Woodward County OKArchives History - Shumate, Joseph William Interview with WPA Submitted by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 Feb 4, 2020 Return to Woodward County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/woodward/woodward.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Indian Pioneer History Collection taken from WPA 1937 #10367 Wilson J. Chase Investigator March 25, 1938 Interview with Joseph W. Shumate Woodward, Oklahoma In 1867 I went with my folks and helped drive a hear of 5000 cattle from Brownville, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Most of these cattle were marketed and some of them were put on grass in Kansas. We would leave Texas early in the spring and it would be late in the fall when we got to Abilene, Kansas. We came through Fort Worth and then north across Red River. We had no trouble with the Indians in crossing Oklahoma. In 1893 I came to Woodward and made it my home. I filed on a farm six miles northwest of Woodward. Sold my relinquishment about six months after I filed. Then I began to work on ranches in Western Oklahoma. I was employes as a cook. In 1925 I quit ranch life and have been living in Woodward. Up until the Strip opened in 1893, cattle raising was done mostly on the open range, and the ranchers did not make any arrangement for winter feed except running their cattle on winter grass just like they had during summer months and when we had bad winters like the winter of 1886, thousands of cattle froze to death. When the Strip began to settle up, in was necessary for the cattlemen to make arrangements for winter feed, and they began to plant feed crops and raise their winter feed and when cotton seed oil cake came on the market it was used with rough feed and winter grass very successfully. Additional Information: 1850 Dade Missouri William Shoemate 55 VA Clarisa Shoemate 58 TN [Huffaker] Harden Shoemate 32 TN Wiley Shoemate 24 TN Preston Shoemate 19 TN Calvin Shoemate 16 TN William Shoemate 15 IL Josep Shoemate 10 IL John Shoemate 8 IL Clarisa Shoemate 7 IL married Seneca Willeford 1867 Washington Co. Ark Mary Shoemate 4 Ark Name: Salinda A. Hughes Age: 18 Sex: Female Husband: William Carter Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 13 Jan 1850 Event Place:Washington, Arkansas Event Place (Original): Washington, Arkansas Gender:Male Age: 19 Spouse's Gender: Female Spouse's Age:18 1850 Prairie, Washington, Ark Aaron Hughes 41 Nancy Hughes 50 James Hughes 25 Franklin Hughes 21 Sarah Hughes 17 Stephen Hughes 14 Nancy Hughes 12 Thomas Hughes 9 Salinda Carter 18 (Salinda/Sarenda is shown alone here without William in her fathers house and doesn't show her daughter Miriam Elizabeth yet, thus William must have died or left around 1869) (She is married to Calvin Shumate by 1860 but haven't been able to find the marriage record.) 1860 Prairie, Washington, Arkansas Aaron Hughs 59 TN Nancy Hughs 60 TN Stephen Hughs 23 ARK Thomas Hughs 18 Ark Calvin Shumate 24 TN Seranda Shumate 27 Arkansa Elizabeth Shumate 10 Ark <--Miriam Elizabeth Carter(daughter of William Carter and Sarinda Hughs) John 4 Shumate Ark Thomas Shumate 1 Ark 1870 Spring Valley, Cherokee, Kansas Benjamin B Allen 21 TX Miriam E Allen 19 AR [Miriam Elizabeth Carter/Shumate Allen] William Allen 1 KS Thomas Shumate 12 AR Bell Shumate 9 AR [Clarabelle Shumate] daughter of Calvin & Sarenda Joseph Shumate 8 AR David Shumate 6 TX [Can not find Sarinda in 1870 but she is not deceased as she shows up in the 1875 census of Cherokee County with sons and daughter.] 1875 State Census Salamanca Cherokee Co. KS S M Shumate 43 Ark moved here from Texas Sarinda Hughs Carter Shumate J T McCormack 30 KY detective T W Shumate 17 Ark moved here from TX Bell Shumate 15 Ark moved here from TX Joseph Shumate 13 Ark moved here from TX David Shumate 11 TX moved here from TX Wm J Hill 38 MD (medical doctor?) Mary Hill 31 Theresa Hill 2 1900 Judkins Township (east half), Woodward, Oklahoma Territory Joe W Shumake 65 Dec 1861 single Ark, PA KY plasterer 1910 Woodward, Woodward, OK Household Role Sex Age Birthplace Jacob Thomas Head Male 75 Ohio Joseph Shumate Hired man Male 55 Arkansas 1920 Otter, Harper, OK Household Role Sex Age Birthplace Hal Cooper Head Male 26 Kansas Joe W Shumate Hired man Male 59 Arkansas KY US laborer stock ranch Harry P Cunningham Hired man Male 14 Missouri Lawerence R Chappell Hired man Male 21 Oklahoma William Robinson Hired man Male 46 Missouri Myrtle E Robinson Housekeeper Female 34 Kansas 1930 Woodward, Oklahoma Joe W. Shumake 68 Ark KY KY clerk Hotel Findagrave listing Joseph William Shumate BIRTH unknown DEATH 6 Feb 1939 BURIAL Elmwood Cemetery Woodward, Woodward County, Oklahoma PLOT 01-35-247-1 MEMORIAL ID 66097891 (brother Joseph is mentioned in the obituary of his sister Clara BELLE Shumate Blankenship who died 1917 in Coats, Pratt, KS) Submitter is not related and has no further information.