This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#213005) (Chief) Keokuk <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=213005> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 12/9/2008 at 18:04:43 Surnames: KEOKUK Source: New York Times, May 5, 1899 Indian Chief Keokuk Dead Smallpox Depletes the Ranks of the Sac and Fox Tribes GUTHRIE, Okla., May 4, - Keokuk, chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, is dead of smallpox. The tribe now numbers but 312 full-bloods, 108 having died of smallpox. Keokuk, "The Watchful Fox", was a son of the greater Keokuk, first chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, after whom the town Keokuk, Iowa is named. The elder Keokuk died in Kansas in 1848, at age 68 years. Keokuk's loyalty to the whites and opposition to Black Fox (sic Hawk) resulted in his being poisoned by a member of Black Hawk's band. Black Hawk was for a time Keokuk's prisoner, having been turned over to him by the U.S. government as the principal chief of the Sacs and Foxes.