1870 - US Census - Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale, Alabama
Household ........Sex ......Age Birthplace
John Menton ....Male ....67 ..South Carolina
Jane Menton ....Female 43 ..South Carolina(sic)
James Menton .Male ....10 ..South Carolina(sic)
Charles Menton Male ....6 ....Alabama
Martha Menton .Female 38 ..Alabama
1880 - US Census -
1890 - US Census - Destroyed in 1921 census fire.
1900 - US Census - Francis Township, Greer, Oklahoma Territory
Household ............Role ........Sex ......Age Birthplace .......Birth Date
James A Minton ....Head .......Male ....37 ..Alabama .........Jan 1863
Ellizabeth Minton .Wife .........Female 33 ..Tennessee ......Mar 1867
Melrose L Minton ..Son .........Male ....13 ..Tennessee .......Jul 1887
Loran M Minton ....Daughter Female 10 ..Alabama ..........Jul 1890
Robertson Minton Son .........Male ....6 ....Texas ................Sep 1894
Martha Minton ......Aunt .......Female 65 ..South Carolina Dec 1835
1910 - US Census - Erick Township, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ............Role ......Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....45 ..Alabama
Elizabeth A Minton ..Wife ....Female 45 ..Tennessee
Melrose L Minton ....Son .....Male ....22 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....15 ..Tennesse
Jincey D Minton ......Mother Female 80 ..Alabama(sic)
Martha Minton ........Aunt ....Female 70 ..South Carolina
A Standard History of Oklahoma, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York (1916); Joseph B. Thoburn, pp 1752-1754.
Judge Albert Minton
In a long and uniformly successful career the versatile abilities of James Albert Minton have found expression in activities as a minister of the gospel, as a business man, as an agriculturist, and in recent years, as an attorney.
A resident of Erick, Oklahoma since 1900, he has here risen to a leading place among the legists of the extreme western part of the state, and is now in control of a clientele as important as it is satisfying in a financial way.
Mr. Minton was born at Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama, January 13, 1862, and is the son of John and Jennie Delila (Cannon) Minton, and is a descendant of a family of English origin whose founder in this country settled in South Carolina in Colonial days.
John Minton was born in South Carolina in 1801 and from that state moved to Gravelly Springs, Alabama where he was married and engaged in farming. Later he went to Hardin County, Tennessee where he continued his farming and his stock raising operations and died there in 1895. He was an elder in the Christian Church for many years and a man universally respected and esteemed. By his first marriage he was the father of four children; Ivey who is deceased, Lewis, a farmer of Gravelly Springs, Alabama, Jack, now deceased who was a resident of Waynesboro, Tennessee, engaged in farming, and Foster who carries on agricultural pursuits at Gravelly Springs, Alabama. Mr. Minton was married the second time to Miss Jennie Delila Cannon who was born in Tennessee in 1829 and died at Erick, Oklahoma in 1913, and they became the parents of two children, James Albert, of this review, and C. B. who is a farmer and raiser of stock in Erick.
James A. Minton attended the public schools of Gravelly Springs, Alabama following which he spent two years at Mars Hill (Alabama) College. He was graduated from the Georgia Robertson Christian College, Henderson, Tennessee (then known as the West Tennessee Christian College) with the Class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and for fifteen years was a minister of the Christian faith, holding various pastorates in Tennessee. In the meantime he had been engaged in the study of law and in 1895 was admitted to the Tennessee Bar. His advent in Oklahoma occurred in 1897 when he relocated to Oklahoma City as the general manager of Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky, having the general agency for the territories of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. After three years of this work he resigned and came to Erick where in 1900 he was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in a general practice in civil and criminal law and has been the representative of large and important interests, his practice carrying him into all the courts of this part of the state. His offices are now located in the First State Bank Building. He holds membership in the Beckham County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association, and is generally regarded by his fellow practitioners as a broad-minded and progressive practitioner and a careful observer of the courtesies and amenities of the vocation. Politically he subscribes to the principles of the Democratic Party. His relations with the fraternal brotherhood make him a member of Erick Lodge No. 237, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Henderson (Tennessee) Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Erick Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Minton was married in 1883 in Hardin County, Tennessee to Miss Elizabeth Haddock, daughter of the late J. L. Haddock, a farmer who died in Erick. Mr. and Mrs. Minton have been the parents of three children, Melrose L., a graduate of Cumberland (Tennessee) University, Class of 1914, a degree of Bachelor of Law, who is associated with his father at Erick; Laura May, who is the wife of E. E. McLane and resides of their farm two miles west of Erick; and Robertson who is in charge of his father's agricultural interests in Greer County.
When he came to Erick, in 1900, Mr. Minton filed on a claim of 160 acres in Beckham County, which he proved up, and which was sold by him in 1905. He still continues to be interested in agricultural affairs and at this time is the owner of 960 acres of valuable land located in Greer County.
1920 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ..............Role .....Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....57 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton .....Wife ....Female 53 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....24 ..Tennesse
1930 - US Census -
1940 - US Census - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Household ..........Role .Sex ......Age Birthplace
James N Minton .Head Male ....77 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton Wife .Female 74 ..Tennessee
1950 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household .....................Role .............Sex ......Age Birthplace
Emmett McLain .............Head ............Male ....69 ..Tennessee
Laura May McLain .........Wife ..............Female 58 ..Tennessee
Albert James Minton ....Father in-law Male ....88 ..Tennessee (widowed)
Jack Marton ..................Lodger ..........Male ....48 ..Texas
William A Ritter .............Lodger ..........Male ....73 ..Texas
James Herbert Lindsay Lodger ..........Male ....76 ..Kansas
Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Oklahoma · Thursday, January 01, 1953 pg 1
J. A. Minton
Buried Wednesday
Last rites for James Albert Minton, retired attorney-at-law, who died Monday at his home in Sayre following a three-month illness, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sayre Church of Christ.
He was born January 13, 1862 in Gravely(sic) Springs, Alabama and was married to Elizabeth Haddock on November 29, 1883 in Lowryville, Tennessee.
He came to Norman, Oklahoma in 1888 and in 1900 moved to western Oklahoma and settled in Erick. In 1918 he moved to Sayre and has lived there since that time.
He practiced law in Beckham County for 42 years and was county attorney, member of the state pardon and parole board during the administration of Gov. Leon C. Phillips.
Mr. Minton is a member of the Church of Christ in Sayre, the IOOF lodge, the Masonic lodge, the Sayre Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Sayre Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Laura MeLain of Sayre: two sons, Melrose Minton and R. L. Minton, both of Sayre; four grand children and three great grand children. His wife, two daughters and one son preceded him in death.
Reginald Beaver and the Rev. J. N. Gibble officiated at the services. Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery with Moore Fun-feral home in charge of the arrangements.
Casketbearers were Carl Rizley, Charles M. Wilson, Jack Colby, Arthur Hartman, Thomas, A. Kent, and Sanford Thurmond.
Household ........Sex ......Age Birthplace
John Menton ....Male ....67 ..South Carolina
Jane Menton ....Female 43 ..South Carolina(sic)
James Menton .Male ....10 ..South Carolina(sic)
Charles Menton Male ....6 ....Alabama
Martha Menton .Female 38 ..Alabama
1880 - US Census -
1890 - US Census - Destroyed in 1921 census fire.
1900 - US Census - Francis Township, Greer, Oklahoma Territory
Household ............Role ........Sex ......Age Birthplace .......Birth Date
James A Minton ....Head .......Male ....37 ..Alabama .........Jan 1863
Ellizabeth Minton .Wife .........Female 33 ..Tennessee ......Mar 1867
Melrose L Minton ..Son .........Male ....13 ..Tennessee .......Jul 1887
Loran M Minton ....Daughter Female 10 ..Alabama ..........Jul 1890
Robertson Minton Son .........Male ....6 ....Texas ................Sep 1894
Martha Minton ......Aunt .......Female 65 ..South Carolina Dec 1835
1910 - US Census - Erick Township, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ............Role ......Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....45 ..Alabama
Elizabeth A Minton ..Wife ....Female 45 ..Tennessee
Melrose L Minton ....Son .....Male ....22 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....15 ..Tennesse
Jincey D Minton ......Mother Female 80 ..Alabama(sic)
Martha Minton ........Aunt ....Female 70 ..South Carolina
A Standard History of Oklahoma, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York (1916); Joseph B. Thoburn, pp 1752-1754.
Judge Albert Minton
In a long and uniformly successful career the versatile abilities of James Albert Minton have found expression in activities as a minister of the gospel, as a business man, as an agriculturist, and in recent years, as an attorney.
A resident of Erick, Oklahoma since 1900, he has here risen to a leading place among the legists of the extreme western part of the state, and is now in control of a clientele as important as it is satisfying in a financial way.
Mr. Minton was born at Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama, January 13, 1862, and is the son of John and Jennie Delila (Cannon) Minton, and is a descendant of a family of English origin whose founder in this country settled in South Carolina in Colonial days.
John Minton was born in South Carolina in 1801 and from that state moved to Gravelly Springs, Alabama where he was married and engaged in farming. Later he went to Hardin County, Tennessee where he continued his farming and his stock raising operations and died there in 1895. He was an elder in the Christian Church for many years and a man universally respected and esteemed. By his first marriage he was the father of four children; Ivey who is deceased, Lewis, a farmer of Gravelly Springs, Alabama, Jack, now deceased who was a resident of Waynesboro, Tennessee, engaged in farming, and Foster who carries on agricultural pursuits at Gravelly Springs, Alabama. Mr. Minton was married the second time to Miss Jennie Delila Cannon who was born in Tennessee in 1829 and died at Erick, Oklahoma in 1913, and they became the parents of two children, James Albert, of this review, and C. B. who is a farmer and raiser of stock in Erick.
James A. Minton attended the public schools of Gravelly Springs, Alabama following which he spent two years at Mars Hill (Alabama) College. He was graduated from the Georgia Robertson Christian College, Henderson, Tennessee (then known as the West Tennessee Christian College) with the Class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and for fifteen years was a minister of the Christian faith, holding various pastorates in Tennessee. In the meantime he had been engaged in the study of law and in 1895 was admitted to the Tennessee Bar. His advent in Oklahoma occurred in 1897 when he relocated to Oklahoma City as the general manager of Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky, having the general agency for the territories of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. After three years of this work he resigned and came to Erick where in 1900 he was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in a general practice in civil and criminal law and has been the representative of large and important interests, his practice carrying him into all the courts of this part of the state. His offices are now located in the First State Bank Building. He holds membership in the Beckham County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association, and is generally regarded by his fellow practitioners as a broad-minded and progressive practitioner and a careful observer of the courtesies and amenities of the vocation. Politically he subscribes to the principles of the Democratic Party. His relations with the fraternal brotherhood make him a member of Erick Lodge No. 237, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Henderson (Tennessee) Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Erick Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Minton was married in 1883 in Hardin County, Tennessee to Miss Elizabeth Haddock, daughter of the late J. L. Haddock, a farmer who died in Erick. Mr. and Mrs. Minton have been the parents of three children, Melrose L., a graduate of Cumberland (Tennessee) University, Class of 1914, a degree of Bachelor of Law, who is associated with his father at Erick; Laura May, who is the wife of E. E. McLane and resides of their farm two miles west of Erick; and Robertson who is in charge of his father's agricultural interests in Greer County.
When he came to Erick, in 1900, Mr. Minton filed on a claim of 160 acres in Beckham County, which he proved up, and which was sold by him in 1905. He still continues to be interested in agricultural affairs and at this time is the owner of 960 acres of valuable land located in Greer County.
1920 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ..............Role .....Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....57 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton .....Wife ....Female 53 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....24 ..Tennesse
1930 - US Census -
1940 - US Census - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Household ..........Role .Sex ......Age Birthplace
James N Minton .Head Male ....77 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton Wife .Female 74 ..Tennessee
1950 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household .....................Role .............Sex ......Age Birthplace
Emmett McLain .............Head ............Male ....69 ..Tennessee
Laura May McLain .........Wife ..............Female 58 ..Tennessee
Albert James Minton ....Father in-law Male ....88 ..Tennessee (widowed)
Jack Marton ..................Lodger ..........Male ....48 ..Texas
William A Ritter .............Lodger ..........Male ....73 ..Texas
James Herbert Lindsay Lodger ..........Male ....76 ..Kansas
Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Oklahoma · Thursday, January 01, 1953 pg 1
J. A. Minton
Buried Wednesday
Last rites for James Albert Minton, retired attorney-at-law, who died Monday at his home in Sayre following a three-month illness, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sayre Church of Christ.
He was born January 13, 1862 in Gravely(sic) Springs, Alabama and was married to Elizabeth Haddock on November 29, 1883 in Lowryville, Tennessee.
He came to Norman, Oklahoma in 1888 and in 1900 moved to western Oklahoma and settled in Erick. In 1918 he moved to Sayre and has lived there since that time.
He practiced law in Beckham County for 42 years and was county attorney, member of the state pardon and parole board during the administration of Gov. Leon C. Phillips.
Mr. Minton is a member of the Church of Christ in Sayre, the IOOF lodge, the Masonic lodge, the Sayre Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Sayre Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Laura MeLain of Sayre: two sons, Melrose Minton and R. L. Minton, both of Sayre; four grand children and three great grand children. His wife, two daughters and one son preceded him in death.
Reginald Beaver and the Rev. J. N. Gibble officiated at the services. Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery with Moore Fun-feral home in charge of the arrangements.
Casketbearers were Carl Rizley, Charles M. Wilson, Jack Colby, Arthur Hartman, Thomas, A. Kent, and Sanford Thurmond.
1870 - US Census - Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale, Alabama
Household ........Sex ......Age Birthplace
John Menton ....Male ....67 ..South Carolina
Jane Menton ....Female 43 ..South Carolina(sic)
James Menton .Male ....10 ..South Carolina(sic)
Charles Menton Male ....6 ....Alabama
Martha Menton .Female 38 ..Alabama
1880 - US Census -
1890 - US Census - Destroyed in 1921 census fire.
1900 - US Census - Francis Township, Greer, Oklahoma Territory
Household ............Role ........Sex ......Age Birthplace .......Birth Date
James A Minton ....Head .......Male ....37 ..Alabama .........Jan 1863
Ellizabeth Minton .Wife .........Female 33 ..Tennessee ......Mar 1867
Melrose L Minton ..Son .........Male ....13 ..Tennessee .......Jul 1887
Loran M Minton ....Daughter Female 10 ..Alabama ..........Jul 1890
Robertson Minton Son .........Male ....6 ....Texas ................Sep 1894
Martha Minton ......Aunt .......Female 65 ..South Carolina Dec 1835
1910 - US Census - Erick Township, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ............Role ......Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....45 ..Alabama
Elizabeth A Minton ..Wife ....Female 45 ..Tennessee
Melrose L Minton ....Son .....Male ....22 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....15 ..Tennesse
Jincey D Minton ......Mother Female 80 ..Alabama(sic)
Martha Minton ........Aunt ....Female 70 ..South Carolina
A Standard History of Oklahoma, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York (1916); Joseph B. Thoburn, pp 1752-1754.
Judge Albert Minton
In a long and uniformly successful career the versatile abilities of James Albert Minton have found expression in activities as a minister of the gospel, as a business man, as an agriculturist, and in recent years, as an attorney.
A resident of Erick, Oklahoma since 1900, he has here risen to a leading place among the legists of the extreme western part of the state, and is now in control of a clientele as important as it is satisfying in a financial way.
Mr. Minton was born at Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama, January 13, 1862, and is the son of John and Jennie Delila (Cannon) Minton, and is a descendant of a family of English origin whose founder in this country settled in South Carolina in Colonial days.
John Minton was born in South Carolina in 1801 and from that state moved to Gravelly Springs, Alabama where he was married and engaged in farming. Later he went to Hardin County, Tennessee where he continued his farming and his stock raising operations and died there in 1895. He was an elder in the Christian Church for many years and a man universally respected and esteemed. By his first marriage he was the father of four children; Ivey who is deceased, Lewis, a farmer of Gravelly Springs, Alabama, Jack, now deceased who was a resident of Waynesboro, Tennessee, engaged in farming, and Foster who carries on agricultural pursuits at Gravelly Springs, Alabama. Mr. Minton was married the second time to Miss Jennie Delila Cannon who was born in Tennessee in 1829 and died at Erick, Oklahoma in 1913, and they became the parents of two children, James Albert, of this review, and C. B. who is a farmer and raiser of stock in Erick.
James A. Minton attended the public schools of Gravelly Springs, Alabama following which he spent two years at Mars Hill (Alabama) College. He was graduated from the Georgia Robertson Christian College, Henderson, Tennessee (then known as the West Tennessee Christian College) with the Class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and for fifteen years was a minister of the Christian faith, holding various pastorates in Tennessee. In the meantime he had been engaged in the study of law and in 1895 was admitted to the Tennessee Bar. His advent in Oklahoma occurred in 1897 when he relocated to Oklahoma City as the general manager of Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky, having the general agency for the territories of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. After three years of this work he resigned and came to Erick where in 1900 he was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in a general practice in civil and criminal law and has been the representative of large and important interests, his practice carrying him into all the courts of this part of the state. His offices are now located in the First State Bank Building. He holds membership in the Beckham County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association, and is generally regarded by his fellow practitioners as a broad-minded and progressive practitioner and a careful observer of the courtesies and amenities of the vocation. Politically he subscribes to the principles of the Democratic Party. His relations with the fraternal brotherhood make him a member of Erick Lodge No. 237, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Henderson (Tennessee) Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Erick Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Minton was married in 1883 in Hardin County, Tennessee to Miss Elizabeth Haddock, daughter of the late J. L. Haddock, a farmer who died in Erick. Mr. and Mrs. Minton have been the parents of three children, Melrose L., a graduate of Cumberland (Tennessee) University, Class of 1914, a degree of Bachelor of Law, who is associated with his father at Erick; Laura May, who is the wife of E. E. McLane and resides of their farm two miles west of Erick; and Robertson who is in charge of his father's agricultural interests in Greer County.
When he came to Erick, in 1900, Mr. Minton filed on a claim of 160 acres in Beckham County, which he proved up, and which was sold by him in 1905. He still continues to be interested in agricultural affairs and at this time is the owner of 960 acres of valuable land located in Greer County.
1920 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ..............Role .....Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....57 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton .....Wife ....Female 53 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....24 ..Tennesse
1930 - US Census -
1940 - US Census - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Household ..........Role .Sex ......Age Birthplace
James N Minton .Head Male ....77 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton Wife .Female 74 ..Tennessee
1950 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household .....................Role .............Sex ......Age Birthplace
Emmett McLain .............Head ............Male ....69 ..Tennessee
Laura May McLain .........Wife ..............Female 58 ..Tennessee
Albert James Minton ....Father in-law Male ....88 ..Tennessee (widowed)
Jack Marton ..................Lodger ..........Male ....48 ..Texas
William A Ritter .............Lodger ..........Male ....73 ..Texas
James Herbert Lindsay Lodger ..........Male ....76 ..Kansas
Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Oklahoma · Thursday, January 01, 1953 pg 1
J. A. Minton
Buried Wednesday
Last rites for James Albert Minton, retired attorney-at-law, who died Monday at his home in Sayre following a three-month illness, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sayre Church of Christ.
He was born January 13, 1862 in Gravely(sic) Springs, Alabama and was married to Elizabeth Haddock on November 29, 1883 in Lowryville, Tennessee.
He came to Norman, Oklahoma in 1888 and in 1900 moved to western Oklahoma and settled in Erick. In 1918 he moved to Sayre and has lived there since that time.
He practiced law in Beckham County for 42 years and was county attorney, member of the state pardon and parole board during the administration of Gov. Leon C. Phillips.
Mr. Minton is a member of the Church of Christ in Sayre, the IOOF lodge, the Masonic lodge, the Sayre Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Sayre Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Laura MeLain of Sayre: two sons, Melrose Minton and R. L. Minton, both of Sayre; four grand children and three great grand children. His wife, two daughters and one son preceded him in death.
Reginald Beaver and the Rev. J. N. Gibble officiated at the services. Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery with Moore Fun-feral home in charge of the arrangements.
Casketbearers were Carl Rizley, Charles M. Wilson, Jack Colby, Arthur Hartman, Thomas, A. Kent, and Sanford Thurmond.
Household ........Sex ......Age Birthplace
John Menton ....Male ....67 ..South Carolina
Jane Menton ....Female 43 ..South Carolina(sic)
James Menton .Male ....10 ..South Carolina(sic)
Charles Menton Male ....6 ....Alabama
Martha Menton .Female 38 ..Alabama
1880 - US Census -
1890 - US Census - Destroyed in 1921 census fire.
1900 - US Census - Francis Township, Greer, Oklahoma Territory
Household ............Role ........Sex ......Age Birthplace .......Birth Date
James A Minton ....Head .......Male ....37 ..Alabama .........Jan 1863
Ellizabeth Minton .Wife .........Female 33 ..Tennessee ......Mar 1867
Melrose L Minton ..Son .........Male ....13 ..Tennessee .......Jul 1887
Loran M Minton ....Daughter Female 10 ..Alabama ..........Jul 1890
Robertson Minton Son .........Male ....6 ....Texas ................Sep 1894
Martha Minton ......Aunt .......Female 65 ..South Carolina Dec 1835
1910 - US Census - Erick Township, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ............Role ......Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....45 ..Alabama
Elizabeth A Minton ..Wife ....Female 45 ..Tennessee
Melrose L Minton ....Son .....Male ....22 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....15 ..Tennesse
Jincey D Minton ......Mother Female 80 ..Alabama(sic)
Martha Minton ........Aunt ....Female 70 ..South Carolina
A Standard History of Oklahoma, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York (1916); Joseph B. Thoburn, pp 1752-1754.
Judge Albert Minton
In a long and uniformly successful career the versatile abilities of James Albert Minton have found expression in activities as a minister of the gospel, as a business man, as an agriculturist, and in recent years, as an attorney.
A resident of Erick, Oklahoma since 1900, he has here risen to a leading place among the legists of the extreme western part of the state, and is now in control of a clientele as important as it is satisfying in a financial way.
Mr. Minton was born at Gravelly Springs, Lauderdale County, Alabama, January 13, 1862, and is the son of John and Jennie Delila (Cannon) Minton, and is a descendant of a family of English origin whose founder in this country settled in South Carolina in Colonial days.
John Minton was born in South Carolina in 1801 and from that state moved to Gravelly Springs, Alabama where he was married and engaged in farming. Later he went to Hardin County, Tennessee where he continued his farming and his stock raising operations and died there in 1895. He was an elder in the Christian Church for many years and a man universally respected and esteemed. By his first marriage he was the father of four children; Ivey who is deceased, Lewis, a farmer of Gravelly Springs, Alabama, Jack, now deceased who was a resident of Waynesboro, Tennessee, engaged in farming, and Foster who carries on agricultural pursuits at Gravelly Springs, Alabama. Mr. Minton was married the second time to Miss Jennie Delila Cannon who was born in Tennessee in 1829 and died at Erick, Oklahoma in 1913, and they became the parents of two children, James Albert, of this review, and C. B. who is a farmer and raiser of stock in Erick.
James A. Minton attended the public schools of Gravelly Springs, Alabama following which he spent two years at Mars Hill (Alabama) College. He was graduated from the Georgia Robertson Christian College, Henderson, Tennessee (then known as the West Tennessee Christian College) with the Class of 1890, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science and for fifteen years was a minister of the Christian faith, holding various pastorates in Tennessee. In the meantime he had been engaged in the study of law and in 1895 was admitted to the Tennessee Bar. His advent in Oklahoma occurred in 1897 when he relocated to Oklahoma City as the general manager of Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky, having the general agency for the territories of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. After three years of this work he resigned and came to Erick where in 1900 he was admitted to the bar. He has since been engaged in a general practice in civil and criminal law and has been the representative of large and important interests, his practice carrying him into all the courts of this part of the state. His offices are now located in the First State Bank Building. He holds membership in the Beckham County Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Association, and is generally regarded by his fellow practitioners as a broad-minded and progressive practitioner and a careful observer of the courtesies and amenities of the vocation. Politically he subscribes to the principles of the Democratic Party. His relations with the fraternal brotherhood make him a member of Erick Lodge No. 237, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Henderson (Tennessee) Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Erick Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Minton was married in 1883 in Hardin County, Tennessee to Miss Elizabeth Haddock, daughter of the late J. L. Haddock, a farmer who died in Erick. Mr. and Mrs. Minton have been the parents of three children, Melrose L., a graduate of Cumberland (Tennessee) University, Class of 1914, a degree of Bachelor of Law, who is associated with his father at Erick; Laura May, who is the wife of E. E. McLane and resides of their farm two miles west of Erick; and Robertson who is in charge of his father's agricultural interests in Greer County.
When he came to Erick, in 1900, Mr. Minton filed on a claim of 160 acres in Beckham County, which he proved up, and which was sold by him in 1905. He still continues to be interested in agricultural affairs and at this time is the owner of 960 acres of valuable land located in Greer County.
1920 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household ..............Role .....Sex ......Age Birthplace
James A Minton ......Head ...Male ....57 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton .....Wife ....Female 53 ..Tennessee
Robertson L Minton Son .....Male ....24 ..Tennesse
1930 - US Census -
1940 - US Census - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Household ..........Role .Sex ......Age Birthplace
James N Minton .Head Male ....77 ..Alabama
Elizabeth Minton Wife .Female 74 ..Tennessee
1950 - US Census - Sayre, Beckham, Oklahoma
Household .....................Role .............Sex ......Age Birthplace
Emmett McLain .............Head ............Male ....69 ..Tennessee
Laura May McLain .........Wife ..............Female 58 ..Tennessee
Albert James Minton ....Father in-law Male ....88 ..Tennessee (widowed)
Jack Marton ..................Lodger ..........Male ....48 ..Texas
William A Ritter .............Lodger ..........Male ....73 ..Texas
James Herbert Lindsay Lodger ..........Male ....76 ..Kansas
Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Oklahoma · Thursday, January 01, 1953 pg 1
J. A. Minton
Buried Wednesday
Last rites for James Albert Minton, retired attorney-at-law, who died Monday at his home in Sayre following a three-month illness, were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Sayre Church of Christ.
He was born January 13, 1862 in Gravely(sic) Springs, Alabama and was married to Elizabeth Haddock on November 29, 1883 in Lowryville, Tennessee.
He came to Norman, Oklahoma in 1888 and in 1900 moved to western Oklahoma and settled in Erick. In 1918 he moved to Sayre and has lived there since that time.
He practiced law in Beckham County for 42 years and was county attorney, member of the state pardon and parole board during the administration of Gov. Leon C. Phillips.
Mr. Minton is a member of the Church of Christ in Sayre, the IOOF lodge, the Masonic lodge, the Sayre Chamber of Commerce and a charter member of the Sayre Kiwanis Club.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Laura MeLain of Sayre: two sons, Melrose Minton and R. L. Minton, both of Sayre; four grand children and three great grand children. His wife, two daughters and one son preceded him in death.
Reginald Beaver and the Rev. J. N. Gibble officiated at the services. Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery with Moore Fun-feral home in charge of the arrangements.
Casketbearers were Carl Rizley, Charles M. Wilson, Jack Colby, Arthur Hartman, Thomas, A. Kent, and Sanford Thurmond.
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