John K Carson After Rachel's Death

Rachel and John moved to the Hinton, Oklahoma vicinity in 1901.

We've already seen that John purchased an 8-space lot in the Hinton Cemetery in 1907. Since Rachel's death, from an extended illness, occurred only six months later, I have to wonder if she was seriously ill when John made this purchase. To find out we'll have to see if Caddo County, Oklahoma has any death records. I already tried to obtain a death certificate from the state of Oklahoma, and they did not begin keeping records until October of 1908.

Our next documented look at John is from the U.S. Census that was taken in May of 1910. At 60 years of age, he now lives in the Logan Township of Blaine County, Oklahoma, with his son Chester K. John remains active, and is employed as a farmer. It seems that John and Chester are living on a farm. Not only is John listed as a farmer, but his son, Chester K is listed as a 17 year old Farm Worker, working on a Home Farm.

In the next year John would marry a woman named Laura Denney. Laura is a bit of a mystery. I have found no record of her or her family in other Oklahoma Census records, and there is no record of John marrying her in either Blaine County, where John lived in 1910, or Washita County, where he and Laura lived during the next census, in 1920. In 1911 all marriage registrations in Oklahoma were held at the county level. There are seventy-seven counties in Oklahoma. In addition to phoning the county clerk's of Blaine and Washita County, I've checked the online records of Caddo County, and found nothing on John or Laura. Only seventy-four counties to go!

Here is a snip from the 1910 U.S. Census, where John and Chester were enumerated.