HISTORICAL CHARACTER PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND
Mary Chapman, Indian Name - "Bunhio", Granddaughter of Cheyenne Peace Chief, Black Kettle
Seiling, Oklahoma newspaper about March 16, 1931
Mrs. Mary Chapman, Indian wife and widow of the late Amos Chapman, died Monday morning about 5 o'clock at her home, three miles northeast of Seiling, aged 76 years.
The people of all Western Oklahoma are familiar with the story of early day romance of Amos Chapman, famous army scout, and the 15 year old Indian girl who became his wife sixty-one years ago, in the year 1870.
During all the years of her married life she remained steadfast and true to her white husband and learned to speak his language. As the years passed she became the mother of ten children, eight boys and two girls, most of whom she raised to manhood and womanhood.
When this country was opened for white settlement, Amos Chapman, and his family had been living in the North Canadian Valley for 22 years. Many early day settlers remember their first visit to the Chapman ranch and the hospitality and the frontierman's cordial welcome in the Chapman home.
Funeral services were held in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Seiling, of which church she became a member in 1911. The services were conducted by Rev. Dyke, a friend of the family for 40 years. The funeral sermon was quite unusual in many respects, the speaker going far back in history of the Indian and coming up by successive stages to the present civilization of which Mrs. Chapman was a prominent example. Interment was made in the Indian cemetery east of Seiling beside the grave of her famous husband who died a few years ago.
Vanaheo'o (correct Cheyenne spelling) or "Sage Woman" DOD Monday 30 Mar 1931. Her father was Sleeping Bear who was killed in the Sand Creek Massacre 29 Nov 1864 and her mother was Wanderer "Running Around" "Moving Woman" DOB ? DOD 1897. She was adopted by Stone no relation and his wife.
Contributor: Shirley Williams (47371742)
Mary Chapman, Indian Name - "Bunhio", Granddaughter of Cheyenne Peace Chief, Black Kettle
Seiling, Oklahoma newspaper about March 16, 1931
Mrs. Mary Chapman, Indian wife and widow of the late Amos Chapman, died Monday morning about 5 o'clock at her home, three miles northeast of Seiling, aged 76 years.
The people of all Western Oklahoma are familiar with the story of early day romance of Amos Chapman, famous army scout, and the 15 year old Indian girl who became his wife sixty-one years ago, in the year 1870.
During all the years of her married life she remained steadfast and true to her white husband and learned to speak his language. As the years passed she became the mother of ten children, eight boys and two girls, most of whom she raised to manhood and womanhood.
When this country was opened for white settlement, Amos Chapman, and his family had been living in the North Canadian Valley for 22 years. Many early day settlers remember their first visit to the Chapman ranch and the hospitality and the frontierman's cordial welcome in the Chapman home.
Funeral services were held in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Seiling, of which church she became a member in 1911. The services were conducted by Rev. Dyke, a friend of the family for 40 years. The funeral sermon was quite unusual in many respects, the speaker going far back in history of the Indian and coming up by successive stages to the present civilization of which Mrs. Chapman was a prominent example. Interment was made in the Indian cemetery east of Seiling beside the grave of her famous husband who died a few years ago.
Vanaheo'o (correct Cheyenne spelling) or "Sage Woman" DOD Monday 30 Mar 1931. Her father was Sleeping Bear who was killed in the Sand Creek Massacre 29 Nov 1864 and her mother was Wanderer "Running Around" "Moving Woman" DOB ? DOD 1897. She was adopted by Stone no relation and his wife.
Contributor: Shirley Williams (47371742)
HISTORICAL CHARACTER PASSES TO THE GREAT BEYOND
Mary Chapman, Indian Name - "Bunhio", Granddaughter of Cheyenne Peace Chief, Black Kettle
Seiling, Oklahoma newspaper about March 16, 1931
Mrs. Mary Chapman, Indian wife and widow of the late Amos Chapman, died Monday morning about 5 o'clock at her home, three miles northeast of Seiling, aged 76 years.
The people of all Western Oklahoma are familiar with the story of early day romance of Amos Chapman, famous army scout, and the 15 year old Indian girl who became his wife sixty-one years ago, in the year 1870.
During all the years of her married life she remained steadfast and true to her white husband and learned to speak his language. As the years passed she became the mother of ten children, eight boys and two girls, most of whom she raised to manhood and womanhood.
When this country was opened for white settlement, Amos Chapman, and his family had been living in the North Canadian Valley for 22 years. Many early day settlers remember their first visit to the Chapman ranch and the hospitality and the frontierman's cordial welcome in the Chapman home.
Funeral services were held in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Seiling, of which church she became a member in 1911. The services were conducted by Rev. Dyke, a friend of the family for 40 years. The funeral sermon was quite unusual in many respects, the speaker going far back in history of the Indian and coming up by successive stages to the present civilization of which Mrs. Chapman was a prominent example. Interment was made in the Indian cemetery east of Seiling beside the grave of her famous husband who died a few years ago.
Vanaheo'o (correct Cheyenne spelling) or "Sage Woman" DOD Monday 30 Mar 1931. Her father was Sleeping Bear who was killed in the Sand Creek Massacre 29 Nov 1864 and her mother was Wanderer "Running Around" "Moving Woman" DOB ? DOD 1897. She was adopted by Stone no relation and his wife.
Contributor: Shirley Williams (47371742)
Mary Chapman, Indian Name - "Bunhio", Granddaughter of Cheyenne Peace Chief, Black Kettle
Seiling, Oklahoma newspaper about March 16, 1931
Mrs. Mary Chapman, Indian wife and widow of the late Amos Chapman, died Monday morning about 5 o'clock at her home, three miles northeast of Seiling, aged 76 years.
The people of all Western Oklahoma are familiar with the story of early day romance of Amos Chapman, famous army scout, and the 15 year old Indian girl who became his wife sixty-one years ago, in the year 1870.
During all the years of her married life she remained steadfast and true to her white husband and learned to speak his language. As the years passed she became the mother of ten children, eight boys and two girls, most of whom she raised to manhood and womanhood.
When this country was opened for white settlement, Amos Chapman, and his family had been living in the North Canadian Valley for 22 years. Many early day settlers remember their first visit to the Chapman ranch and the hospitality and the frontierman's cordial welcome in the Chapman home.
Funeral services were held in the Church of Latter Day Saints in Seiling, of which church she became a member in 1911. The services were conducted by Rev. Dyke, a friend of the family for 40 years. The funeral sermon was quite unusual in many respects, the speaker going far back in history of the Indian and coming up by successive stages to the present civilization of which Mrs. Chapman was a prominent example. Interment was made in the Indian cemetery east of Seiling beside the grave of her famous husband who died a few years ago.
Vanaheo'o (correct Cheyenne spelling) or "Sage Woman" DOD Monday 30 Mar 1931. Her father was Sleeping Bear who was killed in the Sand Creek Massacre 29 Nov 1864 and her mother was Wanderer "Running Around" "Moving Woman" DOB ? DOD 1897. She was adopted by Stone no relation and his wife.
Contributor: Shirley Williams (47371742)
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