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Edna Greer Porter Hatfield Collection

 

 

 

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Boxes H-45 and H-46 of the Hatfield Collection contain transcripts of interviews (ca. 1930-1958) with pioneers who took part in the 1893 land run into the Cherokee Strip. The interviews contain descriptions of the land run, hardships encountered, sod houses and dugouts, agriculture, religion, schools, and other socio-economic aspects of life in the Cherokee Strip.

 

Box H-45

 

Folder:

 

1.         Baird, Arthur Lindsey

 

2.         Baird, Bob

 

3.         Banta, Abraham Lincoln

 

4.         Bateman, A. J.

 

5.         Beck, Percy and Floy

 

5B.      Blake, Mrs. Eli and Gregory, Mrs. W. W.

 

6.         Bobbitt, Mary

 

7.         Boone, Lorenzo

 

9.         Breinholdt, Jens, Paul, and Peter

 

10.       Brewer, Mattie

 

11.       Brown, Isaac Wesley

 

12.       Brown, Lewis H.

 

13.       Buffalo, John Rush (Tonkawa Indians)

 

14.       Buhrman-Robbins-Corbin

 

15.       Bunch-Steele

 

16.       Burcham-Peniwell

 

17.       Burlison, John Monroe

 

18.       Chaney, Ed

 

19.       Clark, Robert Collier

 

20.       Clay, Henry and Shafer, L. C.

 

21.       Constant, Rezin Harlan

 

22.       Cooper, Eugene (Arkansas City-Reno Road)

 

23.       Corn, John M.

 

24.       Crews family

 

25.       Cross, Dr. Howard

 

26.       Danford, Clara

 

27.       Danford, Lee

 

28.       Danford, Mary

 

29.       Davenport, Clyde R.

 

30.       Davis, Albert C.

 

31.       Dixon, Nancy L.

 

32.       Doty, Andrew

 

33.       Edmondson, John H.

 

34.       Edmondson, Mary

 

35.       Fordyce, Phillip

 

36.       Foust-Harney

 

37.       Gilbert, Sam

 

38.       Harding, William

 

39.       Harnden, Charles

 

40.       Hembree, H.L.

 

41.       Henley, J.G.

 

42.       Henshaw, Carter Lee

 

43.       Heusel, Reverend Albert F.

 

44.       Hoffman, Henry

 

45.       Holladay, Charlie

 

46.       Horne, H.E.

 

47.       Imel, R. Lewis

 

48.       Jupe, Edna

 

49.       Kirkpatrich, Myrel

 

50.       Long, Charlie S.

 

51.       Lorry, Fred

 

52.       Lynch, William

 

53.       McCoy, Daniel Lee

 

54.       McKay, William

 

55.       Mason, Edith

 

56.       Mattheison, Andrew

 

57.       Mendenhall, Andrew

 

58.       Meece, Flora

 

59.       Meece, J.T.

 

60.       Miller, E.J.

 

61.       Miller, James

 

62.       Miller, W.S.

 

63.       Miller, William W.

 

64.       Mowbray, George

 

65.       Olson, Will

 

66.       Parks, James Delos

 

67.       Payne, David

 

68.       Peebler, H.J.

 

69.       Pilhurn, Effie Roberts

 

70.       Plummer, Bertha Brewer

 

71.       Porter Edward C.

 

72.       Porter, W.J. and Carpenter, John

 

73.       Quillin, P.E. and Shafer, Sophia

 

74.       Ridenour, Goldie

 

75.       Riley, Pearl

 

 

Box H-46

 

Folder:

 

76.       Roberts, E. P.

 

77.       Roberts, Ida Brower

 

78.       Sanders, Joe

 

79.       Sharp, M. C.

 

80.       Smith, Sam W.

 

81.       Snider, Alva C.

 

82.       Snyder, Laura

 

83.       Starr, Mrs. John N. (Elizabeth Rosabell)

 

84.       Teachman, Edward H.

 

85.       Thomas, Amos and Irene

 

86.       Utterback, J. I. and Emma

 

87.       Vacin, Joe

 

88.       Wells, E. R.

 

89.       Wilkin, James

 

90.       Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Henry

 

91.       Wood, W. T. and Mason, Charles P.

 

92.       Wycoff, Hosea D.

 

93.       Young, Calvin L.

 

94.       Billings, Oklahoma

 

95.       Cemetery Inscriptions and Records (Riverview Church)

 

96.       Chamber of Commerce, Tonkawa, Oklahoma (1924-1925)

 

97.       Cherokee Outlet, Cherokee Strip

 

98.       Churches and religious life

 

99.       Gypsies

 

100.     Homes, sod houses

 

101.     Indians, Missions, Reservations, Tonkawa, Pottowatomie, Kaw

 

102.     Indians, Sundance (Ponca)

 

103.     Kansas, early life

 

104.     Library, Tonkawa Public

 

105.     Newspapers--early Tonkawa and others

 

106.     Nurses, pioneer

 

107.     Payne’s Camp

 

108.     Pioneers-general

 

109.     Post offices and county stores

 

110.     River, Salt Fork

 

111.     Schools-general

 

112.     Scout and ranger-James Pike

 

113.     Settlements, early

 

114.     Settlers, Three District 1936, 1941 Picnics

 

115.     Spaniards, early...who crossed Oklahoma

 

116.     Storms, remembrance of

 

117.     Stores, county and little towns

 

118.     Tonkawa historical records

 

119.     Tonkawa, history of

 

120.     Trails and crossings

 

121.     Women, Some Pioneer...I Have Known

 

 

Box H-47

 

-Clippings

 

-Township maps

 

-Survey notebooks and correspondence of Orville Smith

 

 

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