Indian Pioner Papers -     John McCarty

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                    Garvin County Indian Pioneer Papers
                                      
                           John E. McCarty



Interview #

Field Worker: Velma Hance

Date: June 1, 1937

Name: Mr. John E. McCarty

Residence: Erick, Oklahoma

Date of Birth: November 26, 1866

Place of Birth:   

Father:  William McCarty

Mother: Mary Loatchspach (Lotspeich?)







John E. McCarty was born November 26, 1866. 322 W. First Street, Erick, Oklahoma



Mr. McCarty came to Indian Territory in 1880, from Youngs County,Texas. 

There were ten families who came at this time. They settled a half 

mile from where Pauls Valley now stands and their post office was Cherokee Town.



Mr. McCarty fought with the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, fighting from 

covered wagons. There were forty-five wagons in the camp in the year of 1882. 

They had scouts; two men were in front, two men behind, and two men on 

each side. When they discovered Indians, they would blow a horn. 

Then everybody would circle their wagons and oxen in a circle. 

This was called 'corraling the wagons'.  They put the oxen in the corrals.



Mr. McCarty settled in that part of the country because there was 

lots of grass and water. He leased land from the Indians.



There were no schools then. Mr. McCarty's father made his living 

mostly by truck farming. They went on hunting trips in the mountains, 

five or six families going together. They would bring back as much as 

3200 pounds of meat at once. They carried their meat in wagons and 

they cured it as people do now.



Their first home was a dugout with home-made furniture, their chairs 

being split logs. They had lots of water and wood in those days. 

Their first employment was farming. They did their plowing with a 

bull tongue plow. Mr. McCarty bought their supplies from Denison, Texas.

He has a gun that he brought to Oklahoma with him November 8, 1880.