| A pleasant letter from Anna Thomas this week says she likes
Atlantic City. The home she lives in is near the beach. She describes a
parade given by the Fifth regiment of Maryland, in bathing suits.
It must have been a laughable sight. She said the band they used
was something like the Man-on-the-band-stand's band.
July 27, 1888 INDIAN HELPER July - Sept '88 on Outing with Baily family in Atlantic City, NJ |
| THE GIRLS’ LITERARY IN THE NEW CHAPEL.
-------- It came New Year’s Night. Every boy and girl, man, woman and child, black, red and white, who last Tuesday night listened to the sweet songs, the well rendered recitations; who beheld the bewitching pipe-drill, the pretty postures, the exquisite statuary, the unique and charming art-gallery must say without reserve that the scenic effect, the whole get-up of the occasion was the most impressive and indeed the very best that has ever been given by the pupils of any class or sociecy of our school. The Girls’ Literary Society deserves great credit, and they received as much as it was possible to give at the time with prolonged and enthusiastic cheering. The address of welcome delivered by the Society’s President, Eva Johnson, was most appropriate and well spoken. May Paisano stood in a lovely garden, at the entrance of a gate in which was standing her pet dog, as she said her “Seven times one.” How sweet was the echo song, by the society! As the distant sound was heard the audience became breathless, which quietness was only exceeded when the first tramp, tramp, tramp and singing of the approaching society was heard, immediately after the audience had gathered. They marched, and sang as they marched back and forth between the seats until all were in position. And, boys, did you notice that they put down the left foot at the right time in the music? The Quartette deserves special mention. The four voices of Lily Wind, Clara Faber, Katie Grinrod, and Anna Ghomas blended sweetly. In the statuary, Lydia Fling represented "Liberty Enlightening the World". The representation was perfect as she stood so majestically holding the red torch in air. She was motionless as the statue itself, and the audience broke out in rapturous
applause.
January 4, 1889 INDIAN HELPER |
| Annie Thomas and Lily Cornelius at Alma College,
Mich., are through with Spring examinations and they are not sorry.
Annie's list of "Reluctantly" words reached 519, but she did not quite
make the prize.
April 4 1890 Indian Helper |
| Annie Thomas is with us again, having arrived from Alma
College, Michigan, last Friday evening. Annie seems so bright, so
easy, so lady-like, so altogether removed from the non-English-speaking,
timid little creature found in the Pueblo Indian village of Acoma, and
from which she was rescued but a few years ago, that the Man-on-the-band-stand
is greatly impressed with the change.
June 26, 1891 Indian Helper |
| Anna Thomas left us suddenly Tuesday midnight for Fredonia, New York,
to attend the large normal school at that place. She will have special
advantages and we are sure from past experiences that she will use them
well.
September 4, 1891 INDIAN HELPER |
| Capt. and Mrs. Pratt, Miss Fisher, Miss Burgess, Annie
Thomas, Hattie Longwolf, Dennison Wheelock and Samuel Townsend left for
Lake Mohonk, N.Y., on Tuesday morning, to attend the great Indian Conference
now being held there.
October 9, 1891 INDIAN HELPER |
| Outing / '92 |
| Annie Thomas, ex-student of Carlisle who is teaching at Keams
Canyon, Arizona, keeps in good spirits and seems full of business. The
Moquis have given her a new name - Hoonwishnema Talabenka. Talabenka means
sun, she says, but she has not been able to find out the meaning of the
first name. She says Acoma, the place from which she herself was taken
when quite small, to come to Carlisle, and which she afterwards visited,
is degraded enough, but the Moqui villages are worse. She hears that the
Moquis are improving but she often wonders what must have been their condition
before. Annie sends Christmas greetings to all her friends.
Dec 23, 1892 INDIAN HELPER |
| Mrs. Esther M. Dagenett of the Chilocco school came down from
Omaha with, and has been visiting Mrs. Lillibridge for the past ten days.
--[Wotanin Kin.
Mrs. Daganett was Esther Miller when here, and graduated in '89, while Mrs. Lillibridge was Annie Thomas. August 13, 1897 INDIAN HELPER |
| We see by the Genoa "News" that Miss McAdam former teacher
here belongs to the Mandolin Club, and that said club was delightfully
entertained recently by Mrs. Lillibridge, who was Anna Thomas when a pupil
of Carlisle.
December 3, 1897 INDIAN HELPER |
| We have a very cheery letter this week from Mrs. Cecelia Londrosh
Hermann, of Nebraska, class '89, who evidently allowed her subscription
to run out and did not renew as promptly as she desired, for she says:
"I cannot exist without the HELPER any longer." Her family consisting
of husband and two children, are well and happy. They are getting
along nicely. She visited last month Mrs. Annie Thomas Lillibridge,
ex-pupil, at Genoa, who is the wife of Genoa's Disciplinarian, and had
a very pleasant time.
Mrs. Lillibridge and babe spent two weeks with Mrs. Herman last summer. She wished to be remembered to friends at Carlisle, whom she says she can never forget. MARCH 18, 1898 INDIAN HELPER |
| A very interesting letter has been received from Annie Thomas
Lillibridge, whose husband is one of the corps of workers of the Genoa
Nebraska School, and who is editor of the News published at the school.
We all remember Annie Thomas when a pupil with us. She recently attended
the Omaha Exposition and found there a number of our old pupils.
Among others, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis, White Buffalo, Jesse Bent, Frank
Everett, Joe Stewart, Elsie Springer Baxter, all in attendance upon the
Indian Congress, and most of them as interpreters. She missed by
only a few hours seeing Nellie Carey. Mrs. Lillibridge says that
the Genoa brass band played for a few weeks at the Exposition, and won
the admiration of the people. Captain Mercer who is in charge of
the Indian Congress spoke of them in the highest terms.
September 30, 1898 INDIAN HELPER |
| ANNIE THOMAS LILLIBRIDGE.
----------------- Mrs. Lilliebridge, wife of Mr. J.G. Lillibridge of the Genoa Nebraska school force was Annie Thomas, when a pupil of Carlisle. Many here now remember her bright face and genial manner. That she still has a warm place in her heart for her Alma Mater may be inferred from a few extracts taken from a recent breezy and interesting letter. She says in part: "Nothing would please us better than to visit Carlisle. 'Duty before pleasure' has always prevented. I have been out of the service for some time, but my very own 'school' keeps me as busy as my forty or more boys and girls used to." In speaking of Miss Edge of Downingtown, with whom Annie lived for a time, she says: "Miss Edge has made her own home a small Carlisle. What pains she has taken with us girls! December 16, 1898 INDIAN HELPER |
| Mrs.Annie Thomas Lillibridge writes that she has changed her
address from Putnam N.M., to Denver Col., where she and her husband are
engaged in the business of selling Navajo blankets.
June 27, 1902 RED MAN AND HELPER |
| MRS. LILLIBRIDGE GONE.
Mrs. Anna Thomas Lillibridge is dead, having passed away at Blunt, South Dakota, on Tuesday night January 26th. Anna came to us as a small girl from Acoma, years ago. Soon after her departure from the sschool she married Mr. Lillibridge who has been a devoted husband. In his letter transmitting the sad news he says: “My darling wife has passed away. She had been feeling very bad for the past six weeks, but the physician thought that she would stay with us until the spring months. Thie was not to be, and after only three days of being confined to the bed she left us. She was conscious to the last and we talked up to the end. Colonel, she was such a beautifil womanly woman; no better wife or mother ever lived.” The death of this loved woman brings a peculiar sadness to our school. Of the many who were with us in the early year, the bright and beautiful face of little Annie, then the kind and gentle young lady and the noble thoughtful student is remembered with fondness. Mr. Lillibridge has the sincere and loving sympathy of every friend of the deceased. February 5, 1904 RED MAN AND HELPER |
| bell # | B-530
nara folder # | E1329 E1328B6 2nd folder # | 92 414 284 name | Thomas, Annie re-enrolled? | NO yes 1/28/1887; 8/24/1884 address | pueblo parent/guardian | Katchei nation | Pueblo acoma blood quantum | f father | l mother | l age at arrival | 9 d.o.b. | height | 55 weight | gender | f ARRIVAL: | 2 04 1881 term | 5 departure | 4 21 1892 unknown date: | 03/17/0012 reason | 6/17/1884; 6/22/1886 -- ?; govt position Keams Canyon COLO school outing patrons | miss e d edge, downingtown / wistar morris over /palmer MD freedonia NJ/ f baily, atlantic city outing dates | 5 02 1882 outing dates | 9 18 1883 (edge?) death | deceased by 1905 notes | m. Lillibridge photo? | NO ran away? | No to country 1 | 5 12 1885 (morris?) to country 2 | 9 01 1891 (palmer?) to country 3 | 6 07 1888 (baily?) from country 1 | 5 11 1886 from country 2 | 2 23 1892 from country 3 | 9 20 1888 |
Bennie Thomas, one of our printer boys on a farm, writes that he is learning how to plow. "The first day I plowed I was very tired he says, the second time I wasn't very tired, but my hands were sore I could hardly hold anything, but, they are getting hard now."
On Monday a few of the boys caught some very good sized
fish.
Crazyhead visited the ore-banks and went under ground
1,200 feet. He was greatly surprised and said "Heap good."
0n Monday, Ben Thomas, one of the printers, led the list
of berry pickers. The other printers were up to the average.
Dr. Stewart paid the camp a visit last Friday.
Snakes are more plentiful. The dry weather is bringing
them off the mountain to water.
Charlie Dagnett has killed six snakes.
The school band came up Saturday afternoon and attended
a country festival given about two miles from here, they reported having
a fine time and lots of good things to eat.
Paradise Island, south of camp is a very cool and pleasant
nook.
A teepee in the center of camp, built in regular Indian
fashion was put up by Wm. Bull and Alex Yellowman.
Six printers, Samuel Townsend, Ben Thomas, Joe Harris,
Henry Phillips, Yamie Leeds, and Chas. Wheelock came out to spend Sunday
in camp.
Misses Ely, Patterson, Marion Pratt, and Burgess, and
Messrs. Goodyear and Edward McFadden were there over Sunday.
Little Irene Campbell came to camp to stay with her papa
while her mamma went to Lancaster for a day or two. WATCH DOG.
tion of the pictures as exhibited for truthful resentatives of the objects
painted even 'Though Hogarth might have been disgusted at the absence of
his ‘Line of Beauty,‘ and Titian deplored the lack of knowledge of the
art of coloring, shown by the artists.
How true to real life was that of the chase of jack rabbits,
the writer did not know till recently.
On reading Mrs. Lew Wallace’s book entitled "The Land
of the Pueblos" she learned that the Pueblo boy (Bennie Thomas, was it
not, my friend?) who drew that picture, was giving a sketch of an amusement
that had been his special delight in his home life, instead of drawing
upon his imagination as she had always supposed.
That picture with others described in the article mentioned
has been safely kept in a portfolio and often drawn out to prove the native
talent for art possessed by Carlisle pupils.
Today, the chase of the Jack Rabbits for its historical
value stands foremost and it is suggested, if Mrs. Wallace brings out a
new edition of her "Land of the Pueblos" she might consider the picture
an addition to its pages as an illustration of the sports she describes
that people as enjoying, with those long-eared animals.
A-TE-KA.
Home in Iowa,
Feb. 28, 1889
| Roger Silas, Abraham Hill, Emaunuel Powless, Isabella Cornelius, Maggie
Thomas [Oneida] and
Louisa King arrived from Oneida this week. They are all old pupils. Having spent some time at home they wrote urgent letters to return to the school. They were telegraphed tickets aud came unescorted. So much for Carlisle pluck. September 23, 1892 INDIAN HELPER |
Mrs. Maria Marmon, known when a pupil with us as Maria Annallo, arrived yesterday with twelve pupils from Laguna, New Mexico-7 girls and 5 boys. In the party were Effie Marmon, and a sister of Miss Mary Bailey, who was born since Miss Mary started to school. Perry Tsamawa who went home recently also returned with them, and George Pradt, nephew of Ben Thomas, is in the party.