Re: Paul, Leity b: Pa d: Okla ca 1893 Indian
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Paul, Leity b: Pa d: Okla ca 1893 Indian
12/11/00
Have you ever heard of Pauls Valley.If not, I think the following information should be looked at by any and all Paul relatives coming from Craven Co., or Pauls Valley, OK.
The History of Pauls Valley, OK.
This history of Pauls Valley, OK starts with the coming of Smith Paul to fetile Washington River Valley in 1847 or 1848.Smith Paul was born in 1809 in Craven County, New Bern, North Carolina.His mother died when he was 11 or 12 years old.His father, Rhesa Paul, remarried not too long after Smith Paul's mother died.Smith Paul, was at the age whenit was extememely difficult for him to adjust himself to the new circumstances and he ran away from home.Members of the Paul family in North Carolina heard nothing of him until he appeared there and announced that during all those years, he had lived with the Chickasaw Indians in Northwestern Mississippi.He told his family he had made two trips by wagon train to California, and that he planned to accompany the Indians who were then being moved from Mississippi to Indian Territory.Terms of the Tri-Party Treaty of January 1, 1837, between the United States and the Chocotaws and the Chickasaw, ceded this territory to the Chickasaw Nation.Smith Paul told his family that on his trips to California in the Southwestern portion of the Choctaw Nation he had seen a section of country in the vicinity of the present city of Pauls Valley.
It is known that Smith Paul was employed by a Scotsman named McClure, who was married to a Chickasaw Indian woman.His wife's name was Ela-Teecha, which means Ellen in English.They were parents of two children, Catherine born in 1831 and Tecumseh, born in 1835.
After being driven over the "Trail of Tears", the Indians, with whites who had married into the tribe, settled first at Boggy Depot near the present site of Caddo in Bryan Country. There they were protected from the nomadic plains tribes by the United States Army.
McClure died in the Blue River in Pontotoc County and some time thereafter, probably in 1844 o4 1845, Smith Paul, married his widow.Sam Paul, was born there.Sam Paul was 11 months old when his family came to what is now Garvin County, OK.He died in 1891 at the age of 46.This would indicate that Smith Paul and his family came to this area in 1847 or 48.
Paul's Valley did not spring into being overnight as did many of the town of Oklahoma.For many years before it formed any resemblance of a town, the location was known as "Smith Paul's Valley."
It probably began to acquire the characteristics of a town in or around 1874.In that year, long wagon trains of Comanche and Kiowa Indians and soldiers established a trail from Boggy Depot to Fort Sill, hauling provisions for the Fort and the Indians who had been rounded up and forced upon the reservation nearby.
Caddo, on the new Missiour, Kansas and Texas railroad, was the nearest shipping point and great herds of cattle were drawn over the wagon train and stage coach trail.
When the Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe railroad built throught the territory in 1887, a dispute arose as to location of the present town. The property bordering this right-of-way at Smith Paul's Valley was controlled by Tecumseh McClure (Smith Paul's stepson.)
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