Note: Martha Marianna Hightower was born in Granbury, Johnson County, Texas. Hood County, Texas was formed from Johnson County, Texas in 1865.
Daughter of Joshua Columbus Hightower and Lucinda E. Garland.
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Sunday Times-Democrat
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Sunday, December 30, 1928, page 3-D
Weddings of Half Century Ago Described by 10 Couples
(Note: only one of those couples is included in this transcription)
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Nesom
ANOTHER pioneer couple of Okmulgee is Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Nesom, who arrived here when there were only about a dozen white families in the town.
In Grandbury, Texas, Dec. 17, 1875, Miss Mattie Hightower and Henry Nesom were married. They soon moved to Abilene, Texas. There they lived for several years, and their children were born there.
The lure of a new country attracted them and with their family they came to the Indian country, when Okmulgee was only a trading post.
There were two stores here, that of Capt. Severs, and the Parkinson store. These stores had to have merchandise and as there was no railroad, Mr. Nesom and his son-in-law, W. A. Farr, established a freight line to Muskogee, the nearest shipping point. They hauled the merchandise to the stores here in wagons, drawn by mules.
Due bills were popular currency in those days. When an Indian or farmer brought anything to the store to seel, the proprietor gave him a slip of paper entitling him to just so much in trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom were telling of their wedding recently, and the secret leaked out after these many years away from their native state that they ran away and were married, for Mrs. Nesom's father objected strenuously to their marriage. However, all turned out well and they were forgiven.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, Mrs. W. P. Robinson, John Nesom, Jack Nesom and Earl Nesom all live in Okmulgee, Bert Nesom lives in Shawnee, and Mrs. Mattie Sutton lives in Sapulpa.
They have 24 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Although he is nearly 80 years old, Mr. Nesom is an active man, and works every day running the elevator in the Petroleum building.
Mrs. Nesom is 69 years old, and active in civic and lodge work. It was her pleasure to prepare and serve a Christmas dinner for all members of her family this year.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, July 11, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Nesom Seriously Ill
Mrs. Mattie Nesom, 85, 511 North Taft, is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. She has been bedfast since April 25, when she received a leg and knee injury from a fall on the steps at her home.
Children of Mrs. Nesom who are now here because of the illness of their mother are Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nesom, Shawnee, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nesom and son, John, Eufaula, Mrs. Mattie Sutton, Sapulpa, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Rt. 1, Okmulgee. Another son, Earl Nesom, lives here in Okmulgee.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 22, 1945, page 2
Death Claims Mrs. Mattie Nesom
Mrs. Mattie Marthanna Nesom, 511 North Taft, pioneer Okmulgeean, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. A resident of Okmulgee for the past 54 years, she would have been 86 on Sept. 8.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Okmulgee, and Mrs. A. G. Sutton, Sapulpa, four sons, Earl Nesom, Okmulgee, B. E. Nesom, Shawnee, J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and J. T. Nesom, Eufala; a sister, Mrs. Della Hyde, Santa Cruse, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Thursday, August 23, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Martha Nesom Services Today
Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church for Mrs. Martha Marianna Nesom, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, from injuries received when she fell at her home April 25. The Rev. Clayton L. Potter, minister of the Christian Church, and the Rev. I. W. Armstrong, minister of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.
She was born in Granbury, Hood County, Texas, Sept. 8, 1859, and was married to Henry Elles Nesom at Cleburne, Tex., Dec. 17, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Nesom lived in Texas for a number of years before coming to Okmulgee in 1893 when it was still Indian Territory. Mr. Nesom died about 11 years ago.
She is survived by four sons and three daughters.
'Mother Nesom'
Mother Nesom, as she was called by her friends, was a member of the Christian Church. She was also an active member of the Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge, the Woodman Circle Lodge, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dick Farr, J. G. Kenan, W. A. Jolly, Edwin B. Cody, Dr. S. B. Leslie, A. F. (Jake) McGill, Theo Primo, Tom J. Robertson, Charles Hunter, and Judge John Norman, all of Okmulgee; and A. J. Martin, T. V. McMahon, Lawrence Payne and Henry White, all of Okemah.
Active pallbearers will be Ralph L. Barnhart, Ed Walker, John P. Graham, Curtis Lawhead, Sam J. Throckmorton, and W. J. Cates, all of Okmulgee.
The Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge No. 103 will conduct graveside services. Interment will be in the Okmulgee Cemetery under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home.
Daughter of Joshua Columbus Hightower and Lucinda E. Garland.
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Sunday Times-Democrat
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Sunday, December 30, 1928, page 3-D
Weddings of Half Century Ago Described by 10 Couples
(Note: only one of those couples is included in this transcription)
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Nesom
ANOTHER pioneer couple of Okmulgee is Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Nesom, who arrived here when there were only about a dozen white families in the town.
In Grandbury, Texas, Dec. 17, 1875, Miss Mattie Hightower and Henry Nesom were married. They soon moved to Abilene, Texas. There they lived for several years, and their children were born there.
The lure of a new country attracted them and with their family they came to the Indian country, when Okmulgee was only a trading post.
There were two stores here, that of Capt. Severs, and the Parkinson store. These stores had to have merchandise and as there was no railroad, Mr. Nesom and his son-in-law, W. A. Farr, established a freight line to Muskogee, the nearest shipping point. They hauled the merchandise to the stores here in wagons, drawn by mules.
Due bills were popular currency in those days. When an Indian or farmer brought anything to the store to seel, the proprietor gave him a slip of paper entitling him to just so much in trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom were telling of their wedding recently, and the secret leaked out after these many years away from their native state that they ran away and were married, for Mrs. Nesom's father objected strenuously to their marriage. However, all turned out well and they were forgiven.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, Mrs. W. P. Robinson, John Nesom, Jack Nesom and Earl Nesom all live in Okmulgee, Bert Nesom lives in Shawnee, and Mrs. Mattie Sutton lives in Sapulpa.
They have 24 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Although he is nearly 80 years old, Mr. Nesom is an active man, and works every day running the elevator in the Petroleum building.
Mrs. Nesom is 69 years old, and active in civic and lodge work. It was her pleasure to prepare and serve a Christmas dinner for all members of her family this year.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, July 11, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Nesom Seriously Ill
Mrs. Mattie Nesom, 85, 511 North Taft, is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. She has been bedfast since April 25, when she received a leg and knee injury from a fall on the steps at her home.
Children of Mrs. Nesom who are now here because of the illness of their mother are Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nesom, Shawnee, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nesom and son, John, Eufaula, Mrs. Mattie Sutton, Sapulpa, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Rt. 1, Okmulgee. Another son, Earl Nesom, lives here in Okmulgee.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 22, 1945, page 2
Death Claims Mrs. Mattie Nesom
Mrs. Mattie Marthanna Nesom, 511 North Taft, pioneer Okmulgeean, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. A resident of Okmulgee for the past 54 years, she would have been 86 on Sept. 8.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Okmulgee, and Mrs. A. G. Sutton, Sapulpa, four sons, Earl Nesom, Okmulgee, B. E. Nesom, Shawnee, J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and J. T. Nesom, Eufala; a sister, Mrs. Della Hyde, Santa Cruse, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Thursday, August 23, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Martha Nesom Services Today
Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church for Mrs. Martha Marianna Nesom, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, from injuries received when she fell at her home April 25. The Rev. Clayton L. Potter, minister of the Christian Church, and the Rev. I. W. Armstrong, minister of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.
She was born in Granbury, Hood County, Texas, Sept. 8, 1859, and was married to Henry Elles Nesom at Cleburne, Tex., Dec. 17, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Nesom lived in Texas for a number of years before coming to Okmulgee in 1893 when it was still Indian Territory. Mr. Nesom died about 11 years ago.
She is survived by four sons and three daughters.
'Mother Nesom'
Mother Nesom, as she was called by her friends, was a member of the Christian Church. She was also an active member of the Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge, the Woodman Circle Lodge, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dick Farr, J. G. Kenan, W. A. Jolly, Edwin B. Cody, Dr. S. B. Leslie, A. F. (Jake) McGill, Theo Primo, Tom J. Robertson, Charles Hunter, and Judge John Norman, all of Okmulgee; and A. J. Martin, T. V. McMahon, Lawrence Payne and Henry White, all of Okemah.
Active pallbearers will be Ralph L. Barnhart, Ed Walker, John P. Graham, Curtis Lawhead, Sam J. Throckmorton, and W. J. Cates, all of Okmulgee.
The Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge No. 103 will conduct graveside services. Interment will be in the Okmulgee Cemetery under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home.
Note: Martha Marianna Hightower was born in Granbury, Johnson County, Texas. Hood County, Texas was formed from Johnson County, Texas in 1865.
Daughter of Joshua Columbus Hightower and Lucinda E. Garland.
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Sunday Times-Democrat
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Sunday, December 30, 1928, page 3-D
Weddings of Half Century Ago Described by 10 Couples
(Note: only one of those couples is included in this transcription)
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Nesom
ANOTHER pioneer couple of Okmulgee is Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Nesom, who arrived here when there were only about a dozen white families in the town.
In Grandbury, Texas, Dec. 17, 1875, Miss Mattie Hightower and Henry Nesom were married. They soon moved to Abilene, Texas. There they lived for several years, and their children were born there.
The lure of a new country attracted them and with their family they came to the Indian country, when Okmulgee was only a trading post.
There were two stores here, that of Capt. Severs, and the Parkinson store. These stores had to have merchandise and as there was no railroad, Mr. Nesom and his son-in-law, W. A. Farr, established a freight line to Muskogee, the nearest shipping point. They hauled the merchandise to the stores here in wagons, drawn by mules.
Due bills were popular currency in those days. When an Indian or farmer brought anything to the store to seel, the proprietor gave him a slip of paper entitling him to just so much in trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom were telling of their wedding recently, and the secret leaked out after these many years away from their native state that they ran away and were married, for Mrs. Nesom's father objected strenuously to their marriage. However, all turned out well and they were forgiven.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, Mrs. W. P. Robinson, John Nesom, Jack Nesom and Earl Nesom all live in Okmulgee, Bert Nesom lives in Shawnee, and Mrs. Mattie Sutton lives in Sapulpa.
They have 24 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Although he is nearly 80 years old, Mr. Nesom is an active man, and works every day running the elevator in the Petroleum building.
Mrs. Nesom is 69 years old, and active in civic and lodge work. It was her pleasure to prepare and serve a Christmas dinner for all members of her family this year.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, July 11, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Nesom Seriously Ill
Mrs. Mattie Nesom, 85, 511 North Taft, is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. She has been bedfast since April 25, when she received a leg and knee injury from a fall on the steps at her home.
Children of Mrs. Nesom who are now here because of the illness of their mother are Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nesom, Shawnee, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nesom and son, John, Eufaula, Mrs. Mattie Sutton, Sapulpa, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Rt. 1, Okmulgee. Another son, Earl Nesom, lives here in Okmulgee.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 22, 1945, page 2
Death Claims Mrs. Mattie Nesom
Mrs. Mattie Marthanna Nesom, 511 North Taft, pioneer Okmulgeean, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. A resident of Okmulgee for the past 54 years, she would have been 86 on Sept. 8.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Okmulgee, and Mrs. A. G. Sutton, Sapulpa, four sons, Earl Nesom, Okmulgee, B. E. Nesom, Shawnee, J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and J. T. Nesom, Eufala; a sister, Mrs. Della Hyde, Santa Cruse, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Thursday, August 23, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Martha Nesom Services Today
Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church for Mrs. Martha Marianna Nesom, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, from injuries received when she fell at her home April 25. The Rev. Clayton L. Potter, minister of the Christian Church, and the Rev. I. W. Armstrong, minister of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.
She was born in Granbury, Hood County, Texas, Sept. 8, 1859, and was married to Henry Elles Nesom at Cleburne, Tex., Dec. 17, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Nesom lived in Texas for a number of years before coming to Okmulgee in 1893 when it was still Indian Territory. Mr. Nesom died about 11 years ago.
She is survived by four sons and three daughters.
'Mother Nesom'
Mother Nesom, as she was called by her friends, was a member of the Christian Church. She was also an active member of the Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge, the Woodman Circle Lodge, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dick Farr, J. G. Kenan, W. A. Jolly, Edwin B. Cody, Dr. S. B. Leslie, A. F. (Jake) McGill, Theo Primo, Tom J. Robertson, Charles Hunter, and Judge John Norman, all of Okmulgee; and A. J. Martin, T. V. McMahon, Lawrence Payne and Henry White, all of Okemah.
Active pallbearers will be Ralph L. Barnhart, Ed Walker, John P. Graham, Curtis Lawhead, Sam J. Throckmorton, and W. J. Cates, all of Okmulgee.
The Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge No. 103 will conduct graveside services. Interment will be in the Okmulgee Cemetery under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home.
Daughter of Joshua Columbus Hightower and Lucinda E. Garland.
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Sunday Times-Democrat
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Sunday, December 30, 1928, page 3-D
Weddings of Half Century Ago Described by 10 Couples
(Note: only one of those couples is included in this transcription)
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Nesom
ANOTHER pioneer couple of Okmulgee is Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Nesom, who arrived here when there were only about a dozen white families in the town.
In Grandbury, Texas, Dec. 17, 1875, Miss Mattie Hightower and Henry Nesom were married. They soon moved to Abilene, Texas. There they lived for several years, and their children were born there.
The lure of a new country attracted them and with their family they came to the Indian country, when Okmulgee was only a trading post.
There were two stores here, that of Capt. Severs, and the Parkinson store. These stores had to have merchandise and as there was no railroad, Mr. Nesom and his son-in-law, W. A. Farr, established a freight line to Muskogee, the nearest shipping point. They hauled the merchandise to the stores here in wagons, drawn by mules.
Due bills were popular currency in those days. When an Indian or farmer brought anything to the store to seel, the proprietor gave him a slip of paper entitling him to just so much in trade.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom were telling of their wedding recently, and the secret leaked out after these many years away from their native state that they ran away and were married, for Mrs. Nesom's father objected strenuously to their marriage. However, all turned out well and they were forgiven.
Mr. and Mrs. Nesom are the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, Mrs. W. P. Robinson, John Nesom, Jack Nesom and Earl Nesom all live in Okmulgee, Bert Nesom lives in Shawnee, and Mrs. Mattie Sutton lives in Sapulpa.
They have 24 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Although he is nearly 80 years old, Mr. Nesom is an active man, and works every day running the elevator in the Petroleum building.
Mrs. Nesom is 69 years old, and active in civic and lodge work. It was her pleasure to prepare and serve a Christmas dinner for all members of her family this year.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, July 11, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Nesom Seriously Ill
Mrs. Mattie Nesom, 85, 511 North Taft, is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. She has been bedfast since April 25, when she received a leg and knee injury from a fall on the steps at her home.
Children of Mrs. Nesom who are now here because of the illness of their mother are Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nesom, Shawnee, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nesom and son, John, Eufaula, Mrs. Mattie Sutton, Sapulpa, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Rt. 1, Okmulgee. Another son, Earl Nesom, lives here in Okmulgee.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Wednesday, August 22, 1945, page 2
Death Claims Mrs. Mattie Nesom
Mrs. Mattie Marthanna Nesom, 511 North Taft, pioneer Okmulgeean, died last night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, 318 North Grand. A resident of Okmulgee for the past 54 years, she would have been 86 on Sept. 8.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. W. J. Robertson, Okmulgee, and Mrs. A. G. Sutton, Sapulpa, four sons, Earl Nesom, Okmulgee, B. E. Nesom, Shawnee, J. C. Nesom, Jacksonville, Fla., and J. T. Nesom, Eufala; a sister, Mrs. Della Hyde, Santa Cruse, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and 3 great great grandchildren.
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Okmulgee Daily Times
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Thursday, August 23, 1945, page 2
Mrs. Martha Nesom Services Today
Funeral services will be conducted today at 2 p.m. at the First Christian Church for Mrs. Martha Marianna Nesom, who died Tuesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. W. Anderson, from injuries received when she fell at her home April 25. The Rev. Clayton L. Potter, minister of the Christian Church, and the Rev. I. W. Armstrong, minister of the First Methodist Church, will officiate.
She was born in Granbury, Hood County, Texas, Sept. 8, 1859, and was married to Henry Elles Nesom at Cleburne, Tex., Dec. 17, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Nesom lived in Texas for a number of years before coming to Okmulgee in 1893 when it was still Indian Territory. Mr. Nesom died about 11 years ago.
She is survived by four sons and three daughters.
'Mother Nesom'
Mother Nesom, as she was called by her friends, was a member of the Christian Church. She was also an active member of the Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge, the Woodman Circle Lodge, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dick Farr, J. G. Kenan, W. A. Jolly, Edwin B. Cody, Dr. S. B. Leslie, A. F. (Jake) McGill, Theo Primo, Tom J. Robertson, Charles Hunter, and Judge John Norman, all of Okmulgee; and A. J. Martin, T. V. McMahon, Lawrence Payne and Henry White, all of Okemah.
Active pallbearers will be Ralph L. Barnhart, Ed Walker, John P. Graham, Curtis Lawhead, Sam J. Throckmorton, and W. J. Cates, all of Okmulgee.
The Okmulgee Rebekah Lodge No. 103 will conduct graveside services. Interment will be in the Okmulgee Cemetery under the direction of the Davis Funeral Home.
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