sentences:  Saline County was almost named "Moredock County", in honor of John Moredock, who was known as the "Indian slayer".A militia officer and a member of the territorial legislature, Moredock had lost his mother and brother in an Indian attack in 1786, when they were traveling from Pennsylvania to Illinois down the Ohio River.Moredock had been traveling with another group, which arrived on the scene to find Moredock's mother's body horribly mutilated.