The Russellville Democrat., 1878-11-14
RUssELLyIILE, POPE COUNTY, ARKANSAS THURSDAY,

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 Arkansas, and taught 2 school many years in Benton County, and then elsewhere in Northwest Arkansas, and finally settled on little farm, as we said before. near Norristown, where, with two widowed daughters --all the children shc has living and their children, she will no doubt spend the remainder of her days.
 Mrs. Washborne is eighty two years of age, and this is her sixtieth year in Arkansas. Two generations have passed away since she and her husband first ascended the Arkansas river. She is genial old woman, celebrated for her piety and inelli- gence; and her knowledge of the In dians in Arkansas, and also in the Indian Territory specially the Cherokces among whom she spent twenty-two years with her husband, aboriug as missionaries, IS probably more extensive than that of any human now living in Arkansas.
 A great many of the old and mid dle aged men, who are now the lead ing spirits among the Cherokees, were pupils of hers and her husbands at these Indian Mission Schools. and what they did in educating and Christianizing the Indians, has given them a warm place in the hearts and memory of that people. that will last as long as there is an Indian living that remembers the name of the Washburnes.
 Edward F. Washburne, the young. artist who painted the bacKwoods scene called the ''Arkansaw Tray el- er," was her youngest son. A noble young man he was; m artist by na- ture, and of q highly cultivated taste, he would have become distinguished as such had he llved. He spent some time in Boston as student in lls profession, and lived but q few months after his return. He and his father both died in Little Rock just before the commencement oI the late civil war. we believe, at the house of the Rev. Dr. Welch.
 Mrs. Washburhe was well ac- anainted with all of the State aad United States officials of Arkansas, from 1920 to 1886. Gen. Gaines, Gen. Arbuckle and many other army officers were often at the Mission. When the Mission and school were removed in 1880 from Old to New Dwight, in the Cherokee Nation, they ascended the Arkansas on a steam boat. Soon after she and her husband had got upon the boat, they noticed very large intelligent look ing man, travelling as a passenger, and they very soon learned 1t was Cen. Houston, who had just resigned his office as Governor of Tennessee, and was on his way to the Cherokee Nation. He appeared to be in so much trouble that Mr. Washburne wen. to him in his state room, thlnk- irg he was sick, and asked him if he could do anything fol him. Ilous ton thanked him very politely ant told him that his suffering was not physical, but mental. Houston re- mained for years at the house of his friend, a wealthy Cherokee named Rodgers, and she saw him very ire quently.
 H,s Indian life was, in many re. ! spects, one not to be commended, and when the war between Texas and Mexico broke out he left for Texas. and when she heard of him alter wards he had become the hero of San Jacinto and the President of the Republic of Texas.
 could give yoH other interesting items of history obtained from Mrs. Washburne in regard to prominent men who figured in Arkar sas his- 1 tory more than half century ago, but they would occupy too much oi your space. Though separated from the Indians now, she is sill thelr friend, as in the long ago, when she first taught ths little Cherokee chil iren to read and write and taught | them to worship the Christian God. She is new in Russellvle the guest of her friend, Mrs. Henry F. White, attending the conference of the Methodist Church South. Her falth in the Christian religion is perfectly sublime, and to her all things earth ly are as nothing eompared with that steadfast hope of eternal happi- ness in shat life that is to come.
 W. c. r.