Welcome, LaRae! I am delighted that you have adopted the Okmulgee Genweb site. It's been looking for a good parent since before I began checking it a year or so ago. My interests in Okmulgee Co. are around the turn of the century. My father was a MOREY, technically born in 1910 across the now county line in McIntosh Co, but he was orphaned and then adopted in 1914 by an immigrant couple, she a Scotswoman, Christina MOUNT MORTIMER LEWIS who emigrated around 1904 to the Henryetta/Schulter area, he an Alsace-Loraine German, Andy HOFFMAN who must have come to Coalton for the coal mining before 1910, since that's when he and Christina married. Her daughter, Katie MORTIMER LEWIS married Proctor NOBLE in 1914 and lived in the same area before moving to Okmulgee and working at the Ball glass plant. I'm interested in the coal mining in the Schulter area, the Bacone Indian school since my father attended there one year and well, lots more. I'll be visiting Okmulgee mid-April to do some hands on research. Lots of relatives are buried at both the Henryetta Cemetery and the Okmulgee Cemetery. My big mystery is my father's birth mother's death. She was Lucy PELL RICH NALL MOREY, and she supposedly died from a fall from a window (I've heard various versions of the cause of that fall) on May 3, 1914. The state of OK has no death certificate for her. I'm hoping to find a newspaper account of the death. STANLEY is my husband's mother's family. His grandmother Jessie STANLEY and grandfather Arthur Owens STANLEY met in a cotton patch in McIntosh Co. just after the turn of the century. She'd come there with her WILLIAMS family from Arkansas. He'd come up from east Texas. In 1911 they lived in Nerotown and then in Dewar, Okmulgee Co. before moving to Okmulgee to 909 S. Sioux Street. I remember visiting her there in the 1960's. She died in 1971. If anyone has any connection to any of this, please let me know. Maybe we can make a connection. I've had some miraculous breaks thanks to the Internet. If I come across anything I think the website could use, I'll let you know, LaRae. Again, a big thanks for taking the helm. Ginger Goodell >