Lyman Pusley was born December 25, 1847 in Indianola and raised 3 miles north of Krebs, Oklahoma and died September 12, 1940 in McAlester, Oklahoma at the age of 93. Lyman married three times, his first wife was a Choctaw Indian, mother of Willie, he then traded his first wife to his cousin for his second wife and 40 horses, she was Cherokee Indian and mother to John P. Pusley, his third wife was Elizabeth James, Choctaw Indian, they had seven children.

Lyman was most famous for " The Last Execution In The Choctaw Nation" which took place in 1894 before Oklahoma became a State.

Lyman also spent a week as a guest of the infamous James Gang at the St. Charles Hotel in Fort Smith Arkansas, Lyman was asked to deliver a note to them from his brother in law, he was greeted at the door with a pistol barrel through a crack in the door, after the note was read he was invited to stay as their guest.

Lyman believed the old Choctaw ways were better than the new laws he is quoted as saying: " People of Oklahoma be better off they had old Choctaw Nation with whipping post, " he said " People more wild now than in Indian days". At another time he was at a execution and voiced his preference, he was quoted as saying" Electric Chair and hanging no good, shoot em the only way".

 I have copied interviews that were done with Lyman, one being of The Last Execution and the other in 1937.