Albert C. CHAMPLIN

• General Notes
  • middle initial may stand for Calvin
    
    b. IN (per 1870 census)
    living in Center Twp, Greene Cty, IN in another family's house as farm laborer (?) in 1880
    ygr brother Warren in same situation in Center Twp, Martin Cty, IN 1880
    future wife Dovie in Greene Cty 1880
    m. Greene Cty, IN 1 Nov 1885 to Dovie FRY (d. 1877, same year as birth/death of their son (Warren))
    d. > Jun 1894 and < 1898, prob. Indian Territory of the Creek Nation (OK - see map)
    
    death record citation:
    Gibbens-Butcher Genealogy (1894), pg. 73
    
    from researcher Bob CHAMPLIN:
    
    On June 4, 1898 and again on August 17, 1899 Calvin completed a questionnaire regarding his pension and provided the following information:  (...) He had two children living: Mrs. Della M. Spalding (born 1855) and Mary Champlin (born 1875).
    
    On June 28, 1894 Calvin's son Albert (age 34) of Wetumpka in the Creek Nation of the Indian Territory, signed an affidavit stating that Calvin could only perform "....1/4 of a man's work and he would have to take his time to do that much. he has been hemorhage of the lungs spitting blood also hart and stomach trouble. He never has had good health since the War. I have lived near and with him for 20 years 1885"
    
    From Gibbens-Butcher Genealogy (1894):  Albert, born in 1860, who married Davie [sic - nickname was Dovie, real name Mary Ann] Fry, who died [sic - she and Albert divorced and Dovie remarried], leaving a son Warren, born in 1887.  He died in 1894 in the Indian Terriotry of the Creek Nation."
    
    see Notes on the 1891 Perryman Map of the Creek Nation, by Donald A. WISE:
    http://home.earthlink.net/~dawise/twp-map.htm
    
    original publication was in:
    Tulsa Annals, vol. XXXI, no. 3 of 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 9-13. The Tulsa Annals is a publication of the:
    Tulsa Genealogical Society,
    P.O. Box 585
    Tulsa, OK 74101-0585
    
    marriage record citation:
    Title:    Index to Marriage Record 1821-1920 [Lacking 1828-1832] Volume I A-F
    Record Location:    Greene Co Indiana
        W. P. A.
    Spouse 1:    Albert C Champlin
    Spouse 2:    Dovie Fry 
    Marriage Date:    01 Nov 1885 
    Book:    M 
    Original Source Page:    78
    
    probable match:  1880 US Census (Jun 5 and 7), Center Twp, Martin Cty, IN, an Albert CHAMPLIN, age 19 (est. birth year 1861 - checks), b. IN, both parents b. IN (poss. error, note that prev. entry b. IN, father b. OH, mother b. IN, which would fit Albert), farm laborer in h/hold of Anderson/Sarah GREY.
    
    record citation:
    Year: 1880; Census Place: Center, Martin, Indiana; Roll: T9_298; Family History Film: 1254298; Page: 389A; Enumeration District: 157; Image: 0380.
    
    more on Oklahoma and the land rush of the late 19th century:
    
    Beginning in the 1820s, the Five Civilized Tribes from the southeastern United States were relocated to Indian Territory over numerous routes, the most famous being the Cherokee "Trail of Tears."  Forced off their ancestral lands by state and federal governments, the tribes suffered great hardships during the rigorous trips west.  The survivors eventually recovered from the dislocation through hard work and communal support.  Gradually, new institutions and cultural adaptations emerged and began a period of rapid development often called the "Golden Age" of Indian Territory. 
    
    Following the destruction of the Civil War, Oklahoma became a part of the booming cattle industry, ushering in the era of the cowboy.  Western expansion reached the territory in the late 1800s, sparking a controversy over the fate of the land.   Treaties enacted after the Civil War by the U.S. government forced the tribes to give up their communal lands and accept individual property allotments to make way for expansion.  There was talk of using Indian Territory for settlement by African Americans emancipated from slavery.  However, the government relented to pressure, much of it coming from a group known as "Boomers," who wanted the rich lands opened to non-Indian settlement.  The government decided to open the western parts of the territory to settlers by holding a total of six land runs between 1889 and 1895.  Settlers came from across the nation and even other countries like Poland, Germany, Ireland and Slavic nations to stake their claims.  And African Americans, some who were former slaves of Indians, took part in the runs or accepted their allotments as tribal members.  In the years that followed, black pioneers founded and settled entire communities in or near Arcadia, Boley, Langston, and Taft.
    
    source:
    
    http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stinfo2.html
    

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