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Cherokee bill1/4/2024 Matheson had no complaint of Crawford saying that he was a good boy and that he swept and kept the store clean for him. When Crawford was 18 he worked in the shop of Alex Matheson. In an Indian Pioneer paper interview of Alex Matheson lies the story of when Crawford Goldsby shot Jake Lewis multiple times. Crawford and his stepfather did not get along and Crawford began hanging out with the wrong sort of people, but it wasn’t until he was 18 that he began his life of crime. It is not known whether Crawford or any of his siblings had anything else to do with their father once he deserve them at Fort Concho, but what we do know is when Crawford returned home to find his mother married to William Lynch it wasn’t to be a happy family. Though she later claimed that they went to Kansas and remarried again where it was legal for mixed races to marry, that marriage was also illegal in the fact that George was still married to Ellen at the time. Not only was George not free to marry, but it was also an illegal marriage due to the fact that George was a mulatto and Effie was white which was illegal in Arkansas at the time. George married a white woman by the name of Effie in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. ![]() At the same time George Goldsby, who by this time was known as William Scott also married. At one point George Goldsby approached Ellen for a divorce but she denied him. The problem with this marriage was that Ellen was still legally married to Crawford’s father. ![]() Alan Beck Goldsby married William Lynch in 1889 and they settled in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory where Lynch became a barber. While Crawford was gone to school, and unbeknownst to him, his mother had remarried. After going to school in Kansas he was sent to a Catholic Indian School in Pennsylvania, school life wasn’t for him and he soon returned to Fort Gibson. Crawford was given into the care of “Auntie” Amanda Foster, where he stayed until he was sent to an Indian school in Kansas. Once they returned to Fort Gibson Ellen took her four kids and put them in homes of relatives. She continued working as a laundress for Company D for a while before moving her kids back home to Fort Gibson. Goldsby left Ellen and their four kids to face the aftermath of his desertion. The other nine men that were a part of the Morris Saloon incident were indicted for murder, so in truth, George was not wrong of the outcome. Goldsby knew there would be a trial and knew he would be tried and convicted of murder, so on May 23rd, 1879, he went AWOL. Grierson informed him he had no Authority on federal lands and had him removed from the fort. Arrington, captain of the Texas Rangers, March through Fort Concho and stormed into Colonel Grierson’s office and demanded that goes to be arrested for murder. Three civilians and one soldier were killed in the melee. Together they went back to more Saloon and engaged in a gunfight with the men. The racial divide was large in Santa Angela and it came to a head as a man assaulted George, cutting his chevrons from his uniform and then making him leave the saloon.Īngry for being assaulted, George went back to Fort Concho and gathered some men and rifles. It was on a fateful day in February of 1878 when George was having a drink at Morris Saloon when a group of cowboys and buffalo hunters decided to approach him. It was in this town that change not only the life of George Goldsby but that of his wife and children as well. The civilian community of Santa Angela that bordered Fort Concho was where the soldiers went on their days off at the fort. George and Ellen met when he was stationed at Fort Gibson and later was transferred to Fort Concho Texas where he became a first sergeant and Company D Buffalo Soldiers. Ellen Beck was half African-American 1/4 white 1/4 Cherokee who lived in Fort Gibson Indian Territory. His father George was a mixed-race male his mother was a mulatto and his father was a white man. ![]() He was the second born and oldest son of 4 children by this couple. Crawford Goldsby was born February 8th, 1876 in Fort Concho, Texas, to George Goldsby and Ellen Beck Goldsby.
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