Among the settlers at Fairfield Mission was a part Cherokee named Mose Alberty.
He arrived with the Old Settler Cherokees when the station was started.
Two years later his wife, on her way to join her husband, died about where Fort Smith is located.
Her remains were brough to the mission and buried in the missionary cemetery and a monument was erected to her memory bearing the inscription;
"Erected by Moses Alberty in memory of his wife Sarah Alberty who departed this life June 18, 1830. Age 37 years."