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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Nellie Ramsey Leslie</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie.jpg/220px-Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="284" data-file-height="299" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Nellie A. Coles</div><br />c. 1840s<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Amelia_County,_Virginia" title="Amelia County, Virginia">Amelia County, Virginia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">c. 1920s<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Muskogee, Oklahoma</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Nellie A. Ramsey, N.A.R. Leslie</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Teacher, music instructor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1865-1899</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Nellie A. Ramsey Leslie</b> (better known as <b>N.A.R. Leslie</b>; <span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span> Coles; c. 1840s-c. 1920s) was notable as a teacher, musician and composer, working in Louisiana and Mississippi, and then in <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas" title="Corpus Christi, Texas">Corpus Christi, Texas</a>, where she founded a musical conservatory for girls. Born into slavery in Virginia, after emancipation she gained schooling in Ohio and moved to Louisiana to teach for the <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau" title="Freedmen's Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</a>. She attended the Normal School of <a href="/wiki/Straight_University" title="Straight University">Straight University</a> and gained further training as a teacher. Teaching in Louisiana, Mississippi, Indian Territory, and Texas, Leslie educated <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> and their children. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nellie A. Ramsey<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Notes 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was born into slavery in Virginia. Very little is known of her early life. Scruggs says she was born in <a href="/wiki/Amelia_County,_Virginia" title="Amelia County, Virginia">Amelia County, Virginia</a> <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and DeBoer says she was born in <a href="/wiki/Petersburg,_Virginia" title="Petersburg, Virginia">Petersburg, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the fourth daughter of Nannie and Charles P. Coles <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had one brother, Solomon Melvin Coles<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (1844-1929/1930). After emancipation, Ramsey went north and gained some education in Ohio. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She started to work as a young woman for the <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau" title="Freedmen's Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</a> in 1865, going to Louisiana soon after the end of the war.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite laws forbidding education of blacks, Solomon Coles had learned to read at age 14.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was first trained as a coachman for his master's wife. When the Civil War ended, Solomon took night courses at the <a href="/wiki/Freedmen%27s_Bureau" title="Freedmen's Bureau">Freedmen's Bureau</a> in <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a> before migrating north to further his schooling. He attended <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_University_(Pennsylvania)" title="Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)">Lincoln University</a> in Pennsylvania.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating, he became the first person of African descent to be admitted to the <a href="/wiki/Yale_Divinity_School" title="Yale Divinity School">Yale Divinity School</a>. Although he did not graduate, he was accepted as a minister in the <a href="/wiki/Congregational_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational Church">Congregational Church</a>. He became a missionary for the <a href="/wiki/American_Missionary_Association" title="American Missionary Association">American Missionary Association</a>, which planted black churches in the South and also sponsored teachers for <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a>. Starting in the 1870s, he was the third Congregational minister called to the black church in <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas" title="Corpus Christi, Texas">Corpus Christi, Texas</a>. He also taught freedmen's children here in the Negro school. In the late 1870s, he became the first black principal of the school. About 1895 he moved to a school in San Antonio, where he taught until he reached retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20071,_8_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20071,_8-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ramsey started to work for the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865. She first taught elementary school in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>. In time, her salary was paid through a shared funding agreement between the first public school board of the city and the <a href="/wiki/American_Missionary_Association" title="American Missionary Association">American Missionary Association</a> (AMA), which helped support numerous teachers in the South as part of their educational mission for freedmen and their children.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the 1870–1871 term, she studied at the <a href="/wiki/Normal_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Normal School">Normal School</a> of the newly established <a href="/wiki/Straight_University" title="Straight University">Straight University</a>, founded by the AMA.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStraight_University_Catalogue187112_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStraight_University_Catalogue187112-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, she began teaching primary school at Straight,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which had a range of preparatory classes, and then in <a href="/wiki/Amite_City,_Louisiana" title="Amite City, Louisiana">Amite City, Louisiana</a>. She was highly regarded for her work and in 1872, received a glowing testimonial from a Catholic priest. </p><p>Ramsey taught in Amite City until 1874. That year she married Rev. R. A. Leslie, a Presbyterian minister, and moved to a school in <a href="/wiki/Osyka,_Mississippi" title="Osyka, Mississippi">Osyka, Mississippi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rev. Leslie was a <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_(Creek)_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee (Creek) Nation">Creek Indian</a>. Around 1880 he and his wife moved to <a href="/wiki/Indian_Territory" title="Indian Territory">Indian Territory</a>, where he helped establish schools for <a href="/wiki/Creek_Freedmen" title="Creek Freedmen">Creek Freedmen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDickerson-Cousin2015149_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDickerson-Cousin2015149-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18805_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18805-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Establishing a boarding house the following year in <a href="/wiki/Muskogee,_Oklahoma" title="Muskogee, Oklahoma">Muskogee</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18815_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18815-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the couple remained in Indian Territory for several years. They returned to Mississippi, where Rev. Leslie died in April 1884.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After her husband's death, Leslie studied at the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Conservatory_of_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Conservatory of Music">Boston Conservatory of Music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She moved to <a href="/wiki/Paris,_Texas" title="Paris, Texas">Paris, Texas</a>, where she founded and led a music school. It was flourishing by 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18869_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18869-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, she returned to Muskogee, Indian Territory, where she taught in a private girls academy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18875_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18875-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her school charged a tuition of eight dollars per month. Leslie also founded the Afro-American International Institute and School of Arts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO'Dell2009_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'Dell2009-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18905_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18905-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the summer of 1891 she was hired as principal of the <a href="/wiki/Tullahassee_Mission_Site" title="Tullahassee Mission Site">Tullahassee Mission School</a>, which was a school for Creek Freedmen. Leslie already had vacation plans for time in <a href="/wiki/Saratoga_Springs,_New_York" title="Saratoga Springs, New York">Saratoga Springs, New York</a>, a summer resort town in upstate.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leslie served as principal until October 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891b5_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891b5-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her brother Solomon Cole had married late in life and become widowed. He and his wife had two daughters, but one died in infancy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Leslie moved to <a href="/wiki/Corpus_Christi,_Texas" title="Corpus Christi, Texas">Corpus Christi, Texas</a> to help him raise his remaining daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMajors1893242_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMajors1893242-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There she opened a music conservatory for girls. Known throughout the region for her teaching skill, Leslie also performed music and was considered a "composer of some prominence".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMajors1893244_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMajors1893244-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> None of her works is known to be extant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker-Hill200723_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker-Hill200723-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After working for several years in Texas, Leslie returned to Indian Territory. </p><p>She resumed teaching at the Tallahassee Mission in 1895, where she served as the music director for at least three years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18953_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18953-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18985_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18985-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1920, she was still living in Muskogee,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> now in the state of Oklahoma, which was admitted to the union in 1908. In 1921, Leslie performed at a Baptist gathering in <a href="/wiki/Bristow,_Oklahoma" title="Bristow, Oklahoma">Bristow, Oklahoma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Tulsa_Star''19211_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Tulsa_Star''19211-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Notes 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">It is unknown whether her name was Ramsey or Coles at birth. DeBoer states that her maiden name was Ramsey, but the source misidentifies her brother Solomon as Samuel.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Though the clipping from <i>The Tulsa Star</i> states Leslie is nearly 100, the age seems improbable,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Tulsa_Star''19211_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Tulsa_Star''19211-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as does her age of 65 that is recorded on the 1920 census. <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her brother was born in 1844,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20078_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20078-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she began her career in 1865 after some schooling, so may have been in her early 20s.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the birth year of 1855 given on the census was correct, she would have been only ten years old after completing her schooling and going to work at the Freedmen's Bureau. If the birth year indicated by the <i>Star</i>, 1821, is correct, she would have been 72 when the photograph published by Scruggs in 1893 was taken.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893246_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893246-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It seems more likely that Leslie was born in the 1840s, as was her brother.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nellie_Ramsey_Leslie&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183,_192_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDeBoer2016">DeBoer 2016</a>, pp. 183, 192.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893247_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScruggs1893">Scruggs 1893</a>, p. 247.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016183_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDeBoer2016">DeBoer 2016</a>, p. 183.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891a5_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1891a"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1891a</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDodson1959167_6-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDodson1959">Dodson 1959</a>, p. 167.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEScruggs1893248_7-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFScruggs1893">Scruggs 1893</a>, p. 248.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDeBoer2016192_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDeBoer2016">DeBoer 2016</a>, p. 192.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20071,_8-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMooreSmith20071,_8_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMooreSmith2007">Moore & Smith 2007</a>, pp. 1, 8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEStraight_University_Catalogue187112-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEStraight_University_Catalogue187112_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFStraight_University_Catalogue1871">Straight University Catalogue 1871</a>, p. 12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEDickerson-Cousin2015149-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDickerson-Cousin2015149_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFDickerson-Cousin2015">Dickerson-Cousin 2015</a>, p. 149.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18805-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18805_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Indian_Journal1880"><i>The Indian Journal</i> 1880</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18815-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18815_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Indian_Journal1881"><i>The Indian Journal</i> 1881</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18869-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Indian_Journal''18869_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Indian_Journal1886"><i>The Indian Journal</i> 1886</a>, p. 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18875-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18875_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1887"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1887</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEO'Dell2009-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEO'Dell2009_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFO'Dell2009">O'Dell 2009</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18905-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18905_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1890"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1890</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891b5-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''1891b5_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1891b"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1891b</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMajors1893242-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMajors1893242_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMajors1893">Majors 1893</a>, p. 242.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMajors1893244-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMajors1893244_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMajors1893">Majors 1893</a>, p. 244.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalker-Hill200723-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalker-Hill200723_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFWalker-Hill2007">Walker-Hill 2007</a>, p. 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18953-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18953_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1895"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1895</a>, p. 3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18985-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''The_Muskogee_Phoenix''18985_23-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFThe_Muskogee_Phoenix1898"><i>The Muskogee Phoenix</i> 1898</a>, p. 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEU._S._Census192017B_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFU._S._Census1920">U. S. 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