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Tookah Emma Sixkiller Ross Garrett
(01/15/1876 – 06/10/1927)
Cherokee Nation
Hannah Ridley, (TU, BA Class of 2026)
Early History
Tookah Emma Sixkiller was born January 15, 1876, to Frances Flora (“Fannie”) Foreman Sixkiller (1846-1889) and Captain Samuel (“Sam”) Sixkiller (1842-1886) in Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation.1 Her name, Tookah, means clear sight and far vision.”2 Both of her parents were citizens of the Cherokee Nation. Her parents married in 1865 in Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, and moved to Tahlequah, where they later had children.3 Sam was born on November 25, 1842, in Going-Snake District, Cherokee Nation.4 He was educated at the Old Baptist Mission, near Westville, Cherokee Nation. The mission later transitioned to the Baptist Mission Church. A 2007 newspaper article from The Oklahoman noted, “Evan Jones and Jesse Bushyhead founded the Baptist Mission in 1841 within a half mile of the present-day church.”5 In 1862, when he was around nineteen or twenty years old, Sam served in the Confederate Army under General Stand Watie. He then served for the Union in an artillery unit led by Redbird Sixkiller at Fort Gibson’s Federal Artillery Company a year later.6 After the Civil War, in 1875, he, alongside Frances, lived in Tahlequah, where their children were later born. During this time, he worked as high sheriff of the Cherokee Nation. After Sam became the captain of the U.S. Indian Police of the Five Tribes in ca. 1880, the family moved to Muskogee, Muscogee (Creek) Nation.7 Tookah was around four years old when she and her family moved to Muskogee. Unfortunately, in Muskogee, Tookah’s father was killed after being shot on December 24, 1886. He was only forty-four years old at the time of his death.8 Tookah was only ten when her father passed away. Tookah’s mother, Frances, was born in 1846 near Tahlequah.9 In her obituary in the Our Brother in Red newspaper of Muskogee, Oklahoma, Theo F. Brewer states, “Mrs. Sixkiller was an acceptable member of the M.E. Church, South and was very much beloved by her friends and neighbors.”After being ill for several months, Frances sadly died of tuberculosis at 12:30 p.m. September 27, 1889, at the age of forty-three. After her death, Tookah and her siblings were orphaned. Tookah would have been thirteen years old at this time.10
Tookah had many siblings, including older twin sisters, Eliza (1870-1895) and Rachel (1870-1889), older sister, Minnie (1871-1880), younger sisters, Cora (1874-1913) and Frances “Fanny” (01/16/1879-12/26/1964), and brother, Sam Rasmus (1878-1958).11 She also had a half-brother, James Thomas Sixkiller (1874-1963).12 In the book, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, Enss and Kazanjian state that Sam Sixkiller’s “affair with Mary Malissia Murphey resulted in a son, James Thomas Sixkiller, born on February 11, 1874. Fannie and the captain managed to work through the issue and remained married.”13
Photograph believed to be of four of the Sixkiller siblings: Cora Sixkiller, Samuel R. Sixkiller, Emma Tookah Sixkiller, and Frances Edna Sixkiller. They are pictured in no specific order.
Image Credit: Ancestry.com.
School
The earliest found record of Tookah’s attendance at the Presbyterian School for Indian Girls (PSIG) in is a newspaper from the Muskogee Phoenix in 1888. That year, Tookah excelled as a student, and that same newspaper reports that, during the first week of December 1888, she earned a grade average of 98%. The newspaper also includes Tookah as a “successful competitor” in a “stocking darning contest,” alongside Emma McDonald, another student at PSIG during that time.14 Throughout her time at PSIG, Tookah continued earning high scholarship and deportment scores. A newspaper from February 1889 reports that she earned a score of 100% in both scholarship and deportment.15 It is unclear when exactly Tookah stopped attending PSIG, as no graduation records have been found, but by July of 1892 she had begun working as a teacher.16 Tookah’s sister, Fannie, began attending PSIG in 1894, so the girls were not at the school together.17 While no other evidence found indicates that Tookah attended the Cherokee Female Seminary, the three newspapers that detail her wedding in Culpeper, Virginia describe her as a graduate of Tahlequah Female Seminary, which likely refers to the Cherokee Female Seminary.18 In Students of Cherokee Female Seminary, Grant Foreman shows that Tookah’s sisters, Cora, Fannie, and Eliza, did attend the seminary.19 Her brother, Samuel R. Sixkiller, attended Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. After graduating, he left the school on April 17, 1895.20
Adult Life
Shortly after Tookah’s time at PSIG, she became a teacher for many years, working at various schools. A newspaper article from July 6, 1892, in the Cherokee Advocate, described Tookah as a schoolteacher in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. However, this newspaper does not specify which school she taught at during that time or for how long she taught there.21 She would have been only sixteen years old at this time. In May of 1893, the Muskogee Phoenix reported Tookah as living in Claremore, Cherokee Nation. Tookah had an active social life, and that same newspaper states that she was previously “visiting friends in Muskogee.”22 Later that same year, Tookah began working as a primary school teacher in Nowata, Cherokee Nation. Her term as a teacher in Nowata began on September 4 and ended December 22 of that year.23 The next year, she taught at a school in Justice, a small town in the Cherokee Nation near Claremore.24
In 1895, she moved to Tahlequah.25 While no found records indicate that Tookah worked that year, newspapers show that she maintained a vibrant social life.26 In January, Tookah attended a party at Mr. and Mrs. John L. Adair Jr.’s home where, according to the Tahlequah Telephone, “Dancing, cards[,] and refreshments were indulged in until a late hour.27 Later that year, in April, she attended another gathering with her brother, Samuel, at William Johnson’s home.28 In August, Tookah spent several weeks in Mobile, Alabama with Miss Fanny (“Fannie”) Willey, with whom she had attended PSIG.29 A newspaper article from The Mississippi Progress revealed that the two were visiting friends and described them as “well educated and accomplished young ladies.”30 A newspaper article from the Claremore Progress indicates that, before this trip, Tookah had battled with some health problems, but she “returned to her home in Tahlequah very much improved in health.”31 In 1896, Tookah returned to her work as a schoolteacher. She was appointed as a teacher in the town of Cochran Bell, located in the Flint District of the Cherokee Nation.32
Portrait photograph of Tookah Sixkiller as a young woman.
The next year, on August 12, 1897, Tookah married Rufus D. Ross in Culpeper, Virginia. A newspaper from the Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia) reported that the two were married by Reverend E. L. Goodwin at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church at 8:00 p.m. This paper describes the church as “tastefully and handsomely decorated with palms and potted plants.” The paper also describes Tookah and Rufus, stating, “The bride wore a gown of cream silk, with long train; her bridal veil was looped with cape jessamins and she carried bridal roses…The groom…is a young lawyer of dignified and majestic appearance.”33 However, a newspaper article from the Muskogee Phoenix described the events of their wedding differently. The paper says that Tookah and Rufus were married at the “federal cemetery lodge” at 9:40 a.m. The paper states, “The marriage was to have occurred last night in the Episcopal church, but for some reason best known to the groom, the pastor dismissed the congregation.” This newspaper article indicated that the couple’s wedding was at the church, and they were married in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s cemetery.34
Rufus was born on July 21, 1873, to Robert Bruce Ross, Sr. and Frances Daniel (“Fannie”) Thornton Ross in Indian Territory. His great-grandfather was Chief John Ross, a past chief of the Cherokee Nation.35 He graduated from the Cherokee Male Seminary in Tahlequah.36 While the Alexandria Gazette describes Rufus as a “young lawyer,” other records show that Rufus worked as a farmer, and his farm, in Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, was named the “R.B. Ross farm.”37 On February 10, 1898, Tookah and Ross had a son named Raymond (“Ray”) Ross (1898-1979).38 Tookah and Ross’ marriage only lasted for two years, and the couple divorced in September of 1899. The Weekly Chieftain (Vinita, Oklahoma) lists the cause of their divorce as “deception.”39
Portrait photograph of Tookah’s son, Pvt. Raymond (“Ray”) Ross, in his Navy Uniform.
Image Credit: Frank Anguiano, Findagrave.com.
In 1903, Tookah worked as a matron of the Euchee Boarding School in Sapulpa, Muscogee (Creek) Nation.40 The next year, she worked at the same school as a seamstress before returning to her position as a matron at the school in 1905.41 In 1906, she began working as a matron at the Wetumka Boarding School, also known as Levering Mission.42 Sometime between 1906 and 1910, she married Dr. George H. Garrett. They may have met when Tookah worked at the Euchee Boarding School in Sapulpa, as a Sapulpa Light article from 1908 noted that George formerly lived there.43 George was born on August 3, 1875 in Texas to Levi Jordan (“Lee”) Garrett and Sarah Melissa Jones Garrett.44 George worked as a doctor.45 On August 4, 1908, the couple had a daughter named Sammie Maxine Garrett.46 A 1910 U.S. Federal Census indicates that Tookah and her family lived in San Angelo, Texas.47 However, sometime between then and 1920, the family moved to Del Rio, Texas.48 Little is known about Tookah’s life in Texas.
Painting of the Euchee Boarding School in Sapulpa in 1891 by Vinson Lackey.
Image Credit: Gilcrease Museum.
Death and Legacy
Sadly, on June 10, 1927, Tookah passed away from stomach cancer. She was buried at the Masonic Cemetery in Del Rio, Texas.49 She was survived by her husband and her children.50 Her son, Ray, served as a private in the Marine Corps in World War II. A newspaper article from the Del Rio News Herald shared that he “was wounded several times and decorated for bravery while in action with the marines.” The newspaper article also stated that he earned the Croix de Guerre, which is an award from the French military that honors both French and foreign members of the armed forces in either World War I or World War II.51 He worked as a postmaster at a Post Office in Del Rio, Texas from 1933 to 1964, when he retired from the position. He married Callie Jeanette Hart Ross on June 27, 1922, and together the couple had two children.52 They named their daughter Glenn Tookah Ross (1923-2004) after her grandmother. She was born on April 11, 1923. Newspaper articles and other records showed that she went by her middle name, Tookah.53 She earned her education at Texas State College for Women in Denton, Texas. While working as a secretary at the Laughlin Air Force Base, she met her husband, William H. Reinwald.54 Ray and Callie also had a son, Ray Meredith Ross (1929-unknown), born on November 5, 1929.55 Ray served as a Midshipman for the U.S. Naval Academy. In 1971, he married Joan B. Simpson.56 Tookah and Dr. George Garrett’s daughter, Sammie Maxine Garrett, married Norman Sterling Darst (1912-1987) in 1940. The couple had three children, Norman Sterling Darst II (1944-1973), Rilla Joan Farris (1930-1975), and Garet Evan Darst (1936-1991).57
Photograph of Tookah’s headstone in Del Rio, Texas.
Image Credit: Charles B. Baty, Findagrave.com.
Tribal Enrollment Information:
Cherokee Nation (Dawes Roll) Enrollment Card
Enrollment Number: 16835
Card Number: 7049
Enrollment Date: January 14, 190158
Photograph of Tookah’s Cherokee Nation (Dawes Roll) Enrollment Card
Image Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Endnote
1. While her death record states that she was born in Muskogee, she was most likely born in Tahlequah, as her parents were living there at the time of her birth.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24087317/emma_tookah-garrett, (Accessed September 25, 2025); Choctaw Journeys. “Capt. Samuel Sixkiller,” Findagrave.com,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143734611/samuel-sixkiller , (Accessed September 25, 2025);
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143769266/frances_flora-sixkiller, (Accessed September 25, 2025).
2. “Tookah Sapper,” University of Central Oklahoma, (Accessed November 11, 2025), https://www3.uco.edu/centraldirectory/profiles/760860.
3. A newspaper article from Our Brother in Red cites the date of Sam and Frances’ wedding as 1863. However, Enns and Kazanjian’s book as well as the Oklahoma Historical Society both cite that the two married in 1865. “Sam Sixkiller,” Okhistory.org, Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame Members, https://www.okhistory.org/historycenter/olemhof/hall-of-fame-detail.php?hofmembers_id=8; Chris Enss and Howard Kazanjian, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, (TwoDot, 2012), 23 & 82, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “In Memoriam,” Our Brother in Red (Muskogee, Oklahoma), June 8, 1889, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/658950774/, (Accessed September 25, 2025).
4. Choctaw Journeys. “Capt. Samuel Sixkiller,” Findagrave.com; “Sam Sixkiller,” Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame Members, Okhistory.org, https://www.okhistory.org/historycenter/olemhof/hall-of-fame-detail.php?hofmembers_id=8.
5. Stogsdill, Sheila, “Oldest Church, Formed in 1830, Still Meeting,” The Oklahoman, June 17, 2007, https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/religion/2007/06/17/oldest-church-formed-in-1830-still-meeting/61767818007/; The Oklahoman. June 17, 2007, https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/religion/2007/06/17/oldest-church-formed-in-1830-still-meeting/61767818007/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
6. “Sam Sixkiller,” Okhistory.org; Enss and Kazanjian, Sam Sixkiller, 21; Bennett, Charles, 2008, “Legendary Lawman Sam Sixkiller,” Officer.com, https://www.officer.com/on-the-street/apparel/article/10443332/legendary-lawman-sam-sixkiller.
7. Sources provide different dates for certain events in Sam’s life. While some sources state that Sam began working as the Captain of the US Indian Police of the Five Tribes in 1879, most sources indicate that Sam took this position in 1880.
8. Choctaw Journeys. “Capt. Samuel Sixkiller;” “Sam Sixkiller,” Okhistory.org, Oklahoma Law Enforcement Hall of Fame Members.
9. Choctaw Journeys. “Frances Flora “Fannie” Foreman Sixkiller.’
10. Choctaw Journeys. “Frances Flora “Fannie” Foreman Sixkiller;” “In Memoriam,” Our Brother in Red (Muskogee, Oklahoma), (Accessed November 20, 2025).
11. Sam Sixkiller, U.S. Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959, 1883 Cherokee Nation Census, Canadian District, Cherokee Nation, Roll: 1, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8810/images/42369_329838-00014?pId=222462.
12. Enss, Chris, and Howard Kazanjian, 2012, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, Lanham: TwoDot; Lonnie Hoover, “Eliza Evans,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66391268/eliza-evans, (Accessed October 24, 2025); Patricia Mechling, “Cora Sixkiller McSpadden,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6806447/cora-mcspadden, (Accessed October 3, 2025); Paul, “Frances Edna ‘Fanny’ Sixkiller Haglund,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/285197800/frances_edna-haglund, (Accessed September 25, 2025); Alice P, “Samuel Rasmus Sixkiller,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50530842/samuel_rasmus-sixkiller, (Accessed October 3, 2025); Patricia Mechiling, “James Thomas Sixkiller,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5122491/james_thomas-sixkiller, (Accessed October 3, 2025).
13. Enss, Chris, and Howard Kazanjian, 2012, Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman, page. #82.
14. “Presbyterian School,” Muskogee Phoenix, December 13, 1888, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611428898, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
15. “Mission Notes,” Muskogee Phoenix, February 28, 1889, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611267635/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
16. “Roll of Honor,” Muskogee Phoenix, February 4, 1892, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611433868/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), July 6, 1892, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611401192/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
17. “Purely Personal,” Muskogee Phoenix, September 21, 1893, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611447172/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
18. “Cherokees Wed in a Cemetery,” Muskogee Phoenix, August 19, 1897, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611406534/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Ross and Sixkiller,” Culpeper Star-Exponent (Culpeper, Virginia), August 20, 1897, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/1043469791/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Wedding in Culpeper,” Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia), August 13, 1897, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/46163022/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
19. Foreman, Grant, Students of Cherokee Female Seminary, 1876 to 1904, 109-114.
20. Samuel Sixkiller Student File, RG 75, Series 1327, box 135, folder 5294, National Archives and Records Administration, Accessed through Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center, https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/student_files/samuel-six-killer-student-file, (Accessed October 10, 2025).
21 Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), July 6, 1892.
22 “Purely Personal,” Muskogee Phoenix, May 25, 1893, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611446072/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
23 “School Teachers Appointments,” The Weekly Chieftain (Vinita, Oklahoma), August 24, 1893, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/664462287/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
24 “Appointment of Teachers,” The Weekly Chieftain (Vinita, Oklahoma), August 30, 1894, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/50255343/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
25. “The Cherokee Capital,” Muskogee Phoenix, August 22, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611452106/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Claremore Progress,” Claremore Progress, August 24, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/657948894/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
26. Claremore Progress, July 20, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/657945985/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Purely Personal,” Muskogee Phoenix, December 19, 1895, Newspapers.com. https://www.newspapers.com/image/611453206/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
27. The Telephone (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), January 18, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/657447698/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
28. “A Pleasant Evening,” The Telephone (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), April 26, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/657446325/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
29. “The Cherokee Capital,” Muskogee Phoenix; “Claremore Progress,” Claremore Progress, August 24, 1895.
30. “Notice to Delegates,” The Mississippi Press, August 9, 1895, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/465178528/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
31. “Claremore Progress,” Claremore Progress, August 24, 1895.
32. “School Appointments,” Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), August 29, 1896, Newspapes.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611432312/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
33. “Wedding in Culpeper.” Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia).
34. “Cherokees Wed in a Cemetery,” Muskogee Phoenix.
35. Patricia Mechling, “Rufus Daniel Ross,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5177916/rufus-daniel-ross, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
36. U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry, 1910 United States Federal Census, Park Hill Township, Cherokee, Oklahoma; Roll T624_1244; Page: 11b; Enumeration District: 0020, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/163618192?tid=175143592.
37. “Wedding in Culpeper.” Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia);
“Notice to Hunters,” The Tahlequah Arrow, November 2, 1907, Newspapes.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/657445087/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry, 1910 United States Federal Census, Park Hill Township, Cherokee, Oklahoma, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
38. Charles B. Baty, “Pvt. Raymond Ross,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24997398/raymond-ross, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
39. “Cases Filed Since the First of September,” The Weekly Chieftain (Vinita, Oklahoma), September 21, 1899, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/49691715/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
40. “Many Old Teachers Reappointed,” Muskogee Evening Times, July 25, 1903, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/611271982/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
41. “Teachers Appointed,” Muskogee Democrat, July 16, 1904, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/14937445/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Creek Nation Employes,” Muskogee Phoenix, August 22, 1905, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/585926755/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
42. “Teachers Selected for Three Nations,” Muskogee Times-Democrat, August 23, 1906, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/36014894/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
43. The Supulpa Light, July 31, 1908, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/662519174/, (Accessed November 20, 2025). U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, San Angelo, Texas; Roll: T624_1592; Page: 17b; Enumeration District: 0283, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/124553897, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
44. ProgBase, “Dr. George Harvey Garrett,” Findgrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63757805/george_harvey-garrett, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
45. U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, San Angelo, Texas.
46. Robert V. Darst, “Sammie Maxine Garrett Darst,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41260493/sammie_maxine-darst, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
47. U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, San Angelo, Texas.
48. U.S. Census Bureau; Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, Del Rio, Texas; Roll: T625_1854; Page: 18b; Enumeration District: 211, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6061/records/63079454, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
49. Mrs. Tookah E. Garrett, Austin Texas, USA, Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982, Ancestry.com, (Accessed October 23, 2025), https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2272/images/33154_B061953-02852;
Charles B. Baty. “Emma Tookah Sixkiller Garrett.”
50. Charles B. Baty, “Pvt. Raymond Ross;” Robert V. Darst, “Sammie Maxine Garrett Darst;” ProgBase, “Dr. George Harvey Garrett.”
51. “Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ross Honored at Reception,” Del Rio News Herald (Del Rio, Texas), June 27, 1971, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/6005577/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); The Editors of Encylcopaedia Britannica, “Croix de Guerre,” Encyclopedia Britannica, November 1, 2013, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Croix-de-Guerre, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
52. “Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ross Honored at Reception.”
53. David McConnell, “Tookah Ross Reinwald,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8505610/tookah-reinwald, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “William H. Reinwald,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort-Worth, Texas), June 8, 1998, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/648055110/.
54. “William H. Reinwald,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort-Worth, Texas).
55. Ray Meredith Ross, Austin Texas, USA, Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1932, Ancestry.com, (Accessed October 31, 2025), www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2275/records/2126902.
56. “Reinwalds Have Guests,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort-Worth, Texas), December 25, 1949, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/637886814/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Midshipman Ross Leaves,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort-Worth, Texas), August 16, 1952, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/637447261/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); “Marriage Licenses,” Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada), November 26, 1971, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/150770578/, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
57. “Sammie Garrett Darst,” San Angelo Standard-Times (San Angelo, Texas), January 27, 1998, Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/788282572/, (Accessed November 20, 2025); Robert V. Darst, “Norman Sterling Darst II,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41261222/norman_sterling-darst, (Accessed November 20, 2025); Robert V. Darst,” Rilla Joan Darst Farris,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41260570/rilla_joan-farris, (Accessed November 20, 2025); Robert V. Darst, “Garet Evan Darst,” Findagrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41260787/garet_evan-darst, (Accessed November 20, 2025).
58. Tookah, Ross, Dawes #3003, Field #7049, January 17, 1901.
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