The Seneca Man Who Wrote The Surrender Terms At Appomattox – Then Became America’s First Native Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
Ely Parker died on August 31, 1895, at his home in Fairfield, Connecticut.
He was sixty-seven years old.
He had outlived Grant, who died in 1885, and he had outlived the political world in which his most consequential decisions had been made.
He was buried initially in Connecticut, but his remains were later moved to the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York — near the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation where he had been born, in the territory of the people he had represented and served and thought of as his own throughout his extraordinary life.
The obituaries that appeared at his death acknowledged his Civil War service and his role at Appomattox.
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