Thank you Billie. I didn't know about 1893. Here is a partial track of the families by the year. Before 1906 Beebe came from Oklahoma and Pruitt came from Kentucky and both families settled in Gainesville. Henry Pruitt first married Rosie Beebe, grandma's younger sister. Rosie died from pneumonia and sometime after that in 1906 Henry married my grandmother Beebe in Gainesville. 1907 they moved to Thackerville where mom was born, moved to Marietta in 1910, moved to Ardmore before 1917 where Henry was killed when a brick wall fell on him. In 1927 mom was a school teacher in McAllister. Sometime before 1932 the Beebes and Pruits moved to Springdale (stringtown)Arkansas. don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Billie Walsh" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 5:27:06 AM Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something By 1908 Oklahoma was a state. In 1893 the Chickasaw lands were open to white settlement. Whether they were "Indian" could hinge on when they arrived in Thackerville. If it was after 1893 it doesn't mean someone wasn't just means they might not have been or could be of another tribe/nation. As for the question of who built the towns, most all of them would have been established by 1893. Some could have been started and built by the white settlers. <quote> Non-Chickasaw required a permit to reside in Chickasaw Nation, but this requirement was usually ignored. By 1900 there were 300,000 whites in the Indian Territory, 150,000 of whom were in the Chickasaw Nation. The 6,000 Chickasaw had become a minority in their own country. However, the land was still theirs, but even this came under attack. In 1887 Congress passed the Dawes Act mandating the breakup of Native American lands into individual allotments with the excess to be sold to whites. Protected by their treaties, the Chickasaw and other Civilized Tribes were immune to the law's provisions, but additional Congressional legislation in 1893 attempted to include them. This was initially rejected, but with the passage of the Curtis Act in 1895 dissolving their tribal governments, the Choctaw and Chickasaw finally agreed in 1897. With allotment in 1901, the Chickasaw became citizens of the United States and were allowed to vote. <unquote> On 10/20/2011 10:51 PM, donkelly wrote: > Velma Gladys Pruitt born 1908 Thackerville, south of Ardmore, Oklahoma -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb." - Benjamin Franklin - _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yes, very interesting... the Love's were in Love Co. before that time. g On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Billie. I didn't know about 1893. > > Here is a partial track of the families by the year. > > Before 1906 Beebe came from Oklahoma and Pruitt came from Kentucky and both > families settled in Gainesville. > > Henry Pruitt first married Rosie Beebe, grandma's younger sister. Rosie > died from pneumonia and sometime after that in 1906 Henry married my > grandmother Beebe in Gainesville. > > 1907 they moved to Thackerville where mom was born, moved to Marietta in > 1910, moved to Ardmore before 1917 where Henry was killed when a brick wall > fell on him. > > In 1927 mom was a school teacher in McAllister. Sometime before 1932 the > Beebes and Pruits moved to Springdale (stringtown)Arkansas. > > don > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Billie Walsh" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 5:27:06 AM > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > By 1908 Oklahoma was a state. In 1893 the Chickasaw lands were open to > white settlement. Whether they were "Indian" could hinge on when they > arrived in Thackerville. If it was after 1893 it doesn't mean someone > wasn't just means they might not have been or could be of another > tribe/nation. > > As for the question of who built the towns, most all of them would have > been established by 1893. Some could have been started and built by the > white settlers. > > <quote> > Non-Chickasaw required a permit to reside in Chickasaw Nation, but this > requirement was usually ignored. By 1900 there were 300,000 whites in > the Indian Territory, 150,000 of whom were in the Chickasaw Nation. The > 6,000 Chickasaw had become a minority in their own country. However, the > land was still theirs, but even this came under attack. In 1887 Congress > passed the Dawes Act mandating the breakup of Native American lands into > individual allotments with the excess to be sold to whites. Protected by > their treaties, the Chickasaw and other Civilized Tribes were immune to > the law's provisions, but additional Congressional legislation in 1893 > attempted to include them. This was initially rejected, but with the > passage of the Curtis Act in 1895 dissolving their tribal governments, > the Choctaw and Chickasaw finally agreed in 1897. With allotment in > 1901, the Chickasaw became citizens of the United States and were > allowed to vote. > <unquote> > > On 10/20/2011 10:51 PM, donkelly wrote: > > Velma Gladys Pruitt born 1908 Thackerville, south of Ardmore, Oklahoma > > > -- > > "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. > Liberty is a well-armed lamb." - Benjamin Franklin - > > _ _... ..._ _ > _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- Tschüß, Gail "Be who you are and say what you want because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."