I have been meaning to do this for a while. At my grandpa Warners funeral celebration of life, one of his friends told a story about him involving the
indians. Now anytime there is a story involving my relatives with native americans, i am very interested. We have stories in my family involving my great grandpa Callister, and his uncles Jody Lyman, and DeAlton Lyman. Here is what i remember from the story of my grandpa Warner. as a young boy the indians would sometimes come to Richfield (for reasons unknown until my research) and the chief of the group was named Chief Crockett. these youngsters were interested in the indians when they came to town and would go and get a look at them. as i remember they had to cross a canal or something to get to where the indians would stay or meet. my Grandpa (described by his friend as a stocky well built boy) would not risk crossing the canal and would stand there watching. his friend (who would cross the canal) would speak with the indians sometimes and Chief Crockett asked him about my grandpa who never came over but just stood there looking on. He said Chief Crockett called my grandpa "Monument". this implies to me that cheif crockett had seen this occurance on more than one occasion to warrant the moniker. it is a pretty neat story, and my research made it a little more interesting as well. I wrote chief Crocketts name down after hearing that story because both mom and I were interested in chronicling this story. I tried so many ways to look up chief crockett. there is a list of chiefs for recognized native american groups kept by the US Government. but i could not find any info on a Chief Crockett at about the time when my grandpa would have been a young boy. ( i didnt even know what group of native americans were in the area). i kicked around for a while and found a list of indian groups from utah. In the Richfield area the indians were the Piutes. that made sense, also i found out that there is a Piute band recognized in the US government called the Koosharem Piute band. this band was recognized ever since the first chief known for the group....Chief Kanosh! so i looked up a pedigree chart for chief Kanosh and he had a grandson who became chief named ....Crockett...chief Crockett is literally Crockett Kanosh. in his childhood he probably would have known a Pres. Callister .... another piece of history i found was that in 1922 the Koosharem Piute band moved their official headquarters to ... Richfield Utah! so it makes sense that they would be in Richfield so often! then in my search i actually found a picture of Chief Kanosh the man who named my grandpa "Monument"`
