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From: "Mahlon Erickson" <>
Subject: Re: [OK-CEM] Placing Queries
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:17:42 -0600
References: <3A92773B.7AE1779D@ou.edu> <008b01c09b58$34878d60$38711ece@pavilion>


I believe a Custer County Cemetery book was published in 1994. Canadian
County Cemeteries are recorded in several volumes. These books are available
for research at the Historical Society Library (OHS) in Oklahoma City.

Don't know if this will help you, but good luck!

Mahlon Erickson
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From: "carol morse" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [OK-CEM] Placing Queries


> I know my gr-grandmother is buried in Oklahoma but I have not been able to
> locate a death certificate or place of burial. The story is a mystery and
> she may never be found. Here is what I know:
> Mary Elizabeth ELLIS, born 21 April 1867 in Tishomingo Co., Miss. Married
> John L. BYRNE1883, Grayson Co., TX; divorced Byrne and married George
> ISAACS, 1891 in El Reno, Canadian Co., OK. Isaacs was sentenced to life
in
> prison at Huntsville for his involvement with the Doolin Gang in the
murder
> of Hemphill Sheriff McGee in 1894 during a train robbery. Isaacs later
> escaped and no more information has been found on his whereabouts or date
of
> death. Mary Elizabeth ISAACS, aka "Lizzie", was given a life sentence on
> February 11, 1898 as an accessory to the murder of a man named Elder in
1896
> in Chickasha along with her brother, John Ellis. The sentence was later
> overturned due to public outcry and sympathy for Lizzie.
> Lizzie ISAACS, claiming widow status, with her 3 sons, Wiley BYRNE,
Richard
> ISAACS, and Roy ISAACS, were in the Chickasha, Grady County 1900 census.
> Lizzie ISAACS, with her 2 sons, Richard and Roy, were found in the
Clinton,
> Custer Co., 1910 census. Somewhere between 1912 and 1916, Mary Elizabeth
> "Lizzie" Ellis Byrne Isaacs was living with her sisters ex-husband, Tom N.
> SPARKS. No marriage certificate has been found. Lizzie caught Tom with
> another woman and burned his barn down. Tom shot and killed Lizzie the
next
> day. Lizzie's 2 sons (by George Isaacs) then shot and killed Tom Sparks
as
> he was being led up/down the courthouse steps to/from his arraignment for
> murder of Lizzie. The boys were never charged. The Ellis family Bible only
> has a short notation: Lizzie died January the 4 (and the year is
illegible)
> but appears to be either 1914 or 1916. The family would never speak of
her
> again until after the death of both her parents. I have exhausted the
> newspaper files that are available in Carter Co. and found no mention of
the
> barn-burning or murders. I have never had an opportunity to explore
larger
> newspapers so any help would be appreciated so much.
>
> Carol in Okla
> Always looking for cousins:
>
Adkisons,Butlers,Byrne,Ellis,Haney,Isaacs,Kincannon,Love,Morgan,Morse,Nelson
> ,Patterson,Payne,Weir
>
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