enlisted May 20, 1777; Jno. Webb, enlisted September 1,1777; James Webb, enlisted July 20, 1778; Jacob Webb, enlisted April 12, 1781; Rice Webb, enlisted April 12, 1781; Samuel Webb, enlisted August 1, 1782 and Lewis Webb, musician, enlisted August 1, 1782.)  (Editor's Note: In theFranklin County records may be found an interesting story of the slaying of Kilbuck, the renegade Indian who had killed a boy near Stips Hill, and was tracked by a party of men and killed by Hugh Brison, son of John Brison. The records of the War Department show that Hugh Brison served in the war of 1812 as a Private in Captain William T. Huff's Company of Militia, Seventh Regiment,Indiana Territory. His service commenced March 13, 1813, and ended June 17,1813. This is the same Company in which William George 11 served.)

The source and Editor of this narrative who made these Notes is unknown

[Source: Lou Eastes posted to Madison Co., IN Rootsweb mail list, INMADISO-L@rootsweb.com, 5 Feb 2002]