"Dixie" the Native American

"A few years [after the settlement of Richmond,] an Indian whom they called Dixie came to Richmond and lived near the Bair home in a teepee. He was very friendly and got along well with the settlers and did some work for them. One evening he called at the Bair home and asked for a loaf of bread and some milk as he had two Indians as visitors. During the night shots were heard near the Indian camp and the next morning Hyrum Bair went to the teepee and found that Dixie had been murdered by the visiting Indians. It was believed the Indian was killed because he had apparently left his tribe to live with the whites and the report was that he had taken the squaw of another Indian. Hyrum Bair, Dennis Winn and William Bateman dug a grave near City Creek and buried the body." Sometime in late 1910 and early 1920, Dixies bones was discovered on the banks of the river. They were taken to Dr. Herbert Alexander Adamson who lived in Richmond. The location and condition of the skeleton is uncertain.

Compiled by M. R. Hovey, Secretary, Logan Chamber of Commerce. January 1, 1923 to January 1, 1925. Also as printed in the Logan Journal, beginning August 4, 1923.  Online source located at An Early History of Cache County— Richmond, Fall of 1859