MONTGOMERY PIKE HARRISON was born in Indiana, son of John Cleves Symmes Harrison and Clarissa Brown Pike. His paternal grandfather, William Henry Harrison was President of the United States and his maternal grandfather, Brigadier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, was an explorer and soldier who was killed during the War of 1812.
Montgomery entered the United States Military Academy July 1, 1842, and attended until July 1, 1847 when he was graduated and appointed to the Seventh Infantry as brevet second lieutenant. He served in the Mexican War from 1847 to 1848. September 11, 1847 at the age of twenty-one he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Fifth Infantry. He served at East Pascagoula, Mississippi and at Fort Smith from 1848 to 1849 until he departed with Captain Randolph Marcy's command escorting a group of emigrants to Santa Fe on their way west to the gold fields of California. Marcy's command crossed the Poteau River at Fort Smith on the evening of the 4th of April 1849. On the morning of the fifth they commenced their march, keeping the old road through the Poteau bottom to the Choctaw Agency, which had become known as Scullyville, near where is now Spiro, Oklahoma. The expedition reached Santa Fe on June 28, after nearly three months of travel. Marcy's command left the emigrants and returned to Fort Smith by a route that brought them south of the Llano Estacado, crossing the headwaters of the Colorado and Brazos rivers in Texas. While they were camped on the headwaters of the Colorado, Lieutenant Harrison was engaged in examining a ravine a short distance from camp when he was captured by the Kiowa Indians, shot, stripped, scalped and his body dumped in a ravine, probably the small tributary to the Colorado River, called Willow creek, about 1.5 miles directly south of the Marcy Expedition Camp, where the current historical marker is located.
His body was recovered and brought back to Fort Smith by his companions. Interment was in the present United States National Cemetery, then an open woods.
Note: His remains were transported from Fort Smith, Arkansas and reburied in the family cemetery in Francisville, Boone County, KY in Feb. 1850 with his parents and other family members, although his grave is not currently marked.
Note: Bio taken from "Marcy and the Gold Seekers", The journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy, with an Account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route by Grant Foreman, University of Oklahoma Press, second printing, April, 1968.
Montgomery entered the United States Military Academy July 1, 1842, and attended until July 1, 1847 when he was graduated and appointed to the Seventh Infantry as brevet second lieutenant. He served in the Mexican War from 1847 to 1848. September 11, 1847 at the age of twenty-one he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Fifth Infantry. He served at East Pascagoula, Mississippi and at Fort Smith from 1848 to 1849 until he departed with Captain Randolph Marcy's command escorting a group of emigrants to Santa Fe on their way west to the gold fields of California. Marcy's command crossed the Poteau River at Fort Smith on the evening of the 4th of April 1849. On the morning of the fifth they commenced their march, keeping the old road through the Poteau bottom to the Choctaw Agency, which had become known as Scullyville, near where is now Spiro, Oklahoma. The expedition reached Santa Fe on June 28, after nearly three months of travel. Marcy's command left the emigrants and returned to Fort Smith by a route that brought them south of the Llano Estacado, crossing the headwaters of the Colorado and Brazos rivers in Texas. While they were camped on the headwaters of the Colorado, Lieutenant Harrison was engaged in examining a ravine a short distance from camp when he was captured by the Kiowa Indians, shot, stripped, scalped and his body dumped in a ravine, probably the small tributary to the Colorado River, called Willow creek, about 1.5 miles directly south of the Marcy Expedition Camp, where the current historical marker is located.
His body was recovered and brought back to Fort Smith by his companions. Interment was in the present United States National Cemetery, then an open woods.
Note: His remains were transported from Fort Smith, Arkansas and reburied in the family cemetery in Francisville, Boone County, KY in Feb. 1850 with his parents and other family members, although his grave is not currently marked.
Note: Bio taken from "Marcy and the Gold Seekers", The journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy, with an Account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route by Grant Foreman, University of Oklahoma Press, second printing, April, 1968.
MONTGOMERY PIKE HARRISON was born in Indiana, son of John Cleves Symmes Harrison and Clarissa Brown Pike. His paternal grandfather, William Henry Harrison was President of the United States and his maternal grandfather, Brigadier General Zebulon Montgomery Pike, was an explorer and soldier who was killed during the War of 1812.
Montgomery entered the United States Military Academy July 1, 1842, and attended until July 1, 1847 when he was graduated and appointed to the Seventh Infantry as brevet second lieutenant. He served in the Mexican War from 1847 to 1848. September 11, 1847 at the age of twenty-one he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Fifth Infantry. He served at East Pascagoula, Mississippi and at Fort Smith from 1848 to 1849 until he departed with Captain Randolph Marcy's command escorting a group of emigrants to Santa Fe on their way west to the gold fields of California. Marcy's command crossed the Poteau River at Fort Smith on the evening of the 4th of April 1849. On the morning of the fifth they commenced their march, keeping the old road through the Poteau bottom to the Choctaw Agency, which had become known as Scullyville, near where is now Spiro, Oklahoma. The expedition reached Santa Fe on June 28, after nearly three months of travel. Marcy's command left the emigrants and returned to Fort Smith by a route that brought them south of the Llano Estacado, crossing the headwaters of the Colorado and Brazos rivers in Texas. While they were camped on the headwaters of the Colorado, Lieutenant Harrison was engaged in examining a ravine a short distance from camp when he was captured by the Kiowa Indians, shot, stripped, scalped and his body dumped in a ravine, probably the small tributary to the Colorado River, called Willow creek, about 1.5 miles directly south of the Marcy Expedition Camp, where the current historical marker is located.
His body was recovered and brought back to Fort Smith by his companions. Interment was in the present United States National Cemetery, then an open woods.
Note: His remains were transported from Fort Smith, Arkansas and reburied in the family cemetery in Francisville, Boone County, KY in Feb. 1850 with his parents and other family members, although his grave is not currently marked.
Note: Bio taken from "Marcy and the Gold Seekers", The journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy, with an Account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route by Grant Foreman, University of Oklahoma Press, second printing, April, 1968.
Montgomery entered the United States Military Academy July 1, 1842, and attended until July 1, 1847 when he was graduated and appointed to the Seventh Infantry as brevet second lieutenant. He served in the Mexican War from 1847 to 1848. September 11, 1847 at the age of twenty-one he was promoted to second lieutenant in the Fifth Infantry. He served at East Pascagoula, Mississippi and at Fort Smith from 1848 to 1849 until he departed with Captain Randolph Marcy's command escorting a group of emigrants to Santa Fe on their way west to the gold fields of California. Marcy's command crossed the Poteau River at Fort Smith on the evening of the 4th of April 1849. On the morning of the fifth they commenced their march, keeping the old road through the Poteau bottom to the Choctaw Agency, which had become known as Scullyville, near where is now Spiro, Oklahoma. The expedition reached Santa Fe on June 28, after nearly three months of travel. Marcy's command left the emigrants and returned to Fort Smith by a route that brought them south of the Llano Estacado, crossing the headwaters of the Colorado and Brazos rivers in Texas. While they were camped on the headwaters of the Colorado, Lieutenant Harrison was engaged in examining a ravine a short distance from camp when he was captured by the Kiowa Indians, shot, stripped, scalped and his body dumped in a ravine, probably the small tributary to the Colorado River, called Willow creek, about 1.5 miles directly south of the Marcy Expedition Camp, where the current historical marker is located.
His body was recovered and brought back to Fort Smith by his companions. Interment was in the present United States National Cemetery, then an open woods.
Note: His remains were transported from Fort Smith, Arkansas and reburied in the family cemetery in Francisville, Boone County, KY in Feb. 1850 with his parents and other family members, although his grave is not currently marked.
Note: Bio taken from "Marcy and the Gold Seekers", The journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy, with an Account of the Gold Rush over the Southern Route by Grant Foreman, University of Oklahoma Press, second printing, April, 1968.
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