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2 ..«) - -, ' HUMMINGBIHD &-BIGBY.' PEAVINE COMMUNITY Hummingbird & Bigby, Investigator, December "9; 11-, "HISTORY OF FEAVINE CO1.& *.A majority of the Cherokees who settled in the Peavine Community came from North Caro}j.na-in Among tho'se who settled this community were the 2askee, Cornsilk, Soap, Coon, Leach, Fixin, Chicken, peacheater, -Noisewater, Falling, Youngwolf, Twist, Tea-C-ha-Nee-Skee, Terrapin, Walkings tick, and Black-* ' wood families. They were all Immigrants. The old settiers who lived in this community were Jonathan and Johnson "ihitmire, George Crittenden and a family by ' the name of Cotton. There were only three families here when they cane in Say;18Z7. This community was composed of about forty sections; on the Worth it was bounded by Baron Fork Creek, South by Flint District, West by Rabbit Trap, iilast by P.iney and Svansville Creeks. ( In this community the first mission was built', tha>first-church and the Government Commissary w

3 262 HDMMINGBIBD & BIGBY. PEAVINE COfvMJNITy 12423o /. " ' ' " 2 - ^ ' ^a^so established in this community;; the first saw- <* mill and :'irsfcsfcwlrt house for Flint District/w^re / - located in"the northwest corner of this'community. f ^^ The strongest Kee-Too-Wah f s lived here. This»as the home of the majority of the Pin Indians. This communj tywhen the Cherokees came was a prairie. Cane grew abundantly along the small creeks;" buffaloes were'numerous according to the Whitmiresthey came in as Old Settlers; grizzly bears were to be- found on the.viountains west of the present' Peavine School. There were two bears killed here be- fore the Civil War. At the outbreak of the Civil War, most of the Cherokees went with the Nor-th except the Old Settlers; -.they went South.. There were not any battles fought in the Community, Am^ng the men who served.in the armies of the North were Aaron GoijQgwolf, Jack Bean, Jeff Ketcher, Dick Ketcher,'Lincoln England, John Cornsilk and 7/riter Hagner. Arch Scraper, a 1, captain in the Union Army,lived * * here. \.

4 263 HUMMINGBIRD & BIGBY. FEAVINE COMMUNITY < The first school was buil just fifty yards south* of the present West Peavine School. This was erlso the voting place. ' '. The church at first was established about one and / ' " a half miles up the creefc from the present church; it was built by donations from all the CBerokeea of the Nation; the structure was a four room house built of lo s^ with a chimney in the center; it was called- the M 3ig Shed". This wa's used as meeting place for representatives.* * \of both the North and South before the Civil War. In this same building met a group of Qherokees in the early--days plotting to kill tne treaty signers who' caused the removal. * * In later years" it was changed to the Antio'ch ^*"* Baptist Church and moved 'to its present location. There were also two lime kilns in this community. One was operated by John Walkingstick and. the other by Ance Ketcher, '"*

5 284 HUMMINGBIRD & BIGBY. PEAVINE COMMUNITY 12423, A, In' this community the Kansas City Southern /" Railroad had more trouble with the "cherokees. ' Johnson Whitmire. was the Councilman from this district at that time. <Phe railroad went through his farm. Several times the right-of-way surveyors were driven away by theoe Cherokees. Charley (Tobe) Whitmire was the leader of this band, a nephew of the Councilman who ' voted the law to be passed.. Wolfe Coon, the speaker of the Council at the time the allotment law was passed, lived in the community.....

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