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Your Guide To LeFlore County Oklahoma Genealogy
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Updated: 14 Nov 2023
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FamilyHistory Library Catalog 
resources for LeFlore Co. OK

 

Deed, Land, Property, Tax and Probate Records 
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LeFlore County, OK Will Index: 1886-1940 compiled by Gloryann Hankins Young, Wister, OK 1985.  copy at Bartlesville [OK] Public Library Call No. GR 976.679 YOU 1985; EOGrove: Grove - Call No. 976.601 You; TCCL: Tulsa - Call No. 929.376679:Y85Lw 1985  Vicki Salmon  
LeFlore County, Oklahoma, Deeds and Mortgage Index Vol. 1: A-K, 1901-1907; Deeds and Mortgage Index Vol. 2: L-Z, 1901-1907.  Gloryann Hankins Young. Wister, Okla. : G.H. Young, 1982.  - copy at Houston Public Libraries; TCCL:  Tulsa - Call No. 929.376679:Y85L; Bartlesville [OK] Public Library Call No. GR 976.679 LEF OK; Carnegie L: Caddo - Call No. 929 L521 Volunteer Needed  
Talihina, LeFlore County, Oklahoma, city payment warrants, 1921-1934, (Wister, Okla.: G.H. Young)? 1990 1995 Volunteer Needed  
Tax Rolls are available for every year. 
They can be found in the County Assessor's Office.
   
 

History and Miscellaneous Books
Indian Pioneer Papers - interviews dealing with people of all nationalities with first-hand experience of Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory, not just the Indian population  Online  
Life and Times of the Choctaw Original Enrollees, published and distributed by Wesley and Charleen Samuels, c1997 - on the Choctaw Nation site click on "history" then "original enrollees" Online  
A LeFlore County Oklahoma History, Vol. 1 & 2 by Doug Barkley, Genealogy Research Service Volunteer Needed  
Eastern Oklahoma Indians and Pioneers - Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory by Arlene LeMaster 3 Vols. Donna Manley  
A Place called Poteau... (the people and their neighbors), Rhonda Jordan  
The Proud Heritage of LeFlore County
by Henry L. Peck
Rhonda Jordan
Deanna Lyn Broking
 
LeFlore County, Oklahoma Genealogical Records, compiled by Carl Albert Junior College Genealogy Class Volunteer Needed  
Poteau Valley Genealogical Society Surname & Researchers (1986), Volunteer Needed  
LeFlore County Heritage Index (1981-1991) Volunteer Needed  
LeFlore County Heritage 1995. 
LeFlore County Heritage 1996
Volunteer Needed  
The social history of the Choctaw Nation, 1865-1907, by James D. (James Davidson) Morrison, [1904-1977], c1987. Volunteer Needed  
"Heavener (LeFlore County) Oklahoma And Surrounding Communities 1896 - 1996" published by Heavener Area Historical Society @ PO Box 277, Heavener, OK 74937
[Please limit request to FIVE surnames]
Myrna Wells
Juanita Bradshaw
 
Are these 2 books same as the one above?    
Heavener (Leflore County) Oklahoma: Heavener, Indian Territory. J. M. Mooney, editor, Sheila T. Renfro, editor [Hardcover, available Barnes & Noble Bookstore, $54.95 Special Order 4-6 weeks] Volunteer Needed  
Heavener, Indian Territory: our proud heritage, 1896-1996 : Heavener (LeFlore County) Oklahoma and surrounding communities ARC Press of Cane Hill (Cane Hill, Ark.:ARC Press of Cane Hill) ISBN: 0938041681   690 p. Volunteer Needed  
Choctaw Heritage by Betty Jeanne Ward Poulin 
549 p. full of early Choctaw History and records, and genealogical info on Hickman, Wards and other Choctaw families.
Paula Andrus  
Spiro: the early memories, complied by Mack and Bess Stanley. Spiro, Okla.:Stanley, [1979?]
copy at OKDeptLibs: OKC - Call No.976.679 Sta main,stks; OSUS-Stil: Stillwater - Call No.976.6 S788s; Pioneeer Library System: Norman - 976.679 Sta; SEMcAlestr: McAlester - 976.679 Sta; TCCL: Tulsa - Call No.976.679:S788s 1979; Vaughan NE: Tahlequah - Call No. SPC F704.S8 S72; Grove PL: Grove -Call No. 976.679 Sta
Volunteer Needed  
Frontier Indian Police - PART 1  Frontier Indian Police
Frontier Indian Police - PART 2  Charles LeFlore 
Frontier Indian Police - PART 3  Jackson William Ellis 
Frontier Indian Police - PART 4  Outstanding Indian Lawmen 
Frontier Indian Police - PART 5  Black and White Lighthorsemen in Indian Territory 
Online  
OKLAHOMBRES Online! 
association dedicated to the careful research and preservation of Oklahoma lawmen and outlaws
Online  
Criminal Record Ledgers 1880-1950 - Talihina, Oklahoma (American Indian (Chickasaw), Blacks and Caucasians are listed)     
Chieftain Greenwood Leflore and the Choctaw Indians of the Mississippi valley, last chief of Choctaws east of Mississippi River, by Florence Rebecca Ray. Volunteer Needed  
Oklahoma State Mining Board Registry of Hoisting Engineers, Fire Bosses, Pit Bosses (Foreman) and Mine Superintendents - 1908 to 1939 Charlotte Haynes  

LIFE AND TIMES of the CHOCTAW ORIGINAL ENROLLEES

Compiled by Wesley & Charleen Samuels

Online  
 

Maps, Schools, Churches, Miscellaneous
Early Schools, Teachers, and School Boards  (Skulleyville, LeFlore and Sugar Loaf Counties), Genealogy Research Service Volunteer Needed  
Fanshawe school history by Mary Lee Samuels Tiffee.    [Oklahoma : M.L.S. Tiffee, 198--]. Includes index. Vol 1, 2 Judy  
A History of the Wister Churches
by Gloryann Hankins Young. (Wister, OK) copy at Allen County [IN] Public Library; CarlAlbert: Poteau - Call No. 976.6 Yo85h; Vaughan NE: Tahlequah - Call No. SPC F704.W5 Y66; Bartlesville [OK] Public Library Call No. GR 976.679 YOU OK
Vicki Salmon  
Licenses of 13 dentist and 73 doctors. Wister, OK : Gloryann Hankins Young, 1985. copy at Bartlesville [OK] Public Library Call No. GR 976.679 LEF 1985 OK Volunteer Needed  
 

Military Records
World War I military discharge records LeFlore County, Oklahoma, compiled by Gloryann Hankins Young. (Wister, OK) 1996.  Vol 1. A-L -- Vol 2. M-Z. Includes some Spanish-American war records. Includes indexes.  copy at Allen County [IN] Public Library Volunteer Needed  
LeFlore County, Okla. World War I Draft Registrations 
Vol. 1  A-C
  Selected Submissions
Volunteer Needed  
WORLD WAR II
Honor List of Dead and Missing 
Army and Army Air Forces Personnel 

Online

 
Index to 1890 US Census of Union Soldiers and Their Widows in Oklahoma and Indian Territories (including Old Greer County) and Soldiers stationed at Military installations in the Territories     AND
Index to Records from the Oklahoma Union Soldiers' Home including Civil War Veterans and Their Dependants, Veterans of Wars with Spain and Mexico, Army Nurses, and certain members of the National Guard of Oklahoma; and the Union Soldier's Cemetery Record. 
Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Special Publication 3, 1970.
   
Index to Applications for Pensions from the State of Oklahoma submitted by Confederate Soldiers, Sailors and Their Widows. Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Special Publication 2, 1969.

Online

 
     

Newspapers
Newspaper Microfilm Inventory Held by the OHS for LeFlore Co.  Volunteer Needed  
 
Microfilm #6189-16 
LeFlore County available at Poteau Valley Genealogical Society.
1906 Jul 5-Aug 9 Choctaw Herald
1904 Dec 17-31 Bokoshe Chronicle
1905 Feb 4, 11; Mar 25; Apr 29; May 20 Bokoshe Chronicle
1911 May 26-Aug 4; Aug 18; Sep 8; Nov 10 Bokoshe Enterprise
1912 Oct 11-25; Nov 15, 22; Dec 6, 20, 27 Bokoshe Enterprise
1913 Mar 21, 28; Apr 18-May 16; May 30-Jul 4;  Jul 18-Aug 22; Oct 3-17; Nov 7, 21; Dec 5-26 Bokoshe Enterprise
1914  Jan 2-Jun 5; Jun 19-Oct 30; Nov 20-Dec 10 Bokoshe Enterprise
1905 Jul 15; Aug 1 Western Breezes
1904  Jun 3; Jul 15, 22; Aug 26-Sep 30; Oct 14-Nov 4 Heavener Globe
1904 Dec 2-30 Heavener Clipper
1905 Jan 13, 20; Mar 31; Apr 14; Jul 14 Heavener Clipper
1907  Jul 18; Aug 29; Sep 5-Oct 10; Dec 12 Heavener Clipper
1908 Mar 5 Heavener Clipper
1912 Apr 11 Heavener Dispatch
1916 Apr 20-Dec 28 Heavener Dispatch
 

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