Did Matthew Keith Williams and Rachel Roper Williams have a son named I.D. Williams? I.D. is my gg-grandfather. He married Martha "Mattie" M. Matlock in Logan County, AR on 16 December 1886. His only child was Ethel Grace Williams, my g-grandmother born February 1894. She married William Fennell in Logan County and later David R. Barnett in Fannin County, TX. I.D. died between 1894 and 1897 and Mattie remarried to Frank Graham on 12 August 1897. Since there's no 1890 census, I've had a difficult time trying to track I.D. I cannot locate him in the 1880 census either. Please let me know if I.D. Williams is located in your family tree. > > From: MaeMay510@aol.com > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 09:12:12 EDT > To: OKPITTSB-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [OKPITTSB] Dow and McAlister families--first posting > > Hello, I've been lurking for a while hoping to see a name I recognize, but > to no avail. > I've been researching via internet from before Bill Gates turned the world > into our backyard, so I have a lot of material on Pittsburg Co > I'm a member of the Twin Territories organization. > But my vision is fading, I'm developing a problem in my hands that will stop > my typing one day so I'm concluding my research quickly and donating it to > Godfrey Library in CT. _www.godfrey.ord_ (http://www.godfrey.ord) (My > children say "thank you, thank you, thank you.") > > What I need are the tiny bits and pieces of documentation on my families. I > do have access to Ancestry.com, so don't need anything from there. Obits > would be great and I do have exact death dates that I can provide. > My first surname is DRAKE. > Simon DRAKE married Patience GREGORY in May 1817 in North Carolina. They > had 6 children in NC by 1830, then moved over the mountains to Greene Co., IN > where another (probably posthumous) child was born in TN. 1840 Patience was > head of household. > Their youngest son, Thomas M. Drake, attempted to move his family to Indian > Territory between 1860 and 1869. His pregnant wife (Sarah A. SMITH) died > enroute, as did twin neonatal sons. They are buried "in a saddle between two > hills in Kansas on the road to Texas." His son, my grandfather, William "Joe" > Drake, and uncle, Worthington Drake, went to Kansas, but by 1871 were in Dow, > Tobucksy Co., Indian Territory. > > After the Civil War, my great great grandparents, Dr. James Monroe HASTY and > his wife, Laura Ann HOWARD, moved from Chambers Co., AL to Logan Co., AR. > My other great great grandparents, pharmacist Mathew Keith WILLIAMS and his > wife, Rachel E. ROPER, moved after the Civil War from the Forsyth Co., GA area > to Logan Co., AR. Their eldest daughter, Annie Laura Williams, married > John Thomas Hasty. > Annie died after giving birth to 8 children in Logan Co., AR, then the > widower moved his motherless family to Dow, Tobucksy Co., Indian Territory. (He > married twice more, but those families moved from the area.) > > Here in Dow my grandfather, a widower, William Joe Drake, and my > grandmother, a widow, Laura Arkanzada Hasty (Mrs. J. Lee Williams), married 11 Feb. > 1906. Both had a child, Joe's an adult with children, and Ada's a small child. > Her husband was killed in the mines. > > Joe played a prominent part in Dow history. He was a union organizer and > was deported by the US Army from the territory to Arkansas, where he boarded a > train and returned to the territory. He was a member of the school board in > Dow. And he died miserably of throat cancer 14 Dec. 1922. He's buried in a > plowed field outside the Hartshorne Cemetery, along with his 2 small children > who died of diptheria. > Joe's father, Thomas M. Drake, married 3 times in Indian Territory. > First was to a woman named Dice S. She had one child, Laura Jane Drake who > married 1) John Thomas PICTON and 2) Charles Thomas LINN > Tom's second marriage was to the Choctaw/Cherokee woman, Rufina FOLSOM, > daughter of Rufus Folsom and Salina WADE. (Through her application in the Dawes > Rolls I found Simon and Patience Drake's data.) > Tom and Rufina had 3 children: George Washington Drake who married Beulah > WILLIAMS; Mabel Susan Drake who married Andrew Jackson CROW; and John Will > Drake who married Josie PITCHLYN-KORE. > > Tom's last marriage was to Izo ROBERTS, born in WV. They had 2 daughters: > Florence Drake who married the Italian immigrant, Frank GHIGLIERI,: and Rose > Drake who married Sidney DAILY and reputedly lived in NY after marriage. > Tom died 2 March 1902 and the family states he was buried in Krebs, perhaps > on his land rather than the cemetery. > > The HASTYs are a long tale, too, but most left the county and have scattered > far and wide. > Many of Thomas M. Drake's grandchildren and great grandchildren still live > in the county. > > I would very much like to hear from any descendants of these families. I do > have much of it, but the obits have not been found. They are a prime source > of information, I've found. > > This will be my last complete posting to the list, but I will respond to > queries if any relative happens to read this. > > Shirley Maynard > Hampton, VA > _MaeMay510@aol.com_ (mailto:MaeMay510@aol.com) > > > > ==== OKPITTSB Mailing List ==== > List Administrator: Vivian Sternenberg > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > Monica Barber Researching McKinney, Cloud, DuFour, Barber, Barnett family trees.