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mittee, the Students from both Seminaries, Free Masons, Sons of 

 Temperance and many other persons, [^^] 



All appeared to realize that "A Great man had fallen!" 

 As a fittiag close to this Sketch, I will give a quotation from the 

 Monument which marks his grave. 

 "Erected 



by order of the 

 National CouncU." 

 "He filled the duties of every office well. 

 An Honest Man — 

 A Spotless Patriot- — • 

 A Devoted Christian." 



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Adair, James. 



1930. Adair's history of the American Indians. S. C. Williams, ed. Johnson 

 City, Tenn. 

 Anderson, Rufus. 



1825. Memoir of Catherine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee 

 Nation. Boston, Mass. 

 Anonymoxjs. 



. Some history of Freemasonry in Indian Territory before the War 



Between the States and the organization of the Grand Lodge. 

 MS. (n.d.) In possession of editor. 

 Cherokee Phoenix. 



1828-34. 

 CoRKRAN, David H. 



1962. The Cherokee frontier. Norman, Okla. 

 Foreman, Carolyn Thomas 



1948. Park Hill. Muskogee, Okla. 

 Foreman, Grant. 



1932. Indian removal. Norman, Okla. 

 1938. Sequoyah. Norman, Okla. 

 Gilbert, William H., Jr. 



1943. The Eastern Cherokees. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. Bull. 133, Anthrop. 

 Pap. No. 23, pp. 169-414. 

 Haas, Mary R. 



1961. Comment on Floyd G. Lounsbury's "Iroquois-Cherokee linguistic 

 relations." In "Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois culture," 

 ed. by William N. Fenton and John Gulick. Bur. Amer. Ethnol. 

 Bull. 180, pp. 19-23. 



»» Carolyn Thomas Foreman (1948, pp. 89-90) informs us that the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester was re- 

 quested by the National Council to deliver a funeral address to "both branches of the National Council, 

 officers of the government and many other citizens." George Lowrey was probably a Freemason and 

 possibly affiliated with Cherokee Lodge No. 21, chartered on November 8, 1848, at Tahlequah, although 

 " Some history of Freemasonry In Indian Territory before the War Between the States and the organization 

 of the Grand Lodge" (n.d., MS.) does not specifically so state. We infer from this document that the 

 first Masonic funeral conducted in the Cherokee Nation was that of G. W. Lavender in 1851. Lucy Lowrey 

 Hoyt would appear to have been a student at the Cherokee Female Seminary at the time of her grandfather's 

 death and burial. 



