I am researching 2 family lines. The first one is John Wiseman "Doc" Box b. 1832 Alabama, d. 11/29/1871 Jackson, Mississippi. Wife Nancy Harrison Box b. 12/28/1836 bp.GA, d. 2/9/1908 Arkansas. Children James R b.1856 MS, George Washington b.1859 MS, Jennie b.1862 MS, Virgie Barbara b.1872 Jackson, MS d. 10/10/1951 AR. According to oral family history John Box was Indian, but I am unclear if he was Choctaw or Cherokee. I found him on the 1860 MS Census Choctaw Co. Township 18 ,Post Office Bankston. He was a sharpshooter in the Confederacy, Company L, Regiment 24, MS Infantry, was captured sent to POW camp in Illinois. After the war he walked from Illinois to Mississippi, found his family even though they had moved several times during the war. He died shortly before Virgie Barbara (my ggrandmother) was born.The family moved to Arkansas. Wife Nancy applied for pension (widow 4656) on 8/20/1901 in Garland Co., AR (Hot Springs, AR) The second family line I am looking for is John C. Bailey b.1842 bplace unk. and wife Shorty. Oral History says they came from OK to AR and are Indian, however the 1880 AR Census Faulkner Co. Harve Township shows Shorty's birthplace as Tennessee 1843. All the children and two nieces living with the family born in AR. Children's names James M. b.1865, Newton H. b.1868, William F. b.1870, Joseph D.A. b.1875, Susan Arrena (aka Arrena S.)b.1875 (my ggrandmother),John T. b.1878, Horace M. b.1879-1880, nieces Turpin, Mahola C. b1863 and Golden, Delia A. b. 1867. The only other info I have on the Baileys' is that they were very tall people. Do any of these names appear in your database? Lori Gasaway, lgasaway@fbtc.net -----Original Message----- From: Nalora <vashti@theshop.net> To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: [CHOCTAW] "Reservation" >I have often heard people use the word "Reservation" in reference to the >Indians of Oklahoma, and it has always puzzled me. Most of the time it is >used when someone is reciting a family oral history, "I was told my great >great grandmother lived on a reservation in Oklahoma." I *think* the >reason people say this is because the western tribes of the US had >reservations, and so all Indians must have reservations. This is not >completely true. The five civilized tribes had NATIONS. The tribes in >Oklahoma that I KNOW had reservations are: Miami, Quapaw, Peoria, >Wyandotte, Ottawa, Sac/Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, Shawnee, Seneca, >Cheyenne-Arapaho, Apache, Ponca, Osage, Commanche, and Kiowa. > >I am almost certain that the Indians in Oklahoma that were on Reservations >were all the smaller tribes,(though I am only certain of the ones above) >and not the Five Civilized tribes. My intent in telling you this, is that >if you believe your family oral history contains truth that your ancestor >was on a reservation, you should really check the rolls and documents of >these other tribes, before you dismiss yourself from having Indian >Ancestory in Oklahoma. > >I do have a list of all the addresses for all the Federally recognized >tribes of Oklahoma if anyone needs an address or phone number. > >Here are the Tribes of Oklahoma: > >Absentee Shawnee >Apache >Caddo >Cherokee >Cheyenne-Arapaho >Chickasaw >Choctaw >Citizen Band Potawatomi >Commanche >Delaware Tribe >Delaware Nation >Eastern Shawnee >Fort Sill Chiricauhua/ Warm Springs Apache >Iowa >Kaw >Kickapoo >Kiowa >Loyal Shawnee >Miami >Modoc >Muscogee (Creek) >Osage >Otoe-Missouria >Ottawa >Pawnee >Peoria >Ponca >Quapaw >Sac and Fox >Seminole >Seneca-Cayuga >Tonkawa >United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma >Wichita and Affiliated >Wyandotte >Yuchi-Euchee > > > > >Nalora > > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >Your donations to RootsWeb makes OKGenWeb and this Choctaw list possible. RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >