As far as the court house records, you won't be able to find any thing prior to 1907, statehood. There are some news papers that go a little farther back but you'll have to have dates for those. The Hughes County Historical Museum has an index for all obit printed I think it begins in 1908 to 1975 with these years on microfilm. The Hudson, Mackey, Arnold and Arnold-Heady Funeral records indexes are online on the Hughes Co. site for the years of 1911 to 1929. The url is http://www.rootsweb.com/~okhughes/hughes.htm .You'll be able to search other Hughes Co. info there as well. Let me know if I can be of help to you. Vickie Neill Taylor flip@okplus.com