He graduated from Locust Grove School in He later owned a drug store in Pryor. In , President John F. He served in that capacity until Foreman who was a staunch and loyal democrat later worked at the Pryor Tag Agency for several years until his death in June of He was buried in Fairview Cemetery at Pryor.
Paul Smith , a democrat from Locust Grove served from to Born in at Wagoner, he attended school at Locust Grove and in Colorado. He was a former Tulsa Police officer and left that work to enter the orthopedic equipment business.
He returned to Locust Grove about and was a former Locust Grove police officer. He reportedly lives in the Bristow, Ok area. He was born in Pryor and was a graduate of Pryor High School where he was a star football player. He also served as Mayor of Pryor from to and He has a college degree and is a former schoolteacher, citizen soldier, and insurance agent. After leaving the sheriff's office he worked for the Cherokee Nation as a tribal marshal.
In the summer of , he was appointed as the chief marshal by Cherokee Chief Joe Bird and served during remainder of Bird's term. He worked as Mayes County deputy sheriff for Berry and Cantey. Wiley J. Backwater served from to A full-blood Cherokee, he was raised in the Salina area and was a graduate of Salina High School. After a stint in the army, he went to work for the Pryor Police Department in about He held that office until his retirement in After a short stint at Phillips Driscopipe, he was elected sheriff.
He passed away in Harold Berry of Locust Grove served from He retired from the patrol in and served a stint as under-sheriff for Wiley Backwater. He defeated his former boss in the election, ran unopposed in , but lost his re-election bid. During his tenure in office, the new county jail was designed, constructed and funded by a county-wide sales tax proposal. Frank Cantey of Pryor served from A California native, he came to Northeast Oklahoma in the late 's. He retired from Pryor P.
He decided not to seek re-election in Frank passed away in at the age of A graduate of Locust Grove, Reed was a former police officer in Pryor and former county deputy. Reed was re-elected without opposition in and Lawrence Dallas Mayes Ross Birchfield Layton Kelley Ralph Willcut Joe Faircloth Mayes was succeeded by John H.
Harris, W. Whitaker, J. Hogan, W. Graham and others. The post office was established early in the year T Whitaker, aided by others, built the first school and church building in The first telegraph office was opened in Pryor in the year The first bank was organized in Graham was the principal organizer and is still at the head of the institution - the First National Bank of Pryor Creek.
Pryor Creek was first surveyed and platted under the Cherokee laws about the year by I. The United States Government survey followed in September Under the Cherokee government, Pryor was located in what was known as the Cooweescoowe district, later in when it was made a court town by the Federal Government and the first courthouse was built, it was placed in the Fifth recording district of the Northern Judicial District of Indian Territory.
The bill incorporating the town of Pryor Creek under the Cherokee law was introduced in the Cherokee Council house about the year by Councilman D. Vann, and in the Senate by Senator Samuel H. October 13, , the town was incorporated under the laws of Arkansas governing cities and towns. Lee Mills was the first mayor under the Cherokee laws. The first election under the Arkansas law was held December 29, David I.
Elliott was elected mayor, serving two terms. Beard was elected mayor at April election in , and was re-elected the following year. In April, , Dr. Bristow was elected mayor, but resigned November 5, , and J. McConnell was elected by the council to fill the unexpired term. In April, , Prof. Frank R. Morgan was elected mayor. Morgan served many years and was succeeded by J. Graham was elected in and served until Wilkerson served during the years and and was succeeded by C. Samuel, who retired in Harrison is the present mayor.
Pryor is under the aldermanic form of government and the city affairs are run as a strictly business proposition. The city owns its own water plant and enjoys the very best and purest water in the state, having recently installed a settling basin at their plant on Grand River which completes the water system of the city to the extent that there is plenty of water for everyone for all purposes, at a very reasonable cost.
With an increase in building and business that Pryor is sure to have, increasing the value of the assessed valuation, the tax levy is sure to be lower. The municipal affairs are run on a strictly cash basis, and there is not a single outstanding warrant against the general fund of the city.
It is conveniently located for beauty and efficiency. The average attendance the past year for the ward and high school is more than seven hundred. The new high school building is equipped with one of the best auditoriums and gymnasiums in the state.
No less than five churches house the church workers and help Pryor to lead in Sunday school work. Pryor has several miles of concrete sidewalk and expects to build many more blocks this year. The main street running through the town, east and west, is graveled almost a mile.
There are no special taxes of any kind in the town. Pryor has the usual number of banks and business houses that are found in the average town, and the Pryor Creamery does a thriving business for the country surrounding Pryor is a dairy country. Hadley Steam Laundry is one of the best in the state and would be a credit to any town.
Three grain elevators and a flour mill handle the grain for the Pryor trade territory. Three well stocked lumber yards supply the builders of the town and surrounding country. Pryor has a cotton gin, a bottling works and an ice cream manufacturing plant. Although on the northern edge of the cotton belt, there are many other cotton gins in the county; more than eight hundred bales of cotton were baled at Pryor last year.
One firm in Pryor ships more than four hundred cars of hay annually. The Pryor Creamery shipped out of Pryor , pounds of butter last year. The poultry and egg industry runs into the thousands of dollars each month. More than five hundred cars of livestock and grain are shipped from Pryor each year. One man ships , sweet potato plants annually and no less than a quarter million of other plants.
Another resident living in the outer edge of town, sells more than two thousand pounds of honey annually and another Pryor man got a return of just a little less than five hundred dollars per acre from strawberries. Sweet potatoes are sold here in large quantities.
Some of these items may not sound so big, but these are mentioned to show the possibilities of Pryor and surrounding country. Pryor is well equipped to take care of the tourists, by having clean, up-to-date hotels, plenty of garages with first class mechanics and equipment and a brick filling station, modern in every respect. A camp ground for the automobile tourists is conveniently located to the business section of the town. A large radium water bathing pool, well equipped for all bathers, is located on a site adjoining the town and furnishes much recreation during the summer months.
The many streams surrounding Pryor furnish sport for the man with the reel. Pryor has a radio station. Pryor has a Commercial Club with a paid membership of about one hundred and meets regularly each Thursday at the noon hour.
The Oklahoma State Home for the orphan children of the state is located on a acre tract of land adjoining the town of Pryor Creek. Church records vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships.
Land records include: deeds, abstracts and indexes, mortgages, leases, grants and land patents. See Oklahoma Land and Property for additional information about early Oklahoma land grants. After land was transferred to private ownership, subsequent transactions were usually recorded at the county courthouse, where records are currently housed. For more information see Oklahoma Land and Property.
Local histories are available for Mayes County, Oklahoma Genealogy. County and town histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Oklahoma Local Histories.
Chicago: S. Clarke Publishing Co. Map showing Civil war battles in Oklahoma. Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Mayes County, Oklahoma Genealogy newspapers in online catalogs like:. In most counties in Oklahoma, probate records have been kept by the county judge. They include wills, fee books, claim registers, legacy records, inheritance records, probate ticklers, and dockets.
The records are available at the county courthouse. In September Brig. Watie and Brig. Richard Gano successfully captured a Union supply train near the same location in the second Cabin Creek engagement. This led to a skirmish at Pryor Creek when Col. James Williams force-marched his Union troops to reclaim the supply train.
The Confederates escaped. Early transportation routes helped the region develop. The Texas Road passed through, with two stage stops in the area. Two railroads provided services. The creation of Mayes County began with the constitution for the proposed State of Sequoyah in August The document designated forty-eight counties.
Nine of these, including Mayes, became part of the state by the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, effective at statehood on November 16, The county name honors Cherokee Chief Samuel H. Pryor, or Pryor Creek, named for early trader and Indian subagent Nathaniel Pryor, became the county seat. The fertile soil of the Ozark Plateau and the climatic conditions of the Prairie Plains permit the cultivation of a variety of crops, including corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, and hay.
The more rugged land is used for raising cattle and dairy farming.
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