Pictured, my husband's grandfather, Henry Thompson, a U.S. Deputy Marshall, and three of his cohorts.  I call it The Mose Ridge Boys.  I'm not sure when it was taken, so we won't put a date on it for now.  

Henry and his younger brother, Robert Samuel Thompson, were both US Deputy Marshalls under Isaac Gilstrap during the time that the government was chasing the Wickliffe boys right prior to our statehood, who, by the way, had been childhood friends of the Thompson boys and who remained friends and some married a generation later.

My husband's father, Willie Henry "Bill/Will" Thompson was born 1901 near Zena/Eucha somewhere, oldest child of William Henry Perry "Blackie" Thompson and Fannie Jane (Allen) Sutton (widow of William Dudley Sutton of Delaware co OK).

When Henry died, Bill was the executor of the estate and he ended up with the picture. After he got in the nursing home in Pryor, OK in 1971, his wife, Ola Belle (Kay) Thompson gave the picture to us since my husband was the only living son. Our second child/son is named for Ola's dad, David Madison Kay and Bill's father, Henry Thompson, (David Henry Thompson) virtue of Ola's mother requesting we consider naming it that if it was a boy, which we did.

Henry and Fannie were married 2 May 1900, marriage recorded at Vinita since it was the courthouse of the Northern District, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, but I really don't know 'where' they were married.  Fannie's folks, William Henry and Martha Ann (Kinder) Allen had come to Grove Springs about 1883 and lived there, near Jay, Eucha and Kenwood. Henry's folks, Michael B. and Evaline (Bowman) Thompson had come from Springfield, Mo area about 1888.  

Names as given by Ola (Kay) Thompson by virtue that she grew up knowing all of these men as her family lived around Mose Ridge/Topsy/Chloetta also and she married into the Thompsons when she was 17

I was fortunate in getting to know Henry Thompson since I started going with my husband when I was 15 (1958) and spent lots of time with him and his family.  He told me many stories of his childhood and early manhood living in Cherokee Nation.