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.