Family Stories from the Trail of Tears (taken from the Indian-Pioneer
History Collection, Grant Foreman, editor) | ||
6. Cook, Wallace
March 17, 1937
Cook, Wallace
Grace Kelley, Field Worker
When my grandfather, Emeithle Harjo, was twenty-five or thirty years old, he was removed to the Indian Territory, from Alabama. The boat that he was to cross the Mississippi in was a dilapidated affair and sank in the Mississippi River. He swam pretty near all night saving the women and children. They were all brought here and turned loose like something wild. He had to walk from here to the Fort Gibson to get the axe and gun that the Government promised and gave to him. He built his home across the highway from here. There are some house there but they are not the ones he built, they burned, and rotted down.
Family Stories from the Trail of Tears (taken from the Indian-Pioneer
History Collection, Grant Foreman, editor) | ||