Last Chief of the Caddo Tribe.
Grandson of Chief Jose Maria
THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
9/22/1929 CADDO INDIAN CHIEF DEAD AT ANADARKO (Sunday)
Prominent Tribesman Spent Time on Land Claims
Anadarko, Sept. 21 Funeral services for Enoch Hoag, 78 years old, chief of
the Caddo tribe of Indians, have been held at his home two miles northeast of
Washita. He died early Wednesday following a prolonged illness.
Chief Hoag was born in Texas but had been a resident of Caddo county about 60
years. In 1924 he went to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of filing claims
against the government for what members of the Caddo tribe thought were due them
for certain lands from the Washita river to Red river, from the ninetieth to the
one hundredth meridian, and certain other lands in Louisiana and Brazos county,
Texas.
He was accompanied to Washington by C. Ross Hume as attorney for the tribe and
Willie Wilson, now deceased, as interpreter.
He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Burial was made in
the family burial grounds.
Grandson of Chief Jose Maria
THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
9/22/1929 CADDO INDIAN CHIEF DEAD AT ANADARKO (Sunday)
Prominent Tribesman Spent Time on Land Claims
Anadarko, Sept. 21 Funeral services for Enoch Hoag, 78 years old, chief of
the Caddo tribe of Indians, have been held at his home two miles northeast of
Washita. He died early Wednesday following a prolonged illness.
Chief Hoag was born in Texas but had been a resident of Caddo county about 60
years. In 1924 he went to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of filing claims
against the government for what members of the Caddo tribe thought were due them
for certain lands from the Washita river to Red river, from the ninetieth to the
one hundredth meridian, and certain other lands in Louisiana and Brazos county,
Texas.
He was accompanied to Washington by C. Ross Hume as attorney for the tribe and
Willie Wilson, now deceased, as interpreter.
He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Burial was made in
the family burial grounds.
Last Chief of the Caddo Tribe.
Grandson of Chief Jose Maria
THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
9/22/1929 CADDO INDIAN CHIEF DEAD AT ANADARKO (Sunday)
Prominent Tribesman Spent Time on Land Claims
Anadarko, Sept. 21 Funeral services for Enoch Hoag, 78 years old, chief of
the Caddo tribe of Indians, have been held at his home two miles northeast of
Washita. He died early Wednesday following a prolonged illness.
Chief Hoag was born in Texas but had been a resident of Caddo county about 60
years. In 1924 he went to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of filing claims
against the government for what members of the Caddo tribe thought were due them
for certain lands from the Washita river to Red river, from the ninetieth to the
one hundredth meridian, and certain other lands in Louisiana and Brazos county,
Texas.
He was accompanied to Washington by C. Ross Hume as attorney for the tribe and
Willie Wilson, now deceased, as interpreter.
He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Burial was made in
the family burial grounds.
Grandson of Chief Jose Maria
THE OKLAHOMAN (Oklahoma City, OK)
9/22/1929 CADDO INDIAN CHIEF DEAD AT ANADARKO (Sunday)
Prominent Tribesman Spent Time on Land Claims
Anadarko, Sept. 21 Funeral services for Enoch Hoag, 78 years old, chief of
the Caddo tribe of Indians, have been held at his home two miles northeast of
Washita. He died early Wednesday following a prolonged illness.
Chief Hoag was born in Texas but had been a resident of Caddo county about 60
years. In 1924 he went to Washington, D.C., for the purpose of filing claims
against the government for what members of the Caddo tribe thought were due them
for certain lands from the Washita river to Red river, from the ninetieth to the
one hundredth meridian, and certain other lands in Louisiana and Brazos county,
Texas.
He was accompanied to Washington by C. Ross Hume as attorney for the tribe and
Willie Wilson, now deceased, as interpreter.
He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters. Burial was made in
the family burial grounds.
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