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By Jonita Mullins
Dec 21, 2020
In December of 1882, Alice Robertson and her mother Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson were living at Tullahassee Mission in what is now Wagoner County. For many years, Ann Eliza and her late husband William Robertson had directed the mission that had been founded in 1850. At one time, nearly a hundred Creek children boarded at the mission school, some of them orphans for whom the Robertsons cared and raised.
During the Civil War, the Robertson family had been forced to leave Indian Territory and the mission had closed for the duration of the war. Confederate troops had used the main mission building as a hospital. Other buildings had stabled their horses. When the Robertsons returned after the warâs end, they found their former home in sad disrepair. It was never fully restored before it was destroyed in a fire.