Emma Jane Blythe, born in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, was a daughter of Absolom Ellis Blythe and Mary Jane Millsap Blythe.

Emma Jane Blythe married Luke Sixkiller on March 18, 1871 in Pecan Creek, Tahlequah District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. They had six children.

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NOTES:

1860

1870

1880

1890 - not likely found

1900 Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory

**Shows born in 1856 in Indian Territory, Oklahoma.

1910 Township 5, Delaware, Oklahoma

**Shows born in Oklahoma.

1920 Township 5, Delaware, Oklahoma

**Shows born in Kansas.

1930

1940

Source: An Interview with Mrs. Emma J. Sixkiller. June 29, 1937. WPA Indian-Pioneer Oral History Project. University of Oklahoma Libraries Western History Collections. https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/ref/collection/indianpp/id/2165.

SIXKILLER, EMMA J.

INTERVIEW #6468

Nannie Lee Burns, Field Worker

June 29, 1937

Shows:

"Emma J. Blythe Sixkiller "was born in the Kansas Strip near the small town of Enterprise, October 13, 1855."

"So I was borned in 1855 in what was then known as the Nutral Land, also known as the Kansas Strip."

"I married Lucas Sixkiller March 18, 1871. We were married at Grandmother's bedside on Pecan Creek by Judge Vann."

"In 1870 I married Luke Sixkiller."

**A different marriage year.

"We started the Sixkiller Cemetery on this place when our son Louis died."

"We had six children; Mary Mamie, Mattie Bell, Allie, Louie B., Henry and Myrtle, of whom only Mamie and Mattie are now living."

Regarding birthplace:

From Wikipedia:

Cherokee Strip (Kansas)....

"The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state

of Oklahoma in the United States."

"The Cherokee Strip of Kansas, in the United States, was a disputed strip of land on the southern border of the state."

"The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a 60-mile-wide (97 km) parcel of land south of the Oklahoma–Kansas border between 96 and 100°W."

**Neither Enterprise, Kansas nor Enterprise, Oklahoma are located in the Cherokee Strip.

**Enterprise, Oklahoma is located south of the Canadian River, southwest of Tahlequah, in the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory of Oklahoma, in present-day Haskell County.

From Angie Sanders on April 14, 2024:

Middle name.

**Previously had just initial J.

Birth town and county.

**Previously had just Oklahoma.

Death town and county.

**Previously had just Oklahoma.

Siblings:

William J. (Willie) Blythe (b. 1850 - d. Unknown)

Napoleon B. Blythe (b. 1852 - d. 1939)

On this memorial page when I received the transfer:

Wife of Lucas Sixkiller; parents of Mary J.(S.W.Lowe); Mattie(Stokes); Myrtle; & Lewis Sixkiller. Dau. of Absolom E. & Mary [Millsap] Blythe

Bio and Notes by: Pam Barns

If anyone has more/better information, please contact me.