Who Starkville was named after- A Man Who Was the 18th Century Combination of Chuck Norris and....
...George S. Patton.
Stark was a badass:
On April 28, 1752, while on a hunting and trapping trip along the <font color="#0645ad">Baker River</font>, a tributary of the <font color="#0645ad">Pemigewasset River</font>, he was captured by <font color="#0645ad">Abenaki</font> warriors and brought back to <font color="#0645ad">Canada</font> but not before warning his brother <font color="#0645ad">William</font> to paddle away in his <font color="#0645ad">canoe</font>, though David Stinson was killed. While a prisoner of the Abenaki, he and his fellow prisoner Amos Eastman were made to <font color="#0645ad">run a gauntlet</font> of warriors armed with sticks. Stark grabbed the stick from the first warrior's hands and proceeded to attack him, taking the rest of the warriors by surprise. The chief was so impressed by this heroic act that Stark was adopted into the tribe, where he spent the winter.
He was a Ranger and Scout during the French-Indian War, and was later a General during the Revolution. He kicked British, Hessian, and Loyalist *** all through the war. One of his most famous statements was before a battle: "There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!"
After the war, he retired to become a Gentleman farmer. He also coined the phrase: "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
Despite of the hard life he had, he lived to be 93 years old, dying in 1822. Maybe if he hadn't have smoked, he might've lived to be 94.
...George S. Patton.
Stark was a badass:
On April 28, 1752, while on a hunting and trapping trip along the <font color="#0645ad">Baker River</font>, a tributary of the <font color="#0645ad">Pemigewasset River</font>, he was captured by <font color="#0645ad">Abenaki</font> warriors and brought back to <font color="#0645ad">Canada</font> but not before warning his brother <font color="#0645ad">William</font> to paddle away in his <font color="#0645ad">canoe</font>, though David Stinson was killed. While a prisoner of the Abenaki, he and his fellow prisoner Amos Eastman were made to <font color="#0645ad">run a gauntlet</font> of warriors armed with sticks. Stark grabbed the stick from the first warrior's hands and proceeded to attack him, taking the rest of the warriors by surprise. The chief was so impressed by this heroic act that Stark was adopted into the tribe, where he spent the winter.
He was a Ranger and Scout during the French-Indian War, and was later a General during the Revolution. He kicked British, Hessian, and Loyalist *** all through the war. One of his most famous statements was before a battle: "There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!"
After the war, he retired to become a Gentleman farmer. He also coined the phrase: "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
Despite of the hard life he had, he lived to be 93 years old, dying in 1822. Maybe if he hadn't have smoked, he might've lived to be 94.
