She was an educator, a school superintendent and an advisor and secretary for her husband, Choctaw chief Jackson Frazier McCurtain. She was the daughter of Lewis Austin, a full-blood Choctaw, and Mollie Webster. She was born near Fort Towson on Aug. 19, 1842. During the Civil War, she mae and married Jackson F. McCurtain in 1865. A former teacher and lifelong advocate of childhood education, Jane was superintendent of the Jones Academy, a boys' school near Hartshorne, from 1894 to 1898. She subsequently remained in Tuskahoma and served as custodian of the Choctaw capitol building. Jane Austin McCurtain died on October 27, 1924, and was buried beside her husband at Tuskahoma.
She was an educator, a school superintendent and an advisor and secretary for her husband, Choctaw chief Jackson Frazier McCurtain. She was the daughter of Lewis Austin, a full-blood Choctaw, and Mollie Webster. She was born near Fort Towson on Aug. 19, 1842. During the Civil War, she mae and married Jackson F. McCurtain in 1865. A former teacher and lifelong advocate of childhood education, Jane was superintendent of the Jones Academy, a boys' school near Hartshorne, from 1894 to 1898. She subsequently remained in Tuskahoma and served as custodian of the Choctaw capitol building. Jane Austin McCurtain died on October 27, 1924, and was buried beside her husband at Tuskahoma.
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