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Two young women from the settlement, Sylvia Hall (age 19) and Rachel Hall (age 17), were spared by the attackers and taken northwards. At one point, Sylvia fainted when she recognized that one of the warriors carried her mother's scalp. After a hard journey of about 80 miles, they arrived at Black Hawk's camp.
- May 21, 1832
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Dec 31, 2014 · Indian creek massacre and captivity of Hall girls; complete history of the massacre of sixteen whites on Indian creek, near Ottawa, Ill., and Sylvia Hall and Rachel Hall as captives in Illinois and Wisconsin during the Black Hawk war, 1832. Evidence reported by scanner-ian-white for item indiancreekmass00scanrich on Jul 10, 2006; visible notice ...
Oct 23, 2015 · In a few moments all the whites in the house excepting Sylvia and Rachel Hall, namely: Mrs. 35 Wm. Hall, aged forty-five years, her daughter Elizabeth, aged eight years, Wm. Pettigrew, his wife and two children, and Mrs. Wm. Davis and her five children, were killed.
