The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-11-12

then 30 Sparta, Lebanon aud NASHVILLE
then crossed the Cumberland river,
aud next the Ohio aud Viucennea,then
ON 10 the Mississippi, which they found
frozen over, and had 10 wait % month
Tor tho ice 20 break, and finally reach
rallaquah in April, 1889.
"In the debates In congress great
opposition was made 90 this treaty by
John Q. Adams and Henry A. Wise,
and IL was stated on the floor by one
Of these men that John Ross was arr
rested by the state Of Georgia aud
carried 10 MiIlelgeyille aud his house
was robbed Of ten thousand dollars
while he was gone. The speakers
very severely criticised President
Jackson for his ingratitude 70 Ross,
who served him so faithfully at the
battle of tho Horseshoe
This old gentleman is full Of memo
ries OF those Indian times, and says
that there Is yet living NJ Charleston,
Tenn, Mr. II. B. Henuiger, who oc-
compauiel the great cayalcndc all the
way 30 their home In the west
And here IS a characteristic letter
isom an old lady living In Myrtle, Tex
she says: "Please excuse an old
woman for trying TO write 10 you
about those Indians that you have
been telling us Of in The Constitution,
aud as / was born and raised in the
Cherokee nation, / will venture to tell
you some things that may interest
you. My father, Wan Thompson, set
tied at the mission station on the
Etowah Tor Hightower river, as we
called it, My eldest brother, Perry
Thompson, was the interpreter for the
nation a long time. My fathers
sister, Nancy, joined the mission
when she was only fifteen years old.
She followed them to the territory and
kept up her mission work there. and
spent a long and useful life, and died
in her eighty-fourth year. When
Boudinot was killed she was standing
on the porch very early in the morn
ing aud saw a man running as if for
his life, and two men pursuing him.
They soon caught him and killed him
and ran away as fast as they could go.
She hurried to the man and found it
was Boudinot
''There were several families who
had Indian blood in their veins who
did not go west with the tribe. The
Lynch family was part Cherokee.
Barelia Lynch married Lowry Will
liams. expect You knew him. They
had but one child and she was named
Cherokee. She married Robert
Wylie, son of Clark Wylie. Iremem-
Der a good many Cherokee chiefs and
braves, but can't spell their names for
you. John Ross was not an Indian.
His mother was a white woman and he
left her up north when he came to the
nation and married an Indian wife.
John Ridge was part Indian. eX-
pect your friend George Adair is of
Indian blood, for we had two Adair
families there. Black Wat and Red
Wat. They were cousins. When John
Howard Payne was staying in the ma
ton we saw him often. He named
my little sister Ann Payne. One of
my sisters went to school with an In
dian girl named Lizzy Shoboot and
she taught my sister to swim. The
Cherokees called my father Connehana
Thompson. My husband wishes me
to prove my rights in the nation as
one of them, but ] have never done so.
His name is r. ID. Ivie and he was
born in Lawrenceville, GA. We often
see names in The Constitution that We
remember away back. Old Georgia is
our dear mother, and though we have
been separated for sixty years, we
love her still.
''Out of the fullness of the heart
the mouth speaketh, and this is my
excuse for writing to you.
"MRs. r. ID. WE"
Well, now, that is good letter. How
the chickens would come home if they
could.
Next comes the advance sheets O
"The Young Peoples History of Ar
kansas" written by my friend E, Por
ter Thompson, now at Frankfort, KY
but long a resident and editor in Ar
kansas.
The chapter on Colonel Elias G
Boudinot is full of interest and makes
him very remarkable man. Hi
fathers name was Kelle-kee-nah, bu
being adopted by Elias Boudinot, o
New Jersey, took his name. Boudino
sided with Ridge in regard to tn,
treaty and Ross became his bite
enemy. Ross was powerful vindict
i've and INSCRIPTIONS man. He has
Boudinot and Major Ridge and JOIN
Ridge all assassinated. Colonel Ella
c. Boudinot was born near Rome, Ga.
August l, 1885. He was educated a
Manchester, VT In 1855 he came t,
Fayetteville, Ark, and studied Law
with Hon. A. M. Wilson, was admitted
to the bar in 1856 and soon rose to tn