Excerpt from The Bean Creek Valley: Incidents of Its Early Settlement; Collected From the Memories of Its Earliest Settlers, Now Living, and Verified by Verified by Reference to Official Documents I am aware that in writing the early history of the country the difficulties to be overcome are very great that in some of the townships the early records are lost, and in all they are very meager; that many of the early actors have passed away, and the memories of all are failing - but I have endeavored to collect my material from the most trustworthy sources, have verified them, when possible, by reference to con temporaneous records, and have endeavored to digest, write and arrange with an unbiased mind, only solicitous to discover and record the true history of the country and the times. How well I have succeeded I submit to the candid judgment of the old pioneers, than whom more noble and generous men and women never existed in any country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.