 Mr. Pruden settled in the county in 1829 near what was called the old Seuier place, about five miles below the present site of Hardin.The boy was recaptured from the Native Americans five days after he had been taken, and had not been harmed.The second case was the kidnapping of Joe DeGerlia, the son of Antoine DeGerlia, Sr., the first settler in the French Hollow area.