James Wilson Seymour |
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Private Company B, 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles He died in 1932 He war born in Missouri
While he was away at war, his mother was shot and killed at her home by James Seymour's best friend, who had joined the Union army. When James came back, he hunted down the former friend and killed him. Seymour and his father, who had been clubbed by the killer, left for Indian Territory and settled west of Wynnewood, where the Washita River made a turn. In 1915, he applied for a pension in Oklahoma He later moved into far southeastern Oklahoma, where he is buried. His father is buried at Whitebead |
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