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Family Stories from the Trail of Tears
edited by Lorrie Montiero
Dodge, Rachel
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May 14, 1937 |
| Field Worker: Grace Kelley |
Interview with Rachel Dodge; Born 1886 11 miles SE of Henryetta |
| Father:
Christopher Columbus Clay Born in the I. T.
Cherokee Nation |
Mother:
Polly Silk
Born, I. T. Cherokee Nation |
TRAIL OF TEARS,
by Rachel Dodge
Aggie Silk was my grandmother and she has told me of
the many hardships of the trip to this country. Many had chills and
fever from the exposure, change of country and they didn’t have too
much to eat. When they would get too sick to walk or ride, they were
put in the wagons and taken along until they died. The Indian doctors
couldn’t find the herbs they were used to and didn’t know the ones
they did find, so they couldn’t doctor them as they would have at
home. Some rode in wagons, some rode horses and some had to walk.
There was a large bunch when she came; she was sixteen years old.
They were Cherokees and stopped close to Muldrow where they built log
houses or cabins but they didn’t like this country at first as
everything was so strange. She married at twenty years of age.
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