Teacher Her natural ability and her love for teaching soon gave her a high standing as an able educator in the old Indian Territory. She taught for a time at the Presbyterian Mission in Wealaka, also at the Coweta Mission, and for about three years at Tulsa. Altogether, she spent about 10 years in the mission schools. In 1884, at the Wealaka Mission  Miss Denton was married to Col. Lee W. Lindsey (born 1845, Ohio  . He served in an Ohio regiment of cavalry during the American Civil War, and after peace was restored, went south and lived for several years in Alabama, and superintended the quarrying of stone for the building of the first machine shops at Birmingham. He became a building contractor, and during the 1870s, moved to the Creek Nation of Indian Territory. Colonel Lindsey completed the walls and enclosure of the old council house of the Creek Nation at Okmulgee. They moved to Tulsa, establishing a home there in 1886, and for many years, was one of the central figures in Northeastern Oklahoma. After her marriage and at the solicitation of her friends  she was induced to accept the position of teacher in the national schools of Oklahoma, and the State Board of Education, having full confidence in her ability, did not require an examination, which was otherwise obligatory upon all teachers.
Teacher Denton's natural ability and her love for teaching soon gave her a high standing as an able educator in the old Indian Territory. She taught for a time at the Presbyterian Mission in Wealaka, also at the Coweta Mission, and for approximately three years at Tulsa. Altogether, she spent about 10 years in the mission schools. In 1884, at the Wealaka Mission , Miss Denton was married to Col. Lee W. Lindsey (born 1845, Ohio ) . He served in an Ohio regiment of cavalry during the Civil War, and after peace was restored, went south and lived for several years in Alabama, and superintended the quarrying of stone for the building of the first machine shops at Birmingham. He became a building contractor, and during the 1870s, moved to the Creek Nation of Indian Territory. Colonel Lindsey completed the walls and enclosure of the old council house of the Creek Nation at Okmulgee. They moved to Tulsa, establishing a home there in 1886, and for many years, was one of the central figures in Northeastern Oklahoma. After her marriage and at the solicitation of her friends , she was induced to accept the position of teacher in the national schools of Oklahoma, and the State Board of Education, having full confidence in her ability, did not require an examination, which was otherwise obligatory upon all teachers.
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