Oklahoma
Genealogical Society
Arkansas Territory Data
Transcribed
to Electronic form by Jo White
Published in The Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly
Volume 9, Number 2, 1964
Provided
by James Manford Carselowey,
author and publisher of
Cherokee Pioneers; Early Settlers; Pryor Cemetery, and My Journal.
Data from Tombstones
(*JMC has Buchanan Tombstone Data)
- Lemuel Tinnin b 1804 d
Jan. 1, 1842, age 38 yrs., buried at Maysville, Benton Co., AR
- Thomas Tinnin b 1833 d
Feb 4, 1852, age 19 yrs. 10 mo. 5 days
- Capt. Hugh L. Tinnin b
June 29, 1835 d Jan 26, 1883, a Confederate Capt. Under Gen. Stand Watie.
- There is a nearby grave
of Mary Alexander b 1808 d Jan 31, 1862, age 54 yrs. 9 mo. 4 days, which
may be Mary Wood Tinnin.
- Also nearby is grave of
W.A. Alexander (Masonic emblem) b 1807 d Apr 15, 1854, age 46 yrs. 26
days.
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Oklahoma Ancestors in Arkansas
1869
Tax Payers in Prairie Township, Washington County, Arkansas, from the old
record books of the County Clerk, G.W.M. Reed, was originally published in Flashback
Magazine, May, 1957, by the Washington Co., Ark. Historical Society,
Contributor James Manford Carseloway, who points out the genealogical value –
"Many Oklahomans have ancestors who were early settlers in Arkansas. Many
folks in those days came from Tenn.-Ala.-S.C.-N.C.-Miss.-N.O. [sic] (and
adjacent states)." OGS has a handwritten copy listing James M. Anderson
through F.J. Gibson . . .4 pages.
- Susannah Wickett Ridge
b 1769 (wife of Major Ridge) d Sept. 1, 1849 at her home on Honey Creek,
Delaware District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Terr., near Southwest City, Mo.
(JMC)
- Cherokee Nation East –
Betsie Watie (wife of Gen. Stand Watie) died in childbirth in March 1836;
the child died too. Stand Watie came to Cherokee Nation West, Indian
Territory, by steamboat in 1837. (JMC)
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