Benjamin Carven Heard ⁵⁶⁷

  General Notes:

Benjamin served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.

Benjamin was teaching in the Indian Nation when he met Dora M. Thomas whose father was a horse trader. To teach in the Indian Nation, Benjamin was required to post a $1000 bond. Benjamin and Dora were married by Rev. Leonard. Both taught in the Choctaw Indian Nation of Oklahoma. They also had a general store. After Benjamin and Dora’s deaths, Benjamin’s brother Andrew Jackson Heard brought their four surviving children to Arkansas and reared them near Lono.

  Life Events:

1. Occupation: Teacher, Owned General Store.

2. Military Service. Civil War

Benjamin married Dora M. Thomas on 27 Apr 1873 in Benton County, Arkansas, USA. (Dora M. Thomas died in 1889 in Oklahoma, USA and was buried in Summerfield, Le Flore, Oklahoma, USA.)