Here is what "little" bit I have on Sleepy Eyes and his descendants:
Jean Baptiste Marcotte (1720-1783) born Michigan NWT married
Marie Misignon "Nekesh" an Ottowa Indian, (1740-1790) Lake Michigan NWT. They had two daughters:
1.
Therese Marcotte, b. 1735
2.
Madeline Marcotte, b. 1780 and d. 4 Apr 1846, Mackinac Island
Madeline married
Joseph LaFramboise, b. 1765 Michigan NWT and d. Fall 1806, Grand River Post. They had:
1.
Josette LaFramboise, b. 1795 and d. 1820. Josette married
Capt Benjamin Kendrick Pierce, b. 29 Aug 1790, Hillsborough, N.H. and d. 1 Aug 1850. His parents were Benjamin Pierce (1757-1839) and Elizabeth Merrill (1727-1764). Their son,
Franklin Pierce would become President of the United States.
Josette and Benjamin Pierce would have two children; one son that did not survive his first birthday and that Josette died from giving birth.
1.
Harriet Pierce, b. abt 1818, Michigan NWT. I do not know much of Harriet except that her grandmother,
Madeline Marcotte raised her and sent her away to school in Canada.
Joseph LaFramboise Madeline Marcotte-LaFramboise had Joseph LaFramboise, b. 1805, Grand River Post and d. abt 1856, Minnesota Territory.
Joseph married 1st--Magdeleine Sleepy Eyes, born abt 1810, Dakota-Minnesota Territory. She was the daughter of
Chief Sleepy Eyes (abt 1785) and unknown mother/wife.
Their children were:
1.
Francis LaFramboise2.
Joseph Jr. LaFrambosie, (1828-1910)
2nd Wife was also daughter of Chief Sleepy Eyes and they had
Jennie LaFramboise: (I have found two possible names for Jennie's mother. 1. On the 1887 S.R. ICS, a Mother-In-Law is listed as
Oncagesapiwin, b. 1817. And, on the 1891, S.R. ICS, another Mother-in-Law,
Winonpaska "White Head", b. no date.)
1.
Jennie LaFramboise, b. abt 1850. She married
Antoine "Atonwan-Looks At" Claymore (1851-1930). He was the son of
Bazille Jacque Marie Clement-Claymore ( 7 Jan 1824, St Louis, MO - 23 Nov 1910, Ridgeview, S.D.).
Bazille's parents were
Antoine Clement, b. abt 1765 and
Marie Louise Lisette Dumont, 14 Nov 1790, St Louis, MO -- Nov 1848, St. Charles, MO.
and
Mary "White Woman" Sarpy, abt 1832, Old Ft Pierre - 9 May 1892, Dewey, S.D.
Mary's parents were;
Thomas Lestang Sarpy, b. 7 Mar 1810, St Louis, MO and d. 19 Jan 1832, Oglala Trading Post, Rapid Creek, Dakota and
Her Good Road "TaCankuWasteWin", b. abt 1811.
After Thomas Sarpy's untimely death
TaCankuWasteWin married
Joseph "Turkey Head" Lewis and they were the parents of
Martin "WaAnatan" Charger.
Jennie LaFramboise and Antoine Clement/Claymore had the following children:
1.
Matilda Claymore, b. 1883
2.
Joseph Claymore, b. 1887
3.
Louise Claymore, b. 1890
4.
Antoine Claymore[/b], b. 1894
5.
Paul Claymore, b. 1894 (twins?). He married Rose Gayton, b. 1893
Joseph's 3rd wife was Jane Dickson, b. abt 1822, Pembina, Dakota. She was the daughter of
William Dickson and unknown mother.
William Dickson was the mixed blood son of
Col. Robert Dickson the British Agent in the west during the War of 1812.
William's mother was the sister of The Beaver, also known by his Indian name, Shoppa, the most notable chief of the Cuthead band of Yanktonais. William, at the time of this writing, was conducting a winter camp at Armadale, Spink county. He had assisted his father in the English service during the War of 1812 and in 1817 was still upon the British pay roll. In 1821 he was trading on Lake Traverse and from there wrote a letter in French, showing he was thoroughly educated.
He went to Washington in 1824 (was interpreter for Chief Sleepy Eyes) as interpreter for a delegation of Sioux, and soon after entered the employ of the American Fur Company at various posts along the James river, first being at the old post on the Elm river near Frederick, which was abandoned before 1828, then at Armadale, and finally on the Nebraska shore of the Missouri opposite the mouth of James river, where he was in 1838, and where he committed suicide a few months later. Upon the James river posts and Dickson's connection with them, I was very, fully informed by
Joseph LaFrambois and Solomon Two Stars, Sissetons, who visited me in Sioux Falls in 1901. See Vol. 24, Western Travels, p. 96.
Many of William Dickson's descendants and relatives are still in South Dakota, some of them being persons of high character and business and social prominence. Source: South Dakota Historical Collections, V. IX
Robert Dickson, father of Wm Dickson, married Istatotowin/Totowin, daughter of Red Thunder I, b. 1740-1822 and unknown Wahpeton.Red Thunder I, was probably the Red Thunder with Col. Robert Dickson at the siege of Ft.Meigs in 1813 and also probably the father-in-law of
Robert Dickson (Mascotapah or Red Haired Man) whose wife was Helen Totowin (b.abt.1781 near Big Stone Lake). She was referred to as the sister of Red Thunder/Wekinyanduta, Chief of the Cut-Head band of Yankton. (reference to her father's name as Wanoti - head Yankton Chief). Robert Dickson was the British trader that Pike met on his expedition up the Mississippi River who at that time had both Ojibwe territory posts & Dakota territory posts and no doubt supplied Pike with some of his tribal information.Red Thunder II was born about 1770 in the area of Big Stone Lake (Minnesota or North Dakota) & probably died before 1825. Wannata/Charger in 1822 became Chief of the Yankton and/or the Sisseton on the west shore of Lac Traverse upon the death of Red Thunder [he was said to have been related to Gabriel Renville & a cousin to Tatankamanazin (Standing Buffalo)]. He may have been a son of Red Thunder II and was born about 1795. Red Thunder. A chief of the Pabaksa or Cuthead band of Yanktonai Sioux in the early part of the 19th century; also known as Shappa, the Beaver. Lieut. Z. M. Pike saw him at the great council at Prairie du Chien, Wis., in Apr. 1806, and pronounced him the most gorgeously dressed of any chief he met. With his famous son Waneta he enlisted with the British in the War of 1812, and fought at Ft Meigs and at Sandusky, Ohio. He was killed under tragic circumstances by the Chippewa on Red River of the North in 1823.
Col. Robert Dickson, the British agent in the west during 1812-15, married a sister of Red Thunder. Waneta ('The Charger') A Yanktonai Sioux of the Pabaksa or Cuthead band, son of Shappa or Red Thunder. Born on Elm River in the present Brown County, South Dakota about 1795. He enlisted with his father in the English service in the War of 1812, and fought valiantly at Ft. Meigs and Sandusky, winning his name by his bravery in charging the Americans in the open, and being seriously wounded in the battle at the latter place. After the war he was given a captain's commission by the British, and visited England. He continued to sympathize with the British until 1820, when he attempted to destroy Ft. Snelling by stealth, but being thwarted in his enterprise by Col. Snelling, he afterward heartily supported American interests. Waneta was a dominate chief of the Sioux and exceedingly active in his operations. He signed the treaty of trade and intercourse at Ft. Pierre, July5, 1825 and on Aug. 17 of the same year signed the treaty of Prairie du Chien which fixed the boundaries of the Sioux territory.
T Robert Dickson, a native of Dumfreshire, Scotland, came to America immediately after the Revolutionary war and engaged in the Indian trade In the northwest.
He married a Cuthead Yanktonaise woman, sister of Red Thunder, chief of that tribe and an aunt of Waneta, the famous chief. During the war of 1812 Dickson was the agent of the British government in the northwest and clothed with vast power. He lost his fortune in that war and afterwards engaged in trade at Lake Traverse.
SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS ILLUSTRATED WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS COMPILED BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME IV 1908
The following is typed as was originally written. Blue insertions are mine.
DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT DICKSON (1924)
Prepared by the Reverend Alfred N. Coe, Pukwana, South Dakota
Robert Dickson, a native of Scotland, married To-to-win, a Wah-pe-ton-wan Sioux,
daughter of Red Thunder I (who was named Helen Dickson later in English) and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren are as follows:
1. Thomas, the oldest child, was accidentally killed at Fort Union, North Dakota. He never married.
2. Helen, the second child, married Joseph R. Brown
(Indian Agent, Birch Cooley). Their only son died. She was later separated from Mr. Brown and married Moses Arconge, a French Canadia. Their son, Walter, married a niece of Strike-the-Ree,
(Struck by the Ree) late chief of the Yankton Sioux.
(Fannie TaSina-Her Shawl/Blanket) Two daughters of Walter, Victoria Simmons
(married David Simmons brother of Zitkala Sa', Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin) and Agnes Fredrick
(Henry Frederick), reside with their families near Greenwood, South Dakota. His son Theodore has two daughters living.
Helen's daughter, Elizabeth, married Charles Wombole and hasone daughter living in Oakland, California.
Moses Arconge and his wife died in 1884; Elizabeth, in 1879; and Walter, in 1893.
3. William, the third child, married a part-Ojibway woman in Minnesota. His daughter by this marriage
(Jane Dickson) married a
(Joseph) La Fromboise, and two of their daughters married Blakes near St. Paul.
LaFramboise Children:
1. Alexis LaFramboise
2. Julia Ann
3. Justin
4. William L.
5. Tistena
6. Eliza "Lizza"
William then married a Yankton Sioux
(Manitaninwin - Appears Walking Woman)wile engaged in the fur trade on the Missouri. His daughter by this marriage
(Louisa Dickson) married
William Bean (Chief Blue Cloud)and their children live on the Yankton reservation near Greenwood, South Dakota.
Chief Blue Cloud's Children:
1. Susan Bean
2. William Jr Bean m. Fannie A
3. Alma Bean--m. John GraycaneLouisa Dickson later married John Collins, b. 1842 in New York and had two children; Cora and Eliza Jane Collins.4. Mary, the youngest child, married Henry Ange, (
parents were Pelagie Wapahasha, daughter of Wapahasha II 'Red Leaf, and Augustin Lefebvre Angers) a part-blood of the Santee Sioux, nephew of
(Chief )Wabasha. Their children were: Victoria Brazeau, Harriet L. Ange, who was a cripple and died at the age of seventy, Mary Van Meter, Nicholas Ange, Josette Coe Renville, Thomas Ange, Helen Williams, and Matilda Lyman
(Max Lyman, son of Elizabeth Iana and Wm P Lyman and grandson of Chief Struck by the Ree). All are dead but Matilda, who lives at Greenwood, South Dakota.
Victoria and Harriet had no children. Mary Van Meter has three daughters and two sons: Viola Bently, Jane E. Waldron, Alvira Oakes, John T. Van Meter, and Charles Luther Van Meter.
Josette had one son, Reverend Alfred N. Coe, who has one daughter, Josette, and one son, Robert Dickson Coe.
Thomas had three sons Silas, Howard, and Henry, all of whom live in Greenwood.
Helen Williams had three daughters, Lily Folster, Maud Smith, and Olive Claymore; also three sons, Forest, Luther, and Chauncy, all of whom reside on the Cheyenne River reservation.
Matilda lives at Greenwood, South Dakota. She has two daughters, Clara Uken, and Viola Picotte.
Interesting note: Viola Lyman, great granddaughter of Struck by the Ree, married Jesse Gabriel Picotte, grand nephew of Struck by the Ree. Jesse's parents were Charles F. Picotte, nephew of Struck by the Ree, and Louisa Benoist. Two other Picotte boys married daughters of Chief Iron Eyes.Charles F. Picotte is my great-great Uncle and his father Honore Picotte married sister of Struck by the Ree and Matilda Picotte Galpin daughter of Chief Two Lance. Charles wife's sister, Julia Benoist married my great-grandfather, A.C. Smith also a nephew of Struck by the Ree. My grandfather married, Dorothy Ruth Cote, great-great granddaughter of Chief War Eagle. Just thought this was interesting.
The gene pool gets very small when the reservations came about.
Not much on Sleepy Eyes but this was the best I could do on what I have on how we are all connected.
CHIEF SLEEPY EYES BY ROBERT BIRD KING
img709.imageshack.us/img709/6400/chiefsleepyeyescharlesb.jpgCHIEF WANATA
img709.imageshack.us/img709/495/wanata.jpgROBERT DICKSON
img109.imageshack.us/img109/4156/robtdickson.jpg1700s MAP OF NWT GREAT LAKES
img109.imageshack.us/img109/338/1700mapmichwisconsinmin.jpgMADELINE MARCOTTE-LAFRAMBOISE
img682.imageshack.us/img682/8831/madelinelaframboiseimag.jpgMADELINE MARCOTTE-LA FRAMBOISE HOME ON MACKINAC IS
img682.imageshack.us/img682/944/mackinacislandmadelinel.jpgMARY AUNGIE
img163.imageshack.us/img163/2160/maryaungie4.jpgARTHUR CHARLES VAN METER
img163.imageshack.us/img163/1193/arthurcharlesvanmetre18.jpgAgnes Arconge Frederick, Henry Frederick, Mary and Fred Frederick
img706.imageshack.us/img706/4974/agnesafrederickandhenry.jpgChief Blue Cloud, Wm Bean
img685.imageshack.us/img685/8797/williambeanchiefblueclo.jpgThat all folks!!!
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Information Below is by me, Hermin1:
I am familiar with the descendents of the the Provencalles, but how are the Marcottes related to Sleepy Eye?
We had a discussion a couple years ago re. the Dicksons. Jane and Louisa Dickson were siblings.Their father William Dickson was married twice, according to Scararm(of Oyate)., and this has been confirmed. William Dickson committed suicide, according to Mr. Larpentier(Forty Years A Fur Trader) and other references.
One of the Dickson girls married An Aunge(I don't have my files handy, but my photographic memory is working, but exhausted after an all night session with a 'Sick' computer ).
Additional Information:
Louisa Dickson-Bluecloud then married John Collins, who had been married before to Mary DeLodge(Ponca) and had a daughter Julia . Julia then married Samuel Wolfe of Santee and they had a slew of daughters and a son.(Santee Marriage Register, Santee Indian Censuses 1869,1874,1884-1914).
Louisa Dickson-Blue Cloud and John Collins had a daughter Cora.
References:yankton Indian Censuses 1886-1920, Personal Memorandum Rev. J.P. Williamson by Alfred Coe).
