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Oklahoma
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Hi my name is Linda (Dyer)
Craig and I
am the new county
coordinator
for
Garvin
County as
well as the State of
Oklahoma
Host.
I
personally
have
done a
lot
of
research
in
this
county
as my
mother was born
and
raised in
Stratford,
95
years ago.
My
grandparents
and
three of
their
children
are buried in
McGee
Cemetery.
My
uncles for
the
most
part
were
married
and began
their
families in
Garvin
County. I
will start
inputing my
families
information
from
this county,
and hopefully others
as
well. As
I
find the time I
will
begin
placing
other data
and links to
help
all my
fellow
genealogists
find
information
easier. I
live in
Oklahoma
City
so
I
cannot go to
the
county to do
research
but I
will try
to
provide
information
as to
where you
can
search
easier.
Please email me
with
any
information
(along
with the
original
source
info). this
can
include
marriage
records,
cemetery
info,
death records,
military
records,
pictures
of
old
business,
biographries
and
such.
Just please
do not
send
me
copies of
family
files as
I
do not
have the time to
go thru and
seperate
older
information
from
current.
I
will
also be
posting
pictures my
mother
has
of unknown
people who lived in the
Stratford
area in
the
1920's
time
frame.
If
you have names
for
them
please let me
know.
Thanks
for
your help in
advance. Email me at
lscraig1951@yahoo.com
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Delegates to
the Constitutional Convention of
1906 formed
Garvin
County from a
part of
the
former Recording
District
17 in the
Chickasaw
Nation, Indian
Territory. Located in
south-central
Oklahoma, the
813.66-square-mile county is
bordered by McClain County to the north,
Pontotoc
County
to the
east, Murray and
Carter counties to the south, and Stephens and
Grady counties to the west.
Incorporated
towns
are Pauls
Valley,
the
county
seat, Elmore
City, Lindsay, Maysville,
Paoli, Stratford,
and
Wynnewood.
Garvin
County lies
within the Red Bed
Plains and Sandstone Hills
physiographic
regions.
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I am dedicating this site to my grandparents whom I never
knew,
Cleason
Jones and Nancy Annie
(Shott)
Jones.
Cleason and
Nancy
Annie
were both
born in
Yell
County,
Arkansas.
After
the
birth
of
their
oldest
4
children
they made
their
way to the
Indian
Nations.
Cleason
came first
and
found
a
place
for
them to
live
then
his
family
followed.
We find them in
the
Choctaw Nation in
1900
then
near
McGee,
Garvin,
Oklahoma
in
1910.
Cleason died
in
1916 in
Kusa,
Oklahoma at the
age of only 48 years old
and
was brought
back and
buried in
the
McGee
Cemetery.
He
was buried
close
to
their
oldest
child
Willie
Jones,
and
twin
daughters
Lovie
and
Dovie.
His
wife
Nancy
Annie
was buried beside
him after her
death in
Oklahoma
City.
They
had
ten children
together, six of
which
reached
adulthood.
Their children
were: Willie
Ethel Jones,
Herbert
Lester
Jones,
Audie
Mae
Jones,
Monroe
Marcilious
Jones, Lovie and
Dovie Jones,
Virgil
Lee
Jones,
Willard Eggbert
Jones, and Vernie
Lorneia
Jones Dyer
Zenor
(my
mother). Three
of
their
children:
Willie,
and twins
Lovie
and
Dovie
are
also
buried
beside them
at
McGee
Cemetery.
Herbert, Monroe
and
my mother
at
Resthaven
Cemetery
in
Oklahoma
City. Willard
is buried in Pine
Bluff,
Arkansas.
Virgil Lee
is
buried in
Scottsdale,
Arizona and
Hugh
is
buried
in
California. |
| I am also dedicating this site to my mother, Vernie
Lorenia (Jones)
Dyer Zenor who was
born
August 22,
1913 in
Stratford,
Garvin
County,
Oklahoma.
After the
death of
her
father
in
1916
her mother
moved
her
small
children that
remained at home between
1920
and 1930 to
Oklahoma
City.
I have
been told
by
an older
cousin that
she
did so
because
she and her
children
were
considered
outcasts as
they
were of
Indian
heritage.
She
married Virgil
Wallace
Dyer
on
January
1,
1932 in
Oklahoma
City,
Oklahoma.
He
was
the
son of
Dock
David
Dyer and
Edna
Blanche
(Helm)
Littleton
Dyer. My
father
Virgil
died
in
Oklahoma
City,
Oklahoma
on March
8, 1982
and is
buried
at
Resthaven
Cemetery.
My
mother
was
the
youngest
of
the
ten
children
born
to
Cleason
Jones
and
Nancy
Annie
(Shott)
Jones. Four
of her
sibilings
died
before
her
birth
(Willie,
Audie,
and
twins
Lovie
and
Dovie).
Her
other
siblings
met
their
future
wifes
in
the
Garvin County
area, but all
eventually moved
from there.
The
only child of
Vernie and
Virgil
was
myself,
Linda
Sue
Dyer
born July 17,
1951
in
Oklahoma
City,Oklahoma. My
mother died on June 1, 2009 in Oklahoma
City and is buried at
Resthaven Cemetery
in far southwest Oklahoma City. |
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