J.M Allen
Private
Co. D
Deneale's Battalion (later Deneale's Regt Choctaw Warriors)
enrolled Lukfahtah, March 14, 1862
Lukfahtah (or Lukfatah or Lukfata or Lokfata) is on the west side of Broken Bow, McCurtain County, OK. There was a mission school there as early as 1841.
Leaving Yazoo River going West one mile you come to Lukfatah, a settlement and postoffice. Rev. Loring S. Williams, who started Beth-a-Bara School, also started a school there and called it "White Clay." The word "Lukfatah" is a translation of "White Clay." Lukfi means "dirt" or "clay" and Hatah means "white," "white clay."
Previous to 1855 there was a white man by name of Skelton who kept a store at this place, and his store became headquarters for any payments made to the Choctaws in that part of the country. It is said that during the payment of 1855 he paid out in gold all the money that was paid to Choctaws in that part of the country. The place became known as Skelton Depot. Skelton Depot, White Clay and Lukfatah are all one and the same place. [Chronicles of Oklahoma; Volume 10, No. 4; December, 1932; RECOLLECTIONS OF PETER HUDSON]
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