I am at a loss as to how to answer her question, being so new to my own Choctaw ancestry search. I believe she is not on either of the two lists, so if you can answer her question, you may have to email her privately. Jacque in Idaho ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Fisk <kyfamily@webtv.net> To: <hopkinsj@ida.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:17 PM Subject: Crossing Miss > Were records kept of soldiers accompanying Choctaws across the > Mississippi River? Where might I find these records? I would appreciate > any trival info at all. > Oral history has it that they lost their provisions, papers and > everything. Got deposited on the MO side and the soldiers never came > back. They ended up marrying and raising families, mingling with and > passing for white. Not on any stipend. by 1890 or before. Thx, Judy Fisk >