Survivor of the Trail of Tears - Original Choctaw Enrollee #14098
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From the records of the Oklahoma Historical Society - Choctaw Indian Biographies {Submitted by Mrs. W.W. Wilson, 4111 Travis St., Dallas Texas}
Jane James was born in Mississippi. She was the daughter of a white father, Dace James, and an Indian mother [Ruthie - LNU]. Her father Dace died in June 1837 in Lowndes County, MS. Jane came with her mother to Oklahoma Indian Territory as an infant in 1837 {as part of the Chickasaw Removal} , but was orphaned.
[NOTE: according to the family story; but her mother Ruth A. James appears on the Chickasaw 1859 Annuity Roll. Jane was reared at the Wheelock Mission {probably until her marriage in 1850 at age 12 to John Wilson}.
Link to grandson(son of Louis Wilson): George Wilson
Link to brother: George D. James; attorney and Superintendent of Schools, Burney Institute
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/indianpp/id/5918/rec/1
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DIED IN PARIS
Mrs. Jane Wilson, of Ft. Towson, died at Paris, Texas, last Sunday night where she was operated on at St. Joseph's Infirmary for a cancer. She was an old resident of this county, having moved here from Mississippi, and settled near Doaksville in the early days of that town.
She was the mother of W. W. Wilson, Ft. Towson; J. D. Wilson, Swink; Ed Wilson, Ft. Towson, and R. F. Wilson, Valliant.
~~From Garvin Graphic, May 06, 1909
Survivor of the Trail of Tears - Original Choctaw Enrollee #14098
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From the records of the Oklahoma Historical Society - Choctaw Indian Biographies {Submitted by Mrs. W.W. Wilson, 4111 Travis St., Dallas Texas}
Jane James was born in Mississippi. She was the daughter of a white father, Dace James, and an Indian mother [Ruthie - LNU]. Her father Dace died in June 1837 in Lowndes County, MS. Jane came with her mother to Oklahoma Indian Territory as an infant in 1837 {as part of the Chickasaw Removal} , but was orphaned.
[NOTE: according to the family story; but her mother Ruth A. James appears on the Chickasaw 1859 Annuity Roll. Jane was reared at the Wheelock Mission {probably until her marriage in 1850 at age 12 to John Wilson}.
Link to grandson(son of Louis Wilson): George Wilson
Link to brother: George D. James; attorney and Superintendent of Schools, Burney Institute
Link to the family history that Raphael wrote, which was recorded by his son Rafe in 1938:
https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/indianpp/id/5918/rec/1
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DIED IN PARIS
Mrs. Jane Wilson, of Ft. Towson, died at Paris, Texas, last Sunday night where she was operated on at St. Joseph's Infirmary for a cancer. She was an old resident of this county, having moved here from Mississippi, and settled near Doaksville in the early days of that town.
She was the mother of W. W. Wilson, Ft. Towson; J. D. Wilson, Swink; Ed Wilson, Ft. Towson, and R. F. Wilson, Valliant.
~~From Garvin Graphic, May 06, 1909
