num_pages: 136
description: "Thisis a story of four real families set into actual and fictional accounts ofevents leading to their coming together during the early days of the OklahomaIndian Territory. The Byfords, Cashes, Lumpkins and Scroggins are my ancestorsfrom my mother’s side.Curiositygot the better of me and became the beginnings of their stories. For lack ofdata,  I began to create my own. Theevents, locales, and family members described are real. Only the dialogue, someof the supporting characters and most of the action sequences are from anover-imaginative mind.Alot of what is written here was taken from stories passed down by word of mouthand recorded by my mother and others. Since there is no one left to refute orconfirm these stories I offer them as they are. There is the story of theScroggins brothers and how one was killed on the field of battle and was givenfull honors by his Confederate brethren and is actually recorded. Hezekiah Cashand his enlistment with the 2nd Mounted Arkansas Rifles. The story of my greatgrandfather Byford selling quarter horses to the Dalton Boys and Belle Starrwhile they were active in the IndianTerritory. His run in withthe outlaw Marion Odom supposedly happened as related here. There is the taleof George Lumpkins killing of a man accosting his sister at a barn dance andhow he later died on the battlefield at Murfreesboro. Included also is the killing of two men in a knifefight by my great-great grandfather James Madison Lumpkins on the streets ofArkadelphia, Ark.Thereasons behind some of the events are purely fictional on my part, the outcomesare supposedly true.Formore information on the four families, please visit my www.tholmes.com."
language: English
title: A Random Gathering: My Mother's Ancestors
titlecomplete: A Random Gathering: My Mother's Ancestors
publisher: Authorhouse