GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-15
Holy Rosary Church
912 Cherokee Avenue
P.O. Box 389
Hartshorne, OK, 74547
Phone: 918-297-2453
Email: imcchurch03@yahoo.com
History: Holy Rosary Church, Hartshorne, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma). It has had some Native American parishioners.
Discalced Carmelites (Archives: Little Rock, Arkansas) and Carmelites of St. Therese at Holy Rosary had attended to the following Native American (Choctaw, Chickasaw) missions in the Choctaw Nation, Oklahoma:
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1910-1916 |
St. Edward Church/ Mission (Choctaw, Chickasaw), Pittsburg, Pittsburg County |
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1918-1921 (closed) |
St. Henry Mission (Choctaw), Bentley, Atoka County |
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1926-1977 |
St. Edward Church/ Mission (Choctaw, Chickasaw), Pittsburg |
History of St. Edward Church and School, Pittsburg:
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1910-1916 |
Discalced Carmelites at Holy Rosary, Hartshorne, attended to Pittsburg station |
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1916-1926 |
Discalced Carmelites established and administered St. Edward Church |
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1918-1919 |
Carmelites of St. Therese (Archives: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) established and staffed St. Edward School (Choctaw, Chickasaw) |
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1919-1925 |
Benedictine Sisters (Archives: Tulsa, Oklahoma) staffed the school |
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1925-1927 (closed) |
Carmelites of St. Therese staffed the school |
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1926-1977 |
Discalced Carmelites and Carmelites of St. Therese at Holy Rosary, Hartshorne, attended to St. Edward’s |
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1977-present |
Tulsa diocesan priests at St. John’s, McAlester, attended to St. Edward’s |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1910-1916, 1918-1921, 1926-1977, ongoing
Volume: Several volumes
Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American parishioners of St. Edward Church and St. Henry Mission.
Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.
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