Belitha Griffith, 1864

GRIFFITH

Posted By: Leslie W. Saint (email)
Date: 4/6/2013 at 21:18:50

Burlington Daily Hawk Eye, Burlington, IA, Dec. 11, 1864, p. 3

Killed by the Indians.
Plumb Creek, Neb., Dec. 1, 1864

Editor Hawk-Eye--Sir: On the 19th day of November, 1864, the Indians killed a man on the road between this point and Fort Kearney. As the stage passed west that eveining, they gave me the information. I sent out and brought the body in and had it burried. He was scalped. On his person was found a small memorandum book, with the following written of the fly-leaf: "Belitha Griffith, Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa."

If you will give this a place in your paper, it will probably be read by some of his friends.

S. M. Curran,
Capt. 1st Neb. Cav.