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A. C. Hampton was born in Cherokee County, N. C., May, 22, 1855, and is the son of H. H. and Elizabeth (Lowdermilk) Hampton, both natives of North Carolina, where they were married. They moved to Arkansas in 1872, and after a residence there of two years moved to the Cherokee Nation. They resided at first near Tallequah, but from there moved to Delaware District, and while residing there Mrs. Hampton died, August 17, 1887. The father now resides near Chelsea, on the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. A. C. Hampton was seventeen years of age when his parents removed to the West, and in the spring of 1875 he went to Texas and Mexico, for six years following the adventures of a cow-boy. He returned to the Cherokee Nation, and was married to Miss Mary Heisan, a native of Flint District, Cherokee Nation. She died in August, 1881, leaving one child, Florence Cherokee, who died September 5, 1881, at the age of twenty months and nine days. Mr. Hampton married, March 16, 1884, for his present wife, Miss Cora E. Jackson, a native of the Eastern Shawnee Reservation, and the daughter of John Jackson, chief of the Shawnees, whose death occurred April 16, 1883. To this marriage were born four children: William Howell, Oral and Dora (twins), and Zella Summers, the latter named by Col. Summers after his wife. Mr. Hampton has about 400 acres of land, 200 being under cultivation. He pays considerable attention to the rearing of cattle, and has about 110 head at the present time. He is also engaged in the rearing of fine horses, principally Norman and Clydesdale, and is the largest breeder of the Poland-China and Berkshire hogs in the jurisdiction of Quapaw Agency. He is a Master Mason in good standing, being demitted from Vinita Lodge in February, 1888. The grandmother of Mr. Hampton’s wife is a pure-blood Shawnee, and is now living between Mr. Hampton’s house and Seneca, a mile west of the latter point. She is considerably over a hundred years old, and has remarkable eyesight. She speaks only the Shawnee tongue. Mr. Hampton has about fifty acres in clover, and is the only man in the region who pays any attention to its growth.