A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its people..., Volume 5 By Joseph Bradfield Thoburn Page 1999.....
William Matt Adelhelm. A prosperous farmer citizen of the Holdenville community WM Adelhelm has lived there for the past fifteen years and has busied himself with the care and cultivation of his Indian wife s allotment comprising one of the fine farms of Hughes County.
His parents Christian and Maggie Reece Adelhelm were of German ancestry and were born in France They first met and became acquainted while crossing the ocean to America and were married in Pennsylvania where Christian Adelhelm for a time worked in the mines He afterwards became an early settler at Burlington Iowa where his son WM Adelhelm was born July 15 1863 The father died when this son was a small boy and the mother died later at Murray Iowa Their four children were Rika wife of Anton Schall of Murray Iowa WM Tina wife of Thomas Gore of Murray Iowa and Lizzie who is married and lives in Oklahoma City.
By the early death of his father WM Adelhelm was thrown upon his own resources and had only limited advantages in the way of an education When most of his age were at home and in school he was accepting every legitimate means of earning his own livelihood and constant industry has been the keynote of his success. Coming to the Creek Nation in 1901 Mr Adelhelm has lived on his present place near Holdenville since his marriage The farm comprises his wife s allotment of 160 acres and in the last fifteen years it has been improved in many ways and rendered highly valuable as a stock farm Mr Adelhelm raises some registered and high grade horses and a number of cattle The farm is 3 miles north of Holdenville.
On February 22 Washington s birthday 1902 Mr Adelhelm married Jennie Tuttle She was born on the farm where she now resides a daughter of Chester and Betsy Tuttle Her father was a white man while her mother was a fullblood Creek Both died in what is now Hughes County Mrs Adelhelm by her first marriage to John McCaslin had four children namely Mrs Mary Harris of Henryetta Mrs Nettie Palmer of Yeager Hughes County Mrs Myrtle Long of Seminole and Mrs Jessie McBride of Henryetta To the union of Mr and Mrs Adelhelm have been born four children named Chester Charles Tina and Louis The two older were born in time to receive allotments of Indian lands but the two younger were not sharers in that distribution Mrs Adelhelm is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and she was educated in the Tallahassee Mission.
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Her true birth date may never be known. Burial records indicate she was 69 at the time of death (1877). The 1900 Census says unknown month of 1868, age 32. The 1910 Census lists her as 38 (1872), the 1920 as 50 (1870), 1930 as 59 (1971), and 1940 as 68 (1872).
According to tribal registration forms she would have been born about 1871-1872.
William Matt Adelhelm. A prosperous farmer citizen of the Holdenville community WM Adelhelm has lived there for the past fifteen years and has busied himself with the care and cultivation of his Indian wife s allotment comprising one of the fine farms of Hughes County.
His parents Christian and Maggie Reece Adelhelm were of German ancestry and were born in France They first met and became acquainted while crossing the ocean to America and were married in Pennsylvania where Christian Adelhelm for a time worked in the mines He afterwards became an early settler at Burlington Iowa where his son WM Adelhelm was born July 15 1863 The father died when this son was a small boy and the mother died later at Murray Iowa Their four children were Rika wife of Anton Schall of Murray Iowa WM Tina wife of Thomas Gore of Murray Iowa and Lizzie who is married and lives in Oklahoma City.
By the early death of his father WM Adelhelm was thrown upon his own resources and had only limited advantages in the way of an education When most of his age were at home and in school he was accepting every legitimate means of earning his own livelihood and constant industry has been the keynote of his success. Coming to the Creek Nation in 1901 Mr Adelhelm has lived on his present place near Holdenville since his marriage The farm comprises his wife s allotment of 160 acres and in the last fifteen years it has been improved in many ways and rendered highly valuable as a stock farm Mr Adelhelm raises some registered and high grade horses and a number of cattle The farm is 3 miles north of Holdenville.
On February 22 Washington s birthday 1902 Mr Adelhelm married Jennie Tuttle She was born on the farm where she now resides a daughter of Chester and Betsy Tuttle Her father was a white man while her mother was a fullblood Creek Both died in what is now Hughes County Mrs Adelhelm by her first marriage to John McCaslin had four children namely Mrs Mary Harris of Henryetta Mrs Nettie Palmer of Yeager Hughes County Mrs Myrtle Long of Seminole and Mrs Jessie McBride of Henryetta To the union of Mr and Mrs Adelhelm have been born four children named Chester Charles Tina and Louis The two older were born in time to receive allotments of Indian lands but the two younger were not sharers in that distribution Mrs Adelhelm is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and she was educated in the Tallahassee Mission.
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Her true birth date may never be known. Burial records indicate she was 69 at the time of death (1877). The 1900 Census says unknown month of 1868, age 32. The 1910 Census lists her as 38 (1872), the 1920 as 50 (1870), 1930 as 59 (1971), and 1940 as 68 (1872).
According to tribal registration forms she would have been born about 1871-1872.
A Standard History of Oklahoma: An Authentic Narrative of Its people..., Volume 5 By Joseph Bradfield Thoburn Page 1999.....
William Matt Adelhelm. A prosperous farmer citizen of the Holdenville community WM Adelhelm has lived there for the past fifteen years and has busied himself with the care and cultivation of his Indian wife s allotment comprising one of the fine farms of Hughes County.
His parents Christian and Maggie Reece Adelhelm were of German ancestry and were born in France They first met and became acquainted while crossing the ocean to America and were married in Pennsylvania where Christian Adelhelm for a time worked in the mines He afterwards became an early settler at Burlington Iowa where his son WM Adelhelm was born July 15 1863 The father died when this son was a small boy and the mother died later at Murray Iowa Their four children were Rika wife of Anton Schall of Murray Iowa WM Tina wife of Thomas Gore of Murray Iowa and Lizzie who is married and lives in Oklahoma City.
By the early death of his father WM Adelhelm was thrown upon his own resources and had only limited advantages in the way of an education When most of his age were at home and in school he was accepting every legitimate means of earning his own livelihood and constant industry has been the keynote of his success. Coming to the Creek Nation in 1901 Mr Adelhelm has lived on his present place near Holdenville since his marriage The farm comprises his wife s allotment of 160 acres and in the last fifteen years it has been improved in many ways and rendered highly valuable as a stock farm Mr Adelhelm raises some registered and high grade horses and a number of cattle The farm is 3 miles north of Holdenville.
On February 22 Washington s birthday 1902 Mr Adelhelm married Jennie Tuttle She was born on the farm where she now resides a daughter of Chester and Betsy Tuttle Her father was a white man while her mother was a fullblood Creek Both died in what is now Hughes County Mrs Adelhelm by her first marriage to John McCaslin had four children namely Mrs Mary Harris of Henryetta Mrs Nettie Palmer of Yeager Hughes County Mrs Myrtle Long of Seminole and Mrs Jessie McBride of Henryetta To the union of Mr and Mrs Adelhelm have been born four children named Chester Charles Tina and Louis The two older were born in time to receive allotments of Indian lands but the two younger were not sharers in that distribution Mrs Adelhelm is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and she was educated in the Tallahassee Mission.
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Her true birth date may never be known. Burial records indicate she was 69 at the time of death (1877). The 1900 Census says unknown month of 1868, age 32. The 1910 Census lists her as 38 (1872), the 1920 as 50 (1870), 1930 as 59 (1971), and 1940 as 68 (1872).
According to tribal registration forms she would have been born about 1871-1872.
William Matt Adelhelm. A prosperous farmer citizen of the Holdenville community WM Adelhelm has lived there for the past fifteen years and has busied himself with the care and cultivation of his Indian wife s allotment comprising one of the fine farms of Hughes County.
His parents Christian and Maggie Reece Adelhelm were of German ancestry and were born in France They first met and became acquainted while crossing the ocean to America and were married in Pennsylvania where Christian Adelhelm for a time worked in the mines He afterwards became an early settler at Burlington Iowa where his son WM Adelhelm was born July 15 1863 The father died when this son was a small boy and the mother died later at Murray Iowa Their four children were Rika wife of Anton Schall of Murray Iowa WM Tina wife of Thomas Gore of Murray Iowa and Lizzie who is married and lives in Oklahoma City.
By the early death of his father WM Adelhelm was thrown upon his own resources and had only limited advantages in the way of an education When most of his age were at home and in school he was accepting every legitimate means of earning his own livelihood and constant industry has been the keynote of his success. Coming to the Creek Nation in 1901 Mr Adelhelm has lived on his present place near Holdenville since his marriage The farm comprises his wife s allotment of 160 acres and in the last fifteen years it has been improved in many ways and rendered highly valuable as a stock farm Mr Adelhelm raises some registered and high grade horses and a number of cattle The farm is 3 miles north of Holdenville.
On February 22 Washington s birthday 1902 Mr Adelhelm married Jennie Tuttle She was born on the farm where she now resides a daughter of Chester and Betsy Tuttle Her father was a white man while her mother was a fullblood Creek Both died in what is now Hughes County Mrs Adelhelm by her first marriage to John McCaslin had four children namely Mrs Mary Harris of Henryetta Mrs Nettie Palmer of Yeager Hughes County Mrs Myrtle Long of Seminole and Mrs Jessie McBride of Henryetta To the union of Mr and Mrs Adelhelm have been born four children named Chester Charles Tina and Louis The two older were born in time to receive allotments of Indian lands but the two younger were not sharers in that distribution Mrs Adelhelm is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church and she was educated in the Tallahassee Mission.
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Her true birth date may never be known. Burial records indicate she was 69 at the time of death (1877). The 1900 Census says unknown month of 1868, age 32. The 1910 Census lists her as 38 (1872), the 1920 as 50 (1870), 1930 as 59 (1971), and 1940 as 68 (1872).
According to tribal registration forms she would have been born about 1871-1872.
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