The Skullyville Freedmen's Project (Continued)

Indian Territory Map 1894

Choctaw Freedmen who lived in Skullyville resided in 4 primary communities: Braden, Brazil, Spiro, and Oak Lodge. A few others had relatives in Mountain, nearby Fort Smith, and some had relatives also in nearby Cherokee Nation. This is a continuation of the Freedmen on the Dawes Roll in the Skullyville Community.

Card No.     Names on Card                                (Post Office)
731               Griffin Folsom and family                 (Brazil)
732               Julia Brown and son                          (Spiro)
733               Joseph Thompson, son and g-son      (Oak Lodge)
734               Sylvester Freeman and children        (Brazil)
735               Cora Lena Folsom and children        (Braden)
736               Jordon Kingsbury -only name           (Braden)
737               Lige Kingsbury --only name              (Braden)
738               Edmund White and family                 (Brazil)
739               Cora Wilson and son                          (Brazil)
740               Silas Johnson -- only name                (Braden)
742               Martha Henderson and children        (Braden)       
743               Ida Norman and children                   (Brazil)
744               Lizzie Anderson and children           (Braden)
745               Thomas Colbert and family              (Oak Lodge)
746               Robert Wright and family                 (Brazil)
747               Sarah James and family                    (Brazil)
748               Mose James -- only name                 (Spiro)
749               Clayton Piner and children               (Oak Lodge)
750               Phoebe Brown and son                     (Walls)
751               Thaddeus Eubanks                            (Cavanaugh)
752               Ceasar Brown  -- only name             (Spiro)  
753               Alexander Garrett --only name         (Brazil)
754               Andrew Eubanks -- only name         (Brazil)
755               York May and sons                           (Oak Lodge)
756               Peter McCarty -- only name             (Oak Lodge)                       
759               Mary Brown and family                   (Brazil)                                     
760               Louis McKinney and daughters       (Brazil)                               
761               Ada Harris and children                   (Brazil)                                         
762               Lucinda Johnson and children         (Walls)
763               Andrew Pulcher and family             (Walls)
764               Ned Pulcher and family                   (Walls)
766               Peter Cass, mother niece and nephews   (Walls)
768               Solomon Campbell -- only name     (Brazil)
774               Jack Le Flore -- only name              (Oak Lodge)
777               Sam Walton and family                    (Oak Lodge)
SUGAR LOAF COUNTY
Card No        Names on Card                            (Post Office)
670               Polly Ann Eliza Crow - only name (Heavener)
671               Davis Frazier -- only name             (Houston)
672               Jeff Anderson  -- only name           (Wister)
673               Joe Perry -- only name                    (Wister)

Sugar Loaf is included with this project because of its proximity to Skullyville. Interestingly, only four cards actually came from the Sugar Loaf area, by the time of the Dawes Commission. Just as interesting was the fact that the cards reflected only isolated individuals. No families were reflected on any of the four cards. Each card simply held one name. Thirdly and possibly the most interesting fact was that Polly Ann Eliza Crow, Davis Frazier, and Joe Perry were related to each other. Those three individuals were all a part of my family and all were direct descendants of Kitty James Crow. Kitty and James, who were deceased by that time, and they the grandparents to Sallie Walton, my great grandmother.

The  small presence of Freedmen in Sugar Loaf is interesting to note, and more study of the people enslaved in both communities will be conducted.