What is the best way to find out information about my great grandfather and
great grandmother who died around Bartlesville, )K.

William Andrews Bailey who died in 1926 and Selina Shervington Bailey who
died in 1944.

This is all the information that I have been able to find on them.

Any help would be appreciated.
According to my checking neither of them are in Bartlesville, Washington Co. Ok.

By your death dates you listed, they are both buried in Shawnee, Pottawatomi Co. Okla. in the Fairview Cemetery.

This is what I found on each. If this corresponds with what you have or know, then this is the right track. Otherwise, that will need more work :)

William (Will) Andrew Bailey b. 12-2-1861 Iroquois, Illinois d. 2-10-1925 Shawnee, OK.
Ida Selena "Lena" Shervington Bailey b. 3-28-1871 Missouri d. 8-28-1944 Shawnee, Ok.

I'd advise you to start checking census records, as that will help you trace them down at least every 10 yrs.
Let me know if I can be of anymore help

Thanks for the help Shirley. I am new at this. Is there somewhere online I can check the census data?
Thanks again,

I'm searching for information on the parents of Irving Baughman who married Bertha Davidson in Kay County in 1906. I have struggled to find his parents as I;ve seen documents with an "Irvin" or "Erwin" and "Irving" spelling. Are there any records with his parents names? Perhaps associated with his marriage certificate?
According to my records, yes, they applied for a marriage license 9-24-1906.

Also, they both are buried in Ponca City IOOF Cemetery.
Irvin W. Baughman 1882-1938 Pioneers of Okla.
Bertha E. Baughman 1891-1951

I think their children were--Ira I. Baughman, Harry Baughman, Loren Baughman.
There is a Harry H. 1910-1966 along w/his wife Veda L. also buried in Ponca IOOF. So this could be one of their sons.

As for the numerous spellings of Irvin name, that is most common on census records since cencsus takers early on weren't too swift about spelling. Guess they never asked how to spell a persons name, just wrote it down as it sounded to them.

But according to 1917-1918 draft registration card this is the way it was listed:
Irvin William Baughman b. Feb 20, 1882 Indiana. He was listed as a carpenter.

As far as Irvins parents, I found Jacob Baughman b. Nov. 1855 Ohio mother, Alice b. Dec 1857 Indiana
On the 1900 census Wayne, Starke Co. Indiana
Jacob Baughman
Alice
Ervin 18
Laura 16
Margret 13
Homer 11
Ollie 8
Ida 5
All the above kids were b. in Indiana. Notice the spelling of kids--I put it down just like the census showed.

They are all on numberous census from 1860 on.
Jacob's parents seem to be George Baughman b. Ohio and Margaret b. PA

P.S. Irvin's brother Homer & sister Ida are also listed in the Ponca Cem.
Hope this will help you go on with your checking. Let me know if I can help further.
Shirley
Thank you so much Shirley!

I had found Irvin's father Jacob and Alice on a census too (when we went to he LDS Temple in Salt Lake) but if I remember correctly, there was something incongruent about it; either dates, ages, or places of origin. I will have to dig back into it.

Ira Baughman is my grandfather. He died early at age 42 or 44 when my dad was only 2 so much of the namesake died with him.

I'm very excited now! I will check back in with you soon to confirm this lineage. Thank you so much!
I looked in my research sources and found the same 1860 census with George Baughman and family. I didn't commit to it because of the spelling of "Ervin" for Irvin on the later census (thinking I was going up the wrong tree.) The other inconsistency was the 1900 census has Jacob's mother's birthplace as Ohio, not Pennsylvania as stated on the 1860 census. Any thoughts?

It's amazing how common George Baughman and Jacob Baughman names were.
Adam,
Don't let the census's throw you!! As I said before back then census takers wrote down what they heard & evidently asked no questions as to spelling. And probably spelling names exactly right wasn't for them to worry about.

Also, the state a parent was b. in was sometimes wrong. Maybe due to all of them moving so much, the kids couldn't remember where their parents were born, let alone themselves!!!!

I checked the 1860 Census again + 1870 for Geo. Baughman & wife Margaret. Positive they were the parents of Jacob. According to those 2 census's I came up with 11 children listed.
At that time they were in California, Indiana Starke Co. Does that meet with what you found??

Then sometime between 1870-1880 Jacob was married to Alice. As they were in North Bend, Starke Co. Indiana listed as:
Jacob Baughman 25
Alice " 22
Nora " 5
Edward " 10 mons.

Then the other day I sent you them on the 1900 census.
Couldn't find the 1910 Census but found the 1920 census in Jordan Valley Pawnee Co. Ok.
Jacob Baughman 65
Alice " 62
Homer " 30 Single (he is Jacob's brother)

See if this is close to what you have been checking. You might check Pawnee Co. Ok. to see if Jacob & Alice stayed there.

Babb
Will Babb [willjag@ionet.net] October 2010

"Pioneer Staff":
About 4 years ago, I spent one full day in Kay County, OK.  My routine is to take pictures of every stone in a cemetery, go home and upload the non-duplicates to findagrave.com; all the while, looking for my Babb relations.
One cemetery was New Home Cemetery, the "town" of Eddy.  I call it southwest of Blackwell but I did not find the town, cemetery is on a slight rise in the prairie.  Among the pictures I take is Sarah E Taylor/Babb and Inez B. Taylor/Babb.

Another cemetery was Prairie Chapel Cemetery, Blackwell, Kay County, OK.  This cemetery is northeast of the New Home Cemetery, and northeast of Blackwell.  Among the pictures I take is Sarah E Taylor/Babb and Inez B. Taylor/Babb.

These photos were taken maybe 4 hours apart and I did not notice the similarity until I got home and was putting names on my pics. I went to my family files and found them; Inez B. Babb was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth McNemar & Marion Wilson Babb.  Marion Wilson is my "3rd cousin, twice removed".

Without going to any trouble, do you have any comments about these two gravestones in separate cemeteries?  I'm sure we agree that the four burial sites are not occupied by these two ladies.

Thanks in advance for you assistance, please have a good day,

Will Babb

Will,
Your people are definitely buried in Prairie Chapel Cemetery
According to my records they are as follows
 
Marion Wilson Babb  Aug 4 1862  Mar 21 1945         Block B  Lot 12  Sp 1
 
Madeline Babb Inkster  Dec 8 1906  Dec 21 1971        B        12       2
 
Sarah E. Babb   1870-1959                                       B        12       3
 
Inez Babb Taylor  1889-1964                                   B         12      4
 
Sarah & Inez have a c/s (common stone)
 
My suggestion to your thinking the pics were in 2 different cems are probably due to when you downloaded them you had no way to distinguish when you changed cemeteries. Only possible thing that could have happened.
 
Now are far as the New Home Cemetery or Eddy Cem. that cemetery IS NOT IN KAY CO.
It is in Grant Co. That cemetery is located on the WEST side of the road that divides Grant Co. from Kay Co. That road is the dividing line between the 2 counties. East side of road is Kay Co.---West is in Grant Co.
 
Lots & Lots of misinformation people make when putting that Cemetery on-line.  The little town of Eddy was pretty much a spot in the road years ago. Several houses, elevator, grocery store, ect. But is no longer there as I'm sure you noticed :)
 
Hope this has helped you. Just know your people are in Prairie Chapel

BARNETT
Betty Fredrick [Bettyfredrick@aol.com]

Can you help me get a death records on my great grand pa Berryman Barnett Nov 2 1827 pass away Newkirk Okla. Thank you betty
Betty,
Sorry, birth and death records must come from Oklahoma City.
Here is the address

Vital Records Service
Okla. State Dept. of Health
1000 Northeast 10th Room 117
Oklahoma City, OK. 73117
Ph 405-271-4040

I would advise you to call them first to find out what you need to do and how much the charge is. I do know you have to furnish proof of that person is your ancestor. Also, if the date you gave me below is a born date, they will need a complete death date.

BURGELL - BEREITER Also see Shupe

Lynda Daily [fldaily@fldaily.cnc.net] August - October 2009

I am seeking information regarding Phoebe Burgell, b. 28 May 1884 in
Tennessee and d. 1943, possibly around the 19th of the month, at Ponca
City. I have information that she was buried at Ponca City Cemetery, which
I presume is the IOOF Cemetery.

The 1900 Kay County Census has her living with her grandparents, Andrew and
Judith Shupe in Blackwell Township. Her mother was Sarah Ann Shupe, but I
don't know the name of her father. She married Charles Edward Burgell
circa 1905. They had 10 children born in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Lynda,

Both Phoebe and Charles Edward Burgell are buried in Ponca City IOOF cemetery.

C. Ed Burgell 1873-1963
Phoebe Burgell 1884-1943
also there are

Tom V. Burgell 1907-1955
Sally (Sallie) M. Burgell 1897-1974

Thank you for the information on Charles and Phoebe Burgell. Their first child, Florence Lee Burgell, was born in Oklahoma 21 Aug 1906, I presume in Kay County.

Tom Burgell was their 2nd child. I didn't know he had married or what had
happened to him, so thank you for the information you found. Is there a
marriage record for them or an obituary for either Charles or Phoebe orTom or Sally?

Did not find marr. for Charles & Phoebe.
Also, did not find marr. for Tom V. & Sally

Did find Florence Burgell / Benjamin F. Lear application date for marr. 6-29-1926 from Newkirk, Kay Co. But can't seem to find them in any of the surrounding cemeteries, so could be they left this area.

Also found Charles Edward death date--Jan 28 1963

It could be that the Burgell marriages took
place in Sumner County, Kansas.

The SSDI shows Charles Burgell's last residence was Colorado at the time of
his death, so I don't know if there would have been an obit for him in PC but would love to have it, as well as one for Phoebe Burgell, Tom and Sally.

The information on Florence Burgell is most interesting. According to the
1930 Noble County, Oklahoma census, Florence was married to Otto Thornton
probably around 1926 as their first born child, Wanda Lee, was born 6 Jan
1927 in Noble County. Living with this was Florence's daughter, Rosemary
Stephens, who was born 6 Sep 1924 in Kansas. I haven't come across any
other Florence Burgell in my research, so would guess the marriage to
Benjamin Lear did not take place. Florence and Otto Thornton died in
Colorado.
Were there any obits for the Berieters?

I notice the listing of the Blackwell Cemetery shows Bereiter infant born and
died 1912 buried there. Arthur and Mattie didn't have any children that I
know of, unless this infant was the only child.

Also, hoping you might be able to find one for Phoebe Burgell, since she
died in 1943, don't know the month.

Lynda,

These people are buried in the Blackwell Cem.

Effie Lula Bereiter
W. T. Bereiter
-------Bereiter 1912-1912 Our darling infant daughter

I'm assuming this is husband & wife.
Am attaching 3 more obits.

Don't know if you need newspaper dates for all these obits or not but here are the ones from the 3 I'm sending
Obit for Emma Shupe Legard Blackwell Weekly Sun----Thurs. March 21 1912

Mattie Beriter----Blackwell Journal Tribune---Sun. July 22, 1951

Tobe Beriter------ " " " ----Sun. Aug 5, 1951
I am sending 5 more obits. Paying when we finish is fine with me.

All of these came out of the Ponca library microfilm

C.E. Burgell 1st one Ponca City News Mon Jan 28, 1963 (dies in Colorado)
2nd one "" "" Tues Jan 29, 1963

Phoebe Burgell Ponca City News Feb 11, 1943

Thomas Burgell Ponca City News Mon. May 2, 1955

Sally Burgell Forman Ponca City News Fri. Mar 22, 1974

Shirley

Seeking obituaries for the following people and dates:

Nellie Blanche Braithwaite (nee Baker) died 17 Mar, 1927
buried: St. Mary's IOOF Cemetery, Ponca City

Florence Edward Braithwaite died 4 Aug, 1954
buried: same as above

and their son
Lawrence/Laurence R. Braithwaite September, 1973
last Soc. Sec. payment Perry, Noble County, OK

I would be happy to pay for any services rendered, or I can send a retainer for someone to begin research.

Correction: the gravestone said Florence Edward died on August 4th. The death certificate says August 11, 1954. He died in Perry, Noble County.

Bonnie,

Have attached obit for Nellie Braithwaite. From The Ponca City News, May 17, 1927.
Could not find others.
Shirley

Obit is online

Deb DeVusser [deb.devusser@yahoo.com] May 2009

I am trying to assist my 92 year old step-father locate lost sisters.
In the early 20's Cleveland C. Brown died from influenza, and his wife Myrtle Brown became incapable of raising their children:
Charles Leroy Brown , Rosa Mae Brown, Burl W. Brown, and Edna Faye Brown.
"Roy" and Burl were farmed out to distant family while the two little girls were placed in an orphanage. The entire family was in the 1920 census on W. Dewey St. I cannot find anybody past that date. Is there any possibility that there are adoption records or state census records to track the girls? Burl says that it might have been an Oklahoma City orphanage, but records were lost (not sure if a fire or what) but he has come to a dead end after years of searching. He is in very poor health, and I am attempting to help find a miracle.
Debbie DeVusser:

Could you give me some born dates of the below?
Are you sure they all stayed in Kay Co. I would have no other records or way to check for any other Co. should they have moved.


Adoption records, if able to access them, would probably have been in Okla. City.

Since Brown is such a common name there are numerous Brown's in my marriage records.

I found an Edna F. Brown / W.F. Camden applied for marriage in the 40's. Would that be a date that could apply to your Edna??

Also, there are several Rosa Brown's listed also.

I also found a Charles Leroy Brown b. in the 20's.

That's why I need some kind of b. dates. Give me as much info as you can find out or even come close to and I'll do somemore checking.
Shirley

Dear Shirley,
Thanks so much for responding to my query. I have the 1920 census data that my step-father verifies is his family.

Living on West Dewey Ave (around 700 block I think) of Blackwell.
Charles LeRoy Brown (the oldest) in 1920 he was 7 yrs. old. (Roy) Was his nickname. Went back with his mother in Texas in 1922. So his date of birth would have been circa 1913
Rosa May Brown She was 5 yrs. old. DOB circa 1915
Burl Wilson Browm was 3 yrs. old. DOB 1/08/1917
Edna Fay Brown Was 1 Yr. old. DOB circa 1919, so yes she could easily have married in the 1940's
Father: Cleveland Charles Brown. 30 yrs. old DOB circa 1890 and must have died shortly after the census
Mother: Myrtle Edna (Castle) Brown. 25 Yrs. old. DOB circa 1895 in Missouri. She married Erby Noblett circa 1924.

Burl seems to think maybe the girls were in and orphanage in Oklahoma City, but not sure why.
THANKS SO MUCH, for any assistance you can provide. I had planned to scour the 1930 census records at my local library (they have ancestry.com) but they are closed on Sundays

So far I have found nothing on your family.

I did find the Charles Leroy Brown I told you about is not yours since he was born in 1929.

The Edna that married a Camden have been unable to find the Camden name anywhere, either. May have left this area.

If you can find out anymore detailed information, if they are in this area, write back & I'll check again Otherwise, I can't seem to help you.

Sorry

Thanks Shirley,
If I find out anything else, I'll let you know. One thing Pops said was that one of the girls (not sure if Rosa Mae or Edna) was in Bartlesville, OK in 1936---- this was per Mabel Bassett ( a woman that used to work for the state, now deceased)

Have a great day!
deb

Rosa [XSuperBeex@aol.com] January 2008

on my great grandparents grave, the headstone says pioneers of ok.how do i find proof of this and were Effie and William bonham in an org? they are buried in blackwell ioof cem. thank you Rosa

Rosa,
Not exactly sure how to answer this, but a family member who was responsible for burying them had to know that or it wouldn't have been put on the stone. They could have made the run into OK, or come soon after & staked a claim.
There were 5 different runs into OK. & you didn't say which one they were in nor if they settled around Blackwell or just where else in Kay Co.
If you could give me a time period, that might help.
Sounds like you already have a pic of the stone, so probably have their b. & d. dates from that.

If you need anymore help, feel free to email again

Thank you for getting back with me. I did some calling but no one is still alive that knows why or how they were Oklahoma pioneers.

their birth and death are;

William Henry bonham b/11-4-1866 d/7-13-1939

effie Josephine hempsmyer bonham b/3-14-1885 d/1-17-1972

Where can I find info on the land run names or how to find how they were pioneers?

I checked the library with their land run books of families & did not find any Bonham's listed. I don't know of any other way to check.

I looked up their obituries in the micro film while I was at the library & nothing is mentioned about them being Pioneers.

Do you know where each of them were b. & their children?? Maybe you already have their obits. Anyway, all that is listed. If you should want them, I can email them to you

William Henry bonham b/ Ohio
effie j hempsmyer bonham b/ cherryvale Ks
One child b/ walkweda OK, rest in blackwell OK.

Yes, please send all you have on this family. Thank you for your time and response. it is very much appreciated. Rosa

WILLIAM HENRY BONHAM

Funeral services for William Henry Bonham, 72, who died suddenly at his home, 815 E. College, at 6:00 P.M. Thurday, will be held at the Roberts mortuary Saturday at 4 P.M. with Rev. E.W. Harrison, pastor of the Christian Church officiating.

Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery.

Mr. Bonham was born in Ohio, Nov. 4, 1866 and had been a resident of Blackwell since 1924, coming here from Cherokee.

Surviving are his wife Mrs. Effie Bonham, a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Day of Jefferson: four sons, Charles, who resides in Montana, Johnnie of Blackwell, Howard of Enid, and Earl, who makes his home in Arkansas: a sister
Mrs. Lizzie Rogers of Mt. Hope, Kans., and a brother, George Bonham of Supply, Okla.



EFFIE BONHAM'S SERVICE
IS SET WEDNESDAY AT 2

Mrs. Effie J. Bonham of Blackwell died at 11:05 a.m. Monday in Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home where she had
resided for the past four years. Her residence was 707 W. Dewey. She was 86.

The funeral service will be at 2 P.M. Wednesday in Barr Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Lew Davis, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Grandsons will be pallbearers.

Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery.

Mrs. Bonham had lived in the Blackwell area since 1924 coming to the community from Lamont. She was born
March 14, 1885 at Cherryvale, Kans. and was a member of the Christian Church.

She was married to William Henry Bonham on March 22, 1903 at Grant City, He preceded her in death in 1939.

Also, preceding her in death were one son, Howard; a daughter, Rosa Conill; 2 brothers and two sisters.

Survivers are three sons, Charlie O. Bonham, Drummond, Mont.; Johnie W. Bonham, Blackwell, and Pearl D.
Bonham of Billings; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Day of Elkhart, Kans. 23 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren
and 23 great-great-grandchildren. and one brother Roy Hempsmyer, of Enid.

Thank you so much. Info does the dates work to join the pioneers of OK?

Will have to get papers for you to fill out. Get back with you when I find out what you need to do.

I am looking for the gravesite of Julius H. Bartels. The little information I have is as follows:

Julius H Bartels was born approximately 1900, place unknown. He died between 1955-1957 in a big Blackwell tornado. His is supposed to be burried there.

Julius married Ola Lauren Riley on Feb 22, 1921 in Oklahoma. They had one daughter, Lucille F Bartels, born January 3, 1922 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. They divorced shortly after and he went to Blackwell, Oklahoma.

Misty

Yes, he is buried in the Blackwell Cemetery B. Jan. 24, 1895 D. May 25, 1955

May 25, 1955 was the date of a devasting tornado that hit Blackwell. So he was evidently killed the night of the tornado. Shirley

Dr. Garold Barney [gvbarney@grm.net] July 2005

Dear Persons:

I have been searching for three years now to find the origin of my Barney family. This I know of reasonable certainty: My father, Edward C. Barney was born in 1906 in Seiling, Oklahoma.
My grandfather, also, named Edward C. Barney, was most likely born in Kanakee, Illinois, in 1866-7. Grandfather had a brother named Napoleon that,too, moved from Illinois to Seiling, Oklahoma (1910) and then to Blackwell, Oklahoma region.
Napoleon married a woman by the name of Mae (or May) White. Napoleon registered for the draft during WW I in Kay County. There is no record that he served in the military, however.
Several children were born to Napoleon and Mae and lived in Kay County---perhaps in Blackwell. Napoleon and family appear in Federal Census as late as 1920 in Kay County.
It appears that Napoleon died---or was killed---in about 1926.
No existing family members know the first name of Edward or Napoleon's father. Perhaps an obituary would contain some helpful information.
At one time Napoleon was Catholic but may have changed his religious preference to a Protestant church.
If I knew the names of newspapers in Blackwell and Kay County, I might be able to search further.
According to some family members, Napoleon was shot to death while sleeping in his home. If that is true, a news paper must certainly have covered that story.
Any suggestion that you care to make will be greatly appreciated.

Blackwell Morning Tribune Oct 1, 1934
TONKAWA MAN DIES
Barney, Found with throat cut, succumbs Sunday

Blackwell Morning Tribune Oct 2, 1934
JURY RETURNS VERDICT

Blackwell Morning Tribune Oct 3, 1934
Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Tuesday

***Note:Survived by daughters Mrs Marie Roeder of El Dorado, KS & Mrs Lucile McGowan of Tonkawa, Sons W I Barney of Tonkawa, Elvin Barney of El Dorado, KS, Floyd and Harold Barney of Corpus Christi, TX.

Copies of newspaper articles available on request

John F. Bridgess (often misspelled as Bridges or Burgess) and Helen M. (?) are shown as man & wife in 1930 Blackwell, Kay Co., OK, census and we are interested to know if there was a marriage license or certificate filed. Any information or assistance is greatly appreciated.

I am a member of the Oregon Genealogical Society of Tillamook Co. and will gladly help someone needing information from this area

I searched our Marriage application database and did not find John F Bridgess/Bridges/Burgess and Helen M. Have you tried Sumner County, Ks.? Lots of people who lived in this area, went to Wellington, KS to get married