The Arkansas Gazette of April 22, 1834, gives an account of the disastrous effects of cholera among Cherokee Indian emigrants who had encamped at Cadron because the water was too low for them to proceed up the river. About 35 had died since they landed. Who knows but that the bodies of these Indians now sleep in the graves still to be seen on the hill southeast of the old town-site and near Cedar Park?

Susie was the daughter of John Ward and Catharine (Katy) McDaniel.




The following were among the dead Cherokee who were buried on the bluff overlooking Cadron in Cedar Grove:


Bird Miller's child
Morgan
Brewer's child _____________Morgan's
Butler Alex M'Toy
Sarah Ch______k Alex M'Toy's child
Thomas M. Daniel's child Thigh Nave
Joseph Dobson's child J. Peckerwood
William England _____________Richardson's wife
Mrs. William England _____________Richardson's child
Black Foxes' wife Dr. Jesse Roberts
Black Foxes' five children Dr. Ross' child
_____________Henson's child Spencer Shelton's child
L. Holloway Robin Shelton's wife
_____________Horsefly's child Robin Shelton's child
Charley McDaniel Jackson Smith's child
Charley McDaniel's wife Mariah Spaniard's child
Daniel McDonald's child Polly Spaniard's child
Arch McGregs Bear Track's child
Will Tucker's child T. Wilson's child
William Vann William Wilson's child
William Vann's three children John Woodward's child
_____________Water's child Ailee______________


36 unidentified
In April 1834, prior to the formal Cherokee Removal, a party of more than 500 Cherokee emigrants under the leadership
of Lt. Joseph Harris were stranded by low water at Cadron Settlement. Many of the Cherokees were already sick with
measles when a virulent cholera epidemic swept through the makeshift camp. As the Cherokees scattered through the
woods in an attempt to avoid infection with the dreaded disease, Harris sent out a call for help. Dr. Jesse C. Roberts, a
local physician, offered what little aid he could before he, too, died of cholera. Harris, himself desperately ill, managed to
procure wagons for those Indians who were too ill to walk and continued on their western trek. On May 10, they reached
their destination in Indian Territory, having lost 81 emigrants during the journey. Historian Stan Hoig has noted that
"Cadron would eventually fade away as a settlement, but among its forested hills are the unmarked graves of Cherokees
whose deaths connote a significant moment in American history when conspicuous acts of heroism occurred.