In any case, it is not at the marker site at Memorial Park: excavations there produced no remains. Cashion 1st Okla. Cavalry After his regiment helped in the victory at Las Quasiman, Cuba. July 1, in the Spanish-American War. Theodore Roosevelt. Located 2 miles south of Hennessey, OK on Highway 81 on the west side of road. Site one-half mile west, this ranch station, noted watering place on the Old Chisholm Trail, was attacked in the last Indian war and found deserted a few days later, July 5m , by Indian Agent J.
Miles who asked for U. He was also an interpreter for both the US government and the republic of Texas in treaty-making with Native American tribes. Black beaver was a Lenape trapper and fur merchant from Western Illinois. After the American Revolutionary War, a large amount of Lenape moved from their territory around the Delaware River to the mid-Atlantic states where Blackbeaver grew up. He was invaluable to many settlers and the military carrying out expeditions out west as a guide.
Blackbeaver escorted captain Randolph B. Macy and the first emigrants from Arkansas to Santa Fe during the California gold rush of The journey took two months and on his return home found a route that took only two weeks that became known as the California trail that thousands of emigrants went on to travel. After the civil war, Patrick Hennessy became a muleskinner a freight hauler.
The job on average paid a paltry 25 dollars a month. They stopped at Buffalo springs for a layover and received warnings of Indian attacks and a report of the killing of a William Watkins two days prior.
The group decided to proceed with their journey more than likely believing things had died down or they could avoid trouble one way or another. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group.
Other noteworthy incidents at the time period were "The Lone tree massacre" that occurred in August in Meade county Kansas and "The German family massacre" on the morning of September 11th, also in Kansas. The Cheyenne were supposedly up in arms because they felt the government wasn't doing enough to keep trespassers off their land and horses from being stolen. Freighters were allegedly running whiskey illegally on Indian land. They weren't happy and started carrying out attacks. On the morning of the ambush on the 4th of July , the four-man crew was spotted by a band of Cheyenne led by chief Medicine water.
They headed south and lay await in the shale beds concealed in the canyon in anticipation of the wagons. Patrick Hennessy was walking alongside the lead wagon when the ambush commenced. The four-man crew fought bravely but were quickly overcome by their assailants.
A man on horseback who was coincidentally in the area for whatever reason raced the six miles back to Buffalo springs to report the incident. Agent John Miles arrived with a group of men at the scene to investigate. They found all four men deceased and scalped. Patrick Hennessy's charred remains were found tied to a burned-out wagon. Controversy and debate still go on today regarding the incident.
Some people believed it was outlaws disguised as Indians that carried out the ambush. After that, it, too, slowly dwindled. In the s and s agriculture remained the dominant local pursuit. Hennessey's inhabitants endeavored to educate their children well. The town's early school held classes from September in rented rooms, but by November a building had been erected.
In the first public library opened. A separate school for black children was constructed in , and a Catholic parochial school existed from to A new public high school opened in in a building that served until The school system enrolled approximately students by From agriculture remained vital, with wheat the primary crop. Three elevators and various agribusinesses operated.
New oil discoveries in the late s boosted the population to 2, in and a peak of 2, in Conoco constructed a gas plant there, and more than a dozen oil-field services operated from Hennessey in the s. The growth of Enid, to the north, and Kingfisher, to the south, provided employment for commuters living in Hennessey.
The census recorded 2, inhabitants, and in the count had grown to 2, Roy V. Cashion, a Hennessey native for whom the town of Cashion is named, served in Roosevelt's Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War and was the regiment's only member to be killed, dying in at San Juan Hill in Cuba. Pioneers of Kingfisher County, — N.
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