Notes for George Ewing Hartshorne

Notes for George Ewing Hartshorne

!US Census 1930 (9 April) Oklahoma, Seminole Co., Seminole City, Roll T626_1931, SD 10 ED 67-26, Sheet 11B, Page 19B, House No. 146-276, Lines 78-79: George E. Hartshorne (b. 1868 - 62 - in IA - Occ: Doctor - Fa: PA and Mo: OH) married 34 years to David C. (b. 1875 - 55 - in OK - Fa:

!NOTE - Grave Scene at http://www.skullyville.com/55.html : David Cornelia McCurtain, niece of three Choctaw Chiefs, was born 5 months after the murder of her father, David C. McCurtain. She grew up in Skullyville, attended the New Hope Academy, about which she has written and been quoted by other writers. While still quite young, she married Dr. George Ewing Hartshorne, a young physician native of Iowa, who began medical practice in Spiro in 1889. They moved to McAlester in 1901, and later to Tulsa. It was she who had constructed the wrought iron enclosure of the McCurtain lot in Skullyville cemetery, which contains the graves of so many of her family. It is likely that she had the grave of her half-sister, Hearts Delight Riddle, moved into the enclosure, as at one time it was an above-ground vault, and some distance from its present location.
It is apparent that she was a strong and colorful person, and a patriot who took great pride in both her family and her Native American heritage.
The Hartshorne Monument, her eloquent statement, stands at the foot of her grave