Rev Peter FOLSOM

- 1885

• Name	Peter FOLSOM
  Prefix	Rev
  Born	Mississippi
  Gender	Male
  Clergy	Y
  Heritage	Choctaw
  Indigenous?	Y
  Married?	Y
  Died	9 Apr 1885	Scullyville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory
  Person ID	I11922	Main
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Edmund FOLSOM,   b. 1767, Rowan County, N Carolina
  Mother	--?-- MNU,   d. ?
  Family ID	F4027	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Peter had two wives according to the Choctaw custom, but after being converted to “religion” he remarried Ellen. He was the first Choctaw who united with a Baptist Church, 1829. He became a Baptist minister; established a number of churches, and developed and trained excellent pastors for them all. He was a prominent man in the councils and national affairs, and was often a delegate to Washington. Rev. J. L. Murrow in his sketch of Rev. Peter Folsom says: "Uncle Peter loved every body and everything that was good. His heart, his home, his purse were always open. He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of everybody,--red, white and black. He walked with God."