This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Graham, O'Farrell, Culwell, Doark, Davis, Pennley. Livingston, Strickland Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/1622 Message Board Post: Ardmore Public Library source: CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA >>>> VOLUME 8 NO. 1 >>>> Page 135, and 136 >>>> March 1930 Necrology JAMES CLINTON GRAHAM James Clinton Graham was born at Springtown, Texas, in 1870. His father was John Wesley Graham, born near Indianapolis, Ind. His mother, Nancy Ann Graham, before her marriage was Nancy Ann Doark. She was born in Arkansas. Little is known of his paternal grandparents. The father and mother of John Wesley Graham died when he was very young. John Wesley Graham and his brother were taken by an uncle to rear, and at the age of about 15 John Wesley Graham ran away Page 136 from Indiana to Missouri and from there to Arkansas, where he met and married Nancy Ann Doark. He was separated from his brother during the Civil War, and never saw him again. It is presumed his brother was killed in action. He was educated at College Hill Institute, Springtown, Texas, and Cumberland University Law School, Lebanon, Tenn. He completed Law School at Cumberland University in 1891, and was admitted to the practice before the Federal Court in Ardmore the same year. When Ardmore was made a town in 1898, he was the first City Attorney. Then a few years later, when Marietta was made a court town he settled there. A. E. Eddleman was his partner in Ardmore, and moved there with him and was his partner there until about 1914, when Eddleman moved back to Ardmore. Other public offices held by Graham included: Member of Constitutional Convention; first Senator from Ardmore and President of the Senate; Mayor of the city of Marietta; State Representative from that county at the time of his death. He was at one time candidate for Attorney General. He died August 21, 1921, at Marietta, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Marietta, Okla. On Otober 9th, 1918, he married Miss Bonniebel O'Farrell, a school teacher in Love County, Okla. After his death, she was County Superintendent. Later she taught school in the city of Ardmore until July, 1929, when she married Mr. Aephus Baker, of Whitesboro, Texas, and now lives there. His brothers and sisters were: Joseph M. Graham, Mrs. Lizzie Strickland, Mrs. Annie Culwell, Mrs. Mary A. Davis, Wm. H. Graham, Dr. E. F. Graham, Mrs. Ollie J. Livingston, Wood W. Graham, and Mrs. Minnie Pennley. Those surviving him are: Mrs. Mary A. Davis, 815 South Waco Street, Weatherford, Texas; Mrs. Ollie J. Livingston, Burneyville, Oklahoma; Wood W. Graham, 3433 Avenue M, Fort Worth, Texas, and Wm. H. Graham, Springtown, Texas.