Word: sequoyah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Croker married Bula Benton Edmondson, 23, of Oklahoma, who was said to be a direct descendant of Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian chief (newspapers carried the bride's Indian name as Kotaw Kaluntuchy). At the wedding her hair was done in Indian style. Said she: "I have been inspired by the example of Pocahontas." When Croker died, at 80, he was buried at Glencairn near the bones of Thoroughbred Orby. He left some $5,000,000 to Kotaw Kaluntuchy Croker...
...governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed one voter: "Cox was the only...
...Jenkins' red brick mansion in fashionable Sequoyah Hills, where there had been no television set until the week that the call came from Washington, Mrs. Eva Jenkins watched with fascination. In their 28 years of marriage, she had never before seen her husband trying a case. After a few days of TV, she flew to Washington to watch him in person...