Chief Whitepath served with Chief John Ross on the six-person Management Committee for Cherokee Removal and Subsistence, arranging ration stops along the Trail of Tears, including at what is now Cherokee Memorial Park in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The first party to arrive in Hopkinsville was led by Elijah Hicks and included Whitepath, the noted Cherokee war chief, and Fly Smith, a Cherokee clan leader. Although the Hicks party was the second group to leave the Rattlesnake Springs stockade area on October 4, 1838, with Whitepath heading the column, it had passed the first group under John Benge, which had departed on October 1, by the time it reached the Cumberland River. Whitepath, a member of the Cherokee National Council, was a full-blood who had resisted the new ways of the mixed-bloods and their talking papers. In 1814, Andrew Jackson honored him with a watch for bravery after he, Junaluska, and Going Snake led 600 Cherokee in a successful flanking attack against 1,000 barricaded Creeks, helping bring Jackson a great victory in the Shawnee-Creek War at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Both Fly Smith and the 75-year-old Whitepath had been seriously ill since leaving Nashville, arrived in Hopkinsville on an army wagon, died within several hours, and were buried near the Cherokee camp on Little River. As late as the 1930's, many unidentified limestone markers showed the resting places of Cherokees from many groups who passed through during the winter of 1838-9, but only four markers remain today, including those of Whitepath and Fly Smith.