Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — A Handsome Indian Maiden Said to be heir to an Immense Fortune. [ARTICLE]

A Handsome Indian Maiden Said to be heir to an Immense Fortune.

General Alfred Sully, who ‘died recently at Fort Vancouver, on the Pacific coast, left a very valuable estate in Philadelphia, inherited from his father, and also a considerable sum of money he had accumulated in his long army career. The Philadelphia estate alone is worth several hundred thousand dollars. It is now said that the only person to whom any part of Gen. Sully’s large fortune of right belongs is his half-breed daughter,'Julia, at present living with,White Swan’s band of YanKton Indians, eighty miles above this place on the Missouri, and making her home with the family of Colin La Mont, also of mixed blood. Those who knew General Sully well while campaigning against the Indians of Dakota, say that at his death he had no wife nor any issue living except this girl, and steps will soon be taken to establish her right to the fortune. The marriage of General Sully, according to Indian custom, with tliis girl’s squaw mother, is susceptible of proof, and it is believed that it will be difficult to invalidate the claim. General Sully’s daughter, who is well known to those who have traveled through the Missouri river or in the great Sioux nation. She can not talk the English, and her habits are thoroughly aboriginal. The daughter of the late General Sully was frequently seen by the writer, while engaged in surveying the Yankton reservation. Having occasion to stop at the house of Colin La Mont, the girl’s handsome appearance attracted attention, and La Mont was asked if she was a daughter of his. La Mont said, “No, sir; she is Sully’s daughter, and if any of you men had seen Sully, you would say she bears a strong resemblance to him—[Yankton Herald.