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Graveside services for Phillip Roy Hubach of Weleetka, Oklahoma, were held Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 2:00 PM at the family’s home cemetery in Weleetka.
Read moreGraveside funeral services for Sue Collins will be held at 2:00pm on Friday, October 8 at Dustin Cemetery in Dustin, Oklahoma. Visitation at Williamson-Spradlin Funeral Home in Weleetka will precede the services from 9:00am until 12:00pm. A full obituary will soon follow.
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Kenneth Wayne Butler, age 79, of Pretty Lake, passed away October 2, 2021 at his daughter, Somer’s home in Cypress, Texas. Ken was born the youngest of nine children in Holdenville, Oklahoma on August 26, 1942 to the late Carl and Goldie (Rayburn) Butler. He graduated from Wetumka High School in 1960 and attended Oklahoma University. He honorably served his country from 1964-1965 in the United States Army in Korea. Ken worked his entire career in the oil and gas industry over many years. He was employed with Baroid Oil Company in Alaska and Corpus Christi, Texas and MI Drilling, LLC of Midland and Houston, Texas and Bakersfield, California. He married Barbara Hanley on March 3, 1989 in Anchorage, Alaska. Ken and Barb made their home on Pretty Lake following retirement in 2015. Ken was a member of the Stroh Lion’s Club, and he was the treasurer of the Pretty Lake Conservation Club.
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On September 15, Deacon Derea Marks departed this life peacefully at home at the age of 86. Derea was born September 25, 1934, to Rebecca and Joseph Marks in Clearview, Oklahoma. He was the 12 child of eighteen children. He attended Clearview High School and eventually moved to Wichita Kansas, where he met and married Dollie JoAnn King and to this union ten children.
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Funeral services for Robert Gene “Bob” Jones were held Monday, October 4, 2021 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Wetumka, Oklahoma. Interment followed at the Wetumka Cemetery.
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The Oklahoma Historical Society houses a vast store house of information concerning the history of Black people in Oklahoma. When the Five Tribes were forcibly removed from their homelands in the 1830s–40s, people enslaved by the tribes also made the long journey to Indian Territory. By 1861, eight to ten thousand Black people were enslaved throughout Indian Territory. In 1863 the Cherokee National Council passed an act freeing all people enslaved by their tribe, but many slaveholders ignored the law. After the Civil War, new treaties between the US government and the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole abolished slavery among the tribes and outlined citizenship rights available to the Freedmen and their descendants. These treaties were ratified in the summer of 1866.
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