Pilgrims and Pioneers: Indian Territory

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Indian Territory

Indian Territory was an area of land set aside for American Indians to be moved to when the US government took over the lands of the American Indians. Most of this land was in Oklahoma although I have read that part of Kansas was also in this Territory.
In the 1890's the land was opened up to white homesteaders which contributed to the great migrations of Pioneers to the West- many traveling by covered wagon.
Although I do not know exactly when my ggggrandmother Anne Dickerson went to Indian Territory with her third husband Ladovic Underhill I have found information that he died in Waldron,Ponotoc Co. , Oklahoma in 1897 at the age of 77 and the she passed away in Oklahoma in the year 1898 at the age of 80 years old.