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By DIANNE SMITH BRYARS
Correspondent
"Sunday morning, thanks to Silas Griffin, 13 men who couldn't go
home had some of home brought to them. The Christian missionary
and his family sprinkled small amounts of soil, sand, pebbles
and river water gathered from the Apache Indians' ancestral
homeland in Arizona on the graves the men, who were held at Fort
Stoddert near Mount Vernon in the late 1800s.
The Apaches are buried in the National Cemetery portion of
Magnolia Cemetery. All died between 1891 and 1894.
One of the 13 was Chappo, the eldest son of the Chiricahua
Apache leader Geronimo who was buried on Sept. 11, 1894.
"My wife Abigail (a Yaqui Indian) and I also brought some small
Arizona state flags, arrowheads, Indian corn, small clay pots
and other things of symbolic significance to place on each
Apache grave in a gesture of respect, honor and remembrance."
said Griffin, 49, who has family roots in Clarke County, Ala. He
lives in Douglas, Ariz.
The Griffins' children, Lesley, 6, and David, 4, helped their
father place these items on the Apache gravesites.
Silas Griffin's father, the Rev. Jack Ray Griffin, a missionary
to the Indians since 1950, opened the ceremony at Chappo's grave
with a prayer and Bible reading. He finished his part in the
ceremony by playing "The Old Rugged Cross" on his harmonica.
As a member of Confederate Secret Service Camp #1710, Sons of
Confederate Veterans, in Arizona, Silas Griffin wore his
Confederate chaplain uniform as a "positive message that our
real Southern and Confederate history is one of old-fashioned
Southern hospitality, history and heritage."
He placed a large Sons of Confederate Veterans, Arizona Division
flag, which is half Arizona State flag and half Confederate
Battle flag, at the head of Chappo's grave.
In 1887, after Geronimo ceased his fight against white settlers
in the southwestern United States, he and some 450 members of
his band were forcibly removed from Arizona by the U.S. Army.
(our Cousin Capt. Charles B. Gatewood of Virginia convinced
Geronimo to surrender-see his ID 44188 for details.)
They were first taken to St. Augustine, Fla., then to Pensacola
and finally to Mount Vernon's Fort Stoddert, some 20 miles north
of Mobile, where they would remain prisoners of war for over
five years.
Carved on all the Apache tombstones except Chappo's is a mixture
of their Indian and Christian names along with "12th Infantry."
The unit was formed by the Army in an effort to incorporate the
Indian prisoners into society, according to a historical file in
the Mobile Public Library.
In 1888, authorities sent 114 young Apache men, including
Chappo, to an Indian school in Pennsylvania for them to be
transformed from "savages" into "Christian young men." Thirty of
them died of illnesses they contracted there.
The Apaches remaining at Mount Vernon fared no better. By 1889,
nearly one-fourth of those remaining had died, according to the
file.
Chappo, who was 30, died of a "coughing sickness," probably
tuberculosis, after returning to Fort Stoddert because of an
injury suffered at the Pennsylvania school.
"We were not healthy in this place (Mount Vernon) for the
climate disagreed with us. So many of our people died ..., "
Chappo's father is quoted as saying in "Geronimo, His Own
Story," a book edited by S.M. Barrett on the basis of
information supplied by the Apache leader through an interpreter
in 1905.
An article in the Mobile Press Register of Nov. 23, 1894 said
that all the Indians had been moved from Mount Vernon, to be
resettled at Fort Sill, Okla.
Geronimo died there in 1909 and is buried in the "prisoners"
cemetery, said Silas Griffin."
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Children of John Herndon 1.John (1700-1786) m. 1st ??? 2nd Sarah
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Priscilla Herndon
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Jacob Herndon 1732-1796
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