Census	Civil War		Misc. Notes		Trial of Tears
Woodall/Wagnon Cemetery		Bible Record - MP's Birth		Estate of Marhsall P Wagnon
2011 Article - Messenger Woodall/Wagnon Cemetery		Wagnon - Interview 1937		The Woodall Family
Dawes Role Packet Application for Margaret Wagnon Costen
Great Grand Parents / Aunt / Uncles of: Mary (Wagnon) White The Family of: Generation # 3 Wagnon Marshal P Wagnon (CSA) (Son of Thomas Wagnon & Elizabeth Ruddell) (Capt Buck Brown's Company AR Vol Militia) Born: 25 Nov 1827 Indian Territory AR (Lovely/Washington Co AR) Died: 18 Apr 1863 Fayetteville Washington Co AR) (CSA - Killed "Battle of Fayetteville" AR - Civil War) Buried: Wagnon/Woodall Family Cemetery Adair Co OK

Marriage #4: abt. 1850 Margaret Peggy Woodall (Survivor of 'Trail of Tears 1838/1839) Cherokee (Daughter of Thomas Woodall Sr & Nancy (Nannie) Tadpole) (Nannie Tadpole is a Survivor of the Trail of Tears, 1838/1839) Born: 1821 Marietta Cobb Co GA Died: 1884 Unkn Buried: Cherokee Nation West (5 Marriages) Children: 2 known Wagnon Children
Thomas F Wagnon b. 3 Apr 1851 Cherokee Nation d. 23 Dec 1911 Adair Co OK Married: 1871 Lucinda M Sixkiller b. 12 Mar 1853 Cherokee Nation d. 27 Dec 1921 Adair Co OK			Margaret Marshall Wagnon b. 3 Jul 1863 Cherokee Nation d. abt 1937 Adair Co OK Married: (2) William E Costen - Children: 9 Henry R Elkins - Children: ? Dawes Role Packet Application
Marriages of: Margaret Peggy Woodall Wagnon: "In a 1937 Interview with Marshal & Peggy's daughter Margaret Marshall Wagnon Elkins, by the Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma, she mentions three (3) marriages of her mother; 'married a Scott, they had a daughter named Nancy Scott, after his death, Margaret married a man named Wagnon, there were two children Margaret and Thomas Wagnon. Later she married a man named Brown & had two children; Willard & Franklin, also mentioned is her marriage to a Brown." Note from Mike: Mary Margaret never knew her father Marshal P Wagnon, as she was born several months after his death, in the civil war.
From the Verified Marriages of: Margaret Scott [Woodall] Wagnon Brown
Married #1 Other alleged Marriages of Margaret Woodall: Alexander Sanders One known child: Archilla Sanders
The Family of: Married #2 Margaret Woodall Cherokee Born: 1821 Marietta Cobb Co GA (Cherokee Lands of GA) Died: 1884 Unkn Buried: Unkn 1st Married: bef. 1843 John Scott Born: Unkn. Died. Unkn. 1 Child from this marriage: Nancy Jane Scott born: 1843 died: Unkn. 1st Married: Robert Parris (had 5 children) 2nd Married: Mike Mulcare (had 3 children)
Married #3 Other alleged Marriages of Margaret Woodall: Hampton Williams (No information)
The Family of: Married #5 Margaret Woodall Cherokee Born: 1821 Marietta Cobb Co GA (Cherokee Lands of GA) Died: 1884 Unkn Buried: Unkn 3rd Married: aft. 1863 William Brown Born: abt. 1810? Died: Unkn Buried: Unkn. 2 Children from this marriage: Willard Brown (no info) Frank (Franklin) G. Brown (no info)

The Family of:

Margaret Marshall Wagnon
(Daughter of Marshal P & Margaret [Woodall] Wagnon)
Cherokee
Born: 3 Jul 1863 Cherokee Nation IT OK
Died: 12 Apr 1939 Westville Adair Co OK
(death date from grave stone we had 1937)
Buried: Baptist Mission Cemetery Westville Adair Co OK

1st Married: 1 Mar 1888 Cherokee Nation IT OK
William E Costen
(Son of William Wallace Sr & Cassa Ann [McAlister] Costen)
Born: 22 Jul 1840 Weakley Co TN
Died: 2 Apr 1898 Westville Adair Co
Buried: Baptist Mission Cemetery Westville Adair Co OK

Children: 9

Bessie Lenora
b. 25 Oct 1885
d. Unknown

Cassie Belle
b. May 1887
d. Unknown

Edna B (Ednie)
b. May 1889
d. Unknown

Robert Roy
b. 6 Aug 1891
d. 27 Dec 1914

Samuel Houston
b. 4 Jan 1892?
d. Unknown

William T
b. Jul 1893
d. Unknown

Merideth Clark
b. 5 Apr 1895
d. Unknown

Lena Elizabeth
b. Nov 1896
d. Unknown

Eula W (Youla)
b. 31 Mar 1898
d. 22 Feb 1974

The Family of:

Margaret Marshall Elkins

2nd Married: 1905 Westville Adair Co OK
Rev Henry Russell (Bud) Elkins
(son of William & Elizabeth [Rose] Elkins)
Born: 6 Nov 1873 Hindsville Madison Co AR
Died: 11 Apr 1943 Westville Adair Co OK
Buried: Baptist Mission Cemetery Westville Adair Co OK

located in Section 18, Township 18N, Range 26E in Adair Co.
Ok. It is approx. 2.5 miles north of Westville on Hwy 59.

Historic Marker at Baptist Mission Cemetery

Margaret Costen Elkins

2nd Husband Rev Henry R Elkins

Obituary: Henry R. Elkins died suddenly Sunday, April 11 at the home of his stepdaughter, Mrs.W.H.Hern, at the age of 69 years. Mr. Elkins was born in Hindsville, Madison Co., Arkansas and came to Oklahoma with his parents as a small boy. Most of his life was spent in and around Westville. He married Mrs. Marguret Coston in Westville in 1905, she having preceded him in death 4 years ago. Mr. Elkins leaves 3 brothers, Jim, Leonard, and Dolly; and 7 step children, Mrs. W.H.Hern of Westville, Mrs Bud Proffit, Mrs Fred Ellena, Mrs. Tom Whitmire, Will, Sam and Meridieth Coston, all of California. His parents were William Elkins (born Tennessee) and Elizabeth Rose Elkins (born Missouri)

1st Husband William Costen

Interview of Gr Aunt - 1937
Margaret Marshall (Wagnon) Elkins

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma

Date: October 12, 1937
Name: Margaret Elkins
Post Office: Westville, Oklahoma
Residence Address:
Date of Birth: July 3, 1863
Place of Birth: Goingsnake District, Cherokee Nation, I.T.
Father: Marshall Wagnon
Place of Birth:
Information on father: white
Mother: Margaret Woodall
Place of birth: Marietta, Georgia
Information on mother: Cherokee
Field Worker: Hummingbird & Bigby

Margaret Elkins was born in Goingsnake District, July 3, 1963. Her father was Marshall WAGNON, a white man. Her mother was Margaret Woodall, a Cherokee. Margaret Woodall was born in Marietta, Georgia. She was married in Georgia to a man named SCOTT, a part Cherokee. They had a child, Nancy Scott.

After the death of said Scott she was again married to a man named Wagnon. To this union there were only two children born, namely: Margaret and Thomas Wagnon. Later she was married to another man named BROWN. She and Brown had two children, Willard and Franklin. Mrs. Elkins still lives on the same farm that the family settled when they came to the Cherokee Nation from Georgia in 1837.

Early Life
Most of the early life of Mrs. Elkins was spent on the farm that her father operated about three miles northwest of the present town of Westville, At first she remembers this farm was small, containing about ten acres. Her father and grandfather worked and cleared more land until now the farm contains about one hundred acres.

The Woodall family was a well-to-do family in the early times. They owned slaves before the Civil War. They kept a few slaves after the war. But they were slaves no more.

Indian Cooking
The family of the Woodalls that came from Georgia were all full blood Cherokees. They knew cooking the old Cherokee way. They ate the simpliest of food. The food that could be found on most of the tables would be wild meats, corn and bean bread, pumpkins and dried fruit. At that time fruit was plentiful in the woods, but fruit jars were not known so most of the fruit was dried. The way they dried fruit was by the sun method.

They built a scaffold of poles out in the yard. The fruit was peeled and cut in small pieces and placed on the scaffold until dry. This was sacked and stored up in the lofts of their homes.

Sweet potatoes was another common food in those days. Many sweet potatoes were raised by the Cherokees. They also knew how to take care of them better than they do now.

Plenty of wild meat was stored away in the winter. Hogs ran wild over the hills in this part of the Cherokee Nation and hundreds of them were killed every year. There was no law to prohibit anyone from killing as many as his family could make use of. But they had to have a claim in the woods in order to do this. These hogs stayed fat all the year. There was plenty of meat.

Soldier SIXKILLER was the greatest hog raiser in this part of the country. He owned several hundred.

Indian Medicine
There was not as much sickness in the nation at that time. Communicable diseases were almost unknown. The only diseases that bothered among the Cherokees was Summer Chills, headaches and colds. These were treated with herbs and different kinds of bark by the Cherokees themselves. Consumption among the Cherokees was also common. Many died from this disease. Some few among the Cherokees thought that this could be cured. They were good doctors for gun wounds. They knew the method where they could draw lead out of a shot. But nowadays this old way of doctoring is almost a thing of the past. They did not teach the younger Cherokees their way of doctoring. When they did teach anyone they would leave enough out of the necessary knowledge so the person taught would not surpass the teacher.

They stopped fevers by a method they called "Sweating Fever". This was done by placing several kettles of hot water in the bed with the patient. Placing these pots of water under the covers with the sick would cause the person to sweat. This seating caused the fever to stop immediately. She has witnessed this process on several occasions. Among the best Cherokee doctors whom she knew was an old lady named Cha-Wa-Yeu, this lady lived on Ballard Creek near old Fort Wayne, now Watts. She was the mother of George and Fred DUNNOWOSE who was hung in 1891.

Education
The earliest school in this part of the Goingsnake District was the Baptist Mission School. She lived just a mile south of this school. She finished the eighth grade and also attended the Orphan Asylum at Tahlequah when Watt Duncan was superintendent. Afterwards she taught school at Timberlake which was a community near where the Morris School is now. Carrie QUALLS and Nan MCNAIR were her favorite teachers.

Church
The Baptist Mission which they attended was the only church in this part of the Cherokee Nation. The old timers say that this mission started before the Civil War. Some say this was established soon after the coming of the immigrants. But the first missionary at this place was Reverend UPTON as told by the old timers. Afterwards John JONES was stationed at this place. Besides the old log mission house there was erected a brick to house Reverend John Jones.

Post Office
Several years afterwards this Baptist Mission was allowed a post office which was called the Baptist Post Office. Mrs. Carrie QUALLS was the first post-mistress. A printing shop was also established at this place.

Civil War
When the Civil War broke out in the Cherokee Nation her father joined the Confederate Army. He served through the War until the last year. He was killed in the battle of Fayetteville.

Courts
Goingsnake District Courthouse was located on Peacheater Branch, west of present Westville. Abe Woodall was the judge for one term.

Trading and Milling Points
Tahlequah was their main trading point at that time. This was about twenty-five miles away. But they did all their milling at Moore’s Mill over in Arkansas.

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Dawes Role Packet for Margaret M Wagnon Costen
daughter of Marshall P & Margaret Woodall Wagnon

Wagnon / Woodall Cemetery
Adair County Oklahoma

Location: Sec. 19, R26E, T18N

Personal Accounts / Stories / Various Records

From a Woodall Descendant
by Jack Woodall

Thomas Woodall was buried in Adair County in the old Woodall Family cemetery. An article printed in "Flashback Vol XI #3, August 1961" reads "Elizabeth Wagnon was the wife of Thomas Wagnon, early resident of Fayetteville, whose Will was published in FLASHBACK October 1960. Their son, Marshall Wagnon, married Margaret Woodall, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Woodall who lived about one-half mile southeast of old Baptist Mission (near Westville).

We found Marshall Wagnon's grave in the old Woodall family cemetery, all traces of it almost gone now. Only a few tombstones stand in a grove of trees, about halfway between the paved highway and the K.C. Southern railroad tracks. It is about one-half mile north of old Jacob Houston Woodall's two story home standing about a mile north of Westville. Thomas Woodall built one of those old type Southern plantation houses. It was two story and rooms about 20 x 20 with breezeway between. This old house stood through the Civil War but was burned soon afterwards. There is no trace of it today, so far as I could see."

I have been told a J. P. Stanfield owns the property where this cemetery is located. His telephone number is 918-723-4015.

A Tom Woodall (1889-1918) and a Charles Woodall (1861-1902) are buried in the Old Baptist Mission Cemetery located a mile or so north of Westville.

May 4, 2003

Woodall - Wagnon Cemetery:
by Emily Woodall (as told Jun 6, 2003)

The Woodall Cemetery or the Woodall-Wagnon Cemetery is located in Westville, OK on the property of Ray Stanfill. It is the home place of Nancy and Thomas Woodall. I visited the cemetery in March 1997. The Cemetery was in terrible shape when we were in OK, but it is a beautiful place. I can understand why Thomas must have loved Oklahoma.

There were a lot of stones, some also gone. The cemetery is in a grove of, I believe Locust trees. I am not familiar with these trees but that was what I was told. I did not meet Mr. Stanfill that day, however, I did write him a thank you letter and told him the history of Thomas, Varches and Nancy. It seemed proper to tell him the history of his land.

I do not know how Mr. Stanfill feels about people wanting to see this cemetery as someone else made the arrangements for us to see it. At that time, we were permitted to see it and as you know, there is a law that says that if you have a cemetery on your property that you have to let the kin visit it.

The Cemetery was quite aways from where we turned off the main road and we had to drive across the pastureland with all of the cattle looking at us. It was pretty rough and I would not want to drive a good car in there, even though the pasture grass was not high, but oh, so pretty and green.

I understand that Jacob Woodall was buried there, someone told us that his head stone was used as a stepping stone to someone's front door. Thomas and Nancy have to be buried in two of the unmarked graves. Charles E. Thorne, who died in 1884, three weeks and two days old. Millard A. Wagnon, Oklahoma, Pvt, 58th Infantry, World War I, born January 8, 1895 and died July 1921. Willard A. Brown, born May 26, 1881 and died July 1886 (it looks like 1886). Lucinda R. Wagnon with the date of March 12, 1853 below her name, nothing else. Thomas Wagnon with April 3, 1851 (I think) and December 20, 1911.

Notes from Mike White:
Who are those buried above?
1. Jacob Woodall        = Son of Thomas & Nanny Woodall
2. Thomas & Nancy Woodall - Unmarked or Missing grave stones.
3. Millard A. Wagnon   = Son of Thomas F & Lucinda Wagnon.
4. Willard A. Brown     = Son of Wm & Margaret [Wagnon] Brown.
5. Lucinda R. Wagnon = Lucinda Marie [Sixkiller] Wagnon.
6. Thomas Wagnon     = Thomas Foreman Wagnon husb. of Lucinda.
7. Charles E. Thorne    = Mystery man, have no idea who he is...
8. There are Unmarked or missing grave stones.
9. I was told that Marshal P Wagnon's (CSA) was buried here but
    his stone was very deteriorated.
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10. Marshal P Wagnon = son of Thomas Wagnon Sr., I add this
     entry based on the Aug 1861 article in Flashback describing a
     visit to the burial site by the well known descendant & researcher
     and writer, James M Carselowey, in which he states 'The found
     Marshal Wagnon grave stone, almost gone'.
11. Margaret [Woodall] Wagnon - I also am adding Margurite Woodall
      to the list as the burial site was her land & is highly likely that one
      of the 30 graves here, belongs to her.

Wagnon/Woodall Cemetery:
Provided by: Mary Beth

The Woodall Cemetery is listed in "Our People and Where They Rest". It is listed as the Wagnon Cemetery. This book was done in the 1960s by a grant by the Doris Duke Foundation (by Carselowey). However, the cemetery is also listed in the Pioneer Papers - on file in the Oklahoma Historical Society. These papers were done in the 1930s by the WPA - it gave a lot of people jobs.

There is a wonderful interview done by Margaret Wagnon Costen Elkins done at the same time they mapped out the cemetery. In there they list as many as 30 graves - some of whom were Nannie Tadpole, Thomas Woodall (Sr.) and several others.

As you may know, Nannie Tadpole was as near as I can tell a full blood Cherokee and Thomas was White. They were living here in Georgia up near Lake Allatoona when the Government made them relocate to OK, (Trail of Tears).

Thomas at the time had a white side wife with three other children. At first he decided to stay with the white wife but Nannie became very ill and he went to take care of her. I suppose he liked what he saw in Oklahoma and stayed with her there after. They had nine children - one of whom died on the trail. Then Thomas died and tried to will the land/farm to his sons including his white sons in Georgia. Then Margueritte came back lived with her mother and took care of her until she died. Nannie in turn willed the land/farm to Margueritte. The brothers said Nannie's will was illegal and Margueritte sued and won in the Cherokee Courts. A very famous case in Indian History. Anyways she in turn left most of the farm to her daughter and son Thomas (your direct descendent).

Carselowery, also has written a lot about Margueritte and the Woodalls in his many books, since he is related as well. If you are interested in names/dates I will be glad to give you the information. I also have all the brothers, sisters, husband and wives.

The cemetery however, is in terrible shape. My sisters and I try to help these cemeteries by finding out who and what we can do to preserve them. This cemetery has an interesting twist however. At first we had to stop the highway department from building over it a couple of years ago since the farmer who owns it failed to report to them it was even there. Then, this year my sister and her tenacity found out the family still owns it. The current family member didn't know it and we just recently informed them about it. I don't know what they will do with it but hopefully, they will preserve the history and get help in doing so.

Mary Beth

Driving Directions

Take Highway 58 North past Westville. There are no road signs in this part so I have to give you landmarks to go by. On your right (going north) the new highway will end just past Westville and immediately to your right is a one story ranch house. This is Lee Williams farm. Take a right on the dirt road that runs in front of his house. Look to your left after his farm. There is a grove of trees in the way back, up on the hill that is where the cemetery is. You have to have access through the cattle gate from Mr. Stanfill. Remember if you go over the railroad tracks you have gone too far. Mr. Stanfill lives past the railroad tracks. His home is past the railroad tracks and then you will come to a fork in the road (left or right) turn left to go to Mr. Stanfill's home. A big brick ranch home (the old Woodall home was behind his house) - he lives on the right side of the road. If you had taken a right at the fork in the road you would see the old Jacob Houston Woodall home on your left. The road that runs in front of Mr. Stanfill's eventually comes out by the old Baptist Mission.

The Wagnon Cemetery mentioned in Book:

OUR PEOPLE
And Where They Rest
Vol. 6 - 1971
James W. Tyner & Alice Tyner Timmons

Wagnon Cemetery
Location:   Sec. 19, R26E, T18N, Adair County
Condition: Abandoned. Area grown up in weeds & black locust trees.
Note:         It is related that there are possibly 30 Graves here.
                                                           Grave Markers

1. Thomas F Wagnon 1851 1911                3   1 2
2. Lucinda R. Wagnon 1853 ?                  ? ? ? ? ?
3. Millard A Wagnon Oklahoma                  ? ??        ?
     Pvt. 58 Infantry 4th Division           ? 4 5              ?
     WW I    1895 - 1921
4. Jacob A Woodall 1831 1884
5. Charles E Thorne - 3 weeks old
    died Aug 30, 1884.

Census Records:

1830 Washington Co AR Census Page 192
Thomas Wagnon: (dies 1838 so not on 1840)
Males: 1012301000000
Femal: 1211001000000

1840 Washington Co Census 273
Elizabeth Wagnon (Elizabeth Ruddell Wagnon)
1010200000000
0003100100000

1850 Washington Co AR Census - Twp: Illinois - Page 433A
ED 11th Oct 1860 by John Buchanan Ass't Marshal

74 - 74
Wagnon, Elizabeth   66 F head   1,000 Ky
Bazil                        35 M Farmer         IA (son)
Marshall                  23 M Farmer        AR (son)
Matthews, Ellen       46 F                     VA (?)
Riddle, Abraham     64 M Farmer          KY (Brother of Elizabeth)

1860 TERRITORY: AR - COUNTY: Indian Lands - DIVISION: "Cherokee, Going Snake" REEL NO: M653-52 PAGE NO: 1178 REFERENCE: "Enumerated by H. L. Smith, Baptist Mission"

2 - 247 - 247
WAGONON, Marshal 32 M W Farmer Cherokee Nation

Note: This is a Head of Household 'only census'.

Notes on 1860:

**The reason Marshal P Wagnon shows on AR & OK 1860 census is because, the Cherokee Nation district 'Going Snake' included AR & OK, until Oklahoma became a state.

1880 Cherokee Nation Census
Indian Territory - Oklahoma
Going Snake District IT OK
                                                            census married Occupation
No.   name                    Tribe   age   sex cd no. status
1838 Woodall, Margaret NCher 59     F   Dead    No [mother of Thomas]
1839 Wagnon, Maggie    NCher 16     F   5807    No [sister of Thomas]
1840 Wagnon, Thomas   NCher 27    M   5862   Yes Farmer
1841 Wagnon, Lucinda   NCher 25     F   5862   Yes [wife of Thomas]
1842 Wagnon, Marsh     NCher 07     M   5870   No [Marshal son of Thomas]
1843 Wagnon, Edith       NCher 04     F   5862    No [dau of Thomas]
1844 Wagnon, Nancy     NCher 03     F   5874    No [dau of Thomas]
1845 Wagnon, Emma     NCher 10mo F   5862    No [dau of Thomas]

Below is the Brother & Sister-in-law of Margaret (above)
1846 Woodall, Jacob      NCher 49    M   Dead   Yes Farmer
1847 Woodall, Anna       NCher 43     F   Dead   Yes
Below may be a child of Jacob above
1848 Woodall, Charles    NCher 18    M   282      No   at School

Notes for the 1880 Census:
The DEAD (ie) listed in the 1880, only says that this person
died between 1880 & 1890, but were alive in 1880 a number
in this same column is the CENSUS CARD NUMBER added
from the 1900 census. The Dawes Commission used these
cenus cards for tribal enrollment.

Margaret Peggy Woodall is listed by her maiden name.

MISC. NOTES:

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UNVERIFIED RECORD #1:

ID: I03225
Name: Marshall Wagnon
Sex: M
Birth: 1828 in Cherokee Nation
Death: 1863
Census: 1860 Cherokee Nation, Going Snake District, Free Inhabitants,
age 32, born in Cherokee Nation
Note: Marshall Wagnon (Wagoner) served with the 6th Texas Volunteers
during the Mexican War, and enlisted in Captain Buck Brown's Company, Arkansas Volunteers, in the Confederate service. (Old Cherokee Families, by Emmet Starr)

Note1 from Mike on above entry:
The Resource mentioned "Old Cherokee Families by Emmet Starr": The
only entry for Marshal Wagnon is his married to Margaret Woodall, since
the book is not indexed, is possible it is somewhere else, I have yet to find another entry for Marshall Wagnon, in Emmet Starr's book "Need Page Reference to verify."

Note2 from Mike on above entry:
"There was a battle of Fayetteville AR, and indeed Marshal P Wagnon may have been involved, and currently, looking into this... Have no records at this time. "

UPDATE: 4/21/2003 (Marshal P's Civil War Service referenced)
"History of Adair County OK": Page 747;
...In the Bio of Tom and Eula Whitmire Family written by Winifred Berk: 'Eula Costen Whitmire grew up on the farm her mother had inherited and which was originally settled by the Woodalls, her grandparents, when they came from Marietta, GA in 1837. Eula's mother was Margaret Marshall Wagnon. She was the daughter of Margaret Woodall and Marshall Wagnon, who was killed at the Battle of Fayetteville, Arkansas, in the Civil War. Margaret Wagnon's first husband, and my grandfather (the author's) was William Costen..."

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MEXICAN WAR RECORDS INQUIRY
TO THE "NARA": (Marshal P Wagnon)

Jul 5, 2003: NARA Found no Pension nor Military Records for
Marshal P Wagnon or Wagoner.

**Note: This doesn't mean he didn't serve, they just don't have
              a record in their archives. I have had records in my hand
              on others, and the NARA still couldn't find anything... How
              ever, it should be noted that Margaret M Wagnon, Marshal's
              daughter, only mentioned his Civil War service in the inter-
              view by the Oklahoma Pioneer Society. And again, Margaret
              was born several months after Marshal's death, not to mention
              she was in her advanced years for this interview and in fact
              died the same year, she may have forgotten. Hopefully, we can
              find another source, to support the family lore. Marshal was 17
              or 18 in 1845/46, toward the end of this war, I estimate if he had
              served, these would most likely have been the years... I believe
              Emmett Starr, may have been the source of this for other books
              and publications that mention Marshal P in the Mexican War, this
              was not sourced in his book... The hunt continues...

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Marriage Acknowledged
Thomas F & Margaret:

The marriage of Thomas F Wagnon and Margaret Woodall is
indicated in the book; "The History of the Cherokee Indians, by
Emmet Starr, Page 344".

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Article:
Flashback Vol1 - XI - #3
August 1961
Pontotoc Co. Gen Library
Ada, OK 16 Aug 1993

"Among the old-timers living in the Cincinnati (Washington County) area near the Cherokee Nation line, were the following; They were neighbors and friends of the pioneer Cherokee families living in the Westville, Old Baptist Missionary area, of old Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation: F. B. Rhea 1800-1907; C. A. Mason 1824-1907; and Elizabeth Wagnon 1784-1879.

Elizabeth Wagnon was the wife of Thomas Wagnon, early resident of Fayetteville, whose will was published in FLASHBACK October 1960. Their Son, Marshall Wagnon, married Margaret Woodall, daughter of Thomas and Nancy Woodall who lived about one-half mile southeast of old Baptist Mission (near Westville). We found Marshall Wagnon's grave in the old Woodall family cemetery, all traces of it almost gone now. Only a few tombstones stand in a grove of trees, about halfway between the paved highway and the K. C. Southern Railroad tracks. It is about one-half mile north of old Jacob Houston Woodall's two-story home standing about a mile north of Westville. Thomas Woodall built one of those old-type Southern Plantation houses. It was two-story and rooms about 20x20 with breezeway between. This old house stood through the Civil War but was burnt soon afterwards. There is no trace of it today, as far as I could see."

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History of Washington County
Families - 1449

See Thomas Wagnon's Web Page for complete Story.

by Barbara Hinshaw Johnson
(Descendant of John Wagnon b. 1810)

...In this article Marshal is described as a son of Thomas &
Elizabeth Wagnon... and further...

Marshal Wagnon married a Cherokee lady, Peggy Woodall
and lived in what is now Westville, Oklahoma. He was killed
during the Civil War.

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BIBLE RECORD:

A list of names was found in a Family Bible in the possession of Myrtle Leona (White) Terrell, the names of Summers and Wagnon's were present along with White, Terrell and others. The Bible page itself was witnessed by Mrs. Vallie Terrell a descendant, she informs me this Page is now missing, and presumed destroyed in a fire. However, a typed copy of the Bible Record had been made, and much of its contents is verifiable by other means.

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Terrell Bible Record
Name	Birth Date	Name	Birth Date
WAGNON'S		SUMMERS
Thomas	May 26, 1783	Rachel	Nov 15, 1803
Elizabeth	Feb 01, 1784	Anna	Feb 18, 1805
John	Feb 01, 1810	Nancy	Feb 09, 1808
Bazzil	Sep 04, 1813	Ewing	Mar 15, 1810
Thomas	Jul 26, 1817	John	Feb 15, 1812
Sarah	Dec 07, 1819	Elizabeth	Jul 01, 1814
Matilda	Jan 11, 1822	RUDDELL'S
Mary	Nov 08, 1824	Manda	Jan 18, 1817
Martial [Marshal]	Nov 25, 1827	Esther	Dec 12, 1824
Name	Birth Date	Name	Birth Date
HOGE		White (Birth)
William S.	May 22, 1805	William	Aug 08, 1873 AR
Matilda Cotter	Mar 21, 1810	Leona	Apr 12, 1875
John Marion	Jun 08, 1828	Mary	Apr 23, 1877
Polly Standifer	Sep 01, 1830	Katy	May 11, 1873
Ann Hoge	Mar 26, 1832	Samuel	Feb 08, 1881
Terrell		James	Feb 08, 1883
Myrtle Leona	Apr 12, 1875	Thomas Summers	Mar 13, 1886
James Edward	Oct 10, 1895	Ola	Jan 05, 1889
Loisie	Apr 08, 1897	White (Death)
Roy	Apr 28, 1903	Samuel	Jan 09, 1891
Elmer	May 12, 1906	Elizabeth	Aug 14, 1936
Ruby	Dec 23, 1908
George	Jan 28, 1913
Bible list provide by: Vallie Terrell Note: The fact that some of these entries can be verified by other sources does lend some legitimacy, to the lost record.

In Honor of our 2x's Great Grandfather

Civil War Service of:

Confederate Soldier

Marshal P Wagnon

Served:
Capt William 'Buck' Brown's Co, Arkansas Volunteers
A Guerrilla Company From Benton Co AR - Fought under and with
Confederate Brigadier General William Lewis Cabell at Fayetteville

Killed - "Battle of Fayetteville" - April 18, 1863
Washington County Arkansas

"The Southern Cross of Honor"

" We Honor our Grandfather who
fought for the principle of Freedom "

Flag of the Arkansas Volunteers

Click Here to Read about the Battle

In the Absence of Official Records:

Indian Pioneer History Project Interview:

In a Quote from an interview by the "Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma", in 1937, Marshall's daughter, Margaret M (Wagnon) Elkins, quoted as follows: See Interview above for complete story

"...Civil War
When the Civil War broke out in the Cherokee Nation her father joined the Confederate Army. He served through the War until the last year. He was killed in the battle of Fayetteville..."

From another source the following is stated:

:...: Marshall Wagnon (Wagoner) served with the 6th Texas Volunteers during the Mexican War, and enlisted in Captain Buck Brown's Company, Arkansas Volunteers, in the Confederate service. (Old Cherokee Families, by Emmet Starr)...

Note:
I have yet to find this entry in the Emmett Starr Book, 'The History of the Cherokee's', within this book is a section, "Old Cherokee Families", it may be in there somewhere, but I have yet to find it for myself...

BUCK BROWN REFERENCED #1:

"Springtown was the location of "Camp Moonlight", where small forces from both sides often stayed for short periods of time. The location of the camp was at the spring you mentioned, on a county road in Springtown just north of Arkansas Highway 12.

It was from this camp that a small Union cavalry force wandered on September 5, 1863, and was later captured en masse by a Confederate cavalry force under command of a local hero named Buck Brown.

No one really "controlled" Northwest Arkansas outside the cities during the Civil War"

BUCK BROWN REFERENCED #2:

Yankee makes Reference to Buck Brown:

Feb. 6, 1865
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Major T. J. Hunt
1st Ark. Cav. Vols.

Major: Having been scouting for some time past in Benton County in this State. I have had the opportunity of watching the schemery practiced by the disloyal citizens of that county in procuring goods such as salt, coffee domestic &c. under the pretense of loyal citizens.

In the fall and winter of 1862 when the border counties of Arkansas was occupied by General Blount and Col. Phillips’s Commands, a great many of the old men, who had taken up arms against the United States, were at home and got protection papers from Blount and Phillips, to enable them to get pay for their forage &c. that was used by the federal armies. Since that time the county has been occupied by Arkansas Troops, who are well acquainted with the country and know who are loyal and who are not, and those old men, finding that they could not so easily proove (sic) their loyalty where they were known, have all gone either south or to the brush, and their sons, having served out one term in the southern Army, have returned to this country, and have been bushwhacking with Buck Brown and Patten Inks ever since.

Those folks know it is useless to come to Faytetteville, Ark. where they are known to get permits to by (sic) goods. Therefore, they go to Cassville Missouri where there is nobody that knows them, and how their old protection papers that was given to them 2 or 3 years ago, and the authorities there, having no other proof of their conduct, give them permits to buy anything they want, and in that way these bushwhackers, who are constantly killing our soldiers from the bush, murdering our loyal citizens and cutting down our telegraph wire, are supplied with all the necessaries and comforts of life.

It was a daily occurrence in my scouting through the country to see women returning from Cassville Mo. with salt, coffee and all kinds of dry goods, when to my certain knowledge their husbands, sons and brothers were then lying on the bluffs, watching an opportunity when they might touch the fatal trigger that would send a ball through some of our blue coats. Major this is no exaggerated report, for the proof of the facts I refer you to Lieutenant Warren Monday, Co. "H," 1st Ark. Cav., and being an officer in the U.S. service I deem it my duty to inform you of the facts, that you may use your influence in prohibiting our most dangerous enemies from drawing their support from inside our lines.

I Am, Major, with respect,
Your obedient servant,
G.R. King
Capt. Co. "E," 1st Ark. Cav. Vols.

Notes and references, on Buck Brown's Independent Company:
[http://stellar-one.com/cw_reminiscences/0006.htm]

"...There were two more independent companies of southern sympathizers who roamed about this part or the country. One in the eastern part of Crawford county led by Captain J. C. Wright late of Chester and the other in Benton and Washington counties led by Buck Brown...

The Federals hunted those two bands as they would wild beasts, and had they succeeded in capturing them. they would have been treated as such....

Having heard the women of the neighborhood speaking of the numerous unrigheous (sic) deeds that he committed wherever he went. caused me to have a very frightful dream concerning him, which dream is perfectly clear in my mind to this day. I had a nightmare. Upon awaking I covered my head from fear that I'd see Captain Beeler coming in.

Upon this occasion Buck Brown and his band came to our house. Brown and two or three others came into the house. Belle Starr of Indian Territory fame, who was at that time a young woman, was with them.

She did not come to the house, yet we saw her. Captain Brown told sister Fannie that the woman with them was Belle Starr.

Sometime after this, Sergeant Edwards of the Federals forces having learned of Brown’s having been here came into the house and asked Fannie many questions concerning the leader of the guerrilla band.

Among the questions he asked how Brown was dress- ed. Fannie replying that he was dressed in a grey uniform, when in reality he was wearing a brown jeans suit. Edwards, jestingly remarked that he was going to kill a rebel and get himself a grey suit. A few weeks later, true to his word, he came in dressed in a suit of Confederate grey. Asking Fannie how he appeared in that uniform she replied, "You look so much nicer." The sergeant did not tell her by what means he came into possession of the uniform..."

"Give 'Em Hell: "
The Battle of Fayetteville

http://www.lincolnandthecivilwar.com/Activities/Arkansas/HubPages/04Articles/Fayetteville03.htm

"...Confederates moved out for Fayetteville, three of those five companies were left behind because they were poorly armed and their horses were unshod. The other two companies went on the expedition under the command of Captain Oliver Basham, a former Arkansas state treasurer.

Two guerrilla companies, those of J. R. Palmer of Washington County and William “Buck” Brown of Benton County, were with Cabell in his attack on Fayetteville..."

Guerrillas, Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers
in Northern Arkansas During the Civil War,
by Leo E. Huff. OzarksWatch - Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1991 / Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1991

http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow404s.htm

"...Buck Brown was another Confederate guerrilla captain who scourged northwest Arkansas. In April 1864 a party of ten men from the 1st Arkansas (Union) Calvary was herding stock near the Prairie Grove battlefield when they were surprised by twenty-one of Buck Brown's guerrillas. The latter were dressed in Federal uniforms and pretended to be friends from the 14th Kansas Cavalry. After a round of handshaking and engaging the bluecoats in conversation, the guerrillas at a signal began shooting and killed all but one of the unsuspecting Federals.

Four of Buck Brown's men engaged in this episode were later captured and executed by a firing squad at Fort Smith on July 29. None of the four condemned men was more than nineteen years of age, and all had belonged to the Confederate Army before turning outlaw. The youngest admitted that he had killed twenty-one men.

It was not until March 1865, after many fruitless expeditions had been sent after him, that a detachment of Federal troopers overtook Buck Brown and his band near Ann Mills in Benton County. In the ensuing skirmish, Brown and three of his men were killed and the remainder were scattered, although fourteen had been killed a few days earlier..."

Note:
Marshall P Wagnon was killed Apr.18th 1863, Battle of Fayetteville AR. Buck Brown's
Unit ended March 1865.

Burial Sites of Marshal P Wagnon:

    Article Aug 1961 'Flash Back', by James Manford Carselowey,
    of Adair County OK, he was also related to Marshal via the
    Woodall lineage. The Article stated that they had found
    Marshal P Wagnon's grave stone in the Old Woodall Cemetery,
    this was near Westville Adair Co OK, further that the Stones
    were very almost gone. So, we might surmise that folks who
    visited the Cemetery after 1961 may not have been able to
    pick-out Marhsal's grave stone from the remnants.

Click Here to Read about the Battle

Marshall P. Wagnon
Estate Settlement

Sequence may be out of order, some dates
missing, some words can't be read...
Will improve Estate over time...

Estate of Marshal P Wagnon: (NO DATES)
Index Page 714 Washington Co AR:
Probate
Book F - Page 268

Comes now on this day Thomas R. Marguis as
the Administrator of the estate of Marshall P Wagnon
deceased and made and filed his report by
which he swore that he is such administrator on
pursuance of an order of this court made at
the Term 1872 advertised by printing
up written advertisements in ten of the most ???
places in said county of Washington that he would
??? at the court houses door, in said County on the
second Monday in January 1873 to the highest bid
for one half cash residue on credit for six months
the right title and interest of said deceased in the foll-
owing lands situate in said county town The SW of ?
SE of Section 20 in Township 16 North of Range 33 west
The SE of the SE of said section township and
range the NE of the North East quarter of section 29 in
said Township and Range and part of the N W of the
NE of said Section Township and Range 133 acres
more or less that o the 10 day January 1873 Matthew
Smith, Reynolds May and H Shields three disinterested
house holders of said County first having been
duly sworn appraised? the interest of said deceased
in siad lands at Ten Dollars per acre the interest
of said deceased in said lands amounting to
twenty acres certain perhaps 16 acres in addition
worth according to said appraisement & 200 certain
perhaps & 360 that said lands was sold at the terms
and place aforesaid to Zebulon M Pettigre??? he
being the highest and best bidder therefore at an
for the sum of Six 66 2/3 /100 dollars per acres for the ?????
of land described therein these said ???????? ?????
???? administration $66.66 and ????????
at six months for $66.66 having ?????….
Last two lines CANNOT BE READ.

Book F - Page 269 - continued…

of the value? of said deceased all of which is respectfully
submitted, Which Report is named by the Court attached
and confirmed and ordered to be made apart of the
Record in this Court.

PROBATE BOOK H - PAGE 144 (NO DATE?)

Thomas R Marguiss?
Adm
Marshall P Wagnon Leitatees

Ordered by the Court that

leitatees? issue herein for Thomas R Marquise
as Administrator of the Estate of Marshall P.
Wagnon, commanding heirs to appears before
the Judge of this Court on the First day of the
next Term thereof and File his account ?????
as the Law directs.

PROBATE BOOK H - PAGE 255 (NO DATE?)

T. R. Marquias
Adm
Marshall Wagnon
Final Account lawsuit

Came an this day Thomas r. Marquias
as Administrator of the Estate of Marshall Wagnon
and having at the last Term of this Court filed his
account lawsuit for Final Settlement and us
exceptious having ??? filed thereto a any ????
thereof. the Court after a careful examination of
said account lawsuit finds that said administrator
has waiting in his hands belonging? to said Court
It is therefore by the Court ordered and adjudged
that said account lawsuit be allowed ????????
and entered of Record and that said Administrator
be discharged form further liability as such…

PROBATE BOOK E - PAGE 522 - OCTOBER 26 1870.

On this day the Clerk presented the bond of
Thomas R. Marguis as the Administrator of
the Estate of Marshall P. Wagnon deceased in
the Sum of Six Hundred Dollars with Z. M.
Pettigrerv and D. M. Moore as his Securities
Which bond and Securities are approved in all
things by the Court and his appointment confirmed.

Marshall P Wagnon Estate
Order to Sell Land
Thomas R. Marquise
Administrator

Thomas R. Marquise as the administrator of the estae of Marshall P
Wagnon deceased and files his partition for an order to sell certain
real estate of the said deceased which petition it is alleged that
his intiate? died sized and passified? of certain certain real estate lying and
being situate in the County of Washington and state of Arkansas
to wit: The SW of the SE of section twenty in Township
within north of ranges Thirty three West 40 acres, also the SE
of the SE of same Township and Range And the NE
of the NE of Section Twenty nine Township 16 N Range
33 west and part of the NW of NE of section(crossedout) same last
Section Township and range containing in all one hundred and
thirty three acres.

And it appearing to the Court that this is no personal
property out of which to pay the Debt and demands against
said estate, and it appearing further that more than four
weeks noticeThirty days notice of the petition of the said administrator
here been given by publication in some newspapers in said
County as the Law directs. It is therefore ordered and adjudged
by the court that said Administration be and is hereby authorized
and empowered after more than twenty days notice of
the time and place and terms of sale, to sell all of
said lands or so much thereof as will satisfy the demands
now against said estate. At the Court house door of said
County on the 2nd? Monday of January 1873 term of sale
One half cash, residue at six months credit, the administrator
taking notes for approved security, and title withheld until
purchase? money be paid the Notice of sale may be by written
advertisements posted up at ten most public places thirty days
before day of sale. And report the proceedings of the sale or
transactions at the next term of this Court, to which
time this cause stands continued.

Ordered that Court Adjourned to meet at 9 O'clock tomorrow
morning.
Signed: Name????, Judge

(date may be September ??, 1873)
Comes now on this day Thomas R. Marquis as the
administrator of the estate of Marshall P. Wagnon
Deceased and having at the last term of this
Court filed his accounts current for settlement
and no exceptions having been filed thereto or
any item thereof and the Court after a careful
examination of said account finds that
said administrator has still in his hands the
sum of $174.60. It is therefore considered by
the Court that said account be allowed
confirmed and entered of record.

Notes from Mike:

Marshall P. Wagnon - Estate Settlement: (1873)
I list only the land involved in the Estate, to show
Marshall's family connection... if you compare this
land location with the other Wagnon's you will see
the connection - Click here to view those records

"WAGNON MARHSALL 20 16N 33W 133 = SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4

...SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of said section Township and Range.
The NE 1/4 of the North East quarter of section 29 in said township
an Range and part of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said section Township
and Range 133 acres more or less..."

Notes from Mike:
Clearly this is land in the area of our Wagnon's, possibly land inherited
by Marshall P Wagnon, after his fathers death. The land was sold to
pay off debts, in lieu of no personal property, Marshall's wife had probably
moved to her parents property in Going Snake District, now Adair Co OK.
It is said in 1863, after the death of Marshall, she moved to her parents estate
to care for her Blind mother, Nannie Tadpole Woodall. Unfortunately, that
Estate was burnt to the ground after the Civil War, it was built by Thomas
Woodall, and built as a Southern Plantation Style dwelling, which of course
symbolized the South and its defeated way of life... my opinion of course...

Marhsall P Wagnon, was killed in 1863 in the Civil War, none of his family
came forth to claim his property left, and a court appointed Estate administrator
was approved to dispose of the estate to pay debts, which most likely exceeded
the worth of the Estate... Explaining, the lack of family involvement... of course
that is my personal opinion, backed by what I see as an obvious conclusion, after
reading over the Estate papers, and subject to change as new evidence may appear...

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Guerrillas, Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers
in Northern Arkansas During the Civil War,
by Leo E. Huff. OzarksWatch - Vol. IV, No. 4, Spring 1991 / Vol. V, No. 1, Summer 1991