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Thomas was named for William Thomas, who owned a general store and served as postmaster, when the first post office was established at the store on February 12, 1894, while this area was part of Oklahoma Territory. Joseph W. Morris claimed a homestead at the site during the Cheyenne-Arapaho opening in 1892.
Narcissa Clark Chisholm was born on October 3, 1831, in a log cabin near Webbers Falls [3] (in what was then Arkansas Territory, to become Indian Territory and later Oklahoma) to Cherokee sub-chief Thomas H. Chisholm (1790–1834) [4] and his Virginia-born wife Malinda Wharton (1803–1864) (great-granddaughter of British Jacobite politician Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton). [1]
The Thomas-Foreman Historic Home, also known as the Grant Foreman House, is a house in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, built by Judge John R. Thomas on a tract of prairie land. It was later named after Thomas' son-in-law, Grant Foreman, by the Muskogee Historical Society and the National Register of Historic Places.
Carolyn T. Foreman, was a noted Oklahoma historian. Born in Illinois, she moved to the city of Muskogee (then in Indian Territory) with her widowed father, John R. Thomas, a former congressman for Illinois in the 1880s, [a] and politician, and who served as a federal judge after Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
On August 22, 1908, Gilcrease married Belle M. Harlow, a member of the Osage Nation. [2] He fathered two sons with Belle: William Thomas Gilcrease, Jr., who was born on July 23, 1909, in Oklahoma and died on March 16, 1967, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, and Barton Eugene Gilcrease, who was born on April 12, 1911, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on September 25, 1991, in San Antonio ...
Tecumseh (Meskwaki: Takamithîheki [4]) is a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma. The population was 6,302 by the 2020 United States census. [5] It was named for the noted Shawnee chief, Tecumseh. The locale was designated as the county seat at Oklahoma's statehood, but a county-wide election moved the seat to Shawnee in 1930. [6]
It is located north about 4 miles from the central district of Cromwell on Oklahoma State Highway 56, just north of Interstate 40. [ 9 ] The settlement had a post office from December 19, 1907, to June 30, 1917; an earlier post office named Irene was situated at this same approximate location until November 28, 1907. [ 10 ]
It is in the Locust Grove Public Schools school district, located in Locust Grove. It serves the students from Locust Grove and many other communities. [13]The school system consists of four different schools: The Early Learning Center (Pre-K through 1st Grade), the Upper Elementary (2nd through 5th grades), the Middle School (6th through 8th grades), and the High School (9th through 12th grades).