Show bakee law AM ry W VM W IV 40 IM two 07 1 ai 71 g 7 rp A by ELMO SCOTT WATSON OTHERS DAY last year was the more because of plans which were under way for the erection of mem memorials to one of the most heroic types of motherhood the world tins has ever known the pioneer mother of america one of them was the selection by popular vote among the twelve models submitted by the leading sculptors of the united states of the design by bryant baker for the heroic statue of the pioneer woman which E W maria d an Okla oklahoma hoina oil millionaire proposes to erect i the famous cherokee strip in his state as a perpetual reminder of lie hie part played by women in the winning of the west ivest the other was vas the completion by A phimister proctor of ills his pioneer mother statue which was later presented to kansas city mo by howard vander slice and erected tn in penn valley park in that tty pity mothers day tills this year which will be celebrated throughout the country on may 13 will find another project under way for further honoring the pioneer mother with enduring memorials the daughters Daug liters of the american revolution are planning to mark the national old trails road across the country from the atlantic to the with twelve madonna of the trall trail markers one each in Nl maryland aryland pennsylvania pennsylva west vest virginia ohio indiana illinois missouri kansas colorado new mexico arizona find and california at Ifor rila these markers each 18 feet tall represent a typical pioneer mother she holds a habe babe in tier her arms and a small boy clings to her skirts skirls as 18 she faces the dangers and privations of the west the model for the madonna made by A leimback Lelm back of st louis was was selected from a turge number which were submitted and it Is p In lanned nned to erect the statues in time for dedication on Mot mothers motters bers day rut but the pioneer mother Is not the only type of motherhood which Is to be honored with memorials tills this year for plans are now going forward for paying a similar tribute to two mothers of a race which occupied this continent long before the pioneer mother made her appearance both are familiar names in american history Poca liontas mid and or sacajawea ai as she Is often known lc one of the outstanding features of the westminster inIn minster ster abbey of america the washington cathedral thedral a which Is to be built on mount blount st albans overlooking the potomac at washington will be the chapel of women the washington cathedral has selected what it considers to be the twenty gren greatest test christian women since the death beath of christ and they will he be honored with stained glass windows in the chapel of women thirteen women saints have been selected they are phoebe cecelia Cecel ln 11 helena clena ursula re benevieve Genev nevieve lec hilda da Ethel give edith margaret irene and elizabeth other women who have achieved immortality by their christian fortitude their courage und their piety and will he be honored fire are anne 0 of f bohemia wife of richard 11 II of england mother superior harriet starr cannon julla julia emory joan of are arc the immortal maid of Or orleans ienus lady lane orey grey who was be headed in the tower of london and susanna wesley mother of the founders of methodism and last but not least in that galaxy of great women Is the indian girt girl whose kindness and service to the first colonists in america have kept tier her memory bright for three centuries pocahontas everyone Is familiar with the story of bow pocahontas then but thirteen years old saved the life of capt john smith when ie ha was captured by the indians and ordered to be put to leath death by chief powhaten powhatan but few of us are familiar with pocahontas Poca liontas later history pocahontas the wife and mother has been quite lost sight of in pocahontas the maiden and heroine of the earliest bit of romance in american history a story which some historians believe to be a pleasant piece of fiction invented by the doughty captain john many years after the event was supposed ed to have taken place although other bring forth evidence to prove that it la Is sub stant lally ly true one of the paintings in the capitol at washington which attracts universal attention la Is the by john jelin godsby gadsby chapman named the rhe baptism of pocahontas it was this incident in the life of pocahontas or matoaka Met oaka which was tier her real indian name which gives tiera place pince in the chapel of aomen in the national cathedral ir tor or in 1613 she was converted to christianity and an fn n a solemn ceremonial in id the little church at jamestown she was baptised baptized sed in the christian faith under the name of rebecca she stands foremost fore hinst in the train of those wandering children of the forest writes the painter chapman Chapin nn who have ot at different times few indeed and far be tween been snatched from the tangs fangs pf af a bar lincous Mol idolatry alry to n mcconie lambs in tile the fold of the divine shepherd d 2 W L V A photograph of pocahontas Pocahont aa statue courtesy virginia state chamber of commerce of saka kaaea statue courtesy J M devine north dakota commissioner of immigration 3 her ber baptism hud had been preceded by a base net act upon the part of the english who owed sa much to tier her effort in winning for them the friendship of the powerful powhatan A certain capt thomas argall had find bribed some of the indians to bring tier her aboard his ship where she was detained and to jamestown and there held as a hostage for the good behavior of her tribesmen soon after tier her baptism she was married to john rolfe a young planter A son was born to them and given the name of thomas rolfe about a year later rolfe took hla his family to england where lady rebecca as she was known was waa received at court and was the object of many flattering attentions in 1617 they prepared to return to america but pocahontas was stricken in an epidemic of smallpox and died at gravesend Grave send a short time before they were to take ship she was buried under the flag in the chancel of old st georges church in that city and although gh attempts have been made in lute late years to locate her grave no one knows for sure just where ll it Is her husband and son returned to virginia find and the became IF F F V s so that today some of the proudest families in that state claim pocahontas ns as an ancestor one of her descendants was the famous john randolph of roanoke Roann ke and another Is mrs edith lolling boiling riison widow of president woodrow wilson while the memory of pocahontas Pocahont ns la Is to oe hon ored in the national cathedral or sacajawea la Is to ro he be honored with another monument ni although though where that monument Is to be located Is Rome somewhat what of a question A bill appropriating pria ting arr such a monument has been introduced into congress alt until the problem of where this indian girl mother famous as a guide for the lewis and clark lark expedition died and Is buried Is solved the passage of the hill bill seems somewhat doubtful wyoming whose representatives are asking the appropriation for the monument believes that she tied died on april 9 1884 at the age of more than orie one hundred years and la Is burled on fin a bleak hill near the shoshone agency on the wind river reservation about sixteen miles northwest of lander wyo the principal cipal authority for this claim Is dr grace raymond baymond debard librarian of the university of wyoming who alio for twenty years has studied the history of and believes that the che has the only accurate account of the indian womans comans death find and burial place her version and its ita cor atlon by dr chart charles A eastman an educated sioux who was commissioned to ranke make an investigation tins lias been accepted by the united bureau of indian affairs on april 1 1014 1914 a simple concrete slab was erect creed on the spot where Is supposed to kle ie and there 11 1 l is s proposed to place the monument for which congress has been asked to make an appropriation on the other hand north and south dakota dekota basing their version upon the studies of donne doane robinson veteran historian vf of south dakota believe that Saka kawen died december 20 1812 nt at rort fort manuel manucl on the river near the southern boundary of north dakota Dal rota along with the dispute over the date of death find and the site elte of her grave arave la Is a dispute over the correct spelling of her name north and south dakota missouri and montana say that it should be wyoming and oregon contend that it should hould be sacajawea find and it a compromise of sacajawea has been offered history records few finer examples of heroic motherhood than this shoshone indian girl who at the age of sixteen as ag the wife of toussaint Chur charbonnenu bonneau a french canadian trapper was guiding lewis and dark clark on their magnificent adventure over the shining mountains to everywhere salt water strapped on her back was her two mouths old baby baptiste charbonneau who as one historian has recorded was a boy fluid destined to go down in his count rys history na as the first baby to cross the rocky mountains and paddle his toes in the Paci pacific mother and son have already been immortalized in three statues one which now stands in a park in portland ore was wap made by alice cooper and was waa the outstanding piece of sculpture at the lewis and dark clark exposition in that city another was made by bruno almin for the louisiana Pur purchase chuse exposition in st louis and the third made by leonard crunelle stands on the state capitol grounds in BIsmar bismarck rk N U D the gift of the fed aerated crated clubs and school that state considering the value of liar her services to this nation the erection of a fourth statue to tier her memory to mark the pince where slie she was burled buried Is eminently filling and even then out our debt to Saka kawen Is far from being paid the nations debt to a third heroic mother still remains unpaid so for ns as a memorial to tier her merti memory ory Is concerned she wa ginvina woman chief better known ns na tobey riddle a of tile the mo doc tribe who has bus beeh palled called the pocahontas of the lava beds bede for tobey riddles friendship for the whites caused her to als her life in their IP behalf finif more than once dar dair ang the modoc war lz lc oregon and nor cf california ill fornia in 1871 she and tier her husband fran it riddle a kentucky frontiersman were interpreters e for the pence commission which ans trying bryin to bring about a settlement of the between the bodocs and the army which had hen h en sent against them after hostilities find commenced commence 1 I late in 1872 2 upon learning that the bodocs were planning to murder the commissioners when they met under a ong ing of truce tobey riddle knowing full well that it might me mean an dealt dead at the brinds of 0 tier her tribesmen betrayed the plot pint to the commissioners and tried to persuade them not to attend the council they refused to believe that the indians would dare treachery find and insisted upon going through with the lie arrangements so they the went to the council and the heroic indian woman accompanied them tier her warning of the indians indiana intentions proved to le be a true one in the midst of the council the modica opened fire on the th whites killing gen E it 8 canby and rev elenzer thomas and seriously wounding A B meacham Me achara when tobey riddle sprang to the defense of meacham anti and trip tried to prevent one of th bodocs from scalping him she was struck down hut but tier her quick wit which led her to exclaim soldiers co coming caused the to flee and no doubt saved Mea Alea chama chams life tobey riddle was the m other mother of jeff C riddle the handsome boy Cliar charan mentioned by mani man writers of that period an educated indian wh has written what Is probably the most complete history of that conflict which tins has ever been pro deuced tobey riddle died delit february pary 20 duelp 6 an n epidemic of influenza which swept th residents res Ments of the klamath re res L in drw w fc h a A |