Welcome to Garvin County, Oklahoma

Hi my name is Linda and I am the new county coordinator for Garvin County.  I personally have done alot 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

I am dedicating this site to my grandparents whom I never knew, Cleason Jones and Nancy Annie (Shott) Jones.  Cleason and  Nancy Annie were 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.

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