My maternal grandmother was born in Checotah in 1903 (CALICO). My father's family (BURKS) came from Norman to Checotah in 1928. Other family names in the area are: ANDREWS and TROLINGER. My husband is also from McIntosh County (Texanna), TACKETT, NEWTON, HURST, SAYLOR. There is also a Green and McIntosh connection in his family. I have family who live in Checotah and was back for a visit last May/June. What are the hours at the Tulare Library? I have not been there in years, but have been thinking about taking the short drive north. Wanda Shafter, CA

Yes I live in Fresno. Dragged main in Hanford in the 50's. Lived in Hanford in the 60's-70's. My parents lived in Hanford also. I knew there were a lot of us Okies out here, and proud of it, I suspect out grandparents crossed paths in Macintosh Co. Jim G -----Original Message----- From: KRobertsInCA@aol.com [mailto:KRobertsInCA@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:52 PM To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family In a message dated 10/17/04 5:22:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, pmunroe@sbcglobal.net writes: James, I noticed on your post that your a volunteer for the Fresno county Calif. Genweb, do you live in Fresno ? I live in Hanford about 40 miles from Fresno . Pat Munroe McIntosh Co. OK. board Administrator I, just to let you all know, live in Visalia. I am usually at the Tulare Library Genealogy room every wednesday night in case you need a Tulare County Look up. :) Kevin Roberts ============================== 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

James, Greenlawn Cemetery, Checotah, OK, Section A, Row 3 BLAIR, Morgan, 3 Aug 1870, 16 Nov 1940, s/w Amelia BLAIR, Amelia, 11 Aug 1878, 16 Dec 1941, s/w Morgan The Smith Funeral Home may have the burial record, I can get the address and phone number for you. You may email direct if you like. Wanda wtackett@lightspeed.net Shafter, CA -----Original Message----- From: Bernnice Sampley [mailto:prunella1@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:21 PM To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fwd: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family This somehow came to me at prunella1@sbcglobal.net James Gillespie <jlg77@cvip.net> wrote:Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:17:28 -0700 From: James Gillespie To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family Looking for Morgan Blair and wife Amelia Phipps, married abt 1900 according to the 1930 Oklahoma, McIntosh County Census. Morgan died about 1940 in Checotah and Amelia died about 1941 also in Checotah according to present day family. Would like to know in what cemetary they are buried! Thank you very much for any help you can offer, James Gillespie Fresno County California US Genweb Volunteer ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ ============================== 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 somehow came to me at prunella1@sbcglobal.net James Gillespie <jlg77@cvip.net> wrote:Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:17:28 -0700 From: James Gillespie To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family Looking for Morgan Blair and wife Amelia Phipps, married abt 1900 according to the 1930 Oklahoma, McIntosh County Census. Morgan died about 1940 in Checotah and Amelia died about 1941 also in Checotah according to present day family. Would like to know in what cemetary they are buried! Thank you very much for any help you can offer, James Gillespie Fresno County California US Genweb Volunteer ============================== You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/

Looking for Morgan Blair and wife Amelia Phipps, married abt 1900 according to the 1930 Oklahoma, McIntosh County Census. Morgan died about 1940 in Checotah and Amelia died about 1941 also in Checotah according to present day family. Would like to know in what cemetary they are buried! Thank you very much for any help you can offer, James Gillespie Fresno County California US Genweb Volunteer

Well, this seems to be a common occurance in that part of the county. I have found many women living alone, that is to say no husband but many children. This is usually do to there being some Indian blood in the woman in question. (grin) There were many Indian women still living by the old customs in those days and it looks as though some never gave up the old ways. (grin)It makes it very hard to trace beyond her and her children because her children usually went by her name and not the fathers name, just one of the old customes. I will see what info I have on the Traylors and send it your way if it looks usefull. Pat Munroe Board Admin. > > Hi Pat, > I appreciate any efforts. There is supposedly a small blurb about them ( > Nancy, Sarah and Pernucia Traylor) in a book by Neal Cotner called A Window To > The Past. According to one response I received to a query, the mother Nancy > Traylor, has never been found with a husband and is rumored to have had 7 > children. I know virtually nothing of this side of the family. I am also still > seeking to find Pernussa/Pernucia with her Smalley husband as he is absent > from the 1870 census in Sebastian Co, Arkansas. > Thanks, > Kevin... > > > ============================== > 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 >

Keven, there were Traylors in Greene, Howell counties Mo. about 1850 or 1860 that had been in Ark. previously . I will look them up for you if you think they might be yours. Pat Munroe Board Admin. ----- Original Message ----- From: <KRobertsInCA@aol.com> > I found my GrGreatGrandmother ,as a child, in Sebastian Co Arkansas on the > 1870 census. Her mother is Pernussa Smalley. Living with them is Mother to > Pernussa Nancy Traylor. Living with Nancy Traylor is Martha Cotner. It is > suggested that Martha Cotner, later Coker, is the daughter of Jacob Cotner and > Sarah Traylor, sister to Pernussa. > > Kevin... > >

Keven, what Traylors did you have in Ark. ??? Pat Munroe Board Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: <KRobertsInCA@aol.com> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family > > In a message dated 10/17/04 7:43:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > thejenks@valuelinx.net writes: > > Hey, what a coincidence! I was one of the Dust Bowl babies born in Visalia. > Would be interesting to find out how many McIntosh Co. people are in your > area now. My Grandmother, Laura "Patsy" Pullen > lived right off Weedpatch Highway. Her address was Lamont. Still have > cousins in Visalia. Would love to go to the library there, but its a long > ways from Arkansas. Doris Pullen Jenkins

James, what are the hours for the LDS center there ? Pat Munroe Board Admin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Gillespie" <jlg77@cvip.net> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 7:21 PM Subject: RE: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family > You guys need to try the LDS Family History Center on Echo across from > Fresno High. We have the best. > Jim G > > -----Original Message----- > From: KRobertsInCA@aol.com [mailto:KRobertsInCA@aol.com] > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 6:48 PM > To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family > > > > In a message dated 10/17/04 6:43:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > pmunroe@sbcglobal.net writes: > > Hi Keven, Tulare must have a better genealogy department than our Hanford > Library. (grin) > Boy I can't believe that I have so many researchers around me with McIntosh > county Ok. connections. Gee I wonder if any of us might be distantly > related ? (grin) > > Pat Munroe > Board Admin. > OKMCINTO > > > Hi Pat, > Wouldn't that be something? I would love to run into a distant relative as > it seems parts of my clans were very elusive. Some of the names I am > researching include Clubb, Brown, Ralston, Green and Smalley. > Tulare does have a pretty large genealogy room. There are several shelves > with oklahoma information, sadly not much on McIntosh Co. I have been told > it > is one of the better rooms between San Diego and San Francisco. > Unfortunately, for me, my family did not migrate out to California until > 1939-1940. > Happy to look up anything I can. I also frequent the cemeteries out in > this > area hunting for kin. I will try to send a message out before my next trip > in case anyone needs local photos or information. > Kevin Roberts. > > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ============================== > 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 >

Hi Keven, Tulare must have a better genealogy department than our Hanford Library. (grin) Boy I can't believe that I have so many researchers around me with McIntosh county Ok. connections. Gee I wonder if any of us might be distantly related ? (grin) Pat Munroe Board Admin. OKMCINTO ----- Original Message ----- From: <KRobertsInCA@aol.com> To: <-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family > > In a message dated 10/17/04 5:22:44 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > pmunroe@sbcglobal.net writes: > > James, I noticed on your post that your a volunteer for the Fresno county > Calif. Genweb, do you live in Fresno ? > I live in Hanford about 40 miles from Fresno . > > Pat Munroe > McIntosh Co. OK. > board Administrator > > > I, just to let you all know, live in Visalia. I am usually at the Tulare > Library Genealogy room every wednesday night in case you need a Tulare County > Look up. :) > > Kevin Roberts > > > ============================== > 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 >

James, I noticed on your post that your a volunteer for the Fresno county Calif. Genweb, do you live in Fresno ? I live in Hanford about 40 miles from Fresno . Pat Munroe McIntosh Co. OK. board Administrator ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Gillespie" <jlg77@cvip.net> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 12:17 PM Subject: [OKMCINTO] Blair Family > Looking for Morgan Blair and wife Amelia Phipps, married abt 1900 according > to the 1930 Oklahoma, McIntosh County Census. > Morgan died about 1940 in Checotah and Amelia died about 1941 also in > Checotah according to present day family. > Would like to know in what cemetary they are buried! > > Thank you very much for any help you can offer, > James Gillespie > Fresno County California US Genweb Volunteer > > > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ >

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The McIntosh County website is www.rootsweb.com/~okmcinto/index.htm . In case you are not familiar with it, you will find census reports for the county, a list of names of people who obtained marriage licenses in the county, a list of cemeteries. There is also a box which says "search this site". You can enter the names of people you are looking for and a list will come up, whether it is census, marriage license, cemeteries, obituaries, etc. I saw the names Looney and Roundtree there. Many of the cemeteries will show that they have been relocated. These are the ones that were moved when Lake Eufaula was built. The Corps of Engineers was in charge of moving the graves, I think it was in the late 1950's or early 1960's, and they made an effort to identify everyone. Of course there were many they could not identify. Ron and Elaine Long, the couple who maintained this website for several years, did a lot of work in transcribing the census reports, obtaining marriage license information and inventorying cemeteries to make all this information available to those who were looking for ancestors in this county. Everyone owes them a big thanks for all the work they did. There are still cemeteries which have not been inventoried. I was unable to find anything under the name Riggings. The name Riggs is among the information available but that was as close as I could find to Riggings. Good look in your research.

I too am asking if there is a list of people buried there. I am looking for the names Looney and Roundtree...they were living at their farm near Texanna. There probably wouldn't have been money for a headstone, but I keep hoping that someone kept track of who is buried in those old cemeteries. Any info on these names would be appreciated. beverlybirdwell@msn.com. ----- Original Message ----- From: Karens Cox's Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:56 PM To: OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OKMCINTO] Texanna Cemetery do you by chance have a copy of those burried in the cemetery Karen Grantham http://www.freewebs.com/brokenroses/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Tackett" <wtackett@lightspeed.net> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: [OKMCINTO] Texanna Cemetery > Texanna Cemetery is located south of Checotah, OK and north or Eufaula, > it is east of Hwy 69. My husband has family buried at Texanna, and we > are both were born in Checotah, but live in Calif. I have connections > in Checotah. Hope I can help. > > Wanda > wtackett@lightspeed.net > > > > > ============================== > 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 > > ============================== 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

do you by chance have a copy of those burried in the cemetery Karen Grantham http://www.freewebs.com/brokenroses/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Tackett" <wtackett@lightspeed.net> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: [OKMCINTO] Texanna Cemetery > Texanna Cemetery is located south of Checotah, OK and north or Eufaula, > it is east of Hwy 69. My husband has family buried at Texanna, and we > are both were born in Checotah, but live in Calif. I have connections > in Checotah. Hope I can help. > > Wanda > wtackett@lightspeed.net > > > > > ============================== > 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 > >

There were a number of cemeteries in the area of Texanna that had to be moved when Lake Eufaula was built. The town of Texanna is no longer a town, that is there is still a community there but no businesses. The corps of engineers moved the cemeteries. Do you know the name of the cemetery you are looking for? Or what names are you looking for? I do remember the name Fishertown as being one of the cemeteries. Have you looked at the list of cemeteries on the county website? I would be glad to help search if I knew the names you are looking for. What we call "Texanna Road" is about 5 miles north of Eufaula. East of there is where the town of Texanna was. There may still be some cemeteries in the area. Melva Best cmbest@lakewebs.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karens Cox's" <kareng6@cox.net> To: <OKMCINTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: [OKMCINTO] Texanna > Looking for texanna Cemetery and town any leads would be great its not far from eufaula > > > Tahnks > > Karen Grantham > http://www.freewebs.com/brokenroses/ > > > ============================== > 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 >

Not sure about the "directions" though. Sorry. I bet someone on here knows though. :)

You might start with Triplett Cemetery. I am not sure about any others but I will find out and post again. Kevin...