This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw, Scovile Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1. Who was Rosalie Bernard Scovile married to? How did Mabel know that Rosalie and Logan lived in Marysville, CA and that Rosalie had two children? She is listed as I stated before on the Nemaha list that didn't receive allotments as Rosalie Scovile along with Logan Faw Faw. Oral family tradition states that she was married to a man in the army. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1. Do Mabel's notes of the estate papers of Joseph Bernard show a date of birth or age at death? Is there anything in Mabel's notes that state that JB was also an interpreter for the Otoes or that he ever lived with them? 2. Robert Faw Faw appears on the Nemaha Roll in 1856 and 1860 born in 1842 the year Joseph Bernard died. He was 14 in 1856 and 18 in 1860. He is not on the 1891 Otoe Roll. I will be looking up the 1880 Roll that James Owen Dorsey published in the Smithsonian while in Washington to see if any of the Bernards/Faw Faw's are on this roll. 3. Mi-Am-Pe-Ma Bernard alias Margarette Faw Faw must have been pregnant with Robert when Joseph Bernard died. Which would explain why Robert Bernard is not listed as one of the heirs of Joseph Bernard's estate in July 1842. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Faw Faw, Greenwood Classification: immigration Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: As I remember, Marysville, California was at -- or near -- the area where some of the family of Old Caleb Greenwood emigrated to. I don't have enough information to justify any comments about a time line, but there is no doubt in my mind that the Faw Faws and the Greenwoods would have known each other while living in what's now Fremont county, Iowa, from about 1841 up to 1844. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Squaw man Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: It would have been at least 70 years ago that I read "The Squaw Man": My only present impression is that I didn't see anything very unsympathetic in the treatment of mixed blood marriages. I don't remember any of the character's names.....Since I gathered up books that looked as if they had come from my grandparent's library, when we closed up my parent's estate in the late 1960's, I should find time to hunt up their storage boxes and reread it, if it survived! Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw, Scovile Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Walter, I also found something else that was interesting on the Nemaha List. It shows that a Marih alias Margarette Faw Faw age 45 was the fifth person on the list to receive land allotment. I think that this must be Mi-Am-Pe-Ma, but on Mabel's notes of the heirs of Joseph Bernard shows that Margaret Bernard was the last heir listed. So there is alittle confusion as to who Margaret Bernard was b/c she is not listed on the Nemaha list only that the above mentioned Marih alias Margarette Faw Faw. I think that maybe she was the last daughter of Joseph Bernard but died before the Nemaha list was compiled or was one of Rosalie's children. That would have meant that her name would have been Scovile not Bernard though. One more thing on the Nemaha list there is a Robert Faw Faw who received an allotment of land too. Now he was not on the heir list of Mabel's notes but yet is on the Nemaha list. It shows his age so he would have been born the year Joseph Bernard died 1862. Just a couple of interesting tidbits I thought you would find interesting. Than! ks again so much for everything. Tammy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much Walter for all your help! I have seen the Great Nemaha Half Breed Reserve Allottee List and what is most interesting is that Rosalie Bernard Faw Faw Scovile was not allotted land but received $200 instead of land and Logan Bernard Faw Faw was not allotted land either and also received the $200 instead of land. Now in Mabel's notes she had that Rosalie and Logan were living in Marysville California. Maybe this had something to do with why they did not receive land, maybe they opted to receive money instead, I really don't know. Don't know who Rosalie was married to or why they moved to California but I suspect it had something to due with the Gold Rush, maybe her husband wanted to go there and why did they take Logan with them. It also doesn't show who her two children were either. Tammy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: What about Joseph Bernard? Was there also a obit for him in 1862? How old was he when he died? I believe that he at one time was also an interpreter for the Otoes. Do you think that the book you spoke of was about him? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1.--The Faw Faw ferry: While you are in the National Archives, go to the Cartagraphic Room and ask for Edward Hutawa's "Sectional Map of the State of Missouri". That map shows it. 2.--The Faw Faw name: This is the name the Otoe tribe gave to Bernard when he married Miampema. I'll bet that she was an important woman in her tribe, because Joseph Bernard was a wealthy man, and the Indian Chiefs always had a tendency to give their daughters as brides to such white men! 3.--Birthdate of Louis Faw Faw: When I posted Mabel Bridge's notes on April 27, 2002, now I see that I guessed that Joseph Sharp compiled his list about 1857, and that Sharp said Louis Faw Faw was 25 years old at that time....He was probably welcomed by the Otoes, especially at first, and considering the attitude of the white man toward those of mixed race during the 1850's and for several decades later, preferred that scenario over the one outside of their company. My Farwell grandparents had two large cases of library books in their home -- this was before every town had its own public library. My father said that of all the books they owned, the one he liked the best was one called "The Squaw Man". His choice rankled everyone else in the family: The Greenwood's were on my mother's side, and they kept mixed bloods in their home, so they were especially upset! (I don't know what attitude was espoused in "The Squaw Man"). Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Tammy: Since one of the scissorings attributed the item to the Big Blue paper, I assume that this is referring to Nebraska. But since his death occurred so soon afterwards, there is the possibility that there had not been enough time for him to have been sworn into any Civil War company to serve. While you are in the National Archives, ask about The Nemaha Half Breed Indian Reservation in southeastern Nebraska. All of the Faw-Faw children should have been eligible to receive land on it, because of their Otoe heritage. One Joseph Sharp (in the late 1850's?) compiled a roster of those names who should receive a share. While I was there forty years ago I hunted this up, so I know there are such records. You asked also about jobs Louis might have held with the Indian agency involved. I don't really know, but again those kind of records are kept in the National Archives, and I'm sure they can advise you what to do in order to see them.--Good luck. Walter Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is indeed Horrible! I did not know this b/c it was tradition in the tribe that you do not speak of the dead and especially something like this. Also Mr. Bernard or Louis Faw Faw died in 1862 which means that his son William Faw Faw my great grandfather was only age 8 or 10 when his father died. Which might also explain why my grandfather Louie didn't know why our name was Faw Faw to begin with. Maybe Granpa William or Old Man Bill Faw Faw as he was known didn't know how we got the name Faw Faw himself or chose not to pass it on to Granpa Louie b/c of traditional ways. My heart is heavy with the thoughts of his murder at the hands of his own people. One learns as one digs deeper into the past that it can be joyful and at times devastating. Thank you again for this information for which I am truly grateful. Tammy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: This is very interesting but raises many more questions too. Louis Faw Faw was he only the interpreter? Did he not take the oath too? What do you think? What is William's company and Bowen's Regiment? I will be using this info to find out as much as I can. I am going to DC in a few weeks to go to the National Archives so this information will be very useful. Thank you so very much again. Tammy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Tfaw2 Surnames: Bernard, Faw Faw Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you so much for this information. Joseph Bernard or Faw Faw is my great-great-great grandfather. My maiden name is Faw Faw. I have been researching our family history since the early nineties and had heard from relatives about Faw Faw Ferry and that our name by right should have been Bernard. My grandfather Louis Morgan Faw Faw had said that he did not know why our name was Faw Faw. The main things that I have been trying to find out is when was he born, how did he come about to be with the Otoe, what if any Fur Company did he work for and how old was he at the time of his death? I don't know if you can answer any of these questions or find answers but I surely appreciate all the information you have so graciously provided. Thank You So Much, Tammy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dawyck Surnames: Ring, Slusher, White Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7413/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Does anyone have information on L. L. Ring and A. J. Slusher, who married 7 Aug 1865 in Fremont County, IA? I believe this couple to be Lydia Lavina (or Lavina Lydia) Ring, aka as Irene Ring, and Andrew J. (Jackson?) Slusher, who are listed in the 1870 Census in Franklin Township of Fremont County. Lavina died in 1871, a widow, according to a probate document that lists her only heir as Sarah Olive White. The family story is that Lavina died giving birth to Sarah Olive, and Sarah was adopted by a Fremont County doctor. The Slushers had a son William, age 4 in the 1870 census, but if this is the family, he did not survive past 21 April 1923, when the probate was filed. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Faw-Faw, Bernard, Poor, Blodgett, Mose, Medicine Horse, Lee Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. OCTOBER 18, 1862. Page 2, Column 3.--HORRIBLE INDIAN MURDER".--On last Sunday, the 5th of this month, several Indians of the Otoe tribe, came to our city, under the charge of Lewis Bernard, their interpreter, to make a few purchases. After transacting their business they started for home, in company with a Mr. Poor, and Mr. Blodgett. Arriving at the home of Blodgett, about 4 miles distant, the Indians demanded chickens for supper, which occasioned a dispute between Mr. Bernard, and an Indian named Mose, Mose and Medicine Horse one of their Chiefs, contending for a supper of chicken, which Bernard, opposed, telling them it was wrong to make such demands. Whereupon Mose drew his revolver, telling him he would shoot him. Bernard drew his revolver, but was prevented from shooting, by Mr. Poor, who said, "Let me have the revolvers and both of you go home." Bernard immediately gave Poor his revolver, but turned to take it again as he saw Mose raise his weapon to shoot, but before he recovered it, fell dead with a groan. The ball entered the back of his head, spattering his brains over the floor. Poor told Mose not to run, if he did, he would shoot him. The Indian, however fled, followed by Poor. Taking advantage of the darkness, the Indian hid himself, and as Mr.Poor passed, fired at him, the ball entering his back just to the left of the back-bone, and was extracted by Dr. Lee, from his left side. The murderer, with his accomplice, Medicine Horse, was captured, and brought to this city, on Monday night, and lodged in jail, where they now await trial. Mr. Bernard, or Louis Fawfaw, his Indian name, was an half-breed well liked by all who knew him being always gentlemanly and honorable. Mr. Poor is one of our most respectable citizens. Liquor was the cause of the above tragedy. They, procuring the whiskey in this city. Whoever the guilty parties are, they justly deserve the severest punishment of the law. And we do sincerely hope that the proper authorities will investigate the matter thoroughly, and mete out justice to the guilty, irrespective of position. We have it, as the opinion of Mr. Williams, that among the Indians, this was an old affair. They treatening several times before to kill Louis Fawfaw.--From the Big Bule Union N.B.: For me, this is a clear picture of Louis Faw-faw fulfilling the part of a martyr: He was killed by those whom he undoubtedly was helping adjust to the new order of things that was being brought to the frontiers of America.--W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Faw-faw, Arka Keter, Meahketahuncha, Big Soldier, White Water, Classification: military Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: THE NEBRASKA CITY NEWS. Sept. 13, 1862. Volume 9 Number 39. Page 1, Column 4: GRAND POW-WOW.-- A large lot of the Otoe Indians were in town on Wednesday, and held a council and afterwarads had a big jubilee or war dance. They are going to join William's company--some forty or fifty, through their interpreter, Louis Fawfaw, taking their oath and being sworn in on that day--and go into Bowen's Regiment and go out to fight the enemies of the " Great Government." They will have a chance to, and we presume after proper training they will make good soldiers. The following are then names of the seven chiefs of the Otoes, commencing with the first and headchief and numbering according to the "rank" or position they hold to the tribe: Arka Keter, Me-ah-ke-ta-huncha, (Big Soldier) White water, Missouri, Little Pipe, Medicine Horse, Buffalo Chief.--From the Marysville Union. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Bernard, Faw-Faw Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/1456.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1882 History of Atchison County, Missouri; page 871.--THE PIONEER AND HIS INDIAN PROGENY.-- "Buchanan Township, though not settled to the same extent, at as early a period, as some of the other portions of the county, yet claims a pioneer within its limits, as early as 1839. This settler was a Frenchman, by the name of Joseph Bernard, but almost universally known through this section of the country by the nick-name "Faw-faw". "He built in 1839 the first house within the present limits of Buchnanan Township. This was a log cabin on the Nishnabotna River, at a point known as The Narrows in the neighborhood of the site of old El Paso. Here he established, and for many years after, operated the first ferry within the limits what is now Atchison County. This was a noted crossing of the Nishnebotna River on the great stage and mail route between Saint Joseph and Council Bluffs. "Bernard or "Faw-faw" as he was popularly styled, had a squaw wife by whom he had several children. The eldest of these a son, assisted his father for several years, in operating the ferry. On the death of the old man, however, the Indian instinct preponderating over his white proclivities, he abandoned the ferry, and crossing the Missouri into what is now the Sate of Nebraska, he joined the Otoes. "The intelligence acquired by a life association with the whites, coupled with that peculiar sagacity which in the red man, savors so powerfully of the unerring promptings of instinct, rendered him doubly welcome among his new and barbarous friends, among whom he soon rose to the rank of chief, in which exalted position he afterwards succeeded in achieving the distinction of being the most umitigated scoundrel of any half-breed on the border." N.B.: Here, in a nutshell. we have a look at the hostile attitude with which the Englishman viewed the French and Indians. For many decades during the 16 and 17 hundreds, the two countries had struggled with each other (the Indians often siding with the French) for supremacy in the American colonies. With the French and Indian War, England finally came out on top, only to see in a few short years the American colonies erupt into the Revolutionary War. Then to make matters worse, the victors in the Revolution formed a new, untested, democratically controlled nation populated mostly by Englishmen, who were forced to "play by ear" all the in-and-outs arising from the common man who had just acquired more personal FREEDOM than ever before known. What he did with this, was not always beautiful to behold. With a "Young America" holding the reins, holding sway, during the time from the Revolutionary War up to the Civil War, inventing their very next step and not knowning just wha! t to expect next, the culture of Young Ameica in Fremont county hit the culture of the French and Indian which they found in French Village and in the Half Breed Farms neighborhood HARD.--W.F. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

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Levi Hurst of Fremont County Iowa was married once that I can find, to Nancy Jane Nees. They married in 1850 in Indiana. There is another Levi Hurst in Iowa, but that one lived in Clinton Co. Iowa in 1870 and was born in 1845. Nancy Hurst is buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery which was actually deeded over to a cemetery in 1889. Levi is not listed in the Fremont Co. Cemetery book. He most likely is buried in one of the old cemeteries around Tabor, even the Mt. Zion Cemetery which was named for a church which at one time stood nearby. Sincerely Nancy M. Boyd