THE FOLSOM FAMILY OF OKLAHOMA

DESCENDANTS OF THE IMMIGRANT, JOHN FOLSOM,
WHO CAME TO THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN 1638

THE CHOCTAW FOLSOMS ARE THE DESCENDANTS
OF NATHANIEL AND EDMOND FOLSOM

written and compiled by
Hiram Impson
(we believe that this story was written  about 1915 while Hiram was at the University of Oklahoma Journalism School. It may have been an assignment. This is the original text.)

THE INDIAN SONG
Lo! the Poor Indian's Hope.

Land where brightest waters flow,
Land where loveliest flowers grow,
Where warriors drew the bow-
Native land farewell!

He who made yon stream and tree,
Made the White, the Red man free,
Gave the Indian's home to be
'Mid the forest's wilds.

Have the waters ceased to flow?
Have the forests ceased to grow?
Why do our brothers bid us go
From our native home?

Here in infancy we played,
Here our happy wigwams made,
Here our father's bones are laid-
Must we leave them all?

White men tell us of God on high
So pure and bright in yonder sky-
Will not then His searching eye
See the Indian's wrong?
	-Israel Folsom.

THE OKLAHOMA FOLSOMS, or INDIAN FOLSOMS

	It was a happy day for the Choctaw tribe of North American Indians, when John Foulsom bid good bye to his native village of Foulsham, England, and came to America in 1638. The North, the South, the East, and the West attest the coming of his immigrant and his wife, Mary Gilman. The southern branch of this family is the one which has played such an important part in the evolution of the Choctaw tribe.
	On September 9, 1915, the descendants of John Folsom gathered for their Sixth Annual Reunion in Unity Hall, Exeter, New Hampshire. The following officers for 1915-16 were elected:

	President
Hon. Channing Folsom		Newmarket, N.H.
	Vice-Presidents
Hon. Cas. E. Folsom		Dorchester, Mass.
Col. W.W. Folsom		Hope, Ark.
Mr. Eugene L. Folsom		Waltham, Mass.
Mr. Ralph H. Folsom		New York City
Mrs. Mary Folsom Gleason	Gleasondale, Mass.
	Secretary
Miss Frances E. Smith		Exeter, N.H.
	Treasury
Mrs. M. Blanche White		Winchester, Mass.
	Chaplain
Rev. John N. Short		Cambridge, Mass.

	Genealogical Committee
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Folsom, Chairman	Exeter, N.H.
Mrs. Frances A. Mathes		Portsmouth, N.H.
Mrs. Elisabeth K. Hills		Marblehead, Ma.
Mrs. Laura C. Heely		New York City
Mrs. Mable Folsom Hutchinson	Melrose, Mass.
Mrs. Ella M. Lambert		Toms River, N.J.
Mrs. Israel Phillips Folsom	Lewiston, Me

The Programme of this reunion was as follows:

	11.00 A.M.	Unity Hall. Opening Remarks by the Acting President
		Frederick C. Folsom.
		Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. John N. Short.
		Report of the Secretary, James E. Folsom, Braintree, Mass.
		Report of the Treasury, Willis H. Folsom, Springvale, Me.
		Appointment of Committees--Nominating, Auditing,
		    Resolutions.
		Song, Mrs. Gladys S. Folsom.
		Paper, "Our Indian Folsoms," Elizabeth K. Folsom.
	
	12.30 P.M. Dinner

	1.30 P.M. 	Pilgramage to points of historic interest in Exeter, including the 
		selection of a site for the erection of the Folsom Memorial Tablet.

	2.30 P.M. 	Unity Hall. Reports of Committees.
		Election of Officers.
		Reading of Report from Genealogical Congress at San Francisco.
		New Business.
		An informal Talk by Miss Frances A. Mathes, "The Home Towns
		     of our Ancestors in 1914."
		Singing by the Folsom Family, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds."
		Benediction.
                              ----------------------------o---------------------------

	I shall give a few quotations from the Secretary's Report.
"Frederick C. Folsom, of Braintree, Mass., called the meeting to order . . . After the formal opening conducted by Mr. Israel Folsom, the forenoon was spent in visiting places of interest on Hampton Road before voting upon an appropriate place for a memorial to the first Folsom family in this country, John Folsom, his wife Mary Gilman, and their seven children, who were early settlers in Exeter, and all of whom are buried here, excepting the son Israel, who died in New Jersey in 1677, unmarried."

The Secretary then goes on to say the triangle at the juncture of Hampton and Kensington Roads was chosen as the place to erect the memorial, as it was a part of the land grant (1644) of Lieutenant Peter Folsom, fifth son of the pioneer John, and as John Folsom was one of three in the year 1668 to lay out the road between the two meeting houses of Exeter and Hampton.

"The insciption is to be on a bronze tablet set in a large oblong slab of granite, once the door rock to the home of James Folsom of the fifth generation, a Minute Man in the Revolutionary War, who is buried in the Folsom burying around on the estate of Wendell B. Folsom."

	Register of Attendance.
Israel Phillips Folsom, 	Lewiston, Me.
Alice M. Folsom,		"	"
L.H. Folsom,		Greenville, "
Abbie M. Folsom,		"	"
Mabel S. Hunt,		"	"
Channing Folsom, 		Newmarket, N.H.
Walter B. Greene,		" 	"
Mrs. "    "    ",		"	"
Clara A. Haines,		"	"
M.A. Harvey, 		Epping, "
Belle A. Cram,		Raymond, "
Mrs. J.E. Cram,		"	"
W.Burt Folsom, 		Exeter, "
Elizabeth K. Folsom, 	"	"
William H. Folsom,		"	"
Elizabeth T. Folsom, 	"	"
Charles F. Folsom,		"	"
Emma F. Folsom,		"	"
Leonard Folsom Smith,	"	"
Herman Leonard Smith,	"	"
Frances E. Smith,		"	"
Ida R.T. Smith,		"	"
Ella O. Alger,		"	"
Carrie S. Allen,		"	"
Mary Gordon,		"	"
Ida M. Welsh,		"	"
Mary Folsom Wiggin	"	"
Ida O. Folsom, 		Stratham, N.H.
Louise Folsom Hovey,	Portsmouth, N.H.
Frances A. Mathes,		"	"
Susan H. Mathes,		"	"
Ernest C. Wescott, 		Rochester, "
Harriet A. Folsom,		Boston, Mass.
Frederick C. Folsom, 	Braintree, "
Gwladys G. Folsom		"	"
John Folsom,		"	"
James E. Folsom,		"	"
Edith M. Folsom,		"	"
Albert H. Gleason, 		Gleasondale, "
Mary Folsom Gleason,	"	"
Marion W. Folsom, 	West Action, "
Irod J.B. Folsom, 		New Bedford, "
Frank Edson Folsom, 	Malden, "
Helen Doris Folsom, 	"	"
Viola Folsom Stratton,	Hudson, "
Eva T. Folsom, 		Medford, "
Frances T. Folsom, 		Boston, "
Ellen M. Folsom, 		Boston, "
Bessie D. Folsom, 		Dorchester, "
Charlotte H. Folsom, 	Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Hattie Folsom Buckminister,	"	"
Arline Buckminister,	"	"
Susan Folsom Walker, 	Amesbury, "
Ida F. Thying, 		West Newton, "
Mabel F. Hutchinson,	Melrose, "
Frank M. White, 		Winchester, "
M. Blance F. White		"	"
Ira C. Lambert, 		Toms River, N.J.
Mrs. L.C. Heeley, 		New York City, N.Y.
Mrs. W.B. Burlingame,	Aricebo, Porto Rico

	Additional members
Ruth F. Folsom, 		Newmarket, N.H.
Alanson C. Haines,		"	"
Hannah S. Folsom,		Exeter, "
Lucy Gordon,		"	"
Mary F. Short, 		Cambridge, Mass.
Kate Folsom, 		North Wilmington, mass.
Jennie Folsom Cook,	Menomonic, Wis.
Marion Folsom,		Pascagoula, Miss.
Bertha F. Longfield,		Champlin, Minn.
Lucius G. Folsom,		Zodiak, Alaska
Nancy Folsom Stewart, 	Wynnewood, Okla.

	Among this long list of names who are the descendants of John Folsom, by no means a start in the multitude of descendants, there are found many similar names with those of the Choctaw Folsoms. One might be led to think that from the names given at the reunion, that the New England states have the largest representation of the family, but such is not the case. The Folsoms of Oklahoma, far outnumber those of any other state or group of states; and in achievement they nowise occupy the rear of the procession.

	The human mind is not able to contemplate a century ahead, much less centuries. When John Folsom came to the shores of a new country, whose western interior was still locked in the breasts of the aborigine, he did not think that his blood would mingle with that of the Red Man. He had no idea that less than three centuries would see a mightly Republic replacing the sovereignty of his King, and that in a land far to the Southwest, encircled in Indian legend, story, and song, in a tribe of the Indian race would be found his descendants, some of whome have lost their identity in the assimilation of the Indian character.

	On the rolls of the Choctaw Nation are listed the names of 258 Folsoms. Hundreds of others who are descended from the family bear other names. Nearly every family of the tribe has inter-married into the Folsoms. There is a great deal of truth in the common saying that all Choctaws are kinfolks; they are nearly so. But there is one statement that cannot be disputed, and that is there is no other family so large. 

	It does not stop with the Choctaws; it stretches to the four tribes of the Five Civilized Tribes. In all there are 331 persons enrolled in the complete Rolls of the five tribes. 

	The 258 Choctaw names are spelled in three different ways: Folsom, Fulsom, and Folsome. The greatest number call themselves by the first, a few by the second, and only a few by the last. But they are all descended from two brothers, Nathaniel and Edmond, who spelled their names Folsom as did their forefathers. 

	The greater part of the Folsoms are mixed breeds, most of them less than one-half blood. But they make no such distinction; they are proud to claim Choctaw ancestry; he is a Choctaw if he only has one-thirty-second of the blood. Some of them call themselves full-bloods, and they look it; but that cannot be, even if they are enrolled that way. In the background there is always the white ancestor.

	Out of the 258, only one is enrolled as a  Mississippi Choctaw, showing that nearly all possessed enough ambition to emigrate and stake their all in a new country to the West. Twenty-four white women have been given the rights of Choctaws by inter-marriage into the family, but far more have given white men rights.

	The Chickasaws have claimed 39 Folsoms. They, too, spell their name in three ways; Folsom, Fulsom, and Fulsome. But, they are Choctaws as well as Chickasaws.

	The Creeks have given 17 "Fulsoms" citizenship rights. They probably united with the Creeks at the removal of their own tribe to the Indian Territory, rather than come West; but came later with the Creeks and as Creeks.

	The Cherokees have 16 Folsoms as their citizens, whose given names are similar to those of the Choctaw Folsoms. They are likely descendants of inter-married Choctaws.

	The Seminoles have one Fulsom with them, but I shall not relate her to the Choctaw Folsoms without investigation, for the citizens of that Nation and the Freedmen are enrolled on the same Roll. She may be a namesake Freedman, as there are many Choctaw Freedmen with the Folsom name, who were the slaves of Folsom masters.

THE CHOCTAW FOLSOMS

	Nathaniel and Edmund Folsom, fifth generation from John (1), are the founders of the Choctaw Folsoms. As stated before, John (1) had seven children. One of these children was named Samuel (2), who had a son by the name of Israel (3). Israel (3) had four sons. One of these sons, Ebenezer (4), settled in North Carolina, near Cape Fear river, Fayetteville, Cumberland county. He was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and his descendants are to-day settled over the southern states. One of the other four sons of Israel (3), either Israel or Nathaniel (4) married a New Jersey lady and also moved to North Carolina, where they had two daughters and four sons born. The names of the daughters have been lost; the sons were Nathaniel (5), Ebenezer (5), Edmund (5), and Israel (5).

	Mrs. Elizabeth K. Folsom, in her "Indian Folsoms", a paper read at the re-union says:
	"Nathaniel (4) (we will call him until proved otherwise), the father, moved into Georgia, where
	the children were sent to school; but hearing from friends who had gone to Mississippi,
	that "money grew on bushes there", he decided to go to Mississippi and make his fortune.
	They stopped at Bok Tuklo (Two Creeks) in the Choctaw Nation, and he became a trader
	among the Indians. At that time, Nathaniel (5), the son, was about nineteen years of age.
	He and his father had a slight altercation, in which the son felt he was right, and forthwith
	left his father, who moved into the Chickasaw Nation."

	Nathaniel (5), in Cushman's history of the Choctaws and Chickasaws, says that he was born in Rowan county, North Carolina, May 17, 1756. He came to the Choctaw Nation in 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was signed, and as before stated at the age of nineteen.

	Nathaniel married two wives among the Choctaws; they were sisters. By those two wives he had twenty-four children. The first of these sisters was Aiahnichih Ohoyoh (which means a woman to be referred above all others). She was a niece of Miko Puskush (Infant Chief), who was the father of the famous chief, Amosholitubbee. She was a descendant of a long line of ancient chiefs, and belonged to the most prominent clan, Iksa Hattakiholihta, one of the two ruling clans, and the only clan from which chiefs were selected, with an exception now and then. The marriage to her sister was about the same time.

	Nathaniel's (5) brother Israel (5) died at the early age of eighteen. Ebenezer (5) married Ni-ti-ka, by whom he had one daughter, Sopha (6) Folsom, who married Col. John Pitchlynn, who was an interpreter for President Washington for twenty-four years. Ebenezer later married a white woman in Louisiana where he had several children. Sopha (6) Pitchlynn, nee Folsom was the mother of Hon. Peter P. Pitchlynn, "The Calhoun of the Choctaws", and it was said by some contemporary writers that he was the most handsome man that ever walked down the aisles of the Senate Chamber at Washington. 

	Edmund Folsom (5) was the third of the Folsom brothers to marry into the Choctaws, and had several children. Not much is known about them. 

	Nathaniel's (5) oldest and most prominent son in the early history of the Choctaws was David (6), who was born at Pigeon Roost, Mississippi, Choctaw Nation, January 25, 1791. He was the first Chief to be elected by ballot in the history of the Choctaw Nation. For thirty years he administered the affairs of his people during some of the most trying times that have ever been witnessed by his people. 

	Col. David Folsom (6) was twice married. He was the first to marry according to the laws of the white man. His first wife was Miss Rhoda Nail, and his second wife was Jane Hall. By his marriages he had thirteen children. Judge Loring S.W.; Colonel Simpson N., of the Second Choctaw Regiment in the Civil War; Dr. Henry N.; David, Jr.; Albert Kee, whose son Albert Peter was the youngest representative that ever sat in the Choctaw Council; and Susan Folsom, who married William M. Byrd, who served five times as delegate to Washington for the Chickasaws and two terms as Governor were some of the most prominent children of Col. David Folsom (6).

	Israel Folsom (6) was another prominent son of Nathaniel (5). He was born in Mississippi, May 1, 1802, and died April 24, 1870, at Perryville, Oklahoma.

	It is said that he was a handsome man, standing above six feet and muscled accordingly,  a type of man found in those days among the Choctaws, especially those white extraction.

	Israel Folsom was a religious leader of his Nation. But he took part in the politics of his people, being a delegate several times for his people at Washington. He was also President of the Grand Council of the Sixth Confederate Indian Nation in 1864, which communicated with President Jefferson Davis and pledged their loyalty to the "Stars and Bars".

	Israel Folsom was married to Louvisa Nail, and by this union had thirteen children, the same number that Col. David Folsom, his brother had, an evidence of the large families that are common in the Folsoms of the Choctaws. The children of this union are:
	1. Lorinda, died at 14 years of age,
	2. Orilla, b. May 27, 1827, m. Lewis garland,
	3. Ellis, b. May 2, 1829, died in youth,
	4. Julius C., b. Jan. 17, 1831, in Miss., d. Dec. 24, 1914, 84 yrs., 
		1. m Nettie Thompson,
			a. Israel, killed in youth,
			b. Latimer, d in youth,
			c. Irena, d. in youth, 
			d. Don Juan, m. Deborah Brown
				1. (Jack) Robert,
				2. Hal,
				3. Daphne, m. Mr. Bell--Lindsay, Okla.,
				4. Ethel,
				5. Blanche,
				6. Ruth,
				7. "Lady Kate",
				8. Christine,
			e. Junia, m Tom W. Hunter
		2. m. Anna Sharp,
			(Two children--died in infancy)
		3. m. Hattie Coffman,
			a. Tephia
			b. Orilla,
			c. Julius C., Jr., 
	5. Czarina, b. Mar. 5, 1833, at Eagletown C.N.,
		1. m Chas. Brashears,
		2. m Mr. Trahn,
		3. m T.J. Bond,
		4. m D.N. Robb,
	6. Athenia, b Aug 11, 1835, Eagletown, C.N., 
		1. m Jim colbert,
			a. David, dead,
			b. Henryetta, m a Mr. Jennings,
			c. Pike, dead,
			d. Chas. now at Ardmore, Okla., 
			e. Lovissa, m Hiram McBride,
			f. Czarina, m Michael Conlan, Okla. Cy.,
				1. Lottie Conlan,
			g. Benjamin, Tishomingo, Okla.,
			h. (dead)
			i. (dead),
	7. Sopha, b Aug. 16, 1838, m Dr. Moore,
	8. Lawrence, d in infancy,
	9. Theodore, (?)
	10. Alfred Emerson, Caddo, Okla.,
	11. I. Wellington, a leading physician of Ardmore, Okla., dead,
	12. Christine, b Oct. 10, 1849
		1. m Madison Bouton,
			a. William, Skiatook, Okla.,
			b. Nellie, m Ben Ingram,
			c. Annie, m James Yarbrough, Durant, Okla.,
		2. m Harry Bates,
	13. Finis Ewing, Caddo, Okla.,

	Col. Isaac Folsom (6) was another son of Nathaniel (5). He was a noted man of the Choctaw Nation, and a leading Presbyterian in religious affairs. Before and after the Civil War, he served as a Delegate of his people at Washington. H married Susan Underwood and had eight children. His best known son was Col. Sampson Folsom (7), who had the honor of raising the first battalion of Choctaws to serve the Confederacy, and he was a Colonel of a regiment of Choctaws under the cammand of General Albert Pike.

	George Rolsom (6) was a son of Nathaniel (5), and a Cumberland Presbyterian preacher and at one time Governor of the Choctaw Nation. He was an (the only) Indian blacksmith that is known in the entire record of the Choctaws. He married Eliza Hays, and had only two sons, who died in childhood, and one daughter, who died soon after marriage. George Folsom died in 1887, at the age of eighty years.

	Samuel Folsom (6) was also a son of Nathaniel (5). His birthplace was Mississippi, and in the year 1799, so speaks the tomb above his last resting place near old Shawnee, close by Sugar Loaf, in Bryan county. He died October 18, 1866. His occupation was farming and stock-raising. He had eighteen children by two marriages. One of his wives, likely his first was Anna McIntosh, who was a Creek Indian, a member of that well-known family by that name in the Creek and Cherokee Nations. She died in 1847.

	Other tones in the old cemetery disclose the fact that there are a few of the children of Samuel buried there. William, born Nov. 27, 1841, died in infancy, 1844; Cornelius, born Aug. 9, 1844; Lucy Ann, born Feb. 17, 1846, died Feb. 20, 1866; lie there.

	The oldest child of Samuel Folsom is Nancy Folsom (7) Stewart, who was born in 1830. She still resides at Wynnewood, Oklahoma.

	There was a son who left at the time of the Gold Strike in California and went to those regions of wealth, who was probably the oldest child. Nothing has ever been heard from him. It was told me by a friend that a few eyars ago there came out in a paper, an article concerning a prominent man of that name from whom Folsom Street was named in the city of San Francisco, California. This man Folsom was a man of considerable welath, was very dark in complexion, and had married a lady of Spanish descent in one of his visits to either the Hawaiian or Phillippine Island. Whether there is any connection between the man of this story who was reputed to have come from the middle west, or not remains undiscovered.

	Two daughters of Samuel Folsom (6), Louisa (who married John, and Malina, who married Caleb, were united to two brothers of the Impson family.

	Louisa, (7) by her marriage to John Impson, had several children, but only one, who grew to manhood, Middleton M. Impson, who died at Bokchito, Oklahoma, December 17, 1909. By her second marriage to a Mr. Cocknauer, a member of that able family of French descent, and of which union she had David W. Cochnauer, now a resident of Banty, Oklahoma. She married a third time to Robert Nail, from whom she left no issue.

	Malina (8) married Caleb Impson, after her first marriage to a Mr. Mackey, by which first union she had Solomon J. Mackey, now a resident of Savanna, Oklahoma. William D., (Bub); Lafayette, Thompson J., (Cap; and about ten others are the issues of this union. She, too, married a third time after the death of Caleb Impson, a Mr. Freeney, by which union she had one daughter, Ida, who married Albert Matoy, of Matoy, Oklahoma. 

	Alfred W. Folsom, (7) another son of Samuel (6) distinguished himself in several battles of the Civil War. After the war he engaged in farming and stock-raising near Armstrong Academy. He married Levina C. Colbert, and had twelve children by that marriage, all of whom are deceased except Louis L. Maude, and Ava, who married W.M. Travis.

	Jerry Folsom (6) was another son of Nathaniel (5). Jacob (7) was a son of Jerry, was a leading man of the Choctaw Nation, and married a Miss Nail, as did other Folsoms marry Nails. By this marriage, he had Judge Rufus Folsom (8), who was the Speaker of the Choctaw House of Representatives, member of the Choctaw Senate, and Circuit Judge. Daniel (7) was another son of Jerry. He also married into the Nail family, Sina Nail, by whom he had six children.

	McKee Folsom (6) was a son of Nathaniel (5). He was born in Mississippi. He lived in Red River county Choctaw Nation and died there before 1864. He married and had ten children, of whom the most famous was Rev. Willis Folsom, who was a Methodist preacher for fifty-two years. He also wrote a Choctaw dicitionary, so that he could preach in both the English and Choctaw languages. A grandson of this old preacher, is William Lea Folsom (9), of Stigler, Oklahoma.

	John Folsom (6) was the third son of Nathaniel to preach as a Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He died near Bennington, Okla., in 1861. He married twice and had thirteen children, of whom one was Captain Martin V. Folsom (7), of Company E, Confederate Army. Jefferson Davis Folsom (7), another son is now living near Russellville, Oklahoma.

	Captain Robert Folsom (6) was a son of Nathaniel. He was one of those sent by the United States Government to look over the Indian Territory as a place to which the Choctaws were to receive for their country of happy homes east of the Mississippi River. Robert Folsom had several children, of whom two daughters married into the Perkins family.

	Adam Folsom (6), another son of Nathaniel settled in what is now Atoka County, where his descendants now live. They have married back into the fullblood class, but the sign is there. They do not know that they are the descendants of a white man, and they are happy in the security of their Indian life. I was at the home of the grandson of Adam a few days ago--one Forbis Folsom (8), who cannot speak the tongue of the White man. He and his good wife have lately moved into their new house which has been built for them from a Departmental sale of his surplus land; it is a nice homey house reflecting credit to the country in which it is located, but they are not at home there--there is a not distant future where they will find a solace for their tired feet where their customs will not conflict with the ideals of the anglo-American. 

	Adam Folsom (6), was the father of Simon, Alex., Abnessey, Stephen and Lymon Folsom (7). Simon, who died Aug. 29, 1912, was seventy-three years of age at the time of his death. His children were Eben, Forbis, Mary, Sarah, and Smallwood Folsom (8). The children of Alex Folsom (7) were Mitchell, Alfred, who lived near Atoka and was a minister; Daniel, who also lived near Atoka, and who has one son engaged as a printer in the Citizen-Democrat office; and Sallie Foster. Children of Abnessey Folsom (7) are only accounted for in the individual of Tennessee Anderson, nee Folsom.  Eben Folsom (8), son of Simon Folsom (7) had the following children: Isaac, Lucy, Charley, and Jincy Folsom (9). This is a poor arrangement of the desendants of Adam, the son of Nathaniel, whose descendants have married and remarried among the Fullblood class until they are seven-eights and fifteen-sixteenths, and still closer to the degree of fullblood.

	Quoting from Elizabeth K. Folsom:
		"Of the daughters of Nathaniel (5) Folsom, Molly married a Mitchell; Rebecca married a 
		Black; Lucretia married a Noah Wall; Elizabeth married a Harris; Emily married Emziah
		Robinson and was the mother of Rev. Calvin Robinson, noted as a preacher and she has
		many descendants in Oklahoma; Rhoda married Chief Peter P. Pitchlynn, son of Major
		John Pitchlynn, an Englishman, and his wife Sopha (6) Folsom, daughter of Ebenezer (5)
		Nathaniel's brother. Peter P. Pitchlynn was a graduate of Nashville University, and was a 
		great and useful man in his nation. They had several children."

	Edmund Folsom (5), brother of Nathaniel also married into the Choctaw Nation and had several children. Not much is known about his family as the records appear not to have been kept as well as were those of Nathaniel's family.

	Jeremiah Folsom (6) was one of his children. He was born in Mississippi, and in 1821 married Mary Nail. After he came to the Indian Territory. His family consisted of twelve children, of whom Joseph Pitchlynn Folsom was the oldest. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1854 and served a part of his life as a teacher among his people. It is said that he began to write a genealogical record of his branch of the family, but he died ere it was completed and it was lost. He married a Seneca Indian, but had no children. A daughter of Jeremiah married James Robinson, brother of Rev. Calvin Robinson. 

	Rev. Peter Folsom (6) was a son of Edmund. He was a Baptist minister and often was sent as a delegate to Washington. It is said that he would break the ice and swim across a stream rather than miss an appointment to preach.

Wtt Folsom (6), son of Edmund, married and had several children. One of his sons, Edmund (7), was a merchant and stockman in San Bois, married and had four children. Ellis, was another son of Watt, was a prominent lawyer at McAlester, Oklahoma, married Salina Perry and had five children. Watt Folsom had one daughter to marry Benjamin Wall, and one, Jane, to marry a man by the name of Page. 
	Edmund (5) had two other sons, Nathaniel (6), and George (6). He had three daughters: Rachel, who married Solomon Folsom; Abagail; and Margaret, who married a Garland.

	Mrs. Elizabeth K. Folsom, member of the New England branch, says:
		"The descendants of these sons and daughters of Nathaniel, Edmund and Ebenezer
		Folsom, who allied themselves with the Choctaws, are numbered into the hundreds
		in Oklahoma, AND FROM THEIR LETTERS, ARE PEOPLE, WE OF THE WHITE
		RACE, WITH ALL OUR ADVANTAGE OF GENERATIONS OF CIVILIZATION,
		MAY WELL BE PROUD TO CALL OUR KINSMEN."

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