Interview #12744
Field Worker: Carl R. Sherwood
Date: January 12, 1938
Name: Mrs. Molly Starr Sillers
Residence:
Date of Birth: January 17, 1887
Place of Birth: Canadian District, Cherokee Nation
Father: Tuxie Starr
Mother: Isabelle Campbell
I was born January 17th, 1887, in the Canadian District of the Cherokee
Nation, on what was known as the Tuxie Starr place, about four and one-half miles
southwest of Porum.
My father was Tuxie Starr, a full blood Cherokee Indian, son of Tom Starr,
who came to the Indian Territory during the movement of the Cherokees over the Trail of
Tears.
My mother was Isabelle Campbell, a sister of John Campbell. There
were four of us children; Suky, Milo, Dick and I.
My sister, Suky Starr, attended school at Henry Kendell College in
Muskogee, and her first and only lover was Milo Hendricks, a Choctaw Indian, who left
school to fight in the Spanish American War, where he was killed. Suky died a few
years later.
I was reared in the vicinity of my birth place and educated in the
Cherokee National school and the Female Seminary school at Tahlequah.
In 1910 I was married to Clifford Sillers, white. We are the parents
of five children. Four boys and one girl. Mr. Sillers was a successful farmer
and stockman.
