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Gill-Notes


 "We all went to Red Oak. It was a saw mill camp 
then and we all worked in the timber and I claimed 
some land and built a  house on it and moved in and 
lived on my land and put improvements on it. So I was 
classed as a "Sooner" with squatters rights. Then the 
goverment passed a law that anyone who was a Sooner 
couldn't be in any of the "Runs", so that's why I never 
filed on any land except what I bought from someone until
 my rights were restored to me by the government - the 
year the Cheyanne and Arapahoe land was opened for 
settlement in 1900. I was living in Chandler
 and went to El Reno and drew my number for my 
land on Medicine Creek. I moved on to it. My son Roy 
was a baby. Albert was born when we were living on land 
at Red Oak.     My land from the government by number was 
160 acres. I filed on it at Lawton. Sept 1901-2 opening of Cheyenne 
and Arapaho opening for settlers. My place was 4 miles NW 
of Old Red Store on Medicine Creek. Drew it by number
at El Reno filed on it at Lawton. 160 acres joining 
old Apeatone's a Comanche Indian, allotment. 2 miles 
N of Mt. Sheridian. Not up as far as Saddle Mt. 25 miles 
straight S of Carnegie. 20 miles NW of Lawton."

Grant Gill, 
as told to his daughter,
April (Gill) Ramsey, in the 1950s.