Sandra, My parents both came from Eufaula, my grandfather was also born in Eufaula. I have tons and tons of data on Eufaula people and stories. My dad is still living and is a great story teller. I have little funny stories of his child hood and things he and some of the things the kids did for entertainment. One for instance was they hand a "gang"...can you imagine...that was back about 1929/30, he was born in 1921. They were about like the "Little Rascals"....I have local kids names, men in their late 70's and early 80's now that were in it....they called one the "Tin Can Alley Gang"....they didn't hurt one, did no harm, but were just a group of little boys that stuck together. I believe the other was the "Mesquito Net" gang, I will have to call daddy and ask him for sure on that one, but I believe that was it. There are memories in Eufaula that I remember as a child that visited my grandparents every summer. There are memories of places now that are covered in water. There are the thoughts that many many many of my ancestor's remains are floating around in that dirty looking Lake. Only one part of it is ever pretty and clear, the rest of the time it is red, clay looking. I have trampled through cemeteries, some that didn't get moved and some that did. I have been stuck in sand up to the front door of my car on those old back sandy roads. My mother was born out TExanna area on top of Push Hill in a log cabin in 1917. Texanna area is the road that goes down from the Belle Starr Restaurant that was in operation at one time. My grandfather was born in "Old Town". I have tons of family names in those cemeteries. One member of my dad's family on his mother's side, the Brassfields, came to I.T. in 1893 as a refugee from Arkansas where he had been accused of shooting and killing a man by the name of Bill Hamm. He was facing 21 years in prison in Arkansas and wanted by Judge Parker's Court for breaking jail. The fight with Hamm was a gun fight over cattle so family stories have been passed down and told......Abner Brassfield was his name, he was the son of Sedrick Perry Brassfield and Matilda Gee Brassfield from Ark. They moved to I.T. in the Brooken area where Abner had fled. Bounty hunters Brass Reeves and others came looking for Abner. There was a shoot out in front of the Eufaula post office where Abner shot off the thumb of one bounty hunter and left bullets in the post office door. Abner escaped to his families home and had the shackels and chains cut off by a friendly neighbor and then headed for Texas for 2 years. There another bounty hunter found him, shot him in the arm, at that Abner came back home and turned himself in and did 4 yrs in Ark. Prison and was released and went back to Eufaula and served his life out as a deputy marshall....His father Sederick Perry Brassfield and his uncle Abner Brassfield were accused of plotting to help Abner Brassfield, (JR) as they called him escape and they made many trips to Ark. to Harrison, Ark. to face the charges, but they were finally dismissed, they had posted something like $750.00 bond, each of them.....they did not help Abner Jr. he just was fast. The story has been a life time story in the family but a few yrs bk a man by the name of Art Burton wrote a book called Black, Red and Deadly, you can pull this up on the internet under Amazon.com and read a few excerpts from the book. It's great and can give you a lot of data..... I also have had posted for years on the net 'WHO SHOT GENERAL SHERIDAN BRASSFIELD", General was his first real name, but they called him "Sherd"...he was the Abner mentioned above's younger brother and "Sherd Brassfield" was my dad's grandfather and my gr. grandfather. He carries a story of three men riding up to the "tent" that he and my gr. grandmother lived in. She was Addie Belle Hinsley Brassfield. He had been to town, these men road up and hollered for Sherd to come out, he walked out of the tent and one of them shot him, he died later.....This was Dec. 29 I think from memory 1905 before my grandmother's birth, my gr. grandmother was preg. with my grandmother at the time. My grandmother had a sister that was 2 or 3 that being Matilda Melvina Brassfield Kirby...Tilda. NOW, this has been a hushed up story all of my grandmother's 65 years of her life, she never knew her real father, it has been hushed up to my father and he was very inquisitive and now I will not let it die, I want to know who shot him. There are some other Hamm families buried in various cemeteries in the Eufaula area, what I wonder, is did this family move to Eufaula area following Abner thinking they could get even with the Brassfield family and did one of the Hamms in turn kill "Sheridan"????? I have an old email addresss of [email protected] You can probably find the story written if you pull it up like that. I have it listed various places. Would appreciate a reply and see if any of my stories would be of interest to you. Thanks, Phyllis Kimbro Cata Joplin, MO [email protected] aol - KatieOhara911 I'm on ICQ also ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 5:23 PM Subject: [OKMCINTO] Eufaula History > Hello, everyone. I am just about done with our Eufaula Homepage. I have tons > of Eufaula Links. > > I haven't got it listed as of yet. Because I want it completed before showing > everyone. I am on the Eufaula's Page now that I have made. I need a couple of > things. > > 1. I need some history of Eufaula. > a. I am wanting individuals to email me the history on Eufaula. It has to be > your own personal work about the city of Eufaula. Once they are emailed to > me. I will post the stories/ history of Eufaula. I will also put your name on > your piece of work so that everybody in the world can see your piece of > history on Eufaula,Oklahoma. > > 2. I have links that will be available for posting. If you have a genealogy > page address (URL) and you want it listed onto the Genealogy Page email me. I > also have links available for businesses, organizations and one for Eufaula > Lake Links. > > 3. I have many pages. > Here are some of the pages that I have so far. It should be up and going: Feb > 1, 2000. > > Welcome to Eufaula Oklahoma (tons of Eufaula links) > Mayor's Page (A personal page from the Mayor) > Eufaula Churches (Church addresses & Mailing Lists) > Eufaula Restaurant Page (Come and Taste Some of Eufaula's Wonderful Food) > Eufaula's Genealogy & History Page & Sites (Oklahoma Gene, Eufaula Gene. & > Eufaula's History) > Eufaula Events (Annual Events) > Lodging Sites & Real Estate Agents (Their addresses) > Eufaula's Other Businesses > Eufaula Oklahoma Team Load Downs (School Team Scores and Player Highlights) > Eufaula's Fishing Page (Submissions from local people on their catches on > Eufaula Lake, their fish stories & Possible Fish Recipes) > > Nothing totally fancy. But at least we will have a Eufaula Homepage that > everyone can interact with. > > We can list this list as a list for Eufaula. I have more ideas to. I just > have to have the time to do it all. > > Well, I just wanted to update everyone on what I have been doing for the last > two months. I hope to have it completed by Feb. 1, 2000. Lets see if I can > make it. > > Some of my pages won't have anything until people submit their ideas, story, > etc. > > Sandra Sheldon > > > > > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > >