Born: in IL Died: UNKNOWN Father: Mother: Spouses:
01 (F): Sarah Minson Born: OCT 1879 Died: UNKNOWN Spouses:
Isiah Minson: Notes:
An interview with Isaiah Minson, Sulphur, Okla. March 18, 1938, John F. Dougherty Investigator.
My parents were Abraham Minson, born in Illinois and Sarah Jane Taylor/Minson, born in Tennessee. Father was a farmer. I was born in Illinois August 30, 1855 and came from Arkansas to the Indian Territory in 1892. We came through Dardanell, Arkansas and crossed the Arkansas River on the only pontoon bridge west of the Mississippi. This was made of two flat boats fastened together reaching from one bank to the other. They were fastened on each bank so they could not float away.
We settled at Palmer, four miles northwest of Sulphur in the Chickasaw Nation and built a log house. We bought our groceries from Stonewell and Davis. The country was sparsely settled but it was a fine poor man's country for the creeks were full of fish and wild game was abundant.
I belonged to the Agricultural Wheel in Arkansas. This was an organization similar to the Farmers' Alliance of the Territory. It was organized among the farmers to better their living conditions and command better prices for their products. There was an organization in the Territory also, but the Farmers' Alliance was large, so in the early 1890's the two organizations were consolidated and became known as the Farmer's Alliance. There were stores throughout the Territory known as Farmers' Alliance stores where the members of this organization could sell their products and buy on the credit plan, paying yearly.
About 1895, we organized the Anti-horse Thief Association known as the Farmers' Protective Association. The purpose of this organization was to apprehend and punish horse and cattle thieves, which were numerous throughout the Territory.
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Note This article was found at the Indian Archives at the state capitol in Okla
City. It was a project of the Works Progress Administration, Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma. Mr Minson was not an indian but was in Oklahoma Territory 12 years before statehood.
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