GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-45
Holy Cross Church
708 Southwest Fifteenth Street (physical address)
Wagoner, OK, 74477
902 Brittany Drive (postal address)
Wagoner, OK, 74467
Phone: 918-201-5225
Email: holycrosswag@gmail.com
History: Holy Cross Church, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma). Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Holy Cross attended to the following missions and stations among Native Americans in Oklahoma:
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1909 (became a parish) (no longer Native) |
Precious Blood Mission (Creek), Eufala, McIntosh County, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations |
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1909 (transferred to Precious Blood, Eufala) |
Checotah station (Creek) |
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1909-1915 (closed) |
Fort Gibson station (Cherokee), Cherokee County, Cherokee Nation |
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1909-1912, 1942-1948 |
Tahlequah station (Cherokee), Cherokee County, Cherokee Nation |
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1909-1917 (transferred to Assumption, Muskogee) |
Webber's Falls station (Cherokee) |
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1912-1917 (transferred to Assumption, Muskogee) |
St. Mary Mission, (Cherokee), Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Cherokee Nation |
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1914-1917 (transferred to Holy Family, Tulsa) |
Claremore station (Cherokee), Rogers County, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations |
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1942-1954 (transferred to Assumption, Muskogee) |
St. Joseph Mission (Cherokee), Webber’s Falls, Muskogee County, Cherokee and Muskogee (Creek) Nations |
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1948-1967 (became a parish) (no longer Native) |
St. Brigid Mission (Cherokee), Tahlequah, Cherokee County, Cherokee Nation |
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1958-1967 (transferred to St. Brigid's, Tahlequah) |
Cherokee Government Indian School (Cherokee) [unknown] |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1909-1917, 1942-1967
Volume: 2 volumes
Description: Sacramental records for the Native American parishioners of the missions and stations at Checotah, Claremore, Eufala, Fort Gibson, Tahlequah, and Webber's Falls.
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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