14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. Ill 



Patterson Spragg, the only son of Andrew, met an untimely end 

 when he was trampled by a horse. He was buried at Lower Cayuga 

 cemetery just west of the Longhouse, where we found a headboard 

 still legible in October 1943: "Patterson Sprague, died June 9th, 

 50 year old 1937" (pi. i, fig. i). The headboards of a nearby group 

 of graves are no longer decipherable, and we did not succeed in 

 locating the grave of Andrew Spragg, although it was thought to be 

 nearby. 



A log house that Andrew Spragg occupied for many years still 

 stands at the crossroad known as Sandy's Corners, which is the first 

 intersection in the road leading from Willow Grove on Highway 

 No. 6 across the east boundary line of the reserve toward Ohsweken, 

 the seat of the Six Nations Council (pi. i, fig. 2). 



Councilor George Buck now occupies the house of the late Cayuga 

 chief, Abram Charles, having married Chief Charles' daughter, and 

 they live but a short distance from Sandy's Corners and the house 

 of Andrew Spragg whom they remember. George Buck said : 



His house at Sandy's Corners formerly stood near the bush, but later it was 

 moved to its present position near the road. 



Andrew was a great one to sing all kinds of songs. There was almost nothing 

 that he could not sing. Unfortunately, no one learned his songs. Once he 

 urged me to come spend the winter with him, saying that he would teach me 

 his songs. I didn't go. But I remember the cane clearly. I saw it often at the 

 house where I now live when my wife's father, Chief Abram Charles, was alive. 

 I never learned the words to Hai Hai atahing'geh (the eulogy for marching on 

 the road). The song is easy but the words are hard. 



Andrew died in 1921 or 1922 in the house of Fanny Bill (wife of Jake Fish- 

 carrier). I know that because that is the house where I was brought up. 



It seems that in his later years Andrew Spragg abandoned the 

 house at Sandy's Corners and moved north to the next concession 

 road to reside in the house now occupied by Fanny Bill (Mrs. Jake 

 Fishcarrier), who was his wife's granddaughter; Fanny Bill's is the 

 first house east of Lower Cayuga Longhouse; he was living there 

 when he died. It was presumably during his residence at the latter 

 place, a short step from Peter Atkins' Corners, now called Six 

 Nations', that he relinquished the cane. 



Neighbors along the road to Willow Grove where he resided for 

 many years recall that Andrew Spragg was an enterprising character 

 of considerable mechanical ingenuity. According to C. W. Monture, 



Andrew was a great one to fix things. He had a steam thresher, in the days 

 before separators with blowers, and it was driven by an upright engine. The 

 whole rig was pulled by a heavy team. With this outfit he went from farm to 

 farm threshing grain. Come fall, he pressed hay with a team. He was the first 

 man here to attempt to devise a power press for his engine before the advent of 

 tractors on the reserve. 



