I'm interested!! Debbie > -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia J. Wallace [mailto:pjwallace@juno.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 12:08 AM > To: Indian-Territory-Roots-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Oklahoma Run list > > > Hello All, > > I ran into this while going through some old files of mine. > > This is just the introduction to the list of names. There are > a lot of names. > > Thought I would ask first. Is any one interested in this list? > > > PJ Wallace > ________________________________________________________ > > This is a list of names of those who claimed land in the > Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893. These names were recovered from a > computer database created before DOS. It has been hand edited into > an ASCII format. Please keep in mind that this should only serve as > a reference. It is unknown how complete or accurate this record > is. The city and state given are where the people came from. > > It was Sept. 16, 1893, the day of the largest land "run" in > history, the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement. 15,000 > people had gathered along the boundaries for many days and were > ready for the gunshot at noon to start them on their quest for > claims, every acre was claimed by nightfall. Land offices for the > filing of claims were at Perry, Enid, Alva and Woodward. Seven > counties had been designated in the Strip at that time, with letter > names K,L,M,N,O,P and Q with county names to be chosen later by the > settlers. > > K became KAY > L became Grant > M became Woods > N became Woodward > O became Garfield > P became Noble > Q became Pawnee > > At statehood the 7 counties became 10 1/2 counties, as ALFALFA > was created from part of Woods Co., Harper from part of Woodward > Co., and the north half of ELLIS was also from part of Woodward Co. > MAJOR was from the southern part of Woods Co. > > In this reference O.T. stands for Oklahoma Territory. > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > >