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!GENEALOGY_COMPILED_BY_VIRGINIA_ROGERS: Broken Tooth Genealogy, #533, surviving
wife of Allen
Trotochaud
!NAME: ':},',}\',{;':[ Mitchell, Ben Edward "We-Sha-Waush-Kwa-Ji-Web"
[of Sugar Point, MN]
!OBIT: Bemidji Pioneer, 14 Nov 1995: Ben Edward Mitchell,
"We-Sha-Waush-Kwa-Ji-Web," 83, of rural Cass Lake died Saturday, Nov. 11, 1995,
at his home.
Funeral servies will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Cass Lake community
center, where visitation is continuing until the time of services. The Cass
Lake Thomas-Dennis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Mitchell was born Oct. 10, 1912, at Inguodona, Minn., the son of Charles
and Emma Mitchell. He attended school in Tomah, Wis., where he played
basketball and enjoyed sports of all kinds. He married Lucy Cummings in 1938
at Pine River. He enlisted in the Army July 3, 1943, and served two years in
active combat with the European forces during World War II. He worked as a
logger and was self-employed in the Remer area for many years and also was a
janitor at the Leech Lake Facility Center for many years before retiring. He
had many hobbies and liked to fish and hunt. His main interest was
participating in powwows. He was a member of Disabled American Veterans
Chapter 7 of Bemidji, the Cass Lake American Legion, Cass Lake AmBets Post 40,
the Leech Lake Powwow Committee and the Legion Honor Guard.
He is survived by his wife; foster children, Sam Mitchell of Sugar Point,
Sharon Burnette of Cass Lake, Gladys Burnette of Minneapolis and Charlene Smith
of Anchorage, Alaska; many grandchildren; two sisters, Dorothy Whipple of
Minneapolis and Maude Kegg of Onamia; three brothers, John of Ball Club, Tom of
Longville, and Frank of Minneapolis; and many nephews and nieces.
He was preceded in death by three brothers and two
sisters.
!MCT: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Base Rolls [Abt 1936]:blood quantum 58/64
!Oral History, M.L. 1985, Melvin Lawrence "may be his father or uncle"
!MCT: Minnesota Chippewa Tribe Base Rolls [Abt 1936]:blood quantum 23/32