Ebenezer
Cutnezer Kemp
Pauls
Valley
,
Oklahoma
Date of Birth: 1863
Place of Birth: Old Doxtol in
Kiamichi
Mountains
Father: John Kemp
Mother: Mleniz Kemp
"My
father and mother came to Indian Territory with the Mississippi Choctaw Indians
and Jackson KEMP a white man [Jackson Kemp was part Choctaw & Chickasaw -
see notes at end] Jackson Kemp had an Indian wife. He owned my father and
mother. I was a small boy when we were freed, but my father told me later about
how they did in slave time. My father said after we were freed he farmed for old
Master Jackson Kemp until 1870.
I
can remember events that took place then, but I do not remember their dates. I
know we moved from the
Kiamichi
Mountains
to
Blue Creek east of
Tishomingo
,
OK
in
a wagon pulled by 4 steers. My father went to work for a white man who owned a
gin at Cross Roads on Blue Creek east of
Tishomingo
,
OK
.
We lived there about 2 years then we moved to
Cherokee
Town
,
Wynnewood
,
OK
and my father went to farming for Dr. WARNER. This Dr. Warner was the doctor who
lived in the
Kiamichi
Mountains
about 5 miles from Master Jackson Kemp who owned my mother and father, and he
owned a lot of Negro slaves. After the slaves were freed he came to
Cherokee
Town
and his farm was east of there. His wife was Choctaw Indian."
"I
never wore any shoes until I was about 13 years old. I only had shirts made out
of striped cloth called,
Hickory
shirts, they were long like a dress. A white man got me a pair of shoes and a
pair of overalls for helping him makes some boards."
