Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Edward Nolan (Buck) Burgess
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   BURGESS
   Edward Nolan (Buck) BURGESS was born January 27, 1913, in Schulter. He
   died January 22, 1988. At the time of his death, he was a resident of
   Paradise, CA. Graveside services were held January 19 at the West Lawn
   Cemetery in Henryetta, . No other information was given about his
   funeral. It is presumed that he was interred at West Lawn Cemetery.
   In a related article of his death, Muscogee Nation News reported other
   information on Buck Burgess' life and death. His father was Eddie
   BURGESS, a one time World's Champion calf roper who was killed at a
   rodeo in Cheyenne, WY, when Buck was 10 years old. Buck's mother was
   Hettie Henry BURGESS whose father was a Creek cattleman and founder of
   the city of Henryetta. Buck contracted scarlet fever at fourteen
   months and was nursed back to health by his grandmother, Yannah
   BURGESS, using her knowledge of herbs . The bout left him with a
   hearing loss and speech impediment, but with his fortitude, neither
   handicap kept him from being a success. He became a marksman with a
   bow and arrow and a snake dancer at Nichols Park in Henryetta. He
   travelled as a performer with the Johnny Guthrie show from Muskogee,
   performing in Madison Square Garden, and in Vicksburg, MS, before then
   General Eisenhower. He joined a Wild West Show in California and
   acquired the stage name "Chief Lone Eagle." Before he died, he
   requested that the stage regalia he created and wore be donated to the
   Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City and that his body be returned to
   Oklahoma for burial
   He was survived by his two sons, Eddie BURGESS of Oklahoma and Edward
   BURGESS of Anchorage, AK; three daughters, Edwanna PARTIAN of La
   Puente, CA, Sandra LaVEAU of Paradise, CA, and Mary ROMELFANGER of San
   Jose, CA; three half-brothers, Scott SMITH of Indianapolis, IN,
   William SMITH of Stockton, CA, and Hugh SMITH of Clearwater, FL; three
   half-sisters, Pauline COOK of Edmo, MT, Betty BREEDING of Granite, and
   Juanette HENRY of Martinez, CA; 12 grandchildren and two
   great-grandchildren.