Proof of Parentage for Osborne Bland Sr. is John Bland's Will:
(Item secondly, it is my will that my eldest son Osborn BLAND be paid twenty pounds cash out of my sd (said) estate at the decease of my dearly beloved wife Margaret.)
Osborn Bland, and wife, were taken prisoners by the Indians at the burned station on Simpson Creek, Nelson County, along with their sons, Jesse and Moses. (Jesse later became a preacher in Saline County, Arkansas). An infant was also killed in that raid. Osborne was bound, but his wife succeeded in slipping away, and was in the woods for seventeen days before she was found by some hunter; her husband returned after an absence of three years, and they reared a large and influential family.
Source: Randolph Family Tree
Also reference is made from an old newspaper "The Saturday Gazette" published in Bardstown and dated October 1, 1841, which contains an article entitled "A Memoirs of the Burnt Station." It was an article compiled by Major Thomas Speed, partly from tradition and partly from the recollection of men living at that time who were boys at the time of the massacre by the Indians. The article is a ghastly recital of Indian warfare. The article speaks of the tragedy being done in August or September of 1782.
Horrible atrocities were practiced by the savages - so gruesome that it is difficult to believe that they occurred in our own fair Nelson County and in dwelling on the details it is easy to understand why our state was referred to as the "dark and bloody ground."
Source: KINCHELOE’s STATION
Then called Burnt Station 1781-1782
Article from Historic Nelson County, Its Towns and People by Sarah B. Smith, 1983
Jesse Bland was kidnapped in an Indian raid on Kincheloe Station whne he was about 3 or 4 years old. He wandered back many years later and was identified by scars, by remaining family members.
