Researching Olive Oatman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 17 people with the Oatman surname? In that year Oatman was ranked number 3562 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Olive means "Form of OLIVER. an olive" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Olive Oatman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Olive Oatman and the Oatman Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 10 people with the Oatman surname in the UK? Oatman is now ranked number 4032 for popularity in the UK. |
Oatman Family History Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Oatman surname in the USA? Oatman is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Olive Oatman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Olive Oatman
Olive Oatman
Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837 – March 21, 1903) was a woman born in Illinois. In 1851, while traveling from Illinois to California with a company of Brewsterites, the family was attacked by a small group from a Native American tribe. Though she identified them as Apache, they were most likely Tolkepayas (Western Yavapai). They clubbed many to death, left her brother Lorenzo for dead, and enslaved Olive and her younger sister Mary Ann, holding them captive for one year before they traded them to the Mohave people. While Lorenzo exhaustively attempted to recruit governmental help in searching for them, Mary Ann died from starvation and Olive spent four years with the Mohave.
Five years after the attack, she was repatriated into American society. The story of the Oatman Massacre began to be retold with dramatic license in the press, as well as in her own memoir and speeches. Novels, plays, movies, and poetry were inspired, which resonated in the media of the time and long afterward. She had become an oddity in 1860s America, partly because of the prominent blue tattooing of her face by the Mohave, making her the first known white woman with Native tattoo on record. Much of what actually occurred during her time with the Native Americans remains unknown.
The town of Oatman, Arizona, is named after the Oatman family and the massacre that occurred therein.
Source: Olive Oatman, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Oatman
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