George Houston Hugh

Death by Force

George Houston “Hugh” Myers, a 45-year-old white male serving as city marshal of Davis in what was then Indian Territory, had been born in Hamblen County, Tennessee, in 1855 and moved west with his wife Sarah around the mid-1880s, starting a family that eventually included a daughter, Wynnie, and a son, Franklin. In Davis he became the law in a rough railroad town on the edge of the Chickasaw Nation, a place where gunfire after dark was a familiar threat rather than a distant rumor. By the s ...Read More

City Marshal George Houston "Hugh" Myers