When he got there he found the Cabin of his brother burning and his sister-in-law walking around in front of the burning cabin. She had been scalped and left for dead.

He took her to his house , but she died before they could get there. Jeremiah picked up the trail of the Indians with another man by the name of Hughes .

They soon found the Indians as they had built a camp fire on the trail and had stopped for the night. When the Indians saw the white men they tried to kill the captive girl but were not successful.

Jeremiah cut a strip of hide from the back of one of the Indians and made a razor strap from it and it remained in the Carpenter family until the Civil war when it was removed by federal troops as they searched the house at Diana.

When Jeremiah returned home , he took his family up Laurel Creek and then up a small run to a large projecting rock at what is now called Camp Run. They lived there about a year and his oldest son Solomon was born there the first night they spent there. This would have been about 1768.

Jeremiah fought in Dunmor’s War and saw action against the Indians at the Battle of Point Pleasant .Jeremiah married Elizabeth Hamm March 08,1785 at Alderson, Va.

Solomon married Mary Elizabeth Knight in 1817.

Solomon’s son John L married Nancy Perrine and they settled at the mouth of Missouri Run where the town of Erbacon is now. There children were: Dianah, Joseph, Agnes, Jane, William Hamilton, Amos, Mary , Catherine and Esteline. John L. was a herb doctor of great ability.