This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: DAVIS EWING SPARKS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1802.1.2 Message Board Post: HI KATHY; I WOULD LOVE SOME SEEDS, FROM RUSH. MY GRAND FATHER RAISED HIS WATERMELONS WEST OF TOWN ON THE EWING PLACE.AS DID MY UNCLE RUBEN EWING . HE SOLD THE OLD PLACE IN THE 70S IT WAS ON THE HILL SOUTH OF THE OLD HYWAY MAINTANCE BARN WEST ON 17 AND SOUTH TO THE NEXT ROAD WEST . UP THE HILL THEY BUILT THE HOUSE IN 1935 ,I WALKED TOTHE FARM FROM TOWN AND CARRIED GROCERIES FOR MY GRANDMA FROM TH E CAST STORE ON BLAKLEY.I WILLSEND YOU MY STREET ADD IF YOU REPLY MARY IN TEXAS

Hello... I'm new to the list. Is there anyone that would be able to obtain an obituary for me for the following person?: Howard Richard "Dick" ALCORN - Age 79 Died: 15 Sep 1970, Chickasaw, Grady Co., OK (wife: Clara) I would also be interested in hearing from anyone with connections to Dick. I have some of his ALCORN ancestry to share and will hopefully be gathering more. His parents had 7 sons and 2 daughters. Any information or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Bev in Calif.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1813 Message Board Post: Does anyone know where Dustin Stout is are his email address, needed to ask him family questions. Thanks Becky Rodgers

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/34.78.1.1.1.1.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Error in my prior post: Leo Caraway and my mother divorced in 1963, not 1973. And one additional note, I DO recall that Leo's sister-in-law was ADA, as YOU list. Glendora was near where we lived in Covina, where Ada's husband died or was buried. I wonder if Ada is still living. My mother (she'll be 85 next mos) still fondly recalls her conversations with Ada.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bobbitt, Woods, Jewell, Hall, Ramsey, Hampton, Riley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/34.78.1.1.1.1.3.1 Message Board Post: I had a step-father once, named Leo Rance Caraway. I'm sure this is the same man named in your post. However, he was born in 1913, not 1914, I'm sure of that. My mom agrees. He was born the same yr as my dad. My mother was married to him for 4 yrs in the early 1960's in Covina, So. CALIF. Leo was a construction worker and had a daughter named LOUELLA LEE CARAWAY from a previous marriage. I only met her once in Hollywood where she lived and worked. Her birth yr would have been abt. 1937. I did a search on her name and discovered she ended up becoming a writer for the tv show Dallas and such. Think I found her deceased in my searches on the internet, several years ago. Leo was supposed to have drowned I was told, in Okla I believe, when he fell off a boat. He married after my mother (divorced abt 1973) and had a son (only son), I was told. I don't know his name or age. My mother used to keep in touch with Leo's sister or sister-in-law in CA but she's probably not with us! any longer either. Hope this helps.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1809.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Maggie, Thank you so very much for the obituary of my great aunt, Minnie Wright. I am very happy to have it, and I appreciate your trouble more than you can know. Velma Finley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1809.1.1 Message Board Post: From the Rush Springs Gazette, Rush Springs, Grady county, Oklahoma, Thursday, June 11, 1964, front page. "Services Were Held Here Sunday for Mrs. Minnie Wright Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Alice Wright were held Sunday, June 7th at 2:30 p.m. from the Southern Baptist Church. The Rev. Lesley W. James, pastor of the Vimy Ridge Baptist Church of which she was a member, officiated. Mrs. Wright, 72, was born March 8, 1892 in Hollytree, Alabama and died June 5th at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha. She had been a resident of Rush Springs for 55 years. On February 18, 1912, she was united in marriage to Walter A. Wright in Rush Springs. Pallbearers were Alva Tims, Ernest Evans, Att Tims, Luster Dorman, Woodrow McDaniel and Bud Brewer. Burial in the Rush Springs cemetery was under the direction of Callaway-Smith Funeral Home. Survivors include her husband, Walter A. Wright of Rush Springs; one son, Odel Wright also of Rush Springs; and three sisters, Mrs. Lissie Prince of Fort Gibson, Mrs. Willie Heard ofRush Springs and Mrs. Mae Wells of Plainview, Texas." If you want to see the Rush Springs cemtery listing, go to OKGenWeb on the internet search. Enter Oklahoma Generalogy website, Counties, County List, Grady County, Cemeteres, Rush Springs Cemetery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1811.2 Message Board Post: From the Chandler News-Publicist, Chandler, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, Thursday, September 14, 1944, front page and page 8. "FUNERAL SERVICES HELD MONDAY FOR CHRISTIAN HANSEN Funeral service for Christian Hansen, one of Lincoln county's foreign-born citizens, were held Monday afternoon at 2:30 at the Columbia Friends church, north of Chandler. Reverand Carr, pastor of the Columbia Friends church, officiated. Interment was made in the Osage cemetery near Agra with the Gayman-Sutton-Downing Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Christian Hansen was born in the little village of Uledee, of Denmark, on April 2, 1858. He came to America at the age of 22, and although at the time of his arrival in New York City he could speak no English, he overcame this handicap so thoroughly that he taught school for a time in Kansas. Soon after his arrival in this country he was converted and joined the Friends church. Later he became a recorded minister in this faith and continued to work in the church until old age and ill health prevented. He married Miss Frances Whitney at Friends Academy, Washington, Kansas. To this union, ten children were born, all of whom are living. Besides the widow, Mrs. Myrtle Hansen of Tryon, Oklahoma, the children are; Capt. Ralph Hansen, a prisoner of war in Japan; Roscoe and John of Tulare, California; Bud of Pueblo, Colorado; Max and Robert of Tryon; Mrs. Helen Moore of Tryon; Mrs. Mildred Dennison of Bakersfield, California; Mrs. Hazel Bowers of San Diego, California; and Mrs. Mabel Booth of Tonopah, Nevada. In addition, there are 21 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren, three of the grandchildren having preceded him in death. He leaves also a brother, Peter, of Tonganoxie, Kansas and a sister, Sophia, in Denmark. He died quietly in the Cushing hospital at the age of 86 years, 5 months and 7 days. Besides the relatives, a host of friends and neighbors regret the passing of one whose life and service to his fellow men furnished a living testimony of his walk with the Master." From the Chandler News-Publicist, Chandler, Lincoln county, Oklahoma, Thursday, December 23, 1954, front page. "Services Thursday for Mrs. Hansen Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Hansen, 84, will be conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Columbia Friends church. Rev. A. J. Bales will officiate. Burial will be in the Osage cemetery with Curry Funeral Home directing arrangements. Mrs. Hansen died early Tuesday at her home, 10 miles north of Chandler. Born at New Rochelle, Illinois, April 5, 1870, Myrtle Frances Whitney moved with her pioneering parents to Washington county Kansas when she was nine years old. She grew to womanhood there and taught school in Kansas for several years. In 1893 she was united in marriage to Christian Hansen, who preceded her in death September, 1944. To this union ten children were born. One son, John, preceded her in death April, 1951. In 1902 they moved to Oklahoma Territory near Tryon. At an early age she joined the Methodist church, later becoming a member of the Friends church. Survivors include five sons, Major Ralph W. Hansen of San Francisco, California; Rev. Roscoe Hansen of Tulare, California; C. E. Hansen of Pueblo, Colorado; Max Hansen of the home and Robert Hansen of Carney; four daughters, Mrs. Helen Moore of Tryon; Mrs. Hazel Bowers of San Diego, California; Mrs. Mildred Harvey of Mohave, California and Mrs. Mable Ross of Victoria, Texas; 24 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Taylor-Richey-Baxter-Stripling Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1812 Message Board Post: Am searching for information on ggrandfather. He and family are on the 1880 Richland, Ark. Census. It mentions his mother 'Jane' age 90 as living with them. Does anyone have any information on this family and the father's name? Where are Nelson and Jane buried? Need info for family connection and DAR records. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Linda --- [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1809.2.1 Message Board Post: The house is on the west of the street south of the main street which runs east and west. It is a very old looking empty house. I am not familiar enough with the street names in Rush Springs. We were passing through on our way to Marlow after locating my great grandmother burial site in Rush Springs cemetery. I called to see if any records were available and a fire had burned all the previous records. I have her funeral information, but there was not much information on it. Her name on the headstone is Lorena Wright, but I have found in the census records where she was also wife of a Jennings. I have found Bennett and Lorina Wright located on the 1910 census in Cross Township, but have been unable to do more research on it. I also found my grandparents Claud and Bessie Wright on the 1930 census in Starr Township. Any information which you find I would love to have especially on my great grandmother side of the family. There is very little information about them left with th! e existing family members. The census information is very confusing when one states she was born in Ark, but have been unable to find her on the 1880 census by Lorena Williams which I have been told was her maiden name. I was hoping any information found on deeds or anything else would conclude her maiden name was Williams and her true name was Lorena Williams Wright. Here is all the information which I have been told on them. They lived on a farm in Grady county just north of Marlow where the county line is. Their children are Flossie, Leonard, Claud, Albert, Walter, Willie C., Bessie. I know Bennett Wright left his family and moved to California when the children were young.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1809.2 Message Board Post: Hi, I lived in Rush Springs and do alot of research. Are you saying the house is south of the bank on Rush Street? How many blocks down from Blakely street(the main street going east and west)? I can look for the land grant records tomorrow. Do you need any obits or any other info?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hansen, Hanson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1811.1 Message Board Post: It seems you were looking in the right spot. I find a Christian Hanson in Lincoln County, Osage Township in in the 1910 census. His wife is named Myrtle, native of Illinois. The copy is difficult to read, but it appears that it is a family of six boys and three girls. I think the oldest child is named Ralph and the youngest, Robert. The six oldest children were born in Kansas, so looking at the ages of the children, it appears they moved to Oklahoma between 1901-1905. In 1900, you'll find the family living in Jefferson County, Union Township, KS. The children are sons, Ralph, Roscoe, and Caryl, and daughters, Helen and Hazel.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1809.1 Message Board Post: Linda, I'm sorry that I cannot answer your question about homesteading, but I'm interested in your WRIGHTS in Rush Springs. My grandmother had a sister, Minnie WRIGHT, who lived near (or in) Rush Springs with her husband. I can't remember his name, but they had a son, Odell WRIGHT. Odell's wife was Tommie WRIGHT. Are you at all familiar with these people? I think that I have Minnie's husband's first name somewhere, but I would have to hunt for it. Thanks, Velma Finley

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hansen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1811 Message Board Post: Hi. I'm looking for Christian Hansen. I was told he settled near Chandler, OK and so always looked for him in Lincoln Co. Recently found info that Chandler township is also in Grady and Comanche counties. He was Quaker; married to Myrtle Whitney Hansen and had several children. I think some remain in the area. He came from Denmark and settled about 1903?. He was a farmer. Ring a bell? Please reply to Margie at [email protected] Thanks

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cantrel/Parker/Paden/Peden/Land Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1810 Message Board Post: Hi; Am looking for info on Susan Parker (1801) and her parents; who was married to Richard D. Cantrel. Also, anyone who knows about the Paden/Peden family who lived in the Stilwell, Ok area in the early 1900's. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1809 Message Board Post: I want to know where to look for the ownership of a house located in Rush Springs after 1901. I am unsure of what year my gr.grandmother Lorena Wright and Albert B. Wright along with my grandfather Claud Wright b. 1901 lived there. My mother showed me a house as you are going through town. It is located south of the main street as you are traveling through Rush Springs to connect again to 81. Any information would be greatly appreciated. I have very little information on my grandfather's family and seem to be hitting walls when looking for information. She is buried in Rush Springs Cemetery. linda

Hi All: Ed Stewart, if you are on this list please email me. I have a photo of the stone for the below and can't find them in Grady County. If anyone else can help the stone is for: Lawrence D. & Mary L. Fleming Best, Sandi Carter http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/grady/grady.htm

I am seeking Chief Joe One Star, a professed Cherokee, born in Minco, who lost his parents early on. I seek his parents, too, though that may not be readily possible. Can you help? Here is the obituary: The following is the complete text of the obituary which was in the Quakertown Free Press August 21,1957: Joseph Eagle One Star, (Chief One Star), of Haycock Mountain, Kellers Church, died Monday afternoon, in Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, where he was admitted three weeks ago. He was born in Minko, Oklahoma September 17, 1900. His parents died when he was an infant. Chief One Star was brought up and educated in the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian School, graduating in 1917. A traveler, lecturer and artist, he lectured in many schools throughout the country, on Indian Folklore of yesteryear and today. Following his extensive traveling around the country, he located in the Haycock Mountain area, 12 years ago, declaring he liked this section best and would settle there. He lectured in many hospitals, schools and children's homes in Upper Bucks, Lehigh and Montgomery Counties. Survivors include his wife, a step-daughter, Emma, of Gloucester, N. J., and a step-son, William Sultzer, with the U.S. Army, in Germany. Funeral services will take place Saturday, August 24, 1957, from the Meier Home for Funerals, 87 Main Street, Sellersville. Friends may call at the funeral home, Friday, after 7 p.m. Thanks! Vince Summers

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/1788.1.2 Message Board Post: Kathy, Are you still doing the Grave Marker Photos in Grady County? If so, please let me know as I would like to make a request. Please email me. Thanks, Debbie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RE ; RUSH SPRINGS (GRADY COUNTY) WATERMELON SEEDS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kYB.2ACE/1802.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello, I would love to have some rush springs water melon seeds . Please email me and ill send you my snail address . I have had a rush springs watermellonsince i been a kid