Sandee, You should check the WWI Draft Registration Cards for Oklahoma. Draft Reg. Cards are a great source of research information for the most part. There is a Dock Tatum who was listed as Indian, born 12 Aug 1897. Reg. in Pontotoc Co. There is a Thomas Tatum who was listed as Caucausian, born 5 Oct 1891. Reg. in Pontotoc Co. There are other Tatums but either white or black. Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW] What to do?? > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: sandee > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.natam.nations.choctaw.choctawnat/2859.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Bless you!! > > My great grandfather's name was C.B. (Charles Bailey?) Tatum, b. abt 1848. > My great grandmother's father disowned her because she married CBT (as us > cousins now refer to him). They married in 1885, had five children, and > then he disappeared, presumably murdered, in 1897. They lived in > Clarksville, Texas, and CBT, according to his children, 'worked' in > IT...either as a deputy (no proof, at all) or an interpreter...he > supposedly spoke five languages and was part Indian. Our grandparents > remember going fishing on the Kiamichi with Indian relatives. > > CBT is not in any of the four censuses (1850, 1860, 1870, nor 1880) in any > state. Us cousins have years and years of research doing line by line > searches for him. He 'appeared' out of nowhere in 1885 when he married my > g grandmother in Franklin County, Texas...and then 'disappeared' in 1897. > > We have submitted our DNA to the Tatum DNA project and we seem to have > close connections with the Tatums from Alabama. > > Also, according to our grandparents, CBT had a brother named Andrew > Jackson Tatum...and I found one who seemed to fit the bill. > > Andrew Jackson Tatum, b. 1853, d. 1928. His wife was Alice Henson and > their children were Dock, Jay, Thomas, Lula, and Sitting Bull. According > to the 1900 IT Census, Andrew was 1/2 Choctaw...his father (Tatum) was > white and was born in Alabama, his mother was Choctaw and was born in IT. > Andrew and family lived in Vian, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma; however, he > died in Tulsa and was buried in Oaklawn. There is no information regarding > his parents on his death certificate. > > I sincerely appreciate any help/advice that you can give me. > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you > would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link > above and respond on the board. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHOCTAW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message