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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: January 13, 1938
Name: Ina Stout
Post Office: Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Residence Address: Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Date of Birth: December 12, 1893
Place of Birth: Fort Smith, Arkansas
Father: Thomas J. Stout
Place of Birth: Boonville, Missouri
Information on father: born February 10,1870
Mother: Miss Fannie May Farris
Place of Birth:
Information on mother:
Field Worker: Carl H. Sherwood

My father, Thomas J. Stout, was born February 10, 1870, at Boonville, Missouri. He helped his father on the farm and received his education in the schools at Boonville, Missouri.

At the age of twenty years he left home with two race horses, and located at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Here he matched and ran races for a living. At one race he met Miss Fannie May Farris who one year later became his wife. They were married in 1891, in Fort Smith, and to this union were born two children, Robert and I. Robert was born September 10, 1892, and I was born December 12, 1893.

In 1930 Father moved to Okmulgee where he was foreman for W.B. Pine's hog ranch; he raised Hampshire bacon hogs, and shipped in car lots to Swift Packing Company, Kansas City. He worked there six years until he developed a cancer of the face which became so severe he was unable to work any longer. Mr. W.B. Pine kept Father, paying all his expenses, until his death which occurred October 18, 1936.

Submitted to OKGENWEB by Harling Walker June 2002

[Submitter's Comments: This interview seems incomplete as Ina Stout never speaks of herself or her experiences except for her date of birth, but it is what I received in its entirety.]