Prior to his untimely death, Chief Doublehead had been in the process of negotiating for an opportunity for the youth of his tribe to obtain an education in the white man's school. In 1803, a school for Indians had been established at Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee by the Reverend Gideon Blackburn, a Presbyterian minister from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Princess Comblossom now continued the negotiations started by her father to secure educational training for the young people of her tribe at the Blackburn Indian School. Young Jake had now become a hard-riding, fastshooting, one-man army executing the orders of his mother, now the ruler of the tribe. In the fall of 1810, an arrangement with the Indian school having been agreed upon, word went out to all members that the tribe of Princess Comblossom was to leave the Cumberland River area and move to the Sequatchie Valley in Tennessee. They were directed to assemble at a large rock house just to the west of the Old Tellico Trail. This location is now known as the Yahoo Falls Recreation Area in the Stearns District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. In the late fall of 1810, when the moon was round and full, all that remained of Chief Doublehead's tribe of the Cherokee gathered at the big rock house below the cliffs where Yahoo Creek plunges some eighty feet from the great Cumberland Plateau to the bottom of the gorge which carries it to the Cumberland River, waiting for Princess Comblossom to lead them south over the old Tellico Trail to Tennessee. Some of the squaws had already shouldered their packs of furs or sleeping mats for the children and were about to start when shots rang out from the darkness in front of the rock house. Bunched under the rock house and stunned by the unexpected attack, escape was impossible. The braves were the first to fall followed quickly by the mothers and children until not a single Indian was left standing and the floor of the rock house was covered with the dead and dying and ran red with their blood. After the firing ceased and the little band of white men who had committed this foul murder were about to leave, the situation was suddenly reversed. Day was just breaking as Princess Comblossom and her notorious son, little Jake arrived on the scene ready to lead their people to the safety that awaited them in Tennessee. Taking in the situation at a glance and occupying a commanding position among the rocks which blocked the white men's escape route, they opened fire. The white party had been reduced to three, but only one of these three survived the firing squad of Princess Cornblossom and her son. Before the execution the Princess pronounced the death sentence in scathing terms such as "You paleface-treaty with Indians-if Indian no steal horse paleface no kill Indian. You palefaces kill our braves. You kill our squaws and our babies. Their blood made red the land you steal." Princess Comblossom, grief stricken by the massacre of her people, died in a few days and was buried by the large flat rock beside the old Tellico Trail that had been traveled by her people for so many years. This flat rock is now within the town of Stearns, Kentucky and the site is marked by an appropriate marker and information sign placed there by the Kentucky Historical Society, which reads: PRINCESS CORNBLOSSOM Burial site of daughter of Chief Doublehead. legend is that as a young girl she accompanied her father at signing of Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, 1775, transferring Cherokee's land between Ohio and Cumberland Rivers to Transylvania Society. As-Quaw Tribe settled in region south of river. Protecting tribe's secret mine, she killed a renegade. Married Big Jake, trader. Two days later Big Jake, the trader who came to the Cumberland on a mission for General Washington and the Continental Army and who liked the life of the tribe of Chief Doublehead and Princess Comblossom so well that he spent the rest of his life with them, died of a broken heart and was buried beside the old trail to Alum Ford. This grave, marked by a U.S. Army official headstone provided by a grateful government nearly 200 years after he completed his military service, may be seen by the visiting tourists at the entrance to the Yahoo Fails Recreation Area of the Daniel Boone National Forest. For the next few years Little Jake Troxel, the halbreed, terrorized the settlers along the Cumberland River. He finally surrendered to the sheriff of Wayne County at Monticello, Kentucky in return for a promise of amnesty. Surrendering his scalping knife with nine notches filed on the handle, he settled down on his 180-acre homestead on the Little South Fork River that today is a rice farm. Little Jake died in 1880, and is buried in the old part of the graveyard at Parmleysville, Kentucky. Following the double massacre at Yahoo Falls, local investigations developed the information that the individual primarily responsible for the tragedy was an old Indian hater and brave fighter by the name of Hiram Gregory. He had learned of the proposed assembly of the Indians at Yahoo Falls' Big Rock House and, enlisting the aid of a number of his young neighbors, set up the ambush which ended in one of the major tragedies of the early settlement of the area. It is said that Little Jake Troxel once stated that although he and his famous mother arrived on the scene a bit late they did arrive in time to kill the last of the white men, including Homer (Big Tooth) Gregory. The above information was assembled by Thomas H. Troxel, a direct descendent of the Cherokee and of Christian Priber. He was the great chief of the Cumberland River band of American Indians whose Council House is in Whitley City, Kentucky. He has stated that while researching this information many years ago he had lunch with Uncle Manuel Anderson, father of George Anderson, a surveyor, with offices in Whitley County courthouse. Mr. Anderson stated that he could remember when Indian bones were so thick in the Big Rock House at Yahoo Falls that it was difficult to walk there. A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest by Robert F. Collins, 1975