Find A Grave - Crow Agency

Boyer, Mitch b. 1837 d. June 25, 1876
Frontiersman. He was an interpreter for the 7th United States Cavalry. H e accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's column and died with him at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Also called Kar-paysh, or Kape. His mother was a full-blooded Santee Indian. His father was John Baptiste Boyer, a French Canadian fur trapper, hunter, and blacksmith. In 1849, he lived with his family at Fort Laramie (his father was killed by Indians while trapping in 1863). He was an Interpreter at Fort...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Buried in mass grave
Burke, Richard b. 1847 d. September 1, 1881
Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland and entered the U.S.Army in New York, New York. He served as Private in Company G, 5th U.S. Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for action during October 1876 and January 1877 at Cedar Creek, etc. Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in engagements. (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Site 948
Cable, Joseph A. b. 1848 d. October 15, 1877
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He died at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana. He served as a Corporal in the United States Army in Company I, 5th U.S. Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action between October, 1876 and January 1877 at Cedar Creek, etc., Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Cemetery has no burial record for him
Campbell, Walter Stanley b. August 15, 1887 d. December 25, 1957
Historian, Author. Born as Stanley Vestal in Kansas, he took the surname of his stepfather, Campbell. At age twelve his family removed to Oklahoma. He became a graduate of what is now Southwestern Oklahoma State University and was a Rhodes Scholar from Oklahoma earning a B.A. and M.A. in English literature at Oxford. Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Using his pen name Stanley Vestal, he was the author of twenty-four books, numerous articles and was a noted authority on the...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Coonrod, Aquilla b. January 3, 1832 d. May 14, 1884
Indian Compaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. His headstone incorrectly states his last name as "Coonrad." The son of Woollery and Hulda Coonrod, Aquilla is reputed to be the first white child born in Williams County, Ohio. Sergeant, Company F, 7th US Cavalry. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Indian Wars period 1876-1877. Aquilla was the first white male born within the present borders of Williams County, North Dakota. In October 1876, he was in an engagement...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 372
Crittenden, John Jordan b. June 7, 1854 d. June 25, 1876
United States Army Officer. Served as a Lieutenant temporarily attached to Company L in the 7th United States Cavalry. He was killed on Calhoun Hill during the Battle of Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. He had suffered an eye wound less than a year before, and had to have his eye replaced with a glass one. It was this prosthetic eye that helped identify his remains after the battle. A year later his remains were exhumed and moved to a permanent place on Calhoun Hill, in accordance with the...[Read More] (Bio by: Ethan F. Bishop)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A Site 601-A
Curly b. 1856 d. May 21, 1923
Crow Indian. Private, Indian Scouts. Participated in the ill-fated Custer Expedition in 1876, and may be the only human survivor of the Custer Column. Also called Shay-shee-ahsh. Born on the Little Rosebud Creek, Montana Territory. Enlisted April 10, 1876 at Crow Agency, Montana, for six months with the 7th Infantry. Accompanied Lieutenant Charles Varnum, 7th Cavalry, on the trip to Crow's Nest, on June 26, 1876. Assigned to Custer's attacking column that afternoon, he may have witnessed...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 1063
Dorman, Isaiah d. June 25, 1876
US Army Scout and Interpreter, Dorman was the only African-American to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. In the 1850s Dorman appeared in the Dakota Territory and became a trader and trapper. About the same time he appeared in the Dakotas, a family from Louisiana named D'Orman sent out wanted posters for an escaped slave named Dorman. Through his trading and trapping trips, Dorman became friends with the Lakota Sioux and quickly learned their language. They called him Black Hawk...[Read More] (Bio by: Randy)
Little Big Horn Battlefield, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Memorial Mass Grave Monument
Fegan, James b. 1827 d. June 25, 1886
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Sergeant in the United States Army in Company H, 3d U.S. Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on March 1868 at Plum Creek, Kansas. His citation reads "While in charge of a powder train en route from Fort Harker to Fort Dodge, Kansas, was attacked by a party of desperadoes, who attempted to rescue a deserter in his charge and to fire the train. Sgt. Fegan, singlehandedly, repelled the attacking party...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 749
Fetterman, William Judd b. 1833 d. December 21, 1866
United States Army officer. He entered the Army in 1861 and was brevetted to Lieutenant Colonel for gallantry. Following the war he was assigned as a Captain to the 27th Infantry and was stationed at Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming. On December 21, 1866, a band of Cheyenne and Sioux attacked a wood train near the fort and Fetterman took command of a relief column. However his impetuousness and lack of knowledge of frontier warfare, as well as his disregard of his orders not to venture beyond Lodge...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Haddo Jr., John b. August 13, 1851 d. September 30, 1877
Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was killed in action. His true name was John Haddo, Jr. He has an "In memory of" marker at Ft Gibson National Cemetery. He died at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana, and was buried in a mass grave at Custer Battlefield National Cemetery in Crow Agency,Montana. He served as a Corporal in the United States Army in Company B, 5th US Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Cedar Creek, etc., Montana during October 1876 and January 8...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section B
Kreher, Wendelin b. 1846 d. March 17, 1877
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a First Sergeant in the United States Army in Company C, 5th U.S.Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for action on October 21 1876 at Cedar Creek, etc., Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." He died of pulmonary consumption on March 17, 1877 at the Tongue River cantonment. (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A-466
McCann, Bernard b. 1850 d. January 7, 1877
Indian Campaigns Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was killed in action. He served as a Private in the United States Army in Company F, 22d U. S. Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for action between October 21, 1876 and January 7, 1877 at Cedar Creek, etc., Montana. His citation reads "Gallantry in action." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A-859
Reno, Marcus Albert b. November 15, 1834 d. March 30, 1889
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. As Major of the 7th United States Cavalry, he was the senior surviving officer from the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which General George A. Custer and most of the 7th Cavalry were killed. Born in Carrollton, Illinois, the 4th of 7 children, where his father managed a hotel inn, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1857. During the Civil War, he served first as a Captain in the 1st United States Regular...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section C, Grave 675
White Man Runs Him (Mahr-Itah-Thee-Dah-Ka-Roosh) b. 1858 d. June 2, 1929
United States Army Crow Indian Scout. He served as a Private and scout for General George A. Custer during the ill-fated 1876 Big Horn Campaign. The son of Bull Chief and Offers Her Red Cloth, he enlisted on April 10, 1876 at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory, for six months in the 7th United States Infantry, but was attached to the 7th Cavalry for the expedition. He accompanied Lieutenant Charles Varnum on the trip to the Crow's Nest on June 25, and was assigned to the Custer striking column...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, Montana, USA
Plot: Section A, Grave 1007

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