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1 ,' / /, UkfTLU JACOBS. IHTSHVIKW. 130C

2 Field Worker This renort (dater) April/J9 Name Matilda Jacobs Dateherty, Post office Addresg /Sulphur, /klahoma. Residence addrss /( r,.? lx/nt/on) DATS OF rjirphy '.nth ^byember 1858 Place of fcjitth ; Soul^vllle. Indian Territory 6. rasfi/of Fatlier/Samuel Jacobs Place of birth nnvnown /.-, Other inf6rmat i4>r about father. / * '. 7/ Name of»-->ther Celey B. Jacobs Place of birthunkng^n Other information about rr.uther 1'otos nr complete nirt.ifcive by the fi*?3.d worker dealing with the life and «story of the perr-on inter viev/ed. Refer to Manual for suggested subjectb and cnoftiorir;. G-r.tinuo on blank- eheefcs if necessary and attach fxi'n'.y to ibis form. Number of sneets attached 6

3 BMJGHEHSS, l&tiida JACOBS XMTMIV1BR John? Da\xgherty, FielA Worker, April 19, An Interview with - - J&tilda Jacobs Daugherty, Route No* 1, Sulphur, Okiehome. % parents were Samuel L # Jacobs endvceley Belvin Jacobs* They came with their parents to the Indian Territory from J&ssissippi in 1838* t %^ parents wore both Choctaw Indians and they bad five daughters and two sons* I was born Hoveoiber"9, 1854,near Scullyville in' \ LeFlore County* One night when X was about a year old, a nan came and asked my father to come with him and help roundup ; and bitchsr a fat yearling* * Ererybody butchered their own yearlings and hogs at that time* There wore no butcher shops* lather gladly mounted his horse and rode away, never to return* The BudhvhackerEpere in our settlement* They w«r«nan who belonged to neither Army but who robbed and kill* ed as they went through the country.

4 DAUGHERTT, M&TUDA JACOBS INTERVIEW " 1305 "'U The Civil War was in progress at this time* Father little suspected that it was a call from a Bushwhacker. They killed father and took his clothes, and tried to. catch hie horse, but were unable to do so as the horse returned home the next morning* The women <rf the neighborhood mads e coffin of pine lumber in which they were going to bury lather, but his body was never found* The Confederate Army moved in on the Bushwhackers ernd a young man who was killed during the skirmish was tturied in the coffin which had been made for Father* ' The women and children mere ell moved to.fort Szniiih, 1 Arkansas, where they lived for a year or more, and then moved took to their homes*. > Mother died when I was.about three years old, and 1 went to live with a married elater,.brs* Charles large* We lived near Paw Paw, in Sequoyah County, Cherokee Nation* This was my home until I was married* When 1 was five years old c X started ;to school at the Putton School near Paw Paw*. The'schoolbouse was built of logs with a hewed log

5 DA0GHEBTY, mtivda JACOBS INTERVIEW 13&5 floor* - '*?«aat on hewed log seats In which holes were bored and wooden pins Inserted for legs* The' house was covered with three foot, clapboards made of oak timber* It had one door* The two windows were just holes saw&d through the logs, and covered with boards in winter, but left open when the weather was favorable* It was heated by a fireplace in which vnod was burned* &y first teacher was William Put ton. I attended this school for two years* - Then I- want to board with John Lee near Koldroff endf attended the Lee School for two years* Ify teacher's. at this school was &iss JSma Vbre. This school was a _- I frame building covered with clapboards and fcad one d end four glass windows* It wes heated with a wood 7 "* / % sister moved to a piece nenr Cssp Ctssk, 511 eld stage stand r.o longer- in existence, on the msid linej'rom. Fort Smith to i^iskogee* I went back to liv/ with her and did' not^o to school any more* One J of my pleasant pastimes was watchinr for the old stage coach* The.driver sat on,to^ and arove four horses. They changed horses every ten miles and Csrnp Creek was where

6 4i f65 MATUDA JACOBS INTERVIEW -4* they changed first after leaving Fort Smith. The horses were driven in a gallop all the time* The harness constated of collars, hames, tugs and the lines* The drlyer carried an ox whip that he could hit the lead horses with. The old stage was Biting OR springs and rocked from side to -aide as it whirled past* It he'd a luggage carrier on the back and a door on each'side* The seats faced each other in the stags and the passengers sat face to face* It was at Camp Creek that * met. Robert Broim Daugheety whom I married* 1 have many pleasant raemories of going to Choetaw Cries 4mp Meetings* When an Indian died they would bury him and a few months afterward would have a Cry. is was really the funeral service* An Indian preacher would- preach and all during the sermon the relatives would t around the grave and cry; They n&de a mournful sound, but shed no tears* Then after the services there- would be a dinner, which was paid for by the relatives of the deceased* The main dish was Ganuchl which was made as follows* The Indians had a block of wood with a hole hewed in the top* Into this hole corn was poured and beaten with a

7 DAUCSER1Y, MATILDA JACOBS ' INTERVIEW pestle or caul until all the husk came off* Then thu corn was put into,a pot and cooked for several hours. It was seasoned with fresh pork and nuts. We all thought this was a nighty fine dish* ^ Another pleasant memory is of the fish fries. The man would beat buckeye bushes end drag them through the, water. The buckeye bushes would make the fish drunk and they would COBS to the top* They would catch the larger fish and the women would v fry them* I was married to Robert Brown Daugherty, September 13, 1874, at the Put ton schoolhous* where I first attended school*, - *. I am the mother of four children, two sons and two -daughters* % husband and one daughter are dead. % older son, Jobs?. resides nsor Sulphur, the other son Iiv6s in Boynton and the daughter in Stigler* When the Dawes CoimdLssion made the Indian Holla of the Five Civilized Tribes, they nede a ruling that each Indian- moat be Enrolled in the tribe to which his or her mother belonged* I was, enrolled a a a Choctaw, and moved fronj the Cherokee N

8 UATUDA JACOBS immnm Nation to the Cfapctftw liation zieetr Qpiaton in 1897* I llt d ther«three year* and iaov*i to the Chiek&Bav Nation, Ccranty, In 1900 and have resided here since*