Nalora wrote: > Add that to a perpetual curiosity about the past, a real LOVE for the State > I have lived in all my life, a lust for learning new things about Oklahoma > and a family that came here before 1850 and a stubborn Scots/Irish/Indian > background, and what do you have? A kindred spirit! Given that time frame and your earlier references to Pottawattomi Co., I'm compelled to ask -- is it possible you have some Absentee Shawnee roots? Sharon McAllister [also Scots/Irish/Indian] 73372.1745@compuserve.com

Jean, There is a Norwood-Coffey-Leonard Funeral Home at P. O. Box 448; Idabel, OK 74745. The phone number is 580-286-3375. If anyone needs any others I have access to a funeral home book

Among my mother's keepsakes, I've found two books from the Oklahoma High School Honor Society -- 1934 and 1935. For each school, these give the name of the person who reported the honor student, then list the names of individual students in order of class standing within the school, and indicate the student's class [9 - 12]. I'll be glad to do lookups, but these books aren't indexed so I MUST have the name of the town as a starting point and if there was more than one school its name would certainly help. Sharon McAllister 73372.1745@compuserve.com

Vickie Neill Taylor wrote: > I have a question. I am in the process of recording the Yeager Cemetery. > My dad grew up in this area and went to high school in yeager and knew many > of the people buried here. I know that it is not the norm, but should I > include some of his memories as I type this up? > Sometimes he will remember that this married so and so, his parents > were, his team of horses were so big they almost couldn't get under the > barn roof. Do you want this info added? > Is it against policy to do this? > Please let me hear from you. I was doing something similar for the Luther area, accumulating everything in one alphabetized file. Sometime after it passed 50 pages in length, I decided that was a BAD idea. I find it much easier to use now that I've split it up. The cemetery plot ownership info is in one list, the newspaper tidbits in another, and the memories in my FTM database. Sample question to Mother, regarding someone I can't place in the family: Why did you call him Uncle Dave? Answer. Uncle Albert [her granduncle, Albert COLE] married Ida ECKERand Ida's sister, Mattie ECKER, married David KING. I treat those memories as very important clues about the ties among the old families. There was a time when children did NOT call adults by their first names, yet "Mr." or "Mrs." wasn't considered appropriate within the family. In Luther, that means LOTS of honorary aunts, uncles, and grandparents. If you want to see my newspaper tidbits, they're accessible through either OKbits or the Oklahoma Co. page. But that's just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. If you want a lookup for someone who was in the Luther area in territorial days, please write to me. [I also have some limited information on newcomers.] Sharon McAllister 73372.1745@compuserve.com

Listed below is a complete list of Sirnames if someone happens to stumble upon them. Thank you The names of my research are: OXFORD Seeking information on JOHN COLLINS OXFORD born 1849 unsure of where died in 1924 in LEHIGH OKLA. also any other OXFORDS that may be related. ?> TX>OK>CA> HATTON: From the Carnagie Okla area. ? IN or IL> OK>CA> DAVIS: MARY ETTA DAVIS married CLYDE FINTON HATTON circa 1930 in Okla OK>CA> they are interred in Carnagie Okla. VEAL: JOHN VEAL last known VanZandt County, TEXAS, circa 1904 ?>TX BAKER: FANNY ANN BAKER: married to JOHN VEAL TX> HICKS: CHARLIE and GRACIE L. HICKS lived in SEMINOLE OKLA 1930's ?> OK>CA GRAHAM: GRACIE L. GRAHAM married CHARLIE HICKS. ?>OK>CA Thank you to all Debbie Oxford Long

Contact the Kiowa County Genealogical Society. E-Mail address is: tpxm95a@prodigy.com Fax: 580-726-5638 P.O. Box 191, Hobart, OK 73651-0191 I have found them very helpful and have found some of my family through their newsletter. Phyllis Rhodes -----Original Message----- From: PUDDLE4@aol.com <PUDDLE4@aol.com> To: OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 8:49 PM Subject: [OKROOTS-L] DUNN/HARRIS/SLAVEN/RICO >I am researching the DUNN/HARRIS/SLAVEN/RICO line from Kiowa County, OK. >Carrie in Oreogn >

Hi gang, I have a question. I am in the process of recording the Yeager Cemetery. My dad grew up in this area and went to high school in yeager and knew many of the people buried here. I know that it is not the norm, but should I include some of his memories as I type this up? Sometimes he will remember that this married so and so, his parents were, his team of horses were so big they almost couldn't get under the barn roof. Do you want this info added? Is it against policy to do this? Please let me hear from you. Vickie Neill Taylor flip@chickasaw.com

I have as address for the Burckhalter Funeral Home: P.O. Box 456, Vinita, OK 74301. Hope this is useful to you Sharon -----Original Message----- From: WendyGayle@aol.com <WendyGayle@aol.com> To: OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com <OKROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 27, 1998 9:09 PM Subject: [OKROOTS-L] Fisher Child Obit. >I am looking for an obit. on a Carlene Fisher that died in Vinita, OK. Her >sister was Barbara Fisher and she died at the age of 2 and they are buried in >a cemetery there. The cemetery site for the Craigh County page is not >helpful. It is only for famous people. Anyway, I am looking for the address >of the Burckhalter Funeral Home. Thanks! > >

Does anyone know if the Coffey funeral home of Idabel is still in business? Jean Okla. City

Hi Wendy - OKGenWeb under "Funeral Homes" you'll find the address, phone and fax number. If you call or write them, would you ask what years their records cover - thanks. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/okindex.htm > of the Burckhalter Funeral Home. Thanks! -- Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator OKGenWeb ICQ# 14382735 http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878 Genie Angels

Is any one searching the DOCTOR JAMES H.COLE b. 23 Oct 1908 d. 8 Jul 1955 in Seminole,OK?? He was s/o JAMES HENRY COLE and SARAH E. GUINN. There was a SARAH DELILIA COLE INGRAM b. 1863 Stone CO AR died 1930 Okemah, SARAH D. list her parents as JOHN COLE and CATHERINE GEORGE COLE. Does anyone have any info on these families? Thank you so much, Dortha

I will do look-ups in the Rock Creek Cemetery Index located near Okemah, Ok. I have recently acquired a 1940 Yearbook called The Orbit from Classen High School, Ok. City, Ok. Along with 3 report cards from Hawthorne School. They all have the name Marguerite Flood. Pete

The person that is researching that last name, can go to the OKbits, then to Grandma's Shoebox, there is an article on the page regarding a police officer with that last name.

I am looking for an obit. on a Carlene Fisher that died in Vinita, OK. Her sister was Barbara Fisher and she died at the age of 2 and they are buried in a cemetery there. The cemetery site for the Craigh County page is not helpful. It is only for famous people. Anyway, I am looking for the address of the Burckhalter Funeral Home. Thanks!

I.m looking for info on the Calvin McEwen BLYTHE/Julia Ann COX family. They are buried in the Wetumpka City Cem. in Hughes Co., OK. Also buried there is Calvin's sister-in-law Minerva BLYETH. She was married to his brother Andrew J. BLYETH. Calvin also lived in Okmulgee, Okmulgee, OK. He had two sons and a daughter that lived to old age in OK. Luther John Blythe was in OK. City in 1962 and Arthur who was in Anadarko,OK in 1962. Mary Elizabeth BLYTHE HARDIN. died in 1962 and is buried in the Okmulgee City Cem, along with another brother Ambrose BLYTHE. The Blythe's came to OK about 1907 from Marion Co., AR. Any help would be appreciated, Jackie

I am researching the DUNN/HARRIS/SLAVEN/RICO line from Kiowa County, OK. I live in Oregon and find it difficult to do researching this far away. I sure would appreciate any help anyone can give me. If you are from this area or have access to records from Kiowa County, OK from the early 1900's I sure would like to hear from you. I am trying to prove my Native American lineage. I have been told that the SLAVEN girls were kin to Chief Greenwood LeFlore. Two of them married RICO brothers, one married a HEROLD and a DUNN, and one married a FINE and a HEROD (no L). I am looking for marriage records, death records, obits, births, census, etc. If you can help me I thank you in advance and wait anxiously to hear from you. Carrie in Oreogn

Hi, I am researching the DUNN/HARRIS/SLAVEN/RICO

Found in my grandmother's stash: Land Warranty Deed: Transfer from: Henry NABORS and Rhoda S. NABORS (husband and wife) To: R. M. Hurd [*Robert Manning HURD my great grandfather] Date: 22 Mar 1944 For the sum of ONE dollar. [ hrm....] Lots 37, 38, 39. Block 3 Spauldings Addition to the City of Shawnee. Also a "Release of Real Estate Mortgage": George H. CLARK to D. H. ADAMS Dated: 30 Jan 1919 State of Oklahoma, Pottawattamie county. a notation by my great grandfather on this mortgage says: Lot 34-35-36 Blk 3, A.P. Lots 2 and 3, Spaulding Any kin? Also found a yippe and a yahoo and an oooee nellie : the original Allotment plot papers and an oil lease. 8))) Garvin County, Section 7, Township 4 North, Range 2 East: 172.10 acres. (more or less, it says) Wonder who owns it now? Guess some research is neccesary, eh? Nalora already planning another road trip...

I am trying to locate Barbara Hamilton or Hamlin, who probably has a different last name now, as when I knew her we were in school in OKC around 1972-73-74. If anyone can help me with this, sure would appreciate it. Thanks Sharon ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Nevermind, great grandma's spelling is wrong, it is Reagan. Nalora