Jefferson County, OK 1920 Federal Census http://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/ok/jefferson/1920/ ========================== ED:199 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Bourland Township named for J. P. Bourland, the first dry goods merchant in the town of Hastings. Bourland is in the Northwest part of Jefferson County and borders Cotton County. ED 199 and ED 200 are both Bourland Township, rural areas, each done by a different enumerator The town of Hastings is ED 207. The enumerator had bad handwriting. The copy is light and hard to read. Many names were very hard to decipher. Pages 16A-23B in the EDUCATION columns, enumerator begins to use "y" instead of "yes". On Page 18A, Ger. is used for the abbreviation for German On All pages, in the SPEAK ENG? column, enumerator puts Yes on only the top line of each page. ========================== ED:200 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Borland (Bourland) Township named for J. P. Bourland, the first dry goods merchant in the town of Hastings. Borland (Bourland) is in the Northwest part of Jefferson County and borders Cotton County. ED 199 Bourland and ED 200 Borland are the same Township, rural areas, each done by a different enumerator, who used the different spellings. The town of Hastings is Bourland ED 207. ED 200 enumerator used (1) "Genral F" for General Farm, (2) Missouri is spelled Missiouri On page 27B, a Farm/Family # is omitted in sequence On page 29A, a Farm/Family # is duplicated ========================== ED:201 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== I have transcribed the census as I read it with misspellings intact. Brown Township is in the Southeast corner of Jefferson County. It was named for early resident Joe Brown and the towns were Grady and Oscar. ED 201 is the rural east end of Brown Township. The towns of Grady and Oscar, Brown Township, are in ED 202. The enumerator used the label on the Township line: Brown East End. The enumerator used the spelling Missioura in ED 201. Also Arkansaw and Arkansas were used interchangeably. ========================== ED:202 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== I have copied the census with the misspelling intact. The enumerator use the spelling Missioura and Arkansaw; Un.U.S. was used to mean Unknown United States. Brown Township was named for early resident Joe Brown. The town of Grady was an early settlement of Jefferson County. W.C.Sappington, postmaster, is credited with naming the town in honor of the noted Southern orator, Henry W. Grady. Brown Township was split into 2 parts for enumeration and are numbered ED 201 and ED 202 ========================== ED:203 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== I have transcribed the census with misspellings intact. The ink in many places is blurred and made letters unreadable. Earl Township is split into 2 sections: Part 1, ED 203, and Part 2, ED 204. The enumerator for both was Anna R. McTaggart. Earl Township was named for Perry Earl. It is located in the northeastern part of Jefferson County. The town of Cornish was a part of this township. The town took its name from John Cornish, an early settler and cattleman. Also the town of Ringling is in this township, but is enumerated separated as ED 210. Pages 41A to 43A have the Family Numbers out of sequence. 41A has family #8-15, 41B has family #1-7 and so on. They are transcribed in the order of microfilm and as written by enumerator. ========================== ED:205 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Grayson Township was named of N. B. Grayson. Part I and II are the rural areas joining the city of Waurika on the east. It includes the communities of Glenwood and Claypool. In Education Column the enumerator left many spaces blank. In the 1905 Ryan Times Democrat it states "Mrs. N.B. Grayson of near Oscar was trading in the city this week." and in another issue it states "Bone Grayson of the Oscar Community was in town last week." ========================== ED:207 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== I have transcribed the census as I read it with misspellings intact. ED 207 is the town of Hastings in Bourland Township. ED 199 and ED 200 are also Bourland Township, but are the rural areas outside of Hastings. No Street names are given and column 25 “Speak English” is left empty ========================== ED:209 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Price Township, Rural area I have transcribed the census as I read it with misspellings intact. ** Price Township, the town of Addington, is listed in ED 197. ED 209 is the rural area. Price Township is in the north central area of Jefferson County ========================== ED:210 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== I have transcribed the census with misspellings intact. The enumerator drew a line through several entries and many misspellings are evident. Ringling had its beginning in 1914 with the founder being the famous showman, John Ringling of Ringling Brothers Circus. The original site came from lands owned by Alex Hammond and P.B.Turner. Ringling is located one and one-half miles from the east line of Jefferson County. The oil industry furnished employment to residents. ========================== ED:212 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Terral began as a trading and freighting center very soon after the Rock Island Railroad extended its line to the southern boundary of the Chickasaw Nation, the current southern Oklahoma boundary. A post office opened 28 July 1892, after the area was surveyed and platted for a town by John Heidleburg Dace Terral and Hugh Schoolfield. Thus, the town was named for the first who envisioned the community. Within a year the town was well developed and contained grocery stores, drug stores, cafes, barber shop, 2 cotton gins, a bank, lumber yards, 2 churches, a school and a newspaper. In addition to a passenger depot, Terral had an express and telegraph office, locan and long distance telephone service and about two miles of railroad siding. Wray township was named for S.L.Wray of Terral =============================== EDs:215-217 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES =============================== Wray Township was named for S.L. Wray of Terral. It is located in the southern part of Jefferson County. There are three rural Enumeration Districts for Wray Township (EDs: 215, 216, and 217) ========================== ED:218 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES ========================== Wright Township is located on the east side of Jefferson County with the community known as Atlee. At statehood the voting box had approximately 75-80 voters. It was known prior to that time as Butcher Knife, due to a man of the area who always carried a pistol and butcher knife. However his wife's name was Atlee so the Post Office and village got the name from her. The township was named for Atlee resident John Wright who served as the second sheriff of Jefferson County. Another portion of Wright Township is called Union Hill. Pages 183A-186A are in this area. A school operated in this area for a short time. ================================================================================================== This Census was transcribed by B. Louise West and proofread by Norman E. West for The USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ ==================================================================================================