Yarbrough, James was commissioned in Indian Territory serving under the Muskogee court under Marshal James J. McAlester.  In June of 1893, he accidentally shot himself in the leg while firing his pistol to give an alarm for a fire that had started in a grist mill.

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

Yates, Jim was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  He was killed by merchant, Robert Marshall on August 4, 1891, in South McAlester.  A friendly game of cards lasting until the early hours of the morning, ended in a row.  A badly beaten, Robert Marshall secured his gun, before finding his way to a spot where he lay in wait for Yates to pass by.  Yates was killed in ambush and his body left where Deputy Marshals George Williams and John Salmon investigated the murder.  Robert Marshall fled to Mississippi, where he was arrested after killing a Negro boy and being placed in the Jackson, Mississippi jail.  Marshall was convicted and sentenced to hang, but later acquitted. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - August 7; October 2, 1891) (Hell on the Border) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)    

 

Yoes, George A. was commissioned on September 3, 1891, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  His service time of forty seven years as deputy marshal was probably longer than any other officer.   Yoes was commissioned again on September 30, 1922, February 16, 1927, March 11, 1928, and July 1, 1938. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Picture - Muskogee Genealogical Society) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Yoes, Isaac S. was commissioned on April 7, 1894, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal George J. Crump.  Deputy Marshal Yoes was commissioned again on July 1, 1896, while he was living in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

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

 

Yoes, Jacob was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.

 (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

 

Yoes

Jacob

U. S. Marshal

Ft. Smith, Arkansas

January 27, 1890

 

Yoes, John W. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  In February of 1891, he served a warrant of arrest to Lone Perkins on a charge of larceny.  Perkins was taken to the federal jail in Ft. Smith where he awaited trial.  In February of 1893, Deputy Marshal Yoes arrested four white men at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, for selling and introducing whiskey into Indian Territory.  Deputy Marshal Yoes lived in Redding, Indian Territory when he was commissioned.

 (Ft. Smith Elevator - August 30, 1889; February 13, 1891) (The Weekly Elevator - December 2, 1892, March 3, 1893) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Oaths of Office) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

York, H. H. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  In February of 1891, he went to the Cherokee Nation to serve a warrant of arrest to Bee Blevens, charged with introducing liquor into Indian Territory.  Deputy Marshal York was fired upon from ambush near Muskogee one night during the week of March 6, 1892.  He had been diligent in arresting a band of horse thieves in the Creek Nation who were suspect in the attempted assassination.  Inspection of his buggy after making a dash to freedom revealed two slugs, one in the back of the seat and another lodged in the cast iron. 

(Ft. Smith Elevator - February 6, 1891; March 18, 1892)

 

York, William A. was commissioned in the Central District of Indian Territory, in April of 1905.  Marshal George K. Pritchard selected him to serve as field deputy of the Atoka court.  In July of 1907, a body was found in the Little Chickasaw Creek, three miles east of Atoka.  The body was badly decomposed but was thought to be a farmer named John Gray, who had been missing for a month.  The body had several large stones tied to the head and limbs to prevent it from being discovered.  Deputy Marshal York was assigned to the investigation of the case.  Earl York, who was possibly related to William York, worked as a guard for the deputy marshals at the Atoka court. 

(The Durant Weekly News - April 21, 1905) (The Seiling Guide - July 18, 1907) (Indian Pioneer History - Joe Sutherland) 

 

York, W. C. served as deputy marshal for nearly twenty years living near Boggy Depot, Choctaw Nation.  W. C. York was born in 1853 and buried in the Atoka cemetery. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Mabel Lee Summit)

 

York

W.

C.

D.U.S. Marshal

March 21, 1905

 

Yosh was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  He transported convicts to the Arkansas Penitentiary in 1890.  

(Indian Citizen - April 5, 1890)

 

Yound, Thomas   (Possibly Thomas Young)

(Ft. Smith Historical List)   Killed in the line of duty.

 

Young, Clarence was commissioned in Oklahoma Territory serving under Marshal Evett Dumas Nix.  He rode with Deputy Marshal Frank Canton in June of 1896, to transport “Dynamite Dick” Clifton from the jail in Paris, Texas to Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory.  Dynamite Dick, was a member of the Bill Doolin gang, who was charged with murder.  In February of 1896, Clarence was assigned to the Pawnee District when Marshal Nagle replaced Marshal Evett Nix.  He rode with Frank Canton, Charles Colcord, Haynes, and Ike Steel to capture the Buchanan gang near Skiatook.  

(Charles Francis Colcord) (Frontier Trails) (Guardian of the Law) (West of Hell’s Fringe) (Shoot from the Lip) (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Young, G. G. was commissioned in the Southern District Court of Indian Territory at Paris, Texas, in 1894, serving under Marshal Sheb Williams.  (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)

 

Young, John L. was commissioned on November 13, 1865, in the District Court at Van Buren, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Luther C. White.  Deputy Marshal Young lived in Crawford County, Arkansas, when commissioned.

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

 

Young, J. R. was commissioned in Oklahoma Territory in 1895, serving under Marshal Evett Nix.

(U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Young, Thomas was commissioned in the Southern District at Paris, Texas, serving in the Choctaw Nation.  Robert Jones and his mother hired several cow hands to work cattle for them.  The bunch had stopped their work to eat dinner when Deputy Marshal Young entered the Jones’ home to arrest Robert Jones, charged with killing his stepfather.  The officer had been asked by Atwood Risner’s father, who was a friend, not to come to the house that day, but he did anyway.  Young, entering the home uninvited was challenged by Robert Jones, his uncle and brother-in-law, all seated at the dinner table.  The three men jumped up with their guns blazing trying to make their way to the outside of the house.  A bullet from Robert Jones’ pistol found its mark, sending Young to the floor where he died instantly.  Risner loaded the officer’s dead body in the back of a wagon, taking it to Caddo, Choctaw Nation.  Returning to the Jones’ home, Risner assisted Robert Jones to escape to Texas.  Federal officers went to the Jones’ home to arrest the uncle and brother-in-law, taking them to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to stand trial.  Robert Jones was never tried for the killing of his stepfather and Clarence Young, dying at the young age of eighteen years trying to dodge the law.  Robert Jones was the son of prominent Choctaw, Robert M. Jones who at one time owned five cotton plantations and five-hundred Negro slaves near Hugo, Choctaw Nation. 

(Indian Pioneer History - Atwood Risner) (Ft. Smith Historical List)    

 

Young, W. B. was commissioned on April 12, 1892, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

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

 

Young, Wister was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

(Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)

Yount, Thomas Jefferson was commissioned in the Western District court at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Thomas was appointed by Marshal Jacob Yoes serving from May 17, 1889 to January 29, 1890.  Thomas was born in 1836-38 and died on April 3, 1913 at Madill, Oklahoma, where he was buried in nearby Oakland Cemetery.  Tom Yount was a tall muscular man who lived a life of challenge and bravery.  During the Civil War, Tom became a victim at an early age when he saw his father killed by a band of guerillas.  The young Yount’s conquest became a life vowed to avenge his father’s death. Yount’s persistence paid off for he was able to kill the rebel bushwhackers and drive the others that played a part from the state of Tennessee.  Yount traveled westward to Missouri where he served as a United States Marshal,  in 1875, Yount with wife and young son traveled across the state of Texas to El Paso.  News of excitement in the lands of the Indian lured Thomas Yount to the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory, where he became a buffalo hunter working with Doug Rambo and John Poe.  The white men who were classified as intruders were only allowed to remain in the Indian Nation when they became traders among the Indians.  Tom learned the language and customs of the Chickasaws, where he was welcomed and trusted.  Bands of outlaws were also taking advantage of Indian Territory, where they infested the area hiding from the lawmen of surrounding states.  Indian Law had no jurisdiction over the white intruders.  Federal courts in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and Paris, Texas, summoned deputy marshals to arrest the white criminals.  Thomas Yount was one of those early day deputy marshals who worked out of the Western District in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, and Southern District in Paris, Texas.  Tom’s friend, John Poe, also worked the Southern District in Mill Creek where he was killed by a group of bootleggers in 1901. Thomas made his home near the Marshal County line southeast of Ardmore where he raised horses.  (Oklahombres) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database) (Ft. Smith Historical List)

 

Zaddock, Winn was commissioned in the Western District at Ft, Smith Arkansas.  

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

 

Zeke, John was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Logan S. Roots.  He was killed on February 15, 1872. 

(Oklahombres) (Ft. Smith Federal Court Employee Database)     

 

Zimmerman

O.

P. M.

D.U.S. Marshal

December 13, 1960 June 30, 1907

 

Zukerman, Morris was commissioned at Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory in 1895, by Marshal Evett Nix.  He helped to arrest Cattle Annie and Little Britches who were linked with the Doolin and Dalton Gang in August of 1895.  Deputy Marshal Zukerman served with Frank Canton, Steve Burke, M.A. Ramsey, and Grant Owens in 1895. 

(Beaver Herald - August 29, 1895) (West of Hell’s Fringe) (Picture - Oklahombres) (U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896)