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From the mid-nineteenth century future Woodward County was part of a well-used military transportation corridor that was important to frontier defense. Several U.S. Army expeditions evaluated the area in 1857 and 1860. In November 1868 Camp (later Fort) Supply, was established as a depot in Lt. Col. Alfred Sully's impending Seventh Cavalry campaign against the Cheyenne. From Camp Supply, Col. George A. Custer took the field and engaged in the attack on Black Kettle's camp on the Washita River in late November. Fort Supply became permanent, because of its location at the confluence of Union Creek and the Beaver (Cimarron) River. An important military pathway thereafter led from Fort Dodge, Kansas, south to Fort Supply and southwest through Ellis County to Fort Elliott in Texas, and another road ran southeast from the fort along the North Canadian and southward to Fort Cobb, near Anadarko. From 1876 through the 1880s massive herds of cattle passed through the southwestern corner of the county along the Great Western Trail from Texas to Kansas. For non-Indians, ranching was the first viable economic activity in the western prairies of Indian Territory. By the 1840s the area that became Woods County lay in the western part of a "perpetual western outlet" that 1828 and 1835 treaties guaranteed to the Cherokees. Generally, they did not use the land, but after the Civil War leased it to Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association, cattlemen, most from Texas, who grazed herds of cattle there. Ranching operations within the present county's boundaries included J. W. Andres (or Andrews), Day Brothers, Dickey Brothers, Gregory, Eldred and Company, and New York Cattle Company. | Links |
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Free Records Search at Familysearch Org | ||
Woodward County Cemetery Listings | ||
Woodward County Cemetery Lists on Interment Net | ||
Woodward County Cemetery Listing at Find A Grave | ||
Oklahoma Birth Certificates
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State of Oklahoma Genealogy Records Guide
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Oklahoma State Archives
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Oklahoma Genealogical Society Library and Archives
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County Clerk 1600 Main St., Suite 8 Woodward, OK 73801 Phone (580)256-3625 Fax (580)254-6840 | Court Clerk 1600 Main Street Woodward, OK 73801 Phone 580-256-3413 | E-Mail Lists and Message Boards |
Woodward County Mail List on Rootsweb | ||
Woodward County Message Board on Rootsweb | ||
Woodward County Message Board on Genforum | Adjacent Counties |
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Woods County | Major County | Dewey County | Ellis County | Harper County |