Harpe Women
According to Jon Musgrave, the Harpe women, after cohabitation with the Harpe brothers, led lives that were relatively respectable and normal. Upon the death of Micajah "Big" Harpe in Kentucky, Wiley "Little" Harpe fled and went into hiding and their women were apprehended and taken to the Russellville, Kentucky state courthouse and later released. Sally Rice Harpe went back to Knoxville, Tennessee to live in her father's house. For a time, Susan Wood Harpe and Maria Davidson (aka Betsey Roberts Harpe) lived in Russellville. Susan Wood remarried later, and died in Tennessee. According to Ralph Harrelson, a McLeansboro, Illinois historian, records show that on September 27, 1803, Betsey Roberts married John Huffstutler, moved with her husband to Hamilton County, Illinois in 1828, had many children, and eventually the couple passed away in the 1860s. Cave-In-Rock historian, Otto A. Rothert, believed that Susan Wood died in Tennessee and her daughter went to Texas. According to the former sheriff of Hamilton County, Illinois, in 1820, Sally Rice, who had remarried, travelled with her husband and father to their new home in Illinois via the Cave-In-Rock ferry.
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