1567. Charlotte 'Lottie'⁶ McLaughlin (Amanda⁵ Burney, Judge David Calhoun⁴, Margaret 'Peggy'³ Allen, Susan 'Susy'² Colbert, James Logan¹)⁽⁸⁰⁰²⁾ (#10) was born in Woodville, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT 31 MAY 1854.⁽⁸⁰⁰³⁾ Charlotte died 26 JUN 1938 in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK, at 84 years of age.⁽⁸⁰⁰⁴⁾ Her body was interred 27 JUN 1938 in Knob Hill Cemetery, nr Kingston, Marshall Co., OK.

She married twice. She married Jacob 'Bud' Harrison 'J.H.' Durham in IT, before 1878.⁽⁸⁰⁰⁵⁾ (Jacob 'Bud' Harrison 'J.H.' Durham is #9.) Jacob was born in TN, circa 1855.⁽⁸⁰⁰⁶⁾ Jacob⁽⁸⁰⁰⁷⁾ was the son of Benjamin "Berry" Durham and Nancy Farrington. Jacob died 1 JAN 1892 in Berwyn, Pickens Co., Chick Nation, IT, at 36 years of age.⁽⁸⁰⁰⁸⁾ His body was interred JAN 1892 in Woodville Cemetery, Marshall Co., OK. He was listed as a resident in the census report in Bedford Co., TN, 7 JUN 1860.⁽⁸⁰⁰⁹⁾ He is listed as "Jake Durham".

He was listed as a resident in the census report in Berwyn, Pickens Co., Chick Nation, IT, 19 DEC 1878.⁽⁸⁰¹⁰⁾ Jacob's occupation: Laborer/farmer in Chickasaw Nation, IT, before 1892. J.H. Durham appears on the Chickasaw Annuity Rolls for 1878, as "Bud Durham", (certified by C. J. Hancock, 19 DEC 1878), Pickens Co., Chickasaw Indian Nation, Indian Territory. The roll shows 1 male head, 1 female head, and 1 female orphan, for a total of 3. (It also mentions a John McGloughlin, [sic, McLaughlin], this is the person who took the census entry and probably signed for the annuity check - possibly Lottie's brother, John Duke MCLAUGHLIN.)

He is not on the roll for 1897, but Lottie is. (She is listed as Lottie Cain, with a remark indicating that she is also Lottie McGlothlins or Lottie Durham). Also listed on this roll with her are Maggie, John, Arthur, Sudie, and Berry Durham.

R.D. DURHAM, (son of Arthur DURHAM), provided the information that the "J.H." stood for "Jacob Harrison". The 1860 Federal Census for Tennessee indicates that his childhood name was "Jake". He had a slighly older sister that is called "Sis" on the census, so it was fitting that he be called "Bud".

However, ten years later, and after the Civil War, this family is not to be found in the index to the 1870 Federal Census for Tennessee. Lottie DURHAM's Diary does indicate that by 1899, Tilman DURHAM is living in Neoshi, Newton Co., Missouri. (Which is confirmed by the 1900 U.S. census for Newton Co., MO.)

Arthur Durham in a taped interview given to his son, R.D. Durham, January 11, 1976, (Arthur was 92 in 1976), provided the following information on J. H. Durham:

"Arthur Durham's father J.H. Durham, was called "Bud". A few days before Christmas in 1891 he went to Colbert, [Indian Territory, now in Bryan Co., OK], to buy Christmas presents for the family. Colbert was a town east of Woodville on the Katy railroad. There were of course no weather forcasts then. Absent any forecasts, Arthur said, you rcognized a rainstorm or a norther by the way it felt. On the way home a rainstorm came up and then a norther. Bud contracted pneumonia and died on January 1, 1892. Arthur was 8 years old on January 3, 1892.

"The family had previously moved to Cumberland east of Madill in 1890, where Bud had worked for his wife Lottie's uncle, ex- governor of the Chickasaw Nation, B. C. Burney. They had moved back to the woodville area where Bud had farmed in 1891. They had a good crop anf the crib was full of corn up to the roof. After Bud died the family stayed one or two years on that farm and then moved back to their "prairie place" close to where new Woodville is now near the railroad."

In January of 1886, Bud Durham had to appear in court to testify as to the cruelty displayed by Charlie Taylor towards his wife, Lucy McLaughlin. Lucy was Lottie's sister and hence Bud's sister-in-law. The divorce was granted and Lucy married William Robert Hume on May 16, 1886.

She married M. Alfred 'Alf' Cain in IT, after 1892.⁽⁸⁰¹¹⁾ (M. Alfred 'Alf' Cain is #1038.) M. was born in MO, NOV 1873. M.⁽⁸⁰¹²⁾ was the son of ??? Cain and Rhoda. M. was divorced from Charlotte 'Lottie' McLaughlin in Chickasaw Nation, IT, circa 1899. He was listed as a resident in the census report in Chickasaw Nation, IT, 19 JUL 1900.⁽⁸⁰¹³⁾

Charlotte was listed on the roll as a student in Chickasaw Orphan's Home, Lebanon, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT, circa 1867. Charlotte was listed on the roll as a student in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR, circa 1873. Charlotte enrolled in Woodville, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT for the Dawes Chickasaw Roll on 30 SEP 1898 and appears on Dawes card number 845.⁽⁸⁰¹⁴⁾ She resided in Woodville, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT 1 JAN 1899, on her farm nearby. Charlotte was divorced from M. Alfred 'Alf' Cain in Chickasaw Nation, IT, circa 1899. She resided in Tishomingo, Tishomingo Co., Chick. Nat., IT 3 JAN 1902, Kemp Avenue. She resided in Coalgate, Choctaw Nation, IT 30 OCT 1906. She resided in Tishomingo, Johnston Co., OK NOV 1907, Kemp Avenue. She resided in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK 13 JAN 1908, on her farm nearby. She was listed as a resident in the census report in Odell Twp., Marshall Co., OK, 7 MAY 1910.⁽⁸⁰¹⁵⁾ She resided in Durant, Bryan Co., OK 6 DEC 1912. She resided in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK 16 JAN 1914. She resided in Tishomingo, Johnston Co., OK 1 JAN 1916. She resided in Sulphur, Murray Co., OK JAN 1919. She resided in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK JAN 1920, in her house in town. She resided in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK DEC 1920, on her farm nearby. Her funeral was held in Woodville, Marshall Co., OK, 27 JUN 1938.⁽⁸⁰¹⁶⁾ The 1902 Dawes' Roll of the Chickasaw Indian Nation shows that she is a full blooded Chickasaw Indian. She is #2485 on the "Roll".

As a result of the break up of the Chickasaw Indian Nation and the formation of the State of Oklahoma from the Indian Territory, she received an individual portion of land in what was a part of Marshall County, Oklahoma. Later, when Lake Texhoma was planned and then built, this land was to become a part of the lake bottom. The federal government bought her land from her. (But not the mineral rights which have now desended to her heirs.)

Lottie, (acording to her diary), liked to move arround a lot. When she began her diary on 1 JAN 1899, she was living on her farm outside of Woodville, Pickens Co., Indian Territory. On January 3, 1902, she moved to Tishomingo, I. T., and had a three room house built for $285. She lived on Kemp Avenue. On October 30, 1906, she moved to Coalgate, I. T. November, 1907, saw her moving back to her old house in Tishomingo. On January 13, 1908, she moved back to the old farm place near Woodville, sixteen years after she had left there. There she lived for about four years, then on December 6, 1912, she moved to Durant, Oklahoma. Then on January 16, 1914, it was back to Old Woodville. January 1, 1916, saw her living in Tishomingo again. But, in January of 1919, she decided to try living in Sulphur, OK. January, 1920, rolled around and it was time to move again, this time back to Woodville, but not to the farm, she decided to get a house in town. In December of that year, (1920), she moved back to the farm outside of Woodville. Her diary ends there with the last comment being that she planned to live there the rest of her life. However, that was not to be the case. Later, the federal government bought her farm from her to build Lake Texhoma. It is known that she lived with her daughter Sudie and son-in-law John Porter ARMSTRONG on their farm outside of Denison, Texas, for a while before she died in 1938. And she never could figure out from where her children got their wanderlust!

R.D. DURHAM, (Arthur DURHAM's son), related in an oral interview, 16 AUG 1991, that at least a few years ago Lottie's old house was still standing in Oklahoma. That it was located in "Durham Hollow", near Soldier Creek, in the Area of McBride, Oklahoma. He also stated that the house that had belonged to Sudie DURHAM, her daughter, and would have been undated by Lake Texhoma, was moved up a hill near the town of New Woodville, Oklahoma.

Lottie gave a recorded interview on 21 JUN 1937, to a Jennie Selfridge, for the WPA "Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma." She stated:

"I was born two miles of west of the present town of Woodville, [this Woodville, OK, is now under Lake Texhoma and should not be confused with the current (1993) Woodville, OK], in the Chickasaw Nation, May 31, 1854, and have lived at this location ever since. My father came her in 1844 from Mississippi."

"My grandfather, David Burney, first settled at Fort Towson, but later moved to Lyle on the bank of the Washita River."

"Woodville was named for my uncle, Judge L. Lipscomb Wood. When I was twelve or fourteen years old I began attending school at the Chickasaw Orphan's Home one mile east of Lebanon. This school was controlled by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Miss Sallie Sylvester was my teacher. The Reverend Mr. R.S. Bell was superintendent of the school at the time. The Reverend Mr. Bell was a good man and all of the scholars liked him."

"I later attended school at Fort Smith Episcopal Church."

"I attended all of the Confederate Conventions for years. I have visited in every state in the South. I attended two Indian conventions in Washington, D.C. The last convention I attended was in Biloxi, Mississippi, five years ago."

Lottie's Chickasaw Dawes Land Allotments: NW 10 acres; S 10.20 acres Lot 3 Sec 27; SE SW Sec. 22; SW SW SW Sec. 23, T7S-R6E; W NW NW Sec. 27; E NE NE; N SE NE; SW SE NE Sec. 33, T5S-R6E, 140.20 acres. S SE Sec. 22; NE NW; NE 10 acres Lot 3 Sec. 27; Lot 3 Sec. 26, T7S-R6E, 143.55 acres (homestead).

Charlotte 'Lottie' McLaughlin and Jacob 'Bud' Harrison 'J.H.' Durham had the following children:

+ 2847 i. Maggie E.⁷ Durham was born 22 NOV 1879.

+ 2848 ii. John Duke Durham was born 24 JUL 1882.

+ 2849 iii. Chester Arthur 'Ottie' Durham was born 3 JAN 1884.

+ 2850 iv. Sudie (Susan?) Durham was born 18 SEP 1886.

+ 2851 v. Berry Durham was born 4 AUG 1890.

2852 vi. Bennie Durham⁽⁸⁰¹⁷⁾ (#902) was born in IT 4 AUG 1890. Bennie died 6 AUG 1892 in IT, at 2 years of age. His body was interred AUG 1892 in Woodville Cemetery, Marshall Co., OK.⁽⁸⁰¹⁸⁾

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