Below is the actual page from the March 5th, 1859 edition of "The London Illustrated News".
This Indian chief - whose portrait we engrave from an
ambrotype obligingly forwarded to us by Mr. Justin Cressy, of
Lansing, Michigan, United States - died full of years at his
wigwam, a few miles from Lansing, on the Lokking-glass, and was
buried, on Sunday, the 5th of December last, at the Indian
settlement Shiminicon, Ionia County,on the Grand River, near
Portland, about twenty miles north-west from the capital. The
following brief memoir of the old Chief is by Rufus Hosmer,
editor of the Lansing Republican.
Okemos was a very old man, but of what age is
difficult to say; doubtless, more than a hundred years. The events
of the border warfare on Lake Erie in 1792 were familiar to him,
for he was a sort of aboriginal Dugald Dalgetty, and fought both
with and against St. Clair and Wayne. He had a frightful scare to
show for his prowess (for a man of undoubted bravery he certainly
was), and one in particular, showing a cicatrix extending from his
shoulder downward and transversely, through the clavicle and
sternum, was the evidence of a saber-cut from one of the Mad
Anthony’s troopers. He was a war chief no less than sixty six years
ago.
Okemos fought at Fort Meigs, and there received wounds in the head
which, if had been a white man, would have made his obituary an old
story.
