The Mail-Journal, Volume 23, Number 22, Milford, Kosciusko County, 28 May 1986 — Page 48

THE MAIL-JOURNAL — Wed., May 28,1986

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1907 MILFORD MUNICIPAL BAND — This photo, which hangs on the wall of The Papers Incorporated business offices in Milford, was taken of one of the bands that existed in Milford in 1907. Although not much information can be be found to help trace the history of the different bands throughout Milford’s history, pictures provide evidence that several did exist. This particular band played for many community functions, including a political rally at Warsaw. The group also performed at regularly scheduled concerts. In front are Dr. Gantz, dentist; Frank Keene, shoe store operator;

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Clyde McDonald; Fred Felkner; Eddie Miller; and Oliver Groves. In the middle row are Arthur Kirkpatrick, drove street sprinkling wagon; Aubrey Kinley; Robert Jones; Ziler Groves (director), farmer and music store operator; Billy Groves, editor of the Milford Mail; Orba Wehr ley, farmer and farm insurance; David Hill, meat market employee; and Ed Cammack, drug store. In the back row are Alonzo Doty, general construction and farmer; Neal Fuller; Elmer Doty, building contractor of Doty Brothers; James Barnes, painting and wallpapering merchant; Fred Smith; and Henry Erick, meat market.

Indians in Kosciusko county area

(Continued from page 7) wa; considered a marked man betause of his early political activities. After being confined to a reservation, this once powerful chief, who preferred calico to deerskin, began his decline. He was fond of whiskey and spent mi ch time carousing. Monquet di< d in 1836/37 probably of "lung fever”; however some believe he was murdered by a young woman visiting from Chief White Pi jeon’s tribe. She was later killed near Leesburg by members of Monoquet’s tribe and legend says that her ghost still manifests itsslf from time to time. There ar j several versions of the burial of this chief. The traditional way of burial was to place the body, fa<ang south, upright against a tree encircled by a fence. A blanket was placed around the sh xilders. A horse and a dog were placed with the body (some say the animals were killed and otiers say that they were taken care of until they died.) The chief was to be surrounded by his w eapons and abundant food. The ci stom was to leave adults sitting on top of the ground for four or five years before burning the bines. Babies were placed in ci adlebaskets and fastened in the uiper branches of trees to be niar the sun. Jim Monoquet, the od chiefs son. became tribal leader and was an influential and v ealthy chief in Kansas. Bennack, who was at the treaty in 1832, lived in a log cabin near (lunette and was quite wealthy. He was large and muscular and acquired a taste for hard liquor as did many native peoples. IVhite children were terrified of j oing near his home as it was said he had collected 99 human longues and intended to have 100 I lefore he died. His mother, Granny Bennack, lived to over 100 years and related many tales of Indian history. Bennack died in the 1850’s leaving a daughter, Mary Ann. She married, as her second husband, her foster brother, Peashwa, and lived on a reserve near South Bend. . Checose or Checase, who originally lived on the banks of Winona Lake, occupied land northwest of Warsaw, which included the west end of Center Lake. He was a shrewd land dealer. Che-chaw-kose, who lived on the south side of the Tippecanoe River near the Kosciusko and Marshall County lines, was his brother. Some of the other Indians associated with this area were Topash, Mota, Kinkash and Aubbeenaubee. Mota had part of his nose missing and ' was quite frightening. He lived east of Atwood on the bank of the Tippecanoe River. Topasb, an old man in 1848, occupied an area in Harrison Township or Timble Creek. He had two sons, Dominique and Joanita, one of whom spent time at Michigan City State Prison for the theft of horses. The family moved to Michigan. Kinkash lived just north of Warsaw on the Monoquet reserve. Aubbeenaubee, who was a great chief associated mainly with Fulton County, frequented this area and held lands in Clay, Harrison and Prairie townships. He was stabbed to death bv his son. One further note should be mentioned. There was no Princess Winona. The name comes from Wenonah, the mother of Longfellow’s Hiawatha. To secure a picture of an Indian princess to portray the town’s logo, the village of Winona Lake asked a teenaged girl to dress in a colorful Indian costume and pose for a portrait, per name was Airy Anna Haymaker, who later married P.L. Osborne of Groves, Texas.