In a message dated 8/18/10 3:39:11 PM, luskad@bellsouth.net writes: > Check the Probate records in the County Courthouse where the land is > located > and you should be able to find when it was sold and to whom it was sold if > it was indeed sold. > I assume the land was in Cook County, Texas where your great grandfather > was > listed on the 1887 tax rolls.  In some states you can reserve the mineral > rights when a tract of land is sold. > Ann, This land was in Cleveland County Oklahoma just about four miles from the land of Jesse Barton. I'm involved in writing a book for the historical society here and we're doing a section on the early families, ie the ones who came for one of the land runs or shortly thereafter. Jack's family got their land in a run and Jesse Barton came about five years after that. They lived only about four miles apart and apparently never knew one another. However, I was talking to another cousin today. His grandmother was one of the children of Jesse Barton as was my grandfather. His grandmother married a guy whose family was also in the area where Jack's Lovelaces had their land and he remembered hearing them talk about the Lovelaces there getting their land in the run. He didn't realize until today when I told him, that they didn't mean our family. His grandfather's side of the family knew Jack's family before he married into our family. Lou Ann