coffee sold then at twenty-five and thirty-three cents per pound, and salt at one dollar and twentyfive cents per bushel.

The place was now called Hawkins's Landing. Mr. Hawkins did not run this store long until he and his brother Perry built a store-house about a quarter of a mile south, near the Gan Spring, where they sold goods for several years.

Mr. Simpson Lee came over to this little village one day, and while running his horse through town was thrown off and killed-being the first man killed in the town now called Saltillo.

It was not long until barges or keelboats traveled the river regularly, bringing dry goods, salt, and sometimes a few barrels of flour.

The first settlers of Saltillo and vicinity were not blessed with plenty of mills, as we are now, but were obliged to go to a mill on Duck River. Some of the new-comers, before they would go that distance to get meal, would soften their corn by soaking it in water, then grate it; others would beat it in a mortar, which was made by sawing off a block from a white oak log and burning out a hole in the end of it, into which the corn was

placed and beat with a maul or pestle. These pounding-mills continued for many years in use by some of the settlers. They were even constructed in such a way that the pestle moved up and down by water-power.

OTHER SETTLERS.

In the year 1824 Major James Montgomery landed his boat near the Lick ford on White Oak Creek, and moved out with his family to a spot one-half mile north-west of Shady Grove Church, where he settled; and it was some time during 1824 that he built the first mill that was run by horse-power on the west side of the river. Major Montgomery received his title by serving in the Indian war. He was with Col. James Hardin and Solomon Brazelton at the battle of Horse-shoe Bend.

In 1824 Jesse W. Holland started a tanyard a short distance north of Shady Grove Church, which was the first in the western part of the county.

It was also during this year that a man by the name of Charles Miles moved in and settled one

mile west of Saltillo, near the little creek which has ever since borne the name of Miles's Branch. His house stood on the spot now occupied by the Mrs. Parker mansion. Soon after locating, Mr. Miles built the first cotton-gin on the west side of the river.

About the year 1825 Jehu Davy came in and bought a tract of land now known as the Etheridge place, lying near the Lick ford on White Oak Creek, which was then occupied by a man by the name of Allen Anderson. Mr. Davy's family consisted of his wife and eight children-five sons and three daughters.

The land lying along the river from Point Pleasant to half a mile south of Saltillo first belonged to Thomas Shannon. In 1842 Thomas Davy became the owner of the land where Saltillo now stands; then for several years the place was called Davy's Landing.

In 1849 Mr. Davy leased the landing to Scott Terry, who named the place Saltillo, sold goods there about two years, and died. The next store was the firm of Davy & Williams, with a capital stock of three thousand dollars.

Previous to 1855 the business-houses were near the river, and it was not until after the war that the town began to move westward. No town in the county is more nicely situated than Saltillo. The ground where the town is, and for a mile west of the river, lies well for the situation of a beautiful city.

OTHER SETTLEMENTS.

It was not long after the first settlement at Saltillo until people began to move in and settle the territory south of White Oak River. George Norwood and Jesse Jones settled on Mud Creek; Isaac Graham and Robert King on Chalk Creek; Mrs. Kerr near the mouth of Mud Creek, on the east side of the creek; James English near the head of Chalk Creek. Jesse Jones's house was one of the precincts in that early day.

Previous to the year 1825 a public road ran from the lower end of Coffee Bluff to the top of the bluff. Here it intersected the road from Hardin's Ferry (now Cerro Gordo) to McNairy Court-house. Several years after the first settlement at Saltillo a company of hunters and trappers by the name of Stars and Jacksons settled the region between

Middleton's and Hurricane Creeks. This company first came here from Ohio, and spent several years hunting and trapping for the beaver on White Oak Creek; they finally returned, sold their lands in that State, and moved with their families to this part of Hardin County.

John and Robert Barham were the first settlers of Coffee Landing. These two brothers merchandised there for several years before the civil war. The place took its name from the great coffee sand bluff on the river.

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Crump's Landing was first settled by a man named Burnet, and was for several years called Burnet's Landing. Dr. Crump bought the place and gave it the name it now bears.

Pittsburg Landing was named after Pitts Tucker, who kept a liquor-shop there before the Rebellion. Thousands of people visit this little town every year to see the beautiful cemetery and to travel over the great battle-field.

We will now leave the subject of settlements, and in the next chapter notice the proceedings of the first courts.