Posted on: McCurtain County, Ok Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ok/McCurtain/1142 Surname: Wilcher, Sharp, Doss ------------------------- Hello, Peggy: David Dulaney Wilcher was my great grandfather. He lived in Union Co. Miss. before he and his wife Margaret Elizabeth Sharp moved to Garvin, Okla. Garvin, is there in McCurtain County between Idabell and Valliant and also between Millerton and Idabell. Margaret Elizabeth died there and the story goes that her body was sent back to Miss. and buried there; however, I have not been able to find a death cert. (1924) nor a grave. This is somewhat mysterious, although I know that they did not have good death records in those days in that state. In some of the Census records she is listed as Margaret and in others they use her middle name, Elizabeth. David Dulaney Wilcher's grave is in the Garvin community. I can't remember exactly how we found it but I know we asked at a local gas station or store and they knew where the Methodist or was it Baptist cemetery was. I believe the gravestone gives his dates as 1852 - 1940. His daughter Mattie Alta Wilcher was my father's mother. She was born 1881 and died in 1938, Miss. She is buried at Ellistown Cemetery in Union County. She had married Harvey Scott Speck. David's father was John D. Wilcher and John D. was married to Francina Mahala Doss. Sometimes the census lists her as "Frances". His dates are 1807 -185__. Her dates are 1821 - _____. The Wilchers were first in Virginia, then Kentucky, then north Alabama and then Miss. and some to Oklahoma. I don't believe they were ever settled in Tenn. What do you have about him in 1928?? John D. was born in Virginia and Francina was born in Alabama. Mattie Alta had a sister Lilly, who married Louis Brown. They also left Miss. for Okla. and they all lived rather near each other, I surmise. I think that later some of them moved on down into Texas. By the way, my grandfather Scott Harvey Speck, had a bother named Cylde Madison Speck, who had a daughter named Carolyn, who married a Cobb and lived in Tom Ball, Texas. David Dulaney Wilcher, according to my Aunt Fairy, had a zany sense of humor, which my father (Boyce Francis Speck) had also. Someday I will tell you the story of the rocks and pebbles. Well, 'twas nice to meet ya cousin!!