Genealogy Library
Genealogy Collections
Our genealogy library contains an extensive collection of information about families from Wilson and other communities in the surrounding area. We feature a large collection of obituaries; along with numerous sources of other genealogical information.
Births
Marriages
Deaths
Collection contains announcements of baby/layette showers, births, and birthday celebrations.
Marriages
Collection contains early Wilson marriage records, engagement and wedding announcements, and wedding anniversaries.
Deaths
- Better-Craddock (Ardmore) Funeral Home records, 1923-1981
- Birth and Death Records of Dr. J. T. Barnwell, (Graham, Fox, Pike City and Clemscott, 1920-1933)
- Carter County’s 74 Cemeteries
- Cemetery Books
- Hewitt*
- Bomar Point and Hewitt (Newspaper articles)
- Chaggar
- Jefferson County Cemeteries Canvassed
- Lone Grove and Newport*
- Love County Cemeteries List
- Mount Olive*
- Old Monk
- Northwest Carter County—Graham, Ratliff City, Oil Springs, Milo and Pooleville*
- Pierce
- Reck
- Simon
- Western Carter County—Keller, Bomar Point and Reck*
* compiled by the Oilpatch Genealogy Society (available for sale in the Museum store)
- Cemetery Inscriptions of Carter County (as of 1982)
- Confederate Grave Markers in Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Oklahoma
- Lawmen of Southern Oklahoma
- Obituaries
- Memorial Tributes (by Correna Wilson-Pickens)
- Ringling Memorial Cemetery
- Wilson Funeral Homes
- Yearly Listings of Obituaries
- Adair/Thompson
- Walter S. Allred Family
- Kenneth Leroy Beasley Family
- Bone Family
- Samuel P. Brimer, Jr. and Aviation in Wilson
- Wann K. Britton Family
- Robert Ervin Campbell Family
- Juanita Carriker Family
- Chance Family Genealogy
- Chance/Means Family
- Chaney Home Place
- Hugh Clark Family
- Lemuel Coulter Family
- M. B. (Shorty) Croan Family
- Carl Cumpton, Jr. Family
- Carl Cumpton, Sr. Family
- Dr. W. A. Darling Family
- Josiah H. Dillard Family
- B.G. Doss Family and Doss Auto and Appliance
- Wiley and Esther Finley Family
- Carlen Fulton Family
- Richard Ross Gandy Family
- Hershall Gilliam Family
- Jake Hamon Family
- Harrell/Herrell/Herell Family
- Herrin-Kinsey Family
- Haskell and Lois Holmes Family
- Drennen and Marjorie Holmes Hughes
- Lute and Granny Jackson
- Wayland Bryant Jackson Family
- J. C. and Billie Potts Kerr Family
- Coy Lamb Family
- Donald O’Dell Martin: Life’s Stories in Poem
- Tom and Olline McDonald Family
- Billie Newton Menifee and her Poetry
- Barbara Ellis Stubbs Newman
- Chuck Norris
- G. V. Pardue Family
- Cecil Patterson Family
- Willis Marshal Potts Family
- Puckett Family
- Lonnie Rooney
- William Henry Sides Family
- James L. Steel
- George and Ann Roberts Steele Family
- Joe Artie Stevens and Frances Fanny Campbell Stevens
- Cretera “June” Wilson Stewart
- Arthur "Skinny" Stewart
- Straughn and Coffey Families of Wilson
- Vernon Straughn Family
- Vernon Straughn Softball
- Harvey Lewis Taylor Family
- Morris Watson Family
- Correna Voyles Wilson-Pickens Family
- Clinton Coy Blodgett: An American Hero
- J.C. Kerr Oral History: An Interview by Center for Pacific War Studies
- Men and Women in WWII from Carter County
- Servicemen Killed in Action
- A Tribute to Wilson’s Korea-Vietnam War Era Veterans*
- A Tribute to Wilson’s World War II Veterans*
- Veterans Presented with Delayed High School Diplomas
- WWI Military Registration Cards
* available for sale in the Museum store
- A History (This album contains the complete book, A Story of the Greatest Human Interest by and about M.E. Harris, founder of the home)*
- A list of orphans who were accepted into the home between 1908 and 1943 including those adopted, lists of donors, court documents, pictures and articles*
- Truly, Moses Harris by Ellen A. Moore (The story of M. E. Harris)
* available as part of the Cornish Orphans Home book for sale in the Museum store
- The Centennial Cookbook: Honoring Wilson's Cooks from the Past*
- Choctaw and Chickasaw Application and Docket of Citizenship Court Roll Numbers: 1902–1904
- Family Reunions
- Indian Territory and Carter County Pioneers: 1840-1982
- Indians and Intruders in Indian Territory, Oklahoma
- Memories of Wilson People
- “Oldtimers”—Interviews with Wilsonites re: their memories of Wilson, written by Helen Hedgepath
- “Remember When”—Interviews with Wilsonites re: their memories of Wilson, written by Correna Wilson
- Wilson's Census and Population Information
- Wilson School Student File Cards: 1915 to about 1966
* available for sale in the Museum store