…some historical details about different times and people in Oklahoma history. The search on the right side will search all of the Oklahoma Genealogy website but will not search the data linked to from our offsite data pages. Adair | Cherokee | Craig | Delaware | Mayes | McIntosh |…
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…long ago, and know what I am talking about. If you go any ways soon and don’t find things as I have stated them to be, let me know. Source: Puckett, J. L. and Ellen. History of Oklahoma and Indian Territory and Homeseeker’s guide. Vinita, Oklahoma, Chieftain Publishing Company, 1906….
…goods and in the settlement of various claims. This treaty also provided for the payment of $1,000 per year for ten years to the chiefs of the Creek Nation, and also for furnishing two sets of blacksmith tools, with men to work them for three years. In 1802 Georgia released…
…Cemetery Marshall Kingston North Cline Cemetery Beaver Gate Clinging Cemetery Wagoner Northeast Muskogee Clinton Cemetery Custer Bessie Cloud Chief Cemetery Washita Lake Valley Cloud Creek Cemetery Delaware Lake Eucha East Cloudy Cemetery Pushmataha Cloudy Coal Creek Cemetery Ottawa Miami SW Coalgate Cemetery Coal Coalgate Cockran Cemetery Pontotoc Stonewall Coker Cemetery…
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Genealogy and Historical Societies often have a wealth of information. Many provide these services free while others charge a minimal amount. When asking for help, please don’t ask them to search for every Surname you are researching. Adair County Historical and Genealogical Association Blaine County Genealogical Society Bryan County Heritage…
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…Western bands should come together in the mountains and that Texas must make a treaty with the Comanches for all the lands of their fathers. But in the spring of 1861 came the news of the great rebellion, and the head men of the Confederacy made liberal treaties with all…
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…the Stapler family, James S. Stapler being its president. John W. Stapler, the elder, was a white man who settled in Tahlequah many years before the Civil war. He married Miss Jane Hicks, a niece of John Ross, the old chief, and for many years was a man of influence…
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…in the Dawes Committee coming in and compiling the tribal rolls and setting up the land surveys which were to establish ownership and open the gates for exploitation of the region on a large scale. The rolls listed 6,185 Indian, mixed blood, and white citizens and 5,670 Negro freedmen, records…
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THE FIGHTING MEN OF OKLAHOMA was published in 1948 by the Victory Publishing Company of Oklahoma City. The theme of the series was “A Remembrance, An Appreciation, A Memorial.” Six volumes were planned, but for some reason, only two were completed. Volume one is a history of the Second World…
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…of their lands. Every opening of public lands has had its rush of prospective settlers and adventurers, and the rush to this country when the Dawes Commission began to partition the vast landed estate of Indian Territory, was not unusual nor’ unexpected. There is a peculiar fascination accompanying land openings…
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