Grady County was formed at statehood in 1907 and named for Henry W Grady,editor of the Atlanta Constitution. Prior to statehood northeastern part of the area that is now Grady County was part of Pontotoc County, Chickasha Nation with the county seat at Ada. The southeastern part was part of Pickens County with the county seat at Ardmore. The southwestern section was part of the Comanche, Kiowa & Apache Lands and the northwestern part was part of Wichita & Caddo lands which became Caddo County. The Washita River was the border between Pontotoc & Pickens county. It also divided the Comanche, Kiowa & Apache lands from the Wichita & Caddo Lands. The east/west boundary was the 98th Meridian. If you have a map that doesn't show the longitude lines, look for the town of Norge southwest of Chickasha. The 98th Meridian coincides with the western edge of the city limits of Norge. The street just to the east of the 98th Meridian is named Meridian Street. So just draw a north-south line through Norge and you will have the approximate location of the boundary line. This is important if you are looking for records of where your ancestors married or obtained land. In 1901, the Indian lands west of the 98th Meridian were opened by Lottery. More information can be found on this subject on the Oklahoma Land Openings Page.

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Ann Pittman an avid genealogist lives NW of Rush Springs. She will gladly try to answer any questions on the area, current and past.

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Grady County Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 792
Chickasha OK 73023

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Grady County Cemeteries

Grady County Sheriffs from 1907

Grady County Funeral Homes

Anyone having access to Grady Co genealogical or historical information, please email me. .

Counties Adjacent to Grady

Many times you can't find a record, or lose track of an person because they move. Early migration patterns often involved a short move, sometimes to a neighboring county.

• Oklahoma
• Stephens
• Comanche
• Caddo
• Canadian
• Cleveland
• McClain
• Garvin

About the Oklahoma USGenWeb Project In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project - The KYGenWeb Project. It began as a discussion on the Internet mailing list, KYROOTS-L. (Hosted at the University of Kentucky, and is coordinated by Roseann Hogan of Frankfort, Ky. the author of "Kentucky Ancestry".

The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where genealogical data about each county could be easily found. In addition, the data on all county sites would be indexed and cross-linked, so that a single search in the master index could locate all references to a given surname across all pages and databases associated with the project. The discussion quickly turned into a reality, and the project snowballed so quickly that by mid-July all the Kentucky counties had pages.

In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion it was decided to extend the concept to all of the United States and the UsGenWeb Project was established. Volunteers were found who were willing to host the State Projects and coordinate the County pages. The Oklahoma USGenWeb Project has evolved from these roots. If you would like to contribute your data or host a county page in Oklahoma, please contact OKGenWeb Coordinator Ron Henson. If your genealogical search extends outside the United States you will want to check the resources of the World Genealogy Project.

USGenWeb Submissions: Volunteers are recruited to either donate their existing transcribed documents, or to actually commit to transcribing data, such as census records, marriage bonds, wills, etc. This project will also help preserve the information stored in musty old courthouse basements and attics on fading, crumbling paper. NO GEDCOMS, but things like wills, cemetery records, census records, basically anything of interest to the general public. Public domain records that are in courthouses or not anywhere sometimes, like the occupants of that old cemetery down the road. Military rolls, you name it. Anything but personal family history.

You can visit the USGenWeb Archives and see whats there, and maybe get a better idea of what is desired.

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