Noble Prentiss (Arapaho)
Born:
Blood Quantum: full
Parents: both deceased
Address given: Cheyenne Arapaho Agency, c/o White Arm.
Arrived CIIS: 8/31/1882
Departed CIIS: 7/23/1892
Age at arrival: 12
Other info: he was 57 inches tall at arrival, weighed 75 lbs,
married Julia Bent.
Julia Bent (cheyenne)
Born:
Blood Quantum: 3/4
Parents: George Bent, mother living
Address given: Cheyenne Arapaho Agency
Arrived CIIS: 9/6/1880
Departed CIIS: 7/5/1893
Age at arrival: 9
Other info: entered carlisle w/8 mos schooling;graduated
class of 1890; graduated Shippensburg Normal School 1893; Married
Noble Prentiss, briefly served as assistant matron at Arapaho school, also
worked as interpreter for Baptist Church at Darlington, interpreted camp
council meetings; and traveled to interpret at camp meetings.
NEWSPAPER REFERENCES:
Chas. Redmore, Alex. Manabove, Loomis Smith and Noble Prentiss
visited camp on Sunday while Ocoyame and Johnson Webster paid the school
a visit the same day.
August 19, 1887 INDIAN HELPER
Twenty-seven Cheyennes and Arapahoes arrived very early Monday morning,
in charge of Mr. T. W. Potter, of Cheyenne Agency. In the party were Kish
Hawkins, Tom Carlisle, Sam Noble and Noble Prentiss, old pupils.
September 20, 1889 INDIAN HELPER
Mack Red Wolf, Noble Prentiss, and Vincent Nahtailsh have gone to country
homes. Lawny Shorty came in.
September 23, 1890 INDIAN HELPER.
SOME OF OUR SOUTH WEST BOYS AND GIRLS.
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Mrs. Julia Bent Prentiss, '90, has long been silent, but this
week the Man-on-the-band-stand stole a peep into a very breezy letter which
gives news of others from Carlisle.
Julia's husband, Noble Prentiss, is Agency butcher. Julia
is well now but gets the fever, prevalent in that country every summer.
The schools there now are having the measles. Her little daughter
Lavinia whom she named after her "beloved Carlisle teacher, Miss Lavinia
Bender" died nearly two years ago. Every one said she was a lovely
child. She still has two children.
Kish Hawkins '89, named his little girl Emma, after Miss Cutter.
A little baby has come to live with Mr. and Mrs. Block.
Mrs. Block was Mabel Buck, class '97.
Veronica Holiday, '90, married a young man from the fort, and
Ida Warren '94, married a gentleman from El Reno. She is teaching
at the Pawnee Agency. Nellie Morrison is assistant matron at the
Cheyenne School; also Sadie Alfrey.
May 12, 1899 INDIAN HELPER.
Calumet Chieftain, Dec. 3, 1925.
Julia Prentiss, well known and well liked by everyone in this community
died on Thanksgiving Day in the hospital at Concho of blood poisoning,
after an ilness of several days. She was buried at Concho Friday
in teh Concho Cemeter. Surviving her are her husband, Noble Prentiss
of Calumet, two sons, Fred and Stewart of Carnegie, two daughters, Mrs.
Nellie Cloud Chief and Miss Dulcie Prentiss of Calumet.
Mrs. Prentiss was a highly educated Indian having graduated from carlisle
Institute of Penn. She used her education to good advantage, acting
as interpreter and spokesman for her tribe. Always workign for the
best interests of the Indians, her efforts were fruitful in bringing a
bewtter understanding between her race adn the wites. Her going will
be a great loss to both the Indian and the white people.
Text Copyright (c) 2002 Sipes/Berthrong Collection.