"When my grand-mother left the old nation [the Choctaw homeland in Mississippi] she started from the old nation with a yoke of oxen and a wagon."
This is an 1886 affidavit of Frances Tucker about her grandmother, the half-Choctaw Abigail Rogers, on their removal from Mississippi in late 1830s. Around 70 years old, Abigail drove the team out of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, up through the rest of the state into Tennessee before crossing the Mississippi River on a ferry (most likely at Helena), and crossed almost all of Arkansas before locating a son, then went on into SW Missouri to stay with another sonbefore going south toward the new Indian Territory and dying in Carroll Co., Arkansas.
"SHE STARTED FROM THE OLD NATION WITH A YOKE OF OXEN AND A WAGON."
This is GGGG Grandma Glenn; oh, and also GGGGG Grandma Glenn.
This is an 1886 affidavit of Frances Tucker about her grandmother, the half-Choctaw Abigail Rogers, on their removal from Mississippi in late 1830s. Around 70 years old, Abigail drove the team out of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, up through the rest of the state into Tennessee before crossing the Mississippi River on a ferry (most likely at Helena), and crossed almost all of Arkansas before locating a son, then went on into SW Missouri to stay with another sonbefore going south toward the new Indian Territory and dying in Carroll Co., Arkansas.
"SHE STARTED FROM THE OLD NATION WITH A YOKE OF OXEN AND A WAGON."
This is GGGG Grandma Glenn; oh, and also GGGGG Grandma Glenn.
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