(these three articles have different ages and different death dates) Evening Herald Oct. 16, 1940 Sprague River - Mrs. Elizabeth Schonchin, wife of the late Chief Schonchin, is in the Hillside hospital in Klamath Falls suffering from a broken hip. Mrs. Schonchin, who is past 90, fell from bed Friday night. -------------------- Evening Herald Dec. 6, 1940 WIDOW OF OLD MODOC SCOUT DIES THURSDAY Lizzie Schonchin, a lifelong resident of the Klamath Reservation and widow of the late Peter Schonchin, last Modoc survivor of the Modoc Indian War, died at the Klamath Agency early Thursday morning, Dec. 5. She was a native of Sprague River and was aged 83 years at the time of her death. Hundreds of friends and acquaintances throughout the Klamath Country recall the colorful life of her late husband, a famed war scout who died at a Klamath Falls hospital April 25, 1939, following a lengthy illness. The old Indian scout, sole survivor for some time before his death of the tragic war of 66 years ago, was the son of Schonchin John, sub-chief under the famous Modoc Chief Captain Jack. Although his years were so numbered that he could not recall his exact age, he clearly remembered details of the stirring conflict. Her remains were to be taken to the home of Lizzie Schonchin's daughter, Mrs. Jane Lawver, at Sprague River, where a service was to be held Friday evening. A morning service will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at the Community Church at Sprague River. Funeral services will be held at that church Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, with the Rev. B.L. Johnson of Chiloquin officiating. Commitment service and vault entombment will be in the Chief Schonchin Cemetery. Mrs. Schonchin is survived by one son, Cain, of Sprague River; three daughters, Angelina Crume, Jane Lawver and Ellen Hecocta; also 18 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. Like her late husband, Mrs. Schonchin was a colorful figure of the Klamath Country. It was old Pete Schonchin who saw his father, one October day in 1873, pay with his life for the part he played in the Modoc War. Schonchin John was hanged at Fort Klamath by government authorities. Although too young to take part in the actual fighting, Pete went with the Indians into the Lava Beds and as a scout stored up vivid details of the battles. After the war he was sent by the government to Oklahoma, then permitted to return here. For some time he carried the mails to Yainax, and watched ranches and cities, mills and factories rise on the plains he had ridden. Lizzie Schonchin was a little slip of a woman whose face was so furrowed that tattoo marks on her face and chin were barely visible. She had been her husbands constant companion. --------------------------------- Evening Herald Dec. 6, 1940 Lizzie Schonchin, a lifelong resident of the Klamath Reservation, passed away at the Klamath Agency on Thursday, Dec. 4, at 2:40 a.m. The deceased was a native of Sprague River and was aged 83 years when called. She is survived by a son, Cain of Sprague River; daughters, Angelina Crume, Jane Lawver and Ellen Hecocta; 18 grandchildren, Alvin Beal, Bobbie Beal, Peter Chipps, Raymond Schonchin, Melburn Walker, Charlotte Chipps, Laverna Chipps, Helen and Babe Crume, Anita Cook, Illa Baker, Wilma, Patricia, Vera, Blanche, Agatha and Babe Schonchin, all of Sprague River and Thelma Hood of Chiloquin; also 5 great-grandchildren. The funeral service will take place from the Community Church in Sprague River on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 1 p.m., the Rev. B.L. Johnson of Chiloquin officiating. commitment service and vault entombment will be in the Chief Schonchin Cemetery. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/