The 1850 census and the 1860 census gives his birthplace as Indiana.
The 1870 census and the 1880 census gives his birthplace as Tennessee.
When he died in 1898, Altus was in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory. Today, it is in Jackson County, Oklahoma.
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