MCGEE - INDIAN TERRITORY
Copyright 2005 - Roger Wills
This map was graciously provided by Roger Wills. I don't really know how to interperet it. Is this the way the town actually looked in 1900, or is this a survey of the entire town site, laid out as it would be if all of the lots were full? Please send e-mail if you know anything about this map.
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Mike:
My guess is that this survey was based upon the layout of the town
before the survey. I can't imagine a surveyor creating so many non-90
degree intersections of roads and streets in the absence of natural
barriers or watercourses. I have tried to find the document or text to
which this survey was Exhibit C. So far I haven't had any luck.
My great-grandmother is buried, 1900, in the cemetery shown on the
survey. So that part of the survey had to consider the current location
of the cemetery and its relationship to the town.
Roger Wills
Sharpsburg, KY
......My great-great-grandfather George Lewis Wilcoxson
moved from Jimtown to McGee sometime between 1889 and 1893 when my
great-grandmother was born near McGee in 1893. He received a land grant
of 160 acres as part of the land rush as did my great-grandfather Reuben
McQuinn. After my grandfather married my grandmother the McQuinns moved
back to Kentucky. The Belle McCary referenced in "Ghost Town: McGee
Indian Territory " by Mooney was the sister of my great-grandmother.
There are several other of my relatives mentioned in this article....
Roger Wills
DOWNTOWN MCGEE - Where is McGee Cemetery? The legend of the map says something about section 14 as the location of the Cemetery. I would like to know the exact location of McGee Cemetery on the map. If have that location I can know what direction to look when I go there, to actually see the site of the town.
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