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Silas Thomas Huckleberry II (b. April 12, 1876, d. January 11, 1943)
Silas Thomas Huckleberry II (son of James Hamilton Huckleberry and Matty L. Jarvis) was born April 12, 1876 in Van Buren Ar., and died January 11, 1943 in Pryor Ok.. He married Emma Louise Eads on December 22, 1907 in Muskogee Ok., daughter of Thomas Franklin Eads and Emma Eva Sommers.
Notes for Silas Thomas Huckleberry II:
Raised on the plantation farm near Vanburen Ark. after the Civil War. How the family came to be there is also an interesting story. Grandpa's father James fought for the north in the civil war. His mother was from Virginia and at the end of the war the Jarvises lost their plantation. The former slaves said what are we going to do all we know is how to farm and now we don't have any land. Grandfather James said the goverment owes me land in Arkansas and I have some money but I'm no farmer I'm a lawyer. These former slaves said you just get us the land well farm it for you. and that's what happened.
When he was young he was very onery There were Three boys that hung around together Silas and the Doctors son and a Black boy In fact grandpa said he didn't know that the black boy wasn't his brother till he was about Five years old. He was raised by the black boys mother ut to that time. As he said him on one side the other boy on the other. Anyway they asked the dr. to use his skeleton. he wouldent give them permision but said there wouldent be much he could do about if it came up missing.
It was the custom of the black preacher to get up and pray for the lord to come down to them right through the roof they'd pay for the shingles. Right above the preachers head was an opening into the loft. Well the boys got there real early and got up in the loft and when the preacher began to pray they began to let the skeliton down out of the loft. These people were very superstitious and when they saw this they went out doors windows and tried to make openings where there were none. Another time they borrowed the skeliton and painted it with phosphorus so that it would glow on a moonlite night. They took the Doctors horse tied the skeliton to it and when these people were having a brusharbor meeting and the preacher was giving the call for all to come down and give themselves to the lord. Well here was the old horse headed for home just as he had been trained to when the doctor would sleep on the way home from a house call. You can imagine what pandimonium broke out at there meeting. they said people were hiding in the bushes for miles around.
At 16 years of age rode into Oklahoma in the land run of 1891. He made the comment that all the creeks were narrow and deep and that there was plenty of fish in them. Also that the grasses would reach to the neck of a horse. That no place had changed so fast as Eastern Oklahoma after men put a plow to it. He was to young to stake a claim but was riding with his brother James who came here to open his law offices in Muskogee.
He started a Pharmacy at Warner Oklahoma. Where he met Louise Eads.
Uncle Earl Eads told a story about him said they were all going to Church on a Sunday evening that Emma Eads had her rifle over her Shoulder and Thomas her husband was carrying his rifle also And that Silas had his Double-barreled shotgun in fact Earl said that was all he ever carried. and that they saw some movement away from the trail. Remember that at these early days there was no electricity all they had to guide them was the light of the moon or maybe some kind of crude flashlight. anyway grandpa followed the prowlers back to grandma Eades chicken pen, caut them trying to take chickens off the roost. Which back then he could have killed them and there would not have been anything said about it. Grandpa told these people that if mrs. Eads missed any more chickens he was coming looking for them and they better keep all their worthless buddies away from that chicken coop. Uncle Earl said they didn't miss anymore chickens.
When the Huckleberrys moved to Grandview Ok. Uncle Silas III said that there were some guys that would ride by and Holler and yell and scare the livestock. On Halloween night they herd them coming Grandpa steped out on his porch in his underwear they told him that you'd better go back inside old man were going to shoot. Grandpa said shoot you blankety blanks they shot in the aiy grandpa shot at the gun muzzles he killed one of their horses and wounded one of the guys. No more trouble out of them.
From there they moved to Shadey Grove down by Hulbert.
Allie Moore Told the story about when during the depression that they would hunt for Coon and sell the hides. He said that grandpa loved to hunt, and he talked Allie into taking the dogs out just a little before the season started to tune them up. he said no one would know they were out early. Well as the dogs got on a trail they heard a car on the road, remember there weren't many cars on the roads back then this was during the depression of 1939, They sliped around to see who it might be and sure enough there were two men getting out of the car and they had white coats on that is what the Oklahoma game rangers wore back then. They knew that the dogs would come on home and woulden't let a stranger catch them so they went home themselves. A few days later the game rangers came by the house and asked my grandfather if he knew of anyone that might be hunting out of season. they told him that they new he would tell them if he new since he was such a fine upstanding citizen. Allie was young back then and said the money that they could get out of the Coon hides kept his and my family fed during those hard times. He also said that Uncle silas could prime the hides out so they brought top dollar. However he didn't like to hunt. More about this under Silas the III.
Grandpa had no use for preachers because when he was young the influential preachers in town would come out to the big house and they would play cards (Gambeling and drinking the weekend away) and they would take the boys beds while they were there.
After they became Jehovah's Witnesses they moved up near Peggs.
While the rest of the family was out in service one day a pig got out while grandpa was chasing the pig there was a low gate, it had a bar across it. It was at the right height to catch him accross the forehead. He was real sick when the rest of the family got back. They took him to the Hospital at Pryor. Uncle Silas said he woke up and said good-by to him and told him that he would die that night about 3:A.M uncle Silas said it was realy within a matter of 1/2 an hour of when he called it. you see back then they didn't know what to do with a concussion that had gon in and was putting pressure on the brain.
More About Silas Thomas Huckleberry II:
Accomplishment: 1891, Rode Into Oklahoma in land run.
Fact 2: Had a Pharmacy in Warner Okla..
More About Silas Thomas Huckleberry II and Emma Louise Eads:
Marriage: December 22, 1907, Muskogee Ok..
Children of Silas Thomas Huckleberry II and Emma Louise Eads are:
- +Ruth Louise Huckleberry, b. April 30, 1916, Grandview Ok, d. May 12, 1982, Coweta, Ok.
- Silas Thomas Huckleberry III, b. March 30, 1909, Muskogee Ok, d. 1943, Pryor okl.

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