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Services are pending for Tamra Leanne Kilgore with the Williamson-Spradlin Funeral Home of Wetumka. Tamra was born March 5, 1963 in Dumas, Texas to Jerry and Cathryn (Brown) Umsted and passed from this life June 14 at the Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa. She was a 1981 graduate of Wetumka High School and the wife of Cecil Kilgore, Jr. A full obituary will follow when details are completed.
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Jimmy Caroll Wortman passed away Monday, June 13, 2022 at Boyce Manor Nursing Home at the age of 79.
Read moreFuneral services for Kenneth Davis, Weleetka resident, will be held Monday, June 20, 2022 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the North Fork Cemetery south of Okemah.
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Nancy Annette Taylor went to meet the Lord Saturday, June 11, 2022 at Holdenville General Hospital in Holdenville, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
Read moreFuneral services for Eugene Harjo, Jr. will be held today, Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 1:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Interment will follow at the Johnson Family Cemetery south of Wetumka. Wake services were held Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 6:00 – 8:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel, Wetumka.
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Sharon Jene Dodson Hall passed away June 1, 2022 after a brief battle with lung cancer.
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The forced removal of the Five Tribes from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory in the 1830s also included the African American slaves owned by many tribal members. The transition of these slaves to American citizenship is unique in the history of race relations in the United States. It was a journey filled with contentious negotiation among factions of the Indian nations, the federal government, capitalist developers, black and white agricultural colonizers, and the freedmen themselves. Efforts to secure the rights of the freedmen represented one aspect of the struggle that ultimately opened Indian lands to non-Indian settlement.
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