Obituaries and Death Notices

Billy Caldwell, (Indian chief "Sauganash"), died, Council Bluffs, Iowa, September 28, 1841, aged 60. (Source: 1843 Chicago City Directory, reprinted in 1896, sub. by K. Torp) Red-Bird (Indian chief), d., Prairie-du-Chien, Wis. Feb. 16, 1828 (Source: 1843 Chicago City Directory, reprinted in 1896, sub. by K. Torp) Alex Robinson, (Indian chief), died, on his Reservation, April 22, 1872, aged 83. (Source: 1843 Chicago City Directory, reprinted in 1896, sub. by K. Torp) Sa-Gu-Yu-Wha-Hah (Keeper Awake), the noted Seneca Chief, died 20 Jan (1830) in the Indian Valley near Buffalo, aged 80. He had been known to the whites by the appellation of Red Jacket (28 Jan 1830, National Intelligencer, sub. by K. Torp) Tantiquigion, Lucy, aged 97, died. Shed was born in the sixth year of George the Second's reign and was the sister of Rev. Samson Occu, the Indian warrior who went to England in 1766 to obtain school assistance for the Indians. (22 June 1830, National Intelligencer, sub. by K. Torp) Wabansee, (Indian chief), died, Boonville, Mo., fall 1846, aged 80. (Source: 1843 Chicago City Directory, reprinted in 1896, sub. by K. Torp) Back to the N.A. Index Background courtesy of http://www.firstpeople.us/ ©2006 K. Torp Genealogy Trails