Find A Grave - Fort Sill Post Cemetery

Bear, Chief Yellow b. 1842 d. 1887
Native American Chief. He was a chief of the Southern Arapaho tribe. His Indian name was Wuk-Nee-Haw-Nay. He was the highest ranking warrior in the lodge and signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. This treaty granted the Southern Arapaho a reservation between the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers in the Indian Territory (presently Oklahoma). In 1880 he was a member of the delegation that went to Washington DC to discuss reservation boundaries. Yellow Bear and his nephew, Chief Quanah Parker, went...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Plot: SECTION IV SITE 1026-E
Bear, Sitting b. 1810 d. June 8, 1871
Native American Leader. He was one the leading Chiefs of the Kiowas and head of the Kiowa honor society called "Koitsenk", or the "Ten Bravest Warriors". He was also known as Satank and Set-Angya. Sitting Bear led numerous raids against the Northern Tribes, settlers, wagon trains and army posts. An able and couragous warrior, he was well respected by the Kiowa and Comanche. In 1867 he reluctantly signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, but when placed on the Fort Sill Reservation in Oklahoma he...[Read More] (Bio by: Randy)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Bears, Chief Ten d. November 23, 1872
Native American Chief. He was born about 1790 and shortly thereafter was orphaned when his band was wiped out by another band of Indians, probably the Lakota tribe. His Indian name was Paruasemana (Parra-wah-ser-man-oh) and he was born into the Yamparika (Root-eaters) tribe or Northern Comanche. He first became chief of the Ketahto (Don't Wear Shoes) local band. Later he became chief of all the Yamparika division. He did not come into the attention of the Americans until 1853 when he signed the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Black Beaver b. 1806 d. May 8, 1880
Delaware Scout. Born a Delaware Indian at what is now the present Belleville, Illinois in 1806, he was named (Suck-tum-mah-kway), meaning Black Beaver. In the early 1800s, he was contracted by the US Government and was in nearly all of the Frontier transcontinental expeditions as the most intelligent and trusted scout. He was the interpreter at the conference with the Comanche, Kiowa and Wichita tribes, held by Colonel Richard Dodge on the Red River in 1834. During the Civil War, he escorted...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Kicking Bird (Black Eagle) b. 1835 d. May 5, 1875
Indian warrior. Failed peace maker. His name was Tene-angop'te which means "The Kicking Bird". He was, also, known as Watohkonk - "Black Eagle". His grandfather was a Crow captive who had been incorporated in the Kiowa tribe. Kicking Bird's avocation was peace with the Whites since he saw the hopelessness warfare would bring. Kicking Bird signed the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1867. His friendly ways, however, did bring about much hope: the government did not keep a promise to free Kiowa chief...[Read More]
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Plot: Chief's knoll
Parker, Cynthia Ann b. October 29, 1827 d. October 28, 1870
Folk Figure. The details of her early life are clouded in confusion. Sources place her birth year between 1825 and 1827. One source narrows it to between June 2, 1824 and May 31, 1825 according to the 1870 census. Her place of birth has been listed as Coles, Clark, and Crawford Counties in Illinois. She was born to Silas M and Lucy (Doty) Parker. Even her time of death has been listed from 1864 to 1871. She did die in Anderson County, Texas and is listed in the 1870 census. So she probably died...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Parker, Quanah d. February 23, 1911
Native American Folk Figure. He is often referred to as the last Chief of the Comanches, but the truth of the matter is that the Comanche people never elected him as a chief. In fact there was no such thing as Chief of the Comanches. Each band of Comanches had their own chief. After the surrender of the Comanche people and their placement on the reservation, Colonel Ranald S Mackenzie appointed him Chief of Comanches. He was the son of Peta Nacona, a noted fierce Comanche chief, and Cynthia Ann...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Prairie Flower b. 1858 d. 1863
Folk Figure. Sister of Quanah Parker. Her Comanche name was Toh-Tsee-Ah and she was one of three children born to Cynthia Ann Parker and a daring Comanche chief named Peta Nocona. Her mother was a white woman captured by the Comanche people when she was 9 or 10 years old. She was given to a family who raised her as their very own. She completely accepted the Comanche life style and refused to return to her white family. One of Prairie Flower's brothers grew up to be the great Comanche war...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Raven, Chief Little b. 1819 d. 1889
Native American Chief. He was the principal chief of the Southern Arapaho tribe. He was born on the central Great Plains, probably in present Nebraska, and was known for his oratorical skills. As early as 1840 he had negotiated peace between the Southern Arapaho and several other Indian tribes, including the Plains Apache. He sought agricultural implements and instructions from the United States Government so that his people could provide their own subsistence. After he signed the Fort Wise...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Satanta (White Bear) d. October 11, 1878
Kiowa Sub-chief. Born Set-tain-te which roughly translates to White Bear. From the 1830s to the 1850s he participated in campaigns against the Cheyenne and Ute and rose to become an important sub-chief among the Kiowa. He, along with Gotebo, Kicking Bird. and Dohäsan, the principal chief of the Kiowa, negotiated the Treaty of the Little Arkansas. When Dohäsan died in 1866, Kiowa unity dissolved and several subchiefs, including Satanta, competed for prominence. He represented the Kiowa at the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Treadwell, Col. Jack L. b. March 31, 1919 d. December 12, 1977
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Raised in Snyder, Oklahoma, he entered the US Army from there on January 28, 1941. He served with the 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division throughout WWII, seeing action in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno (all 1943), Anzio and Southern France (1944). At Anzio in March 1944 he received a battlefield commission as First Lieutenant of Fox Company. Treadwell was awarded the CMOH for actions near Nieder-Wurzbach, Germany on March 18, 1945...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA

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