INDIAN PIONEER HISTORY PROJECT FOR OKLAHOMA  - R. Roger Eubanks
Cherokee Nation

Submitted by Catherine Widener  catz@kcisp.net
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Indian Pioneer Papers Project
R. Roger Eubanks

Name: R. Roger Eubanks
          Berryville, Arkansas
Born: January 14, 1879
         Tahlequah, Indian Territory
Parents: William Eubanks
             Eliza C. Thompson, 3/8 Indian (Cherokee)

Mr. Eubanks story:

My parents came to Oklahoma with the emigrant Cherokees about 1829.  My 
maternal grandfather drove a yoke of oxen from Georgia to what is now Oklahoma 
and my paternal grandfather came from Kentucky.

Dr. Jeter Lynch Thompson, my maternal grandfather, was the first Cherokee to 
graduate in medicine.  He was taken prisoner by the North and because of his 
being a doctor, was given employment.

My father was official interpreter and translator for 40 years.  He served as 
Captain in the Confederate Army.

I have served as superintendent of the Cherokee Male Seminary.  I am a Commercial 
Artist and teacher of art.

Dr.  E. Poe Parris, who once lived in Tahlequah and edited the Cherokee Advocate, 
was a nephew of McGuffy, author of the famous readers.

Transcribed by Catherine Widener 2002
Volume 74, pg. 98.