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16-475: Mayhew may refer to: Places [ edit ] U.S. places [ edit ] Mayhew, Indian Territory , in present-day Choctaw County, Oklahoma Mayhew, Minnesota , unincorporated community Mayhew, Mississippi , unincorporated village Mayhew, North Carolina , in Iredell County, North Carolina Mayhew Cabin , Nebraska City, Nebraska, stop on

32-653: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mayhew, Indian Territory It ceased its functions upon preparation for Oklahoma’s statehood in 1907, when the Choctaw Nation’s government and political subdivisions were dissolved. Mayhew was founded in 1836 by Presbyterian missionaries to the Choctaw Indians . They named it for Mayhew Presbyterian Mission in Mississippi. From here they ministered to

48-590: The 1840s onward. Included are descriptions of the Choctaws, white settlers, and also fairly detailed meteorological observations, the first and only such recorded observations of this area. Pushmataha District Pushmataha District was one of three provinces, or districts, comprising the former Choctaw Nation in the Indian Territory . Also called the Third District, it encompassed

64-636: The Choctaw Nation relocated via the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory. They were originally intended to provide homes for settlers from the three major clans or groupings of Choctaw Indians comprising the nation. Over time, the clan affiliations and allegiances rapidly became less important after the Choctaw reached Indian Territory, in part because the geography was different, and there

80-420: The Choctaws, providing schooling, medical aid, and other services. A United States Post Office was established at Mayhew, Indian Territory on February 5, 1845 and operated until September 30, 1902. It then moved two miles south to Boswell, which was then a new townsite along the new railroad, and changed its name to Boswell, Indian Territory. Boswell was named for S.C. Boswell, a local merchant . Mayhew

96-579: The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mayhew . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayhew&oldid=1023240714 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

112-681: The Underground Railroad Mayhew Lake , lake in Cook County, Minnesota Other places [ edit ] Mount Mayhew , peak in Antarctica Mayhew, community in the township of Horton, Ontario , Canada Other uses [ edit ] Mayhew (animal welfare charity) , animal welfare charity in London Mayhew (name) , given name and surname Mayhew Prize , awarded annually by

128-439: The county level were bucked to the district level automatically, and court days were the busiest days of the year in the district seats of government. Pushmataha District's final and most important administrative seat of government was Mayhew, Indian Territory . This was started as a former Presbyterian missionary station. Present-day Boswell, Oklahoma developed about two miles south of its location. The first district seat

144-649: The southwestern one-third of the nation. The Pushmataha District was named in honor of Pushmataha , a revered Choctaw warrior and statesman who was chief of Okla Hannali , the Six Towns District, one of the three historic, major clan divisions of the Choctaw in their historic territory of the Southeast. The other two districts were the Apukshunnubbee District and Moshulatubbee District . These three districts were established when

160-648: The tree was still in existence. Included in the Pushmataha District were the Choctaw Nation counties of Atoka , Jack's Fork , Blue , Jackson , and Kiamitia (Kiamichi) . As Oklahoma's statehood loomed, the Pushmataha District, and its constituent counties, slowly wound down their governmental functions as the United States Courts in the Indian Territory assumed their powers. On November 16, 1907—Oklahoma's Statehood Day—the district and its counties disappeared forever. The territory of

176-622: Was Tiak Heli, "between the forks of the Boggy" ("or Boggies"), as it was called. The site was difficult to reach, being situated between the small rivers of Clear Boggy Creek and Muddy Boggy Creek . Few ferries operated on the rivers to provide convenient crossings. When the court house at Tiak Heli burned in the last part of the 19th century, the district moved its administrative center to Mayhew. Present-day Sunkist, Oklahoma (in southeastern Atoka County ) developed about one-half mile west of that historic community. "I never understood why court

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192-568: Was great disruption due to population loss in the removal. The districts' importance in the political life of the nation gradually waned, and the three district chiefs lost power and authority to the principal chief of the Nation. Eventually the principal chief became the chief . No longer a "first among equals", he became the sole political leader. In judicial affairs, however, the three districts and their seats of government retained their historic influence. Crimes and criminals not tried at

208-487: Was held in the forks of the Boggy, forcing everyone who attended to cross a river," an early-day settler said decades later. He thought the district seat was likely considered to be in the center of general population. But, he said, "There were no ferries , nor bridges above the forks of the Boggy." Another settler recalled the post oak tree was used as the "whipping tree". Judges of the Choctaw district courts sentenced some criminals to whippings as punishment. As of 1937,

224-515: Was originally located at the first site of the district court, near the present-day Choctaw County community of Sunkist, and was moved to Mayhew in 1903. (The Pushmataha District had abandoned the site of its first courthouse after it burned. Its remote location between the forks of the Clear Boggy Creek and Muddy Boggy Creek caused it to move to Mayhew, the court's last seat before Oklahoma's statehood, rather than rebuild.) In 1936 it

240-480: Was still in excellent condition and being used as a granary. The original "whipping tree", from which the court dispensed punishment to those convicted of crimes, had been chopped down. Riveting accounts of the life and work of the Mayhew Mission may be read in the surviving papers of Cyrus Kingsbury , a longtime missionary. These comprise the sole written record of this part of southeastern Oklahoma from

256-545: Was visited by a Works Progress Administration field worker in September 1936. At that time she reported the remains of the original site of Mayhew—a half-mile away from its second and last site—were torn down in 1934. The last site of Mayhew still held the steel jailhouse constructed during territorial days to hold the prisoners of the Pushmataha District (Third District) of the Choctaw Nation. The jailhouse

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