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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: June 14, 1937
Name: George W. Scott
Post Office: Stigler, Oklahoma
Date of Birth: March 2, 1872
Place of Birth: Goodland (now Hugo, Oklahoma)
Father: George W. Scott
Place of Birth:
Information on father: Born 1819. 
   Died at Hugo, Oklahoma, 1883. Buried in Hugo Cemetery.
Mother: Eliza Ann McIntosh
Place of Birth:
Information on mother: Born February 25, 1851, in Indiana. 
   Died 1881 in Hugo, Oklahoma.
Field Worker: Florence Duke
Interview # 6351

My father, George W. Scott, was of an English descent, born in 1819, and died at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1883. He is buried in the Hugo cemetery. 

My mother, Eliza Ann McIntosh before her marriage, was part Scotch and Choctaw. She was born February 25, 1851, in Indiana and died at Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1881. 

Vinonia and I were the only children. Vinonia was born in 1876 at Hugo, Oklahoma. At the time of mother's death she was five years old. Not having any one to care for her, father sent her to Doaksville to live with our aunt. This is where she made her home until her death at the age of 17. 

My mother and father were married at Goodwater, near Hugo, Oklahoma, in 1871 by Joel W. Everidge, Supreme Judge. The town of Hugo was formerly called Goodland, was built on my father's old home place, and I was born here March 2, 1872. The year of 1893, at the age of 21 I came to old San Bois Town, which means in french "with out wood". I purchased a tract of land which lay northwest of San Bois. At this time I received my mail from San Bois, and I lived there until 1903, when I went to Kinta. 

It was at Kinta where I met Miss Alice McCurtain, daughter of Green McCurtain, Chief of the Choctaw Nation. Miss McCurtain and I were married in June, 1896, at the McCurtain home, Rev. J. J. Lubbock, Methodist Presiding Elder, officiating. Chief McCurtain invited all the family friends to the wedding, and people came from miles around to attend. We moved to Stigler in 1916, where we have raised a large family, all of whom are living at this time. They are: Clifton Breckenridge and Yvonne Scott, of Muskogee; Katheryn Scott, a teacher in an Indian school in Arizona; George Scott, attending Conners College, Warner, Oklahoma; McCurtain Scott, attending University of Oklahoma at Norman; Vernonia Scott, in Miami Junior College, Miami, Oklahoma; and Fulsom Scott of Stigler. 

SCHOOL DAYS 
Mr. Scott first attended school in a log cabin at Springs Chapel, later going to Spencer Academy, 15 miles north of Hugo. 

At this time Mr. Scott has in his possession a record of his grandparent's marriage, on his mother's side. He tells of going to his grandparent's old home place and at that time there was one of their old slaves living in the old home. Everything was so nice and clean, being kept by this old slave who was over 90 year old at that time. After being served his supper that night, he went out on the front porch to enjoy his pipe, and the slave came out carrying a piece of paper, telling Mr. Scott he had something for him. Until this day and time Mr. Scott has filed in his office this record which reads as follows. Mr. John McIntosh and Miss Esther Fulsom were married November 4, 1807. 

Mr. Scott speaks quite a lot about Chief McCurtain. He was present the day Mr. McCurtain was elected Chief of the Choctaw Nation, in 1896. He was again elected in 1898. Under the laws and constitution he couldn't serve two succeding terms but Chief McCurtain was again elected in 1902, serving until his death, December 10, 1910. Since that year, there have been four Chiefs, Durant, Dwight, Harrison and Locke. 

Mr. Scott was elected treasurer of the Choctaws in 1899, reelected in 1905, serving three terms. Mr. Scott tells of walking side by side with Chief McCurtain, when he entered the building in which the Hunter-McCurtain duel took place. He also served as chairman of the Democratic party, and took part in politics before and after statehood. 

Transcribed by Lola Crane <coolbreze@cybertrails.com> March 2002.