Just a tidbit of trivia - The first known Moncrief family in Indian Territory was William Moncrief and his wife Margaret Hall Moncrief. Since both William and Margaret were both part Choctaw Indian, their children made application to the Dawes Commission for land in the Indian Territory (prior to the time OK became a state). I have found only one that spelled his name "Muncrief" - the rest used "Moncrief". Wm. was dead by this time, but even his wife, Margaret, used the "o" and not the "u". On one of their son's (whose name was Wm. also) there was a place where someone had put a "u" and it was corrected to an "o". Like I said, just a tidbit of trivia. Marlene