In 1892 Mrs Margaret Moncrief went to Rush Springs,Okla. where she made her home with Daughter, Mr & Mrs-James A Slaton--the last 12 yrs of her life she was bedfast due to a fall.
WPA project:Walter l Moncrief 14 Jan 1938--Okla.Indian Pioneer Interviews
My grand-parents lived at Skullyville untill 1849. Then moved to what is now Fort Arbuckle. They build their first house,a log one, on the west side of Washita River. They lived there until the Civil War, then removed to where Tishomingo now stands. At the close of the war they moved back to Fort Arbuckle and lived there until 1869.My Grandpa was one-eighth Choctaw and my Grandma was one-fourth Choctaw.
I suppose the Indian blood in them gave their roving disposition.
The next move my grand-parents made was to the mouth of the Little Washita River.
Grandpa died at Fort Sill in 1872,and was buried at Moncrief Cemetery,where for years no other person was buried except a member of the Moncrief family.This burial ground was about six miles southeast of of what is now Chickasha.
The plains Indains would raid my Grandpa farm and steal horses,cattle,and grain about once or twice a year. Grandpa killed three Indians on one of these raids.
He was given a contract from the goverment to furnish beef to soldiers at Ft Cobb & Ft Arbuckle. He had a large herd of cattle.
One time Grandfather was sent on a scouting expedition with Capt Marcy to Salt lake but in Santa Fe, New Mexico he became to ill to go on and lay weeks with fever.
At another time he was taken with soldiers to a Wichita Indian village,east of Rush Springs, on Rush Creek because he knew so many of the Indians at the village and could talk the language.
An Indian from the village had killed a soldier at Ft Arbuckle--and uprising was feared because friends of the soldier were on the way to the village to kill the Indians.
Excitement was running high, and soldiers were sent to keep down trouble but reached the village in time to see the head of the Indian, who had killed the soldier, brought in to white friends. Futher trouble was avoided by the presence for several weeks of the soldiers at the village.
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