I need information on any or all of these people. PLEASE!! Check your family
tree's for me and you records. Maybe someone with
ancestory.com and check for
me. I just really need to find Festus's parents and or his real name!
Festus Walrus/Wallrus/Brown. According to family he was a full blood Choctaw
man. His fathers name MAY have been Testus or Vestus Walrus/Brown. He was
born around 1861 in either Texas, Arkansas or Oklahoma. Family tells they
were all from Greenleaf, Oklahoma. But on the 1880 for Ark, Festus says his
folks were born in Tenn and he in Ark. (If this is the right Festus, who was
living with his cousin Jas. Castle & wife Sarah.)
Family says that their last name was Walrus/Wallrus or something similar and
when the white man came they changed it to Brown.
Family tells that Festus was killed age 52. Ran with the Jesse James gang
killed in Badlands? (not sure which Badlands) Killed by U.S. Marshalls in a
shoot out. It was called Badlands or No Mans land. Festus's father may be
Festus or Testus Wallrus or Marion Millard Brown.
He married in 1880 Sarah "Louisa" Wallace/Wallis born Oct 1861.(seen
spelled both ways, she went by Louisa all her life) Her fathers name was
Augustas Wallace/Wallis (b April 9 1840 and d: Aug 6 1861) and her mother was
Mary Edmonson. Family has it that Louisa was also a full blood Choctaw that
couldnt or refused to speak English. I think she was an only child. Her
father died either in the civil war in 1861 or just shortly after returning
home with wounds. Augustas's brother Joshua was also killed in the civil war
at MP Camp Douglas, IL after being captured. Another brother was Private G.W.
Wallis (Wallace) George Washington Wallis. He also had a brother David
Wallace and sister Margaret.
Other info I have on them is this....copied and pasted.......
Augustus, David, George W, Joshua and Margaret were all living under the
guardianship of Allen T Pettus (b,8-11-1821 d, 4-2-1864). Col Pettus was
mortally wounded in the battle of Mark's Hill. His home was in Paraclifta.)
The probate records of 1862 show the release of Augustus W. Wallace from his
guardianship.
Louisa went to live with her Aunt Henryann Ladd and her husband David Ladd
after her mother died in 1871. She can be found on the 1880 sevier Ark census
as living with them. She married Festus Brown in Sevier Ark in Dec of 1880.
Below their names in the birth records are Augustus and Mary as getting
married also.
They had a son Charley Brown was born in Grayson County Texas,(Oct 1891. died
sometime around 1940's or so) died in Muldrow, OK this is my Great
Grandfather. He married a Hattie Johnson (b: Nov 20 1896 in Webber Falls, OK
d: Jan 15 1926 in Muldrow,OK) who's parents were Enoch Monroe Johnson (b:
Jan 24 1869 in TX and d: Jan 3 1924), who apparently had a criminal problem,
and Lula Cavins (b: 1875 in Monett, MO and d: 1898 in OK). Hattie had a full
brother named Monroe Walter Jr. Johnson.
Charley also had a brother Sam, Levi, Ed, Will and a sister who was Lillie
or Lula.
Family swears that Hattie Johnson was full blooded Cherokee. Her birth name
might have been Magarita Johnson or that might have been a sister of hers.
I need information on any or all of these people. PLEASE!! Check your family
tree's for me and you records. Maybe someone with
ancestory.com and check for
me. I just really need to find Festus's parents and or his real name!
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Festus Wallrus. Killed age 52. Ran with the Jesse James gang killed in
Badlands. Killed by a U.S. Marshalls in a shoot out. They all came from
Greenleaf, Oklahoma. All the Wallrus came from. Louisa Wallace was cousins to
Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone. Charley Brown was born in Grayson County
Texas. Badland or no mans land. Festus Dad ~ Festus or Testus Wallrus. Hattie
Cavins was full blooded Cherokee. Positively. Might have been Magarita Brown.
Marion Millard Brown.
I am looking for any information I can get on Festus Walrus/Brown. He was a
full blood Choctaw man. His fathers name MAY have been Testus or Vestus
Walrus/Brown. Festus was born around 1861 or so. He was 18 in 1880 when he
married Sarah "Louisa" Wallace/Wallis. They moved to Texas.
Festus ran with the Jesse James gang (I was told) and he was shot and killed
by US Marshalls in the Badlands, he was 52 or 53 when he was shot and killed.
That was in about 1905-1914 or so. I am not sure where he is buried. Texas or
Oklahoma.
Rebecca