My Great Uncle Daniels was kind enough to share this photo with me featuring my Great Great Grandpa Nees. He said it was the General Store of Steve Guthrie Nees (1863-1940), located in Inola, Rogers Co., Oklahoma. This prompted me to go and review the latest US Census records that I hadn’t added to...
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James “Jim” Nees Jr. was my 3rd Great Grandfather and my family line continues through his son Steven Guthrie Nees (1863-1881) who married Anna Eliza Neal (1863-1935). Several people from his family applied for Cherokee Citizenship in order to claim lands in the Indian Territory before it was divided up. The applications that they...
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The story that follows was forwarded to me August of 2000, by Rosanne Cockriel a researcher on the Nees family with whom I had corresponded for some time. It was an excerpt from material written by the grandfather of Catherine Miller’s husband; Catherine had been corresponding with Rosanne. The grandfather’s name was Jackson Colby,...
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I had heard about the website Find a Grave, but had never thought to do any kind of extensive searches there for my family. When I finally did, I found that the Sweeten Cemetery in Oklahoma had been photographed. Steve G. and Anna Eliza (Neal) Nees were buried here, and here are the photos...
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I love this picture of my Great-Grandparents Will and Minnie Ingram. The expressions on their faces make me want to refer to them as “Ma” and “Pa”. I don’t know the date of this photo, but wonder if it could have been taken when times were tough for them in Oklahoma before they moved...
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This is an old photo that I acquired through a great uncle who was kind enough to let me borrow them long enough to make some scans. I am not sure of who the two younger woman are pictured here, but I think they might be their daughters Julia (Nees) Nicholson and Mary (Nees)...
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The following is the family group record for Steve Guthrie Nees. I have included a historical timeline of his life in a previous post. Steve Guthrie Nees fathered my Great-Grandmother Minnie Bell Nees who married William “Will” Ingram Jr. If you have more information on this family including stories, pictures and dates and family...
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This is the first of many timelines I’ll post about several key members of my family, in order for search engines to pick up and possibly connect with other family members. I call this a “Historical Timeline” and have found putting together these charts extremely helpful in doing my genealogical research. I simply start...
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