Thomas Jarrett was our great-grandfather; his mother was a Cherokee Indian.
  Family tradition says he was raised by missionaries in Georgia. He married
  Margaret Manus in 1850 and their son was named Thomas Lafayette. He grew to
  manhood and chose for his life-ling partner, Nancy Rebecca Brown. Nancy was
  also born and raised in northern Georgia; she remembered when she was a little
  girl, hearing the guns and cannons of a nearby battle during the Civil War.
  The children of Tom and Nancy were Martha, Charles, Mary, Thomas L. Jr.,
  Herschell, and Sterling, Nancy's son by a previous marriage.
     In 1888, when young Tom Jr., was six years old, the family left Gerogia
  for a "new life". Traveling by wagon train they went to Trinidad, Colorado,
  where Tom Sr., worked in the mies and where Herschell was born. By 1890 the
  family had moved to Medicine Lodge. Nancy and Tom St., became active members
  in the Salvation Army and friends of Carry Nation. Their home was at 211
  North Market, it being one of the houses that Tom had built in this town.
     In 1893 Sterling, now 20, married Mary Williams and made the "Run" on the
  Cherokee Strip. they settled on the land he claimed near Byron, Oklahoma.
  Martha first married Charles Williams and later George Cloutman. Charles
  Jarrett, a veteran of the Spanish American War, married Matilda Williams.
  Mary married John Cullison. Herschell graduated from Medicine Lodge High
  School, class of 1905, but died of pneumonia just before graduating from
  college at the age of 20.
     Thomas L. Jarrtt Jr., for reasons of his own, dropped an "R" from his
  name. As a young man, he drove a trail herd from Mexico to Medicine Lodge.
  In 1907 he married 16 year old Maude Matilda (Minnie) - the youngest daughter
  of Henry Krause, proprietor of the Cottage Hotel in Alva, Oklahoma. Tom and
  Minnie's children were Augusta, Steven (named after Judge S.P. Garrison of
  Medicine Lodge), Doris, and Ellen Hope. The children and their cousins made
  their own amusements with a play-house among the Catalpa grove near their
  homes at the west end of town. They made playthings out of jar lids and
  thrown away dishes and used their imaginations.
     Tragedy came early to them; their grandfather Tom L. Sr., died Sept. 1918,
  then one month later their mother died suddenly of the Spanish "Flu"; she
  was 27 years old. Their grandmother, Nancy Rebecca joined their household to
  take care of them. Two years passed; Tom married Rachel Lovell and had one
  child, Kenneth.
     During World War II; Steve P. Jarett served in the Army Air Force; his
  sisters and their husbands migrated out to California, to work in the defense
  plants.
     In 1947 Steve married an English girl, Marguerite Spiers, known as "Jackie".
  They met in Algiers, North Africa. Jackie was a member of the British Royal
  Air Force. They have two sons Stefan and Keith.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 251  
     Submitted by: Steve P. Jarett