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Lulu M. Hefner (August 9, 1874 – July 19, 1954) was a Cherokee businessperson from Nowata, Oklahoma who became successful in the oil industry. [1] [2] She was notable for being the first women to drill for oil on her own property and the first female oil operator in Oklahoma.
Nannita Daisey, also known as Kentucky Daisey, [1] was an American woman said to be the first to file a land claim in the Oklahoma Land Rush – fame during the late nineteenth century in Oklahoma's land runs, fame that extended after her death in a legend about how she claimed her first Homestead tract.
Sarah Rector was born in 1902 near the all-black town of Taft, located in Indian Territory, which became the eastern portion of Oklahoma. [2] She had five siblings. Her parents were Rose McQueen and husband Joseph Rector (both born 1881), [7] who were the Black grandchildren of Creek Indians before the Civil War, [8] and were descendants of the Muscogee Creek Nation after the Treaty of 1866.
Martha Helen Beal was an American homesteader in Oklahoma Territory known for being the second name drawn in the Lawton and El Reno land lottery at the age of 22. She is known as the "First Lady of Lawton" and for building the Mattie Beal House in Lawton.
Parents who gave property to a daughter upon marriage also enjoyed the protection the Act provided from a son-in-law's mishandling of his family's affairs. [14] The property a woman could own and protect from her husband's creditors included slaves. [15] Maryland enacted important legislation in 1843 and Arkansas enacted legislation in 1846. [15]
This Oklahoma woman had her tiny home stolen off her property — cinder blocks, cut wires, crushed cables are all that remain. Now she’s offering $500 reward for identity of thieves Danielle Antosz
Female basketball officials, from left, Jara McCoy, Brook Farris and Katelynn Hall were the first all-female referee crew to call an Oklahoma high school state tournament game.
The first class to graduate from the Cherokee Female Seminary had two students, Tennie Steele Fuller and Belle Cobb. Belle returned back to the Seminary to teach before studying medicine. [7] Lulu Hefner was an Oklahoman businesswoman who attended the Seminary. She is remembered as the first female oil operator in Oklahoman history. [17]