The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-24

venture to tell you some things tAat
may interest you. My father Wan
settled at the mission station
on the BtoWah COR II.ghtown river, rs
We called iO. My eldest brother. Perry
was the Interpreter for the
nation along time My fathers sister
Nancy, J0iuyed 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 egbty-fourta
! ear. NJ hen Boudin0t was killed she was
standing on the porch very early in the
morning and saw a man running as II
for his life, and two men pursuing him.
They soon caught him and killed him
and ran away as fast as they could 60.
She hurried to the man and found If
was Boudinot.
There were several families who had
Indian blood in their veins who did not
90 West with the tribe. The Lynch fam.
lily was part Cherokee. Barella Lynch
married Lowry Williams. | expect you
knew him. They had but one child and
she was named Cherokee. She married
Robert Wylie, son of Clark Wylie.
remember a goOy many Cherokee chiefs
Il
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
] alton and married an Indian wife. John
Ridge was part Indian. | expect your
friend George Adair is of Indian blood.
for we had two Adar families there,
Black Wat and Red Wat. They were
cousins. When John Howard Payne
CT n in II
often. He named my little sister Ann
Payne One of my sisters went to school
with an Indian girl named Lizzy Shoe
boot and she taught my sister to swim.
The CherOkees called my father Come
hama Thompson Ny husband wishes me
to prove my rights in the nation as one
of them, but | have never done So His
name is II. ID. Iyie and he was born in
Lawrenceyille, Ga. We ofen see names
in the Constitution that we remember
away back. Old Georgia is our dear
mother, and though we have been sep
arated 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. u. WE"
Well, now, that is a good letter. How
could.
Next come the advance sheets Of ''The
Young Peoples History of Arkansas"
written by my friend e. Porter Thomp-
son. now at Frankfort, Ky. but long a
resident and editor in Arkansas.
The chapter on Colonel Elias c.. Boudi-
not is full of interest and makes him
very remarkable man. His fathers name
was Kelle-kee-nah, but being adopted by
Elias Boudinot, of New Jersey, took his
name. Boudinot sided with Ridge in re-
gard to the treaty and Ross became his
bitter enemy. Ross was a powerful, vim
dictive and INSCRIPTIONS man. He had
Boudinot and Major Ridge and John
Ridge all assassinated. Colonel Elias G..
Boudinot was born near Rome, Ga, Au-
gust l, 1885. He was educated at Man
chester, VT. In 1866 he came to Fay
etteville, Ark, and studied law with
Hon. A. M. Wilson, was admitted to the
bar in 1856 and soon rose to the front
rank as an able lawyer and gifted speak
er. In 1860 he became editor of the Dem
ocrat at Little Rock. In 1861. after the
State seeded, he and his cousin "Stand
Waite" raised a regiment and fought
the battle of Elkhorn. He was chosen as
a member of the Confederate Congress
in 1868. After the battle of ElkhoIE
Ross deserted the Confederate and as
sailed the Southern Cherokees for heip-
ing the South. Boudinot defended them
with signal ability and delivered such
philippe against his treachery that he
was consigned to infamy.
Some years ago, Boud:not, by invita-
ton of Senators and Representatives
delivered a lecture in Washington on the
Indian race that made a profound inn
preston. Judge Hallum says of him:
"Some years ago he married beautiful
and accomplished lady of Washington.
He is an able lawyer. a polished and re-
fined gentleman and is possessed of the
most Fascinating conversational powers.
He has n most wonderful musical tai
ent and one of the most charming voices
ever given to men,"
Isn't that splendid? ] wouldn't mind
being that sort of an Indian.
| have many more historic letters. but
this will suffice for this time. | have
great reverence for these memories; they
make up history that will soon pass into
oblivion unless somebody records it.
There is n house on the bank of the
Oostanaula river two miles above Rome
that | have reverence for. 1t was built
by Major Ridge nearly seventy years
ago and is still a good old-fashioned
two-story house. 1t was built of hewn
logs, but was long afterwards celed in
sede and weatherboarded. When | first
knew it Colonel A. n. Verdery lived
there. He was the father of Mrs. War
rem Akin, and she was married there to
that eminent lawyer Mrs. Atkins young
est brother was born in that house. This
good lady is the mother of Judge John
w. Akin and she still lives in our town I
and is full of many sweet and many |
sad memories. My observation is that
women have better memories than men, |!
concerning marriages, deaths, |
births and the social statistics of their |
youthful day. BILL ARP.
LUTHER AND BOOK PIRATES.