Joe was a Countryman in the Choctaw Nation

 

   Now, Joseph was a blacksmith and farmer. He worked as a blacksmith and also worked 10 acres each for Mingoes Mushulatubbee and Folsom. He married a Choctaw bride who is never mentioned on a single piece of paper even while they were having children and paying taxes. That being said, his own mother was Choctaw but he was raised culturally white, and his brothers married Choctaw ladies as well. There was enough of a Choctaw heritage that one of our Keen relatives (Rufus, a barber in Jackson, Ms, USA) was used as an interpreter for the Choctaw whenever they came to Jackson, Ms for some time into the 20th century.

Link to Joseph and family on Armstrong Roll - Choctaw Nation Countryman