After arriving, he was scalped alive and murdered in his home by a group of pueblo Native American attackers, under the orders of Mexican conspirators who started the Taos Revolt. Bent is buried in the National Cemetery in Santa Fe. The women and children in the Bent home were not harmed by the insurgents, and the remaining members of the family fled to safety next door through a hole in the parlor wall. In the following months, Colonel Price was able to quell the uprising, which ended in July 1847. Most of the rebels were caught and some of them were executed. Personal life In 1835, Charles "Carlos" Bent married Maria Ignacia Jaramillo, who was born in Taos, New Mexico. Maria's younger sister, Josefa Jaramillo, would later marry Kit Carson. Legacy Bent and the renowned frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson married sisters. Maria Ignacia Bent outlived her husband by 36 years and died on April 13, 1883. The Bents had two daughters, Teresina and Estefana (Estefania) and a son, Alfred. Maria Bent and the Carsons are interred at Kit Carson Cemetery in Taos. Bent Street, which runs in front of what had been his home in Taos, and Martyr's Lane, which runs behind it, are named for him. The Governor Charles Bent House is now a museum. An elementary school in northeast Albuquerque is named in Bent's honor. Works Bent documented the indigenous peoples of New Mexico in an essay which was published posthumously in Henry Schoolcraft's study of American Indians: See also List of assassinated American politicians Notes References 1799 births 1847 deaths 1847 murders in the United States 19th-century American politicians American expatriates in Mexico American people of the Mexican–American War Assassinated American politicians Burials at Santa Fe National Cemetery Businesspeople from West Virginia Governors of New Mexico Territory People from Taos, New Mexico People of pre-statehood West Virginia People of the Taos Revolt Politicians from Charleston, West Virginia United States Military Academy alumni People murdered in New Mexico