Conrad Samuels and Eve "Indian Eve" Dibert

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Husband Conrad Samuels ¹

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Wife Eve "Indian Eve" Dibert ¹

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            AKA: Eva Hellabert 2
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           Died: 1815 - Bedford Co, PA 1
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   Other Spouse: Adam Earnest (      -1777) 2 - Bedford Co, PA

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General Notes: Wife - Eve "Indian Eve" Dibert

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Among the first settlers in the region around Port Bedford, Pennsylvania, were a young Mr. Earnest and the members of the Dibert family of French origin. Among the latter was Mr. Dibert's daughter Eve, and the two young pioneers fell in love with each other and were married. They were the parents of six children. Early one autumn morning in the year 1777, while the Revolution was still in progress, the Indian war whoop was heard in the valley and immediately afterwards the natives streamed out of the woods on to Mr. Earnest's farm. Before any assistance could be summoned or any affectual resistence offered, Mr. Earnest himself had been killed and his wife and the two sons, Henry and Mike, the latter but two years of age, were taken prisoners. The Indians, who were allies of the British, took their captives to Fort Detroit, where they were sold to the British authorities. For nine years they remained in captivity at this place, and then Mrs. Earnest, who had become known as "Indian Eve," bought a pony from money which she had saved up from the proceeds of her menial labors, and with her two sons they started through the forests, homeward bound. They finally arrived at the old home and presently were reunited with the remainder of her children. Later she became the wife of Conrad Samuels, and passed the latter years of her life on the old Samuels homestead, one of the oldest and most picturesque places in all Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Here she died at an advanced age. The romantic story of "Indian Eve" has been preserved for us under that title by one of Mrs. Earnest's descendants, and forms one of the chapters of stirring adventure of which the history of those times contains so many.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 236.

2 Emma Siggins White, The Kinnears and Their Kin (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1916), Pg 96.