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  Monument 
  to 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  in 
  Buffalo 
  N. 
  Y., 
  unveiled 
  June 
  22, 
  1891. 
  Five 
  

   Seneca 
  chiefs 
  were 
  reinterred 
  with 
  him 
  in 
  1884 
  and 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  headstones 
  

   appear. 
  Nine 
  other 
  Senecas 
  were 
  placed 
  with 
  them, 
  but 
  the 
  names 
  of 
  these 
  

   were 
  unknown. 
  There 
  were 
  imposing 
  ceremonies 
  under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  

   Buffalo 
  Historical 
  Society. 
  In 
  1891 
  the 
  monument 
  was 
  completed 
  and 
  un- 
  

   veiled 
  on 
  Forest 
  Lawn, 
  the 
  Hon. 
  David 
  F. 
  Day, 
  making 
  the 
  oration. 
  Red 
  

   Jacket 
  died 
  in 
  1830, 
  and 
  was 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  78 
  years 
  old. 
  His 
  earlier 
  and 
  

   later 
  names 
  appear 
  on 
  the 
  pedestal. 
  

  

  