Choctaw County was originally part of the Choctaw Nation, with Choctaw settlements known to be in the vicinity of Pushmataha prior to the removal of Native Americans from the southeastern United States during the Trail of Tears. Most of the early European American pioneers of Choctaw County were farmers from North and South Carolina. In 1912 the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad was com...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Choctaw County, Mississippi. The county is named after the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans, who long occupied this territory as their homeland before being forced to move west of the Mississippi River by federal troops under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Adjacent Counties Webster County Oktibbeha County Winston County A...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Choctaw County, Oklahoma. The Choctaw Nation moved into the area now occupied by Choctaw County in 1831-1832, as a result of their forcible removal from their homeland in the Southeastern United States, under the Indian Removal Act. The US wanted to extinguish Native American land claims in the Southeast to enable development by Euro...
This project is for those buried in Brightwater Cemetery, Brightwater, Choctaw County, Alabama. Find a Grave AL Gen Web
Mount Olivet Cemetery in Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma, is the final resting place for rodeo greats Freckles Brown, Lane Frost, Todd Watley and L. Hammock. Ed Ansley, better known as Buster Brown, and William H. Darrough, the founder of Hugo, are also buried here. Because Hugo has been a wintering home for several circuses, a special area called Showmen's Rest features unique headstones and gr...
This project is for those buried in Shoat Springs Cemetery, Hugo, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Find a Grave