Fort Concho

The Cherokee Nation had held her people in slavery and then made her a citizen.

She is living at Fort Concho because that is where the soldiers' families are sent.

She has a son named Crawford, not yet a month old.

He will not die an old man.

A wake was held in the old military commissary building, the place where the fort had once stored its supplies, and now held what was left of her son.

Crawford Goldsby was buried in the Cherokee National Cemetery.

She had taken in laundry at Fort Concho to keep her children alive, sent him to school in Kansas and Pennsylvania, watched him climb a scaffold in front of thousands.

He had spoken to her.