Show ami itawamba Ita t axvall Ix wamba vall ba 5 in our search scar 1 after tho the origin of liani named cs many events abc brought to light it was not a great while ago ago that the C chickasaws hicka saws pur rued filed th alic C wild game of the solitudes of 30 1 them missi mississippi i undisturbed among them all tradition gi gives ves no more ecamp examples es than those of tishomingo Tish the hospitable effi king t of the chickasaw nation and his fair dati daughter liter itawamba Ita wamba in the 1815 6 1 a lawsuit was pending in one of the high 1 coul conits ts of georgia by which tile the title to a laigo estate then under investigation depended entil entirely ely upon an absent witness who had i it was found removed to fort pickering a fortified station on oil the mississippi liver the testimony of this witness was of tile the utmost importance to secure the property pio plo perty to the rightful own ei ci and although tile journey was a one of many weeks ab erico yet the value of the pro property penty in Jeo jeopardy dustir justified jed it so lie lic set out on horseback hoi after affer taking leave of his family the defendant a man mail of wealth and an intriguing 0 and craf crafty ty designer Ica ining the alie absen of liis his opponent and aware of tile the nature of liis his errand determined mined to pi event liis his lequin and thereby to himself tile the ownership of the much coveted possession lie ile found a worthy tool in hi liis 3 overseer a minion at ins his command who dundei took by the pi promise of a large d to follow to tile deith tile unsuspecting t victim tile lined assassin over overtook overcool tool tile the cuto r at an all inn kept by in an indian in cotton gm gin a small asdall village now called cotton to gin about forty miles south of corinth mississippi on oil tile mobile aud and ohio railroad raili oad the following morning the two set ont together and in clot ci casing a sw swollen oliell stream the fai foid d of which was difficult the prosecutors prosecutor Is lio 60 became ent intang led in some driftwood and while lie was htiu t eggl in g to extricate himself the cluid ei tor assailed him with a large lub club c and left 1111 stiff on oil the bank while lie ile cut tile horses tallo tin oata if and left lihn to bo be floated down tho the stream lie then extracted all papers and let aels aiom tile pockets of the prostrate prof man beat most desperately the life less frame and cast it into tile the stream V himself with tile the thought that none oo 00 but indians could possibly find tile tho remains aud and they would suppose sil P tile the hoise hot so and rider wore were drowned in tile effort to to cross tile the dangerous stream lie lic then mounted liis his horse and pin pill sued sited liis his journey tile the body of tile the mangled man after drifting a short distance dista Uce became entangled angled in some clift near no ar tile the bank and a in this situation was soon after won pvc iva of chickasaws Chicha saws on oil their way to cutton cotton gin they diew the body front from tile the mud hnud and discovered rat signs of life evely restorative estora tive by savage ili instinct was applied and strange to tell full tile the man mail was to animation but bill not to consciousness ness 7 tile the blows upon tile skull had the brain it now became a question ques with tile indians how to dishos of tile helpless man inan they fc a 1 LA if lie ho should die while in then their handa lit anda that lt they would be considered con ins his Inui dereis by tile lie white men in tile the territory ferritor y around them finally they re resolved to take hin him to their chief I 1 b wilo lived not far from the alc plc town of the old king illg received him kindly gave a him a co ouch couch of skins and corn committed bitted him ill to tile care of liis his daup daughter liter ita wamba aho toli dellY nu mused t i sed him mic hie bathed in Ulle unctuous tous herbs the festog ing wounds wound and bandaged band agod the swollen 0 it limbs I 1 and all d for months waited kindly al and id patiently upon poll tile invalid i alv alid win t tt r olied lulled away skiing spi ing came and with it to tile the mind of f the poor sufferer r As a dream lie ho lemeel clod pecking the tho overseer liia his journey with liim him for twelve mi miles cs the angry that crossed liis his way then the blow the fall the dai dail kness ness all else was blank his anxiety to return to his family increased with his health the good old indian king sent him to cotton gin whole he found a newspaper containing in an advertisement of his estate for sale signed by his wife adminis travix tra without delay lie set out for georgia and just in time to prevent the marriage of his widow ile he lived many years after ilia his return but was never the same business man lie ho was before the acci accident dent his murderer haunted by a guilty conscience went to foit picketing and committed suicide by jumping into the mississippi in 1836 when tho the country that lay in the northwest coition of tile the chickasaw purchase WAS marked off into counties and it became the dut duty y of the legislative assembly to sele select ct names for the now new counties a gentleman one of that body conversant with the above facts proposed tishomingo Tish and Tta wamba for two of them in compliment to the charitable chief aud and liis his faithful dau daughter g lite r historical tamazine Ta nazine |