In Evergreen Cemetery above the Susquehanna, where sleep the great and lowly of the town, is a seveteen foot shaft on which is inscribed:

SA-SA-NA LOFT
By birth a daughter of the forest;
By adoption a child of God.

      Sa-sa-na Loft, a lovely and talented Mohawk Indian Girl, was killed in a railroad wreck at Deposit a few days after she, a sister and a brother had given entertainments in Owego to raise funds for the publishing of a Bible in the Mohawk language. The community, led by Judge Charles P. Avery, a prominent historian, and with women giving valuable aid in the movement, erected the memorial to the Indian girl who had won their hearts      -- Southern Tier Vol. 2 by Arch Merrill