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Oct 28, 2010 12:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by carolannmartin on Oct 28, 2010 12:01:30 GMT -5
What a great site this is! This is the story I am working on and at the end of the story I have listed the photos I am looking for. Thanks!
A couple of months ago I started researching my husband's family. We knew that he was part Cherokee but that was it.
Well, with lots of looking I have been able to get back to 1790 with a grandfather named Cah-Stah-Yees-Tee WhipLash Murphy from North Carolina. This grandfather was married to Mary 'Polly' Reily Murphy. They had three sons, David, Jesse and Martin. My husband is related through Jesse. Jesse married Polly Allen and they had several children. After the civil war Jesse died and Polly decided to take her children out to Oklahoma. I don't believe that they were on the Trail of Tears, I think the Murphy family was one of those families that either hid in the mountains or were on a white man's land. Not sure yet of those facts. Anyway, once the family was out in Oklahoma, my husband's great great grandmother Emma C Murphy married a man named B.H. Stone. B.H. was a photographer as well as an attorney. After they were married B.H. became the owner, editor of a newspaper named 'The Tahlequah Telephone'. In 1887 the Cherokees were to have an election to name a new chief. There were two parties. The Downing party with candidate Mayes and the Nationalists with candidate and then present chief Bunch. The official Cherokee newspaper's editor was E. C. Boudinot jr. The two editors Stone and Boudinot started having strong words with each other through their editorials. Stone was for Mayes and Boudinot was for Bunch. On Oct 1, 1887 Boudinot walked into Stone's office and murdered him with a gun. I have some newspaper accounts of the time and of the murder. The two were either members of the Masons or the Odd Fellows and whichever one they belonged to ousted Boudinot for a time for having murdered one of their own which was against their rules. In a newspaper account it said that the Odd Fellows buried B.H. Stone. So, that is part of the story that is still up in the air. The election became so heated that the president of the United States sent an envoy, Armstrong, out to try and settle things. In the newspapers there was talk of fear of an out and out civil war between the Cherokee. Things were finally settled and Mayes became the new chief.
I am looking now for any photos of the participants in this story. I found the picture of Boudinot on this site. But, I know out that there must pics that Stone took and was hoping to also have a picture of Stone. And, I would also like a picture of Mayes if anyone has one.
A couple of months ago I started researching my husband's family. We knew that he was part Cherokee but that was it.
Well, with lots of looking I have been able to get back to 1790 with a grandfather named Cah-Stah-Yees-Tee WhipLash Murphy from North Carolina. This grandfather was married to Mary 'Polly' Reily Murphy. They had three sons, David, Jesse and Martin. My husband is related through Jesse. Jesse married Polly Allen and they had several children. After the civil war Jesse died and Polly decided to take her children out to Oklahoma. I don't believe that they were on the Trail of Tears, I think the Murphy family was one of those families that either hid in the mountains or were on a white man's land. Not sure yet of those facts. Anyway, once the family was out in Oklahoma, my husband's great great grandmother Emma C Murphy married a man named B.H. Stone. B.H. was a photographer as well as an attorney. After they were married B.H. became the owner, editor of a newspaper named 'The Tahlequah Telephone'. In 1887 the Cherokees were to have an election to name a new chief. There were two parties. The Downing party with candidate Mayes and the Nationalists with candidate and then present chief Bunch. The official Cherokee newspaper's editor was E. C. Boudinot jr. The two editors Stone and Boudinot started having strong words with each other through their editorials. Stone was for Mayes and Boudinot was for Bunch. On Oct 1, 1887 Boudinot walked into Stone's office and murdered him with a gun. I have some newspaper accounts of the time and of the murder. The two were either members of the Masons or the Odd Fellows and whichever one they belonged to ousted Boudinot for a time for having murdered one of their own which was against their rules. In a newspaper account it said that the Odd Fellows buried B.H. Stone. So, that is part of the story that is still up in the air. The election became so heated that the president of the United States sent an envoy, Armstrong, out to try and settle things. In the newspapers there was talk of fear of an out and out civil war between the Cherokee. Things were finally settled and Mayes became the new chief.
I am looking now for any photos of the participants in this story. I found the picture of Boudinot on this site. But, I know out that there must pics that Stone took and was hoping to also have a picture of Stone. And, I would also like a picture of Mayes if anyone has one.
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