The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State September 7-1895 GEN. PARKER'S FUNERAL. The Fairfield (Conn.) correspondent of the New York 'World' give the following account of the funeral of General Ely S. PARKER: When Mrs. Harriet Maxwell CONVERSE, who had been adopted into the Six Nations under the name of Chief Yalewanoh, heard of General PARKER"s death, she sent word to the various tribes and clans to have their chief men attend the funeral. She took charge of the sacred Indian ceremony of laying on the horns. In former days the spreading horns of a deer were placed on the remains of the dead sachems as a symbol of their authority, and removed at the grave, to be bestowed on the new sachem. Instead of the horns, Mrs. CONVERSE used two strings of valued wampum beads, tied with a little piece of black ribbon. General PARKER died in the spacious Colonial mansion of his friend, Arthur BROWN, and the last services were held in the great west parlor, which extends the full depth of the house. Around his coffin sat six full-blooded Indians, silent and stern. Across the hall, in a darkened room, were four Indian women, who had come to carry back to the tribe the wampum beads that lay on the coffin. The men uttered not a word from the time they entered the presence of the dead until the earth had fallen on the coffin. The women disputed in occasional whispers as to who should be the successor of the dead Sachem and receive the beads. An Episcopalian minister read the church service for the dead. Comrades of the Loyal Legion,the Grand Army of the Republic and Society of the Colonial Wars were among the mourners, and the Rev. Alexander HAMILTON, chaplain of the last named society, read a special service at the grave. On General PARKER's breast were pinned the medals of the three military orders to which he belonged. Just before the casket was closed at the house, an Indian pipe was placed inside of it, representing peace and friendship. The pipe was one that had been dug up in Stratford, on the site of a camp of the Six Nations. Then over the bier was draped a great American flag. A quartette in a distant room sang "Lead, Kindly Light." The Indian watchers sat immovable as statues. Then the minister uttered a prayer, and their heads sank down on their breasts. The squaws ceased discussing the question of succession and listened to the beautiful hymn. The coffin was carried out to the hearse by six comrades of the Grand Army. Three brothers of the Loyal Legion and three of the Colonial War Society followed as an escort of honor. Beside the bier four Indians took their places, two on a side. They walked close beside the pall bearers, and when the remains had been put into the hearse they took position at each wheel. All the way to the cemetery, two miles over hot, dusty roads, they marched in patience and silence. The women rode to the grave in carriages. Before the coffin was lowered into the ground, where it rested on a bed of evergreens, the Indian women lifted the strings of wampum from beneath the flag, and the eldest took them in charge. The Indians left for their reservations by train. The tribe will have a day of condolence soon. The Indians present were: Chief Daniel La FORTE, President of the Six Nations, and Sachem Abram HILL, the Wampum Reader, of the Onondaga tribe; Chief Jacob DOCTOR, Treasurer of the Six Nations; Sachem Chauncey ABRAMS and Chief Samuel MOSES of the Senecas and Chief Andrew POODRY of the Tuscaroras. The women were: Mrs. POODRY, Mrs. Otto PARKER, Mrs. MOSES, and Mrs. DOCTOR. Besides these was General PARKER's nephew, Fred Ely PARKER, who is also an Indian. He is a clerk in the New York Central offices in New York City. Many New York friends of General PARKER attended. General PARKER was known among the Indians as Keeper of the Western Door, and among the great profusion of flowers was a massive design of the western door in roses. In old Indian days, the Senecas, who lived where Buffalo now is, were the Western guard of the Six Nations. There are several candidates for Sachem in General PARKER's place, among them a bright boy. ++ ISAAC T. PARKER DEAD. Isaac T. PARKER, the Indian printer who for many years was employed in the 'Batavian' office, died recently in St. Joseph's Hospital in New York City. Mr. PARKER, who was a young man of considerable ability, was a native of the Tonawanda Reservation and a nephew of the late General Ely S. PARKER. He left Batavia about eight years ago. ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt