"INDIAN DAVE" AT REST
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT OREGON CITY
Death of Redskin Ward of White Friends From Childhood Recalls Cayuse War.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 28 – (Special) Funeral services for David Rinearson, familiarly known as "Indian Dave" of Gladstone, were held here today. Rev. Paul de Mortimore, pastor of the Christian church of Gladstone, of which David was a member, officiated. Interment was in the new plat in Mountain View cemetery. "Indian Dave" died Sunday.
Returning from the Cayuse war in 1855, Major Jacob S. Rinearson brought with him three Indian children, two boys and a girl, whom he had taken from a tepee on the Snake river in the Shoshone country, evidently the dwelling place of a tribal chief.
These children had been forsaken when the Indian warriors were vanquished in battle, and pitying them, Major Rinearson attached them to his command, caring for them until he reached the home of his brother, Peter M. Rinearson, whose donation land claim is now a part of Gladstone, a portion of which is the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Read, with whom David Rinearson had made his home in recent years. Adjoining this was the old home of the Rinearson family where David lived during his boy-hood days.
For a time the girl and her two brothers, Thomas and Dave, remained at the Rinearson home, the elder of the boys, Thomas, later going to the home of Berryman Jennings, a short distance away. The girl became a member of the Clackamas tribe quartered on the Rinearson claim on the banks of the Clackamas river, and drifted back into the Indian ways.
Dave was 7 years of age when taken into the home of the Rinearson family. He remained with the family, assisting about the farm, until the death of "Mother" Rinearson, as he called her. Then he went to the home of O.E. Freyteg, whose wife was formerly Miss Emma Rinearson. She had been as a sister to the Indian boy. Upon the death of Mrs. Rinearson, he was given a tract of land from the old home place. Here he planted a garden, selling vegetables here and in Gladstone.
In 1907, after living with the Rinearson family for more than 50 years, Dave took up his home in a small house on the L.A. Read farm, which was once a part of the original Rinearson donation land claim.
Published in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Tuesday, May 29, 1928, page 16
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT OREGON CITY
Death of Redskin Ward of White Friends From Childhood Recalls Cayuse War.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 28 – (Special) Funeral services for David Rinearson, familiarly known as "Indian Dave" of Gladstone, were held here today. Rev. Paul de Mortimore, pastor of the Christian church of Gladstone, of which David was a member, officiated. Interment was in the new plat in Mountain View cemetery. "Indian Dave" died Sunday.
Returning from the Cayuse war in 1855, Major Jacob S. Rinearson brought with him three Indian children, two boys and a girl, whom he had taken from a tepee on the Snake river in the Shoshone country, evidently the dwelling place of a tribal chief.
These children had been forsaken when the Indian warriors were vanquished in battle, and pitying them, Major Rinearson attached them to his command, caring for them until he reached the home of his brother, Peter M. Rinearson, whose donation land claim is now a part of Gladstone, a portion of which is the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Read, with whom David Rinearson had made his home in recent years. Adjoining this was the old home of the Rinearson family where David lived during his boy-hood days.
For a time the girl and her two brothers, Thomas and Dave, remained at the Rinearson home, the elder of the boys, Thomas, later going to the home of Berryman Jennings, a short distance away. The girl became a member of the Clackamas tribe quartered on the Rinearson claim on the banks of the Clackamas river, and drifted back into the Indian ways.
Dave was 7 years of age when taken into the home of the Rinearson family. He remained with the family, assisting about the farm, until the death of "Mother" Rinearson, as he called her. Then he went to the home of O.E. Freyteg, whose wife was formerly Miss Emma Rinearson. She had been as a sister to the Indian boy. Upon the death of Mrs. Rinearson, he was given a tract of land from the old home place. Here he planted a garden, selling vegetables here and in Gladstone.
In 1907, after living with the Rinearson family for more than 50 years, Dave took up his home in a small house on the L.A. Read farm, which was once a part of the original Rinearson donation land claim.
Published in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Tuesday, May 29, 1928, page 16
"INDIAN DAVE" AT REST
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT OREGON CITY
Death of Redskin Ward of White Friends From Childhood Recalls Cayuse War.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 28 – (Special) Funeral services for David Rinearson, familiarly known as "Indian Dave" of Gladstone, were held here today. Rev. Paul de Mortimore, pastor of the Christian church of Gladstone, of which David was a member, officiated. Interment was in the new plat in Mountain View cemetery. "Indian Dave" died Sunday.
Returning from the Cayuse war in 1855, Major Jacob S. Rinearson brought with him three Indian children, two boys and a girl, whom he had taken from a tepee on the Snake river in the Shoshone country, evidently the dwelling place of a tribal chief.
These children had been forsaken when the Indian warriors were vanquished in battle, and pitying them, Major Rinearson attached them to his command, caring for them until he reached the home of his brother, Peter M. Rinearson, whose donation land claim is now a part of Gladstone, a portion of which is the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Read, with whom David Rinearson had made his home in recent years. Adjoining this was the old home of the Rinearson family where David lived during his boy-hood days.
For a time the girl and her two brothers, Thomas and Dave, remained at the Rinearson home, the elder of the boys, Thomas, later going to the home of Berryman Jennings, a short distance away. The girl became a member of the Clackamas tribe quartered on the Rinearson claim on the banks of the Clackamas river, and drifted back into the Indian ways.
Dave was 7 years of age when taken into the home of the Rinearson family. He remained with the family, assisting about the farm, until the death of "Mother" Rinearson, as he called her. Then he went to the home of O.E. Freyteg, whose wife was formerly Miss Emma Rinearson. She had been as a sister to the Indian boy. Upon the death of Mrs. Rinearson, he was given a tract of land from the old home place. Here he planted a garden, selling vegetables here and in Gladstone.
In 1907, after living with the Rinearson family for more than 50 years, Dave took up his home in a small house on the L.A. Read farm, which was once a part of the original Rinearson donation land claim.
Published in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Tuesday, May 29, 1928, page 16
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD AT OREGON CITY
Death of Redskin Ward of White Friends From Childhood Recalls Cayuse War.
OREGON CITY, Or., May 28 – (Special) Funeral services for David Rinearson, familiarly known as "Indian Dave" of Gladstone, were held here today. Rev. Paul de Mortimore, pastor of the Christian church of Gladstone, of which David was a member, officiated. Interment was in the new plat in Mountain View cemetery. "Indian Dave" died Sunday.
Returning from the Cayuse war in 1855, Major Jacob S. Rinearson brought with him three Indian children, two boys and a girl, whom he had taken from a tepee on the Snake river in the Shoshone country, evidently the dwelling place of a tribal chief.
These children had been forsaken when the Indian warriors were vanquished in battle, and pitying them, Major Rinearson attached them to his command, caring for them until he reached the home of his brother, Peter M. Rinearson, whose donation land claim is now a part of Gladstone, a portion of which is the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Read, with whom David Rinearson had made his home in recent years. Adjoining this was the old home of the Rinearson family where David lived during his boy-hood days.
For a time the girl and her two brothers, Thomas and Dave, remained at the Rinearson home, the elder of the boys, Thomas, later going to the home of Berryman Jennings, a short distance away. The girl became a member of the Clackamas tribe quartered on the Rinearson claim on the banks of the Clackamas river, and drifted back into the Indian ways.
Dave was 7 years of age when taken into the home of the Rinearson family. He remained with the family, assisting about the farm, until the death of "Mother" Rinearson, as he called her. Then he went to the home of O.E. Freyteg, whose wife was formerly Miss Emma Rinearson. She had been as a sister to the Indian boy. Upon the death of Mrs. Rinearson, he was given a tract of land from the old home place. Here he planted a garden, selling vegetables here and in Gladstone.
In 1907, after living with the Rinearson family for more than 50 years, Dave took up his home in a small house on the L.A. Read farm, which was once a part of the original Rinearson donation land claim.
Published in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) Tuesday, May 29, 1928, page 16
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