I am looking for any information on David C. OATES. Who migrated to Oklahoma Territory perhaps in 1900. He became Sheriff of Woods County OK. Was killed when his son David C. OATES Jr. was a small child. Sheriff OATES may have been from Cherokee Alabama in Colbert County Alabama. He was Postmaster there before the War Between the States. He had a son also named David C. OATES born in Tuscaloosa County Alabama in 1871. Sheriff OATES may have been a Confederate Veteran. But where is he buried, what happened to him. Anyone that maybe researching thius family please contact me.