Hi All, I too would be very interested in the History of Ames that Jim mentions below. I wonder also, if there are city directories or other such information available for Ames residents of the early 1900's-1920? Grateful for any info! Marla Andrus Paulnmarla@juno.com Marla's Tree House http://www.angelfire.com/on/davisfamilytree On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:31:02 -0500 "J. M. Freed" <jmfreed@midohio.net> writes: > Pat, > Thanks for the information below. I'll also be following through > with > a request for the updated Cemetery records book. > To Pat, and anybody else who might know: I understand that the > Ames > community (Eastern Major County) was to publish a history some time > during this past calendar year. Does anybody know if it was > completed, and if so, how we might purchase a copy? > > Jim Freed, native of Major County, OK; now in midohio! > jmfreed@midohio.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pat Weaver" <genealogygrandma@yahoo.com> > To: <OKMAJOR-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:22 PM > Subject: Re: [OKMAJOR] New Major County History Book > > > > The Major County Historical Society, PO Box 555, > > Fairview, OK 73737, is publishing "Gloss Mountain > > Country, A Major County History Volume II." I'm not > > sure of a publication date or cost but you can contact > > the Society or judgejim@pldi.net for more information. > > > > The Major County Genealogical Society is printing an > > updated Cemetery Book hopefully next month. It lists > > burials in all Major Co. cemeteries from 1880-2000. > > Cost is not available at this time. Contact: Major > > Co. Genealogical Society, PO Box 74, Fairview, OK > > 73737 or MajorCoOk@yahoo.com. > > > > Pat Weaver, Major Co. Genealogical Society > > > ==== OKMAJOR Mailing List ==== > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the Major Co., OK > list, use > OKMAJOR-l-request@rootsweb.com or OKMAJOR-d-request@rootsweb.com if > you are on the Digest list. > To learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Marla & Jim, I don't know of any city directories for Ames - it is a small town. The best bet is probably the census records. I do have Major Co. listings from the R.L. Polk & Co.'s Oklahoma & Indian Territory Gazetteer & Business Directory for 1907-1908. If you e-mail the names you are looking for, I will check it for you. Ames History - I believe they published a Centennial History not too long ago. I'll have to do some checking for you next week. Pat Weaver, resident of Major Co, native of Ohio! Major Co. Genealogical Society --- paulnmarla@juno.com wrote: > Hi All, > I too would be very interested in the History of > Ames that Jim mentions > below. I wonder also, if there are city directories > or other such > information available for Ames residents of the > early 1900's-1920? > Grateful for any info! > Marla Andrus Paulnmarla@juno.com > Marla's Tree House > http://www.angelfire.com/on/davisfamilytree > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:31:02 -0500 "J. M. Freed" > <jmfreed@midohio.net> > writes: > > Pat, > > Thanks for the information below. I'll also be > following through > > with > > a request for the updated Cemetery records book. > > To Pat, and anybody else who might know: I > understand that the > > Ames > > community (Eastern Major County) was to publish a > history some time > > during this past calendar year. Does anybody know > if it was > > completed, and if so, how we might purchase a > copy? > > > > Jim Freed, native of Major County, OK; now in > midohio! > > jmfreed@midohio.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Pat Weaver" <genealogygrandma@yahoo.com> > > To: <OKMAJOR-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:22 PM > > Subject: Re: [OKMAJOR] New Major County History > Book > > > > > > > The Major County Historical Society, PO Box 555, > > > Fairview, OK 73737, is publishing "Gloss > Mountain > > > Country, A Major County History Volume II." I'm > not > > > sure of a publication date or cost but you can > contact > > > the Society or judgejim@pldi.net for more > information. > > > > > > The Major County Genealogical Society is > printing an > > > updated Cemetery Book hopefully next month. It > lists > > > burials in all Major Co. cemeteries from > 1880-2000. > > > Cost is not available at this time. Contact: > Major > > > Co. Genealogical Society, PO Box 74, Fairview, > OK > > > 73737 or MajorCoOk@yahoo.com. > > > > > > Pat Weaver, Major Co. Genealogical Society > > > > > > ==== OKMAJOR Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from > the Major Co., OK > > list, use > > OKMAJOR-l-request@rootsweb.com or > OKMAJOR-d-request@rootsweb.com if > > you are on the Digest list. > > To learn more about my world visit > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy > > records, go to: > > rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== OKMAJOR Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: 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 Kathleen > Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > To learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

Pat and Marla, Marla, you asked about city directories in Ames, Oklahoma, 1900-1920, and Pat has answered that question and provided additional information. Two additional suggestions: 1. The 1906 Atlas of Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, includes the Ames area and shows land owners (of surrounding farms) of record at that time. It also shows a plat map of Ames, but no owners of individual lots. 2. An additional source for Ames "history" during that time was one newspaper, and perhaps there were two, I'm not sure. In any case, the name of one newspaper was the "Ames Enterprise", This newspaper contained news items, including the death of an infant sister (died January 20, 1905) of my dad, for whom we had very little prior information. Question, Pat, or other reader, do you know where any of these newspapers are available on microfilm? I did not record where I found this microfilm, but it may have been in the Oklahoma Historical Society collection of newspapers in Oklahoma City. Jim jmfreed@midohio.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Weaver" <genealogygrandma@yahoo.com> To: <OKMAJOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [OKMAJOR] Ames, Major Co., OK, history? > Marla & Jim, > > I don't know of any city directories for Ames - it is > a small town. The best bet is probably the census > records. I do have Major Co. listings from the R.L. > Polk & Co.'s Oklahoma & Indian Territory Gazetteer & > Business Directory for 1907-1908. If you e-mail the > names you are looking for, I will check it for you. > > Ames History - I believe they published a Centennial > History not too long ago. I'll have to do some > checking for you next week. > > Pat Weaver, resident of Major Co, native of Ohio! > Major Co. Genealogical Society > > > --- paulnmarla@juno.com wrote: > > Hi All, > > I too would be very interested in the History of > > Ames that Jim mentions > > below. I wonder also, if there are city directories > > or other such > > information available for Ames residents of the > > early 1900's-1920? > > Grateful for any info! > > Marla Andrus Paulnmarla@juno.com > > Marla's Tree House > > http://www.angelfire.com/on/davisfamilytree

Marla & Jim, The Ames Centennial Book is available for $65 plus $5 shipping. Make check out to: Ames Volunteer Fire Department. Send to: Glenna Bisel RR1 Box 6 Ames, OK 73718 I have not seen the book myself but and ordering one for the Society. Pat Weaver --- paulnmarla@juno.com wrote: > Hi All, > I too would be very interested in the History of > Ames that Jim mentions > below. I wonder also, if there are city directories > or other such > information available for Ames residents of the > early 1900's-1920? > Grateful for any info! > Marla Andrus Paulnmarla@juno.com > Marla's Tree House > http://www.angelfire.com/on/davisfamilytree > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:31:02 -0500 "J. M. Freed" > <jmfreed@midohio.net> > writes: > > Pat, > > Thanks for the information below. I'll also be > following through > > with > > a request for the updated Cemetery records book. > > To Pat, and anybody else who might know: I > understand that the > > Ames > > community (Eastern Major County) was to publish a > history some time > > during this past calendar year. Does anybody know > if it was > > completed, and if so, how we might purchase a > copy? > > > > Jim Freed, native of Major County, OK; now in > midohio! > > jmfreed@midohio.net > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Pat Weaver" <genealogygrandma@yahoo.com> > > To: <OKMAJOR-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:22 PM > > Subject: Re: [OKMAJOR] New Major County History > Book > > > > > > > The Major County Historical Society, PO Box 555, > > > Fairview, OK 73737, is publishing "Gloss > Mountain > > > Country, A Major County History Volume II." I'm > not > > > sure of a publication date or cost but you can > contact > > > the Society or judgejim@pldi.net for more > information. > > > > > > The Major County Genealogical Society is > printing an > > > updated Cemetery Book hopefully next month. It > lists > > > burials in all Major Co. cemeteries from > 1880-2000. > > > Cost is not available at this time. Contact: > Major > > > Co. Genealogical Society, PO Box 74, Fairview, > OK > > > 73737 or MajorCoOk@yahoo.com. > > > > > > Pat Weaver, Major Co. Genealogical Society > > > > > > ==== OKMAJOR Mailing List ==== > > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from > the Major Co., OK > > list, use > > OKMAJOR-l-request@rootsweb.com or > OKMAJOR-d-request@rootsweb.com if > > you are on the Digest list. > > To learn more about my world visit > > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy > > records, go to: > > rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== OKMAJOR Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: 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 Kathleen > Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > To learn more about my world visit > http://dwp.bigplanet.com/kburnett > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion > online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com