Person:Lulu Stewart (1)

!Gordon and Patricia Stewart, "BAKER COUNTY SKETCH BOOK," p. 10. Copy in possession of Sidnie Merrill Stone.

                                                                           Blue Eyed Papoose
   When Mrs. Lulu Stewart Sullivan (widow of the Late A.P. Sullivan) of Baker was not quite two years old she touched off an Indian alarm here by being mistaken for a papoose. Born in Baker in 1877, the year before the Bannock Indian War, Lulu Stewart with her yellow gold hair and blue eyes could not have resembled an Indian less.
  With her parents, John and Barbara Stewart, and her older brothers, John and Lee, the little girl had gone on a wood cutting expedition on Beaver Creek, quite a jaunt from Baker, one hot day in August, 1879, the year after the big Indian scare. As the day wore on, the baby grew tired and her mother, who had crossed the plains in 1864, began to carry Lulu piggy-back style. The child pulled off her dark haired mother's sun bonnet.
   The little girl and her mother wandered away from the wood cutters. At some point some horsemen rode by and seeing the woman carrying her child papoose style, presumed there were Indians in the distance. The Indians, it seems, always traveled as families. At least they had done so the previous year when they were on the warpath. The horseman wheeled around, galloped back to Baker and spread fearsome word that Indians were close at hand.
   Folks in the Powder River valley had reason to be jittery about Indians. Memory of the Bannock uprising of 1878 was fresh.
   During this "Indian Excitement," one alarm put on July 4, 1878, reporting Indian depredations at John Day and Pilot Rock, had sent settlers from the whole valley scurrying into Baker City. Armed parties for whites were organized.
   An Idaho historian, Capt. John Hailey, recounts for us that on July 17, 1878, U.S. military forces under Col. Sanford struck an Indian camp of Wolf Creek near Powder River valley, killed 17 warriors and captured 25 squaws and children and 60 horses. A few days earlier the Umatilla Indians had killed the Bannock Chief Egan. His loss, coupled with the Wolf Creek defeat, put an end to Bannock warpath ambitions, Hailey said.
   Capt. W.F. Haines, early Baker County settler, wrote that a captured party of Indians, presumably the ones from the Wolf creek battle, were brought to Baker and seen by the settlers. One Indian who tried to escape at this time was shot.  Small wonder that the Baker area people remained touchy on the subject of Indians; no one knew when they might decide to return.
   As Mrs. Sullivan tells the story, her father heard the tale of the Indian alarm and began putting two and two together about the time and place the supposed Indians were seen. This ended the alarm.
   Baker was never molested by Indians again, but while she was a little girl, Lulu Stewart always was known to the members of her family as the "little papoose."

!OBITUARY: THE RECORD COURIER; Baker, Baker, Ore. Newspaper: 15 July 1965, p.1.

                                                  Lulu C. Sullivan Buried Monday
                                          Born in a Log Cabin Was Pioneer Mother
    The daughter of covered wagon pioneers, John and Barbara Stewart, who arrived in Baker Valley in 1864, Lulu C. Sullivan, 87, died at her home at 2604 11th St, Baker, July 8, at 3 p.m. Mrs. Sullivan's parents were life long residents of Baker. She was born Oct. 23, 1877, in a log cabin on her father's pre-emption claim near the present location of Sixteenth and Campbell Streets. She was the widow of the late A.P. (Ab) Sullivan, prominent Baker County cattleman, who died in 1938.
   Her family moved from the log cabin when she was four years old and occupied one of the first "frame houses" built in Baker. Mrs. Sullivan attended school the first day classes were held in the old Central Building, which later housed Baker High School, when this school was one of the few accredited high schools in the state.
   She was married on New Year's Eve 1895 to Albert Patrick Sullivan, and went to live in the Burnt River area. They farmed near Bridgeport for several years and later bought the Elliot homestead place at Hereford. Mr. Sullivan became well known as a rancher in this area. He died Aug 17, 1938. The couple's oldest son, Edward, also a prominent cattleman, died Dec. 9, 1958.
   Since 1919 Mrs. Sullivan had lived in the granite stone house at 11th and A streets. This unusual house had been built of solid blocks of granite from his Haines quarry by the late George Burr.
   Mrs. Sullivan was formerly active in the Rebekah Lodge, in which she served as Noble Grand. She was chosen Pioneer Mother for the Baker County Pioneer Association Picnic in 1951. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Baker.
   Mrs. Sullivan is survived by an older brother, Robert Lee Stewart of Baker. She was the mother of nine children and is survived by eight of them, including Mabel Erickson of Baker: Mayme Lonzway of San Diego: Ethyl Hill of Spokane; James Sullivan of Capitola, Calif.; Katheryn Braswell of New Bridge; Stewart and William Sullivan of Baker; and Col. A. P. Sullivan of the U. S. Army, who now lives at Arlington, Va.
   In addition, she leaves 20 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
   Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church at Baker with the Rev. Roumph officiating. Burial was at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

1. ↑ Family Bible.

   Barbra and John Stewart's Family Bible; Xerox in posession of Sidnie Merrill Wilson Stone.
   Entries seem to have been made at the time of the events.
   "Lulu Cutler Stewart daughter of John & Barbra A. Stewart Born Oct. the 23rd 1877."

2. ↑ Birth Certificate.

   Baker County Delayed Birth Certificate; Copy in posession of Sidnie Merrill Wilson.
   "In the matter of the Registration of the Birth of Barbar[a] Mabel Sullivan Erickson...I, Lulu C. Sullivan...am the mother of petitioner and now reside in Baker, Oregon, ...that the name of her mother was Lulu C. Sullivan, whose maiden name was Lulu C. Stewart now residing at Baker, Oregon and was born at Oregon on the 23[rd] day of Oct, 1877; and at the time of the petitioner's birth was a resident near Baker, Baker Co., Oregon. Signed Lulu C. Sullivan on the 18 day of February 19--.

3. ↑ Cemetery.

   Headstone Inscription; Mt. Hope Cemetery, Baker, Baker, Oregon; picture in posession of Sidnie Merrill Stone.
   "Lulu Sullivan; 1877; 1965."