From: Rlang90547 To: Taloah do you have any information on these flinchums who married into my Impson line in Indian Territory, Choctaw Nation? Ken johnson referred me to you. thanks. 1 William Flinchum . +susan flinchum .... 2 Eveline Flinchum 1876 - ........ +William C .Impson 1874 - __ << Rusty Lang, rlang90547@aol.com Impson Mailing List administrator Impson Surname Board administrator Visit my website at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~impson/index.htm <A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~impson/">Click here: index.htm </A> Check out the Impson Surname Board at http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/i/m/IMPSON/ Subscribe to the Impson Mailing List at: IMPSON-L@rootsweb.com Researching: ADAMS, ANDERSON, BILLY, BOHANON, BURRIS, COLBERT, CUZALINA, DANENHOUR, ELLIS, FENNELL, FLETCHER, FOLSOM, FREENY, GARDNER, GULLY, HAMPTON, HARKINS, HEWITT, HULL, JONES, MACKEY, MURPHEY, ROBINSON, SISCO, TOAZ, and others. ______________________________________________________________________________ _________________ Hi Rusty, I remember my grandmother speaking of an Eveline I think. William Washington Flinchum was my grand father, but his first wife was Ruby. My grandmother was Nora Adelaide Leathers. He was born in 1880, the first of James S.W.Flinchum's and Julia Ann Turnbull's 9 or so children. 1876 would have put the age that you are talking about most likely the generation before. Except for the Turnbull connection, I have known no other Flinchum/Choctaw connection. There is though the brother or uncle of my great grandfather, James S. W. Flinchum--Andrew Jackson Flinchum. They were in that area and it would be surprising if another of them hadn't married a Choctaw. Something about whites getting access to Indian land. I have the court records for Blue County and the number of what must have been white "renters" is overwhelming. I think it wasn't very long in those early days where the whites were already in the majority. Of course, I recognize all the names you mention, just about all of them. Impson I have not seen as a possible tie, but many I noted along the way. Bohanan crops up early in the Turnbull lineage. I have often wondered why there were no apparent marriages between the Freenys and the Turnbulls and the Folsoms, because they were living so close together. If I remember correctly Isaac Folsom was in the congregation of MT. Pleasant Presbyterian mission church. There was Susan Folsom (her father was not Isaac though) who married Simeon Turnbull, my great-grandmother's brother and one of the 13 children of Turner B. T. Senior and Jerico Perkins. Their first child was born 1841 and last one, we think about 1864. My great grandmother Julia Ann was born 1860. Turner Turnbull Jr. (1850-1908) and "Judge" Freeny were drinking (social, yeh right) and horse trading buddies the way the Stuarts (the younger generation) tell it. White traders thought they could get them plowed enough that they could be flimflammed into bad trades. According to one of the younger Stuart daughters now running the big ranch at Caddo and Atoka, they were to have said, "No, we drink tonight. We trade horses tomorrow." It was a very colorful, exciting era. I think the Turnbulls bounced back and forth on and off the side of the law. I haven't looked at the Blue Court records in quite awhile, but there may be other Flinchums listed there. A family story said James S. W. was part Cherokee, but there is nothing to support that. They were sure positive about it, but there is no way that could be unless it came from James' mother. If I find anything about this "William," I will let you know. I just wish I had had the good sense to understand the history I had a my finger tips when my grandfather and grandmother were alive. Unfortunately he died when I was a teenager, but most of my information came from her. Indians don't talk much, especially about "stuff" like this, unfortunately. At any rate I will pass on what I find in the Court records and if anything comes to mind. Frankie James