Posted on: MONCRIEF Biographies Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/m/o/MONCRIEF/biographies?read=12 Surname: HALL, MONCRIEF, MOSS, STOWE ------------------------- LEADERS AND LEADING MEN OF THE INDIAN TERRITORY SAM MONCRIEF [Choctaw] This gentleman was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, in 1851, his father and mother being both Choctaws. When a child his parents moved from the old State and settled at Fort Arbuckle, while Sam was sent early to school at the Chickasaw Male Academy, Tishomingo. Until his marriage in 1871 he spent the time looking after his father's stock, but soon embarked in his own interest in the vicinity of Fred, west of Purcell, where he has seven hundred head and a farm of eighteen hundred acres under cultivation. His first wife, Margaret Hall, dying in 1883, he married John Stowe's widow, Josephine Moss, who unfortunately died in 1889, leaving him in charge of a family of four children - Mary Jane, Walter Lee, Georgia and Sammy, the oldest of whom is sixteen years. Mr. Moncrief has had much experience with the wild Indians while residing at Fort Arbuckle, and lost many a hoof through the agency of these midnight marauders. He remembers his father and a party of his friends pursuing and killing nine of their number, three of whom fell to the share of Moncrief, Sr., who riding upon them with a doublebarrel shotgun loaded with buckshot, made sure of his game. Mr. Moncrief has an extensive claim to be adjusted by the Indian Depredation Committee.