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Sarah(Sallie) Doak and William Paisley Doak (other families: Turner, Fannin, Fanning, Langley)
ruthy19 Posted: 4 Aug 2001 5:23PM
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Jul 2005 5:56AM
Surnames: DOAK
I'm looking for info on Sarah (Sallie) Doak and her father William Paisley Doak. Sarah is the daughter of a Choctaw woman, (name unknown.) She died in 1880 in Grandbury, TX
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Re: Sarah(Sallie) Doak and William Paisley Doak
Robert Edward Oakley Posted: 1 Jan 2005 4:56PM
Classification: Query
Edited: 26 Jul 2005 5:59AM
Surnames: DOAK, McMURRY, CARSON
I believe if you check carefully into documented records, you will find that William Paisley Doak died intestate and without issue, prior to ever taking possession of his share of his father's Revolutionary War grant in Rutherford County, Tennessee. His one-eighth (1/8) share was divided among his seven siblings, as was his share of other lands inherited from hs father in Wilson County, Tennessee. If my research is correct, and William Paisley Doak died intestate, and without issue, that also means he was NOT the William Doak who established Doak's Stand in what is now Madison County (and was originally in Yazoo County) in Mississippi around 1810-1812. I believe if you research the extant primary historical records regarding Doak's Stand, the Treaty of Doak's Stand, etc., etc., you will find references only to "William Doak" and "Wm. Doak," and NEVER a reference to a "Willam Paisley Doak" or a "William P. Doak." I presume you also know that Josiah Doak (also referred to as Jo Doak, and Josiah S. Doak), who was at Doak's Stand with William Doak, and who later was instrumental in the establishment of Doaksville in the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma, is commonly referred to--and assumed to have been--the brother of the William Doak at Doak's Stand. If that is the case--and I am convinced that it is--then that is further evidence that William Paisley Doak was not the owner/operator of Doak's Stand, since William Paisley Doak did not have a brother named Josiah. However, Josiah's parents, William and Anne Stuart(?) Doak DID have a son named William (but I've never seen a middle initial or name used for him). Finally, while there is much discussion about William Doak at Doak's Stand having a child named Sally (Sallie) by an Indian woman, I have never seen any documentary evidence supporting such a contention. The William Doak who operated Doak's Stand, and whose first wife Polly McMurry died in Madison County, Mississippi, about 1824, apparently remarried a woman named Sarah Carson. That William Doak died in 1833 in what was then Washington County, Mississippi. A few months later Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, was created, and the administration of William Doak's estate was transferred to that county, where his residence and real property physically were located. Nowhere in the estate proceedings is there ANY mention of a daughter named Sally (Sallie) or who may have been of Indian heritage--which of course doesn't prove that there was not one. But if there was a Sally (Sallie) Doak who had known Indian ancestry through her mother (an Indian princess, I believe the oral tradition suggests?), it is likely that you will have to trace the lineage BACKWARD through Sally (Sallie) to her mother if you are to find documentary evidence to prove your research. Hope this information is helpful.
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=197&p=surnames.doak
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