Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28
COL. E. C. BOUDINOT.
Fort Smith Mourns the Loss of One of
Her Most Prominent Citizens.
The Celebrated Quarter Blood Cherokee Law.
yer, Statesman and Elocutionist-
Sketch OF His Career.

Special to the Gazette.
Fort SMITH, ARK, Sept 27.-Fort Smith to-
day mourns the removal by death Of one OF her
most prominent citizens and the Cherokee Ma
ton mourns over the death of her most
bril- liant sop. This morning at SO
O'Clock Col. Elias Cornelius Boudinot, the
lawyer, statesman and elocutionist, breathed
his last after illness of about eighteen days.
About three weeks ago Col. Boudinot started TO
the East with Mr.. George Gould, relative
who had become insane while living
on the plantation of the colonel in the
Cherokee Nation, near this city. On arriving at
st. Louis he became i'll: so transferring his
charge he returned. His complaint soon assumed
a violent nature, and despite the efforts OF
morning. Immediately after his death his re-
mains were taken TO the residence of his kins-
man, Mr.. W. W. Wheeler. where they now
LIE IN STATE.
They will be buried tomorrow with Masonic
ceremonies.
Col. Boudinot was quarter blood Cherokee
Indian. He born in 1895 in New Echola,
Ga, not far from what is now the city OF Rome.
His Indian ancestors were distinguished among
the Cherokees, and were noted for their prowe+s
in war and their eoquence and sagacity in the
councils of their country. Their In
dian name was Kile- Ka-Uah, after
ward translated into Watt Which, which meant
old days were not regularly named, and the sons
OF old Kelle IA Yah were Lamed
John, Major; Ridgle and Stand Waite;
about 1905 under the auspicies of New England
missionaries to obtain an education Professor
Elias G. Boudinot, an old French Huguenot and
a gentleman of the highest attachments pre-
vailed on the father of Col. Boudinot
oTAKE HIS NAME,
which Kille IA Wah did. After his arrival in
Connecticut he became acquainted with Harriet
Gould, daughter of a clergyman, and married
her, and from their union sprung the
object of this sketch. After he
the Cherokee nation in Georgia and from thence
to the Cherokee nation III the West Being 8
fair-sighted man he advocated strongly
REMOVAL OF THE CHERoKSES
to theWest. and for this offense, called as both
he and his brothers. Major and Ridge. who had
fought against the British and Greeks in the
Gus war, were murdered. Col. Boudinot s
fsther falling before the door of his sister, Mrs.
j. F. Wheeler's house, elmost hacked to pieces
by the knives and h .tchets of the adherents of
the party which had opposed the re-
moval. These scenes made al impression
upon Col Boudinot's mind which was never
and his removal to the West Col. Boudinot be-
gan the study of civil eng ineeriug. This not
proving practicable. he adopted the profession
of law. Then began q career which gave every
PROMISE OF BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
Shortly afterwsrd he assumed the editorship
of the Arkansan at Fayetteville, Ark, in which
Leaving Fayetteville he went to Little
Rock where he became editor of the
True Democrat. The editorials of
both of these papers marked him as of
more than ordinary ability. In 1861 he was
secretary of the convention which took Ar
kansas out OF the Union. At the adjournment of
this convention he went to the Cherokee Nation
ana raised regiment OF Cherkees for
the Confederate army. He was elected major of
this regiment and afterwards became lieutenant
coloael. Standwsite, his uncle, was elected
colonel and finally became brigadier-general by
appointment from President Davis. In 1868
Col. Boudinot became member of
THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS-,
in which capacity he served until the war
closed. Shortly after the war he became in
volved in dispute with the Federal govern
ment, which dispute was finally set
tod by an act of congress in
1871. In speech in the Cherokee
nation to put forth the idea that the Indians
should drop their tribal relations and become
citizens of the United States. For this he was
forced to fee from the Indian Territory to
save his life, but latterly the Indians
OF the Territory have become reconcied TO
his doctrines and became satisfied, he was their
friend. About five years ago he married Miss
Clara Menear. OF Washington, D. c., and
shortly after that time settled here, where he
has remained ever since.