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Indian Pioneer Papers - Index

Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: May 11, 1937
Name: Nettie Clemons (Mrs.)
Post Office: 415 S. Cherokee, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Date of Birth: September 11, 1872
Place of Birth: Beattyville, Kentucky
Father: James B. McGuire
Place of Birth:
Information on father: Buried in Kentucky
Mother: Delina Hamilton McGuire
Place of birth:
Information on mother: Buried in Kentucky
Field Worker: Alene D. McDowell
 
 
Mrs. Nettie Clemons, 415 Cherokee, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was born September 11, 1872 at Beattyville, Kentucky.

Father, James B. MCGUIRE is buried in Kentucky.

Mother, Delina Hamilton McGuire is buried in Kentucky.

September 16, 1900, I married William F. CLEMONS at Nicholsville, Kentucky, and in 1902 we removed to the Indian Territory. Prior to our marriage, my husband had made a trip into the Territory and bought a farm but when I refused to live there, he sold it. My husband came to Bartlesville to serve as pastor of the Christian Church. Our home was located in the 700 block on Keeler Avenue and was then out of the city limits. We lived in a three-room shack and the mud was so deep in the rainy season we could hardly get to town. I remember one day I started to town with my baby and about a block from home on Keeler Avenue the baby buggy became stuck in the mud and I had to carry my baby back home and send my husband to pull the buggy out of the mud.

Two years after our arrival in the Territory my husband was enroute to Wann, located about eighteen miles northeast of Bartlesville, to organize a Sunday school and as he was driving down a hill the neck yoke broke and Mr. Clemons was thrown out of the wagon and seriously injured and died in about seven hours.

I remember one night while we were living on Keeler, some outlaws were living across the street from us and they became so rough my husband made a complaint to the officers, but they could not arrest them for the place was outside the city limits.

I have made my home in Bartlesville since 1902 and have witnessed some wild experiences but do not seem to remember the details.

I have a wardrobe made of solid walnut that has been in our family for 75 years, a solid walnut drop lead stand table given to me some 60 years ago, a marble top dresser and washstand I brought to Oklahoma with me in 1902 but has been in the family for a number of years. All of these articles are in use in my home now.

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Steven Craig Clemons <scclemons@yahoo.com> 04-2000.