Oklahoma and Indian Territory Researchers

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Comment by Dichotomy2u on July 19, 2009 at 8:34pm

Oh, and a great place to search the Rolls is Access Genealogy. Dawes Roll is online.

Comment by Dichotomy2u on July 19, 2009 at 8:33pm

Flora Alexander Crowder was a known citizen of The Cherokee tribe. Her kids with Thomas Caprock Crowder were Choctaw and on the Dawes roll.

Comment by Sue Tolbert on July 19, 2009 at 5:03pm

Carolyn and Dichotomy2u,
Could you post more details about those you are searching for? It is really hard to offer help with only names to work with.

Comment by Carolyn Carter on July 19, 2009 at 4:38pm

My Gmother (Agnes May Heady) was born in 1900 in Indian Territory. I have not been able to find much on her, any suggestions. I have been looking on Ancestry.com and other places, but not much luck.

Comment by Dichotomy2u on July 19, 2009 at 11:01am

Researching Crowder, Alexander, Pyle, Going/goings/Goins Choctaw was easy to research, Cherokee is proving harder. Looking for Flora Alexander Crowder info.

Comment by Sue Tolbert on July 17, 2009 at 10:22pm

Sheri, The majority of Kay county was a part of the Cherokee Outlet which was opened 16 September 1893. (The small eastern portion of the county was not opened for settlement until 1906.) More than 100,000 people converged on the Outlet that day hoping to stake a claim to one of the 40,000 homesteads. Each homestead was a quarter section of land (160 acres). So, in answer to your question, yes, it was a homestead, the land having already been surveyed before the run. As Debra mentioned, land entry case files are often very enlightening.

Comment by Debra Osborne Spindle on July 17, 2009 at 5:47pm

Sheri: If your family members participated in a land rush, it is indeed a homestead situation. They had to "prove up," usually after 5 years--have your ordered their land entry case files from the National Archives? It will have their testimony about improvements on their land as well as the testimonies of 3 of their friends and/or neighbors. Sue may have more insight on your question, but this is my 2 cents. :-)

Comment by Sheri Fenley on July 17, 2009 at 11:39am

My 2nd great grandfather James SHEERN/SHARON and his brother John Philip SHEERN/SHARON participated in a land rush in what is now Kay County in 1892. James lived on his land in Lowe Township until his death sometime between 1900-1910. His brother's land was next to his but did not actually live on it. My question is was the land they obtained through the land rush similiar to a homestead situation or was it simply purchased after it was surveyed?

Comment by Kerry Black on July 17, 2009 at 10:38am

BLACK family from Monroe County Miss settled in Choctaw Nation (present LeFlore County) about 1892-93.

Comment by Kerry Black on July 17, 2009 at 10:35am

Sue, I have a number of records from the 1900 census for Indian Territory that I found on Ancestry. I wonder what the issue is with your searches and why it doesn't give you the option of searching IT.

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