Bio: Marden Family Indian Heritage

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Marden, Wastlick, Roberts, Williams, Rizor

----Source: Jo Wastlick, Gresham, Oregon Scrapbook, The Album of Judy (Marden) Hansen

(THE INFORMATION ENCLOSED IS FROM JOE WASTLICK OF GRESHAM, OREGON. HER GRANDMOTHER, CAROLINE, WILLIAMS ROBERTS WAS ALSO A DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AND DARCUS WILLIAMS)

It was George Williams who was 1/2 Delaware Indian, not his mother. She was taken when 15 years old in 1808 in Western Pennsylvania as she went to the spring for water.

 

Family Pages From Darcus Williams' Bible

 

THIS IS THE STORY


In this Indian Tribe of the Delaware, the young chief must prove himself by some act of daring or bravery. In spite of her struggles he carried her on his pony all thru the night. In the morning they came to the Indian Village. He took her to his parent's lodge. His Indian name was "THE EAGLE." The other Indians understood she belonged to him as much as his horse or dog.

Sarah was given the Indian name of "WHITE FAWN," treated as a good omen, they were kind and she wasn't required to work as the other squaws. She dressed in buckskin – nearly white. White Fawn learned to use the herbs and roots from the medicine man. Three summers went by. In corn planting time all the young Indians paired off and married in one large ceremony. An Indian brave would have a lodge ready and proposed to the girl of his choice by tying his best pony in front of her teepee. If she was will, she took the pony back to his lodge; and so it was, White Fawn, who had long given up hope of ever returning to her parents, accepted the Eagle as her husband. He kept an older squaw to do the hard work.

The next spring a boy was born to White Fawn and the Eagle. Sarah (his mother) always called him Goerge, in memory of her brother. His Indian name was "Running Deer." When George was nine years old, his father (The Eagle) was killed in a hunting accident. The tribe then didn't want Running Deer to become chief. They didn't want White Fawn or Running Deer. They didn't want Running Deer because of the white skin of his mother and black eyes of his father.

The Indians took Sarah and George back to where she was stolen, nearly 13 years earlier. Two young braves put them on ponies and went with them, as it was a long day's ride, afterwards approximated to be 60 miles. When nearly there, the Indians sent Sarah and George on alone. They were lucky, as Sarah's parents were still there. They had given Sarah up for dead years ago. She never married again. George grew to be 6 feet, 2 inches tall and about 250 pounds, a very large man for that time.

George later went to Ohio and married Darcus Rizor. Soon after the Civil War the Civil War they came to Wisconsin. They had 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy. Who showed more Indian blood than their father. The old Williams home is Section 23, township of Willow, Richland Co., Wisconsin. In Smith Hollow, George and Darcus are buried in Lloyd Cemetery, 6 – 8 miles northwest of Ithaca, Wisconsin. Charlotte William, daughter of above, was married to our grandfather, William Henry Marden.

 

George and Darcus (Rizor) Williams

 

Back Row, left to right: Orin William, Nancy Ellen (Williams) Frey, Ida (Williams) Frey, Darius, Darcus (Williams) Fry

 

Middle Row: Arthur Williams, Bennie Williams

 

Front Row: John Williams, Nancy Williams, Jackson Williams, Mary (Williams) Osborn,

George Williams [1] [2] [3]


 

 


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