--=======F471958======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-387E193D; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can anybody help with this? I know I've heard something about age of land run claimants, but can't remember where. >X-Sender: [email protected] >Organization: Landel Telecom -- http://www.landel.com/ >From: "Mike O'Connor" <[email protected]> >Subject: Oklahoma Land Records >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:30:03 EDT >To: [email protected] > > >Hello, Susan. I saw your e-mail address on a Rootsweb site and I thought you >might be able to give me some information. My grandfather took part in the >1889 land run and staked a claim in Logan County. Family lore has it that he >was forced to give up that land because he was under 21. He was born in >October 1868. Was 21, in fact, the legal minimum age at which men could claim >land? >I've also been told that the minimum age for females was 18 but that they >could claim only half the acrage that men could. Is that true? >I'm a native of Ponca City but live in Atlanta. > >Mike --=======F471958=======--
First Land run was Apr 22, 1889. Men had to be 21, which at that time was the legal age of majority for men. 18 for women or married, regardless of her age. Many men were unable to file their claim because they had not yet turned 21. Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Bradford" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 7:11 PM Subject: [OK-Coordinators] Fwd: Oklahoma Land Records --=======F471958======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-387E193D; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can anybody help with this? I know I've heard something about age of land run claimants, but can't remember where. >X-Sender: [email protected] >Organization: Landel Telecom -- http://www.landel.com/ >From: "Mike O'Connor" <[email protected]> >Subject: Oklahoma Land Records >Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:30:03 EDT >To: [email protected] > > >Hello, Susan. I saw your e-mail address on a Rootsweb site and I thought you >might be able to give me some information. My grandfather took part in the >1889 land run and staked a claim in Logan County. Family lore has it that he >was forced to give up that land because he was under 21. He was born in >October 1868. Was 21, in fact, the legal minimum age at which men could claim >land? >I've also been told that the minimum age for females was 18 but that they >could claim only half the acrage that men could. Is that true? >I'm a native of Ponca City but live in Atlanta. > >Mike --=======F471958=======-- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.346 / Virus Database: 194 - Release Date: 4/10/02