BX August 27, 1951
Arnold C. Moses Dies in Hospital On Reservation
Arnold C. Moses, secretary of the Six Nations Indian Council, died Sunday in the Lady Willingdon Hospital at Ohsweken, in his 54th year.
For the last five years he had been active in Indian council affairs, and often was chief spokesman for the Six Nations during the recent revision of the Indian Act and the Indians suit against the federal government in the Grand River Navigation Company Claim.
Mr. Moses served as councilor for several years and was chief councilor for the 1949-1950 term. About eight months ago he succeeded William F. Powless as secretary of the council.
He made numerous trips to Ottawa and other Ontario centres to seek a just revision of the Indian Act which recently went into effect.
Delaware Indian
Born in 1898, Mr. Moses was a member of the Delaware tribe. In 1915, at the age of 17, he joined the Canadian Army, going overseas with the 114th Battalion. In 1919 after three years and three months service in France and Britain, he was retired from the Royal Canadian Engineers with the rank of lieutenant.
He was the only Indian to become a signaler during the First World War.
Mr. Moses was a member of the Indian War Veterans’ Association at Ohsweken and a member of the Hamilton Branch of the Canadian Legion. This year was the first time he had missed the annual “Warriors Day” parade at the Canadian National Exhibition.
On Saturday, when his fellow war veterans marched in the Warriors Day parade, he was sadly missed as the Indian war veterans’ paraded with Brigadier O.M. Martin, a Six Nations son, in command. The Indian veterans’ group led all Canadian Legion units in the parade, the Legion section marching to music of the Six Nations Indian Band.
A member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Mr. Moses was prominent in church affairs on the reservation. The funeral will be held from the church Wednesday afternoon. He is resting until then at Mott Brothers’ Funeral Home, Hagersville.
Surviving besides his widow, the former Frederica Sero, are three daughters, Mrs. John (Dorothy) Farmer, Detroit, Mrs. Calvin (Isabelle) Flamm, Detroit, and Miss F. Joyce Moses at home.
BX August 30, 1951
Arnold C. Moses is Laid to Rest
An Impressive final tribute was paid the late Arnold C. Moses, secretary of the Six Nations Indian Council, in a funeral service held Wednesday at St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Ohsweken. Mr. Moses died Sunday in the Lady Willingdon Hospital at Ohsweken in his 54th year.
The service was in charge of Rev. B.J. Cooper and Rev. W.J. Zimmerman, the former minister of St. Peter’s and the latter minister of His Majesty’s Chapel of the Mohawks. Also attending the service were Rev. J. Pryse of the Baptist Church, Rev. E.T. Montour of the United Church and Rev. J. Lennox of Christ’s Church, Six Nations.
A Delaware Indian, Mr. Moses was a past chief councilor of the Six Nations and a veteran of the First World War, retiring from the 114th Haldimand Battalion with the rank of lieutenant.
Pallbearers were N.E. Montour, W. Hill, W. Burnham, J. Hill, J. Moses and R. Hill. Honorary pallbearers were Lt.-Col. E.P. Randle, Dr. J.A. Charlton, M.P. for Brant, George E. Wood, and Harold Traver.
Among those who attended the service were Mayor Howard E. Winter; Warden C.G. Furney of Brant County; Walter D. Rutherford, secretary of the Brantford Board of Trade; George Broomfield and H.W. Hill representing the Brant Historical Society, and members of the staff of the Indian Office.
Flower bearers were Robert Moses, Clifton Sero, John Moses and William Teasdale.
The service was attended by members of the Hagersville Branch of the Canadian Legion and of the Six Nations Indians War Veterans Association. Some 50 veterans were present under the command of Major C. Styres.
Lt.-Col. C.A. Honey commanded a firing party composed of members of the 56th Light Anti Aircraft Regimen, and the Last Post was sounded by Bugler David Cayuga.
