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From: "Debra Schafer" <>
Subject: Re: [OKADAIR] Re: Whitmire School house shoot-out 1872
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:18:57 -0700
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I am interested in this line somewhat. Jonathan Whitmire and wife Temperance
Holt had a son named George W. Whitmire (that was a name that seemed to be
passed down through their generations). This George, born 1859 and died in
1893 in Gore, Sequoyah Co., OK (formerly Cherokee Nation). He is buried in
the Still Cemetery in Gore, Sequoyah Co., Oklahoma beside his with his two
infant sons and his mother in law. (I have pictures of all 4 tombstones).
He was married to my great grandmother, Ida Frances Bailey. They were
married the 9th of October 1890 in the Cherokee Nation. They did have a
3rd. His name was also George Washington Whitmire. He was my grandmother's
half brother. He was only 2 months old when George Sr. died. He was raised
by my gr grandfather Albert Ross Wilson (Ida's second husband) as his own.
I have a picture of him in his military uniform.

I corresponded with a Linda Pruitt at one time who decends from this line.
Her email has since been disconnected but she did send me printouts on the
information she has. I was hoping maybe researching the Whitmire line could
lead to more information on Ida's parents. I have since located that
information but have retained the Whitmire information (I ran across is it
last week when sorting through all my old email binders).

In her research she transcribes a letter and sketch from a M. Lorraine
Whitmire in 1943, Post Mistress of Addielee, Oklahoma. She states:

"George Whitmire was a half breed Cherokee Indian and was born in Georgia
near Echota (60 miles NW of Calhous), in the year 1824. He and his brother
Johnson (Jonathan??) Whitmire came to the Indian Territory about 1838 and
settled at a place what is called Peavine, south of where Baron Fork
Station, OK is now located. About 1845 he met and married Miss Elizabeth
Faught, who came to the Indian Territory as an emigrant. She was born in
Tennessee some time in Sept 1829. Mr. Whitmire later moved further down on
Baron Fork Creek where he settled and built a home which was later known as
the Whitmire Plantation. The first schools to be established in Goingsnake
District, prior to the Civil War was in 1843, which was Locust Grove, Oak
Grove, and Evans Jones. Two years later in 1845, and additional public
school was located on Peavine, south of Baron Fork Creek about 1858. Mr.
Whitmire built a house on Peavine near the New school, a distance of six
miles from where he lived, so that his children could go to school and get
and English education. They had two darkies, one named "Uncle Harry Still"
and his old "Mama" darky whom they called "Aunt Betsy", go and stay with the
children and take care of them. They would come home on weekends. Miss
Esther Smith the teacher and two of Arch Scrapers girls stayed and boarded
with them, their names were Betsy (she first married Tom Walkingstick and
later married Lincoln England), and Nancy Scraper who married John Gritts,
who was a widower with two sons, Levi and Ned.

It was not until Dec 10, 1869 that the Whitmire School was established on
the Whitmire Plantation and it was at this log school house that the Proctor
fight took place in 1872. The first men to serve on the new school board
were George Whitmire, Arch Scraper, and Gideon Morgan with Mrs. Nan Duncan,
nee Starr as teacher."

Does this give you any clues? Not familiar with the territory out there, but
it might narrow it down.

Deb
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Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [OKADAIR] Re: Whitmire School house shoot-out 1872


> Hi Gary,
> Thank you SO Much!
>
> I am surprised & saddened that the exact location of the school isn't well
> documented since it has so much history. Maybe someday that will
> change............ Please let me know if you discover anything new about
> it. Johnson Proctor (first one shot) was our gr gr gr grandfather & Zeke
> Proctor was his brother.
>
> Thank you again!
> Linda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:48:35 -0400
> Subject: Re: [OKADAIR] Re: Whitmire School house shoot-out 1872
>
>
> The Whitmire plantations were "owned" by George and Jonathan Whitmire and
> sons.
> George was the older brother and died in his late 40's. Jonathan died in
> 1900
> at age 75. Information strongly suggests that they were old settlers.
>
> Keep in mind that the land was owned by the Cherokee nation but was
> provided for
> the tribe members to reside on. The Whitmires were the second largest
> slaveholders in the Cherokee nation.
>
> The precise location of the school and boundary of the plantation is still
> a
> little unknown. I did research an 1898 USGS map and it suggested a
> possible
> location for the school to the immediate area southeast of Christy, if
> memory
> serves me correctly. I'll need to review it.
>
> Jonathan was my grt-grt grandfather.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Tue, 23 May 2006 00:25:45 -0600
> Subject: [OKADAIR] Re: Whitmire School house shoot-out 1872
>
>
> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
>
> Surnames: Reese, Ketcher, Whitmire, Phillips, Easky
> Classification: Query
>
> Message Board URL:
>
> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QYB.2ACE/809.1
>
> Message Board Post:
>
> Hi, Linda,
>
> I was wondering if you found out anything on the location of the school
> house?
> I am looking for that and the location of the whitmire plantation where
> the
> injured and killed were taken afterwards. I believe the plantation may
> have
> belonged to Palmyra and Charles Whitmire, my g-g-g grandparents. Let me
> know if
>
> you find anything!
>
>
>
>
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