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INDIAN PIONEER PAPERS
In 1936, the [Oklahoma Historical] society teamed with the history department at the University of Oklahoma to get a Works Progress Administration (WPA) writers' project grant for an interview program. The project employed more than 100 writers scattered across the state, with headquarters in Muskogee, where Grant Foreman served as project director. Asked to "call upon early settlers and (record) the story of the migration to Oklahoma and their early life here," the writers conducted more than 11,000 interviews, edited the accounts into written form, and sent them to the project director who completed the editorial process and had them typed into more than 45,000 pages. When assembled, the Indian-Pioneer Papers consisted of 112 volumes, with one set at the university, the other at the society. There are only two complete bound sets of originals. [Battle Cry for History: The First Century of the Oklahoma Historical Society, online http://www.ok-history.mus.ok.us/battlcry.gif/BATTLCRY.HTM , by Bob L. Blackburn, 5 Oct. 1998.] Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 -- From: Gay & Tim Wall t31892@nidlink.com Here is the continuing...index of the Indian Pioneer Papers-Western History Collection---University of Oklahoma. The Indian Pioneer History Papers is a collection of interviews done in 1937 & 1938, which includes biographical data on both living and deceased persons of Indian and pioneer heritage whose lives have been important in the history of Oklahoma. There is also a collection of information on family customs, tribal histories, social organizations, folklore, legends, cemeteries, old trails, ferries, forts, trading centers and other unrecorded facts known only to oral tradition. VOLUME 66-----MICROFICHE #6016931------9 FICHE--- NAME ADDRESS NEELEY, Alice Cordell, OK NEELEY, George C. " " NEELEY, Rachel " " NEELEY, John B. No address given; & is not at this time related to the above family. Note; Alice Neeley married Edward Charles Neeley her cousin so George is her cousin & brother-in-law. Her sister Rachel Neeley married, Nathaniel Neeley who is also Edward's brother & their cousins which make them all double cousins. Their father William Wallace Neeley is Jesse Neeley’s brother father of George C. Neeley. Neeley Web Site **NOTE this ?[ ] means I couldn’t read what was on the film*** |
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