This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/1373.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thought you might be able to use this bit of info as well.: ( Source: Who Was Who Among the Southern Indians 1698 - 1907), by Don Martini:) There was a BOYD DOAK, who is thought to have been a brother to Josiah. Some sources state that it was Boyd Doak who ran/operated Doak's Stand in the lower Choctaw country in 1820. Boyd was a native of Tennessee, a white, who moved to Canton, in Madison County, Mississippi as a young man. He removed to the Yalobusha River about 1830, and in 1840 was living in Tallahatchie County. In 1851 he was living in Holly Springs, and in 1860 was in Yalobusha County. He died in 1878. He was the father of four children, but I have only got the name of one of his children, and that would be a son, Robert Doak, born in 1838, who served in the 11th Mississippi Regiment CSA, and who was a leading merchant in Grenada , Mississippi from 1865 to at least 1891. You may wish to see what turns up between Boyd and Josiah, surely, if they were brothers you can discover that, and if they weren't, there was sure to be some connection and they, at the very least ,had to have known each other. I would believe that they are brothers, but that needs to be checked out. You might want to check Goodspeeds Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, page 651 ,for more on Boyd Doak. I also show a William Doak, also a white man among the Choctaw who operated an inn on the infamous Natchez Trace in what is now Madison County, Mississippi. He operated this inn from 1812 to about 1830. There is a possible family connection there as well I would think. In 1830 he was listed as a white male between the ages of 40 - 60 living in Yazoo County. May have been the father to Josiah and /or Boyd????? Another bit of info comes from a relatively new book by James C. Milligan, entitled The Choctaw of Oklahoma. In the book, on page 71 is the following: The Village of Doaksville was located near the Fort ( Towson) by the Doak brothers at the very beginning of the removal period. The Doaks, operators of a trading post at Doak Stand in Mississippi, loaded their goods on a boat and moved to Indian Territory as early as 1831. Josiah S. Doak navigated the Mississippi and the Red ( Rivers) to near the mouth of the Kiamichi River, carried his trade goods to a spot called the "Witch Holes". and set up a store about a mile from Fort Towson that in a short time grew into the largest town in the Choctaw Nation. A post office, the first in the entire territory, was established in 1832. Hope this helps and gives you a few more clues to work with.