Original Dawes enrollee #2608 of the Choctaw Nation. She was the daughter of Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain.
Emma was orphaned about age 14 and was sent to Wheelock Academy for Girls near Garvin, OK. Upon graduation she became a foster child of Judge H. C. Harris and later married her husband Rafe (Raphael) Wilson at the Judge's home. She met Rafe while she was caring for the children of his brother, Edward, who was a Choctaw superintindent of the Wheelock Academy until 1898 prior to statehood.
Brazil Bohanon
Born: 17 Dec 1886 Valliant, McCurtain, Oklahoma
Death: 24 Oct 1914 Encinal, Cibola, New Mexico (tuberculosis); one wife and son surviving.
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OBITUARY
Mrs. Emma Jane Wilson, 94, of Valliant, died Thursday morning (November 15, 1971) in her home. Services were at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the Valliant Methodist Church with the Rev.
Charles Hannah officiating. Burial was in the Valliant Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was born Jan. 29, 1877 in Eagletown and moved to Valliant in 1898 from Hugo. [Parents were Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain, one of the founding families of the the old Red River County of the Choctaw Nation.]
She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church in Valliant.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Floyd and Mrs. Toru Herndon, both of Valliant; six grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 19 great, great-grandchildren.
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Emma's grandchildren:
--Raphael "Ray" Jackson Wilson, son of Raphael L. Wilson, died June 13, 1993, in Augusta, GA
--Ruth Austine Phillips Scott,daughter of Toru Herndon, died Sep 9, 2006 in Chico, CA
--Patricia Jean (Patsy) Phillips Pound, daughter of Toru Herndon, died May 11, 2007 in Klamath Falls, OR
--(Edward)Wilson Herndon, son of Toru Herndon, died Oct 31, 2006 in Shawnee, OK
--Jane Wilson Maler, daughter of Green Wilson, born 1942
--Linda Wilson Saffel, daughter of Waldo Wilson, born 1946
Emma was orphaned about age 14 and was sent to Wheelock Academy for Girls near Garvin, OK. Upon graduation she became a foster child of Judge H. C. Harris and later married her husband Rafe (Raphael) Wilson at the Judge's home. She met Rafe while she was caring for the children of his brother, Edward, who was a Choctaw superintindent of the Wheelock Academy until 1898 prior to statehood.
Brazil Bohanon
Born: 17 Dec 1886 Valliant, McCurtain, Oklahoma
Death: 24 Oct 1914 Encinal, Cibola, New Mexico (tuberculosis); one wife and son surviving.
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OBITUARY
Mrs. Emma Jane Wilson, 94, of Valliant, died Thursday morning (November 15, 1971) in her home. Services were at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the Valliant Methodist Church with the Rev.
Charles Hannah officiating. Burial was in the Valliant Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was born Jan. 29, 1877 in Eagletown and moved to Valliant in 1898 from Hugo. [Parents were Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain, one of the founding families of the the old Red River County of the Choctaw Nation.]
She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church in Valliant.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Floyd and Mrs. Toru Herndon, both of Valliant; six grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 19 great, great-grandchildren.
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Emma's grandchildren:
--Raphael "Ray" Jackson Wilson, son of Raphael L. Wilson, died June 13, 1993, in Augusta, GA
--Ruth Austine Phillips Scott,daughter of Toru Herndon, died Sep 9, 2006 in Chico, CA
--Patricia Jean (Patsy) Phillips Pound, daughter of Toru Herndon, died May 11, 2007 in Klamath Falls, OR
--(Edward)Wilson Herndon, son of Toru Herndon, died Oct 31, 2006 in Shawnee, OK
--Jane Wilson Maler, daughter of Green Wilson, born 1942
--Linda Wilson Saffel, daughter of Waldo Wilson, born 1946
Original Dawes enrollee #2608 of the Choctaw Nation. She was the daughter of Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain.
Emma was orphaned about age 14 and was sent to Wheelock Academy for Girls near Garvin, OK. Upon graduation she became a foster child of Judge H. C. Harris and later married her husband Rafe (Raphael) Wilson at the Judge's home. She met Rafe while she was caring for the children of his brother, Edward, who was a Choctaw superintindent of the Wheelock Academy until 1898 prior to statehood.
Brazil Bohanon
Born: 17 Dec 1886 Valliant, McCurtain, Oklahoma
Death: 24 Oct 1914 Encinal, Cibola, New Mexico (tuberculosis); one wife and son surviving.
***************************
OBITUARY
Mrs. Emma Jane Wilson, 94, of Valliant, died Thursday morning (November 15, 1971) in her home. Services were at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the Valliant Methodist Church with the Rev.
Charles Hannah officiating. Burial was in the Valliant Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was born Jan. 29, 1877 in Eagletown and moved to Valliant in 1898 from Hugo. [Parents were Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain, one of the founding families of the the old Red River County of the Choctaw Nation.]
She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church in Valliant.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Floyd and Mrs. Toru Herndon, both of Valliant; six grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 19 great, great-grandchildren.
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Emma's grandchildren:
--Raphael "Ray" Jackson Wilson, son of Raphael L. Wilson, died June 13, 1993, in Augusta, GA
--Ruth Austine Phillips Scott,daughter of Toru Herndon, died Sep 9, 2006 in Chico, CA
--Patricia Jean (Patsy) Phillips Pound, daughter of Toru Herndon, died May 11, 2007 in Klamath Falls, OR
--(Edward)Wilson Herndon, son of Toru Herndon, died Oct 31, 2006 in Shawnee, OK
--Jane Wilson Maler, daughter of Green Wilson, born 1942
--Linda Wilson Saffel, daughter of Waldo Wilson, born 1946
Emma was orphaned about age 14 and was sent to Wheelock Academy for Girls near Garvin, OK. Upon graduation she became a foster child of Judge H. C. Harris and later married her husband Rafe (Raphael) Wilson at the Judge's home. She met Rafe while she was caring for the children of his brother, Edward, who was a Choctaw superintindent of the Wheelock Academy until 1898 prior to statehood.
Brazil Bohanon
Born: 17 Dec 1886 Valliant, McCurtain, Oklahoma
Death: 24 Oct 1914 Encinal, Cibola, New Mexico (tuberculosis); one wife and son surviving.
***************************
OBITUARY
Mrs. Emma Jane Wilson, 94, of Valliant, died Thursday morning (November 15, 1971) in her home. Services were at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the Valliant Methodist Church with the Rev.
Charles Hannah officiating. Burial was in the Valliant Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was born Jan. 29, 1877 in Eagletown and moved to Valliant in 1898 from Hugo. [Parents were Joshua Bohanon and Serena Chastain, one of the founding families of the the old Red River County of the Choctaw Nation.]
She was a charter member of the First Methodist Church in Valliant.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Floyd and Mrs. Toru Herndon, both of Valliant; six grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 19 great, great-grandchildren.
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Emma's grandchildren:
--Raphael "Ray" Jackson Wilson, son of Raphael L. Wilson, died June 13, 1993, in Augusta, GA
--Ruth Austine Phillips Scott,daughter of Toru Herndon, died Sep 9, 2006 in Chico, CA
--Patricia Jean (Patsy) Phillips Pound, daughter of Toru Herndon, died May 11, 2007 in Klamath Falls, OR
--(Edward)Wilson Herndon, son of Toru Herndon, died Oct 31, 2006 in Shawnee, OK
--Jane Wilson Maler, daughter of Green Wilson, born 1942
--Linda Wilson Saffel, daughter of Waldo Wilson, born 1946
