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Comment by Linda Lou Eldridge Westbrook on October 27, 2011 at 7:38pm

Are there any posts for 2011?

Comment by Brenda Holguin on September 12, 2011 at 12:51pm

Looking for info on the widow Jane Reynolds listed in the 1900 census Indian Territory.  She was b in TN ca 1838/1839 and d sometime after 21 June 1906 and befpre 1910 census.  Mr Reynolds was at least her 3rd husband.  Info needed re marriages, date of death, full names of husbands, anything.  Thanks. 

Brenda

Comment by Annette Marie Madden on January 22, 2011 at 10:00pm

I am researching descendants of Austin Perry, Choctaw freedmen from Atoka, Oklahoma.

Comment by Tim Connor on August 5, 2010 at 7:27pm

Great Great Grandfather came n in the land run in 1893 when they opened the Cherokee Strip. Is there any records for the homestead he applied for?

Comment by Donna Dreyer on July 8, 2010 at 7:29pm

Many applied for delayed birth certificates, which would be on file. Those would probably have been several years after the fact. My father was born in 1917 and applied for a delayed one in the 1940's so he could enter the military during WW II. If they lived to collect Social Security, they would have had to received a delayed certificate.

Census records, newspaper announcements at time of birth are 2 sources.

Comment by Tim Connor on July 8, 2010 at 1:07pm

Since there was no birth certificates before statehood, how does one prove a birth?

Comment by Tim Connor on May 6, 2010 at 7:15am

Thank you very much!

Comment by Donna Dreyer on May 6, 2010 at 7:05am

Several possibilities. If there was not a local minister, people waited for the traveling preacher (also called circut preachers) to come to their area to marry them. The preacher would then record the marriage in the next county court house he came to.

Have to consider the history of the counties. Before statehood, the counties were different. The large counties were divided into smaller counties & depending on the area, the records probably stayed with the original county court house. If you are interested in early day map of the area, go to http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/OK/County/

Or they might have taken the train. Quite a few times, couples would take the train, example: in the early days, Alva was part of Woodward County. Couples from Woodward would take the train to Alva to get married. Some considered it their honeymoon trip or their elopement.

Comment by Tim Connor on May 5, 2010 at 7:52pm

I have a question for you smart people. Turn of the century marriages, My Great Grandfather and Grandmother were married in 1901 in Sapulpa. Their license was at the District Court Clerk in Muskogee. Exactly what happened back then, did preachers marry people and perodically sent the info into the Court or did they have to travel the 50 miles to Muskogee to get married? That would have been a long wagon ride.

Comment by Tim Connor on May 5, 2010 at 7:48pm

Does anyone have any info on Hillside Indian Mission orphanage near Skiatook?

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