From chilibilly@juno.com Wed Sep  2 08:09:16 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:16:57 -0500
From: "William E. Lehmann" 
To: dmorgan@efn.org
Subject: Bill Posey children

Hello David,
	Let's see if this works. I have gone to my MS Works file and put
the material in a text file which can be transferred by Juno. I have only
had AOL a few weeks and am not that familiar with the program and what
all can be done.
	Time played a little on my memory. I gave you the wrong name for
the first born of Bill Posey and Elizabeth. It was MATTHEW ANDREW POSEY
instead of Matthew Alexander Posey. He was named for Elizabeth's brother,
with the Andrew coming from Bill Posey. There was no Martha Posey. The
federal census taker in McLennan County gave Matthew the name of Martha
on the census, which was incorrect.
	Posey had another son, Henry by Susan (believed to be a Riggs)
Posey after he came to I.T. There are no known records of a marriage, but
a union was evident by other sources.
	Most of this information came from Ora Posey Nielsen, who also
furnished me photos of all the boys. Other info came from records at OHS,
and other sources.
	Let me know if you receive the info on the Posey sons. Bill
Lehmann

         THE SONS OF BILL POSEY AND ELIZABETH WALLACE 
	
	The three sons of Bill and Elizabeth Posey: Matthew, Albert
Washington and Robert,  were sent to live with Bill Posey in the Indian
Territory following the death of their mother, Elizabeth, in 1875. Posey
was a fugitive, wanted in Texas, with a big reward on his head. The
outlaw was killed by the Creek Lighthorse in June, 1877, in events
related earlier.
	A cousin of Bill Posey's, Lucinda (Hopwood) Smith, took in the
Posey sons. Lucinda lived at Concharte Town, southeast of present Tulsa.
She had several children of her own, but accepted the Posey sons as
members of her own family. Matthew, the oldest, committed some offense,
to which Lucinda objected, whereupon she ordered him to leave. Albert
Washington and Robert, being sympathetic to their brother, left with him.
	The boys were then taken in by a missionary family, the
Robertson's, where they resided for a time. Robertson's daughter, Alice
Robertson, would be elected to the U.S. Congress in 1920. She was the
first woman elected to Congress from Oklahoma, and only the second woman
elected from the United States at the time.
	All the boys went to Idaho, about 1890, to work as ranch hands.
Albert Washington worked as a bronc buster on a ranch for several years.
Matthew and Robert worked as cowboys. Albert had worked and put together
a small horse herd of his own, but the herd was stolen by his brothers,
who headed back for Indian Territory after selling the horses. Albert
Washington had a forgiving nature and never held a grudge over the
incident, it was said. 
	Learning of the land allotments in Indian Territory, they all
returned and made application for their one hundred sixty acres. Each
received an allotment. Eventually the homestead allotments were sold and
Matthew and Albert Washington returned to the West, where they would
remain except for occasional visits with relatives. 

	*MATTHEW ANDREW POSEY, was born September 11, 1866, at Waco,
McLennan County, Texas. He was named for Elizabeth's brother, Matthew
Wallace. The Andrew name came from his father. He was one-quarter Creek
Indian. He lost an arm in the early 1890's, according to family sources,
while running with the Dalton outlaw gang in the Territory. The shoulder
was blown away by a shotgun blast. Matthew was able to overcome the
handicap and accomplish many tasks, including rolling a Bull Durham
cigarette, one-handed.
	He married Rebecca Hannah, at Wagoner, Oklahoma, in 1907. Shortly
after the marriage they went to Idaho. Three children were born to the
marriage: Inez, born in 1911, in Idaho; Lysle, born 1913, in Idaho, and
Geniveve, born in 
1918, in  Oklahoma.  Matthew  Andrew  died  in 1950, at age eighty four. 
He is  buried  at Phoenix, Arizona, where the family lived in later
years.

	*ALBERT WASHINGTON POSEY was born February 7, 1869, at Waco,
McLennan County, Texas. He was one-quarter Creek Indian, and received a
land allotment in the Creek Nation. His Washington name came from
Elizabeth's father, Washington S. Wallace. It is not known where the
Albert name originated, but perhaps from Albert Aikman. He married Mary
Ann Dayley, December 8, 1893, at Basin  , Idaho. Ten children were born
to the marriage: Wallace Leroy, 1895; Leonard Earl, 1896; Elsie Myrtle,
1898; Elmer Carl, 1900; Nina Elvira, 1904; Ora Elizabeth, 1907; Albert
Melvin and Delbert Kelvin, twins, 1909; Arkie Ann, 1917 and T.C. Posey,
1920. Albert Washington died June 7, 1953, at age eighty four. Mary Ann
died April 8, 1955. Both are buried at Basin, Idaho.

	*ROBERT A. POSEY was born June 21, 1871, at Waco, McLennan
County, Texas. He was one-quarter Creek Indian, and received a land
allotment in the Creek Nation. He was married to Flora E. Hardy, of Utah,
in 1890, at Basin, Idaho. They had three children: Lee A., born 1893, in
Idaho; Mary E., born 1895, at Red Fork, Indian Territory, and William A.
Posey, born in 1897, in Idaho. Robert died of a stomach disorder in
February, 190l, at age thirty. He is buried at Red Fork, Indian
Territory, now a part of West Tulsa.
		
	*HENRY A. POSEY was born in 1877, near Concharte Town, I.T., to
William Andrew Jackson Posey and Susan (Riggs) Posey. He was one-fourth
Creek Indian and received a land allotment in the Creek Nation. After his
father was killed he lived with his mother near Tulsa, and later moved to
near Holdenville. He married a woman named Mary, and they had one child.
Maiden name of the wife, and the name of the child is not known. They
lived at Wagoner, I.T. Henry died June 10, 1904. His burial place is
unknown, but believed to be at Wagoner. Susan may have married again to a
man named Grayson, for Henry was enumerated in an 1895 Creek census as
Henry Grayson. He claimed his birth name of Posey for the Creek land
allotments, however. 





  
  

    
    

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