HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1926,
PAGE THREE
GILLIAM FAMILY
HISTORY RECALLED
(Continued from First Page)
and miles for flour, which they would
carry home on their backs.
We got some wheat from the Hud
bon Bay people and planted it on our
claim. We made it into hominy and
also ffround it in our coffee mill and
made it into bread. After a mill was
started at Ellendale by Jas. O'Neal,
we (tot our wheat ground there.
The Indians made bread from ca
mas roots and something that we call
ed bread roots, or sup-lill in their
language, which grew along swales or
low places; there was plenty of it
growing everywhere then but we
rever see any of it any more. They
would pulverize it in their mortars
tnd bake it; they used to give us
children some and we liked it, but
they soon learned our way of making
it from wheat flour and dropped their
hard and tedious methods.
My father was accidentally killed
near Walla Walla during the Cayuse
Indian war, in 1848, he had command
of the volunteers at that time. The
Indians were not afraid of the Regu
lars and would laugh at them, saying
"they could catch their bullets in
their mouths," but not so with the
volunteers; they used the Indian me
thods of fighting and fought them in
their own style and soon had them
whipped.
One dHy my father asked some of
his men to take a rope from a wagon
bod in which a number of guns had
been placed, one of these guns was
loaded and in pulling out the rope the
gun was discharged killing him in
stantly. Coi. Jas. W. Nesmith then took
charge of the volunteers, but the
lighting was all over.
It was twelve days before they ar
rived with my father's body. I can re
member that Mr?. Blodgett came all
the way over the hills and moun
tians from what it known as Blod
gett's valley to stay with mother, and
after she went home Mrs. King came,
who lived where King s valley now is,
and stayed a while with mother. We
had no near neighbors, no white per
son within five miles of us.
Two bachelors had claims five miles
to the cast of us, one was Mr. John
Johnson, and he was so good to help
mother, and she in turn would wash
and mend for him.
' Soon after we moved up on the Ve
dee there was an epidemic of meas
les among the Indians, and wh.tes
also; several Indians died; we chil
dren all had it and mother nursed
us through it.
The old chief's daughter took it and
he came to mother and asked her to
help cure his child; mother hesitated
for she had seen him shoot a medi
cine man as he sat on his pony, be
cause some of his patients had died.
My brother advised her to have noth
mg to do with it, but the old chief
begged so hard, and so faithfully
promised to do as mother told him,
that she finally consented. Not know
ing what kind of food or herbs they
might give the girl, Mother made
him promise to feed her only food
that she herself had prepared, and
each day he sent some one to our
house for the food. She told him to
hang skins around the wigwam to
keep his daughter warm and she
would soon break out all over with
little red spots. He promised to al
low no one in the wigwam except the
one squaw who attended her, and to
keep her warm and not to allow her
to jump into the cold water in the
stream as the Indians did when sick.
One morning, early, we heard the
old chief at our door, calling Mother
we were all frightened nearly to
death, for fear the girl had died and
he had come to kill Mother, but he
had come to tell that his little pa
poose was all covered with red spots,
just as Mother said she would be and
he was so pleased. She got well in
a short time, and after that there was
nothing mother wanted, which this
old chief would not do for her.
One day a band of Klickitat Indians
came by our place on a hunting trip
thev went on south, down on the
Umpqua, and when they came back
they had two Indian women with
them whom they had stolen from the
Coquille tribe and were taking them
back with them as slaves.
I think they were the largest In-
dian women I ever saw. They stop
ped for several days and camped near
us, and when the men returned from
a hunt they would send these two
r.quaws out over the trail to bring
in the deer on their backs.
The Indian men never carried any
thing themselves, always the squawa
did the hard work.
I have seen these two slave squaws
with such loads of bark tied on their
backs, so large that it looked like i
load of hay coming, all we could see
underneath the load was their feet.
They walked bent over, holding two
sticks in their hands, and had to be
helped up to start with their load,
and when they were relieved of It
they wiped their faces with their two
hands and gave one big grunt.
They were taken on up into Wash
ington as slaves of the Klikitat tribe.
While we were living at our home,
en the Pedee, U. S. Grant, in company
with General Wool stopped at our
door one day to inquire of Mother
the dirtction to Fort Hoskins, which
was being built at that time, a few
miles farther southeast from our
home.
Grant was never stationed in Ore
gon but often came from Vancouver,
where he was located, to inspect the
forts in the Willamette Valley. Lieut.
Phil Sheridan often stopped at our
house, and many times spent the
night with us on his trips from Grand
Ronde to Fort Hoskins; it was a day's
ride from Grand Ronde to our home,
nnd seven miles farther on to Fort
Hoskins.
Later he was stationed at Fort Hos
kins and the house that he built there
for him was afterwards move to my
brother, Marcus Gilliam's claim and
is still used as a part of the home
of my nephew, Frank Gilliam.
I knew Sheridan s squaw wife, who
was the daughter of Chief Harney of
the Rogue River tribe, and who has
been at our home a number of times.
She was a bright little woman, very
good looking, and quite likeable.
Sheridan was always good and kind
to her and taught her to read and to
do many things. They had no chil
dren. But when he went back to
Washington and left her, it almost
broke her heart. A
We all liked Mrs. Phil Sheridan.
One day she came to our home, pre
tending to be looking for a horse, but
she really came to tell us that she
was going on a trip to Washington,
D. C.
Her father had died and her broth
er was now Chief Harney, and he and
she, along with several other Indians,
influential among the tribes had been
invited to go to Washington, at the
expense of the government.
She was all fitted out in clothes and
trunks and ready for the trip. I told
her she would see many wonderful
things, and probably see Phil Sheri
dan, and asked her to come and tell
me all about her trip when she came
back.
It was wonderful, the things she
told me afterwards about her trip and
what she saw and she did see Phil
Sheridan. lie came and shook hands
with them all and took her hand and
asked about her welfare and then
took them all upon the rostrum and
introduced them. After that she nev
er saw him again.
My brother, Smith Gilliam, who liv
ed at Walla Walla, has often seen
General Grant's squaw wife, and his
two children, one a daughter whom
he named Nellie. He seemed to like
that name for he named his white
daughter Nellie, too. His other child
was a boy, but I fail to remember his
name.
It was no uncommon thing for a
white man to have a squaw wife in
those days.
Jnmes O'Neal had a squaw wife but
when he met the Bowman family he
decided he would rather have a white
one, so he discarded the Indian wom
an and married ono of the Bowman
girls. The squaw wife was so angry
and jealous that she took her little
half breed papoose and s went down
to Yamhill county and drowned little
Jimmie O'Neal in the Yamhill river.
Among the Indians who camped
near us was a little Indian girl aDout
my age, who often played with my
sister and me and we became great
friends and playmates.
One day one of the older Indians
ci.me to our home and told us that
this little girl was sick and wanted
t" see us, and mother let us go to
their camp near by She wes very
sick but tried her best to welcome us
and we knew she was glad that we
had come. But It was only a few
days until they came again to us and
asked mother to go too for the little
thing was dying.
When we got there they were all
f.athered around and in their way
were trying to keep death from taking
this little favorits away. They were
making all kinds of mournful sounds,
beating on sticks and trying to scare
the bad rpirit away, but to no avail.
That night the little girl died. Next
morning when we went to their camp
we found that they had moved the
tent in which she had died a few feet
from where it had been, and had
brought in all the horses belonging
to the tribe. They cut off the tails
ol all these ponies, pulverized quant
ities of beads in their mortars, and
with ashes gathered from their camp
fires, scattered these ground beads,
horse hairs and ashes all around the
tent and ground, and over the bushes
near where the child had died.
They found out in some way that
white people placed their dead in
boxes and they asked my brother if
he would make them a box in which
to bury this little girl, and he got to
gether a few boards and make them
cne.
My sister Reta and I were invited
to attend the burying, being special
friends and playmates of the little
girl, but no others of our family were
i sked. Mother hesitated at first, but
she decided that we might go. They
buried her within sight of our house
and mother and my brothers stood
outside our door watching.
They dug a grave, not very deep,
and had my sister and I to stand at
cne side of the grave, while the In
dians were all arranged on the oppos
ite side. Inside the box they placed
beads, strands and strands of them,
covering the child completely. I be
lieve they must have used four bushel
of beads for that funeral, then they
placed inside all her garments and
nicest things. Over the grave, when
filled with earth, they stuck sticks
ubout two feet high, on which were
tied all her trinkets and playthings,
and numerous red strings. At the
head of the grave they lead a little
pony and at the foot a dog.
, They talked only in the Indian lan
guage, and we could not understands
what was being said, but never at
any funeral have I ever seen 3uch
grief displayed, for the whole tribe
loved this little girl. All at once a
shot was fired and they killed the
pony and the dog. We chidren were
frightened nearly to death and my
siBter grabbed me by my skirts; then
Indians came and told us to hae
no fear, they would never harm us,
and explained that they had killed the
pony for the little girl to ride on her
journey to the Happy Hunting
Ground, and the little dog would pro
ject her on the way.
Our old 'friends are passing away
and not many are left with wnom to
talk over old times; no one living to
day will ever see again the changes
that we have seen. We have seen
this country in its virgin state, just
as nature made it, grow and change
into what it is today and to us it
seems like magic.
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