Collection contains announcements of baby/layette showers, births, and birthday celebrations.

Collection contains early Wilson marriage records, engagement and wedding announcements, and wedding anniversaries.

• Birth and Death Records of Dr. J. T. Barnwell, (Graham, Fox, Pike City and Clemscott, 1920-1933)
• Carter County’s 74 Cemeteries
• Cemetery Books
  • Hewitt*
  • Bomar Point and Hewitt (Newspaper articles)
  • Chaggar
  • Jefferson County Cemeteries Canvassed
  • Lone Grove and Newport*
  • Love County Cemeteries List
  • Mount Olive*
  • Old Monk
  • Northwest Carter County—Graham, Ratliff City, Oil Springs, Milo and Pooleville*
  • Pierce
  • Reck
  • Simon
  • Western Carter County—Keller, Bomar Point and Reck*

  * compiled by the Oilpatch Genealogy Society (available for sale in the Museum store)

• Cemetery Inscriptions of Carter County (as of 1982)
• Confederate Grave Markers in Rose Hill Cemetery, Ardmore, Oklahoma
• Lawmen of Southern Oklahoma
• Obituaries
• Memorial Tributes (by Corena Wilson-Pickens)
• Ringling Memorial Cemetery
• Wilson Funeral Homes
• Yearly Listings of Obituaries

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• Adair/Thompson
• Kenneth Leroy Beasley Family
• Bone Family
• Samuel P. Brimer, Jr. and Aviation in Wilson
• Wann K. Britton Family
• Robert Ervin Campbell Family
• Chance Family Genealogy
• Chance/Means Family
• Chaney Home Place
• Dr. W. A. Darling Family
• B.G. Doss Family and Doss Auto and Appliance
• Wiley and Esther Finley Family
• Richard Ross Gandy Family
• Hershall Gilliam Family
• Jake Hamon Family
• Harrell/Herrell/Herell Family
• Drennen and Marjorie Holmes Hughes
• Lute and Granny Jackson
• Wayland Bryant Jackson Family
• Coy Lamb Family
• Donald O’Dell Martin: Life’s Stories in Poem
• Tom and Olline McDonald Family
• Billie Newton Menifee and her Poetry
• Barbara Ellis Stubbs Newman
• Chuck Norris
• G. V. Pardue Family
• Cecil Patterson Family
• Willis Marshal Potts Family
• Puckett Family
• Lonnie Rooney
• Joan Sanders: Growing Up in Wilson
• William Henry Sides Family
• James L. Steel
• George and Ann Roberts Steele Family
• Joe Artie Stevens and Frances Fanny Campbell Stevens
• Arthur ‘Skinny’ Stewart
• Harvey Lewis Taylor Family
• Correna Wilson-Pickens Family

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• Clinton Coy Blodgett: An American Hero
• J.C. Kerr Oral History: An Interview by Center for Pacific War Studies
• Wilson’s Korean War Era Veterans*
• Men and Women in WWII from Carter County
• Servicemen Killed in Action
• Veterans Presented with Delayed High School Diplomas
• WWI Military Registration Cards

* available for sale in the Museum store

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• A History (This album contains the complete book, A Story of the Greatest Human Interest by and about M.E. Harris, founder of the home)*
• A list of orphans who were accepted into the home between 1908 and 1943 including those adopted, lists of donors, court documents, pictures and articles*
• Truly, Moses Harris by Ellen A. Moore (The story of M. E. Harris)

* available for sale in the Museum store

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• 1870 Jack County, Texas and 1880 Rockwell, Texas Census
• Bryan County Genealogy Quarterly (various issues)
• County Home Record
• Graham Bearcats Album: 1939
• Healdton Families: Births, Marriages, Deaths
• Oil City, Oklahoma*
• Oklahoma History in Brief
• Orr, Oklahoma*
• Old Schools
• Rexroat, Oklahoma*
• Ringling Founding Day Celebrations April 1914 - August 23-29, 1964
• Ringling Families: Births, Marriages, Anniversaries
• Ringling Families: Obituaries
• Ringling Memorial Cemetery
• Santa Fe, Oklahoma History
• Stephens County 1930 Census
• Tatums, Oklahoma
• The Cornish News (1912, 1913, 1914 and 1916),The Cornish Reasoner (1904 and 1905),
  and The Orphans Home Journal (1903, 1904 and 1913) (select copies)
• The Daily Ardmoreite’s Guide to Ardmore, September 24, 1989
• The Old 89er Recalls (from The Lone Grove Ledger)
• The Story of Velma, Oklahoma
• Tragedies in Indian Territory
• Wheeler, Oklahoma*
• Woodford Dam

* available for sale in the Museum store

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• Choctaw and Chickasaw Application and Docket of Citizenship Court Roll Numbers: 1902–1904
• Family Reunions
• Indian Territory and Carter County Pioneers: 1840-1982
• Indians and Intruders in Indian Territory, Oklahoma
• Memories of Wilson People
• “Oldtimers”—Interviews with Wilsonites re: their memories of Wilson, written by Helen Hedgepath
• “Remember When”—Interviews with Wilsonites re: their memories of Wilson, written by Correna Wilson
• Wilson's Census and Population Information
• Wilson School Student File Cards: 1915 to about 1966

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