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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ THE SAGA OF SKULLYVILLE, in Morrison, W. B. Chronicles of Oklahoma
Volume 16, No. 240 Pg [1], June, 1938. - ↑ Walker - Skullyville Cemetery, in Find A Grave
Tandy C Walker .
First wife Elizira died before 1850
Children
Mary E Walker b Sep. 1, 1848 d. age 16
Son Henderson
second wife
Cillen Krebbs b. 5 Dec 1827 d. 16 Mar 1884
- Military Service: 1861 Lt. Col. in the Choctaw Regiment of the Confederate Army
Civil War Veteran
Lt. Col. 1st Bn.
- BET. 1858 - 1859 Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Doaksville, IT
- One of the stark tragedies of Old Skullyville involves its two most prominent families, the Walkers and McCurtains.
As previously stated Colonel Walker lived in the old Agency building, which he had converted into a dwelling. His second wife was a Miss Krebbs, who was connected by marriage with the McCurtains. With him also lived his son, Henderson, and a daughter, children by his first wife. For some reason, in the period following the War, the Walker and McCurtain families were not on very friendly terms. Conditions were not improved when young Robert McCurtain began to pay court to Tandy Walker's daughter, and he was soon forbidden to come to the Walker home. However, one day in August, 1874, Robert McCurtain rode up to the gate and dismounted. Before he could enter the house Henderson Walker came out on the gallery with a gun, and ordered young McCurtain to retreat. When the order was ignored, Walker fired, the shot taking effect in McCurtain's body. The latter was able to mount his horse, but when he had reached a point about a hundred feet south of the present school building in Old Spiro, he fell from his horse and died. Henderson Walker immediately went "on the scout" and was gone for two years, his father, Colonel Walker, meanwhile moving to Tamaha. But eventually Henderson returned, to be met within a short time by Robert's brothers, Jackson and Green McCurtain, who evened the blood feud by shooting him to death.
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