The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-10

s6n,s campaign in. 1873. shortly. after Sh ths Atlantic side of cSpe FlofiGa HossaE Yoholo. the white, half breed chief died on Indian River. from di- sease lin his feet caused by &as ipSeah known there as the jigger. THls I learned from a hostile negro. named Powell but in after times was known as Holmes Ned. He e<aceompapied HOS sa Yoholo ors4z6 Singing Sans FiOfias da I knew Ned many years. pur-. chased him from our friend Horseshoe Ned and he died Hine, e-ss.-. |. .....
 I will try and account to you fof an error that many have fallen into about Billy Powell, or Osceola. As I. remark ed before this boy went with his un- 'cle Mcqueen to Florida I knew him well after that and have seen him fre- auentIy Captain Isaac Brown and my self with q crowd of friendly Creeks and. Uchees made him a prisoner In ISIS and he was then but lad. Captain Brown is now living in Boshier. Par ish. this State. and. well reeollects the, circunsta meet for at the time &sc cap@s tured Billy, wesrScaptpreds a, ttHlItte wee man that was made q prisoner, at the massacre of Lieutenant Scott and his party at the mouth below the, mouth of the Flint River. She was then Mrs. Stuart since known as Mrs. DilL or k'ort SialnS, Ga.. 1uis was ~ OS Ia and known as the Mackintosh nght. THE EARLY STORY OF s OsCEOL0 THE 'CHIEF This boy having gone to Flortda at l the same time, Hossa Yoholo went, and then growing to be a man and then being called sUssa Yoholo. or Hack Drink. after the killing if Gen- eral Thompson. those that had heard l of the fighter Hossa Yoholo of the old wars took him to be the same man, You win see that the names from the l way they are spelled would sound pretty much alike and they both be- | ing Powells. but of different families you can see how the mistake have | easily originated. Besides I know that osceola. as he Is called was not a l,chief nor ever knownao the Tallassees | as such until after the killing of Gen. | eral Thompson.
 You see 1t is generally the halt | breeds and mixed 'bloods that speak I our language. and. if in case of a lit
 tie war or any thing of the sort. one of those the whites know. go ,~off among the h0stiles. he is by the. whites dubbed chief. The Indians soon learn upon whom the whites look as 1 being their leaders, and not being as
 ambitious of distinctions as the whites
 generally are, when any talking or
 compromising is to be done those per 1 sons are put t0rWaTu'
 Such was the case with Jim Henry
 and others in. 1886. Jim Henry wal
 never a chief in his life. His mother
 was Chehaw woman and his fathei
 a Cuban Spaniard and one Of the de-
 serters from St. Augustine, Fla, long
 before l knew anything about the
 Indians. Tie father of Jim was An
 tonic Req.
 He once lived at Saunderville, Wahs fngLon County. Ga, but this was long
 before l knew him. Captain Mo.
 Dougald took him to Fort Hawkins | from whence he went to Chehaw ant
 thence to a place called Finder Town
 One of the others was Emanuel
 though sometimes called Tlney. Hf | was the father of our Toney thai
 killed George Bonner in 1886. The
 other was Tom Peechin, known ai
 Tom Pigeon.
 saw an account not long since. oi l. Joe Pigeon. a half bread Choetaw be-
 ing hanged in Mobile for killing {
 cab-man. His mother was no Choc
 taW; she was Creek Whenever yoI
 come to know the truth you win int
 that it was our Joe. Old Tom his ia
 ther stopped at Pass Christian an(
 never went with the Indians to Arkan sas, as I have heard. besides killing
 man for a few dollars was just suited
 to Joss morals. Although Joes ia ther was @ Catholic and Joe was a pu
 pill of Mir, Conpeer his religious teach ings did him but little good. I kneI him we'll and he was certainly one o
 the worst half breeds I eyer knew. When I commenced this I had n, idea of putting Joe Pigeon. in. 1t, bu 7 he has passed up among the other ol' . acquaintances and have let him 1T will write something etsS next time Yours,
 . T. S. W