Abrahm B. Nanweshmah Burnett

His name was Charles Smith , a lawyer and Senator of Virginia. The face
belongs to Gordon Smith, a large man plagued with pain/Residential School System affect.
GORDON SMITH - SON OF WILLIAM GRAY SMITH, married to Jesse Smith, son Durwin (adopted) and Ursula Smith, mother of Ryan and other kids not known. Called a LAMPIERE or LAMP for the Shades.

Although Chief Abrahm B. Burnett (adopted name, 1812-1870) is not mentioned in the 1907 Wooster Roll he was a full blooded Potawatomi hereditary Chief who was prominent in the Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas in the winter of 1839. Chief Burnett's traditional name is "Nan-Wesh-Mah", phonetically "Nan-Wish-Ma" meaning "He Who Prays with Plants" (1812-1870).

More information at: McMullen, John William. 2006. The Last Blackrobe of Indiana and the Potawatomi Trail of Death.

http://www.wiskigeamatyuk.com/index_start.html

http://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/archive/AroundTopeka/Burnett/

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-429...

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218762

http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/7961105/person/-981777646/facts

At https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9640586672870554/ Pinterest states as follows: "( Nan-Wesh-Mah ) pronounced ( Nan-Wish-Ma ) MEANS - ( He Who Prays With Plants ) Lived : NOV. 1812 – JUNE 14 1870 Adopted name : _Chief Abram B. Burnett, born Nan-Wesh-Mah, was a full blooded Potawatomi Indian born in November, 1812 on the north side of the Tippecanoe River near a little placed called Muncie in the state of Indiana. started attending Rev. Isaac McCoy's Mission School at Ft. Wayne between 1819 - 1820 and interpreter to Chiefs all throughout IN & MI. Less Americanos Native, Native Americans, Cherokee Native, Delegation Photo

Chief of the Potawatomis, ABRAM B. BURNETT, (aka Nan-Wesh-Mah, aka Nan-Wish-Ma, aka He Who Prays with Plants) (1812-1870), a hereditary Chief of the Potawatomis, Delegation Photo, ca. 1867-9. Photographer: Unknown. (B&W copy)"

The records of Ancestry.com/uk spell his first name "Abraham" and provide names of parents ("Shau Uque Be" and "Cone Zo Qua") and 7 children of his second wife although it is not clear whether his first and second wife are the same person, the first recorded as "Marie DemosKakiague" and the second as "Marie Knoflock 1825-1895) (Ref: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/9640586672870554/).

.... from "Eight Generations in Kansas" The Relatives and Descendents of Narcisse and Madeline Yott Juneau Permission given by arthur Joan Hrenchir of Berryton, Kansas

"While living on the Sugar Creek Reserve for the Pottawatomies, Abram Burnett married Marie Knoffloch, daughter of John and Elizabeth Knoffoch, and a native of Germany. They were married February 16, 1843 by the Rev. Felix Verreydt, S. J. Witnesses were part-Pottawatomie Joseph Bertrand Jr., and his wife Elizabeth Jackson Bertrand.

When the Pottawatomies began the emigration to Kansas in the late 1830's, Abram Burnett was in his mid-twenties. He made several trips between Indiana and Kansas, serving as interpreter, before settling at Sugar Creek, where he lived eleven or twelve years. In 1848, after the Pottawatomies removed to the reserve on the Kansas River, Abram and his family lived in present Mission Township, Shawnee County. His home was on the north side of shunganunga Creek in the S.E. 1/4 of sec. 9, T12, R. 15 E. Burnett's Mound, a Topela landmark, is named for him.

An old Indian ledgend said that Topeka was safe from tornadoes vbecause of the mount--they'd bounce off the mound and back into the air. However in 1966 a tornado traveled down the side of Burnett's Mound and swept through the west side of Topeka to the east side, did tremendous damage and killed several people. Topeka has had two more tornadoes since the, but not on Burnett's Mound.

Abram B. Birnett died June 14, 1870 and is buried on the land. After his death, his widow married Charles Buzbee on December 21, 1871 in Shawnee County, Kansas, and they sold the land the cabin occupied to Clarissa Bell Burnett Yott, wife of George Louis Yott (Laurent, 372) . The Yotts wintered there in 1880, but returned to the reservation and resold the land.

The children of Abram and (Mary) Marie Burnett were: Mary Jane Pearace, born in 1844, Mary A. Peyton, born in 1848, Catherine Griffenstein, born in 1851, Joseph Burnett, born in 1854, Clara Beaubien, born in 1860, and Abraham Burnett born in 1864.

There is a photo of Abram Burnett, from the Kansas State Historical Society."

http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/080fabdd-c264-40be-a243-7fce506ffec3/...