Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Last names beginning with W

Capt. Samuel Walker, Texas Rangers; currently unknown
Washakie {Shoshoni}; US Army scout; currently unknown
Stand Watie {Cherokee}; died 9 September 1871; currently unknown
Ella 'Cattle Kate' Watson; currently unknown
John Wayne; died of natural causes; currently unknown
Daniel B. Wesson; currently unknown
Oliver F. Winchester; currently unknown
Charles Windolph, Seventh Cavalry; last Army survivor of the Little Big Horn, where he won the Medal of Honor; currently unknown
Chief Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 21 October 1882; currently unknown
Sarah Winnemucca {Northern Paiute}; died 16 October 1891; currently unknown
Howling Wolf {Cheyenne}; died 2 June 1927; currently unknown
Long Wolf {Lakota}, survior of the Battle of the Greasy Grass {Little Big Horn}, veteran of Col. Cody's Wild West Show; died of pneumonia. 11 June 1892; buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, England; disinterred and reburied in Wolf Creek Cemetery, Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Yellow Wolf {Nez Perce}; died 21 August 1935; currently unknown
Robert M. Wright, founder of Dodge City, Kansas; currently unknown

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