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From: "Wanda K. Smith" <>
Subject: RE: [OKGEN ] Location question
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:51:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <014101c14c46$fe351d40$248f12d8@dalton>


Thanks for the information Rebecca. I am trying to hunt down a John
Jefferson WRAY and have not had much luck. It is said that he was a judge.
Where is the question. He died in 1928. There is a big mystery surrounding
him and I am trying to get to the bottom of it.
Wanda

-----Original Message-----
From: Rebecca York [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:07 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] Location question


Roger Mills Co., OK
http://www.rootsweb.com/~okrogerm/
*excerpt off the webpage*
Roger Mills County and its Neighbors
Roger Mills County, Oklahoma is located in the western portion of the
state. It borders Beckham, Ellis, Dewey, Washita, and Custer counties in
Oklahoma as well as Wheeler, Hemphill and Lipscomb Counties in the Texas
panhandle. The county is bound by the 100th Meridian on the west and the
Canadian River on the north. The county was originally part of the
Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation. The reservation was opened for white
settlement by a land run on 19 April 1892. The resulting county was named
"F" by the U. S. Government. A county seat was laid out and named Cheyenne.
An election that November resulted in the county name being chosen in honor
of a popular Texas congressman named Roger Mills.

Who was Roger Mills?

Roger Quarles MILLS was the son of Charles Henley and Tabitha (DANIEL)
MILLS. He was born in Todd County, KY on 30 March 1832. Later MILLS moved to
Jefferson, Texas and then to Palestine, where he studied law. He was an
engrossing clerk for the Fourth Texas Legislature. After being admitted to
the Texas bar in 1852, he began his law practice in Corsicana, Texas. Later
he represented Navarro County in the House of the Seventh Texas Legislature.

From1873 until his resignation in 1892, MILLS represented Texas in the
U. S. House of Representatives. In 1887, he became chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee. He wrote the Mills Tariff Bill in 1888. MILLS, against
Prohibition and free sliver, was defeated fir the Speakership in the
Fifty-Second Congress. In 1892 MILLS was elected to the U. S. Senate to fill
a vacancy and was re-elected the next year. He retired at the end of his
term in 1899 and returned to Corsicana .

On January 7, 1858, Roger Mills married Caroline R. JONES. They became
the parents of five children. MILLS wrote various essays including "The
Speakership" and "The Gladstone and Blaine Controversy." Washington and Lee
University gave him an honorary LL.D. degree in 1894. He died on 2 September
1911 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Texas.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wanda K. Smith" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:58 PM
Subject: [OKGEN ] Location question


> I just received a death certificate that is not real clear. The place of
> death looks like Roger Mills. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
>
> Wanda Smith
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