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Happy Birthday Oklahoma!
Pontotoc County was created in 1907 from part of the
old Chickasaw Nation.
The county name honored Chief Pontotoc, and meant "Cattails growing on
the prairie".
The county seat is Ada, which was established in 1893 by Jeff Reed, a
Texas cowboy who named the town after his daughter. It was the site of a
federal courthouse and the seat of Recording District 16 in the Indian Territory.
The first railroad entered Ada in 1900 01and by 1904 the population exceeded
3,000. Ada was the town in which "Killin' Jim " Miller was lynched
April 19, 1909 for the killing of a Pontotoc Co. rancher, A.A. "Gus" Bobbitt.
Killin' Jim's most famous victim was Pat Garrett, whom Miller supposedly
bushwhacked in 1908.
Information For Pontotoc County has been provided by the Pontotoc Co.
Historical & Genealogical Society. Membership dues and the sale of books
keeps the society growing, if you are not a member please consider becoming
one. The quarterlies you receive are stock full of information and well worth
the annual dues.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpontgs/meminfo.html
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Pontotoc County Obits & Tidbits
NEW
Murray
Co. Census Online Includes 1900 Roff
Abstracts From "Roff and Her Neighbors" by Gladys
Tingle
Chickasaw
Nation Marriages 1895 to 1907 Mary Turner Kinard Collection
Ada Evening Newspaper
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Katherine Howry
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Angie Jenkins
We would like to thank Peggy Atwood and Redgie Peck for your dedication to
Pontotoc County
and hosting and maintaining this website during the past
few years. We appreciate everything you have done.
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