
The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ (pronounced: Oh-n'own-dough-wahgah) or "Great Hill People" are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America. Their nation was the farthest to the west within the Six Nations or Iroquois League (Haudenosaunee) in New York before the American Revolution. They were the largest ...
Televisions shows that depicted the Old West that ran approximately 1940-1975. The studio and network (NBC) were set on ending the Vriginian series, as evidenced by rivals CBS and ABC making demographic moves away from rural oriented shows (see "rural purge" for more information). The final episode aired on March 24, 1971 ending its 9-season run. Bonanza ended its 14 season run on January 16, 1...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Payne County, Oklahoma. Official Website The county was created in 1890 as part of Oklahoma Territory and is named for Capt. David L. Payne, a leader of the "Boomers". In 2010, the Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) was constructed into Payne County. Adjacent County Noble County Pawnee County Creek County Lincoln Cou...
This project is part of the State of Oklahoma Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Oklahoma. You can add profiles for:* People born in Oklahoma* People who lived in Oklahoma* People who died in OklahomaWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have projects rel...
The Cheyenne (/ʃaɪˈæn/ shy-AN) are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains. Their Cheyenne language belongs to the Algonquian language family. Today, the Cheyenne people are split into two federally recognized nations: the Southern Cheyenne, who are enrolled in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma, and the Northern Cheyenne, who are enrolled in the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Norther...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Canadian County, Oklahoma. Official Website The county was founded in 1889 and is named for the Canadian River, which forms part of its southern border. The river may have been named for early European explorers who were fur traders and trappers from New France, or pre-1763 colonial Canada. In 1859, the United States expelled the C...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Alfalfa County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma . As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,642. The county seat is Cherokee. Alfalfa County was formed at statehood in 1907. The county is named after William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray , the president of the Oklahoma Constitutional Conventio...
Roberts-IOOF Cemetery Also known as Blackwell Cemetery, IOOF Blackwell Cemetery, Odd Fellows Cemetery LOCATION S Hwy 177 Blackwell, Kay County, Oklahoma, 74631 USA :Roberts-IOOF Cemetery Also known as Blackwell Cemetery, IOOF Blackwell Cemetery, Odd Fellows CemeteryLOCATION S Hwy 177 Blackwell, Kay County, Oklahoma, 74631 USA PHONE (580) 363-3826 MEMORIALS 11,991 added (92% photographed)CEMET...
If your relative was born before 1/1/1948.If you have any questions or exceptions please contact Chris L.Mathews.All exceptions will be considered if the person had an importance to the community. Also, considered will be information from an Historic Society, City,County or State Official.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Kay County, Oklahoma. Official Website The remains of two large 18th-century villages, the Deer Creek/Bryson Paddock Sites, of Wichita Native Americans have been found overlooking the Arkansas River in Kay County. The Osage used Kay County for hunting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1825, the Osage ceded to the U.S. g...
Blackwell came into existence during the Cherokee Outlet Opening on September 16, 1893 in the run known as the Cherokee Strip Land Run. The town is named for A. J. Blackwell, who was the dominant force in its founding. Andrew Blackwell had settled in the area in 1882, having married the former Rosa Vaught who was of Cherokee descent, he was eligible to found the city. Blackwell served as Justic...
Memorial Park Cemetery,Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 73131 USA: Find a Grave Driving directions: Located on the SE corner of the intersection of N. Kelley Ave. and E. Memorial Rd. in north Oklahoma City. Take US Hwy 77 north (aka Broadway Extension) to the Memorial Rd. exit. The exit comes up to N. Kelley Ave. just south of Memorial Rd. The cemetery can easily be seen across the roa...
Key West Cemetery Stroud, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA
Cherokee Municipal Cemetery Also known as Cherokee Cemetery Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, USA
Reichert Cemetery, Reichert, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States
Notables Yvonne Chouteau Rosella Hightower Moscelyne Larkin Maria Tallchief is honored in Tulsa, Oklahoma, along with four other Native-American ballerinas, with a larger than life-size bronze statue entitled "The Five Moons" in the garden of the Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Marjorie Tallchief Links Conventions
Pioneers of Lincoln Couty,Oklahoma If your relative was born before 1/1/1948. Please consider placing them in. this project. Lincoln Couty,OK was created in 1891. Oklahoma became a State on 11/16/1907 plus forty years 1/1/1948.If you have questions or exceptions please contact Chris L.Mathews.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caddo County, Oklahoma. Caddo County was organized on August 6, 1901 when the Federal Government allotted the Kiowa, Comanche, and Arapaho reservations and sold the surplus land to white settlers. The county is named for the Caddo tribe who were settled here on a reservation in the 1870s. The reservation land was part of Oklahoma Ter...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Oklahoma. The Osage hunted on land that includes present-day Lincoln County until they ceded the area in an 1825 treaty to the federal government. The government then assigned the land to the Creek and the Seminoles after they were removed from the southeastern United States. Following Quapaw removal in 1834, several ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McClain County, Oklahoma.= Official Website =The Chickasaw tribe began moving into this area in 1837, when the land had already been assigned to the Choctaws by the U.S. government. In 1855, the area became part of the Chickasaw Nation, after the two tribes officially separated. The present McClain County became part of Pontotoc Count...
Please add profiles of those people who were born, lived or died in the city or county of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Official City Website Official County Website History The area where Tulsa now exists was considered Indian Territory when it was first formally settled by the Lochapoka and Creek tribes in 1836, They established a small settlement under the Creek Council Oak Tree at the present-day in...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Texas County, Oklahoma. Official Website Texas County was formed at Oklahoma statehood (November 16, 1907) from the central one-third of "Old Beaver County". When the formation of the county was authorized by the Constitutional Convention of 1907, the county was so named because it was wholly included within the limits of the Texas ...
Opening in 1916, Rose Hill is a historic part of Tulsa's legacy. Encompassing 90 acres, Rose Hill Cemetery offers traditional casketed burial spaces, lawn crypts, casketed mausoleum entombment, cremation burial, and also cremation niche entombment.Rose Hill Cemetery is home to the Abbey Mausoleum. The mausoleum is the oldest and largest mausoleum in the state of Oklahoma. The first phase was co...