Yep! So, after digging through a few books, and reeling and spinning through some microfilm, here is what I come up with:
Here is my information
This information is out of the Homestead records at the history museum in OKC.
William Boydston Township 7 North, Range No. 1 West, Section 22
NE Corner
160 acres
Date of Sale: Feb, 22 1890
Reciept Number 6577
File No. 1877 October 5 1893 or 1895
(It looks like 1893, but the lady at the historical museum said it was probably 1895 because you had to wait 5 years to get or prove your patent.
William B. Boydston Township 9 North, Range 2 West, Section 11
John Boydston Township 7 North, Range 1 West, Section 4
160 acres SW
Date of Sale July 22, 1889
Number of Reciept 3983
File No. 2205 March 24, 1896
This info is from the Cleveland County Court House
William Boydston Trustee of Willow View Cemetery, which is 1 acre out of the center of his homestead.
James Shockley F. Owned property Township 7 North, Range No. 1 West, Section 22 (NORTHWEST--SW AND SE Corner.)
Here is a little farm house on the north side of the 160 acres. I'm not suggesting that it is where the old homestead was, but it is possible that it is the site of the actual old farm place.
Barns out buildings of the little farm
This is the Google Earth view of the full 160 acres. The north side is Bryant road and the East side is 108th street. Willow View Cemetery is in the center on 108th street.
It may be hard to see with this, but the old homestead is just a little over 2 miles, east, up Bryant road from our house. The Slaughterville place is only a mile North.
This is a picture looking West onto the homestead site
Here is the cemetery where the Boydston family is buried.
This is a picture of the corner at 108th and Bryant.
For my siblings that are not in the know (that would be most or maybe all of you.). The William Boydston family is our great-grandparents. Maybe Mom can clear this up, because our other great-grandparents are buried at the cemetery a mile north of us.
3 comments:
that is very cool all take that piece of property- how beautiful---are you sure about the Boydstons being our relatives? it just sounds foreign! if they are thats weird to be buried so close aye? ps- the name Slaughterville is just so uncool- hard to believe you are not pulling our leg. I think we drove through it when we were out there right?
Mom is going to get me the family tree so you see where they fit in. John and William Boydston are grandfathers on Grandpa Shockley's side I think. Mom will have to help us out. I'm actually within a couple miles of Shilo Cemetery and Willow View Cemetery where there are sets of g-grandparents buried at both. I think it is very cool to live on the same street that my g-grandparents (how many ever times removed) homesteaded in the land run of 1889. The Iricks (I think) may have lived on the Slaughter Family farm. It is the big yellow house on the Slaughterville Corner that Kerri and I looked into renting.
You didn't just pass through Slaughterville, because we live in the town limits of Slaughterville.
you live in Slaughterville? please start petitioning a name change! your going to have to get a piece of that land-----how cool is that---
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