Angeline " Andie " TURNBULL

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Angeline married David MATHIS before 1882. David was born about 1864; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1. Mary Jane MATHIS was born in 1882; and died.
2. Eliza A. MATHIS was born in 1883; and died.
3. Susan F. MATHIS was born in 1885; and died.
4. Josephine MATHIS was born in 1889; and died.

Angeline married Samuel RIGGS before 1894. Samuel was born about 1864; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1. Samuel RIGGS was born in 1894; and died.
2. Lee RIGGS was born in 1896; and died.
3. Wilson RIGGS was born in 1897; and died.

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Turner married Angelico " Jerico" PERKINS in 1840 in Blue County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma. Angelico was born in 1826 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; died in 1893 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory; was buried in Turnbull Family Cemetery, Bryan County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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FROM LESA FROMMER:
George married a fullblood Choctaw, giving him a definite tie to the Choctaws. Some speculate she may have been a daughter of Apuckshenubbe, Chief of the Western district in Mississippi with a relationship to Tobaca also a chief of the western division. Her name was thought to be Sarah, a member of the Lobutcha Clan. George was a signer of the Treaty of Doaks Stand in 1820, the first attempt at the Choctaw removal, and was listed as being a recipient of land under Article 14 of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit in 1830. He helped enumerate the Choctaws who would also qualify, and in one reference he is described as a "well educated half breed who knew his people well." He also had a brother William who achieved status as a Choctaw Captain. William died in 1830 from a drowning accident near his home in Grenada, Mississippi (His son Captain Anthony Turnbull came to Indian Territory as well as his son, Sam and a daughter Felicity Long Turnbull Reynolds). In the famous Choctaw Chief Peter P. Pitchlynn's personal papers at Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa is the original of the Choctaw Constitution made June 1834 at "Turnbull's Stand" on Jack's Fork of the Kiamichi. This site is thought to be Anthony Turnbull's trading post where the old military road from that ran from Ft. Smith to Horseprairie crossed the Kiamichi River. As Captain, Anthony brought one of the earliest groups in the removal in 1832. Contrary to most of the other Turnbull's who were mainly Presbyterian, Anthony established one of the early Methodist Mission Churches in the Scullyville area.

According to the Choctaw Emigration Records, George Turnbull and his family of ten plus the nine slaves arrived at Red River, Indian Territory December 12, 1833 after having left Mississippi in October. His son Turner arrived the next day with his unnamed wife. This marriage was annulled in 1864. The youngest of the clan was his brother John P., a baby of 3 months when the trip began. The fact that one so young endured the trip is amazing in and of itself when so many died along the way.

George was an old man when he arrived in Indian Territory, first locating in the Red River District. It is believed his Sarah may have died here in about 1845. About this time he seemed to have moved close to his son Brashears. Because the name Brashears occurs so often in the Turnbull family, although still unproven, it is thought there was some connection with another great Mississippi trader Turner Brashears. There is justification for believing there is a tie. From the name stand point none of the children, generation after generation, seem to be named by casual decisions. Every name can be traced to some close previous ancestor. Both George Turnbull and Turner Brashears were frequently in the same place at the same time. Some researchers believe they may have been brothers-in-law. Just to complicate matters a little more there were actually two Turner Brashears in the Choctaw Nation at this time when Turner Brashears Turnbull Sr. was born. The other was a famous Choctaw translator.

Copies of church records reflect George joined the Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Mission church in 1845. It was established in 1844 by his son Brashears and Jerico, who were in a group of six families which moved up the Clear Boggy to help found the Presbyterian Mission that was named Mt. Pleasant, Tomahushi. This was only about two miles from where Turner, Jr., more than forty years later, was to build his big house at the edge of the prairie. According to best estimates and unlike most of the other Turnbull men, George lived to be almost one hundred years old. In the 1855 Choctaw Census he is shown as a head of house, living alone. His will was filed January, 1860 in Atoka. A microfilm copy is in the State Historical Society archives. In it, he acknowledges his son Turner (Brashears) for caring for him in his old age at great personal and financial sacrifice and leaves him 1/3 of total monies of his estate. In all George apparently had seven other children who came to Indian Territory with him and Sarah. Also surviving at the time of his death were Nancy Turnbull Bohanan, Catherine Turnbull Jones, Sarah Turnbull and John P. Turnbull. Another daughter, Rebecca Turnbull Kemp, was already deceased. Many of their descendants are on the rolls. Although a great deal is known of George's life, no one knows where either his Sarah or he is buried. Since he died before the Turnbull cemetery was established, his grave could be close to Mt. Pleasant. The remains of a slave cemetery are still there or it could be in one of several overgrown somewhat abandoned cemeteries in the area. Considerable effort has been expended to find where George and Sarah came to rest.

George married Sarah BRASHEARS about 1814 in Okla Falaya, Choctaw Nation-Mississippi. Sarah (daughter of Robert Turner " Turner " BRASHEARS and "Jane" Hotioka APUKSHUNNUBBEE) was born about 1791 in Okla Falaya, Choctaw Nation-Mississippi; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From Lesa Frommer

The Turnbull name among the Choctaws originated with Scotsman John Turnbull, who was born about 1741 and came to Mobile, Alabama in about 1760. John was a trader among the Chickasaws and Choctaws and was always involved in a great deal of controversy and intrigue among both tribes, and the Spanish and English. George, his son by a Chickasaw woman who was said to be a close relative (daughter or sister) of Chickasaw Chief Taskiatoka, was Brashears' father and Turner's grandfather. Taskiatoka was very close to John and once bartered a number of his Spanish prisoners for John's release from a Spanish prison in 1781.

He was supposedly the first white man to use the Natchez Trace as a trading route. He was all over this area, especially Memphis, MS, LA, AL and the famous Chickasaw Bluffs where John was instrumental in obtaining permission from the Chickasaws for the Spanish to build the strategic fort (trading post).

Why George and William, who were clearly half Chickasaw, were so closely related to the Choctaws at this point is unclear. However, they both married Choctaw women and were deeply involved in their father John Turnbull's trading business among the Choctaws. He even took them back to England with him once. William married Judith Perry, daughter of Hardy Perry and Anolah. Although John eventually married a white wife and had a sizable family with her, he still regarded his half breed Indian sons and daughter Sylvia, so highly that he recognized his "illegitimate children" (children of all marriages not solemnized in the Catholic church at this time were classified "illegitimate") in his will and left them inheritances considered very handsome for the times. At the time of his death in 1799 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana he was an enormously wealthy man, owning thousands of acres of land from Spanish land grants in Mississippi and Louisiana, including the large plantation with hundreds of slaves where he died. John Joyce had been his partner in building an inordinately successful trading business in Mississippi and Louisiana. George and William are mentioned frequently in the history of this area as John Turnbull's " half breed Chickasaw sons." They were born in the Chickasaw nation perhaps close to present day Memphis, Tennessee, probably in the early to mid 1760's. --Frankie James

Rosedown was built by one of the white sons, (mother Catherine Rucker) Daniel, second to his youngest child, of our patriarch John Turnbull, the Scottish trader to the Choctaws and Chickasaws. John recognized 3 of his Indian children in his will, George and William were presumed to be of the same mother, an unknown Chickasaw woman, but they became Choctaw by both marrying into the tribe. They were grown young men when John died. He taken them into his business. I have calculated they were born mid to late 1760s. They had a half sister Sylvia, also Chickasaw, mother Isabell "Belcy" Perry. George is our line-it is fairly well documented he was close to 90 when he died in Indian Territory in 1860. He is very much an enigma though as to how he lived out his remaining years and what happened to the wife who came with him on the trail of tears in 1833 with 3 month old babe in arms, John P. For some time now, I have thought there was a great deal of reason for his wife to remain unknown. Either she was a high-born lady like Chief Greenwood LeFlore's sister Sylvia, which may have been politically not good or they may not have bothered marrying or she may have been a lady much too low born for the status of being the very wealthy John Turnbull's daughter-in-law. I calculate she would have been born in about 1795-98. She may or may not have been our GGGreat Grandmother. There was some sort of funny very kinky hair which cropped up among our Turner B. Turnbull and Jerico's children. It was also in my grandfather's siblings. Indians don't have hair like that. Makes one wonder just a bit.
Old John died in Baton Rouge in 1799 in his own bed from apparent natural causes. Daniel and his wife built Rosedown in 1833 and the live oaks that line the long drive up to the front were planted in 1835, when they moved in. Harriet, his wife was a descendant of Martha Washington wife of first presisdent George. Harriet was a superb horticulturist. Supposedly she was the one who introduced azaleas to America from France, but wasn't given credit for it. So Daniel is our half something or other. According to some that I read although Daniel had 5 plantations, he was not in favor of slavery. I think Daniel died in 1861. - Frankie James

John married Chickasaw Woman. Chickasaw and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Turner Brashears exerted the most influence in West Yazoo's councils and among its most prominent cheifs and families. Spanish officials considered Turner Brashears "an intimate friend of Franchimastabe' and Farnchimastabe delcared that Brashears "deserved all of his confidence. A Native of MD Brasheers journeyed to Choctaw territory sometime during the American Rev. He became a trader in West Yazoo for the Panton, Leslie Company and after the US established th MS Territory in 1798, Brashears ran a tavern on the Natchez Trace and owned several Slaves. ..Significantly Brashears steered West Yazoos Leaders in an independant direction that was neither wholly pro Spanish nor pro American.
Such a list of achieve ments portrays Brashears success in the business world, but it masks the role of those who shared their lives with him and made his achievements possible. Brashear's wife was the key to his success among the Choctaws because she provided him a kinship tie within Choctaw Society and connected him to some of the most esteemed Choctaw men and elite families of the 8th century. Brashears wife was a daughter of Taboca and probably a niece of Granchimastabe(One of Franchimastabe sisters was likely Taboca wife since Franchimastabe promoted one of Taboca sons as his successor a natural arrangement for an uncle and maternal nephew in Choctaw matrilineal society. ) THese familia ties made Brashears and any of his C hoca Children the responsibility of Franchimastae while simultaneously connecting Brashaears with Taboca
Such bonds facilitated trade relationships: traders gained acceptance and secured a steady supply of customers, while Choctaw elites obtained constant access to European goods and the prestige of a trader living in their town. The contemporary Choctaw writer Le Anne How offers a plausible scenario for how prominent Choctaw families chose traders for marriage. In her short story. "Danse D'Amour, Danse de Mort" she suggests that a girl's maternal uncle did the selecting: "Atokotubbee asked his niece to choose the Naholla with the young face and graying hair. "teach that one to dane, alla tek,' he said, motioning her toward the four white mean seated apart of the Choctaws next to the fire"
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TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAW -- 1816
A treaty of cession between the United States of America and the Choctaw Nation of Indians.

JAMES MADISON, president of the United States of America, by general John Coffee, John Rhea, and John M'Kee, esquires, commissioners on the part of the United States, duly authorized for that purpose, on the one part, and the mingoes, leaders, captains, and warriors, of the Chactaw nation, in general council assembled, in behalf of themselves and the whole nation, on the other part, have entered into the following articles, which, when ratified by the president of the United States, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall be obligatory on both parties:

ARTICLE 1. The Chactaw nation, for the consideration hereafter mentioned, cede to the United States all their title and claim to lands lying east of the following boundary, beginning at the mouth of Ooktibbuha, the Chickasaw boundary, and running from thence down the Tombigby river, until it intersects the northern boundary of a cession made to the United States by the Chactaws, at Mount Dexter, on the 16th November, 1805.

ARTICLE 2. In consideration of the foregoing cession, the United States engage to pay to the Chactaw nation the sum of six thousand dollars annually, for twenty years; they also agree to pay them in merchandise, to be delivered immediately on signing the present treaty, the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Done and executed in full and open council, at the Choctaw trading house, this twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States the forty-first.

John Coffee, John Rhea, John McKee, Mushoolatubee, his x mark, Pooshamallaha, his x mark,
Pukshunnubbu, his x mark, General Terror, his x mark, Choctaw Eestannokee, his x mark,
General Humming Bird, his x mark, Talking warrior, his x mark, David Folsom, Bob Cole, his x mark,
Oofuppa, his x mark, Hoopoieeskitteenee, his x mark, Hoopoieemiko, his x mark, Hoopoieethoma, his x mark,
Witness: Tho. H. Williams, secretary to the commission, John Pitchlynn, interpreter, Turner Brashear, interpreter, M. Mackey, interpreter, Silas Dinsmoor, R. Chamberlin.

Turner was a descendant of Robert or Benois Brasseur, French Huguenot immigrants to Virginia, ca. 1635, whose surname was anglicized as Brashear.

Source: Madison County (Mississippi) Journal
Just east of the present site of Ridgeland was the first stand to be opened on the Natchez Trace, called Turner Brashear's Stand.

In The Mississippi Herald and The Natchez Gazette, it was announced on Dec. 2, 1806, that Turner Brashear, an enterprising frontiersman, had opened a "house of entertainment, in the wilderness on the road leading from Natchez to Nashville about 40 miles from William Smith's at the Indian line."

Brashear's Stand was probably the first opened here as a result of the U.S. Agent Silas Dinsmoor's successful negotiations in 1805 providing for three such establishments. The stand became well known and was listed as one of the Trace's stations in the travel guides at the time.

After 1850, King's Inn occupied the ground on which Brashear's Stand formerly stood. It was reported that as many as 80 guests would spend a night at the stand and there was always a minimum of four or five guests. Andrew Jackson visited the Inn on his return from the Battle of New Orleans, and Gen. Stephen D. Lee used it as his headquarters during the Civil War.

There were times when guests at the famous King's Inn failed to complete their journey, especially if they appeared to be wealthy. King's Inn owner John King was an associate of the famous Murrell gang, and according to legend, did not mind relieving his guests of their wealth and tossing their remains into the wilderness.

Perhaps because of the notorious inference, King's Inn's name was changed to Hawthorne Vale by Maryetta Culley, the oldest daughter of DeVander Culley, who bought it in 1852. Hawthorne Vale was destroyed by fire in 1896.

Robert married "Jane" Hotioka APUKSHUNNUBBEE about 1786 in Okla Falaya, Choctaw Nation-Mississippi. "Jane" (daughter of Chief Mingo APUKSHUNNUBBEE and ABU TO NA) was born in 1775 in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Mississippi; died in 1822 in Okla Falaya, Choctaw Nation-Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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