Great Grandpa J. R. Warwick (1857-1937)
According to John Robert Warwick's obituary in the "Fairview Newspaper" of Woods County, OK, he was married to Signora Belle Gwin on 16 January 1882, in Harpers Ferry, WV.
John later came to Kansas and taught school at Coldwater, waiting for the opening of Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip for settlement. He 'made the run' 16 September 1893. As John was accustomed to the water and wood in abundance on the wooded hills and plains of West Virginia, he looked first for wood and water when looking for a homestead. He staked a claim seven miles south of Alva, on Eagle Chief, north edge of Hopeton. John learned by experience that more abundance lay in the level wheat lands. He sold his wood and water farm for level wheatland 5 miles south of Alva, Oklahoma Territory. Here John and his wife, Sigga, lived until 1929 when they moved to Alva. Sigga (a.k.a. Signora Belle) preceded John in death three years, almost to the exact time of his death, dying in November, 1934. John R. was said to have had cancer of his jaw.
According to what I have, his 2nd child, Robert Lee Warwick, was born in November, 1887 in West Virginia. John Robert Warwick likely made the move to Kansas in either 1888 or 1889, making the "Cherokee Strip Land Run 1893" in Oklahoma Territory. A third child, William Wilbur, was born in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, 13 October 1895, dying few months later May, 1896 during a influenza epidemic.
John Robert Warwick, as most did, came out to Oklahoma before 1893 (1889-1890), likely staking out where he was going to "stake his claim" in preparation for the 16 September 1893, run into Oklahoma for the land grab.
There was a group of Virginia men involved in the January, 1884 lynching of E. D. Atchison in Monterey, Virginia. Invariably reported stories of the families uprooting in the middle of a night, piling into wagons all they could carry and simply disappearing into the night fleeing from Virginia. John Robert Warwick (1857-1937) appears to have just simply returned to neighboring Pocahontas County, West Virginia, before then heading on to Kansas some years later. The rest of the Monterey lynching story can be found 1884 Lynching, Monterey, VA, Vol. 11, Iss.4. More research on the January, 1884 Monterey, Virginia.
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