Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
COL. E. c. BOUDIN0T.
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.

Special to the Gazette.
Fort SMITH, ARK, Sent. 27.-Fort Smith to-
day mourns the removal by death of one Of he
most prominent citizens and the Cher"kee Ma
ton mourns over the death OF her most
bril- liant son. This morning at So
clock Col. Elias Cornelius Boudinot the
lawyer, statesman and e'ocutionist, breathed
his last after an 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. Ga arriving at
st. Louis he became i'll; so transferring his
charge he returned. His complaint soon assumed
a violent nature, and despite the ehOrt@ or
the best physicians. it carried him off this
morning. Immediately after his death his
mains were taken TO the residence Of his kins-
man, Mr.. W. w. Wheeler. where they now
LIE IN STATE.
They win be buried tomorrow with Masonic
ceremonies.
Col Boudinot was quarter blood Cherokee
Indian. He born in 1885 in New EchOla.
Ga, EOt far from wha; is now the city OF Rome.
His Indian ancestors were distinguished among
the Cherokees, and were noted for their proves
in war and their eloquence and sagacity in the
councils OF their country count Their In
ward translated into Watt Witch. which meant
in English buck male deer. Indians in the
OF old kelle IA Yah were famed
John, Major, Ridgle and standzWatie;
While their way to New England
about 1905 under the auspicies of New England
missionaries to obtain an education Professor
Elias G.. Boudinot, old French Huguenot and
4 gentleman OF the highest attachments pre-
vailed on the father OF Col. BOudinot
TO TAKE NAME,
which Kiue Ka Wah did. After his arrival in
Gould, daughter OF a Clergyman, and married
her, and from their union sprung the
object of this sketch. After he
educated the elder Boudinot moved back TO
the Cherokee nation in Georgia and from thence
to the Cherokee nation in the West. Being
fair-sighted man he advocated strongly
REMOVAL OF THE CHERoKEES
to theWest, and for this oense, called, as both
he and his brothers. Major and Ridge, who had
East the side of the United States in prevt-
Gus war, murdered. Col. Boudinot 5
father falling before the door of his sister, Mrs
j. F. Wheeler's house, almost hacked to pieces
by the knives and .tchets of the adherents of
the party which had opposed the re
moval. These scenes made "a impression
upon Col. Boudinot's mind which
removed. After his return from New En- gland
and his removal to the West Col. Boudinot be
proving practicable, he adopted the profession
of law. Then began a career which gave every
PROMISE or BRILLIANT SUCCESS.
Shortly afterward he assumed the editorshiP
OF the Arkansan at Fayetteville. Ark, in which
position he attracted signal attention
Leaving Fayetteville he went to Little
Rock where he became editor of tho
True Democrat. The editorials OF
both of these papers marked him as a man Of
more than ordinary ability IN FOL ne 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
and raised a regiment OF Chcrkees for
the Confederate army. he elected major or
this regiment and afterwards became lieutenant
cololel. Standwaite, his uncle, 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
closed Shortly after the ne became in
voIved in "a dispute with the Federal govern
ment, which dispute finally set
tied by act of congress in
1871. In speech 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 lattery the Indians
OF the Territory have become Teconciled to
his doctrines and became satisfied, he 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.