Hughes County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Hughes County Hughes County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Hughes County Courthouse 200 N Broadway Street Holdenville, OK 74848 Phone: 405.379-5487 Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1907; County Clerk has land records from 1907

Parent County
1907--Hughes County was created 16 July 1907 from Creek Lands (Creek and Choctaw Lands). County seat: Holdenville

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties

 * Coal
 * McIntosh
 * Okfuskee
 * Pittsburg
 * Pontotoc
 * Seminole

Cemeteries
www.okgenweb.org/okprojects/hughes/hughes-gnis.htmTwenty-three cemeteries were found using GNIS, others identified by Oklahoma's GenWeb volunteers. Links are provided for both GNIS maps that show the general location with respect to nearby towns and DoT maps that show the township in great detail.

Holdenville Cemetery
9,715 memorials with section and row for each. http://holdenvillecemetery.weebly.com/

Census

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm 1890 territorial censuses for Payne, Kingfisher, Beaver, Counties and Choctaw Nation

Church

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm

Directories

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm A Partial 1900 Directory of Garfield County, Oklahoma and (The First) City Directory Of Oklahoma City, Indian Territory August 22, 1889

Families

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm

Funeral Records

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm

Local Histories

 * www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm Battle of Round Mountains, November 19, 1861 and No Man's Land

Maps



 * www.okgenweb.org/okprojects/atlas-key.html For some time, this now-famous project was the only on-line source of information about many communities that existed briefly during territorial days.
 * www.okgenweb.org/okprojects/town-index.html This index is based on OKTOWNS.ZIP, which was created by Mike Taylor in PKZIPW format. The original file is sorted by County, then Town, so you should download it if you want to find the towns in a specific county. As Mike described his project, this database was "mostly created by scanning the book 'Town and Place Locations', published by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

Marriage

 * hughesokindex.weebly.com/index.html

There are 14,225 marriage records in the database. Hughes County, Oklahoma Marriage Index 1907-1968.

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper


 * NewspaperArchive.com ($) has historical newspapers online including Ada newspapers that may have included Hughes County residents. This database is sometimes free at libraries.
 * files.usgwarchives.net/ok/hughes/newspapers/hughnews.txt Hughes County (Oklahoma) - Newspaper Titles, Dates, and Towns

Obituaries

 * www.okcemeteries.net/hughes/miscobit/miscobit.htm Misc Hughes County Obits

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1907-1968 - Hughes County, Oklahoma Marriage Index 1907-1968

Excellent Library
Hughes County Historical Society includes a surprisingly good genealogical research collection.

Family History Centers
FamilySearch Centers are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and are located all over the world. Their goal is to provide resources for family history research.


 * Seminole Oklahoma Family History Center
 * Ada Oklahoma Family History Center
 * McAlester Oklahoma Family History Center

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okgs/records.htm This site is a great resource for information on resources for Hughes County

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.