PROCTOR, ZffiE THIRD INTERVIEW.,7944

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2 178 B, SgaE. 'THIRD- fltfehvlew.?944. Humraingbird &. Bigby, Interviewers, October LE, 1957 Interview' with Zeke irroctor Proctor, Ckl* otnn eka irocfcor, son of T -V.e Zeke Proctor \.ho.&.s in the Go^n-gsaake Court he use fi.^l.t ir. 187, and Vti.o lives at Vroctor, stated iii an i-'.fsr.'ie^v that. soon after the first b.ir-ch. of C/.erOKeec left their eiifterr: home/tte Baptist,peo;le sent a ai ^o the C:.erolKBe i*c xion by ti.e nt-ue of 0. This riissi.nary I:a*d eir:.t chi _-rer._, r.tunely: Fanr.ie, Harriet, Sarah Arx t:r.d Eliza Jane; Ctileb, Jake, Lu^h and Luaphrey* Jaleb and Jt.;;e..ent to Texas in the early forties. x hey luter joined the Texas Rangers. 7/hen the wtr broke out between the United States tnd Ivlexico- thsy joined ohe-umtefi states Arniy and. were never heard of afterwards. Eu ^i and Humphrey?.-ent in the Gold Rush to California ir These boys were ne-ver heard of anymore.

3 xwctg'r, ' 3iJ3. THIRD UHWlKi Sarah Ann and Harriet never,narried, cyir.g youri. * Faroiia narried a.iai. na.~i&d' '..ri^ht, a Cherokee. ULiza Jane, the nother of Llr. rroc-cor, narried Bill iiofford, a Gi.erokee. V» of ford died-, tlian' she married Zllis H rlan who was JCilled in the battle of G&r.e hill during the GiTilvvar. After the war she was' again married, this tine to Zeke Froctor. iili sfeight.^ tne &on-in-law of Heverend 0. Bryant, and a white nan named weililigton. Sherley_,were the first men to operate a grist mill iv. tr.is part of the Goingsnake District, iheir s i l l was located on Barren Greek at the forks, of Hvjasville and Dutch i,;ills Greeks." A great dan v?as erected at this place out of bi^ logs. This backed the «&ter for a mile up strcua. The rroctor fanily ca^b in the fourth arive from Georgie in 18?58. George Proctor rnarri^a a Cherokee

4 180 PROCTOR, ZEhE. THIRD D»TKRVIS» girl by the naie of "Hilderb.rtiE.ci back in tl= Hast. The family consisted of seven-.children,naneiy Sarah Procter, ::lizt.beth, Zzekiel, ^cian, Archibald, Rachel ard Nannie. Elizabeth married Janes Kesteruan, and Lanniemarried Abraiiara sixkiller. Fight at Gointrsnake Court House. Ti.is fight too.\ p_ace during the trial of Zek&proctor for r.urder. He was tried for the murder of a woman, a relative of the Becks, a fanily of vjl.ite people who lived near the Old Beck ilifls, in what is now ife'la-w* re County.- The old schooihsuse there was used for a court house at that t i n e. A Mr. Mack was the tescher of. that; school. George and Betsy Whitmire lived on a plantation joining the sehool land on the east.

5 181' FROGTuH, ZSLS. THIRD nzcsrvl-gfr*.. 794^. 4 The trial started early in t! e ruming as usual. Black haw Sixkiller wts the trying juu^e for this. case; Johnso:. 3j.ade was the district attorney for th'j Goingsnake District; Joe Starr was the court clerk. Llase Alberty was the attorney for Mr.Proctor. The Guard's"v»ere Lincoln Sngland, Ton walkingstick, Stute rtalkingstick, Jesse Shell and John Looney. ' There 'vere several persons at the court on that day when the fight started*, two -of those killed were innocent bystanders* 'HF&e-. party \hat c^yie to t"al.e Proctojr consisted of the following men: J. G. Owens, United States Marshal; Riley floods, *\Jnitva States Marshal/ a^e twenty-one; Black Sut Bed; BUI Beck; Sam Beck; <ill Kic.;s, George Selvege, Jlna Ward; all of v*hon > were killed; uliite Sut Beck^, George LSJljaugtlin, and Paul Jones,^ail^mnod^.. Eugene Bracken, a Special

6 182 H, iiekb. THIRD ^JK 1 /!.. ' 7944.' t, J- Agent for the.m-. K.&. T.,was the only r.an who esc.ayed injury at'this ri^kt.- The'/Prtictor party consisted _,f' the luards sbove r.aned; Johnson, iroctor, brother of Zeke, Palone, wno took siae with.tiie l-roctore; Mose Alberty, attorney for 1-roctor; all three of 4 "«r.on were -killed; 'Jbe Chewey, & deputy sheriff,. w'&s vonnded as was ulso Ullis Foreman. John Walking stick, Bill Morton, Johii ^Proctor and Isaac Vann we^e the bystanders who sew the ' ' fight..'. ' ' * - * This fight stopped the trial and the next day Procior was tried at'tho hojne of Arch Scraper and acquitted:. '

HUMMINGBIHD &-BIGBY.' PEAVINE COMMUNITY "HISTORY OF FEAVINE CO1.& *.A majority of the Cherokees who settled in the

1KL> & 260 ..«) - -, ' - 261 HUMMINGBIHD &-BIGBY.' PEAVINE COMMUNITY 12423. Hummingbird & Bigby, Investigator, December "9; 11-, 1937. "HISTORY OF FEAVINE CO1.& *.A majority of the Cherokees who settled