The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-29
medal WAS
CHISHOLM
The Logical Conclusion, as 1t
Was Not SequOyah's,
BELIEVES MRS. OWEN.
Lady is Fully COnversant With
All Matters of Her Family
History Some Very
Strange COinci-
dences.
BELIEVES MRS. OWEN.

The story Of the recent find in the
Wichita mountains Of a skeleton lpos-
sibly Sequoyah'sl having beside it a
Jefferson medal has awakened inter-
est in another quarter Mrs. Narcissa
Owen, now at Washington, writes:
Find enclosed clippings, one headed
'Sequoyah or not Sequoyah, from tie
Chieftain, embodying a communica-
tion from the pen of Rev w. A. Dun
can, and the other from the Washing
ton Evening Star, Of January 10, in
which appears an exact description of
well known medal, lost many years
ago. 1t was the property Of an old
Cherokee chief who. from his earliest
manhood, was the war chief Of his
tribe, and at the time Of his death in
November, 1884, was the last heredi-
tafy chief, being direct defendant
on the maternal side Of his family Of
Cunlunna and Oconostota, who, with
other head men Of the seven clans Of
the Cherokees, were received, June
1880, in Dover, England, as native
American princes, and with whom al
that date a treaty was concluded.
"The history OF the jefferson medal
in possession Of the Chisholm family
4n 1884 is only known from that time
until 1850 Between those dates your
correspondent has a very clear remem-
brance Of tile medal, it being a greatly
valued souvenir ia the family of the
old chief
''rhe eldest son OF the above mem
toned chief died during the first years
Of the civil war He was heir TO this
Jefferson medal, and from the date Of
his death an trace Of the family relic
seems 70 have been obliterated-
at is not probable that there were
more than one or two Of the above
mentioned medals Ia the present con-
lines Of the Cherokee nation, and as
the one found by Mr.. .Franche, OF Sny-
der, Oklahoma, cannot as shown by
W. y. have belonged 10 the grand
Cherokee, Sequoyah, tie logical con
clusion is that it is theproperty Of the
heirs Of Thomas Chisholm. These
heirs are, W. o. Bruton, Muldrow, l.
r.. R. l.. Owen, Muskogee, l. H., and /
Maj. w O. Owen, II. S. A., Of Manila.
Philippine Islands
That this long-lost, famous JefIer-
son medal should turn up just al this 4
time IS a strange coincidence IN the I
life OF Mrs Owen, who, II her premise
is correct, is really the heir to IL, and
not the young men she names. Strange 4
because Of the fact that the lady is
just putting the last artistic strokes \
Of her brush to a portrait Of Thomas
Jefferson and six generations Of his I
family for the Indian Territory build I
ing at the Louisiana Purchase exhibi- /
tion, to be held this year at ST. Louis.
Strange, too because the last two
Of the jefferson descendants were born /
IN Cooweescoowee district, In her home /
at Monticello ranch. near Caney, Kas. /
In Bed Four Weeks with Laxrippe. I
We have received the following let /
ter from Mr. Roy Kemp, OF Angola, (
Ind: II was ia bed four weeks with 4
Ia grippe and / tried many remedies \
and spent considerable for treatment /
with physicians, but / received no re-
lief until l tried Foleys Honey and
Tar Two small bottles Of this medi-
cine cured me, and now use it ex-
clusively in my family Take no
substitutes. For sale at Peoples drug
store DIV
Threatened 70 Stop Trains.
At Americus, on the Katy's Neosho
division, the agent was arrested for
trundling lis mail push-cart on the
sidewalk Refusing to pay his fine he
was put in jail and only liberated when
the company threatened not 10 stop
its trains there.
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