In a message dated 8/18/10 2:49:07 PM, lovelacejackd@verizon.net writes: > > My grandmother, Julia Frances (Hartless) Lovelace was in Canadian > Township, Cleveland County, Oklahoma for the 1900 census. > This tells me that she may actually have sold the homestead not long after her husband died and before 1900 - or maybe she just wasn't living on it. Canadian Township is about 11 miles south of where they homesteaded. There were four or five Hill families living down in that area - possibly your grandmother's relatives. I have her father's name and didn't find him among those Hills, but I don't have any of her siblings or other relatives. If you know anything about the Hills and can send me that, I'll check those families and see if they relate. 1910 is the only census list I have for Canadian Township, so I can't check 1900. I didn't find any Hartlesses though or Leaches mentioned in that community at all, so I wonder why Julia would have gone there, unless maybe there was work opportunity. That area was thriving at that time - from about 1893 until through the 1920's it was quite a community. But then I show your grandpa Samuel marrying back up in Needmore in 1908 and that's where the homestead was, so maybe they still had it then. Wow! They did do some moving around, didn't they? It absolutely amazes me how people did that back when travel would not have exactly been easy. And it amazes me that they continued to come back to Oklahoma, especially that 1922 trip. I don't guess you know why they did that? Do you have any educated guesses about it? That was the time period when people started leaving here. I guess it was actually before the dust bowl and before the great depression, but WWI had happened and people were finding jobs elsewhere. I need to go check my notes, but I think that was also when drought was starting here. Down in Canadian Township they had had some thriving orchards and thriving lots of stuff, but drought killed most of it in the 1920's and by 1930 it had pretty much died as a thriving place. My grandpa Loveless's brother moved to CA around that same time period also. I've got to find some specific dates for that and I think I have them from one of his granddaughters. Lou Ann

Lou Ann, My grandfather, Samuel Linzy Lovelace, married Dovie Mae Hill, daughter of William Walter Hill and Mary Josephine Avants. William Walter and Mary Josephine lived across the road from George Talbert and Julia Frances. In 1900, William Walter Hill also lived in Canadian Township. In 1910, he was in Canadian Township No. 07 North, Range No.01 East. In 1920 and 1930, he was reported to be in Canadian Township. Once he settled on the place, he never moved. I suspect that William Walter and Mary Josephine also participated in the 1891 run, as they had a daughter born in 1889 in Texas and Dovie was born in 1891 in Needmore. Julia Frances Hartless married George Talbert Lovelace on 22 Jan 1880 in Cooke County, Texas. This was her second marriage. She was married previously to John T. Billingsley on 11 Feb 1876 in Cooke County, Texas. Julia was born in Greene County, Illinois on 26 Nov 1856. I suspect that Julia's family moved to Montague County, Texas, between 1861 and 1866. William Walter Hill and Mary Josephine Avants had fourteen children. They were: 01) John Edward Hill b: 21 Jul 1887, Texas. 02) Nora Eva Hill b: 28 Feb 1889, Texas. 03) Dovie Mae Hill b: 15 Feb 1891, Needmore. 04) Dora Ella Hill b: 17 Jul 1893, Needmore. 05) Gracie Ellen Hill b: 01 Oct 1895, Needmore. 06) James Roy Hill b: 29 Dec 1897, Needmore. 07) Rommie Alford Hill b: 15 Jan 1900, Needmore. 08) Joseph Henry Hill b: 10 Nov 1902, Needmore. 09) Frank Lenard Hill b: 06 Aug 1904, Needmore. 10) Tennie Lola Hill b: 08 Aug 1906, Needmore. 11) Ora Elizabeth Hill b: cApr 1909, Needmore. 12) Emmitt Luther Hill b: 03 Oct 1910, Needmore. 13) Everett Elmer Hill b: 17 Feb 1904, Needmore. 14) Vonille Hill b: 24 Dec 1920, Needmore, d: 24 Dec 1920, Needmore. -- Jack D. Lovelace