His family buried the body on his farm, but in 1865 the body was removed from the farm's grave and reburied in Urbana, where it remains today. He lived there there until his death in 1836.
He then moved to Urbana about 1810 and finally moved near Zanesfield around 1815. Around 1799 Kenton moved from Kentucky to the Springfield, Ohio area. Kenton was taken to Detroit, but within a few months he escaped and returned to Kentucky. Eventually several influential chiefs and British officers convinced the Shawnees to sell Kenton to the British as a prisoner of war. Kenton fulfilled this promise some thirty years later when he bought land near Zanesfield. Kenton promised himself that if he escaped from the Shawnees he would return and settle on this land. As the story goes, before Kenton ran a gauntlet at one of the Mac-A-Cheek towns he fell in love with the beauty of the land. Kenton was made to run nine gauntlets during which he received many broken bones and injuries. Many prisoners were severely injured or even killed during a gauntlet. The prisoner was forced to run through the rows of people as they hit him with the weapons. A gauntlet consisted of two rows of men, women and children armed with sticks, switches, clubs and other weapons. The Indians forced Kenton to run gauntlets at most of these towns. The Shawnees took Kenton to many of their villages en route to Wapatomica. Since Kenton was such a feared enemy of the Shawnee it was decided that he should be taken to the center of Shawnee nation at Wapatomica (in Logan County) to be executed. The Shawnees took Kenton to many of their villages en route to Wapatomica. They killed McIntyre and captured Kenton. However, a Shawnee party tracked the white men and horses. The two whites broke down the horses' corral and took several horses each before starting back to Kentucky. After Kenton and McIntyre were finished spying on the Indians they stole some of the Shawnee horses. In the fall of 1778 Kenton and Alex McIntyre, another Kentucky settler, crossed into Ohio to spy on the Shawnee village of Chalagawtha (near present-day Xenia). Consequently, he roamed all over central and northern Kentucky and sometimes across the Ohio River to hunt animals and to fight Indians who greatly feared and respected his abilities. The small forts and settlements in Kentucky depended on Kenton for food and protection. Kenton quickly became an accomplished frontiersmen. He made his way to the Middle Ground or the frontier of the Kentucky lands. Kenton ran away from his home in Virginia when he was sixteen because he mistakenly thought he killed a man in a fight. Simon Kenton was another early settler in Logan County. His stores provided the Indians with many of their needs. After the war McPherson built a trading post near the Lewistown Reservation. McPherson acted as guide for General Hull when the army started north to fight the British and Indians. During the War of 1812, settlers and Indians friendly to the Americans stayed at McPherson's Blockhouse. This blockhouse, like others in the county, was used as protection against the Indians. It became known as McPherson's Blockhouse. army built a blockhouse near the McPhersons. He built a house northwest of Bellefontaine. McPherson came to Logan County in the early 1800s. After his release he went back to his home in Pennsylvania. The British released McPherson after the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794. The British made him an agent for their Indian allies around Detroit. McPherson lived with Shawnees briefly before he was turned over to the British. The Shawnees captured James McPherson when he was a young soldier in the American Army.
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