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     In the book "Enlisted Men, War of 1812" transcribed and indexed by Byron and Samuel Sistler, Nashville, TN 1992, is an entry for Private Isaac Impson. He apparently mustered under Col . Thomas Williamson and Capt. Beverly Williams as a Volunteer Mounted Gunmen. Also serving were Josiah and Alford, who could be Isaac’s brothers.

     Veller Sumter, states in "Tales of Atoka County Heritage, " that Josiah Impson was born on a 160 acre farm on Fannagusha Creek, Homes County, Miss The date was "about 1824, to Isaac Impson and a mother whose name we do not have. He had at least three brothers: William, born about 1822, Morris and Louis. There may have been other children."

     Perhaps other sons of Isaac were another Isaac , b. 1831, Miss. ; Benjamin , 1822, Miss.; Caleb, birth date unknown; and John, b. 1828.

      Hiram Impson, talks about the Impsons who were Choctaw Indians and came to the Indian Territory from Mississippi over the "Trail of Tears," in "Pittsburg County Oklahoma People and Places," 1977, Pittsburg Co. Historical and Genealogical Society., p.208.

      Isaac was listed on the Armstrong Rolls, which was the head count of Indians in Mississippi who were to be removed to Indian Territory (Oklahoma). In "Choctaw and Chickasaw Early Census Records," author Betty Wiltshire says on page 33:

     "Name of Indian Owning Farms: Isaac Impson; Number of Acres Cultivated: 14; Number of the Family: 8, Males over 16 years: 1 males and females under 10 years: (1white); Locality of Farms, Fun na gush a Creek (MS)

      Could 8 family members be Isaac, Nancy, Josiah, Morris, William, Lewis, Caleb and John? Who is the white girl?

     In the 1830 Mississippi Census, Isaac Impson is listed in Yazoo Co., 1 in household, white male, 20-40 years old. He was not listed in 1810, 1820 or 1840 Mississippi census

     Records are scarce concerning Isaac, but he could have been the Englishman who married a Mississippi Choctaw woman Nancy and became the patriarch of the Oklahoma Choctaw Impsons.