Ace Wade to A. L. Whybark

 

Wade, Ace, Asa attended the reunion of U.S. Marshals in 1908, at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

(Picture - The Western Peace Officer) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Wadley, G. L. was commissioned on December 9, 1895, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy Marshal Wadley lived in Poteau, Choctaw Nation when commissioned. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walden, G. W. was commissioned on June 1, 1893, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Waldron, John D. was commissioned on June 1, 1893 and June 2, 1894, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walker, Arthur, Perki was commissioned on June 7, 1889, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  In July of 1890, he worked with Deputy Marshal Zack Wells to serve warrants of arrest to Joseph Pate and James Barnett, charged with introducing liquor into Indian Territory. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - July 25, 1890) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walker, Eugene

(Black Indians) (Black History In Oklahoma) (Black Red And Deadly)

 

Walker, G. H.  was commissioned on August 22, 1890, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wall

H.

K.

D.U.S. Marshal

May 3, 1897

 

Walker, James N. served in the Northern Judicial District in 1894 and 1895. 

(U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Walker, John was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. Deputy Marshal Walker went to Dardenelle where he arrested two white men for selling whiskey in Indian Territory. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - December 11, 1885. (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Walker, Lee was commissioned on November 2, 1895, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy Marshal Walker lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas when he was commissioned.

 (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walker, Perkins traveled to Indian Territory in July of 1889, to arrest two white men, J. B. Brazier and Charles Mooney on charges of introducing whiskey into Indian Territory.  He arrested W. Moon for assault and larceny in April of 1890.  In May of 1890, Perkins arrested John Hosey and Robert Gaines White on assault charges. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - July 26, 1889; May 9, 1890) (Atoka Indian Citizen - December 28, 1889 & April 5, & May 17, 1890) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Walker, R. S. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Walker, Tandy C. was commissioned on October 9, 1888 and August 26, 1889.  He worked out of the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas.  Deputy Walker arrested Henry Meeks, a neighbor to Tom Ross, who was interviewed in Indian Pioneer History. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Tom Ross) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Walker, Tom C. served under Marshal Jack Abernathy in 1906 and 1907.  Walker was in charge of the Lawton area of the Western District.  In September of 1906, Tom took into custody Astoyay, a nephew of Chief Geronimo on charges of selling whiskey to other Apache Indians.  He was taken to the federal jail in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.  In 1907, Tom Walker and special officer Grimes went to a farm near Hulen to arrest Lon Rathburn.  Rathburn was charged with killing George Beck near Hominy in the Osage Nation, in October of 1906.  Rathburn confessed to the murder claiming self defense.  In May 10 1907, Tom was summoned to arrest a twelve year old Negro boy named Will Miller who was the youngest person charged in selling whiskey to the Indians.  The boy’s grandfather was also arrested when whiskey was found in the boy’s home. 

(Lenora Leader - September 7, 1906; May 17, 1907) (The Seiling Guide - September 12, 1907) (Shoot from the Lip) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walker

Thomas

S.

D.U.S. Marshal

March 21, 1905

 

Walker, W. N. was commissioned in the Wichita, Kansas Court in 1871, serving under Marshal Dana M. Houston.  He held the position of sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kansas and the U. S. deputy marshal commission gave him the additional authority needed to arrest wanted men outside of his jurisdiction. 

(Eldorado, Walnut Valley Times - March 3, 1871) (Why The West Was Wild)

 

Walker, William R. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Wallace, Houston was commissioned in the Southern District of Indian Territory at the Paris, Texas court possibly before 1890.  It is likely that James “Jim” Wallace was his brother.  A Jim Wallace was killed in the Longview bank robbery in which William Dalton supposedly headed.  Wallace passed several bills from the Longview bank and was placed under arrest. 

(Selden Lindsey)

 

Wallace, James “Jim” was commissioned on October 31, 1889.  He worked with Heck Thomas & James Hutchins in the Southern District on June of 1888.  Jim rode with Heck Thomas, Burrell Cox and Hank Childer in search of a gang that had robbed a train on June 27, 1888, near the Snake River.  The outlaws were approached at a liquor still when their leader Aaron Purdy opened fire, shooting Heck Thomas twice in the side and breaking his right wrist.  Jim and the other two deputy marshals shot Purdy in the gun fight.  When the odds favored the lawmen the rest of the gang gave up.  Selden Lindsey’s book tells of a Jim Wallace in 1893 and 1894 who rode with the Bill Dalton Gang and was killed in Longview, Texas. 

(Encyclopedia of a Western Gun-Fighter) (Selden Lindsay) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wallace

H.

E.

D.U.S. Marshal

December 12, 1960  to June 30, 1907

 

Wallace, Lee was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Wallace, Michael C. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)   (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walls, Ben F. was commissioned on July 1, 1892, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. In January of 1893, Deputy Marshal Walls arrested a white man named Columbus H. Cloud who was involved in introducing and selling liquor in the Choctaw Nation.  Walls took his prisoner to jail in Ft. Smith where he was sentenced. 

(The Weekly Elevator - January 27, 1893.  (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walls, H. K. was commissioned in the Central District of Indian Territory in 1894, when the Attorney General’s office made an investigation of the conduct of the marshals and deputy marshals in Indian Territory.  Marshal Benjamin Hackett was removed from office but Deputy Marshal Wall was not charged with any misconduct and was ordered to be retained as deputy marshal.  He was one of the oldest deputy marshals alive in 1905.  He was a special detective for the coal company at Buck, Indian Territory.  On March 19, 1905, he died of a heart disease at Cherryvale.  Burial of his body was at Durant, Choctaw Nation.  Wall served eight years as a deputy marshal in the Central District. 

(Woodward Bulletin - March 24, 1905) (The Bennington Tribune - March 23, 1905)

 

Walls, Thomas Jefferson served as deputy marshal in the 1880”s in the Atoka area, assigned to the Choctaw Nation.  He arrested J. D. Cook for cattle rustling.  In May of 1890, he was transported to jail and tried in the Paris, Texas court. 

(Indian Citizen - May 3, 1890) (Indian Pioneer History - Thomas Benjamin Wall) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wall, Thomas was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. He served as deputy marshal for several years in the 1880 era.  Thomas was of Choctaw and Irish descent.  Thomas Wall lived at Wallsbury near Jensen, Arkansas. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Allie Wall Lane) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wall, W. W.  was commissioned in the Central District of Indian Territory when Benjamin Hackett was dismissed from office in February of 1894, when the Attorney General’s office found him incompetent and failing to punish any of his subordinates when he knew they were allowing liquor into Indian Territory, being drunk while on duty and allowing prisoners to escape.  Deputy Marshal Wall was not charged with any wrong doing in the investigation.

 

Walner, John “Bull of the Range” served under Marshal Leo Bennett of Muskogee while serving as Indian policemen for the Chickasaw Nation, Pontotoc County.  In October of 1891, the Purcell Territorial Topic reported John Warner closed all of the saloons in Ardmore.  In November of 1891, John arrested a man named Rogers who was charged with intent to kill.  He possibly was the same man that shot Deputy Marshal R. J. Taylor in Skiatook on October 1, 1891.   W. J. "Bill” Lewis was wanted by the Paris federal court for murder of two men.  Bill Lewis frequented the Pauls Valley area where most of the community feared him.  Lewis bragged of killing fourteen men, wanting everyone to know that he feared no man.  John Walner knew that eventually he would have to deal with Lewis so he sent word to him to let him know he would kill him if he ever came to Wynnewood.   Bill Lewis could not let Walner’s statement go unchallenged, so the outlaw and marshal’s paths crossed on the street at Wynnewood, Chickasaw Nation.   Bill Lewis approached Walner with his Winchester in hand.  Walner’s reaction was too quick for the outlaw fell without firing his rifle.  Bill Lewis was killed instantly in the gun duel.  Oklahombres reports that John Walner was killed in 1881 which does not correspond with the dates above, either the date is wrong or Walner was not killed. Indian Pioneer History reflects that John Walner was killed by his nephew, Bob Walner.  John Walner’s body was buried in the Wynnewood cemetery in 1905. 

(The Territorial Topic - October 8, November 5, 1891) (Marietta Monitor - February 1897) (Indian Pioneer History - J. T. French) (Indian Pioneer History - R. L. Janeway) (Indian Pioneer History - Mrs. J.D. Miller, Sr.) (Indian Pioneer History - E. H. Scrivner) (Indian Pioneer History - J. E. Suggs) (Indian Pioneer History - Frances Walner) (Indian Pioneer History - Mrs. John Walner) (Oklahombres) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List    Killed in the line of duty.

 

Walsh, James was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1889. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walters, Colonel E. was born in Indian Territory in 1865.  In 1884, at nineteen years of age, he was appointed deputy marshal holding a commission until statehood in 1907. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Colonel E. Walters)

 

Walters, Jack worked out of the Southern District under John Hammer who commissioned him in Pauls Valley, Chickasaw Nation.   Jack arrested Bob McGee who killed a man named Shelton in 1901.  A group of people met at the opera house in Ardmore to protest the hiring of Jack Walters, because he was a Negro.   This group was made up of ministers and special defense lawyers.  Moman Pruitt was one of these defense lawyers who was known for never loosing a case, with the exception of one and that client was pardoned.  Marshal Hammer was not persuaded by the group for he sustained their request and retained his deputy. 

(Black Red and Deadly)

 

Walters, John (1889, Land Rush Deputy) served under Marshal William Jones at Guthrie in 1889. 

(Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889)

 

Walters, Paul arrested R. J. Orr for setting a fire on February 27, 1906, on the Ft. Sill military reservation in Lawton, Oklahoma Territory.  More than 16,000 acres of grass land burned which brought starvation to a large number of cattle that belonged to the Apache Indians.  Orr was a homesteader that lived near the reservation.

 (The Sterrett Sun - May 11, 1906)

 

Walters, Samuel was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Samuel was convicted of bribery in the federal court of Ft. Smith.  He was sentenced to three years to the Detroit House of Corrections on August 19, 1884. 

(Champion - August 30, 1884)  (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Walton

H.

A.

D.U.S. Marshal

March 7, 1898

 

Ward, A. A. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  In February of 1891, he was sent to the Cherokee Nation to serve a warrant of arrest to Dick Calf, charged with introducing and selling liquor in Indian Territory.  Calf was taken to the federal jail in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to await trial. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - February 6, 1891)

 

Ward, A. B. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  He was working with Deputy Marshal Bowden in March of 1890, when they arrested a twelve year old boy for murder.  In July of 1890, he arrested William Warnich for postal law violations, Dolph Blake arrested on a larceny charge and Joe Weekly was arrested on a charge of introducing liquor into Indian Territory.  In February of 1891, he served a warrant of arrest to Sam Hickory for introducing liquor into the Cherokee Nation. 

(Indian Citizen - February 22, & March 22, 1890) (Ft. Smith Elevator - July 25, 1890; February 6, 1891) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Ward, Dock was commissioned as deputy marshal in 1893.  Deputy Marshal Ward served for seven years.  He came to White Bead, Chickasaw Nation in 1886. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Lonnie Ward)

 

Ward, Erastus C. was commissioned on September 23, 1891, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Ward, E. R. was commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris Texas, in 1894.

 (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Ward, Jim   was killed on April 15, 1872, trying to remove Zeke Proctor from an Indian police court where several deputy marshals were killed and wounded.  See Deputy Marshal J. G. Owens for more information. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Zeke Proctor) (Oklahombres) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Ward

J.

D.

D.U.S. Marshal

1906

 

Ward, Joseph L. was commissioned as a deputy marshal and served with the Indian police at Atoka.  Joe Ward lived at Limestone Gap while serving in the law enforcement.

 (Indian Pioneer History - Joe Southerland) (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Ward, R. J. was commissioned on May 2, 1892, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Ward, William Thomas “Billy” was commissioned as deputy marshal for a number of years.  Deputy Marshal Ward also served as deputy clerk of the U.S. court.  On July 29, 1906, Bill was shot in the stomach in a desperate encounter with a tenant on his brother’s farm near Mansford.  The Sterrett Sun newspaper felt the wound would be critical.  William Ward was former Treasurer for the Chickasaw Nation. 

(The Sterrett Sun - August 3, 1906) (Picture - Notable Men Of Indian Territory)

 

Ware, A. C. was commissioned on June 10, 1893, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy Marshal Ware was living in Paneba, Arkansas when commissioned. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Warner, Charlie Frank was a deputy marshal and remembered by Deputy Marshal William Floyd Davis. Oklahombres shows a Charles Warner that was a deputy marshal who was killed.  No date was given. 

(Oklahombres) (Indian Pioneer History - William Floyd Davis)

 

Warren, W. H. was placed over the Chandler District in February 1896, when Marshal Patrick S. Nagle replaced Marshal Evett Nix. 

(West of Hell’s Fringe) (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Warren

W.

H.

D.U.S. Marshal

Chandler

March 11, 1905

 

Washington, Jere was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where he served as a guard. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wasson, Clark “Charles” B. was commissioned on June 28, 1902.  In October of 1904, Clark was in Antlers, Choctaw Nation, with a Negro prisoner named Rube Murphy.   The prisoner was sentenced to 30 days in jail for stealing horses, riding them, then turning them loose.  In April of 1904, Marshal George K. Pritchard retained Wasson as office deputy marshal at Antlers.  Marshal Pritchard had previously been appointed marshal over the Central District at McAlester.  Wasson also served as turnkey for the Atoka jail.  The jail was a forty by fifty foot brick, two story building that served as a jail for the Choctaw Indian police and deputy marshals of Atoka.  The ground floor had three apartments.  One apartment was for the jailer and guards.  The second was for the white prisoners and the third was for the colored prisoners.  The upper story had four apartments for women.  One for white women, one for colored women and restrooms for each.  The jail was in operation until 1913.  Clark was still alive in 1930, making his residence at Muskogee, Oklahoma.

(Antlers News - October 21, 1904) (The Choctaw News - June 2, 1904) (Indian Pioneer History - W.F. Jones) (Indian Pioneer History - Joe Southern) 

 

Wasson

Clark

B.

Charles

D.U.S. Marshal

Antlers

Marsh 23, 1904

 

Wasson, Wright L. was commissioned on February 26, 1890, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Waters, Charles was mortally wounded at Dow, Indian Territory trying to arrest two desperados.  A volley of buckshot tore off his right arm.  (Woodward Bulletin - June 5, 1903)

 

Watkins, Wingamon, was commissioned on July 17, 1889.  He served near the Spiro area where his brother served as a deputy sheriff.  Wingeon and his brother were lenient toward offenders, making very few arrests.  A man from Ft. Smith traveled through the brother’s jurisdiction where he spouted off about the Democratic Party.  The remark made the two brothers unhappy so they made a search of the man’s hack, which produced a small amount of alcohol.  They arrested the man and took him to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where he faced Judge Parker.  The man was released due to vindictive evidence. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Wingeon Watkins) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Watson, Francis T. was commissioned on August 30, 1895, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Watson, S. D. was commissioned on June 26, 1891, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  In May of 1890, Watson was working with Deputy Marshal Joe Covington to deliver a prisoner, Dick Everheart who was charged with lynching an old man named Keys near Healdton, Chickasaw Nation to the Paris court. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - May 9, 1890) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical list)

 

Weaver, Booth became a deputy marshal in 1886, working with Deputy Marshals McLemore and Irby.  He worked the territory from the Arbuckle Mountains to the Stephens County Line. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Ike Miller)  (Indian Pioneer History - Booth Weaver)

 

Weaver, J. S. was commissioned in Oklahoma Territory by Marshal Richard Jones for the 1889 Land Rush.

 (Chronicles Of Oklahoma - Volume 35, 1957)

 

Weaver

W.

B.

D.U.S. Marshal

January 16, 1907 to June 30, 1907

 

Weaver W. J. “Captain” (1889 Land Rush Deputy) worked under Marshal William Jones at Guthrie in 1889.  Was this the same William Weaver that had his pistol taken by Harris when he escaped from jail?  Note: Refer to Jim Cole for more information. 

(The Woodward News - June 5, 1896) (Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889)

 

Webb, D.  M. of Weleetka headed a posse that stopped the notorious Simmons Gang in September of 1905.  The gang made up of Dick, Ike and Grant Simmons who were charged with stealing horses in Indian Territory.  The lawmen trailed the gang until they were challenged by the outlaws who forced a gunfight.  Dick Simmons, the leader of the gang, leveled his Winchester at Schaeffer, one of the posse members, and dropped him from his mount.  The slug from Simmon’s rifle passed completely through Schaeffer's body.  Schaeffer laying in a dying condition used his last effort of life to raise himself to fire one last shot which struck Dick Simmons, who fell to join him in death.  Deputy Marshal Webb arrested Ike and Grant Simmons delivering them to the Muskogee jail.  Deputy Marshal Webb rode with fellow Deputy Marshals Payton Tolbert, Pleas Thompson, Twyman Thompson, and a posse of eight deputies to break up a cattle ring in the Spavinaw area.  Incidents coming out of the arrest of the Cherokee rustlers caused one of the largest manhunts in Indian Territory.  For more information about this manhunt, read Deputy Marshals Pleas Thompson and Ike Gilstrap.

(The Seiling Guide - September 14, 1905) (Indian Pioneer History - Nat Dickerson) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Webb

D.

M.

D.U.S. Marshal

April 1, 1898--March 21, 1905

 

Webb of Pauls Valley tried to serve a warrant of arrest to Sim Johnson and another Negro, both resisting arrest.  Sim Johnson was mortally wounded and his cohort was shot twice through the body but was able to escape into the woods in a desperate gun battle.  Sim Johnson’s left arm was shot off and a ball struck his stomach delivering the fatal blow.  The arrest was attempted near Elmore, a small town twenty-five miles west of Davis.

 (Marietta Monitor - September 8, 1905)

 

Webb, Frank was sworn into the Northern District at Muskogee, in 1897. Indian Policeman of South McAlester accidentally shot himself when he fell from a ladder and his pistol accidentally discharged.

 (The Woodward Bulletin - February 1, 1901) (Picture - Experience of A U.S. Deputy Marshal)

 

Webb

H.

D.U.S. Marshal

March 21, 1905

 

Webb, John T. was commissioned in the 1890”s working out of the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  John lived at Taloga and later moved to the Ringwood area.  The majority of John’s arrests were for horse stealing which required transporting the prisoners to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to stand trial.  John was well acquainted with the Indians who roamed around in bands over the reservation.  One evening late, he stopped at an Indian encampment and the chief insisted that he eat of the stew that was left from the evening meal.  John thought the stew tasted “different” but he was hungry so he reached for a second helping.  The old chief leaned forward and said “Dig deep, puppy in the bottom.” He quickly lost his appetite for more stew. 

(Gloss Mountain Country)

 

Weibling, Christopher C. was a deputy marshal that worked with Amos Chapman, famous Indian scout.  He was wounded by the Dalton Gang in a shoot-out during a train robbery at Pond Creek.  Weibling worked the Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency around El Reno, Oklahoma Territory. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Christopher Weibling)

 

Weimer

Walter

D.U.S. Marshal

Okmulgee

August 18, 1902

 

Weeks, Thomas was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1893. 

(U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1888 - 1893)

 

Welch Charles A. served in the Central District in 1894. 

(U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Welch, D. R. was commissioned on November 16, 1888, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Welch

M.

E.

D.U.S. Marshal

Nowata

August 21, 1913

 

Welch R. C. served in the Central District in 1894. 

(U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Weldon, Oliver D. was commissioned on May 30, 1891 and June 2, 1894 in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  He was also a reporter for the Elevator newspaper. 

(Hell on the Border-Harman) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Welk, Z. served in the Central District in 1894.

 (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Wells, C. A. was commissioned on July 18, 1893, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy Marshal Wells lived in Mulberry, Arkansas when he was commissioned.

 (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wells

Otis

R.

D.U.S. Marshal

Ardmore

October 10, 1904

 

Wells, Volney E. was commissioned on June 9, 1884, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wells, Zachriah “Zack” was commissioned on May 29, 1889, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  In July of 1889, James Cash and Charles Campbell were arrested by Wells in Indian Territory on charges of larceny and introducing liquor into Indian Territory.  He was working with Deputy Marshal Walker in July of 1890, when they arrested Joseph Pate and James Barnett for introducing liquor into Indian Territory.  In November of 1892, Deputy Marshal Wells traveled into Indian Territory to serve a warrant of arrest to Sam Couch, a white man wanted on assault charges.  Wells took his prisoner to the federal jail in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where he stood trial.

 (Ft. Smith Elevator - July 26, 1889; July 25, 1890) (The Weekly Elevator - November 18, 1892) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wentworth, C. D. was commissioned on November 30, 1891, in the Western District at Ft. Smith Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wentworth, K. V. R. was commissioned on July 23, 1892, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

West, C. L. was commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas, in 1894. 

(U.S. Deputy Marshal, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

West, John C. was first commissioned on December 12, 1884, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. In August of 1889, John rode with Heck Thomas to capture Oscar Coulter who was wanted for the murder of a Dr. Massey in Arkansas.  In December of 1889, John arrested Harris who was wanted for assault and two mail robberies.  In January of 1890, John shot and severely wounded Andy Crittenden, after Crittenden in a drunken stupor pulled his knife on West.  West rode with officers Bud Ledbetter, Frank Jones and Sid Johnson in a railroad car trying to capture the Texas Jack gang who were trying to rob the train.  Texas Jack was shot in the hip by officer Ledbetter as the outlaw made his escape.  In 1885, John rode with Deputy Marshal Red Lucas north of Tahlequah trying to arrest the Barber gang.  The deputy marshals found a wagon left by John Barber which contained a breast plate that weighed fifteen pounds.   The breast plate was shot trying to penetrate the metal but only a dent was made.  Texas desperado, John Middleton killed the Lamar County sheriff, then fled to Briartown, Indian Territory, where he went on the scout.  John West formed a posse trailing the outlaw to Belle Starr’s place, which was six miles west of Porum on the Canadian River.  John Middleton used the Belle Starr gang to dodge the lawmen.  In the spring of 1886, Belle Starr, Sam Starr, French Cook, and John Middleton robbed the Seminole treasurer then promptly returned to their hide-out at Younger Bend. The marshal’s forces again came after the Starr gang who headed toward Dardenell.  The outlaws found the Poteau River bank full when they came to the river crossing just above Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  John Middleton entered the swollen waters where the undertow quickly pulled him under.  Middleton’s body was retrieved from the river by the gang and placed in a shallow grave.  John West, still in pursuit of the outlaws, found Middleton’s grave which was dug up to identify the body.  The Starr gang was eventually captured and taken to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to face Judge Parker.  The judge sentenced her to serve one year and one day in the Michigan penitentiary.  Belle Starr’s hatred for John West and his younger brother, Frank, became uncontrollable.  On December 17, 1886, Frank West came to a community dance where Belle, Sam Starr and Belle’s two children, Eddie Reed and Pearl Younger, were present.  Belle was playing the piano or organ when Frank West made his entrance.  When Belle Starr saw Frank West she ordered her husband Sam Starr to kill him.  Frank, not aware of the bad situation he had walked into, found a log to set on near the campfire.  Sam Starr approached Frank face on with six-shooters leveled, then at point blank range fired.  Frank West fell backwards, trying to get as much distance as he could from his assailant.  As he fell he drew his pistol.  The two life long friends both lay dead, only a few feet apart as the community stood in disbelief.  Relatives of the Starr family and those who witnessed the incident knew the deaths were caused by the terrible hatred that controlled Belle Starr.  In February of 1895, John West and two other officers got on the trail of Jim French and Sam Mc Williams or Verdigris Kid, and surrounded them in a house near Briartown.  Jim French fired from the house and killed John West.  When West was killed the other two officers retreated and the two outlaws escaped.  John West was born in 1842.  During the Civil War John served in the Confederate army under Stand Watie.  John served twenty seven years on the Indian Police with his last four years being Captain of the Force. John served as Muskogee city marshal from 1889 to 1892 and carried a commission as deputy marshal under Marshal Yoes of Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  He also served under Marshal Thomas Needles of Indian Territory when that federal court was established in Muskogee.  Deputy Marshal West was the first U.S. deputy marshal at Briartown near the Kettle Settlement.  1st Lt. John West followed Captain Jack Ellis as chief of the Indian Police in the Creek Indian Nation.   In July of 1902, West was sworn into Northern District at Muskogee by Marshal William H. Darrough.  

(Indian Citizen - December 14, 1889, & June 28, 1890)  (Citizen February 1, 1890) (The Territorial Topic - August 29, 1889, October 24, January 30, February 8, 1890, November 19, 1891) (Indian Journal, Muskogee - February 8, 1895) (The Woodward Bulletin - July 18, 1902)  (The Durant Daily News - June 9, 1905) (Indian Pioneer History - Williams A. Cummins) (Indian Pioneer History - F. W. Keith) (Indian Pioneer History - George McIntosh) (Indian Pioneer History - James T. Spencer) (Indian Pioneer History - Sam Todd) (Indian Pioneer History - Ellis West) (Indian Pioneer History - John Henry West) (Picture - Experiences of A U.S. Deputy Marshal) (Hell on the Border - Harman) (U.S. Deputy Marshals I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1898) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

West

John

C.

D.U.S. Marshal

April 1, 1890

 

Whaley, R. W. was commissioned on October 3, 1895, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy Marshal Whaley lived in Brushill, Indian Territory when commissioned. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whaley

T.

H.

D.U.S. Marshal

April 2, 1905

 

Whatley, A. J. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wheat, Charles was summoned to help capture the Wickliffe Gang who killed Deputy Marshal Vier in 1905.  On March 11, 1906, Ike Gilstrap was killed and Otis Tittle and Dick Carey were wounded during an ambush by the gang.  Deputy Marshal Wheat and A. J. Long rode in from the Spavinaw Hills to Vinita with four prisoners.  The prisoners were Jim and Lewis Wycliffe, uncles of the Wickcliffe Gang, and Peter Wolfe and Rain Crow arrested for harboring fugitives. 

(The Bennington Tribune - March 22, 1906)

 

Wheeler, Dwight was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wheeler, Jacob was assigned to Edmond during the Land Rush of 1889, serving under Marshal Thomas Needles

(Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889)

 

Wheeler, James was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)  (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wheeler, Otis K. was commissioned on June 16, 1888, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Otis was working with officer Trammell in Blue Springs, trying to locate illicit stills when Trammell was killed.  See officers John Strozier, John Porter and Trammell for more details on the case. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - July 6, August 3, 1888) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Wheeler, Paul was commissioned in the Northern District, Muskogee Court, assigned to the Pawhuska area.  Paul lost his commission on July 1, 1901.

 (The Osage Journal, Pawhuska - July 4, 1901)

 

Wheeler, William W. was commissioned on September 4, 1872, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Logan S. Roots.  Deputy Marshal Wheeler was living in Ft. Smith, Arkansas when commissioned.  (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whitaker, Austin Deputy U. S. Marshal 

 

Deputy Marshal Dies At Pryor Home

 

February 23, 1945--Pryor, OK--Austin Whitaker, 68, deputy U. S. Marshal and resident of Pryor for the past half century, died at his home here Thursday after a long illness.

          Whittaker was a peace officer for more than 30 years and at one time was a state special investigator under Govern Haskell's administration.

 

White, Ewers was commissioned in Kansas in 1887, by Marshal William Jones and came to Oklahoma Station to serve under Jones in 1889, as an entry man posted on the Santa Fe right-of-way for the Land Rush.  On April 23, 1889, it was reported that he left his post to strike a claim near the right-of-way.  This claim was disputed.  The dispute was based on him arriving in Oklahoma City on April 15, of 1889 and on April 22, 1889, he rode a horse along the right-of-way, carrying a board about three foot long with a crosspiece nailed on which a card with his name written thereon.  At noon he drove the board into the ground which was a quarter section just southeast of the present capital in Oklahoma City to claim the land.  Jones succeeded in getting the first eight men in the door who were deputy marshals.  White was number six. 

(The Territorial Topic - August 1, 1889) (Chronicles Of Oklahoma - Volume 35, 1957) (Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889)

 

White

Ewers

April 8, 1905

 

White To Take Post July 20

Deputy Marshals Expected to Be Selected at Parley Monday

 

July 13, 1925--The Oklahoman--Ewers White, newly appointed United States Marshal, will take office July 20, he announced Sunday.  Selection of White' deputies will be made at a conference with
Senators Harreld and Pine here Monday.

          The $30,000 bond which White will be forced to make before he takes office is expected to arrive from Washington Monday. Following the arrival of the bond and completion of arrangements to make it valid, White will be free to take office.  Alva McDonald will wind up his affairs this week and has signified his willingness to step down from the position the following Monday, White said.

          White would not name the men under consideration for jobs as deputies but said that the three appointees would be culled from a "large number of applicants."

 

White, George “Gideon” S. was commissioned on August 27, 1889, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, assigned to work in the Cherokee Nation.  Ex-Deputy Marshal Sheppard Busby shot and killed another Deputy Marshal named Barney Connelley.  On April 27, 1892, Busby was sentenced to hang on the gallows. “The Hangman” Maledon refused to hang Busby so Gideon White performed the duty.  On April 20, 1893, White arrested George Newcomb near Nowata.  On November 2, 1892, he was one of the sixteen deputy marshals that fought the battle at Ned’s Fort to kill feared outlaw, Ned Christie.  He was one of the four deputies that fought to position themselves in front of the fort so Charley Copeland could place and light the dynamite which blasted Christie from his fortified cabin on November 2, 3, 1892.  See “Capture of Ned Christie” in this book for more information.   White worked the area from Garfield County to Woodward for two years.  Gideon served in the Civil War where he had the rank of Captain in the Union Army and came from east Tennessee. He was commissioned on March 20, July 8, 1896 while White lived in Vinita, Cherokee Nation. In August of 1902, Gideon and Deputy Marshal Barker went to Chelsea to serve a warrant of arrest to Bill Smith alias “Wendy Smith on larceny charges.  Smith was wounded in the arm while resisting arrest.

(Indian Citizen - December 28, 1889 & April 5, 1890) (The Territorial Topic - December 12, 1889) (Ft. Smith Elevator - December 13, 1889; August 15, 1902) (The Weekly Elevator - May 5, 1893) (Indian Pioneer History - Phil Horton) (Indian Pioneer History - Ellsworth Hume) (Indian Pioneer History - James R. Padgett) (Indian Pioneer History - C. B. Rhodes) (Picture-Hell on the Border-Harman) (Experience of A U.S. Deputy Marshall) (Picture - Chronicles Of Oklahoma - Summer, 1990) (Pictured in 1880 -1890, Heck Thomas)  (Picture - Iron Men) (Picture - Muskogee Genealogical Society) (Black Red and Deadly) (Outlaws and Lawmen) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

White

G.

S.

Gideon

D.U.S. Marshal

Vinita

March 11, 1905

 

White, H. L. was commissioned on December 10, 1894, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  White was commissioned on July 6, 1896, while living in Krebs, Indian Territory. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

White, James B. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas under Marshal George J. Crump in 1893, and commissioned again in 1897.

 (Indian Pioneer History - James B. White)

 

White, W. B. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, in 1897. 

(Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

White, W. E. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

White, W. S. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Whitehead, Henry was commissioned on June 2, 1893, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  The Ft. Smith Elevator reported:  Deputy Marshal Whitehead, a colored deputy marshal had his official head lopped off by Marshal Crump at the conclusion of a trial of John Foster and Lou Vann, an assault trial that ended in verdict of acquittal.  Whitehead was shown to be unreliable by testimony of other officers.  His commission was revoked.  The Cherokee Advocate reported Whitehead was killed at Wagoner around July 15, 1893. 

(Cherokee Advocate - July 22, 1893) (The Weekly Elevator - November 17, 1893) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)   Killed in the line of duty.

 

Whitehead, Joseph B. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, in 1899. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whitehead, Thomas was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  John Brown killed Deputy Marshals Josiah Poorboy and Thomas Whitehead on December 8, 1891, near Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation.  Another Cherokee who was a fugitive played a part in the murder of the two deputies.  The two Cherokee Indians responsible for the two deputy marshal’s deaths managed to stay free for a long period of time before they were captured.  They hid in the Cherokee Hills between Tahlequah and the Arkansas River in an area they were well acquainted with.  Anytime an intruder came into their area they used signals to notify each other.    During the sentencing, Judge Parker stated Brown was enticed by a woman who wanted her husband dead.  The two deputy marshals were mistakenly identified as Heck Bruner and the woman’s husband, Brown Hitchcock.  Wacho Hampton Brown was sentenced to hang for the murders on June 28, 1892, but his sentence was changed to life imprisonment.  In 1896, his sentence was appealed and his charge was reduced to manslaughter and he only served one year for the double killings.  He was released on November 1. 1897. 

(The Territorial Topic - December 17, 26, 1891, February 18, March 3, 1892) (Ft. Smith Elevator - May 6, 1892) (Hell on the Border-Harman) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whiting, Vernon was commissioned as deputy marshal under Marshal Canada Thompson in Oklahoma Territory at Guthrie and resigned before Thompson went out of office.  In April of 1902, he was replaced by Deputy Marshal J. M. Jacobson. 

(The Woodward Bulletin - April 18, 1902)

 

Whitney, William was commissioned on July 30, 1888, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whitson, Calvin was commissioned on January 10, 1889, and June 21, 1889.  He attempted to arrest Walter N. Evans in April of 1875, for stealing eleven hundred dollars from a merchant in Caddo, Choctaw Nation.  The suspected Evans boarded a train in Atoka, Choctaw Nation enroute to McAlester.  Word was passed to Deputy Marshal Whitson that Evans was aboard the train so he made the arrest.  Evans was a victim of circumstances having the same name as the man wanted for taking the money.  Friends that knew both Evans and Whitson were able to convince officer Whitson of the mistaken identity.    Whitson was shot in November of 1893, by Tom Webb.  His condition was serious but he recovered from his wound.  Whitson’s son like the sons of several other deputy marshals was lured into the trade of being a peace officer.  The attraction, whether it was for fame, fortune or the excitement, cost young Whitson his life. He was killed trying to arrest several outlaws.  Cal Whitson is pictured at the U.S. Marshals reunion at Ft. Smith in 1908. 

(Atoka -Vindicator - April 22 or 24, 1875) (The Weekly Elevator - November 17, 1893) (Indian Pioneer History - James M. Calhoun) (Picture - The Western Peace Officer) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Whitson, William was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas.  William was the son of Deputy Marshal Calvin Whitson.  William was killed on June 30, 1888, trying to arrest several outlaws. 

(Oklahombres) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)    Killed in the line of duty.

 

Whitten, W. S. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Whybark, A. L. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas in 1899. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)