The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-11
ARP AND THE INDIAN.
BILL. RELATES SOME HISTORY OE TIE
GREEKS AND CHEROKEEs.
Courtshp OF john Ridge-While Attending
IL Mission School He Fell In Love
With q Beautiful Pale
.... Face and Mar
rled Her,
GAtlanta Constitution. I

tIdSLueuCS VI 1uuldu ulSIOIy nufo
accumulated upon mo of late and as
they concern tho Greeks and Chero.
KEGS and are of romantic character,
/ am constrained to record them
These two tribes are our Indians and
make up quite chapter in the his.
tory of Georgia, Alabama and East
Tennessee. North Georgia was es.
pecially the home of the Cherokoes,
for their chiefs lived near Rome as
far back as we have their history,
and the Greeks, or Muscogees, as
they are more properly called, lived
south of the Tallapoosa river These
tribes are not to be classed with saw
ages, for they were of a higher grade,
and but for the greed Of tho white
man would, no doubt, have contin-
ued to advance in civilization and
refinement under the lead Of such
chiefs as Ross, Ridge, Boudinot and
Mcintosh.
Everybody is familiar with the
story Of Pocahontas.
Longfellow wrote g beautiful story
about Hiawatha, and William E.
Richards penned several pretty leg
ends about the Indian girls of Tallu-
lah Falls, and 50 ! will pen the story
of John Ridge and Boudinot as given
to me. This story was sent to mo
by Mrs. Ellen M. Gibbs, Of Crystal
Lake, Ill. Her mother, Mrs. Tay-
lor, who died in 1878, wrote this
romantic sketch IN 1877, when sho
was seventy.six years of age, and
left it for her children, who had Of
ten heard her repeat it, BY some
strange coincidence I havo recently
received letter from lady, Mre.
Virginia Williams, Of Bloomfield,
Fla, giving the ancestry of John
Ross, whose grandfather was a
Scotch refugee named Mcdonald.
The writer, Mrs. Williams, traces
her lineage back to the same McDon-
aid tree. Her mother was q daugh-
ter of William Day, who married
Agnes Mcdonald. Mrs. Williams
would like to learn more about Ross
and hopes this publication may at
tract the attention of some one who
can inform her.
And now comes marked copy of
a Now York paper called Sabbath
Reading, in which John Ross, a son
of the old chief appeals for proach-
ers and teachers to come ont to the
Cherokee Nation end help to educate
and train the children in tho Chris
tian faith, and especially to teach
them in their Sunday schools. This
appeal is dated December, 1897,
and Mr. Ro,5' address is No. 1O1
Gold street, New York.
And here is The Vinita Leader, an
;able paper, published in the Nation,
and contains General Andrew Jack
sons letter to the Cherokee chiefs,
written in 1885. and which urges and
'entreats them to accept the terms Of
the treaty and move at once to the
territory assigned to them.
!. And almost by the Same mail
Ses an interesting and beautifully
sketch of the present condi-
v. Muscogees Cor Croeks)
'ion OF tli by Mr., W. w. Ram
say, of MaryvilleSs%s,sho ia deenlv
scholarly gentleman, %iS,;ra O,hnr
interested in Indian affaa ao1 49, - r
have come to mS and
do not abrldge and compga.g
have them published in your NJ =.
much valuable history of these I'su
ans will be forever lost.
But to the story
'!In 1917 a foreign mission school
was established at Cornwall, Conn.
1t was charity school for Indians
mainly though there were some white
pupils there and some betrayed their
own expenses. Students from sew
.eral Indian tribes were there to ac'
ouire the English language and a
rudimentary education. Some white
. ,pils also acquired the Indian Ian
''guagc and went out as missionaries
to tho tribes. Besides the Chippe-
was and Choctaws and Cherokeea, l
remember there were two from the
Sandwich Islands.