Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — STATE AND GENERAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

FUNERAL OF MIAMI COUNTY CHIEF. Peru, Ind., August 17. —Several hundred people attended the funeral of Gabriel Godfrey, chief of the Miami Indians at the family home four miles southeast of Peru yesterday afternoon. The sermon was delivered by Ellis Brubaker, of Wabash county, for many years a neighbor of the aged chief. When the coffin was lowered into the grave the widow scattered a handful of earth over it in accordance with the custom of the Indians. The funeral was the occasion for the largest number of Miami Indians gathered together in this county in many years. Many people from Peru were present. The body was buried in the Indian buryng ground across the road from the chief’s home and near where the body of Chief Francis Godfrey, father of Chief Gabriel Godfrey, was buried sixty years ago.