Noran, Samson

Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Samson Noran (Noran), a member of the Apache Nation.

Note: Samson Noran does not have a headstone in the cemetery today. A map of the cemetery in 1947 indicates that Noran was interred in plot D-12. Today, the headstone in that spot is for Ernest Knocks Off, son of White Thunder, who…

Student information card of Samson Noran, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on November 4, 1886 and died on March 9, 1889. Noran was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

In school documentation Samson Noran is also known as No-ran.

The handwritten note reads: Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at Carlisle from Fort Marion, Florida, November 4th, 1886.

Humphrey Eseharzay, Samson Noran, Hugh Chee, Bishop Eatennah, Basil Ekarden, Ernest Hogee, Clement Seanilzay, Beatrice Kiahtel, Janette Pahgastatum, Margaret Y. Nadasthilah, Fredk.…

The printed title reads: Chiricahua Apaches as they arrived at Carlisle from Fort Marion, Florida, November 4th, 1886.

The names are printed below. 

Studio portrait of eight male and three female Chiricahua Apache students, all wearing school uniforms. They are the group of students who arrived at Carlisle from Fort Marion, Florida, November 4th, 1886, taken four months later. 

A researcher has identified them as: back row, left to right, Hugh Chee, Frederick Skahsejah (…

These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 37 Chiricahua Apache prisoners-of-war transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, where a larger group of Geronimo's band remained imprisoned. The 37 individuals transferred to Carlisle represented a portion of all…