Stephen Tudors

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The Legend of an Indian Village in Clay County - - by Jess D. Wilson Indians stole a young boy in one of the settlements across the mountains and brought him through Cumberland Gap to an Indian Village in (now) Clay County, before any settlers came into Kentucky. The village was called Taluegue and was near Fogertown. This would have been before Daniel Boone came in 1775 to Boonesborough in (now) Madison County.

About 1778, white settlers or hunters, while passing the village, recognized the boy and told him and the Indians who the boy was and where across the mountains in the old settlements his parents lived.

Evidently this was a peaceful tribe of Indians. They may have bought the boy from other less peaceful Indians. The Chief liked the boy and sent word to the boy's parents to tell them where he was.

The boy married a daughter of the Chief. He and the Indian Princess had daughters who married in Clay County.

The late Robert J. Johnson and Mollie Young of London were the first to tell me about this legend. I wrote about it in the January 1976 issue.

Recently, Mrs. Wilma J. Johnson of London wrote me that the legend was in the Hodge, Stivers and Johnson families. She said the boy's name was Steven Tettler and he had three (3) daughters who married in Clay County.

Is thought to be decended from John Tudor who came to America via the Ship Bonaoarte ub 1610.