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This page is dedicated to my Indian Ancestors even though I know less about them than any of my other ancestors. I have spent more time wondering about them, and trying to find them, but always slamming into brick walls. I know that I have a Great Grandmother who I believed from childhood descended from Cherokee Indians, and she married a Choctaw in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1874. I have since found out that her mother was 4/4 Cherokee born in GA. Her father was 4/4 Choctaw, also born in GA. His name was Thomas J. Buford, and he married Suzanna (no known surname). I also found out that she came out on the Trail of Tears when she was about 5 years old. She must have married in Arkansas because they are listed on the 1860 Census with no children. What I think is her father's brother is also on that census with a family. His name was Finis M. Buford. She named a son Finis Marion and that is why I think he might have been her Uncle. There is also another Buford who is 52 years old that I think might be her grandfather. Her family moved to Guthrie, Logan Co., OK sometime after the 1860 census, and I lost them. I know that she married William Rucker, a Choctaw Indian there in 1874, and that they had a son born there also. They came to Texas, and did not go back to Oklahoma to register so I have never been able to prove my heritage. That doesn't mean that I don't keep trying. Someday I will get lucky. The names I am looking for are: William RUCKER, born Louisiana or possibly Mississippi, died Bonham, Fannin County, Texas. Married, 1874 Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Lou T. BUFORD, in Guthrie Logan, OK in 1874. He died in Bonham, Fannin, TX in 1889 and is buried there. Lou T. BUFORD, born 6 Jan 1861 in Camden, Ouachita, AR. After William Rucker died in 1889, she remarried a Methodist preacher named Lancaster. They moved to Sacul, Nacogdoches, TX where they raised her 4 children and his 4 children. She died in 1936 and is buried in Sacul. James RUCKER, born 1877, Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma Rosa Jane RUCKER, born, 21 Feb. 1880, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, Died, 7 Jan. 1943, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, buried Dallas, Texas. Married, 12 Nov. 1896, Texas, Francis (Frank) Henry White, born, 31 Jan. 1877, St. Louis, Missouri. Died, 20 Feb. 1933, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Buried Dallas, Texas
William RUCKER, born Louisiana, died
1889, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas
Married 1874, Guthrie, Logan,
Oklahoma, Indian Territory.
Lou T. BUFORD, born 6 Jan. 1861,
Camden, Ouachita, Arkansas, died 22
May 1936, Sacul, Nacogdoches County,
Texas
James Rucker, born 1877, Guthrie,
Logan, Oklahoma, Indian Territory.
Rosa Jane RUCKER, born 21 Feb. 1880,
Bonham, Fannin County, Texas died 7
Jan. 1943, Dallas, Dallas County,Texas
Married 12 Nov. 1896,
Francis Henry WHITE, born 31 Jan.
1977, St. Louis, Missouri, died 21 Aug.
1935, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Finus Marion Rucker, born 12 Dec.
1882, Bonham, Fannin County, Texas,
died 23 Jan. 1958, Farmersvilles, Collin
County, Texas, buried Farmersville,
Texas.
Joe William Rucker, born 16 Oct. 1884,
Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, died 29
Jan. 1949.
William Rucker was supposedly
Chocktaw from Louisiana or Mississippi,
and Lou T.Buford was Cherokee. They were
married in the Indian Territory and
moved to Texas after the birth of their
first son, James Rucker in 1877. Very
little is known of either family prior to
their marriage.
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Rosa Jane Rucker & Francis Henry White
Rosa Jane RUCKER, born 21 Feb. 1880,
Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, Died 7
Jan. 1943, Dallas, Dallas County,
Texas, Buried Grove Hill Cemetery,
Dallas, Texas.
Married, 12 Nov. 1896, Francis (Frank)
Henry WHITE, Born 31 Jan. 1877, St.
Louis, Missouri, Died 20 Feb. 1933,
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, Buried
Grove Hill Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
Children:
Effie White
m. Jewell Stallings, Dau. Doris
Stallings, m. Smid
Everett Leon White, b. 23 Sep. 1902,
Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County,
Texas, d. 8 Jan. 1987, Spokane,
Washington.
m. Margery Helena Southwell, b. 27
Feb. 1902, Council Bluffs,
Pottawattamie, Iowa, m. 15 Sep. 1926,
San Joachin, California, d. 18 Aug.
1978, Spokane, Washington.
Ruby White
m. Marion Watts
Earl White, d. after returning from WW I
Lillian White
m. Harry Simpson
Frank Eugene (Gene) White, Born 10
July 1913, Dallas, Dallas County,
Texas, Died 19 June 1991, Irving,
Dallas County, Texas, Buried Sowers
Cemetery, Irving, Texas.
Married 22 Sep. 1934, Virginia Ruth
Story, Born 2 Aug. 1916, Irving, Dallas
County, Texas.
Dau. Kathy Jean White, born 11 July
1937, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Dau. (Lynn) Virginia Earlynn White,
born 3 Jan. 1941, Dallas, Dallas
County, Texas
Married 5 May, 1959, William Arthur
March, Jr., born 29 Aug. 1934, Boise,
Ada County, Idaho, Divorced 1965.
Stephen Eugene March, born 13 Nov.
1961, McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas,
Phillip Earl March, born 29 Oct. 1963,
Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver,
Colorado, died 16 May 1984, Irving,
Dallas County, Texas, buried Sowers
Cemetery, Irving, Texas.
Married, Daniel Toopes, 17 Jun. 19656,
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, divorced
1971.
(Kate) Kathy Lynn Toopes, born 19 Sep.
1968, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.
Married Edward William Vitasek, 17
Jun. 1971, Divorced Jul 1981
Kathy Lynn Vitasek Adopted 1974,
Stephen Vitasek and Phillip Vitasek,
legal name change 1976.
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