Life after Georgia was Founded

Tomochichi wanted Christian education for his tribe, but John Wesley refused to teach them. Tomochichi and Oglethorpe led an expedition to find the southern boundaries of Georgia. During the summer of 1739, Oglethorpe went on a trip to Coweta to help his connections with the Lower Creeks. Tomochichi couldn’t take part directly in Oglethorpe's negotiations; instead, he lay at home in his village fighting a serious illness. Tomochichi died on October 5, 1739, and historians agree that he was in his late 90s. His impacts on the colony of Georgia were celebrated with an English military funeral, and the grave site has a marker of "a Pyramid of Stone" The mound of stones honoring his final resting place in Savannah were removed in the early 1880s, and a large granite boulder with a decorative copper plate was installed southeast of the original.