This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAGSDALE, REED Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/889 Message Board Post: RAGSDALE, J. E. married Fannie REED 5-29-1916 in Hughes Co., Ok. Book 5 Page 220

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YOUNG, BENSON Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/888 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Democrat 1-20-1927 Pg. 1 6 Year Search For Man Ends At His Grave A six year search for P. W. YOUNG, wanted here to answer to a charge of disposing of mortgaged property, ended last week at a grave in the De Queen, Arkansas cemetery. YOUNG was living on a farm near Holdenville in 1920. He suddenly disappeared, after disposing of certain property against which the Farmers National Bank of this city held a mortgage. G. L. BENSON, president of the bank, immediately launched a search. He kept on the absconding mortgagor’s “trail” and traced him through more than a dozen states. Occasionally the trail would fade away, but the persistent banker never failed to recover it. He finally located YOUNG’s family in De Queen, Arkansas but YOUNG could not be brought to an accounting. He was dead and buried in De Queen Cemetery. “Such searches sometimes lead us to the hunted man’s grave, but we never give them up as long as the wayfarer lives,” said the banker. A few years ago Mr. BENSON made a trip to a neighboring state for the sole purpose of viewing the remains of a suicide who was being brought back to Holdenville to answer the charge of disposing of property mortgaged to the bank. The man jumped out the window of the train on which he was being returned to Hughes county and before officers could recapture him he had committed suicide by hanging himself to a tree. “I wanted to be sure that the dead man was the “right man”, the banker declared. Incidentally, he brought back the piece of barbed wire used in the suicide and had it on “display” in his office for sometime.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAGSDALE Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/887 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: RAGSDALE, Dolton D. Age: 1 year 9 months Sex: M Died: 12-12-1904 Buried: 12-13-1904 Blk: OC Lot: 350 Grave: 4 Bk: 1 Pg: 97 Parents: Mr. And Mrs. J. T. RAGSDALE Birth: 1903 Owner of Plot: J. T. RAGSDALE Deed: 3-3-1905 Born: Holdenville Died: Holdenville

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RAGSDALE, FELIX Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/886 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: RAGSDALE, J. T. Age: 66 Sex: M Died: 8-22-1929 Buried: 8-23-1929 Blk: OC Lot: 350 Grave: 7 Bk: 1 Pg: 97 Parents: Jessie And Orphen RAGSDALE Birth: 1863 Owner of Plot: J. T. RAGSDALE Deed: 3-3-1905 Born: Arkansas Died: Holdenville Cause: Dropsey Doctor: T. B. FELIX

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YOUNG, RAGSDALE, MARTIN Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/885 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: YOUNG, Isaac Age: 35 Sex: M Died: 7-8-1926 Buried: 7-9-1926 Blk: OC Lot: 350 Grave: 3 Bk: 1 Pg: 97 Parents: Mr. And Mrs. George YOUNG Birth: 3-3-1905 Owner of Plot: J. T. RAGSDALE Born: Arkansas Died: Wewoka, Ok. Cause: Lung Trouble Doctor: MARTIN

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: RYAN Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/884 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: RYAN, William J. Age: 78 Sex: M Died: 4-10-1945 Buried: 4-12-1945 Blk: OC Lot: 150 Grave: 2 Bk. 1 Pg: 40 Parents: Thomas G. and Martha RYAN Birth: 1867 Owner of Plot: W. J. RYAN Deed: 10-15-1915 Born: Marsh Creek, Kentucky Died: P & S Hospital, Holdenville Cause: Old Age {There was no obit on file.}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CONNOR, MULLINS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/883 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library] Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: CONNOR, Mary Etta Age: 79 Sex: F Died: 4-27-1953 Buried: 5-4-1953 Blk: OC Lot: 388 Grave: 6 Bk: 1 Pg: 106 Parents: Mr. And Mrs. Booker MULLINS Birth: 1874 Owner of Plot: F. C. MULLINS Deed: 10-22-1910 Died: Palo Pinto, Texas ***I’m sure this should have been “Born”*** Died: San Pablo, Ca. Cause: Old Age {No obit on file}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: NELSON, MULLINS, ATKINS Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/882 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: NELSON, Frances Charles Age: 47 Sex: M Died: 1-19-1916 Buried: 1-21-1916 Blk: OC Lot: 388 Grave: 7 Bk: 1 Pg: 106 Parents: Thomas B. and Mary Jane NELSON Birth: 1869 Owner of Plot: F. C. MULLINS Deed: 10-22-1910 Born: Missouri Died: Holdenville, Ok. Cause: Pneumonia Doctor: ATKINS {No obit on file}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: YATES, MCLAIN Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/881 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: YATES, Jefferson Davis Age: Sex: M Died: 4-15-1981 Buried: 4-17-1981 Blk: A Lot: 45 Grave: 4 Bk: 3 Pg: 22 Owner of Plot: Mrs. Madge MCLAIN Date of Deed: 6-15-1945 Died: Holdenville, Ok. Doctor: 3217 {No obit on file}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LONG Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/880 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: LONG, Cassandra Age: 47 Sex: F Died: 2-14-1904 Buried: 2-15-1904 Blk: OC Lot: 414 Grave: 6 Bk: 1 Pg: 113 Wife of H. C. LONG Birth: 1857 Owner of Plot: Strangers Row {No obit on file}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LONG, CUMMINGS, ATKINS, DAVENPORT Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/879 Message Board Post: >From the Holdenville Library Holdenville Cemetery Card File Deceased: LONG, H. C. Age: 76 Sex: M Died: 7-2-1928 Buried: 7-3-1928 Blk: OC Lot: 339 Grave: 1 Bk: 1 Pg: 93 Birth: 1852 Owner of Plot: J. L. G. CUMMINGS Deed: 7-3-1928 Born: Arkansas Died: Yeager, Ok. Cause: Old Age Doctor: ATKINS and DAVENPORT {No obit on file}

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAWSON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/878 Message Board Post: Don CLAWSON Dies Wednesday Night Brother of Local Newspaper Publisher Succumbs After Long Illness Donnie Dean CLAWSON, 48 year old brother of the publisher of the Tribune, weekly newspaper here, died last night at Muskogee after an illness of several years. Funeral services will be conducted at the Guiple Funeral Home at Muskogee 2’oclock tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be in Muskogee Cemetery. He was born in Columbus, Kansas on March 22, 1855, and moved to Holdenville with his father founder of the weekly newspaper here, in February 1901. At one time he was employed on his father’s newspaper here. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, Martha, and a son Joe CLAWSON, who is in the newspaper work at Key West, Florida and five brothers, G. A. of Ft. Gibson, W. J. of St. Louis and W. R., L. L. and D. E. of Holdenville.

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/nYB.2ACE/592.1 Message Board Post: My uncle's name was Jim Peters He past away in spring of 2001 he may have been a son or grandson of some the people your looking for his wife and children live in Seminol OK e-mail me or call me may be I can help you.

Dear List Members: The Holiday Season is over and I am back home again. I want to thank each of you for helping to keep our list running smoothly while I was spending Christmas with three of my children and their families in Delaware and Maryland. I had a wonderful time but came down the flu the day after Christmas which turned in to pneumonia so my week away from you turned into over two weeks. I am doing better, still weak and coughing but on the road to better heath. One other problem while I was away, I had downloaded a huge amount messages on my laptop while in Delaware and my laptop crashed. If you tried to send me a personal message from the 23rd to the 30th of December, I lost it and you will need to re-send. It is time again for your last Quarterly Report for 2001 as to the membership of the OKHUGHES Mailing List and additional items of interest. The OKHUGHES Mailing List has 66 members, 58 of these are subscribed to the Regular List and 8 to the Digest List. If you would like to visit the archived messages you may go to http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl and type in OKHUGHES. From there you can search by keyword. There is a great Rootsweb site you can go to if you want to find out what Rootsweb lists you are a member of or need to unsubscribe from a list, just follow the instructions. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ I want to thank each of you for continuing to help make this list the success it is. I also want to thank you for your support of me and your willingness to follow the list rules. I have been a List Mom now since 1997 and truly feel I have the best List Members out there who have subscribed to the Mailing Lists I take care of for Rootsweb. Just a reminder so this list is better for each of us the posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact me at KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net There are a few items I would like to suggest for the benefit of each of us. 1. If someone posts a message to the list that should not have been posted, please just delete it. Know that I am taking care of the problem. If you post your unhappiness, then you just continue on the problem. I know it is hard when your heart has been offended, but for my sake, and the sake of the list, please just delete it. Rootsweb has a wonderful Spam Detective and it stops most of it. You should see what comes across my screen. I have to look at each of them to make sure that what was stopped was truly spam. Once in a while, one slips by though and if this happens, just delete it and go on with what we all love, genealogical research. 2. If you would put the subject of your posting in the subject line it might give you a better chance to attract the attention of someone who has the information you are looking for or the attention of someone who is searching for the information you are posting. 3. Please remember to delete the tags and un-needed words when you re-send a message to the list with your answer. If you don't check this, your responses can become quite large and may cause problems with some of our member's servers. This member who might not be able to receive your message because of its size, just might be your long lost second cousin with all the answers you are looking for. 4. The wonderful relationship that develops between list members is also one of a Mailing Lists Problems. I encourage you to respond to the entire list with genealogical responses, you never know who your response will help. In the same thought I would like to ask you to not respond to the entire list with personal responses. Such as the first message from a member says Says "Happy Birthday Joan" and then Joan says "Thank you" and then about 60 of our members also send "Happy Birthday Joan". This is what I mean by personal messages. Just keep in mind anything is ok to be posted as long as it has to do with the subject of the list. If you have a doubt ask me. KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net 5. Please keep your Virus Scan updated as often as possible. If by chance one of our members unknowingly sends out a virus, please let me take care of it behind the scenes. Know that if you received it, I most likely did also. If you are concerned that I am not aware of the effected system, contact me personally KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net Please do not post to the entire list the name and e-mail address of the person you feel has the virus. If you are interested in knowing about other mailing list out there, one of the very best inventories of genealogical mailing lists is John Fuller's Genealogy Resources on the Internet located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html I wish for each of you a success in the year 2002 with your most difficult genealogical mystery. Kathleen Burnett List Mom KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net

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/nYB.2ACE/764.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any information on the Ed Adkins shown in your post? As in spouse or birth information? Thank you

Does anyone know anything about where Francis Marion Ward was buried and when in Hughes County? He left Meigs County, TN in the early 1900s and moved to Wetumka, OK in Hughes Co. He was born in 1870. He visited in Tennessee in the 1940s when he would have been in his 70s. Any help with information about Francis Marion Ward or his family members would be appreciated. Betty Carolyn Ward Betty Carolyn Ward P. O. Box 22 Decatur, TN 37322 wardb@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us

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/nYB.2ACE/877 Message Board Post: Searching for any information on Annie Mae Horn Pebsworth aka Anna Marie Reeder. Married to James Lee Pebsworth in the Chickasaw Nation in 1905 at the age of 18. Gave birth to a son in "Ada", May 1908, possibly as a "single" parent. Could have lived with a family member name Reeder or friend. Annie would have been 21 at the time of the birth, she was born in 1887. Have heard she could have been of Cherokee decent. Also could have used the name of Radker. Any information will be 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/nYB.2ACE/876 Message Board Post: Seeking information on Wyatt Phillips, Zachariah C. Phillips and Louis S. Phillips...They are buried in the Pryor Cemetery, Hughes Co..I would like all dates and any info on the headstones...The brothers were all born in Fulton Co. Arkansas...Any information on their wives and children would be most appreciated, have family history to share from Arkansas...Thank you..Richard Dale Dotson

Dear List Members, just a reminder to those new members who don't know and those of us older members who have forgotten; if you have not visited the Oklahoma Survey and Virtual Cemetery web site lately, you need to. This is becoming one of the best Oklahoma Cemetery research sites on the web. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm Tammie Chada the Web Mistress and her many devoted volunteers spend hours and hours resurveying cemeteries to make sure the surveys are up to date and correct and taking photos of thousands of tombstones. They give of their time and talents because of their love of Oklahoma, it's history and those who lived and died there. I don't even want to think of the spiders, snakes, chiggers they have run into. If you have a survey, full or partial and or photos of your ancestors graves, or Oklahoma Obits and would like them added, they will be accepted gladly. Do not worry if your information might be a duplication, in this world of research, duplication only mean that we are coming closer to seeing the complete picture. Enjoy this free site and send any comments you might have regarding what you would like to see added to me, KathleenBurnett@earthlink.net and I will forward them on to Tammie and her wonderful Volunteers. Kathleen Burnett List Mom

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JOHNSON, LONG, DODSON, TILLERY, WILLIAMSON, SMITH, BILLINGS, ACKERMAN, WHITSON, MARTINEZ, SPAIN Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nYB.2ACE/875 Message Board Post: >From a Hughes Co. newspaper, Dec. 13, 2001 Joanne LONG JOHNSON Graveside services for Joanne LONG JOHNSON were held Dec. 11 at Hillcrest Cemetery, Weleetka, with Pastor Paul DODSON officiating. She was born March 30, 1943 in Weleetka to Clinton and Leora Mae LONG and died Dec. 7 at her home in Okemah at the age of 58. Ms. JOHNSON was a homemaker and a member of the Oasis Pentecostal Holiness Church, Clearview. She was preceded in death by her mother, Leora Mae LONG; one brother, John LONG; and one sister, Sue LONG. Survivors include her father, Clinton LONG of Okemah; three sons, Jerry JOHNSON Jr. of Castle and Marvin JOHNSON and Trampas JOHNSON , both of Okemah; five daughters, Terri TILLERY, Linda WILLIAMSON, Barbara SMITH and Kimberly BILLINGS, all of Okemah, and Christine ACKERMAN of Castle; four brothers, Preston LONG of Carlsbad, N.M., Ronald LONG and Wayne LONG, both of Okemah, and Gene LONG of Pharoah; three sisters, Sharon WHITSON of Carlsbad, N. M., Dorothy MARTINEZ OF New Mexico and Cindy SPAIN of Weleetka; 21 grandchildren; one great-grandchild ; and several other relatives. Services were under the direction of Schumacher Funeral Home of Okemah.