![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyf7ekC2w31qakblyo1_500.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.
![On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyf7ekC2w31qakblyo1_1280.png)
On This Day in Pittsburgh History: January 28, 1797
Red Pole, great Shawnee Indian chief, died at Pittsburgh and was buried in Trinity churchyard. [Historic Pittsburgh]
In 2008, Pittsburgh City Paper editor Chris Potter inquired about the gravesite.“There’s good reason to believe that Red Pole is still buried beside the church. For one thing, he was an ally of the settlers, buried with full military honors.” He was too well-known to have had his gravesite moved without the public and local press finding out. Another reason, an archivist for the Episcopalian Diocese of Pittsburgh says, is that he is not buried in a place “where his grave was in the way of anything.”
The picture above and caption below reference Red Pole, who fell ill traveling to Philadelphia to sign a peace treaty with President George Washington, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 9, 1963:
CHIEF RED POLE was buried at Trinity after he died while on a business trip to Pittsburgh.
The U.S. Secretary of War ordered a tombstone erected in the Chief’s memory, a tribute to his “pacification of certain of the Indian tribes.” The headstone says Red Pole is “lamented by the United States.”
[William] Mitchell, who has been associated with the church since 1913, told how the late motion picture director, Cecil B. Demille, once brought a so-called Indian princess to the grave site as a promotion stunt for his movie, “The Unconquered,” starring Gary Cooper.
“They took pictures next to the Chief’s grave,” Mitchell said.
When Red Pole became sick in 1797, Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, the city’s first physician, treated him. Bedford’s grave is a few feet from that of Red Pole.
