My great-great-grandma, Sarah, started her life in Arkansas in 1881 but was living in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory by the 1900 census. According to family stories, when a new family settled in next to them, her mother insisted they be neighborly and help when they could. This included caring for the family’s sixteen-year-old when he contracted measles. In 1903 the two were married at the Indian Council House in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. In 1906, they loaded wagons and made their way to New Mexico territory. In 1908 they were living in a dugout while a house was being built. She lived in that house for the next fifty years.
If you zoomed in on one segment of Sarah’s life, you might conclude that she’d never be able to get settled. She was destined to be taken from one place to another, in search of a home. If you zoomed in on another segment, you might think she’d never been anywhere or seen anything other than a farm on the south plains.
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