This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1621 Message Board Post: source: CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA >>>>> VOLUME 6 NO. 1 >>>>> Page 13 >>>>> March 1928 EARLY POST OFFICE OF OKLAHOMA post office: Marietta first postmaster: Jerry C. Washington date of appointment: December 20, 1887

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Love Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1620 Message Board Post: source: CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA >>>> VOLUME 4 NO. 3 >>>> pages: 288, 289, 290, and 291 >>>> SEPTEMBER 1926 BIOGRAPHIES Page 288 JUDGE OVERTON LOVE The subject of this sketch was born in Marshall County, Mississippi, on the 6th of September, 1823. He was educated Page 289 in the common schools of that state, and at the age of twenty years, came with his father to Indian Territory. The family settled on the north bank of Red River, in what is now Love County, the county being named for the Love family, as was also the valley in which they settled, Love?s Valley, about six miles east of Marietta, the county seat of Love County. At one time the Judge owned as many as eight thousand acres of Red River bottom land in this valley, as fine land as there is in the state of Oklahoma; here the judge lived for a period of fifty years or more, engaged in farming and stock raising. Judge Love was one of the outstanding characters of Indian Territory, no man excelled him in the choice of land, location, business affairs or in anything pertaining to his interests or that of his people, the Chickasaws. While he was a farmer and business man, he was none the less successful as a national councilman, county and district Judge, or as a delegate to represent his! people in Washington. The Judge was known far and near as a man of integrity, liberal in his views, unselfish in his habits and manners of life, equal in his considerations of all men, the poor as much so as the more fortunate, no hungry man was turned away empty from his door, and no one who really wanted to work, applying to him, was ever rejected; he was a friend to man. The writer first met the Judge at his home in the valley, the year 1888, and was afterwards a frequent guest in the home, and can speak advisedly, when we say, that any one having been a guest in the Love home, will always have an appreciation for the splendid spirit that prevailed in the home life. The Judge carried on extensive farming interests, and consequently had to do with different types of men, all of whom had a chance to succeed with Judge Love, he gave every man a chance to prove himself, failing in that he had to move to some other quarter. This brings to mind a little incident that shows the true character of the man; he was always mindful of the interests of himself as well as the interests of others, as is shown in the matter of building for school and church purposes, as he did, a house on his land where church services and school accommodations were made possible for all who would take advantage of them. So interested was Judge Love in the matter, that he bu! ilt the house and furnished it throughout, free of cost to anyone, and turned it over to the commu- Page 290 nity, with the understanding that his renters would attend services of some kind, and patronize the school. The Judge was what we termed then an infidel, his wife was a member of the Presbyterian church. The minister, of whatever faith he might be, always had an invitation to stop in the Love home, and the most of them did so, and the Judge always attended services at the eleven o?clock and evening hour, and saw that every one behaved, and that the dogs stayed on the outside, and that the young men who were disposed to be rowdy, came on the inside or left the premises. Seeing this interest on the part of the Judge, one day I asked him this question: Judge Love, you do not make any pretensions as to being a believer in the Christian religion, why is it you have built this house and are so careful as to order during the hour of service? His answer is as follows: "I may not be a believer in the sense you Christian people profess, but I am a believer in common decency and that w! hich tends to civilization, and I find that the ones who profess to be Christians believe in the same things, and that they make the best renters on my farm, they are not always in trouble, and they do not try to beat me out of my rent, and in return for this, I am willing to help them in the matter of their religious life." The writer feels justified in saying that from our acquaintance with Judge Love, made possible by frequent visits in the home, where one learns to know people, that the Chickasaw Nation never made a greater contribution to prosperity in its march to a higher civilization than that given in the person of him whose name appears at the head of this article. To have known such a character, to have been associated with him and the family, to have been acquainted with him in his views of life, as they had to do with business affairs on the farm, political interests of his people, along with the social development of his community, is a privilege to be highly ! esteemed by those who have been so favored. While Judge Love was not a Christian, in the sense in which that word is commonly interpreted, yet there was something in his makeup, that likens him to the things that are eternal. In the constitutionality of my friend there was more than one of the essentials to Christianity; there was fidelity to a trust, loyalty to a cause, the unselfish spirit, magnanimous in its reaches, that enabled him to overlook the defects Page 291 in a fellowman, if he discovered any, that proved him a friend to man. The treasurer of the Oklahoma Historical Society, Mrs. Jessie R. Moore, is a niece of Judge Love, and is in every sense a worthy kinswoman of the illustrious Love family. J. Y. BRYCE.

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/xYB.2ACE/1619.4 Message Board Post: Originally a part of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Love County was named in honor of Overton Love, a prominent judge of the Chickasaws and landowner after the Civil War. The county seat was named Marietta by its first postmaster, Jerry C. Washington, for his wife, Mary, and his sister, Etta. Love County, Oklahoma was formed at statehood in 1907; in the year 2000 the population for this 515 square miles of land was 8,831. Lake Murray lives across the county line of Love and Carter Counties and is the first and largest State Park in Oklahoma devoted entirely to recreation. On the south side of Lake Murray in the northeastern part of Love County, stands Tucker Tower, the castle-like structure towering 77 stories above the shoreline, built in the 1930s by WPA workers as a summer retreat for the governor. Today it is the center for natural history. Birth records are available from 1908, marriage records from 1907, and death records since 1908. Land records exist since 1903 while probate and court records are on file in the county courthouse since 1907.

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/xYB.2ACE/1612.1 Message Board Post: Laura, please contact me at [email protected] Elmos was my uncle and I'll have information about the Hallum family reunion in Love Co. Linda

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/xYB.2ACE/1619.3 Message Board Post: I found this on web page called "City Keys" interesting, but not sure if it's correct. Marietta history: A post office was established here in 1887. It was named for Marietta, Pennsylvania

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Payne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1619.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, that's what I found out too. So I guess it's not true after all. Plus now in the 2 census she's in, her name is spelled Mary Etta. So somewhere down the line the spelling of her name changed, unintentionally by later relatives I think. Thanks all, Bethany

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/xYB.2ACE/1619.2 Message Board Post: 1895 Atlus for Indian Territory -- Chickasaw Nation area -- Marietta is on the map. Oklahoma became a state in 1907 http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/INNA/County/chickasaw.htm

There are conflicting stories about selection of the name Marietta. One version is that the name came from the name Marie Etta, wife of Jerry Washington, a Territory rancher on whose land the townsite was located. The version in the Oklahoma Place Names book is that it was named for Marietta, Pennsylvania as Ardmore and other stations on the new Santa Fe line were named by railroad officials for towns in their home state. Source: Love County History Book pg. 64 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:04 PM Subject: [OKLove] Re: Marietta, OK town history anyone? > 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/xYB.2ACE/1619.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I read that a man named it after his wife Mary her sister Etta after they died there. ask LaQuita Ladner she heads up the Love Co. Historian. Ok/genweb.com or keyword Marietta Okla. > > > ==== OKLOVE Mailing List ==== > Love County, Oklahoma OKGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklove/love.htm > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

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/xYB.2ACE/1619.1 Message Board Post: I read that a man named it after his wife Mary her sister Etta after they died there. ask LaQuita Ladner she heads up the Love Co. Historian. Ok/genweb.com or keyword Marietta Okla.

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/xYB.2ACE/1619 Message Board Post: I am looking to see how to find out about how Marietta started. My great aunt is named Marietta Payne (b:1907 . Some where my mother remembers someone telling her that the town was named after her. I beleived it then, but now I want to try and find out for sure. Her father was named Peyton Payne. If someone could point me to the right direction of how to find out, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Bethany Figueroa [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Coleman, Vaughn, Taylor Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1618 Message Board Post: Does anyone recognize these names? they were Lovetts from the Joseph Albert Lovett family in approximately Orr in Love County. they showed on the 1900 Chickasaw Nation census as living with JA Lovett except for Nora. Mattie was listed as Lovitt and divorced and living back at home. Nora evidiently had married. I found these last names in 1933 on the Probate will for Joseph Albert in Jackson county, Altus, OK who died in 1929. I was told that Nora lived in St. Louis later and Ruby lived in Grandfield Oklahoma, but Mattie was a roamer and not sure where she ended up. If you have info on these, please contact me. [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/an/xYB.2ACE/1616.1 Message Board Post: The Hallum reunion is usually held the second Saturday in July in Marietta, OK at the fair building. I'll be happy to contact you when I find out for sure when it's going to be.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Loving, Harris, Moore, Hartman, Boswell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/990.2 Message Board Post: Rosetta Harris-Moore was my grandmothers sister. Katie Moore wrote a short bio. of the family. I have a copy in my possession. The Moore, Bone and Loving families have a long history here in Love county, they all came to this area before statehood. Intermarried and had large families. Very interesting family stories have been shared by Mother, who was a Hartman and married a Loving. Laquetta Ladner is the Love County Historion. She can help you a lot.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hallum Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1616 Message Board Post: I am tring to find out about the Hallum family reunion that takes place in Marietta (Love Country) Oklahoma. If anyone can help me out and let me know when it is or who I may contact for more information on it please let me know.

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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/xYB.2ACE/289.301.302.305.307.318.326.3.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I do not know Elliot but, Monroe Lang was my great-grand father,born in Georgia, about 1825, wife was Ruth Altman born Jan31, 1833 Georgia.I had an Uncle Henry Monroe Lang, born 1878 in Kaufman, Tx. My g'pa was John Robert Lang born, July 4, 1848 in Miss. had bros and sis all born in Tx. does any og this help us? Neina

Looking for a death date for Annie Raines. She was born Clara Ann Robeson to John and Ellen Robinson/Robeson in 1883, Cooke Co. TX. The family moved to the Marshall and Love counties areas in the early 1900's. She married first unknown Cook, then md. Thomas Raines. They were on the 1920 census for Beckham County, OK. I haven't found them after that. She more than likely came back to this area if Tom died before she did. John and Ellen are buried at Lebanon. Any help would be appreciated. Faye Heffington Littlefield, Texas