This list is very interesting. It has 2 of my family history surnames. Also, I noticed Mankiller. Wilma Mankiller was the Chief of the Cherokee Nation a few years ago. I was searching (still am, sigh) for my Cherokee roots and going thru a terrible divorce at the time and really felt a sort of "bond" towards her (or her name!) <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> *~Y~* *~B~* My York & Baer Family site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouryorks Family and friends York list: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/ouryorks Stewart and Wilson list: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/wmwilson I am an Angel - R U? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~angels/ ______________________________________________________________ Paternal: YORK,STEWART,WILSON,GEE,HONNOLL,LEE,McHENRY,MARTIN Other: STOUT, STINNETT, THOMPSON Maternal: BAER, KEAGY, BROWN, CHARLESWORTH, BARROW(S) , FERGUSON, HUMBLE, GATES, BRADLEY, BESWICK(E), CHADWICK, PENDLEBURY, HARDMAN, CRABTREE, HOOLE, KAY, CROMPTON, COWAN, ROTHWELL, KERSHAW < dalton@nidlink.com > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> -----Original Message----- From: KLPaints@aol.com <KLPaints@aol.com> To: OKSTEPHE-L@rootsweb.com <OKSTEPHE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 5:44 PM Subject: [OKSTEPHE Genealogy] 1873-1896 executed persons at Fort Smith Arkansas > >>From 1873 through 1896, eighty-seven men were executed on the gallows at Fort >Smith. All the men executed were convicted of rape or murder. After the Civil >War, there was a mandatory federal death sentence in cases of rape or murder. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- >-- > > >August 15, 1873 John Childers > >October 10, 1873 Six Killer > Tunagee, alias Tuni > Young Wolf > >April 3, 1874 John Billy > Isaac Filmore > John Pointer > >January 15, 1875 McClish Impson > >September 3, 1875 * Edmund Campbell * First execution under > Daniel Evans Judge Parker > Samuel Fooy > Smoker Mankiller > James Moore > William Whittington > >April 21, 1876 Gibson Ishtanubbee > William Leach > Orpheus McGee > Isham Seeley > Aaron Wilson > >September 8, 1876 Samuel Peters > Osey Sanders > John Valley > Sinker Wilson > >December 20, 1878 James Diggs > John Postoak > >August 29, 1879 William Elliot Wiley, alias Colorado Bill > Dr. Henri Stewart > >September 9, 1881 William Brown > Abler Manley > Amos Manley > Patrick McGowen > George W. Padgett > >June 30, 1882 Edward Fulsom > >April 13, 1883 Robert Massey > >June 29, 1883 William Finch > Martin Joseph > Te-o-lit-se > >July 11, 1884 John Davis > Thomas Thompson > Jack Womankiller > >April 17, 1885 William Phillips > >June 26, 1885 James Arcine > William Parchmeal > >April 23, 1886 Joseph Jackson > James Wasson > >July 23, 1886 Calvin James > Lincoln Sprole > >August 6, 1886 Kitt Ross > >January 14, 1887 John T. Echols > James Lamb > Albert O'Dell > John Stephens > >April 8, 1887 Patrick McCarty > >October 7, 1887 Seaborn Kalijah, alias Seaborn Green > Silas Hampton > >April 27, 1888 Jackson Crow > Owen Hill > George Moss > >July 6, 1888 Gus Bogles > >January 25, 1889 Richard Smith > >April 19, 1889 Malachi Allen > James Mills > >August 30, 1889 Jack Spaniard > William Walker > >January 16, 1890 Harris Austin > John Billy > Jimmon Burris > Sam Goin > Jefferson Jones > Thomas Willis > >January 30, 1890 George Tobler > >July 9, 1890 John Stansberry > >June 30, 1891 Boudinot Crumpton, alias Bood Burris > >April 27, 1892 Sheppard Busby > >June 28, 1892 John Thornton > >July 25, 1894 Lewis Holder > >September 24, 1894 John Pointer > >March 17, 1896 Crawford Goldsby, alias Cherokee Bill > >April 30, 1896 Webber Isaacs > George Pierce > John Pierce > >July 1, 1896 Rufus Buck > Lewis Davis > Lucky Davis > Maoma July > Sam Sampson > >July 30, 1896 George Wilson, alias James Casherago > > <A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/fosm/history/executions.htm">Fort Smith National >Historic Site - Executions at Fort Smith</A> Arkansas. > > > >I do not know any more about this that what I have pasted here. >Happy Holidays, >Karen in CA >I am a Pottawatomie Co., OK Genie Angel >http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878/ >My gedcom: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=Kilee >Maternal; B.U.R.T.O.N - C.O.L.E.Y - D.U.N.L.A.P - E.L.L.I.O.T.T - E.M.M.S >- F.E.A.R.O.N - F.L.A.C.K - H.E.N.D.E.R.S.O.N - H.E.S.T.E.R - H.I.C.K.E.Y - > H.U.G.H.E.S - Sarah L.O.V.E - (Vernon & Vernona) M.O.R.R.E.L.L or >M.E.R.R.I.L.L. - N.E.W.B.Y - P.A.C.E - P.E.A.R.S.O.N - P.O.R.T.E.R - >S.M.I.T.H - T.A.Y.L.O.R - V.I.N.E.Y.A.R.D - W.A.R.D > >Paternal; A.R.M.S.T.R.O.N.G - C.L.A.R.K - C.R.E.S.S.Y - D.O.D.G.E - >F.L.A.C.K - H.E.R.R.I.C.K - H.O.L.M.E.S - H.O.U.L.T - M.O.RS.E - N.A.P.P.E.R >- N.E.L.S.O.N - P.E.R.K.I.N.S - S.P.R.O.U.S.E..N - W.O.O.D.B.U.R.Y > > > >==== OKSTEPHE Mailing List ==== >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/stephens.htm >You Know You're Addicted to Genealogy if.... >you hyperventilate at the sight of an old cemetery. >Sheri Hammons Stephens County Coordinator; <mailto:hammons@shertech.net> > >============================== >Free Web space. 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