I tried to send to your email, but this bounced: Hi, Louann. You might want to find a map of the old Choctaw Nation for the 1880's to see what settlement your kin might have been in. I didn't know untill I started researching Broken Bow (all the Wood folks in the town are my kin), that Broken Bow didn't formally exist until 1911 or so (it was a lumber mill/camp prior to the lumber company buying the land and founding the town according to the McCurtain County history at the Tulsa library). There may have been a lumber camp or railroad camp there in the 1880's. It will save you some heartache and a bunch of headaches, trust me! I felt like I was hitting the wall every time I went looking until I learned that tidbit. The next nearest town of any size would have been Idabel. I'm thinking it existed in the 1880's but not positive on that and maybe not under that name. Can someone out ther answer that for us? I know there are old newspaper accounts from that time and I think they were the Idabel newspaper. Was Williams still there in 1900? If so I can census data from the IT census for that year. Happy time travels! Susan. -----Original Message----- From: LouAnn <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:05 PM Subject: [OKMCCURT] williams >Posted on: McCurtain County, Ok Query Forum >Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/McCurtain/1258 > >Surname: Williams >------------------------- > >Looking for Williams in Broken Bow Around 1880 Any Relation to a William >Cotton Williams Was A Doctor The Williams Were from mississippi. > > > >==== OKMCCURT Mailing List ==== >CONTACT the listowner at [email protected] >Visit the McCurtain county page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmccurt/mccurt.htm >