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Biography of Charles W. Holder

Charles W. Holder, a well known and successful automobile dealer of Coweta, has the local agency for the Ford cars and tractors, in which connection he has built up a gratifying business. His birth occurred in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on the 24th of November, 1892, his parents being Walter W. and Virginia F. Holder, the former a native of Indiana, while the latter was born in West Virginia. Walter W. Holder came to the Indian Territory in 1888 and secured land three and a half miles from Stroud, where he devoted his attention to farming until 1899. In that year … Read more

John P. Holder, Chickasaw

The case of John P. Holder et al. v. Chickasaw Nation involved a lengthy legal battle over the citizenship status of Holder family descendants in the Chickasaw Nation. The claimants, descendants of Elizabeth Stewart, a Chickasaw woman, and Bledsoe Holder, applied for enrollment in 1896. Despite an initial favorable ruling by the U.S. Court in 1898, affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1899, the Choctaw-Chickasaw Citizenship Court later overturned their recognition in 1902. Subsequent appeals were denied.

Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi

This survey of Wintergreen Cemetery, Port Gibson, Mississippi, was completed in 1956 by Mr. Gordon M. Wells and published by Joyce Bridges the same year. It contains the cemetery readings Mr. Wells was able to obtain at that date. It is highly likely that not all of the gravestones had survived up to that point, and it is even more likely that a large portion of interred individuals never had a gravestone.