Family links provided by Tom.∼Maggie J. (Harrelson) Artherholt & her husband, Hiram Henry Artherholt were living in a Cabin-walled tent on a Kiowa, Comanche & Apache (K-C-A) Indian Reservation near Medicine Park, OK (NW of Lawton, OK), when their youngest (Juanita/"Fawn") of 9 children was born.

Maggie died of consumption (Tuberculosis) in May of 1927.

Maggie is intermed in the evening shadows of the highest peak of the Wichita Mountains, Mt. Scott (located in the OK Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge), at the Mt. Scott Kiowa, Comanche & Apache (K-C-A) Inter-Tribal Cemetary, NW of Lawton, OK in Meers, Comanche Co., OK.

Maggie had shared with her surviving 6 girls (her 3 infant sons having died, were buried in Washita County, Sod Cemetary, outside of the incorporated township of Cordell, OK) the Harrelson (Harrel, Haraldson, Harilson, Harrold, etc.) oral family history of their Native American ancestry. Maggie told them the fact that her Grandfather, Rollins William Harrelson, had shared the story that HIS Nannie (grandmother) was an Sawra/Cheraw/Catawba (now Lumbee) Indian, (possibly an Appalachian Malungeon) called "Whitefeather", from the Cumberland Gap area (where the states of KY, VA & TN all meet). Oral family history has recorded "Whitefeather" marrying a LongHunter, William Harrelson, (a full-time animal pelt hunter/hawker & scout for the United States Gov't-for land worth settling into townships). The 1877 Publication of Lewis Collins' research in the book: "A History of Kentucky" supports the Harrelson oral history. "A History of Kentucky" lists that the 1st MAJOR RECORDED HUNT INTO TN for land settlements was led by: ..."Elisha Walden, ...bold, 'enterprising and fearless'; Henry Skaggs also came. He & his brothers were noted hunters, and 'NOTHING BUT HUNTERS', and it was from the Skaggs men that Skaggs Creek of Rock Castle, crossed and redressed by later travelers along the Kentucky Road, got it's name. Other members of the party were: Charles Cox, William Newman, and WILLIAM HARILSON, another professional hunter. And like the Skaggs men, something of an exception for most hunters practiced at least ONE OTHER occupation, usually farming. Many of these men were hunting land, also...The hunters would go out in small groups of 3 or 4 men with only enough supplies for 3 or 4 days. The station site for Walden's party of 1761 was on Wallen's Creek in what is now called Lee County, VA. Some hunters were on the Clear Fork, a stream not reached by going through (Cumberland) Gap; WILLIAM HARILSON and the Blevins men hunted around the mouth of the Obeys River. Robert Crockett, of the same family as Davy Crockett, was killed by Indians in the Roaring River Country Plateau." This story has been part of the Harrelson oral family history for over 180 years & over 6 generations. (As of June, 2013 *HH)

Two additional notations of William Harrel & his scouting work are made in the "Letters To Washington & Accompanying Papers: Vol. 4; 1774-1775" (Pub.: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1902) as well as in "Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774; compiled from the Draper manuscripts in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society & published at the charge of the Wisconsin Society of the Sons of the American Revolution" (1905). In the Footnotes of the Letters To Washington, Pg. 2: "...Fincastlb County...Ephraim Drake & WILLIAM HARREL came before me, a Justice of the Peace, for the said County and Oath on the Holy Evanelgist of Almighty God (Bible): that Agreeable to Instructions given by Coll. William Preston to William Russell your Deponents were Employ'd as Runners to Scout to the Westward of Clinch Settlement; and to Recconnoitre the Rivers of Cumberland & Louisa so far down as to be able to judge & return a just account upon Oath, not only of the approach of an enemy; but also a tru account which of teh aforesaid Rivers the Boundary Line Terminates on...In obedience tehreto, your Deponents marched 15th day of April (1774) towards Powell's Valley and after getting there, finding no fresh Indian Signs:....Your Deponents then Marched down the same creek to where it emptyed into the main North fork of Louisa, which is the longest of any of the branches of Said River; your Deponents farther marched down teh River till they came to such Hunter's CAmps which from the Letters of their names on trees fully satisfied your Deponents it is the Verry River called by the Hunters Louisa, Since called Kentucky, ...Deponents declare they afterwards returned the most Suspected War Paths Indians used to travel through that Country, but saw no fresh Signs; and farther your Deponents say they lost no more time than the Nature of the Journey did require, & returned to their Homes the 6th Day of May. Sworn before me this 7* Day of May, 1774 W* Russell. (Brigadier-General Russell, whose son, Colonel William Russell, represented Fayette County in the Kentucky legislature from 1789-1823)." In the "Documentary History of Dunmore's War, 1774": SCOUTS SENT OUT (Instructions by Capt. William Russell to scouts. 3QQ18.) Instructions given to Richard Stanton, Edward Sharpe, Epraim Drake and WILLIAM HARREL, Runners; Gentlemen. Agreeable to Instructions from Colo William Preston, I have appointed by your mutual consent, you the aforesd four Persons as Runners to scout, and REcconnoitre, to the Westward of this sittlement. First you are to proceed to the head of Powels Vally, where you are particularly, on, and near the Warriours path to look for Indian Signs, and should you make any such discovery, you are then to find as near as you can their Number, the rout they are taking and as nearly as possible their Intentions, and upon a supposition only of your Company that any such party discovered intend Warr Immediatley upon our Inhabitants, you must give the most speedy Acct thereof to me, or in my absance to the next Officer convenient that the same may be reported to the County Lieutennant; but in case you make no such discovery, you are in Powels Vally to find the boundary Line between us and the Cherrokees, which line (if possible, you must follow to the Water course it Terminates on, and then to follow such River, if Cumberland, as low as the Hunters Road, if Louisa thro' the samll Mountains, till you come to such old Incampments of the Hunters, as may fully satisfy you, that you may return an Acct upon Oath, that the same may be reported to the Assembly touching the certainty of such boundary River between the Cherrokees and Virginia: this being perform'd, you are to return with the utmost expedition, that such Report, may be laid before the Assembly in order to recommend you, to the consideration of the House, who I doubt not, in the least, will reward You adequate to your services. And tho' we are, at present, apprehensive the Cherrokees, and northward Indians intend War, Yet should you by accident, fall in with any of their Parties; You are to avoide acting toward them in a Hostile manner; unless in cases of the last extreemity; because the least Hostility committed by You, at this Time when the Indians appear ripe for War; wod not only blast our fairest hopes of Settleing the Ohio Country; and be Attended with a train of Concomitant Evils; but doubtless, involve the Government in a Bloody War. Relying greatly on your Fidelity, after wishing you an agreeable Journey, and safe return; Remain Gentlemen your most Obedt Humb. Servt, W* Russell >>Capt." (NOTE: Misspellings are quoted directly from text(s), and in respect of the original editors & publications, remain as such. *HH-July, 2013)