Ransom Payne, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Burial Of Snyder Pioneer Is Today
Ransom Payne Was Deputy In Early Days
March 18, 1937—Snyder, OK—Funeral services will be conducted here Thursday for Ransom Payne, Oklahoma pioneer and former peace officer, who died Wednesday.
The service will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Burial will be here.
Payne, 89 years old, had been in failing health for several years.
He came to Oklahoma from Indiana when the Oklahoma territory was opened, April 22, 1889. From then until 1901, he served as a deputy United States marshal. Then he staked a claim near here, where he had made his home since. He is survived by a daughter and a brother.
Dan W. Perry, D. U. S. Marshal
LAST SURVIVOR OF TERRITORIAL HOUSE IS DEAD
Dan W. Peery Was One of Founders of State Democrats
October 2, 1940—Carnegie, OK—Dan W. Peery, 74 years old, believed to be the last living member of the first territorial legislature, died of a heart ailment in a hospital here Thursday afternoon.
A “boomer,” one of the organizers of the Democratic part in the state, a homesteader in the run of ’89, an early day newspaper publisher, a member of the third state legislature and secretary of the state Historical society, Peery was closely associated with the development of Oklahoma as a state.
He was born in Edinburg, Missouri. IN 1889 he left Trenton, Missouri for the promised land.
His first trip into Oklahoma was early in 18889, before the opening. He joined a group of boomers in the Chickasaw nation. April, 22 of that year he made the run and staked a homestead southeast of what is now Oklahoma City.
The first year he broke the land with a team of oxen, which, he said, had been taught in Choctaw. He had to learn the Indian words for “Gee” and “Haw.”
Almost from the beginning, he took an active part in politics. August 5, 1890, he was elected from Okalahoma County to the first territorial legislature. In 1910 he served in the third state legislature from the district comprised of Caddo, Canadian and Cleveland counties.
In 1893 he became associate publisher of the El Reno Democrat. The following year he bought the El Reno Globe and published it until 1901. While publisher he was also chief deputy United States marshal for southwestern Oklahoma.
Carnegie became his home at the opening of the Kiowa and Comanche country, when he went there as part owner and local manager of the of the Carnegie Townsite Co. and promoter of the city of Carnegie.
Services will be Friday afternoon in the Methodist church here. Burial will be at Trenton.