Captain “Me-ta-ke-ke-ah” Dixon
| Birth | : | 1807 |
| Death | : | 1839 |
| Burial | : | Saint Joseph's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Corunna, Lambton County, Canada |
| Coordinate | : | 42.8904130, -82.4547900 |
| Description | : | Son of Son of Me-to-cin-yah Was killed by a hit to the head with a hoe when he had gotten into a fight with a Pottawatomie Indian. |
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Latitude: 42.8904130
Longitude: -82.4547900
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Left by Anonymous on 17 May 2011
Historic Info: Girls Stolen by Indians. A year or two before the war of 1812, two little girls were stolen from Harrison township by Indians. One was named Tharp and the other Harper. The incidents connected with this affair were related by Mr. G. D. Hendricks, January 18, 1885, at which time he was a resident of Hiawatha, Kansas. Wife of an Indian Chief,—Years rolled on without any tidings of the daughter of Mr. Tharp until about the year 1837 or 1838, when he received word from a friend and Indian trader, that the wife of an Indian chief, named Captain Dixon, was a white woman. Dixon was a younger brother of the Miniui chief Shinglemacy, whose Indian name was Meto-Sina. This tribe was on their Reservation, a few miles below where Marion, Grant County, Indiana, is located. The fond father sped his way to the vicinity of the village, and called on my brother, William E. Hendricks, who had a traditional knowledge of the abduction of the Tharp and Harper children. As his farm was adjoining the Reservation, and he knew personally Captain Dixon and the tribe generally, the meeting of father and daughter was at my brother's house. Refused to leave—The result of the conference was disheartening to the father; for this child of misfortune persistently refused to leave her Indian home, arguing that with the whites she would be an object of sport or ridicule, on account of her Indian habits and training, and was too old to learn the habits and customs of civilized life: and. in fact, she had but a faint recollection of her childhood home and kindred. The meeting and parting, as described by my nephew, were heartrending to the bereaved father; and the more so, because of the cold indifference of his alienated daughter, who, in a few yean after, committed suicide, by drowning, at " Hog-back," in the Mississinewa, four miles below the village, because her liege lord returned home from a drunken spree with another wife. Captain Dixon, though a fair scholar, and speaking good English, was a drunken desperado, as were two of his brothers, who were killed at an Indian powwow, by a Pottawatomie brave; his oldest brother, Meto-Sina, was temperate. Read less
Left by Anonymous on 19 Apr 2013
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Coordinate: 42.8904130, -82.4547900
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