I went to Woodlawn School (the old one) several hundred years ago while the Euchee Mission was active. The old Woodlawn was located just to the south of what is now the administration building. When I was in grades 1-3, the Euchee area was fenced and we were not allowed to cut through there and had to go down to Lincoln Streed to get to the residential areas east of the mission. By fourth grade the mission had been opened and the Woodlawn 4th grades had classes in one of the two of three two storied buildings that were either dorms for the mission students or classrooms....I really don't remember. I do remember that there were four classes in each building. The buildings sat about where the parking lot is located on the east side of Woodlawn (new) and the HS. There was a house located on the property occupied by the Bonham family, I think. Both adult Bonhams were teachers. I don't recall any other homes ever being on that piece of land now occupied by the school. One of the old mission buildings was used as a Youth Center at one time and was near the center of the area now occupied by the schools. I lived in the 1400 block of Thompson Street and remember walking through the area. We were not allowed to fraternize with the Mission students, nor they with us. However, I recall that many of the students later attended Woodlawn. At my age, I hardly remember what happened yesterday, but I do remember Euchee Mission. Would you believe I felt discriminated against because I thought their school was for the more privileged??? WH ---------- > From: Marti Graham <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OKCREEK-L] Euchee Indian Mission/Boarding School > Date: Sunday, August 23, 1998 12:14 AM > > Not much genealogical information - but some history of the school. Found > nothing to indicate the exact location. Woodlawn School mentioned as being > on part of the original two acres is still located at the corner of Mission > and Lincoln. > > Plans to establish the Euchee Indian Boarding School began as early as > 1891, but the school was not built until 1894... > > The land was public domain, but in 1899 it was surveyed and 40 acres > reserved for the school... > > The school in the beginning was in charge of a Presbyterian Mission at Park > Hill. It had an 80 pupil capacity. The Council agreed that it be > co-educational with 50 Creeks and 50 Euchees. Noah Gregory was the first > Superintendent. > > When first organized the school had 3 buildings - 2 dorms and a 3 room > school less than a mile outside the city limits. > > 1925 it became a school for boys - 110 Euchees and Creeks and more > buildings were added. The girls were sent to Eufaula. 1928 the school > opened the Federal support, receiving Creek, Euchee, Cherokee and Seminole > boys. In 1929 ninth-grade boys were placed in the pubic schools of Sapulpa. > > 1895-1899 J. H. Land was Superintendent and Minister of the school. > 1900 Wm A. Sapulpa was the Superintendent. > > 1897 Creek Nation took over and provided for maintenance of the school. > 1907 control of the school was assumed by the Federal Government. > 1929 boys above forth grade were enrolled in Sapulpa City Schools. > 5/6th graders attended Woodlawn School which was located on the two acres > given to the City of Sapulpa by the Creek Nation. 7/8th grades attended > Washington School. The school accepted students from this area who were w/o > adequate homes having lost one or more parents. Boys must not have less > than 1/4 degree Indian blood. Creek, Euchee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Cherokee > tribes were enrolled. > > The Euchee Mission was abolished in 1947 by government order and pupils > absorbed by the Sapulpa School system. > > Source: Sapulpa, 74066 Vol. 1, p. 112 > > Other bits about Euchee Mission > > Stella Woodson, R. N. Nurse at Euchee Mission > Hattie Garber teacher at Euchee Mission > > Much credit for the founding of Euchee Mission is due to Samuel Brown, Noah > Gregory, Henry Land and Wm Sapulpa. > -- > Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator > mailto:[email protected] or mailto:[email protected] > http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/creek.htm OK Creek Co. > http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878 Genie Angels

Mornin' Wanda, In a message dated 8/23/98 11:02:33 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << My family is WIGGINS. .... Does your Marion list show any Wiggins'. I hate to tell you there's not one single WIGGINs in the entire book nor in the supplemental lists that have been issured. Of course, they may have been buried in unmarked graves, too. Unfortunately, the Marion County Familes, 1811-1900, book contains no WIGGINs, either. My theory at this time is to suspect the Yocum Cemetery may be in a surrounding county rather than Marion. Any ideas? <<I'm not sure how the Wiggins' and Yocum's connected, but I think it was through the Coker family. Mary (Polly) Wiggins was a Coker. Oh, wow! COKERs were like fleas in Marion County!!!!! Let me recommend the Marion County Homepage to you at http://www.hallmark.com so we don't eat up Creek Co's space and time. Sure wish you luck in your searchin'!!! Cordially........................................ John

Hi Jerri, Ok, I was young then (not that I'm old now :-) so memories are a bit foggy. My grandmother Wresche was a pretty devot Christian so her adult friends were often referred to as sister or brother. She had a friend that she referred to as Sister Mobley. She was a little older than my grandmother, who was born about 1900. Sister Mobley attended the Sapulpa Nazareen (sp) Church, and may have lived on Ross Road. I know she lived close and many of my grandmothers friends lived right there on Ross in Sapulpa where my grandmother lived. Sister Mobley was a widow in about 1960, but I remember her having family (sorry don't have any details about her family). Hope this helps, Diana

Hi! The Euchee school was located on a large plot of ground that extended from Mission & Lee streets south to Lincoln and East to what is now Watchhorn. The buildings were located east of Mission about 50-100 yards from the street. Altho I'm not Creek or Euchee (Part Cherokee) I took boxing from a Coach at the mission who was called "Two Thumbs". There is a Euchee Mission Society located at Okmulgee Ok. at the Creek Headquarters and I believe they have a complete roster of all who attended over the years. Another soource of information about the Mission will be Jim Hubbard at the Sapulpa Historical Society. Charlie Brooks

Hi everyone! I'm researching WILSON, STRAIN, KING, JONES, HORN in Sapulpa. The WILSON, STRAIN and KING families removed to Sapulpa from Vigo Co., IN 1907/08. Related families are: RUSH, FOSBURGH, HATLEY and SELF, to name a few. Any connections? Kim Holly [email protected]

I also work lots of hours, but I am willing to volunteer to transcribe some of the records. I am doing that right now on Cemetery records for Boone Co. AR. I am not great about getting things out in the mail....but if I can type it and e-mail it, it gets done. Count me in. Linda JENKINS Wensel.

Charlie, Your story along with the others, is making me believe that my grandmother (who was part Cherokee) COULD have attended the mission. Thanks for the info on the Creek headquarters. What a ton of info this group has to offer! Linda Jenkins Wensel

Wanda, Sounds like your LONG term memory is working just fine.....don't you just hate it when the short term memory isn't working! You have given some good history on the Mission. Linda Jenkins Wensel ......I went to Woodlawn School (the old one) several hundred years ago while the Euchee Mission was active. The old Woodlawn was located just to the south of what is now the administration building. When I was in grades 1-3, the Euchee area was fenced and we were not allowed to cut through there and had to go down to Lincoln Streed to get to the residential areas east of the mission. ........the Bonham family, I think. Both adult Bonhams were teachers. I don't recall any other homes ever being on that piece of land now occupied by the school. ......thought their school was for the more privileged??? WH

Not much genealogical information - but some history of the school. Found nothing to indicate the exact location. Woodlawn School mentioned as being on part of the original two acres is still located at the corner of Mission and Lincoln. Plans to establish the Euchee Indian Boarding School began as early as 1891, but the school was not built until 1894... The land was public domain, but in 1899 it was surveyed and 40 acres reserved for the school... The school in the beginning was in charge of a Presbyterian Mission at Park Hill. It had an 80 pupil capacity. The Council agreed that it be co-educational with 50 Creeks and 50 Euchees. Noah Gregory was the first Superintendent. When first organized the school had 3 buildings - 2 dorms and a 3 room school less than a mile outside the city limits. 1925 it became a school for boys - 110 Euchees and Creeks and more buildings were added. The girls were sent to Eufaula. 1928 the school opened the Federal support, receiving Creek, Euchee, Cherokee and Seminole boys. In 1929 ninth-grade boys were placed in the pubic schools of Sapulpa. 1895-1899 J. H. Land was Superintendent and Minister of the school. 1900 Wm A. Sapulpa was the Superintendent. 1897 Creek Nation took over and provided for maintenance of the school. 1907 control of the school was assumed by the Federal Government. 1929 boys above forth grade were enrolled in Sapulpa City Schools. 5/6th graders attended Woodlawn School which was located on the two acres given to the City of Sapulpa by the Creek Nation. 7/8th grades attended Washington School. The school accepted students from this area who were w/o adequate homes having lost one or more parents. Boys must not have less than 1/4 degree Indian blood. Creek, Euchee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Cherokee tribes were enrolled. The Euchee Mission was abolished in 1947 by government order and pupils absorbed by the Sapulpa School system. Source: Sapulpa, 74066 Vol. 1, p. 112 Other bits about Euchee Mission Stella Woodson, R. N. Nurse at Euchee Mission Hattie Garber teacher at Euchee Mission Much credit for the founding of Euchee Mission is due to Samuel Brown, Noah Gregory, Henry Land and Wm Sapulpa. -- Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator mailto:[email protected] or mailto:[email protected] http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/creek.htm OK Creek Co. http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878 Genie Angels

Hi everyone - Linda is correct that the 1910 census is available at the OHS and at various libraries -- but if we can gather the funds to pay for the CD then we will have the 1910 Creek Co. census online -- no more trips to the libraries, etc. - one click away and you will be able to check, recheck for any family. True, most of us have copies of our immediate family census information, but as we tie more families to ours we often need to relook at the census. At the OHS copies of census pages are 50 cents, if you go there and make them yourself. I don't have the time to make copies of that many pages. I hardly have time for my own. :) Some of the film has been used so long it's very hard to get good copies thus necessitating copying the same page several times. It has taken several emails yesterday and today to get all the facts very straight -- this is how I understand them -- We buy the CD from SK Publications for $160 [640 pages (estimated) at 25 cents per page] note - price was revised. Once the CD is ordered [$100 deposit required] SK Publications will order a new roll of microfilm from the National Archives and begin scanning the pages on the CD. The CD is scanned images of high quality xerox copies of the 1910 census pages. Once that is completed and the balance is paid it is shipped and volunteers take over transcribing the data. We as a group can transcribe the material ourselves or they will find volunteers to transcribe the material. Software is provided free to transcribes. After it is transcribed it will be kept in the USGenWeb Archives [the archives has a search engine] and Creek Co. may link to the text version and/or we may take a copy of the text version and recreate the census in any format we choose. All of this will take approximately 2-3 months, mostly dependent upon how many volunteers step forward to transcribe the material I personally think it's very worthwhile project. It may not immediately benefit each of us, but other cousins, etc. that come behind us will benefit. And isn't that what genealogy is all about, sharing with others. I hope I've covered everything, if not feel free to ask. If I don't know the answer, we'll find who does. So... is this still workable? SK Publications - http://www.skpub.com/genie/ 'click on Census on CD' Here's where the link to the USGenWeb Cenus project where the copy will be housed http://www.usgenweb.org/census/ Marti > I might be wrong, but I think I was told awhile back that the Oklahoma > Historical Society has that year of the census. Or is the state > archives a different place? What is the cost of the census, can we get > it thru the National Archives? Lets check it out. I have ordered thru > S&K, and there service is great. The only thing on the stuff that I > ordered, I could have got copies at the Historical Library for just > the cost of paper.

Jack, was just wondering if your brother's name is Jerry. Thanks! Jerri

Hi, you said on your Fauss>Wresche>Robertson post that you knew of some Mobleys. Any info would be appreciated....I'm having a hard time getting that line started. Thanks again! Jerri

In a message dated 8/22/98 10:04:16 AM US Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << two or three of my grandfather's brothers were buried in the Yocum family cemetery. Joe, Robert and Billie. Would you have any information on that cemetery? >> I have "Cemeteries of Marion County" by Lester and Marian BURNES, but it does not list a Yocum Cemetery. "Marion County Families, 1811-1900", published by the Marion Co Genealogical and Historical Society last year has pages of Yoachams. I'll be glad to do look-ups for you on individual names.

marti, Boy, you got a lot of info! Thank you so much, it cleared up a ton of questions for me! Since my grandmother had the cherokee blood, I could not understand how she would be able to go there...now I know. And as far as housing, she was sent to the area to live with her uncle...and he was working in the oil fields at the time I think...so not a very good housing situation I am sure. Thank you Linda JENKINS Wensel, [email protected] ...opened the Federal support, receiving Creek, Euchee, Cherokee and Seminole boys. In 1929 ninth-grade boys were placed in the pubic schools of Sapulpa. 1895-1899 J. H. Land was Superintendent and Minister of the school. 1900 Wm A. Sapulpa was the Superintendent. 1897 Creek Nation took over and provided for maintenance of the school. 1907 control of the school was assumed by the Federal Government. 1929 boys above forth grade were enrolled in Sapulpa City Schools. 5/6th graders attended Woodlawn School which was located on the two acres given to the City of Sapulpa by the Creek Nation. 7/8th grades attended Washington School. The school accepted students from this area who were w/o adequate homes having lost one or more parents. Boys must not have less than 1/4 degree Indian blood. Creek, Euchee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Cherokee tribes were enrolled.

Hi, I remember the school. It was referred to as the Indian Mission. It was located on the corner of Lincoln and ? in Sapulpa. The High School, and grade school , track etc. are there now so records might be with the other Sapulpa schools. I know the school was fully active in the 30's but I do not know when they fully renovated the area. Hope this helps. Diana

Hi, I am Diana Robertson. I left the Sapulpa area really about 1969. I visited my g andggparents so often I fell that I lived there but home base was OKla. Currently living in Jacksonville Florida. I am researching especially the Robertsons, John Robertson George Robertson George RobertsonJr. (father) also: MOEBOUS GRIGOR DIESEL FAUSS WRESCHE PS. To the group member researching Mobley, I knew some Mobley's there.(?)

Marti Graham wrote: > > Linda, have you been in touch with Charles & Bobbie Miller > <[email protected]>, Joplin MO re your COTHAM family? > > I keep notes in my Sunrise Cemetery book about who ask about who and have > them listed as inquiring about Ted Miller, Eldon Miller, Nora Estallee > Cotham Miller, Ruthy Parlee Cotham in May 1998. > > Are all these yours? If so, I'll put your name by the group. > STAFFORD, Allice Willard, Clarence M, J. Henry, James Henry, Patricia Ann, > Robert H. > WILLARD, Edna, Janie, John Henry, Louis, Wm. Moloum, Rachell, Ruby, William > > > STAFFORDS, WILLARDS, AND COTHAMS...Many are buried at Sunrise > > Cemetery. > > Marti I saw Charles and Bobbie when I was in Oklahoma. They came down from Joplin. Charles and I have been e-mailing for a while so it was great to meet them. I just sent them some old pictures of my 4th great-grandmother. We're also working with Jean Davidson who lives in Sapulpa. She is related to both my Cotham and Willard sides. Thanks, Linda

I am trying to find the burial place for Thomas Alexander GOWER and his wife Charlotta Clarkston GOWER. He died Jan 1932 and she died Feb 11, 1957. I understand they lived at a place called Newby. She remained there until she moved with a daughter Belle Johnson. I believe Belle's husband was William Johnson and they lived in or near Drumright. Thomas and Charlotta's son, Lewis GOWER, married Maude DOWDY Jan 18, 1909 in Mounds. I have written to the Creek Co. recorder, and they say they have no record of the GOWER deaths. Any help? Thanks, Janet Aust [email protected]

Thanks for the lead Diana, about the Indian Mission. Every clue helps! This has been a great day for info. Because of this list, I found a new cousin today. The PYLES line has been a brick wall...my great uncle, .Wm. H. PYLES changed his name to DELMAR, and I have never been able to find out anything about him. Well, Jack DELMAR a subscriber to this list, just happened to be the great grandson of Wm. H. DELMAR, and has filled in some blanks. I am glad this got so active this weekend. Thanks to all of you for sharing so much info. Linda JENKINS Wensel, [email protected]

---------- > From: Michael LeMasters <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OKCREEK-L] UNSUSCRIBE > Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 5:07 PM > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > Ok, here goes. > > Joyce Blackburn Steavenson > > I graduated at Kiefer School.....moved back here after being gone 27 yrs. > > My husband graduated Sapulpa H.S. > > I volunteer at the Sapulpa Historical Society Museum. > > I am researching is Blackburn, Rusher, Steavenson, Bennett. > > My sister in law is researching Lance. > > > > Joyce S. > I graduated from Kiefer in 1967, my dad in 1937 and my grandfather in 1915 along with a dozen other aunts , uncles and cousins Jack Delmar >