What makes the Choctaw story of such compelling interest to the Irish is the discovering of their generosity to our people. While no Texans are involved in the fund-raising effort, thousands of Choctaws and their desendants live in Texas, walk organizers said. For the Tingles, the trek by the Irish has personal meaning. Boyd Tingle's ancestors were Choctaws in Oklahoma and Irish-born farmers who settled in Georgia before the famine. Patricia Tingle's Irish ancestors came to the United States about the time the potato famine began, settling near Refugio in South Texas.
Hunger is the same, no matter where the people are.