The Johnson-Wallace & Fish-Kirk Families

Kenneth married Peggy Nicole Underwood on 22 Oct 2005 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States. Peggy was born on 7 Dec 1983.

1 i. Cohen Adam Fish (born on 28 Jul 2006 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States)

ii. Liam Frederick Fish was born on 16 Oct 2007 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

Peggy married Kenneth LeRoy Fish on 22 Oct 2005 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States. Kenneth was born on 14 Jan 1983 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

Third Generation

4. George Michael Fish, son of LeRoy Paschal Fish and Carol Jean Kirk, was born on 14 Feb 1953 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Another name for George is G. Michael Fish.

George married Jennifer Larraine Tatem on 10 Jun 1980. The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. Jennifer was born on 18 Sep 1959 in Fort Stewart, Liberty, Georgia, United States.

i. David Aaron Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological ) was born on 17 May 1981 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

iii. Michelle Larraine Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological ) was born on 14 Dec 1983 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

George next married Karen Gail Johnson on 30 Jun 1990 in Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States, daughter of DeWayne Burton Johnson and Lorna Doone Wallace. Karen was born on 2 Aug 1947 in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States.

i. Michelle Larraine Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step ) was born on 14 Dec 1983 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

ii. David Aaron Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step ) was born on 17 May 1981 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

Jennifer married George Michael Fish on 10 Jun 1980. The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. George was born on 14 Feb 1953 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Another name for George is G. Michael Fish.

i. Michelle Larraine Fish (Relationship to Father: Step, Relationship to Mother:Biological ) was born on 14 Dec 1983 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

ii. David Aaron Fish (Relationship to Father: Step, Relationship to Mother:Biological ) was born on 17 May 1981 in Tallahassee, Leon, Florida, United States.

Fourth Generation

8. LeRoy Paschal Fish, son of Joseph Pascal Fish and Clara Mae Carnal, was born on 21 Aug 1928 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and was christened on 15 Aug 1948 in [Roman Catholic], Sambongi, Japan.

LeRoy married Carol Jean Kirk on 24 Jun 1950 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Carol was born on 8 Jul 1932 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 7 Feb 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States at age 75.

ii. Gregory LeRoy Fish was born on 18 Dec 1954 in Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States.

iii. Theresa Lynn Fish was born on 29 Dec 1956 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

iv. David Paschal Fish was born on 7 Apr 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 28 Sep 1979 at age 28.

v. Mark Joseph Fish was born on 17 Feb 1958 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.

9. Carol Jean Kirk, daughter of George Edward Kirk and Hattie Switzer, was born on 8 Jul 1932 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 7 Feb 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States at age 75.

Carol married LeRoy Paschal Fish on 24 Jun 1950 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. LeRoy was born on 21 Aug 1928 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and was christened on 15 Aug 1948 in [Roman Catholic], Sambongi, Japan.

Fifth Generation

16. Joseph Pascal Fish, son of Leander Jackson Fish and Mary Kathryn Large, was born on 21 Jan 1895 in Douthat, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, United States and died on 23 Jul 1937 in Indian Hospital, Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States at age 42.

Joseph married Clara Mae Carnal on 29 Oct 1921 in Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States. Clara was born on 10 Jun 1903 in Lincolnville, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States, died on 18 Dec 1972 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 69, and was buried in Newman Cemetary, NE of Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

8 i. LeRoy Paschal Fish (born on 21 Aug 1928 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

ii. Mary Kathryn Fish was born on 9 May 1925 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Another name for Mary is Kathryn Fish.

iii. Dorothy May Fish was born on 29 Dec 1926 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

iv. Frederic Marvin "Jack" Fish was born on 8 May 1932 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 4 Apr 1934 at age 1.

v. Claire Eudora Fish was born on 3 Jan 1939 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Another name for Claire is Eudora Fish.

vi. Wynona Francis Fish was born on 29 Mar 1937 in Peoria, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

17. Clara Mae Carnal, daughter of Solomon Madison Carnal and Hattie Eudora Thomas, was born on 10 Jun 1903 in Lincolnville, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States, died on 18 Dec 1972 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 69, and was buried in Newman Cemetary, NE of Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

Clara married Joseph Pascal Fish on 29 Oct 1921 in Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States. Joseph was born on 21 Jan 1895 in Douthat, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, United States and died on 23 Jul 1937 in Indian Hospital, Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States at age 42.

18. George Edward Kirk, son of George Robert Kirk and Grace Elizabeth Parsons, was born on 2 Feb 1906 in Centralia, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 25 Sep 1961 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 55.

George married Hattie Switzer on 31 Oct 1925 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. Hattie was born on 10 Jan 1907 in Snowball, Searcy, Arkansas, United States and was christened in 1975 in Church of the Nazarene, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

9 i. Carol Jean Kirk (born on 8 Jul 1932 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States - died on 7 Feb 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States)

ii. Joyce Clotine Kirk was born on 25 Jun 1927 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

iii. George Edward "Buddy" Kirk Jr. was born on 3 Jun 1930 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

19. Hattie Switzer, daughter of Daniel Wesley Switzer and Georgia Augusta Seitz, was born on 10 Jan 1907 in Snowball, Searcy, Arkansas, United States and was christened in 1975 in Church of the Nazarene, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

Hattie married George Edward Kirk on 31 Oct 1925 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States. George was born on 2 Feb 1906 in Centralia, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and died on 25 Sep 1961 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 55.

Sixth Generation

32. Leander Jackson Fish, son of Chief Paschal "Pas-Cal-We" Fish and Mary Ann Steele, was born on 7 May 1852 in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, died in 1912 near Quapaw, Oklahoma, United States at age 60, and was buried in Lot 20, Block 3, Grave 6, G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

Leander married Mary Kathryn Large. Mary was born on 6 May 1876 and died on 11 Aug 1939 at age 63.

16 i. Joseph Pascal Fish (born on 21 Jan 1895 in Douthat, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, United States - died on 23 Jul 1937 in Indian Hospital, Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States)

Mary married Leander Jackson Fish. Leander was born on 7 May 1852 in Wyandotte, Kansas, United States, died in 1912 near Quapaw, Oklahoma, United States at age 60, and was buried in Lot 20, Block 3, Grave 6, G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

34. Solomon Madison Carnal, son of William Henry Carnal and Clara Jane Bottom, was born on 20 Jan 1872 in Bolivier, Saint Clair, Franklin, Missouri, United States and died on 20 Dec 1956 in Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 84.

Solomon married Hattie Eudora Thomas in McDonald Co., Missouri, United States. Hattie was born on 25 Feb 1884, died on 11 Feb 1927 at age 42, and was buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

17 i. Clara Mae Carnal (born on 10 Jun 1903 in Lincolnville, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States - died on 18 Dec 1972 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

ii. Lily Edith Carnal was born on 1 Dec 1900 and died in Alamosa, Colorado, United States.

iii. William Earl Carnal was born on 1 Sep 1905 and died in Globe, Gila, Arizona, United States.

iv. Willis Haskell Carnal was born on 18 Sep 1907 and was buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

v. Grace Ellen Carnal was born on 15 Sep 1910 and died in Tow, Llano, Texas, United States.

vi. Goldie Elsie Carnal was born on 11 Nov 1914 and died in Globe, Gila, Arizona, United States.

35. Hattie Eudora Thomas, daughter of A. A. Thomas and Minta Dobbs, was born on 25 Feb 1884, died on 11 Feb 1927 at age 42, and was buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States.

Hattie married Solomon Madison Carnal in McDonald Co., Missouri, United States. Solomon was born on 20 Jan 1872 in Bolivier, Saint Clair, Franklin, Missouri, United States and died on 20 Dec 1956 in Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 84.

36. George Robert Kirk was born in 1872 in Tennessee, United States and died in Jul 1944 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 72.

George married Grace Elizabeth Parsons. Grace was born on 11 Feb 1876 and died on 26 Nov 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 75.

18 i. George Edward Kirk (born on 2 Feb 1906 in Centralia, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States - died on 25 Sep 1961 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

37. Grace Elizabeth Parsons was born on 11 Feb 1876 and died on 26 Nov 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 75.

Grace married George Robert Kirk. George was born in 1872 in Tennessee, United States and died in Jul 1944 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 72.

38. Daniel Wesley Switzer, son of Henry Switzer and Jane Manos, was born on 11 Jun 1872 in [Germany] and died on 26 May 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 78.

Daniel married Georgia Augusta Seitz. Georgia was born on 18 Mar 1876 and died on 5 Jul 1928 at age 52.

19 i. Hattie Switzer (born on 10 Jan 1907 in Snowball, Searcy, Arkansas, United States)

iii. Martha Jane "Mattie" Switzer was born on 2 Mar 1903 and died on 5 Jul 1934 at age 31.

iv. Grayson Dan Switzer was born on 9 Feb 1905 and died on 24 Nov 1979 at age 74.

39. Georgia Augusta Seitz, daughter of Henry Seitz and Martha, was born on 18 Mar 1876 and died on 5 Jul 1928 at age 52.

Georgia married Daniel Wesley Switzer. Daniel was born on 11 Jun 1872 in [Germany] and died on 26 May 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States at age 78.

Seventh Generation

64. Chief Paschal "Pas-Cal-We" Fish, son of William Jackson "Captain" Fish and ? [Shawnee Woman], was born in 1809 in Shawnee Tribe, Kansas Territory, Kansas and died in 1894 in Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States at age 85. Another name for Paschal was Paschal Jackson.

Birth Notes: www.whatsineudora.com has birth year as 1805.

http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2492.html has b. 1809 in Shawnee Tribe, Kansas Territory, Kansas.

Historic Names of the Shawnee in the 1700s - http://www.shawnee-traditions.com/Names-7.html
has b. abt 1792 in Ohio.

General Notes: http://www.whatsineudora.com
http://gen3.connectingneighbors.com/static/19448.pdf

"A statue of Chief Paschal Fish and his daughter, Eudora, is being created by world
renowned Lawrence [Kansas] sculptor, Jim Brothers. When completed, it will be a 7 ½ foot tall
bronze statue and will be placed in the CPA Park in downtown Eudora. The casting will
be completed by the Ad Astra Foundry, which is located about 10 miles NW of Eudora.

"The statue has been created to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the City of Eudora
(1857-2007) and will be dedicated October 6th, 2007 during the annual EudoraFest. It
depicts Shawnee Indian Chief Paschal Fish and his daughter, Eudora, in the year of 1857
with Chief Fish holding a ferry oar and with Eudora clutching his waist.

"The land Eudora was built on was purchased from Chief Fish by the German Settlement
Society from Chicago. The German settlers honored the request of Chief Fish and named
their new town after his daughter, Eudora.

"When the U.S. Government allotted land to the Indians, Chief Fish received 1,000 acres
in this part of Douglas County. In 1857 he sold 800 acres to the German Settlement
Society from Chicago. Chief Fish owned and operated the Fish Ferry, which crossed the
Kaw River just north of downtown Eudora. He also owned the Fish House, which was
located on the south edge of Eudora along the Westport Trail. The Westport Trail
connected Kansas City to Lawrence and tied into the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails. He
often took in travelers for the night and provided them with food and shelter. On May 1,
1855, the Kansas Territorial Governor, Andrew H. Reeder, stayed at the Fish House. The
Governor.s horse was hidden, so it would not be seen by pro-slavery supporters. Chief
Fish was a Methodist minister and was instrumental in establishing and teaching at the
Wakarusa Indian Mission which was built in Eudora 1848-1850.

"Paschal Fish (1905-1894). In approximately 1870, Chief Fish moved from Eudora to
Indian Territory near Miami, Oklahoma. In 1894 at the age of 89, Chief Fish was found
frozen to death along Tar Creek near his home at Baxter Springs, Kansas.

"Eudora Fish (ca1848-1877). In 1868 Eudora Fish married Dallas Emmons. They lived in
LaCygne, Kansas and had 4 children. Eudora passed away unexpectedly at the age of 29.
Her body was transported from LaCygne to Wyandotte, Kansas. She is buried in the
Huron Indian Cemetery in downtown Wyandotte.

"Project Funding

"The primary resources for this project have been Eudora Lions Club members, personnel
from various departments within the City of Eudora, and also many community partners
that have hosted/assisted with fund-raising activities. There has been wide support for
this project ranging from the purchase of engraved bricks that will be placed around the
base of the statue to cash donors whose names will be placed on a bronze plaque that will
be mounted to the base of the statue. The Shawnee Tribe that is located in Miami,
Oklahoma is also very supportive of the project.

"Fund-raising activities have been sponsored/supported by the Eudora Historical Society,
United Methodist Church, Knights of Columbus, Chamber of Commerce, Boy Scouts,
Eudora school personnel and their facilities, Annie.s Country Jubilee from Tonganoxie,
plus many Eudora businesses and individual volunteers."

Research Notes: More available http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2458.html

From Historic Shawnee Names of the 1700s - http://www.shawnee-traditions.com/Names-7.html
"Fish, Paschal aka Paschal Jackson - 1/2 Shawnee Metis born about 1792 OH-died after 1854 KS - son of Fish aka William Jackson-adopted white & Shawnee Woman, moved to KS by 1832, Treaty 1854, husband 1^st of Mary Ann Steele/95-Metis, 2^nd of Jane Hohthawakawe/95, 3^rd of Hester Armstrong Zane-Wyandot Metis, father with Mary Ann of Leander aka Leading Turtle/1814"

From
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/wyandott/history/1911/volume1/29.html
http://www.whatsineudora.com

Transcribed from History of Wyandotte County Kansas and its people ed. and comp. by Perl W. Morgan. Chicago, The Lewis publishing company, 1911. 2 v. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 28 cm. [Vol. 2 contains biographical data. Paged continuously.]

Chapter III.
"Among others of the Shawnees who won distinction for meritorious work in aid of civilizing and educating the tribe was Paschal Fish. He was a local preacher and his brother Charles was an interpreter. They would listen to sermons preached by the white men in the missions and translate them for those of the Indians who could not understand English."

Chapter V.
"The Shawnee Indian mission was the most ambitious attempt of any Protestant church in the early times to care for the Indians of Kansas. In 1828 what was called the Fish band of Shawnee Indians was moved by the government from Ohio to Wyandotte county, Kansas. They were under the leadership of the Prophet [Ten-squat-a-way (The Open Door)], the brother of the great Tecumseh, who made his home near the spot where the town of Turner [Kansas] now stands. The following year the Reverend Thomas Johnson, a member of the Missouri conference of the Methodist church, followed the Indians to Turner, built a log house on the hill south of the Kansas river and began working among the red men as a missionary. In 1832 the rest of the Shawnee Indians from Ohio rejoined their tribe in Kansas. The government allotted them a large reservation of the best land in eastern Kansas..."

"The mission among the Delaware Indians [in Wyandotte County, Kansas] was opened in 1832 by the Reverend William Johnson and the Reverend Thomas Markham, appointed by the Missouri Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to take charge Though the Delawares were advancing in agriculture and their fine prairie lands interspersed with timber were improved, they had but little culture. Many of the elder members of the tribe retained their ancient prejudices against Christianity and, in consequence, the membership of the Mission church was never large...

"The Mission was erected in 1832 near a spring in a beautiful grove.. on the high divide on the site of the present town of White Church, facing east... It was destroyed by a tornado on
ay 11, 1886.... After the inauguration of the mission and school by the Reverend William Johnson and the Reverend Thomas B. Markham, E. T. Peery was in charge from 1833 to 1836 inclusive ... Others who were connected with it were ... the Reverend Nathan Scarrett for whom the Scarrett Bible Training School is named, and the Reverend Paschal Fish.

"In the early days a log parsonage was erected and a camp ground was laid out in which great camp meetings for the Indians were held. These camp meetings... were attended by Indians of various tribes, many coming in their blankets. Each tribe had its interpreters to follow the words of the preacher, or exhorter, and translate them into English. The two Ketchums, James and Charles, full-blood Delawares, were interpreters...

"Prominent among the Delawares was Charles Ketchum, for many years a preacher in the Methodist church... In the separation troubles, in 1845, the Delawares went with their church to the southern branch. But Charles Ketchum adhered to the northern branch, built a church himself and kept the little remnant of the flock together...

"The interpreters for the northern branch were Charles Ketchum, Paschal Fish and Isaac Johnnycake."
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Extensive notes from http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2492.html :

Pascal "PAS-CAL-WE" FISH:
Census: 1856, #343 age 50

Notes:
100529
Title: Document granting land to Pascal Fish on behalf of other Fish family members
Description: This document, with President Buchanan's signature signed by a secretary, granted land to Pascal Fish and his family who were members of the "united tribe of Shawnee Indians." The land was granted under provisions of a treaty between the Shawnee Indians and the U. S. government signed May 10, 1854. Specific acreage in Johnson County was designated.
Dates: September 27, 1859
Number of Images: 1
Call Number: James Stanley Emery Collection, #339, Box 3, Folder Commissions 1854-1899
Location of Original: KSHS

Fish, Paschal aka Paschal Jackson - 1/2 Shawnee Metis born about 1792 OH-died after 1854 KS
- son of Fish aka William Jackson-adopted white & Shawnee Woman, moved to KS by 1832, Treaty 1854, husband 1st of Mary Ann Steele/95-Metis, father with Mary Ann of Leander aka Leading Turtle/1814
2nd of Jane Hohthawakawe/95,
3rd of Hester Armstrong Zane-Wyandot Metis

See KHC, vol. 9, pp. 166,167. Historian Rodney Staab of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, has furnished me with an excellent account of Chief Fish written by Fern Long. Her information conflicts somewhat with other sources, but it should not be missed by anyone doing research on the Jackson/Fish family. According to her 1978 article on Chief Fish, she agrees that he was captured as a youth and raised by the Shawnees in the band of Lewis Rogers whose daughter he married. Paschal Fish was "a large-framed man" who "also acquired the Indian ways seeming to be totally Indian." but at the same time, she says "these Shawnees had associated with white people for generations and desired a settled life with homes, schools, churches, ___and agriculture."

c) Hester Zane, lived in MO, d. 4/17/1852, bur. , m. 10/14/1846, Paschal Fish
i) Eudora Fish (1849-1877)
ii) Andrew Fish, b. 1851
iii) Leander J. Fish

Eudora Community Heritage of Our USA Bicentennial, 1776-1976
History Committee, Eudora Becentennial Committee, 1977

Pages 6-11

INDIAN LANDS
The Kanza Indians, who were the native inhabitants of northeast Kansas, were of Siouan linguistic stock, having permanent villages, cornfields and gardens along the fertile river valleys of the State of Kansas. They also hunted for meat.

The United States government adopted a plan by the mid 1820's to remove Indians from east of the Mississippi River to the "vacant" lands in the west. (The lands were not vacant but were less populated and the white man kept wanting more land, as more people came to America for freedom from persecution in Europe.) The government called it "for humanitarian and political reasons"!

A treaty with the Kanza and Osage Indians (in the southeast part of the state) in 1825 restricted their territory. This led to unclaimed land west of the Missouri river. President Jackson's Indian Policy proposed voluntary emigration of the East Indians to the land west of the Mississippi river, acted on by Congress May 28, 1830 with Indians north of Ohio to relocate in Territorial Kansas reservations which were offered to 27 Tribes, including the Shawnee.

THE SHAWNEE INDIAN TRIBE
The Shawnee Indian Tribes were settled in the eastern part of North America forested areas of Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, since the mid-1700's. They spoke the Algonquian language and were tribally related to the Sauk and the Fox Tribes.
Most Shawnees had migrated west to Ohio by 1786 when the Government moved the Indians west of the Mississippi river, by the Indian Removal Act of 1830, when they were forced to the smaller reservation in Kansas.

Chief Cornstalk and Chief Tecumseh struggled to hold their land (Battle of Tippecanoe) but were defeated. The Shawnee Prophet, brother of Tecumseh, peacefully accepted the proposition.

The United Tribe of Shawnees started coming to Kansas in 1825 to the Shawnee Township, Wyandotte County. By 1828 most were moved, but much of the Tribe of the Fish came in 1831. The Fish Tribe had children educated in a Friend's Mission school in Ohio. The Shawnee Indian Chief, Paschal Fish, Sr., was white and raised with Indians.

The Shawnee Reservation was from the Missouri River on the east, to the Republican River on the west, south of the Kansas River, about 150 miles long and 20 to 30 miles wide. It was almost the same size as the Delaware reservation on the north side of the Kaw River. The Reservation included a quarter of Shawnee County and Geary Counties, one third of Morris County, half of Waubaunsee, one-fifth of northern Franklin and Miami counties and all of Douglas and Johnson counties.

The Fish Tribe settled near Kansas City before moving to Eudora. At Shawnee Mission, called Johnson's Mission at first, the Fish family helped at the school operated by the Methodist Church, 1830-1862, arriving with 40 Indians and five whites. Paschal Fish, Sr., died there in 1834.

THE FISH TRIBE
The namesake of Paschal Fish, Sr., assumed leadership of the Fish Tribe at age 33. Paschal, Jr., was also known by his white name of Andrew Jackson. Pashal is not an Indian name but means Easter or Passion, and could have been given him at the Friends Mission school he attended in Ohio. Paschal was also spelled Pascel, Pascal, Paschall, Pasqual and Pescel. He was listed on the 1854 Indian census rolls for the Shawnee Tribe as 50 years of age. He had a wife, Martha, age 40, son Obadiah age 12 years, Eudora (Udora) age 9, and Leander Jackson age 7. In 1860 Mary T. was listed as a member of the family of the original deed in Eudora, so may have been born after the census. Paschal also had a foster son, an orphan, who came here and received the same portion of land as his own children, according to an early deed and abstract. His first one or two wives apparently died and he married Mary Ann Steele (nee McClure). A daughter, Jane Q. was born, but died in 1873.

Paschal's brother Charles also lived here and was 41 years old on the census roll. He must have been married and had a child, as early city records list him paying a fine for a child in 1862 and 1864. A Jesse Fish paid $3.00 in 1863 and no mention of any relationship to Paschal or Charles. John also lived here and was an influential member of the Tribe. There was also a Julia Fish, who was the wife of Leander Jackson.

In 1837-38 Paschal was listed as a blacksmith and gunsmith assistant at Fort Leavenworth. In 1847-52 he served preaching assignments in Eudora, Shawnee Mission and the Kickapoo Mission (near Weston, Mo.).

Northern Methodist Church Shawnee Indian members of Shawnee Mission who came to Eudora area were the Fish family, James Captain, Wm. Rogers, Crane, Parks, (Joe and Wm.) and the Bluejackets (Chas., Geo. and Henry.)

Paschal and other prominent Indians kept open house for early day travelers to and through Eudora on the Westport-Fremont Trail from the northeast and from the Oregon trail on the southeast, going west to Lawrence, Oregon and California.

Paschal Fish has been described as kind, friendly, educated, speaking English well, but sometimes signed his name with an X. On the Eudora deed when he sold to the German Settlement Society he wrote legibly. He probably moved to this area in the 1840's, although the land here was not given to Tribe members until the Treaty of May 10, 1854, when the Government provided 200 acres to each member of the chief's family, to be selected from the Shawnee reservation. Paschal chose 1172 1/2 acres, where the Wakarusa river joins the Kaw. They were given the right to sell their land, and he sold 774 1/2 acres in 1857 to Chicago Settlement Company.

Paschal and brother Charles operated a ferry boat across the Kansas River near the mouth of the Wakarusa. The legislature licensed him to operate the ferry a mile up and a mile down stream. DeSoto had the next ferry to the east. In 1846 a portion of Doniphan's expedition to Mexico crossed the river at Eudora on a ferry. His home was said to be where the Bob Lothholz's live, 1 mile east. These ferry boats were large flat scows (or piroughs) manned by Indians dressed in colorful shirts, shawls and headbands.

In 1854 Paschal Fish built a thatched roof hotel (store, tavern, Inn), called the Fish House, located on the 1857 Territorial Map. It was about a mile south of the river in Block no. 154, Lot no. 9 at about 17th and Main St. on the property recently sold by Mrs. Francis Skinner, half to the Highway Department for the new no. 10 highway and half to a builder. The Fish House provided meager accommodations to travelers on the early trails. An early account of an overnight stay says the sleeping room was 16' x 16' with 32 people sleeping in a mass on the floor. There was one bed with prairie hay mattress, six chairs and a fireplace, and it was overcrowded! Bedding was buffalo hides or bedding from wagons. The Territorial Governor of Kansas, Andrew Redder had to go south to Blanton's Bridge to cross, due to high water on Wakarusa and a Company of pro-slavery men at Franklin. He reached the Fish House at daylight, hiding his horse and carriage and staying hid. He left the next day. The hotel was a polling place in 1855. Reports reveal a blacksmith shop and grocery or general store in connection with the hotel. The building was later enlarged.

City records state that Paschal Fish went to Washington D.C. for the city, after Eudora was settled. Also there was Chief Johnny Cake living in Eudora area who went to see "the Great White Father", according to an article written by Mary E. Mosher, who lived here in 1865-66. There was also an interpreter, Charlie King, who could have been Charlie Fish. She wrote that a number of the Indians lived in houses of the best class, spoke good English, being educated in Mission schools.

Under Other Flags / Indian Lands / Oregon Trail / Mission / Becomes a City / Sad Years / Railroads / Business / Education
Published by West Junior High, NEH project, with permission of the Eudora Community Heritage, History Committee, Eudora Bicentennial Commission, 1977.

page 449
194. Long, Fern. "Revised Indian History re: Pascal Fish, Sr." Eudora Enterprise [Eudora, KS] June 22, 1978, 4A. This the first of three articles, traces the descendants of the Shawnee chief Pascal Fish, Sr., who brought the Lewis Rogers band of Shawnees from Missouri to the present day Kansas City area in 1830. According to information given here, this band was a portion of the Shawnees who had migrated to Missouri in 1784, settling on a branch of the Meramac River (while a majority settles around Cape Girardeau about 1803). A descendant, Charles Fish, was an interpreter at Dr. Abraham Still's Friends' Wakarusa Mission.

Jane "HOH-THA-WAH-KA-SE" UNKNOWN:
Census: 1856, #523 age 24

Footnotes
International Genealogical Index (R) [164 ] (February 7, 2005).
Fish-1805.ged [148 ].
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.
Ibid.
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.
Ibid.
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.
International Genealogical Index (R) [164 ] (February 7, 2005).
Fish-1805.ged [148 ].
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.
Ibid.
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.
Ibid.
Date of Import: 7 Feb 2005.

From Wikipedia - Eudora, Kansas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora%2C_Kansas

"In 1856 , three members of a German Immigrant Settlement Company (called Deutsche-Neusiedlungsverein) from Chicago , sent out a location committee to choose a town site in the new Indian Territory , which had been opened up to settlement by the Kansas-Nebraska Bill , passed in May 1854 . Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups flocked to this territory.
"The three Germans sent to the present site were H. Heimann, F. Barteldes and C. Scheifer. Favoring the Eudora area, they drew up contracts with Chief Paschal Fish for 774 1/2 acres, from the Kansas River to the south for about a mile (over 200 blocks total), with two public squares and a park. In February 1857 , Chief Fish entered into contracts with the Trustees of the Chicago Verein for purchase of the land "to secure a more perfect title" at a price of $10,000. Fish bought back on the same day the odd numbered lots of at least three blocks between the Kaw and Wakarusa rivers.

"A map of Douglas County drawn up in early 1857, before Eudora was a town, shows only four townships in the county with Eudora included in the Wakarusa township.

"A group of 16 men, 4 women, and some children had came in the spring of 1857 to begin settling at the site. Peter Hartig, age 34, was the leader of this Chicago group, and he was accompanied by his wife. The Society paid expenses for the settlers. Eight more men, who paid their own way, came later. The formal title, signed by an Indian Agent named Newsom, was drawn up on February 4 , 1860 .

"The town's name was derived from the name of Chief Paschal Fish's 13-year old daughter; it is a name of Greek derivation meaning "giving" or "generous." Chief Fish said that if they did this there would never be a tornado to touch down in Eudora. There hasn't been a tornado there to this day."

• Sold: 800 acres to German Settlement Society from Chicago, Feb 1857, Eudora, Kansas, United States.

• Bought back: the odd-numbered lots of at least three blocks between the Kaw and Wakarusa rivers, Feb 1857.

• Moved: From Eudora to Indian Territory near Miami, Oklahoma, 1870, Miami, Oklahoma.

iii. Eudora Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step ) was born about 1848, died in 1877 in LaCygne, Kansas, United States about age 29, and was buried in 1877 in Huron Indian Cemetery, Wyandotte, Kansas, United States.

Paschal next married Mary Ann Steele. Another name for Mary is Mary Ann McLane.

Research Notes: http://www.shawnee-traditions.com/Names-7.html gives name of Paschal Fish's first wife as Mary Ann Steele (widow?), Metis, and states she was the mother of Leander.

Mary married Chief Paschal "Pas-Cal-We" Fish. Paschal was born in 1809 in Shawnee Tribe, Kansas Territory, Kansas and died in 1894 in Baxter Springs, Kansas, United States at age 85. Another name for Paschal was Paschal Jackson.

68. William Henry Carnal was born on 3 Mar 1831, died on 11 Feb 1889 at age 57, and was buried in Seneca, Newton, Missouri, United States.

William married Clara Jane Bottom. Clara died in Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States.

34 i. Solomon Madison Carnal (born on 20 Jan 1872 in Bolivier, Saint Clair, Franklin, Missouri, United States - died on 20 Dec 1956 in Picher, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

Clara married William Henry Carnal. William was born on 3 Mar 1831, died on 11 Feb 1889 at age 57, and was buried in Seneca, Newton, Missouri, United States.

70. A. A. Thomas was born near Little York, Washington, Indiana, United States.

A. married Minta Dobbs on 15 Apr 1883. Minta was born on 9 Feb 1860 in McDonald Co., Missouri, United States.

35 i. Hattie Eudora Thomas (born on 25 Feb 1884 - died on 11 Feb 1927, buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

71. Minta Dobbs was born on 9 Feb 1860 in McDonald Co., Missouri, United States.

Minta married A. A. Thomas on 15 Apr 1883. A. was born near Little York, Washington, Indiana, United States.

38 i. Daniel Wesley Switzer (born on 11 Jun 1872 in [Germany] - died on 26 May 1951 in Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States)

Eighth Generation

128. William Jackson "Captain" Fish, son of Chief Black Fish and Watmeme, was born about 1760 and died in 1833 about age 73.

Research Notes: From Historic Shawnee Names of the 1700s - http://www.shawnee-traditions.com/Names-7.html

"Fish aka William Jackson - Adopted-white born about 1760-died 1833 - adopted son of Black Fish before 1778, raiding Ohio River valley 1788, Little Turtle War, move to MO 1828, husband 1^st about 1780 of Elizabeth Bishop-white, 2^nd about 1789 of Shawnee Woman, 3^rd 1798 of Polly Rogers-1/2 Shawnee Metis (granddaughter of Black Fish), father with Shawnee Woman of Arch/90, Pascal/92, Isaac/94, Andrew/95, Jesse/96-all 1/2 Shawnee Metis, no children of record with Elizabeth, with Polly of Elizabeth Nakease/98, John/99, William Jr/1800-all 1/4^th Shawnee Metis"

See notes under Joseph Jackson. It is unlikely that the Joseph Jackson captured by the Shawnee with Daniel Boone in 1778 was this William Jackson's father since records show William adopted by the Shawnee before that Joseph was captured.

From http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2458.html

William Jackson was an adopted captive who lived with the Shawnees. After the treaty of Greenville, life became difficult for William Jackson and the other whites living red. Traders hooked a large proportion of the red population on alcohol created a sub-nation of alcoholics and therefore demanded furs for whiskey. The land was already over-hunted by both reds and whites, and game became even more scarce. Those with eyes clear enough to see what was happening were disgusted by the general discenegration of red society and were ripe for the political movement of Prophet when it came along. During this time, many of the whites living red despaired and like George Ash, Bill Cunningham, Christopher Miller, and many others, they tried to come back to live with their white relatives. One of these was William Jackson. But he soon felt too uncomfortable among the whites and went back to the Shawnees. William Jackson's Shawnee name was Fish, and he became the leader of a band of Shawnees that became known as the Fish Band.

The missionary Isaac McCoy wrote that he tried to convince Capt. Cornstalk and Capt. William Perry, the Shawnee Chiefs, to agree to the establishment of a mission school among them. McCoy says that they replied negatively, saying that "they felt little desire for schools and still less to hear preaching."

However, McCoy made a deal with " a white man by the name of Fish, who had lived with the Shawnees from a small boy and was in all respects identified with them, had become a principal of a clan which had lived many years in the state of Missouri and was a good deal civilized."

See McCoy, p. 404 George Vashon, the indian agent, wrote of his approval for the mission at the request of Fish, who was also called William Jackson, a white man raised with the Shawnees...Fish, the Shawnee chief, has a son by the name of Paschal who was put to school when he was a boy. He can speak English very well. He is a sober, steady, moral, good man. He had an Indian family and is industrously employed in farming..."

Fish aka William Jackson - Adopted-white born about 1760-died 1833 - adopted son of Black Fish before 1778, raiding Ohio River valley 1788, Little Turtle War, move to MO 1828,
husband 1st about 1780 of Elizabeth Bishop-white, no issue
2nd about 1789 of Shawnee Woman, Arch/90, Pascal/92, Isaac/94, Andrew/95, Jesse/96-all 1/2 Shawnee Metis
3rd 1798 of Polly Rogers-1/2 Shawnee Metis (granddaughter of Black Fish), issue: Elizabeth Nakease/98, John/99, William Jr/1800-all 1/4th Shawnee Metis

Footnotes
Richard Pangburn, Indian Blood-Finding your Native American Ancestor, Vol. I [206 <grpbib9.html>] (Butler Books, Louiville, Kentucky).
see notes.

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From Kansas State Historical Society
Letter 13 Jan 1831 from Richard W. Cummins, U.S. Ind. Agt., Delaware & Shawnee Agency to William Clark, S.I.A., St. Louis:
"Chiefs of Fish's or Jackson's band of Shawnees have agreed to allow a school to be started. Revd. Mr. McAllister & Thomas Johnson hope to have school in operation early in spring."

William next married Polly Rogers about 1798, daughter of Captain Henry Rogers and Chelatha Blackfish. Polly died 1848 or 1849 in Pottawatomie mission, Kansas (?). Another name for Polly was Martha Rogers.

Marriage Notes: One source has m. abt 1800, another has abt 1798. Probably makes a difference in which were her children.

ii. Charles "Sa-La-Ne-Weh" Fish was born in 1815 in Shawnee Tribe, Kansas Territory, Kansas and died on 27 Dec 1866 at age 51.

iii. Andrew Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step )

iv. Arch Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step )

v. Elizabeth Nakease Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

vi. Isaac Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step )

viii. John Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

ix. William Fish Jr. (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

x. Jesse Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

ii. Arch Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

iii. Isaac Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

iv. Andrew Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Step )

v. Jesse Fish (Relationship to Father: Biological, Relationship to Mother:Biological )

Ninth Generation

256. Chief Black Fish was born in 1725 and died on 12 Oct 1779 in Chillicothe, Shawnee territory at age 54. Other names for Black were Chief Blackfish, Chiungulla "Black Fish," Cot-ta-wa-ma-go, Chinugalla Blackfish, Mkah-day-way-may-qua, and Pah-e-a-ta-hea-se-ka Chinugalla.

Research Notes: Shawnee, war chief of the Chillicothe division of the Shawnee tribe.

Source: http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2433.html?200821

From Wikipedia - Chief Blackfish :

Blackfish (c. 1729 -1779 ), known in his native tongue as Cot-ta-wa-ma-go or Mkah-day-way-may-qua, was a Native American leader, war chief of the Chillicothe division of the Shawnee tribe. Little is known about him, since he only appears in written historical records during the last three years of his life, primarily because of his interactions with the famous American frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton .
When the Shawnees were defeated by Virginia in Dunmore's War in 1774, the resulting peace treaty made the Ohio River the boundary between western Virginia (what is now Kentucky and West Virginia ) and American Indian lands in the Ohio Country . Although this treaty was agreed to by Shawnee leaders such as Cornstalk , Blackfish and a number of other leaders refused to acknowledge the loss of their traditional hunting grounds in Kentucky.
Violence along the border escalated with the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War in 1775. As a result, the Chillicothe Shawnees moved their town on the Scioto River further west to the Little Miami River , near what is now Xenia, Ohio . Encouraged and supplied by British officials in Detroit , Blackfish and others launched raids against American settlers in Kentucky, hoping to drive them out of the region. In revenge for the murder of Cornstalk by American militiamen in November 1777, Blackfish set out on an unexpected winter raid in Kentucky, capturing American frontiersman Daniel Boone and a number of others on the Licking River on February 7 , 1778 . Boone, respected by the Shawnees for his extraordinary hunting skills, was taken back to Chillicothe and adopted into the tribe. The traditional tale is that Boone was adopted by Blackfish himself, although historian John Sugden suggests that Boone was probably adopted by another family.
Boone escaped in June 1778 when he learned that Blackfish was launching a siege of the Kentucky settlement of Boonesborough , which commenced in September of that year. The siege of Boonesborough was unsuccessful, and the Kentuckians, led by Colonel John Bowman , counterattacked Chillicothe the following spring. This raid was also unsuccessful, but Blackfish was shot in the leg, a wound which became infected and was eventually fatal.

References
Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Holt, 1992.
Lofaro, Michael. Daniel Boone: An American Life. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.
Sugden, John. "Blackfish" in American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Black married Watmeme by 1745. Watmeme was born in 1730 and died in 1797 in Missouri at age 67.

iii. Young Blackfish was born in 1750 and died after 1794. Another name for Young was Young Black Fish.

v. Lemateshe Blackfish was born in 1765 and died in 1800 at age 35. Another name for Lemateshe was Lamateshe-Launateshe-Auqualanaux Blackfish.

vii. Stephen "Big Fish" Ruddell was born in 1768 and died after 1807. Other names for Stephen were Big Fish Ruddell, Sinnanatha Ruddell, and Stephen "Sinnanatha" Ruddell.

Research Notes: Shawnee

Source: http://www.geocities.com/sam_cook_53/grpf2433.html?200821 -

WATMEME:

Notes:
Blackfish, Watmeme- born about 1730-died about 1797 MO
- wife by 1745 of Black Fish/25,
mother of Chinwa/45,
Young Black Fish/50,
Parlie/55,
Pimegeezhigoqua/59,
Black Fish Jr/60,
Chelatha/61,
Lematashe/65,
adopted mother & mother in law of Capt. Joseph Dusquene/50-Chippewa Metis,
Henry Rogers/55-white &
Lewis Rogers/50-white,
adopted mother of William Jackson/60-white &
Stephen Ruddell/68-white,
moved to MO about 1779 with adopted son Stephen Ruddell aka Big Fish

Watmeme married Chief Black Fish by 1745. Black was born in 1725 and died on 12 Oct 1779 in Chillicothe, Shawnee territory at age 54. Other names for Black were Chief Blackfish, Chiungulla "Black Fish," Cot-ta-wa-ma-go, Chinugalla Blackfish, Mkah-day-way-may-qua, and Pah-e-a-ta-hea-se-ka Chinugalla.

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