The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-25
CHIEF OF THE CMocTAws

Jerome a. carpenter, Oue OIL the VIC
Tins Of the Recent Duel in the Chloe
taw Nation.
A Tribune reporter had conversation last
evening with Leaore Carpenter, of the Ia
dian Territory, cousin of j. T. Carpenter,
prince chief of the Choctaw Nation, who
was mentioned in yesterdays dispatches as
having been killed in duel in the Creek
Nation, as had also his opponent, Col. Amos
Price. Mr.. Carpenter had me! the unfort-
innate victim of the code duello only week
ago, and was shocked at the sad Intelligence,
His intimate acquaintance with tho check
cred career of the dead duelst will be Of
special interest.
knew him we'll, said Mr. Carpenter, and
his life was checkered one indeed. Jerome
T Carpenter was born in jackson, Hines
county, Mississippi, and at the time of his
death was only So years OF age. He was the
third son of CountArmand Henri Carpen-
ter, scion of one of the most illustrous
families of France aud bis mother was Emile
Lefore, Ohoctsw lady of French extrsc-
zion. She was the only daughter Of Col.
Louis De Lehore, a French officer who
intermsrried among the Choctsw Indians
and became their chief Col Lehore was the
father of four cons and one daughter
and at the death of Louis de Lea
fore, his eldes son, Greenwood Lee
Aore, became chief of the Ckoctsws--s posi-
ton he held until 1880. In that year he
made the treaty ard sold the reservation 10
the state of Mississippi to the United States
government through President jackson.
When the Indians we're removed to their
present country, another brother, Brszile
Lehore, became their chief,
What became of the two families?
Both the Lehores and the Carpenters re-
NAMED in Mississippi, and at the commence
ment of the late war were reputed to be the
wealthiest and most extensive slave-owners
in the south. Armand Fl. Carpenter, after
marriage with Miss Leaore, studied law and
settled 10 Jackson Mics, where he was
recognized as one of the leading lawyers Of
the south. He died Ia 1852, leaving a
widow and four sons, the widow dying in
1860. She was survived by two sons under
age, Jerome and Sury, who, by their
mothers request, were emancipated by a
special act OF the legislature.
Was this Jerome the one who was killed
in the duell
The very identical parsonage. When the
war broke out he enlisted in the southern
army and was private at the age OF fifteen
years under General Lee in Virginia. He
was wounded at the battle of Malvern Hill,
July Is, 1862, and discharged from the
army. As soon ss no got well he enlisted
again, this time as private, in General joe
Johnson's bodygusrd. The general became
attached 10 the young soldier and made him
tbs bearer of many an important dispatch,
one in particular where he carried Johnson's
last dispatch TO Pemberton before Grant got
Vicksburg completely surrounded.
Was it true thss he was with Maximil>
liam
ayes, after the war ended, jerome went to
Mexico. and, having letters of introduction
TO the Emperor from influential people, was
placed in command as Colonel in Max
imillisns army. He commanded the En-
peror's bodygusrd, and was on such init
mate terms with Maxinillian that when this
unfortunate candidate for an imperial throne
on American soil was condemned to death
he too, Wa sentenced to similar fate"
show was this averted p
He only escaped the fate of Macmillan
and bis military advisers by the intervention
OF Secretary Steward. he was the youngest
officer in the army, aud was reputed to
be IS brave IS a lion. In recogni
ton of his steadfast devotion 10
the Inflated Macmillan, Emperor Francis
Joseph conferred upon him the title OF baron,
and offered him commission in the imperial
army of Austria. He declined tho honor
and returned 10 Louisiana, where he re-
msined short time with his uncle, Colonel
Joe Kesrney, a large sugar planter and u
half brother of his father. He soon tired of
this life, and went to Egypt in 1869, with
General j. B. Loripg, his old confederate
commander, now at the head ofthe Egyptian
army. Jerome became an officer under the
Egyptian government though i'll health
forced him TO resign after being there two
years. He then went 10 Australia, where he
had an estate, but being Of rowing habits,
he soon ran through fortune there
and returned 10 the United States. He
undertook 10 run line of steamers on the
Mississippi, but was unsuccessful, and at the
time he met bis death was making arrange
ments TO settle down and live within the
nation he was speaker of the grand ooun-
Gil, and the lsst prince chief by inheritance.
Does he leave any children?
He leaves wife but no children. His wife
was a Mics Chumley, Of Cincinnati, at which
place she now is. Jerome was a man OF
considerable wealth, though 1t is the law OF
the nation that where there Is no Issue after
marriage all property is withheld from the
wife, where the wife has no Indian blood,
and the properly which was his By Inherit
lance, was so stipulated.
the New AmerIc.v CNniala lis Valuc.