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Pontotoc County was created in 1907 from part of the old Chickasaw Nation.
The county name honored Chief Pontotoc, and meant "Cattails growing on the prairie".
The county seat is Ada, which was established in 1893 by Jeff Reed, a Texas cowboy who named the town after his daughter. It was the site of a federal courthouse and the seat of Recording District 16 in the Indian Territory. The first railroad entered Ada in 1900 01and by 1904 the population exceeded 3,000. Ada was the town in which "Killin' Jim " Miller was lynched April 19, 1909 for the killing of a Pontotoc Co. rancher, A. A. "Gus" Bobbitt. Killin' Jim's most famous victim was Pat Garrett, whom Miller supposedly bushwhacked in 1908.
Information For Pontotoc County has been provided by the Pontotoc Co. Historical & Genealogical Society. Membership dues and the sale of books keeps the society growing, if you are not a member please consider becoming one. The quarterlies you receive are stock full of information and well worth the annual dues.
Murray Co. Census Online Includes 1900 Roff
Abstracts From "Roff and Her Neighbors" by Gladys Tingle
Chickasaw Nation Marriages 1895 to 1907 Mary Turner Kinard Collection

**Neighboring Counties**
Garvin	McClain	Pottawatomie	Seminole
Hughes	Coal	Johnston	Murray

We would like to thank Peggy Atwood, Redgie Peck and Angie Jenkins for your dedication to Pontotoc County
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Updated on 02/02/10

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