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/1515.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Here's the info I have on FC Blakely Sr. Rush Springs Gazette: Came to Indian Territory from Missouri in 1874. Jeanne Casey <doverjac@aol.com> Frederick Claude Blakely b October 21, 1856 in Mississippi. m1) Martha Hall m2) Isabell Catherine Terry b.April 18, 1856. Child of Frederick & Martha (were there any other children?) Perry Hall Blakely Children of Frederick & Isabell: Nellie Katherine Blakely Laura Velma Blakely (My G Grandmother- m1 Leander Lee Lincoln) Lillie E. Blakely Edith Ethel Blakely Fred C. Blakely Grace Blakely Paul Milton Blakely I don't have any parents for Isabella. Fred Sr's first wife Martha Hall was the daughter of Perry Hall & Patsy Martin. Perry Hall was a Choctaw Indian whose claim included all the land that is presently Rush Springs. They had a son Perry Hall Blakely who named one of his son Fred C Blakely. Martha Hall inherited her father's land and when she died it passed to FC Blakely Sr. Part of the land was donated for the town of Rush Springs. I think Blakely Ave was named after PHB son. Jim Blakley, another son of Perrry Hall, died in April 2000 at age 94 in Wharton TX. I have his obit. I also have the obit of W R Blakey who died in Sep 1931 at the age of 86 in Paul's Valley OK.