The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-09-27
TIE FUNERAL or Il PH,fR1ou.

II 81
hoyai Dust In u Pine Cofin--The last or
IN" Observation-Disclosures Returning
Boards.
King Stephen Pharaoh of tho Mon-
tauks, who died Oh August 90 last,
was buried from the African church in
frcctown. His coffin was Of stained
pine, aud was paid for by the town of
East Hampton. It cost SIP. The
body Of the deceased monarch was
aiiircd in the corduroy trousers and
check Shirt tlat he wore during his
last Illness, and was dcccntly covered
with q white shroud. The UNDER
takers men nailed down the lid and
carried Tho stained pine box contain
ing the last Of the Iontauks into The
LITTLE whitcwashcd church, where q
crowd OF Indians, negroes. and sum-
mcr visitors from East Hampton had
gathered. They placed tbcir load
rcVci"ni!y upon two chairs i'm front of
The little pulpit, while The two solitary
mouncrS, Ephraim Fowler, The dead
Nn3 5 nephew, and Ben Coles, his
son-n-law, stationed themselves on
"i'hcr hand. Ephraim, q good-look-
ingyoun@ Indian of five and TWEEN V,
was ait!rcd in Il coat and trousers OF
fashionable blue, nccl;tic, and stand
ing collar. lie lirnpcd slightly, and
carried Il cane, and but for his u,,-
Unstable copper color might have been
taken for n fashionable young man
from New York. Ben Coles wore his
everyday working clothes. lie is full
bloadca negro, and married The
Princess Hannah Ann. Stephens cld-
c>i daughter. The dead King, though
Il wi,'owcr at thc time of his death,
WA engaged to be married TO Amelia
Pow ell, Il coinrly halr breed Of DO,
who lives at Morichcs. She had pro-
missed to be present at the funeral, but
inri with Il breakdown on the tourney
anA cid not arrive ill after the scr-
vice.
Tho Rev. John d. Stokes, pastor of
tic First Presbyterian Church Of East
iIa rpton. preached the funeral ser
.non oI' the dead chief, taking for his
i,vt the SSH chapter Of isaiah, the
Hri verse:
80 nine house in order, for thou shalt die,
and ;'UL live.
J. lc spoke iccinalv Of the noble form
and manly trail OF the dead King, aDd
oI the Independence and spirit which,
even IN his poverty, dislin9 uishrd him
above his fellows. lie had once pro-
tossed religion at revival in East
Hampton, and during the last year of
his life was believed to have lived
tariy up to his professions. lie had
no conspicuous vices, drank but SCI
dom, ami rarely, If ever, TO excess,
;:ntl was IN general a peaceful and
orderly citizen. Nominally a king,
he iiaa lived to sec his race, once SO
powerful on the peninsula, dwindlc to
q hnnHiul Of less than u dozen. while
lrir lands had been absorbed by the
whites. The reverend gentlemen
closed by urging the Importance OF
every one, Indian, white, or colorcd,
preparing for death, and for that
better country after death, in which
thc lowly and dcspiscd Mon,aul> and
his Wbi;c conqucrcrs would stand on
the same footing.
At the close Of the sermon the three
hall-brccd women, Amcaia Powell,
The cxpcctant bride from Morichcs,
s'u san Sic!by, who, with her husband,
is married and settled in Ithaca, New
York, and Ollio Hunting, of Say
llarbor drove up to the church porch.
They wore brass earrings and gavlv-
colorcu shawls. The coffin was hoist
eel into one Of Fred Parsons livery
wagons, and the two men aud three
women seated themselves behind il.
When the wagon reached the shores
OF Fort Pond, Ephraim and the wo-
men looked long and scarchingly at
the grcen-bordcrcd hills on the north
for some traces oflhosc who wero to
meet them. 1t was on the borders of
this pond that for two centuries the
mounfainCcr5 mustered in their great
est numbers. They had q fort. or
stronghold on the summit Of the north
crn hills, where
THE WARRIORS ASSEMBLED
for their campaigns against the Maria
gansctts. On the broad waters of this
pond, at tho time Of tho full moon,
their graceful war canoes gathered in
a great feet, while their crows, with
upliitcd paddles and brandishcd wca-
ponS, sworc eternal hostility to the
NarraganSetts. The corn dances and
l'asis of The tribe were held on the
highest point overlooking the lake,
and IL was here that the whitc-haircd
rhicltans met in council to plan
toiays against the Narragansetts.
| Ephraim, Amelia, and the others
glanced carclcSsly ut these scenes OF
lhc ribc's former greatness, and
seemed more anxious to know whether
"Old Bill Fowler" and "Quecn Maria''
were coming out TO meet them. Tho
latter did not appear, and the wagon
drove Oh to the historic Great Pond,
once connected by deep inlet with
the Sound, but now forming true
lake. Tho honk-honk Of a SOLITARY
wild goose, Tapping its wings high up
against the sky, was The only sound
which broke the silence, and made
len Cole inyoluntarilv wish that he
had his gun along with him.
The burying ground at Indian Field
IS on u hill to the cast Of tho lake. 1t
is not fenced Of from tho rest of tho
hill, and the cattle pasture freely
among the graves. The only sign of
the latter is the four-corncrcd or tri-
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