The Offutt Family of Oklahoma City



Notes About City Candidates

Joseph E. Offutt took the lead in Sunday's publication in District 4.  Mr. Offutt, who is a salesman for Carroll, Brough & Robinson, was the youngest traveling man out of Oklahoma City when he started two years ago.  While in school he won a pony in a contest.  Mr. Offutt is determined to win the best.  The Oklahoman is offering and is preparing invitations to the house warming when he moves into the $3,000.00 Prize Home.  He has hundreds of loyal friends who are confident he will win.
Source:  The Oklahoman September 11, 1906 Page 12
MISS MARY STEPHENS PINER AND MR. JOE E. OFFUTT

 



Miss Mary Stephens Piner and Mr. Joe E. Offutt, whose marriage will take place at the First Methodist church at Tampa, Floridak, Wednesday, May 20th, Dr. W. K. Piner, father of the bride and minister at the church, officiating.  The bride formerly resided here, and will, after her marriage, again be welcomed as a resident by many friends here.  The groom is a popular traveling man making his headquarters here, and is a member of a number of the exclusive clubs.
Source:  The Oklahoman May 10, 1908 Page 34
IN VOTE RECOUNT
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C. P. Offutt Beats James Beatty and George Matlack is Gaining.

C. P. Offutt declared the Democratic nominee for clerk of the superior cout over James Beatty by a majority of eighty-four votes and George A. Mattlock the probable choice over Charles H. Garnett for county judge is the answer to the recount of Democratic ballots in the recent primary election in Oklahoma county, begun Monday.  Offutt overcame an adverse majority of 352, while Matlack in the five boxes thus far counted, already has upset Garnett's majority of 840 and is leading by 145 votes.  This majority probably will be increased as the recount progresses.  The vote as it stands at present is: Matlack, 1995, Garnett, 1840, and Laws, 1734.  The official vote was: Matlack, 1815, Garnett, 2155 and Laws 1748.  A certificate of election probably will be issued Mr. Offutt Tuesday as the recount of the five boxes challenged by him has been completed and returned him a winner over Beatty whose right to the nomination was questioned by his nearest candidate.
Source: The Oklahoman August 23, 1910 Page: Front

Offutt-Nash

A complete surprise to their many friends in this city was the wedding of Miss Nancy B. Offutt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Offutt of West Twenty-third street, and Evans A. Nash, only son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Nash of 1314 North Hudson street, which took place Wednesday morning in El Reno, Miss Offutt and Mr. Nash having taken an early morning train for that place and the ceremony being performed immediately upon their arrival.  From El Reno the young couple went to Cheyenne, Okla., where they will remain a week with Mr. and Mrs. T. I. Miller.  Upon their return they will reside with the groom's parents.  The bride is a graduate of the local high school and has resided in Oklahoma City for many years.  She is tall, slend, and blonde and is known among her friends for her sweetness of disposition and character.  Mr. Nash came to Oklahoma City about two years ago from St. Joseph, Mo.  He is a graduate of a Jesuit school, St. Mary's College, St. Marys, Kan.  He has a host of friends in the city and is a popular member of both the Jol de Vie and Comus clubs.  He is also well known in newspaper circles and has recently been made city editor of the Daily Pointer.

Source:  The Oklahoma August 26, 1910 Page 7

OFFUTT'S PLAN PRAISED BY MUSKOGEE PARTY

Hearing that City Assessor Ezra Offutt had the best system of assessing in the state, a party from Muskogee was at the court house Tuesday, examining his methods.  The party consisted of Joseph McCasker, city assessor of Muskogee, his chief deputy, G. H. Alexander, M. C. Sells, city treasurer, and R. M. Eades, a real estate dealer.  They claim to have gotten some valuable information from Mr. Offutt, and took with them sample papers of his books.  The party will examine the systems in vogue at Guthrie and Shawnee before returning home.
Source: Daily Oklahoman January 26, 1910 Page 4
Marshall-Offutt

At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Marshall, of 427 East Tenth Street, their daughter, Miss Greta May Marshall, was married last evening at 8:30 o'clock to C. Paisley Offutt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Offutt of 737 West Twenty-third street, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Thomas H. Harper.  The house was beautifully decorated with palms, ferns and flowers, the table in the dining room being done in ferns and white carnations.  The bride was attired in a handsome gown of lavender brocaded silk and carried a bouquet of bride roses.  A repast followed the ceremony.  Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Offutt, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dochman, Mr. and Mrs. Evans Nash, Mr. and Mrs. Riley, Mr. and Mrs. Joe E. Offutt, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Brannon, Mr. and Mrs. Charles White, Mr. and Mrs. George Hastings, Mrs. Fred H. Garrison, the Misses Irene Aufright, Hilma Thurston, Alta and Georgia Hastings, and Mr. A. K. Riely, Mrs. and Mrs. Offutt have gone to their home at 30 East Tenth street.  Mr. Offutt is clerk of the county.
Source:  Daily Oklahoma September 16, 1909 Page 7

COUNTY FARM FOR BAD BOYS URGED
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Offutt Develops Solution of Training for Juvenile Delinquents

A county farm as a training school for delinquent boys who are mischievous through idleness rather than criminal, was suggested yesterday afternoon by Ezra Offutt, county probation officer.  If a part of the present county poor farm were given him for "his boys" it would eliminate the necessity of sending them to the state training school, which Mr. Offutt has characterized as a "training school for the penitentiary," he says. 

\Summer a Trying Time
Because of the impossibility of obtaining the right kind of employment for all the boys during the summer months; they are allowed to roam the streets and naturally fall into evil ways.  Instead of sending these michievous younsters to the state reform school where they are allowed to associate with older fellows that are hardened criminals, Mr. Offutt has a plan of his own with "kindness, work and faith in the boys" as his motto.  As soon as a boy exhibits a tendency to do wrong during the summer months or any poor boy is at a loss how to occupy his time, Mr.. Offutt would send him to the "Boy's Farm."  There he would keep lads busy at healthy work, interspersed with recreations dear to a boy's heart.

Instructor Contemplated
A teacher could be employed to maintain classes every day for the money that the county would expend sending the delinquents to Pauls Valley, if Mr. Offutt followed the examples of predecessors in office who sent as many as nineteen boys to the state reform school in one year.  The county probation officer laid particular stress on the fact that the boys on his proposed farm would not be allowed to mingle with boys that were already hardened criminals, as he says they are allowed to do at the state school.  Scoring the state training farm on this point.  Mr. Offutt added that boys at the Pauls Valley institution are not even informed when they are paroled and recited his experience with several to prove his assertion.

Expense Negligible
Constant employment and more education amid rightful and healthful conditions, and, especially, freedom from tainting association with habitual and vicious criminals, are the answers to the boy problem, the probation officer declares.  All of these answers are incorporated in his suggested county farm for boys at a negligible expense to the county, Mr. Offutt believes.
Source:  The Oklahoman August 26, 1916 Page 4

EZRA OFFUTT


Source of above picture The Oklahoman
December 5, 1919 Page 4


Arrangements for Ezra Offutt, 88-year-old distric court baliff who was seldom seen without a coat and never in the last 10 years, at least, without a rose in his lapel, are awaiting the arrival of out-of-town relatives.  Rites will be announced by the Jack Jones funeral home.  The usual red was was in Offutt's la[el Monday morning when he stepped into the chambers of District Judge Sam Hooker, where he was stricken with the heart attack which caused his death.Offutt came to the city in 1902, was city assessor in 1910 and 1911, and was county probation officer for two years before serving a term as count assessor in 1817 and 1918.  He was born in Logan County, Ky., in 1851.  Other survivors include two other sons, C. P. Offutt, Los Angeles, Calif., and Felix Offutt, 436 Northwest twenty-first street, and two daughters, Mrs. Evans A. Nash, 6607 Grand Blvd., and Mrs. M.B. Breeding 25 Northeast Fifteenth street.
Source: The Oklahoman December 5, 1939 Page 4

Services for Ezra Offutt, 88 year old district court bailiff, who died following a heart attack Monday, will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jack Jones funeral chapel.  Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery.  Offutt, who came here in 1902, was city assessor, county probation officer and county assessor at various times during his career.  He was a native of Kentucky,
Source:  The Oklahoman December 6, 1939 Page 11
(Note:  was appointed as Oklahoma County Assessor on May 7, 1909 and again on January 27, 1917)

Ezra Offutt married Ida

Paisley 6 Mar 1877 Logan County, Ky


OFFUTT TO BE BURIED TODAY
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City Services Are Set For Former Councilman.

Rites for Charles W. Offutt, 61 years old, pioneer and former city councilman, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday from the Watts and McAfee funeral home.  Burial will be in a Choctaw cemetery.  Offutt homesteaded at Choctaw and moved to Oklahoma City in 1895, engaging in the cotton, real estate and seed business.  At the time of his death he was an employee of the city planning commission and adjustment board.  He served as second ward councilman from 1920 to 1933.  Offutt died Friday at his home, 1428 Northeast Twelfth street.
Source: The Oklahoman April 5, 1936 Page 24

Miss Offutt Is Bride of Mr. Warner

Miss Yvonne Offutt, daughter of Mrs. Great Offutt, 1205 Northwest Twentieth street, and Charles E. Warner were married Friday night at 7 o'clock in the study of the home of Rev. John R. Abernathy, 1108 Northwest Nineteenth street.  The ceremony was celebrated simply in the presence of members of the two families.  The only attendant for the bride was Mrs. Arthur E. Muegge, herself a recent bride.  Mrs. Warner wore a dark brown traveling suit chich is a Hattie Carnegie model, and her accessories were of a cream shade.  A corsage of gardenias and lilies marked the lapel of the suit.  Jack McQuaid was best man for the bridegroom.  A few friends attended an informal reception after the wedding at Mrs. Offutt's home.  The couple is now spending several days at Dallas and Fort Worth attending the Pan-American exposition.  They will be at home when they return at 1112 North Hudson avenue.  After her public school education, Mrs. Warner studied design from a private teacher.  Mr. Warner received his education in Houston, Texas, where his father, C. P. Warner, now lives.
Source: The Oklahoman July 4, 1937 Page 42

Major Nash and Wife Leave for Washington

Major Nash and his wife spent a week here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evans A. Nahs, 6607 NW Grand Boulevard.  They left Thursday for Washington D. C. their home.
Source:  The Oklahoman June 18, 1943


Elects Evans Nash

Evans Nash, vice-president of the Yellow Transit Co., was elected regional vice-president of the American Trucking association at the war problems conference in Chicago Friday.  Nash, who lives at 6607 NW Grand boulevard, was one of five Oklahoma City truck line officials attending the conference. Clay Patterson of the Associated Motor Carriers, said.  Other Oklahoma City men at the conference were Bennett Bond, manager of the Associated Motor Carriers, L. M. Voss of Voss Truck Lines, Rex Wall and M. M. Williamson of the Freuhauf company.
Source: The Oklahoman October 23, 1943 Page 14



Madelene Offutt Weds Officer

Mr. and Mrs. Felix G. Offutt, 234 Eubanks, announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lola Madelene Offutt, to Capt. Robert Wheeler, USMCR, son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wheeler, Tulsa, May 12 in the home of Rev. L. E. Smith, pastor of the Tulsa First Baptist church.  Capt. Wheeler and his bride are on a wedding trip to point in Texas, and after June 1 will make a home on the west coast near the base to which he will be assigned.  The bride is a graduate of Classen highschool and of the University of Oklahoma, Norman.  At the university she became a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary fraternity for women in journalism.  She also is a member of French Heels.  Capt. Wheeler is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and was attending law school at George Washing University, Washington, D. C., at the time of his enlistment in the marines.  He received his commission at Quantico, Va., in July, 1942, and has served 29 months in the south Pacific.  He took part in the campaigns on Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima.
Source: The Oklahoman May 20, 1945 Page 31

Lt. Col Evans G. Nash And Family To Leave


Lt. Col Evans G. Nash joins Mrs. Nash and daughter, Nancy Jean Saturday at the home of his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Evans A. Nash, 6607 NW Grand Blvd.  The trio will leave Wednesday for Washington D. C. where Col. Nash will be stationed.
Source: The Oklahoman October 2, 1945 Page 11


Wagoner: Offutt, Mrs. Ida Elsie, 76, Services will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday in Hersman Funeral home. She died Tuesday in a Muskogee hospital.
Source: Daily Oklahoman  October 10, 1964 Page 44



J.E. Offutt Rites Slated

Joseph E. Offutt, 88, of 6506 Grand Blvd., died Friday at a city nursing home.  Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at Hahn-Cook, Street & Draper Funeral home with burial at Fairlawn Cemetery.  Offutt, a native of Bowling Green, Ky., came to Oklahoma City as a young man.  He helped to organize the Ready Mix Cement Co. and served as its executive secretary.  Prior to that he was sales manager for Ideal Cement Co.  He was a member of the Oklahoma Club, the Beacon Club, the Oklahoma Press Club and of St. Luke's Methodist Church.  He was a charter member and former president of the Joi De Vie Club.  He received his bachelor's degree from Western Kentucky State University, Bowling Green.  Survivors include his wife, Mary; a brother, Felix 234 W. Eubanks, adn two sisters, Mrs. Evans A Nash, 6607 Grand Blvd. and Mrs. M. B. Breeding, 1504 Wilshire Blvd.
Source:  The Oklahoman April 8, 1972 Page 5

Nash, Nancy B. (Offutt) 91, of 6607 N Grand Blvd., died Sunday.  Services 11 a.m. Tuesday at Rose Hill Mausoleum (Hahn-Cook Street & Draper)
Source: The Oklahoman Dec. 8, 1980 Page 19



Offutt, Eva E., 93, passed away on November 19, 2008 in Oklahoma City.  She was born on September 26, 1915 in Hancock, Michigan.  Eva married Robert Offutt who preceded her in death in 1996.  She worked her entire career as a Registered Nurse.  She is survived by her daughter, Patricia Offutt, son, Michael Offuctt, daughter, Kaye Flanagan and her husband Gary, her grandchildren Deborah Hooks, Pamela Stevens, Michelle Brookes and Jennifer Graham as well as her 10 great-grandchildren.  Graveside services will be held Monday, November 24, 2008, at 11:00 a.m., at Memorial Park Cemetery.  Hahn-Cook Street & Draper funeral Home
Source:  The Oklahoman November 23, 2008 Page 20

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