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VARYSBURG AND THE MARY JEMISON STORY (cont.)
October 195T
"When Mr. Seaver wrote 'The Life of the White Woman' he was in
failing health from an ailment that carried him off not long after
and to this have been attributed certain imperfections in the work..
He went from his heme in Pembroke in the autumn of 1823 to the
residence of Mrs. Jeannette Whaley in Castile and in pursuance of a
previous arrangement there met the aged captive of 68 years before,
who came on foot four miles from her reservation at Gardeau, accompanied
by her agent, Thos. Clute, to fulfill the appointment. The
interview lasted four days; they never met again. The result of that
meeting was the little volume published by Seaver the following
spring, which was succeeded in 181|2 by a second edition edited by
Ebenezer Mix, interesting and valuable in many added particularsjbut
the new book came too late, Deh-he-wa-mis had been dead nine years."
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83rd Pioneer Association Gathering
Chief Nick Bailey of the Tonawanda Reservation was welcomed as
speaker before the 83rd annual meeting of the Wyoming Historical
Pioneer Association, Silver Lake, August 1st. In a delightful manner
he charmed his audience with an account of the struggles which
he had as an Indian lad in learning English and securing an education.
He noted the outstanding contributions of the late Jesse
Cornplanter, who in his latter years recorded traditional Seneca
songs, some of which are utilized in the annual Mary Jemison pageant
of the Castile Historical Society. Chief Bailey described how the
modern reservation Indian has become a part of white man's society,
but he still feels it is up to these first Americans to make the
most of their opportunities.
President D. Samuel Gayton, Warsaw, presided at a program which
also included music, reports and the traditional awards of chairs.
Treasurer Henry N. Page, serving his 31st year in that office, reported
a balance of i$317»UO