He lived in Indian Territory before the Run of '89, amongst the Cherokee. His wife and child lived with him there until he sent them back to Missouri for their safety and so that he could find a better life for them. He came back sometime between Oct 1885 and Oct 1886 and then disappeared after.
The date of his death is approximate because the family doesn't really know when he died, and since his wife wouldn't claim the body of a man, wearing his clothes, who was found some weeks later, after he left home to run an errand.
The family suspects that he was killed by the Bald Knobbers, because his father-in-law joined the Missouri State Milita for a year soon after, presumably to find and bring the killers to justice. There is also the possibility that he may have been involved with the Oklahoma Boomers.
His is an unmarked grave at the back of the cemetery. He is lost but certainly NOT forgotten.
The date of his death is approximate because the family doesn't really know when he died, and since his wife wouldn't claim the body of a man, wearing his clothes, who was found some weeks later, after he left home to run an errand.
The family suspects that he was killed by the Bald Knobbers, because his father-in-law joined the Missouri State Milita for a year soon after, presumably to find and bring the killers to justice. There is also the possibility that he may have been involved with the Oklahoma Boomers.
His is an unmarked grave at the back of the cemetery. He is lost but certainly NOT forgotten.
He lived in Indian Territory before the Run of '89, amongst the Cherokee. His wife and child lived with him there until he sent them back to Missouri for their safety and so that he could find a better life for them. He came back sometime between Oct 1885 and Oct 1886 and then disappeared after.
The date of his death is approximate because the family doesn't really know when he died, and since his wife wouldn't claim the body of a man, wearing his clothes, who was found some weeks later, after he left home to run an errand.
The family suspects that he was killed by the Bald Knobbers, because his father-in-law joined the Missouri State Milita for a year soon after, presumably to find and bring the killers to justice. There is also the possibility that he may have been involved with the Oklahoma Boomers.
His is an unmarked grave at the back of the cemetery. He is lost but certainly NOT forgotten.
The date of his death is approximate because the family doesn't really know when he died, and since his wife wouldn't claim the body of a man, wearing his clothes, who was found some weeks later, after he left home to run an errand.
The family suspects that he was killed by the Bald Knobbers, because his father-in-law joined the Missouri State Milita for a year soon after, presumably to find and bring the killers to justice. There is also the possibility that he may have been involved with the Oklahoma Boomers.
His is an unmarked grave at the back of the cemetery. He is lost but certainly NOT forgotten.
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