Introduction

I am creating this page as much for myself as anyone else, so that I can see at a glance what I have at any given time, in order to plot where I want to go next with it.

My Choctaw heritage comes through the Folsom family, from a daughter of Nathaniel Folsom.  Nathaniel was one of the first of the Folsoms to live among the Choctaw. Two of his brothers may also have lived among them, and that is something I am now researching. 

Nathaniel himself had so many children, that from that point on, the Folsom family becomes more difficult to follow, especially since they use many of the same "given" names from generation to generation.  When I began my research of this family, I found a lot of inquiries in many places, but I could not find, in any one place, a listing of the children of Nathaniel Folsom and his two wives.

I have put together a list of the ones that I located (not documented), and in not any specific or chronological order, except where known.

Although I am assuming that my listing of Nathaniel's line must be incorrect, I am hoping that seeing it all together, other researchers will offer help in trying to straighten them all out. I will gratefully accept any corrections, omissions or additions to the lineage I have for Nathaniel's line (or any other, for that matter), and with some help, perhaps a collective effort will make it easier for people searching for members of this complex family, as well as ourselves, in locating the right person for our own lineage.

I am also creating this page, and many of the other pages, besides lineage, to give my family a knowledge of the Choctaw, their customs and history, and many of the events that worked to make them what they were, and what they are today, including all of us among them.  Most of my family members use the internet little for research or "surfing," so a gathering of some of what I feel are the most important with relationship to what they know and don't, is what I am putting together, with the hope that it will also be of use to other families in the same situation.

I want to thank those who have really done most of the research on my pages.  Due to health restrictions at the present time, I am confined to collecting all my research on the internet.  The work of Harry Folsom, webmaster of the Folsom Family Association site has been of great help to me, the work of Rusty Lang and the people who have contributed to her Choctaw-Web have been very helpful, as has the work of Carl Phillips of the Phillips Family Tree, and Bruce Evans and his Choctaw Pages. The help of Dennis Boswell with my Durant relatives was very much appreciated, and information on family genealogy I received from my cousin, Bobbe Budda, has been invaluable. Until I was united with this side of my family not long ago, I had nowhere to begin!

For those of you who are researchers, you will note that there are two changes I have made to most of the research I have seen on the internet.  There is a marriage in my line that is not documented (so far), and is not listed in any of the lineage I have seen; there was a marriage, or perhaps just a liason between Ben Hampton, and Charlotte Folsom, daughter of John Folsom (7); grandson of Nathaniel (5) Folsom.  Of that liason, or marriage, came my great-great grandmother, Lucinda Hampton/Burks.  You can see her photo on Photo Album, page 1. 

It is perhaps not technically correct to record this, but then I am not doing this recording in any kind of an official way, I intend it to be as accurate a recording of our family as possible. Lucinda lived to be 90, and if I had been in contact with that part of my family I could have known her for a good many years, but I did not. My cousin, however, did; so I have a living relative that has heard Lucinda's story.

Lucinda's mother, Charlotte, died very young, and after her death he brought Lucinda to her mother's family (the Folsom's) and said he could not raise her.  They took her, and a maiden aunt, Sarah Folsom, raised her.

When Lucinda was 18, her father came to see her.  She was hurt, and she was proud.  She told him she did not want to have any contact with him.  That was the last time they were to see one another.  In later years, Lucinda regretted that action, and was making arrangements for a family member to act as intermediary to discover her father's condition, and his desires, with regard to seeing her, when he broke his hip, was sent to Oklahoma City to the hospital, and never returned home, but died.  Lucinda married, and raised ten children, alone, for part of that time. There is another photo of her on that same page, in later years. So much for one difference.

The other difference in my genealogy listing, is that Monette Durant, daughter of Pierre Durant (and the mother of John Folsom) does not appear on most lineages I've seen on the internet, and on none of them do I see her line continue through marriage and her child.  John Folsom is supposed to have thirteen children, and I have seen only two of those mentioned (in the Folsom Family Reunion document)

I have also not entered our family members or lineage into a program yet, but have done it by hand. I can see it is going to be too laborious and cumbersome to continue to do that, and if anyone has any pros and cons about these, please let me know.

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