The Department has a
number of marriage records dating to pre-statehood (November, 1907) and
early marriage records for Ottawa County, 1907-1926. These records include
the exact location in the marriage books for each license. 1907-1926
records abstracted by S. J. Mahurin.
Funeral Home Records
Guilford-Thomas Funeral Records
- 1934-1967 Include
Lane, Fisk, Hutchens, & Jim Thomas Records,
--Abstracted by Hildred Ables.
Cooper Funeral Home
- 1918-1999.
--Abstracted by Daryl Bates and Hildred Ables.
Micheson Funeral Home
-- Abstracted by Hildred Ables.
Luginheld Funeral Home,
Grove, OK
(1936-1997.
--Abstracted by Delaware County Readers.
Cemetery Records:
The Department houses cemetery records of Ottawa
County cemeteries as well as a number of records of nearby cemeteries.
Please
contact us
if you would like to know whether we have records for a particular cemetery
that you know to be near Ottawa County.
Cemetery Records abstracted by:
Tyner and Temmons; Delaware
County Readers; Ottawa County Genealogy Society; Hildred Ables; Gerald L.
Housman; Donna Rae Seamon Reeves and others.
School Records:
Iron Post Schools, Ottawa Early Records
Federal Census:
A complete set of Oklahoma
Territory and Indian Territory and the complete Oklahoma Federal Census on
microfilm. We have a few census of other states. We do not have any Soundex available.
Microfilm Highlights:
Above newspapers indexed by Hildred Ables. Audrey Topliff
assisted with the early Miami newspapers.
Civil & Revolutionary War Collections:
Army Records, Index to Revolutionary War Service
Records, 4 Vols., transcribed by Virgil D. White.
Oklahoma Genealogical Resources:
General
Ottawa County resources also exist, including Ottawa County historical and
genealogical books and city directories. Among these include:
History
of Ottawa County by Velma Neiberding, First Presbyterian Church,
Miami 1899-1998, and Goodspeed's histories and directories from 1917-1998.
Video:
Tri-State Story: Historical
Film of District Mining. 2 tapes by F.J. Cuddleback.
