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Our Arklahoma Heritage: WWI Medal of Honor and Purple Heart winner was born near Ozark on October 25 1882
Oscar Franklin Miller Oscar Franklin Miller was born on October 25 1882 in Franklin County Arkansas the third of eight children born to Andrew Jackson Miller and Adelia Rosette Stockton Miller. His father had come from the eastern United States and settled in the county after the Civil War to farm. The family lived in the rural hills and fields near Ozark where land work and small community life defined daily existence. When Oscar reached age eight his father died. The househ
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Stone Gardens: Transplanted from Mississippi at age two, Garvin rose through the ranks to become Choctaw Principal Chief
Isaac Levi Garvin Isaac Levi Garvin was born on April 27 1832 in Mississippi. At the age of two he traveled with his parents during the Choctaw removal and reached the new Okla Falaya District in Indian Territory. The family settled six miles southeast of Wheelock Mission about one mile southeast of the spot that later became the town of Garvin. His father Henry Garvin was a white man. Isaac carried Choctaw blood through his mother whose name does not appear in surviving reco
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