by Sharon Hall | Aug 5, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
By her own admission before the Department of the Interior Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes on October 24, 1900, Delilah Sixkiller Bushyhead was around fifty years old, meaning she was probably born sometime between 1849-1851 in the Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 2, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Bushyhead You won’t find today’s surname in Patronymica Britannica, nor will you find a family crest or coat of arms. I ran across the name recently, decided to research its origins and found it to be quite fascinating. The name appeared before the Revolutionary War...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 24, 2014 | Feudin' & Fightin' Friday
It was a Kansas feud, a county seat war, but the massacre occurred in a strip of land which is now part of Oklahoma, the “panhandle” part. In 1888, however, it was called the “Neutral Strip” or “No Man’s Land”. Stevens County, Kansas was established in southwest...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 22, 2014 | Tombstone Tuesday
This cemetery was apparently a family cemetery on a plot of land owned by John W. Measles of Lavaca, Sebastian County, Arkansas since the first person buried there was John’s son Emil who died in 1891 at the age of twenty-two. How long it remained a private cemetery...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 19, 2014 | Surname Saturday
Boaz There are several theories about the origins and meaning of the Boaz surname. First of all, Boaz appears in scripture as a forename, the kinsman redeemer for Ruth, who later became her husband. Thus it is possible that Christians in England took Boaz as a...
