Pioneer Life

After eleven years of married & renter life

And having had 6 children by one wife

And but little of this worlds goods,

We now resolved to try life in the woods.

We were living in pleasant Ohio.

We would go to Indiana

Where it was said that milk & honey did flow.

We borrowed 100 dollars of money

To buy a home in a land of milk & honey.

I do not remember just the day,

But it was in the pleasant month of May 1836

When I began to cut log cabin sticks,

Now I could not well afford

To hire my bed & board.

Settlers few & far away

And I had no money to pay.

The first thing to put up a rude camp