Inola is due east of Tulsa on US 412. If you look at a map you will see that US 412, I-44 and Hwy 88 form a triangle with Inola, Tulsa and Clarmore at the corners. Dog Creek is right in the river. The Verdigres River has a big bend near the center of the triangle. Dog creek flows in the river at this point. It meanders up through Claremore. Lake Claremore is formed from Dog Creek. It continues on north to it's source east of Foyil near the Mayes County line. Which coincidently is about 8 miles south of Chelsea. There is also a Little Dog Creek which has a source near the same spot. Gene At 05:00 PM 2/1/03, you wrote: > No I'm a mis-born/placed Okie. My dad is a Native Okie......Well, this >narrowed it down less than I thought it would ;) >Craig county would make sense as they were married there I believe. >Inola? Where's that by? (My boys have relocated my atlas or I'd look it up) >Thanks Gene you've been a big help. >Now I just gotta figure out where Nap/Knapp's place might have been. From >the sounds of her story (life) they owned several places throughout her >time. >Alli :) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gene Philips" <[email protected]> > > Apparently you aren't a native Okie or you would understand the reference >to Nap's Place. When you rented or sharecropped a farm, you always referred >to it by the owner's name. Therefore Nap's Place was owned by someone named >Nap, more likely Knapp. If Mr Nap or Knapp was deceased, it would be known >as the Old Nap Place even if you now owned it. >> >> 5-1/2 miles north of Chelsea will place you 1-1/2 miles within Nowata or >Craig county depending on which way from north you deviated. The road that >runs north from Chelsea jogs to the east at the Nowata County line about >2/10 of a mile and is the countyline between Nowata and Craig County. >> >> >Where would Dog Creek hills be? At one place they lived was a qtr. mile >from an old coal mine. >> >> The only Dog Creek I found in this area is northwest of Inola about 3 >miles. The mine could be any one of the hundreds of mines around this area. >I visited cousins in Inola once and I saw evidence everywhere of the mines. >Piles of slag & coal was all over. >> >> Gene > > > > >==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Saturday at 9pm-10pm CST >>>>>>>>> OKGenWeb Chat <<<<<<<< >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/helplinks/chat/chat.htm

Thanks alot for this info. Gene. It'll help a bunch. My Great Grandma refused to move to Dog Creek Hills because she thought that all of the outlaws stayed there. She lived there a year before she found out. :) Alli > Inola is due east of Tulsa on US 412. If you look at a map you will see that US 412, I-44 and Hwy 88 form a triangle with Inola, Tulsa and Clarmore at the corners. Dog Creek is right in the river. The Verdigres River has a big bend near the center of the triangle. Dog creek flows in the river at this point. It meanders up through Claremore. Lake Claremore is formed from Dog Creek. It continues on north to it's source east of Foyil near the Mayes County line. Which coincidently is about 8 miles south of Chelsea. There is also a Little Dog Creek which has a source near the same spot. > > Gene