Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/534 Surname: Chowning, Morton, Burke, Russell, Rodgers ------------------------- Do you have any idea of the dates the Old Waurika Cemetery was in use? I am searching for my Great Grandmother Melissa Elizabeth Chowning-Burke-MORTON who according to her obit was buried at Waurika Cemetery in 1934. We have been unable to find her grave in the new Waurika Cemetery. Any help would be appreciated.

In a message dated 1/11/01 10:00:07 AM, janisfreeman@mail.tds.net writes: << Do you have any idea of the dates the Old Waurika Cemetery was in use? >> According to the information posted yesterday by Dick Samples it was in the late 1800s through the early 1900s. I know the "new" cemetery was in use by 1915 as my grandfather was buried in the first part by the main road in. He died in March 1915. sbd

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If the sign is correct, that would be right about the 98th meridian. Waurika proper is about 1/2 mile west of the Hwy.70 & 81 junction and there is a sign between them that says one of two things; "leaving the Chickasaw Nation" or "entering the Comanche Nation" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheridan" <kssooners@aol.com> To: <OKJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:50 PM Subject: [OKJEFFER] Perry/Waurika Post Office > Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/530 > > Surname: Brandon, Nall, Meador, Sevier, Taylor > ------------------------- > > Several years ago, a history of Jeff Co Families was published. There was > a brief history of Jeff Co and of its towns written by a Jon Harris. He > mentioned that there were several post offices that came and went prior > to the turn of the century. He said the first was Baldwin located on Beaver > Creek, then reloacted to Ryan in 1893. The second PO was Veto. Others that > followed were Sugg, Peery, Keith, Opie, Lindwood, Redriver and Moneka. > In the section about Waurika, he wrote that the town on the west side of > the 98th Meridian was in Kiowa-Comance territory. Moneka was on the east > side of the line in Pickens Co, Chicasaw Nation. He gave no exact location > for Peery. > > > > ==== OKJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Please visit the Jefferson Co. Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okjeffer/ > >

My Step-Father has lived in Waurika all his life and mowed the Waurika cemetery for years. I asked him about the Perry cemetery and he says it was near the hospital. This would be the South East corner of the Highway 70 & 81 intersection. He doesn't remember ever actually being in the cemetery but his Mother told him of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grover Anderson" <grovera@bcl.net> To: <OKJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:58 AM Subject: [OKJEFFER] Peery > Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/527 > > Surname: > ------------------------- > > I wondered the same thing when I was looking for the Peery or Perry Grover > Cemetery. Here is what I found out in a book about the post offices in > Jefferson County. > > A post office was established in Peery on May 22, 1890. Shirk lists it > as "Peery, present Waurika, In Jefferson County". Likely It was located > south of the intersection of U. S. Highways No. 70 and No. 81, somewhere > near the present location of the livestock auction facilities, or possibly > somewhat west of there. This assumption is, I believe, consistent with > the fact that an old cemetery, not used for the past seventy or eighty > years, is located some short distance east or southeast of the auction > facilities and on the east si8de of U. S. Highway No. 81. (This cemetery > was named Peery Grove and was not used after the establishment of the new > Waurika Cemetery). > Andrew J. Loper was the first postmaster. > The name of the office was changed to Moneka on April 18, 1895; and Moneka's > first postmaster was James D. Loper. Same family? Operation of Moneka post > office was discontinued May 15, 1898. > The Waurika post office was established June 28, 1902. > > So it appears that Peery became Moneka which later became Waurika. I think > there were a few nicknames in there that evidently didn't last too long. > > > ==== OKJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Please visit the Jefferson Co. Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okjeffer/ > >

Thank you, Sheridan, Grover Anderson, and Dick Samples for sharing your considerable information on Peery. This list is a valuable tool! --- James Davis --- jdavis20000@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.

Joe Peniston is my great great uncle. Do not have any dates or what paper it was published in. The town of Monticello in the obituary is in Drew County, Arkansas. Carlton OBITUARY OF JOE PENISTON JOE PENISTON DIES IN OKLAHOMA JOE PENISTON, 78, OF RYAN OKLA, DIED EARLY TUESDAY FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS WHICH HAD LASTED FOR FIVE YEARS. HE WAS BORN IN MONTICELLO AND LIVED MANY YEARS IN THE ENON NEIGHBORHOOD. HE HAD MANY FRIENDS IN RYAN AND MOST EVERYONE CALLED HIM "UNCLE JOE." HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE THE FORMER MISS BARRY MATTHEWS, ALSO OF DREW COUNTY, TWO SONS, GERVIS PENISTON OF RYAN AND CECIL PENISTON WHO IS IN THE ARMED FORCES STATIONED IN NEW YORK AND THREE DAUGHTERS MISS JEWEL PENISTON OF RYAN, MRS THELMA LUCKY OF TULSA AND ANOTHER MARRIED DAUGHTER (CLYDE CONWAY). ALSO SURVIVING ARE TWO SISTERS, MRS. VIRGINIA WILSON OF MONTICELLO AND MRS. MARY SCARBOUGH OF RYAN. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN RYAN BUT ARRANGEMENTS ARE INCOMPLETE AWAITING WORD FROM A SON IN NEW YORK. DEATH CLAIMS TWO AGED RYAN CITIZENS LAST WEEK SAW THE PASSING OF TWO OF THE OLDEST CITIZENS OF RYAN, BOTH PIONEERS OF THE TOWN AND HIGHLY RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW THEM. W.G. PENISTON, FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS UNCLE BILLY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, C.S. PENISTON TUESDAY NIGHT, FROM AN ILLNESS EXTENDED OVER A PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AT THE METHODIST CHURCH BY REV. M.F. SULLIVAN, ASSISTED BY REV. J.H. BURNS. INTERMENT WAS IN THE RYAN CEMETERY. MRS. PAUL WILLIAMS DIED AT 3 O'CLOCK THURSDAY MORNING AND FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH CONDUCTED BY REV. J.H. BURNS ASSISTED BY REV. M.F. SULLIVAN.

Ernest Peniston is my great great uncle. Carlton ERNEST PENNISTON SILENTLY, ONE BY ONE, LIKE THE SERE AND WITHERED LEAVES OF, AUTUMN, THE PIONEERS OF OLD INDIAN TERRITORY ARE LEAVING US, THEIR RANKS GROWING PITIFULLY THIN WITH EACH VACANCY. APRIL 8, AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, J.A. PENNISTON, OF RYAN, ERNEST PENNISTON CROSSED THE GREAT DIVIDE AND JOINED AN EVER INCREASING GROUP WHO HAD PRECEDED HIM ON THE JOURNEY. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD THE FOLLOWING DAY AT THE METHODIST CHURCH IN RYAN AND WERE CONDUCTED BY THE PASTOR, REV. A.H. OGLE. INTERMENT WAS IN THE RYAN CEMETERY. ERNEST PENNISTON WAS BORN JUNE 15, 1875, AND THUS FOR NEARLY A DECADE HAD BEEN LIVING ON "BORROWED TIME". HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO ARKANSAS WHEN HE WAS TWO YEARS OLD AND CAME TO RYAN, INDIAN TERRITORY, IN 1889, AND HAD MADE HIS HOME THERE EVER SINCE. HE SAW THE COUNTRY CHANGE FROM THE WILD PRAIRIE AND THE OPEN RANGE TO A COMMUNITY OF SMALLER FARMS AND MODERN RURAL HOMES. HE LIVED THROUGH THE DAYS WHEN MAIL WAS DELIVERED BY MEN LIKE J.M. HUDLOW, DECEASED, RIDING A PONY OVER COW TRAILS, SWIMMING STREAMS AND COUNTING IT ALL A PART OF THE DAYS WORK WITH THE LONGED FOR LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS BEING DELIVERED PERHAPS WEEKLY, PERHAPS NOT SO OFTEN. AND LIVED TO SEE SCIENCE IN ITS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS, DAILY NEWSPAPERS, RADIO, TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AUTOMOBILES, AND AIRPLANES, AND TO ENJOY THEM ALL. AN OMNIVOROUS READER AND ALWAYS WELL INFORMED ON THE QUESTIONS OF THE DAY, "UNCLE ERNEST" WAS A TOWN CHARACTER, HIGHLY RESPECTED AND LOVED, WHOSE OPINIONS WERE OFTEN SOUGHT. MR. PENHISTON HAD TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY AND COULD RELATE MANY BRAVE TALES OF EARLY DAY ADVENTURES AND SOME OF LATER TIMES. HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING PATRIOT AND WHEN THE WORLD WAR CAME ON, WAS ANXIOUS TO ENLIST. BEING TOO OLD TO QUALIFY FOR ARMY SERVICE HE ATTACHED HIMSELF TO THE CAMP AT SAN ANTONIO AND BECAME PART OF IT, ACTING AS A REMOUNT MAN AND LOOKING AFTER THE HORSES. WHEN THE WAR CLOSED HE WAS GIVEN AN HONORABLE DISCHARGE THE FITNESS OF WHICH WAS NEVER QUESTIONED FOR HE HAD SERVED HONORABLY AND WELL. MR. PENNISTON WAS QUIET AND UNASSUMING, LOVED AND RESPECTED, FRUGAL AND UPRIGHT, HE HAD THE GREATEST ABHORRENCE OF DISHONESTY IN ANY FORM. TERMED EASY GOING IN CONDUCT, HE WAS AS FIRM AS THE ROCK OF GIBRALTAR ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS WHICH INVOLVED THE OLD FASHIONED VIRTUES ON WHICH PIONEER LIFE WAS SO LARGELY FOUNDED. UNSELFISH AND KIND, HE TENDERLY CARED FOR HIS PARENTS UNTIL THEIR DEATH. IN THE FAMILY HE CLUNG TENACIOUSLY TO ITS SOLIDARITY WITH THE FAITH THAT WHAT BELONGED TO ONE BELONGED TO ALL. THERE WAS A PECULIAR LOVE BINDING HIM AND HIS BROTHERS, J.A. AND S.C. PENNISTONS AND SISTERS, MRS. SCARBOUGH, ALL OF RYAN AND MRS. VIRGINIA WILSON OF MONTICELLO, ARKANSAS, TOGETHER, GOING MUCH DEEPER THAN THE CASUAL AFFECTION WHICH IS EXPERIENCED AS FAMILIES GROW OLDER. HE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY FOUR NIECES, MRS. LYLE HENSHAW AND MRS. BLANCHE RICTTER, MISS ANNIE WILSON, MISS NETTIE PENNISTON AND A NEPHEW, G.J. PENNISTON OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. HE NEVER MARRIED AND THUS A LOVE THAT MIGHT HAVE GONE TO WIFE AND CHILDREN WAS BESTOWED ON THESE DEAR ONES. MUCH MIGHT BE WRITTEN OF "UNCLE ERNEST"; HIS UPRIGHTNESS OF CHARACTER, HIS NEIGHBORLINESS AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS WHICH RELATE TO HIS LIFE AND THE INTEGRITY OF HIS CONTACTS WITH HIS FELLOW MEN. HIS LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY HAS SPOKEN FOR ITSELF AND AS WE LOOK UPON IT, WE FIND IT GOOD. BACK IN OUR YOUTHFUL DAYS NO BAR E"ER CLOSED THE DOOR OF HOME, THOUGH FAR AND LONG WE WANDERED IN OUR PLAY. AND SEEMS TO ME THAT IS THE WAY HE FOUND IT ON THAT APRIL DAY WHEN LOVE, WHICH SEES US CLEAN AND FAIR BADE HIM COME IN, A HOME TO SHARE. NOTE: THIS OBITUARY WAS TAKEN FROM THE WAURIKA NEWS-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, APRIL 24,1936. HIS NAME WAS SPELLED PENNISTON IN THIS OBITUARY.

Columbus Smith Peniston is my great great uncle. Carlton Measels COLUMBUS SMITH PENISTON FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PIONEER CITIZEN OF COUNTY HELD MONDAY THE LIFE OF ONE OF RYAN'S MOST BELOVED AND HIGHLY RESPECTED CITIZENS AND HUMANITARIANS, CAME TO A PEACEFUL END, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1941, WHEN DEATH CLOSED THE EYES OF C.S. PENISTON, OR "UNCLE BUD" AS EVERYONE LIKED TO CALL HIM, AT HIS FAMILY HOME HERE IN RYAN. THE PASSING OF UNCLE BUD HAS TAKEN FROM THIS COMMUNITY, ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR OF THE EARLY PIONEERS OF RYAN AND JEFFERSON COUNTY. HE WAS A FRIEND OF OLD AND YOUNG. HE THRILLED MANY A YOUTH HEART WITH HIS TRUE STORIES OF ADVENTURE AND HARDSHIPS OF THOSE, WHO LIKE HIMSELF, HELPED TO BUILD UP THIS COUNTRY AND MAKE IT A PLACE WHERE THE GENERATIONS TO FOLLOW MIGHT FIND A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL PLACE IN WHICH TO MAKE A HOME. YES, THE PEOPLE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY HAVE MUCH TO THANK MR. PENISTON FOR. IT TOOK MEN OF HIS DETERMINATION AND WILL POWER TO SHOW TO HIS FELLOW THAT OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY HAD GREAT POSSIBILITIES. HE HELPED TO BUILD THIS COUNTY AND ENCOURAGED THE DISCOURAGED TO STAY AND FIGHT THE BATTLE WITH HIM. UNCLE BUD WAS 21 YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE LEFT HIS NATIVE STATE, ARKANSAS, AND WENT TO MISSISSIPPI WHERE AS HE HAD OFTEN LAUGHINGLY RELATED THE CHILLS AND FEVER RAN HIM OUT OF THAT STATE. HIS TRAVELS LED HIM NEXT TO HENRIETTA, TEXAS, BUT AFTER ONLY A BRIEF STAY THERE, HE DECIDED TO LOOK UP HIS BROTHER, WAYNE, WHO LIVED IN INDIAN TERRITORY AND LOCATED HIM ONE MILE WEST OF THE PRESENT SITE OF RYAN. WANTING TO LIVE NEAR HIS BROTHER, UNCLE BUD SECURED A JOB ON THE SUGGS RANCH OPERATED BY ELI AND JOSEPH SUGGS, FAMOUS RANCHMEN IN THE TERRITORY. IT WAS HERE THAT MR. PENISTON HAD HIS FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH REGISTERED CATTLE, BUT BEFORE LONG, HE WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST AUTHORITIES AND IN YEARS TO FOLLOW, HIS ADVICE PERTAINING TO THE CATTLE INDUSTRY WAS SOUGHT BY CATTLEMEN IN SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA AND NORTH TEXAS. HIS AMBITION TO OWN A HERD OF CATTLE AND ACQUIRE A RANCH OF HIS OWN LED HIM TO THE FIRST GREAT LAND OPENING IN OKLAHOMA ON APRIL 22, 1889. HE WAS AT SILVER CITY, WHICH IS ABOUT THREE MILES EAST OF THE PRESENT TOWN OF MINCO. AFTER THE FIRST SHOT OF THE CANNON FIRED BY THE SOLDIERS, UNCLE BUD HEADED HIS HORSE TO THE NORTHEAST AND HERE SECURED A CLAIM ABOUT THREE MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE PRESENT TOWN OF YUKON. HE LATER SOLD THIS CLAIM AND WORKED A WHILE IN A HARDWARE STORE IN OKLAHOMA CITY. FROM THERE HE WENT ON TO GAINESVILLE, TEXAS, AND THEN ON TO BELCHERVILLE, TEXAS, THEN A GROWING LITTLE CITY. AT THIS PLACE HE WORKED IN THE GENERAL STORE OF RALLS AND GARRISON, WHO LATER MOVED TO TERRAL AND THEN TO RYAN. UNCLE BUD MOVED WITH THEM AND CONTINUED IN THEIR EMPLOY FOR MANY YEARS, MAKING HIS EMPLOYERS A MOST VALUABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY HAND. BY HARD WORK AND THRIFTINESS, UNCLE BUD ACCUMULATED MANY ACRES OF FARM LAND AND HERDS OF FINE CATTLE. NO ONE WAS MORE HIGHLY RESPECTED, NO ONE HAD MORE TRUE FRIENDS THAN THIS BELOVED PIONEER HAD. NO ONE HEARD HIM SAY A HARSH OR UNKIND WORD OF HIS FELLOW MAN, AND IN TURN HIS FELLOW MEN HAVE NOTHING BUT THE KINDNESS MEMORIES OF HIM. COLUMBUS SMITH PENISTON WAS BORN NEAR HAMBURG, IN ASHLEY COUNTY, ARKANSAS, ON APRIL 4, 1862, THE SON OF J.G. AND SALLIE ANN SMITH PENISTON. HE WAS 79 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AND 8 DAYS OLD AT HIS PASSING. WHEN HE WAS TWO YEARS OF AGE HE MOVED WITH HIS PARENTS TO DREW COUNTY, NEAR MONTICELLO, ARKANSAS, WERE HE GREW TO MANHOOD. ON JANUARY 17, 1894 HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MINNIE SCHOOLFIELD AT TERRAL, OKLAHOMA. TO THIS UNION ONE DAUGHTER WAS BORN. MRS. PENISTON PASSED AWAY AUGUST 15, 1907. ON NOVEMBER 25, 1915, MR. PENISTON WAS MARRIED TO MISS NORA HARDY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. HE UNITED WITH THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SOON AFTER IT WAS ORGANIZED HERE, BUT AFTER THE CHURCH DISBANDED HERE HE UNITED WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH AND WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER UNTIL HE DIED. UNCLE BUD LIVED AT ALL TIMES A LIFE OF DEVOTED SERVICE TO HIS FELLOWMEN, ENJOYING THEIR FRIENDSHIP IN HIS BUSINESS AND IN HIS COMMUNITY LIFE. HE WAS A TRUE HUSBAND, A KIND AND DUTIFUL FATHER AND A GOOD NEIGHBOR IN THE FULL SENSE OF THE WORD. FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT RYAN METHODIST CHURCH MONDAY WITH REV. CLARENCE BOUNDS, PASTOR OF RYAN METHODIST CHURCH, OFFICIATING. A BEAUTIFULLY ARRANGED SONG SERVICE IN CHARGE OF MRS. G.J. WILLIAMS WITH MISS DOROTHY JEAN NESMITH AS PIANO ACCOMPANIST, CONSISTED OF THE SONG, "I WILL SING YOU A SONG", BY THE CHOIR, MRS. J.D. THOMPSON, MRS. G.J. WILLIAMS, MRS. W.W. GUEST, MRS. RICHARD STARK, N.B. SMITH, L.E. DURHAM, BILLY CLAUD GRANHTHAM, JAMES READER SAVERS; THIS CHOIR ALSO SANG "HOME ON THE RANGE". MRS. M.L. HUTCHISON OF DENTON, TEXAS, AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY, RENDERED THE SOLO, "ONE SWEETLY SOLEMN THOUGHT". MRS. WILLIAMS SANG "A SUNRISE", JAMES SAWYERS RENDERED A VIOLIN SOLO, "AVE MARIE", AND THIS WAS PLAYED AS THE RECESSIONAL BY MISS NESMITH. INTERMENT WAS MADE IN RYAN CEMETERY WITH FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CHARGE OF THE CLAUD GRANTHAM FUNERAL HOME OF RYAN. THE LOVE AND ESTEEM IN WHICH DECEASED WAS HELD WAS SHOWN BY THE GORGEOUS AND BEAUTIFUL FLORAL PIECES. THE ENTIRE FRONT OF THE CHURCH WAS HIDDEN BY FLOWERS, THE SILENT MESSENGERS OF SYMPATHY FROM FRIENDS FAR AND NEAR. THE FUNERAL WAS ATTENDED BY MANY FRIENDS FROM OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS. DECEASED IS SURVIVED BY HIS DEVOTED WIFE, MRS. NORA PENISTON; ONE DAUGHTER, MISS NELLIE PENISTON, A BROTHER, JOE PENISTON, A SISTER, MRS. MARY SCARBOUGH, OF RYAN, A SISTER, MISS VIRGINIA WILSON, MONTICELLO, ARKANSAS. A NUMBER OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS ALSO SURVIVE. PALLBEARERS WERE A.J. WILLIS. D.L. NASH, CHARLIE DODD, GILL BOND, L.J. BROWN, AND JESS REYNOLDS. FLOWER GIRLS WERE MRS. ED WORRELL, MRS. TOM HUGHES, MRS. W.T. REED, MRS. ROY GARRISON, MRS. J.R. EPPERSON, MRS. J.H. BARRETT, MRS. D.L. NASH, MRS. W.A. MANNIN, MRS. ANDREW WILLIS, MRS. CHARLIE DODD, MISS THEO ARMSTRONG, AND MISS LOIS WALLACE. FRIENDS AND RELATIVES FROM OUT OF THE COUNTY TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL WERE; MR. AND MRS. F.B. MARSHALL AND DAUGHTER, CORDELIA MARY, OF DALLAS, TEXAS; MR. AND MRS. ERICK HARDY AND SON, BOBBIE, OF MONTICELLO, ARKANSAS: MRS. H.C. BURKS OF DERMOTT, ARKANSAS: MR. AND MRS. J.H. WHITESIDE AND SON, CLARENCE, OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS; DR. AND MRS. M.L. HUTCHISON OF DENTON, TEXAS; U.W. RAY, MRS. DIZMANG AND DAUGHTER, MRS. COKER, MRS. WEEDEN, MISS MABEL ARMON, MISS THOMPSON, MRS. SAM HILL, ALL OF DUNCAN: JAY PENISTON, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS; AND MRS. KELLER OF BOWIE, TEXAS. A HOST OF OTHER FRIENDS WERE HERE FROM WAURIKA AND OTHER POINTS IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. NOTE: THIS OBITUARY WAS FROM THE WAURIKA NEWS-DEMOCRAT

Rebecca I have at least a couple of Peniston obits. They were published in the Waurika Democrat years ago. They are different from the obits you see today which I think most are unfeeling. Although these obits are not too long, you kind of get a feeling of what the person was like. Do you think it would be ok to post them on the web site. The Jefferson County web site has been quite active the last week. It started before you put the pictures on. I think it is great. Carlton

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/533 Surname: Samples, Matthews, Boatwright, King ------------------------- The old cemetery is about 300 ft. to the east of the east paving edge of Hwy 81 and is further south than you seem to be looking--maybe almost a mile south of Hwy 70. Last time I looked out that way, it was mostly pasture but with a straggeler tree in the area of the cem. Good luck.

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/532 Surname: ------------------------- Thanks again, yes I do have that information, that is my husbands grandparents. Also, have quite abit on the Williams. I also have alot on the Cecil family, back from John and Mary, if in fact these were the parents of Lela Belle, will just have to keep looking. You've been alot of help and thanks again so much, I just believe that the JT and M, are John and Mary, could be wrong, but it's more than I've found so far. Katy

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/531 Surname: Williams ------------------------- I did a little further checking in the Ardmore cemetery listings and found that there is a Lela B. Williams b 26 April, 1888, d 29 May 1974; and Sam F. Williams b 1 May, 1881, d 12 May, 1959 that are buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore. There are also a couple of Sam Williams buried in the Oil Springs Cemetery in Carter County but no Lela or Belle in that cemetery. You probably already have this, but thought I would send it along.

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/530 Surname: Brandon, Nall, Meador, Sevier, Taylor ------------------------- Several years ago, a history of Jeff Co Families was published. There was a brief history of Jeff Co and of its towns written by a Jon Harris. He mentioned that there were several post offices that came and went prior to the turn of the century. He said the first was Baldwin located on Beaver Creek, then reloacted to Ryan in 1893. The second PO was Veto. Others that followed were Sugg, Peery, Keith, Opie, Lindwood, Redriver and Moneka. In the section about Waurika, he wrote that the town on the west side of the 98th Meridian was in Kiowa-Comance territory. Moneka was on the east side of the line in Pickens Co, Chicasaw Nation. He gave no exact location for Peery.

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/528 Surname: ------------------------- Thanks for the reply, This may just fit into the research that I'm doing. Lela Belle(Cecil) Williams father and mother were supposed to be John T, and Mary. This could have been a sibling of hers. Thanks again for the information. Katy

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/527 Surname: ------------------------- I wondered the same thing when I was looking for the Peery or Perry Grover Cemetery. Here is what I found out in a book about the post offices in Jefferson County. A post office was established in Peery on May 22, 1890. Shirk lists it as "Peery, present Waurika, In Jefferson County". Likely It was located south of the intersection of U. S. Highways No. 70 and No. 81, somewhere near the present location of the livestock auction facilities, or possibly somewhat west of there. This assumption is, I believe, consistent with the fact that an old cemetery, not used for the past seventy or eighty years, is located some short distance east or southeast of the auction facilities and on the east si8de of U. S. Highway No. 81. (This cemetery was named Peery Grove and was not used after the establishment of the new Waurika Cemetery). Andrew J. Loper was the first postmaster. The name of the office was changed to Moneka on April 18, 1895; and Moneka's first postmaster was James D. Loper. Same family? Operation of Moneka post office was discontinued May 15, 1898. The Waurika post office was established June 28, 1902. So it appears that Peery became Moneka which later became Waurika. I think there were a few nicknames in there that evidently didn't last too long.

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/526 Surname: Cecil ------------------------- I checked the Addington Cemetery listing that I have and found only one Cecil, Rutha L. Cecil. She was born Jan 17, 1894 and died Oct 21, 1901, the daughter of J. T. and M. A. Cecil.

Why thank you very much, Sheridan! For everything including what you have done for the Jefferson Co. site! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Becky on Indian Mtn. between St. Maries & Harrison near Couer d'Alene in Idaho ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ My Family Genealogy: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouryorks Url of York ~for all York lines~ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allyorks ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^* ----- Original Message ----- From: <KSSOONERS@aol.com> To: <OKJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [OKJEFFER] photos added to Jefferson Co., OK | | In a message dated 1/9/01 8:09:19 PM, dalton@nidlink.com writes: | | << http://www.rootsweb.com/~okjeffer/jfphotos.htm >> | | Great job, Becky! | | Sheridan | | | ==== OKJEFFER Mailing List ==== | Please visit the Jefferson Co. Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okjeffer/ |

New photo page added to Jefferson Co., OK website. If you have any of these names in or around Jefferson Co. please check these photos. Names are: STEWART NALL STOWE SHANKLIN ADAMS YOUNG RICHARDS SNIDER CULBERTSON McHENRY WILSON JONES POOL NICHOLSON PENISTON* http://www.rootsweb.com/~okjeffer/jfphotos.htm at the above url. Thanks, Jefferson Co. Co Coordinator and list admin. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Becky YORK on Indian Mtn. near Couer d'Alene, Idaho ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ My Family Genealogy: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouryorks Url of York ~for all York lines~ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~allyorks ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*

Posted on: Jefferson Co. Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/Jefferson/525 Surname: Davis, Watson, McClure, Mitchell ------------------------- On the 1895 Atlas map of OK, I find a town named Peery about where it appears Waurika (Jefferson County) is now located. What happened to Peery and is Waurika the descendant of Peery?