Bruce,
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I just read the following paragraph in an IPP story that speaks well of one Jim Beam.
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When the Civil War broke out, Father went South into Texas to fight for the side of Confederacy and after Father had been gone for awhile, Mother, Brother and myself almost starved to death. Mother very often fed us on parched corn stirred into a little water, sort of a gruel we called it. The Bushwhackers robbed us of everything we had. Finally Mother hooked up a pair of steers and we three traveled along down to Fort Smith and there we found one of my grandfathers. I disremember which one it was. He gave us food to eat, all we could eat. I tell you I was so weak from starving, I could hardly walk. From Fort Smith Mother drove those oxen to Sulphur Springs and then to Buzzard Roost, in the Choctaw Nation. Here she found a full blood Choctaw Indian, Jim BEAM, who told Mother if she could run a loom and spin and make clothing he would take good care of her and us children. Mother was a ‘cats ankle’ at that kind of a job, so we lived on that good Indian’s place for over a year until the war was over and Father
came back to us.
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Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: February 4, 1938
Name: Elmira Stevens
Post Office: Rt. 2 Box 157, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Residence location: 6 miles southwest
Date of Birth: May 27, 1857
Place of Birth: Near Wauhillau, Indian Territory, in Goingsnake District
Other: Wauhillau, on the place called Jeff Catron farm now
Father: Lafayette Catron
Place of Birth: Tennessee
Information on father:
Mother: Nancy Roach
Place of birth: Eldon, Oklahoma
Information on mother: Died in Park Hill 1909
Field Worker: Wylie Thornton
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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