Castella was married to Benjamin Reeves on Nov. 20, 1900 in Muskogee, I.T. On Feb. 28, 1902, Castella applied for a Creek Freedman homestead allotment of 40 acres in The Creek Nation (Southeast Quarter Section 9, Township 18, North Range 18), to The Commission of the Five Civilized Tribes at the Muskogee Land Office and received her land certificate the same day. She was shot to death by her husband eight months later. In 1904, Castella's mother Cynthia Tolliver, her Brown siblings and for some strange reason Leavenworth prisoner Ben Reeves, inherited her assigned lands. To add insult to Castella's murder, Ben's lawyer Robert P. DeGraffenried later sued Mrs. Tolliver and other heirs for the land allotment for services in defending Castella's husband, even though Ben was not a member of the Creek Tribe. The case went up to the U.S. Supreme Court and was apparently not properly settled. In 1936 another case came up in the District Court in Waggoner County, Oklahoma.
In the 1900 U.S. Census (Muskogee, Indian Territory) Castella M. Brown is listed as a single compositor (probably at a newspaper), who could read and write. Her mother and siblings
are also present in the same household.
George Brown and Cynthia J. Brown, born 1857, had the following children:
Castella Brown
George Brown, born 1884
Henrietta Brown Stewart, 1908 Muskogee, Agency Cem. She died on a train. See findagrave.
Shelly Brown of Muskogee, brother-in-law of Ben R, wrote a letter to him in prison. Inmate file.
Cynthia J. Tolliver and ? had the following children:
Birtanna Tolliver, born 1892
Lucille Tolliver, born 1894
Ivey Tolliver, born 1895
They all appear on the Creek Nation Freedman Card.
Castella was married to Benjamin Reeves on Nov. 20, 1900 in Muskogee, I.T. On Feb. 28, 1902, Castella applied for a Creek Freedman homestead allotment of 40 acres in The Creek Nation (Southeast Quarter Section 9, Township 18, North Range 18), to The Commission of the Five Civilized Tribes at the Muskogee Land Office and received her land certificate the same day. She was shot to death by her husband eight months later. In 1904, Castella's mother Cynthia Tolliver, her Brown siblings and for some strange reason Leavenworth prisoner Ben Reeves, inherited her assigned lands. To add insult to Castella's murder, Ben's lawyer Robert P. DeGraffenried later sued Mrs. Tolliver and other heirs for the land allotment for services in defending Castella's husband, even though Ben was not a member of the Creek Tribe. The case went up to the U.S. Supreme Court and was apparently not properly settled. In 1936 another case came up in the District Court in Waggoner County, Oklahoma.
In the 1900 U.S. Census (Muskogee, Indian Territory) Castella M. Brown is listed as a single compositor (probably at a newspaper), who could read and write. Her mother and siblings
are also present in the same household.
George Brown and Cynthia J. Brown, born 1857, had the following children:
Castella Brown
George Brown, born 1884
Henrietta Brown Stewart, 1908 Muskogee, Agency Cem. She died on a train. See findagrave.
Shelly Brown of Muskogee, brother-in-law of Ben R, wrote a letter to him in prison. Inmate file.
Cynthia J. Tolliver and ? had the following children:
Birtanna Tolliver, born 1892
Lucille Tolliver, born 1894
Ivey Tolliver, born 1895
They all appear on the Creek Nation Freedman Card.
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