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Before Peter and Augusta lived in Kingfisher they
lived in Savanna, Indian Territory
Augusta Amelia, the Jorns' fourth child was living
with her mother in 1880, but
by
1885 had
moved
in
with her sister Emma
and
her husband Tom
Burtis.
The
Burtis lived at
Savanna,
which is presently in
Pittsburg county, OK.
Augusta,
who was well educated
and a religious
woman,
fell in
love and married a
man who was
not particularly
well
educated, but had
a
quest for
knowledge. Peter
Ray
McInnes was a miner who
had
traveled the West before
he
settled down in the
Indian
Territory.
Peter
and
Augusta were
married 3 March
1886,
Savannah,
Indian
Territory.
Peter and Augusta were married at Savanna on 3
March 1886. Within a short time Peter began studying
law in the evenings,
with the
help of his
wife, who
was a teacher.
The family
moved between
southeastern
Oklahoma,
Jenny Lind, Arkansas
and
Okarche, OK
Territory
several times during the late
1800's. This
was
demonstrated
by the birth
places of their children.
Charles was born in Savanna,
Archibald in
Lehigh,
Indian
Territory,
Ernest Ray in Jenny Lind, Arkansas,
Jeannette
Amelia
in Okarche,
Indian territory,
Thomas Carroll
in
Jenny Lind,
Arkansas and
William Arthur in
Okarche - all between 1887 and
1899.
When the McInnes finally settled on a farm near
Okarche about 1899. They were living down the road
from Tom and Emma
Burtis, in
Kingfisher County.
Their first
Okarche farm home was
made of
sod with
dirt floors.
Soon the family
moved into a two-room frame house
which was
built by
Peter. By
our standards today it
would not be much, but
to
these hard working
pioneers it
was a high moment of
success.
The nineteenth of March 1902 must have been a
heart breaking day when Peter was left with six
children, all under
sixteen
years of age. Their
mother,
Augusta had died. As
might be
expected,
Peter did
remarry. On 12 Jan
1905 Peter
and Grace Agnes Howe
Hensley, who
was 29, born in
Cherokee
County,
Kansas, were married in
Kingfisher County.
Grace, a
widow with four children, was
loved very much
by her
new
family. Peter and
Grace had four more children of
heir own,
making a
beautiful
family with a total
of 14
children. Peter
moved to
Oklahoma City
in
1914,
where he lived until
his death on 14 Jan 1944.
Peter, Elmo, Winona
(Zenor), Gladys (Morton), Grace Howe Hensley McInnes about 1920
These notes were taken from "The Gustav Jorns and
Julia Ann Jones Family History, 1980, by Robert Z
Carlisle II.
(Bob said you could use this.)
Jim and Marca Lee McInnes
Murray
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