Kelelamand Charles H Kilbuck (POSS)

• General Notes
  • Kelelamand/Chief Killbuck
    
    The rich farm land of Richland Township is drained by Killbuck Creek, pictured right. Like many other place names in east-central Indiana, Killbuck is the English equivalent of a Delaware name. Chief Kelelamand or "big cat" had the English name Charles Henry Killbuck (late 1700s-early 1800s). His father was the chief who took over after the death of White Eyes in 1778. Chief Killbuck had a village which white pioneers referred to as Buck's Town. It was one mile northwest of Chesterfield on a high bluff over-looking White River. The chief was one of the Native Americans converted by the Moravian missionaries who had begun their work in the area in 1801. Chief Killbuck signed the Ft. Wayne, Indiana Treaty of 1809 and the St. Mary's, Ohio Treaty of 1818. Chief Killbuck was a respected Delaware figure among Madison County pioneers and early settlers.
    
    
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