ALLEN OF UNCHUKA

ROBERTS, Miss Una M.

Published by Woman's Missionary Union, S(outhern) B(aptist) C(onvention, Baltimore, MD, 1917

About this Item

Single sheet folded to 16 x 9 cm. (3) pp. of text. No listings found on OCLC. The author of the story, identified as Miss Una M. Roberts, Arkansas, tells the story of a young orphaned Choctaw boy in thread bare clothing who finds his way to "the white Father-of-Boys," the superintendent of the Orphans' Home. He was searching for a place, "Unchuka," or "my home," where he would be cared for and given a chance at a stable life. Father [Joseph] Murrow of Murrow Orphans' Home of Atoka, Oklahoma offered him the physical comforts and education from which he would rise to the Christian faith, and a university education. The young man, given the name of "Allen Holmes" later enlisted in the army of the United States and, according to this story, continued to send communications back to Father Murrow from the far corners of the world where he was stationed. Father Joseph Murrow came to Indian Territory in the 1850s, and in 1902 helped found the Murrow Orphans' Home at Atoka, under the supervision of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Records at the Univ. of Oklahoma Library for the Murrow Orphans' Home list Allen Holmes, aged 12, on the roster of pupils for Sept. 1907, helping to date this piece.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ALLEN OF UNCHUKA
• Publisher: Woman's Missionary Union, S(outhern) B(aptist) C(onvention, Baltimore, MD
• Publication Date: 1917
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana
  • Religion