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Buffington
In August following, four families named Buffington settled three miles north of Tuttle's, forming what was soon after styled "The Buffington Settlement," and for a year these families were their nearest neighbors. The names of those who headed these families were William, James, Samuel and Abram.
A painful accident occurred in the family of James Buffington just previous to reaching their new home. Their youngest were a pair of twin boys, about six months old. On the way it was discovered that one of them was missing from the wagon. Search being made, it could nowhere be found, and the anxious parent prosecuted the search along the trail they had come for two or three miles, and at last found the infant barely alive with one of its thighs crushed and flattened by the passage of a wagon wheel. It had, probably, been so stunned by falling from the wagon that it was unable to utter any cry. So far as they were aware, there was no surgeon within a hundred miles; so they bound up the limb and dressed it to the best of their ability. It was, however, too badly mangled to be saved, and eventually came off at the hip joint; but, strangely enough, the child recovered.