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38.Margaret Susan7 Woods (Horace6, Asenath5 Shedd, Daniel4, Daniel3, Nathan2, Daniel1) was born May 1841 in Indian Territory, and died Unknown.She married Samuel Henry Bohanan, son of William Bohanon and Phoebe Anderson.He was born July 1840 in Indian Territory, and died Unknown.
Notes for Margaret Susan Woods:
Choctaw Roll #5723, Census Card 2002, 1/2 Choctaw
From Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 12, p. 298 [this passage written by Peter J. Hudson]:
"Another sister of Ben Woods, Margaret, married Samuel H. Bohanan of the well known half-breed Bohanan family, my wife, Amanda Bohanan Hudson, being one of their daughters."
A child adopted by Samuel and Margaret, later called Mrs. Frazier, was interviewedby Lawrence A. Williams on July 15, 1937 for the Indian-PioneerPapers.
"Mrs. Frazier was born in Indian Territory in 1884 about six miles south east of Whitesboro. She lives within about two hundred yards of where she was born. Mrs. Frazier is of Irish descent. Her mother was killed in an accident when she was two years old. She was adopted and reared by Sam Bohanan who was a full-blood Choctaw who owned the Bohanan Trading Post.
"Mrs. Frazier quotes:
'I never went to school very much. When I did go I studied the Blue Back Speller. It was not very easy to go to school then, as no Indian children were allowed to go to school with white children.
'In those days there weren't any kinds of medicines to take except what we made ourselves.
'For chills we used cherry bark, sassafras bark, and dog wood. We would boil these in equal parts, then mix them with honey.
'For cough syrup we used hickory bark, sassafras and elm also mixed with honey.
'For pneumonia we used sassafras, willow, plum root and peppermint weed.
'For boils and feverish wounds, baked poke root and boiled peach leaves were used.
"Corn and meat were our main foods. We could cook them many different ways. I can't remember very many of them now but there was Tom Fuller, sour bread, and shuck break. We used a powder made from burnt bean hulls to make shuck bread. Everyone cooked outside. There was no certain time to eat and anyone could eat when he felt like it. We killed dozens of hogs every fall for our meat supply.
'We had a camp meeting every summer. All the Indians always attended these meetings.
'I was too young to remember about their stomp dances, but have heard the older people talk about them.
'My foster mother used to make our clothes with a spinning wheel. She used white sumac, sweet gum and walnuts to dye the clothes.
'We always traveled in a big wagon pulled by oxen."
Notes for Samuel Henry Bohanan:
Choctaw Roll #5722, Census Card 2002, 1/2 Choctaw
Children of Margaret Woods and Samuel Bohanan are:
+ | 64 | i. | Amanda Jane8 Bohanan, born April 15, 1874; died November 05, 1963. | |
+ | 65 | ii. | William Johnson Bohanan, born 1862; died Unknown. | |
+ | 66 | iii. | Thomas Henry Bohanan, born April 07, 1865 in Wade County, Choctaw Nation; died Unknown. | |
67 | iv. | Levi W. Bohanan, born December 15, 1866; died March 04, 1905.He married Harriet Benton39; died Unknown. | ||
68 | v. | Phoebe A. Bohanan, born 1877; died 1940.She married Tandy Wall; born 1879; died 1950. |
More About Phoebe A. Bohanan: Burial: Unknown, Albion Cemetery |
+ | 69 | vi. | Julius H. Bohanan, died Unknown. | |
70 | vii. | Minnie A. Bohanan, died Unknown.She married (1) Charley Sexton39; died Unknown.She married (2) Colton Bacon; died Unknown. | ||
+ | 71 | viii. | Florence A. Bohanan, died Unknown. | |
72 | ix. | Unknown Bohanan, born December 17, 1883; died December 17, 1883. |
39.Mary Catherine7 Woods (Horace6, Asenath5 Shedd, Daniel4, Daniel3, Nathan2, Daniel1) was born Abt. 1848, and died Unknown.She married Miles William Malone.He died Unknown.
Child of Mary Woods and Miles Malone is:
+ | 73 | i. | James David8 Malone, born October 16, 1871 in Mississippi; died February 15, 1953 in Ethel, Attala County, Mississippi. |
40.Isabella7 Woods (Horace6, Asenath5 Shedd, Daniel4, Daniel3, Nathan2, Daniel1) was born September 1854 in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and died November 01, 1922.She married (1) Alfred Sexton Abt. 1876.He was born Abt. 184040, and died Unknown.She married (2) Gilbert Wesley Dukes Abt. 1888, son of Joseph Dukes and Nancy Collins.He was born November 21, 1849 in Lukfatah, Boktukalo County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, and died December 26, 1919 in Talihina, Oklahoma41.
Notes for Isabella Woods:
Census card #2203
More About Isabella Woods:
Burial: Unknown, Post Oak Cemetery, Pushmataha County
More About Alfred Sexton and Isabella Woods:
Marriage: Abt. 1876
Notes for Gilbert Wesley Dukes:
When Gilbert was 14 years old he enlisted in the Civil War as a Confederate calvaryman in Colonel Jack McCurtain's battallian in the Choctaw nation.
When Gilbert and Angeline Wade were married they moved to the Dukes Homestead, about four miles east of Talihina, a homestead of about five hundred acres of fine land, where the family pursued farming and cattle raising.
The first office he held was Sheriff of Wade County for two years. He subsequently became a representative in the Choctaw national council and has served as representative and senator at intervals after the early 1870's. He was also a supreme judge of the nation for four years and the circuit judge of the second district for seven years. He was National Auditor for two years. In August, 1900 he was elected as chief & governor of the Choctaw nation for a term of two years.
Buried at Post Oak Cemetery at Post Oak Indian Presbyterian Church, on the south side of the Kiamichi River, 12 miles southeast of Talihina.
Choctaw Roll #6386, census card #2203.
From Eastern Oklahoma Indians & Pioneers, Vol. 3, c. 1994, by Arlene LeMaster:
"Gilbert W. Dukes was born in 1850. He was 1/2 Choctaw Indian. His parents were Joseph and Nancy Dukes. He was first married to Angeline Dukes. They had three children: Joseph A., Edwin and Josephine. After her death he married Isabelle Sexton, widow of Alfred Sexton. Isabelle was 1/2 Choctaw, her parents were Horace Woods, a white man and No-wa-ho-ke, a full blood Choctaw Indian. Gilbert and Isabelle's children were: Minerva and D.H."
From Chronicles of Oklahoma, volume ?, p. 58:
"The Chief married Angeline Wade in 1870. She was a daughter of Gov. Alfred Wade, was born on December 7, 1849, died on Octber 18, 1887 and is buried in the old Wadesville Cemetery. After her death, he married Isabella, a daughter of Horace Woods, a white man who was a native of Massachusetts where he was born in 1801..."
From Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 12, p. 298 [this passage written by Peter J. Hudson]:
"Ben Woods married a sister of Gilbert Dukes. Governor Dukes, at the death of his first wife, Angelina Wade, daughter of Governor Alfred Wade, married Isabel Woods, sister of Ben Woods."
More About Gilbert Wesley Dukes:
Burial: Unknown, Post Oak Cemetery, Pushmataha County, OK, unmarked grave
Military service: Abt. 1863, Enlisted to serve in Civil War-Confederate cavalry
Occupation: Choctaw chief & governor
More About Gilbert Dukes and Isabella Woods:
Marriage: Abt. 1888
Child of Isabella Woods and Alfred Sexton is:
74 | i. | Charles8 Sexton, born January 1882 in Indian Territory, Oklahoma; died Unknown. |
Children of Isabella Woods and Gilbert Dukes are:
75 | i. | Minerva8 Dukes, born August 1890; died Unknown.She married O'Brien; died Unknown. | ||
76 | ii. | Leatta Dukes, born December 1893; died Unknown.She married Edwards; died Unknown. | ||
77 | iii. | D. Hopaieshabee Dukes, born December 1896; died Unknown. |
Notes for D. Hopaieshabee Dukes: Hopaieshabee is a Choctaw name which means prophesy and kill. |