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Watts was born in Eufaula in McIntosh County, Oklahoma [1] to J. C. "Buddy" Watts Sr., and Helen Watts (d. 1992). [2] His father was a Baptist minister, cattle trader, [3] the first black police officer in Eufaula, [4] and a member of the Eufaula City Council. [5] His mother was a homemaker. [6]
USS Oklahoma wearing experimental camouflage, circa 1917. Edwin Taylor Pollock captained the USS Oklahoma from 5 July 1921 to 13 January 1922. USS Oklahoma was a battleship that served in the United States Navy from 2 May 1916, to 1 September 1944. The ship capsized and sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, but she was righted in 1943. While other ships sunk during the ...
Eufaula is a city in and the county seat of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. [5] The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2,639 in 2000. [ 6 ] Eufaula is in the southern part of the county, 30 miles (48 km) north of McAlester and 32 miles (51 km) south of Muskogee .
George Washington Grayson (his Muskogee name was Yaha Tustunugge, or Wolf Warrior), was named for the first president of the United States; he was born in 1843 in Indian Territory to Jane "Jennie" (Wynne), a mixed-race (métis) Creek woman whose father John Wynne was of Welsh descent and mother Per-cin-ta Harrod was métis Creek, of Coweta town.
Pages in category "People from Eufaula, Oklahoma" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... John C. Nichols; R. Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone; S.
On 23 October, during a blinding snowstorm, Dull Knife's band of 149 persons, after 44 days and more than 1,000 km (620 miles) of travel since leaving the reservation in Oklahoma, encountered by chance two companies of U.S. cavalry, about 100 soldiers, commanded by Captain John B. Johnson.
Col John S. Scott Detachment of John H. Morgan's command: Ltc R. M. Martin; 1st Louisiana: Ltc James O. Nixon; 2nd Tennessee: Col Henry M. Ashby; 5th Tennessee: Col George W. McKenzie; Robinson's (Louisiana) Battery (one section): Lt Winslow Robinson
The McIntosh County Seat War was a dispute in Oklahoma over the location of the McIntosh County seat that took place between 1907 and 1909. Following a pair of elections that resulted in the town of Checotah being designated as the new county seat, the people of Eufaula refused to hand over the county records.