Index - Father Paul's Memoir - A Catholic Mission

INDEX.
The handwritten index of Fr. Ponziglione's manuscript included four columns described here as 1 - 4, left to right.

Date, A. D.: When he got past the first few entries he use the left column to indicate the time-frame applicable to the chapter. In the Appendix section, he entered the appendix number.
Chapter Number, Synopsis: In some cases the synopsis is a fairly lengthy account of chapter contents.
Book: The memoirs were written on a set of ruled composition notebooks, not unlike those used by todays students. They appeared to be leather bound.
Page: Starting page numbers, for each chapter, were entered in the far-right column.

The Book and Page columns are not relevant to this web version of the memoir and have not been used. It is noted, however, that Father Paul used four books and the last appendix started on page 553. The entire work used 556 pages. The header and background of this page illustrates the appearance of the books.

As the memoir is transcribed, finished pages will appear as orange shaded links.

	Back to "Father Paul's Memoir" Including Cover and Opening Comment
	Dedication & Introduction.
A.D.
	Chapter I Osage Genealogy — How the received the gift of knowledge — They go exploring — meaning of their name — Their home government.
1673	Chapter II Antiquity of the Osage Nation — Father Marquette with Them — Respect they have for the Black Gown — Kansas connection with the Osages — Their Condition in 1687.
1712	Chapter III Battle of Pontchartrain
1719	Chapter IV Fort Orlean —
1796	Chapter V Division among the Osages — First Osage treaty — Second treaty
1820	Chapter VI The Osages request .........
1830	Chapter VII The Osage form new settlements — Neosho River — Flat Rock Creek — Walnut - Hickory - Lightning - Canvilles - Owl's - Villages - Elks - Augusts - La-Bette - Four Mile Creek
1831	Chapter VIII Unsettled Condition of the Osages .....
1846	Chapter IX Two log houses are put up for the _____ of the Mission — The Osages meet with bad luck on the plains — Origin of Big Hill Settlement — Father De Coen receives the two buildings.
1847	Chapter X Father Schoenmakers leaves from St. Louis — His arrival at Osage Mission — He starts the Manual Labor School.
	Chapter XI Miss Lucille St. Pierre comes to the Neosho — Stays with Mr. Michael Giraud — Gets lost — is found.
Value	Chapter XII Progress of the School — Father Schoenmakers goes to St. Louis to engage some Sisters — He gets 4 Sisters of Loretto from Kentucky — They reached Osage Mission
	Chapter XIII Origin and Development of the Roman Catholic Church in Kansas
1848	Chapter XIV Father Schoenmakers trys to persuade the Osages to dwell in houses — Osage morning prayers — A grist mill is put up — They start on spring hunt — Br. O'Donnell's arrival.
1849	Chapter XV Br. O'Donnell Induces the Osages to go to work — Father Schoenmakers helps them — Their labor is lost.
1850	Chapter XVI The Osages are once more attacked by the Cholera Morbus — Location of their villages — Heroism of Father Schoenmakers
1851	Chapter XVII ____________ of Roman Catholics settling in the Ind. Territory — Rt. Rev. F. B. Miege S. J. appointed Vicar Apostolic — His first visit to the Osages — Father Schoenmakers sickness.
1852	Chapter XVIII Death of George White Hair — The Medicine Men persuade the Osages not to farm — George is succeeded in office by Gratamantze —Black measles and scurvy Death of Br. A. Tolley — Death of Fr. Bax.
1853	Chapter XIX Success of the school — Children of different tribes are recorded in school — Tei-cio-anias ambition — Kansas Territory is partially opened — Tei-cio-anias dies.
1854	Chapter XX Nivala becomes of age — His marriage — Dry season — Grasshoppers first appearance — The Osages leave on a hunt — The Little Osages attack the Comanches.
1855	Chapter XXI An epidemic breaks out among the little Osages — Neashuimani dies of it —More grasshoppers — Death of Mr J. Hallowy — Sister LeBeau's adventure.
1856	A very severe winter — Great western blizzard — Happy Christmas.
1857	Chapter XXIII Anthony Nivala loses his health — He reconciles with the Catholic Church — His wife send for Medicine men — Anthony _______ here severely — He ___the Missionaries —Their beliefs in the immortality of the soul — Indian burial.
1858	Chapter XXIV Gratamantze conducts the worship — What the Osages believe about it — Father Schoenmakers lecturing them on farming
1859	Chapter XXV Success of the Osages on Farming — La-Bette Creek is visited — Antonia Garzia brings her daughter t the Convent School — Antonia is murdered by her husband — Father Schoenmakers saves her daughter — Tanasia is killed.
1860	Chapter XXVI Jane Garzias death — Prosperous condition of the School — Great drought in Kansas — An adventurer on his way to Pikes Peak — A peddler from Humboldt.
1861	Chapter XXVII Indian life — Death of Gratamantze — Little White Hair succeeds — The breaking of the Civil War — A plot against Father Schoenmakers. The Father leaves the mission — Ravages of the war — Some of the Osages join the Union Army — Plunderers attack the mission — Confederates first raid against Humboldt — Capt. John Matthews protects the Sisters Convent — His death — Confederates second raid on Humboldt — Father C. James Van Goch's life in danger .
1862	Chapter XXVIII The Osages find several refugee Indians — They remain faithful to the Union — Return of Father Schoenmakers.
1863	Chapter XXIX Father Schoenmakers gives assistance to the Osages — Battle on Rebel Creek — The Osages are invited to make a treaty — Burglars make a raid on the Mission — The assassinate a poor family — Troops come to protect the mission.
1864	Chapter XXX The ravages of war are daily increasing — General distrust among people — In Fitz-Dennis adventure.
1865	Chapter XXXI President Lincoln amends the Osage treaty — The Osages reject the ____ document — Lincoln is assassinated — President A. Johnson ratifies the treaty.
1866	Chapter XXXII _____________ — He is condemned to death — He _____ his fellow prisoners — Father acts as a peace maker — Grasshopper incursion.
1867	Chapter XXIII Milder winter — Grasshoppers — St. Patrick's Day — Abundant crops — Father Schoenmakers donates ground for his town of Osage Mission.
1868	Chapter XXXIV Drum Creek Treaty — Two different factions — Father Schoenmakers advise to the Osages — A whit man is murdered — Father Schoenmakers returns to the Mission — The treaty is signed — an addition is made to the old church — Father Philip Colleton is charged with the care of the school.
1869	Chapter XXXV The Osages have trouble with the new settlers — Father Colleton Success — Building of the new Convent — Death of Little White Hair — F. Watcia-Cahicihia success in office — He calls himself by his father's name.
1870	Chapter XXXVI The Drum Creek Treaty is ratified — The Sisters of Loretto take possession of their new house — St. Francis Institution and St. Ann's Academy are chartered.
1871	Chapter XXXVII St. Francis Hall — St. Francis Institution — Death of Brother Lyons S. J.
1872	Chapter XXXVIII Br. Michael Kavanaugh — Laying the corner stone of the new church
1873	Chapter XXXIX Severe winter — School programs — Summers vacations — Osage Mission population begins to decrease
1874	Chapter XL St. Francis Institution keeps improving — Return of Grasshoppers.
1875	Chapter XLI An invasion of black ____ — Father Schoenmakers ____ the Osages — Unexpected change in the weather — The Father gets very sick — Recovery and returns to our Mission.
1876	Chapter XLII - Farming Issues, Death Of Father Colleton *Another dry season — Return of Grasshoppers — Farmers keep working — Father Schoenmakers is succeeded by Father A. Sweere — Death of Father Colleton*
1877	Chapter XLIII Mild winter — Total destruction of the grasshoppers — Abundant crops — Death of Brother O'Donnell.
1878	Chapter XLIV Hard winter — The new school house is finished — Death of Brother O'Donnell.
1879	Chapter XLV Some work is done at the new church — Father John J. Kuhlmann succeeds Father Sweere — Death of Br. F. Sheehan.
1880	Chapter XLVI The Osages are allowed to send few of their children to St. Francis Institution — An investigating commissioner with the Osages — Work is done at the new church.
1881	Chapter XLVII Kansas Seasons — A panic at St. Francis Institution.
1882	Chapter XLVIII Jealousy of white settlers — Adventure of a so called commissioner.
1883	Chapter XLIX - Includes The Death of Fr. Schoenmakers. Transfer of missionary stations and churches to Rt. Rev. Bishop of Leavenworth — A residence is made in Parsons — Golden Jubilee of Father Schoenmakers first Mass — His death — A memorial bell in honor of the Father.
1884	Chapter L Dedication of the new Church.
.	Conclusion
.	*The End Of These Memoirs*
.	Appendix
1	Copy of a letter to Sister M. Coaina Mongrain about the coming of the Sisters of Loretto at Osage Mission
2	Answer to a letter of Father Flavio Rimeri S. J. about events of 1878
3	Address given at Osage Mission on the occasion of my Golden Jubilee in the Society
4	Copy of a letter to E. B. Park, Esq. on the condition of Kansas.
5	Copy of a letter to Mother Katherine Drexel about the Osages - With an Affidavit.
6	A sketch of my Biography I gave to the Rev. Father James F. X. Hoeffer S. J.
7	To W. W. Graves. History of St. Francis Church at Osage Mission.