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Josephine Murphy (Dawes #5734) married Fount Clark 6/22/1899 at Atoka, OK. They were both from Lehigh. They had twelve children. One daughter was Flossie Mary Clark, born 4/22/1902 (Dawes #5736) and another daughter Mamie Clark Baugham, Higgins, TX 88 in 1994.

Mary Jane Murphy (Dawes #5735) married O. L. Mitchell on 9/6/1902. Jane was blind according to her niece, Mamie Baugham.

Fannie Chythia Danenhour married Charles Jacob Sumter and had three children; Fernley Astor born 9/28/1914 married Veller Leeper in 1942, Charles Jacob Sumter, Jr. born 4/12/1912, and Myrtle Mae born 10/27/1910 married Rural Warren. Fannie died November 13, 1931 and is buried in West View Cemetery.

Hettie married Ansel Ellis and had a daughter who died young of leukemia. Hettie died in a nursing home in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Annie married Olen Cook but divorced him. Later Annie married George pappuleas who began Phillips 66 old field, later died while trying to cap a wildcat rig in Texas. She then went to Winatchee, Washington where she died in 1977 at age 82. Annie had one daughter, Edith who gave birth at age 15 to Annette Danenhour. Edith later married Olen Simmons and had a son named Olen .Later  marryingt  Jose Woford who raised Olen. Edith was crippled from birth. Annie raised Edith's daughter, Annette.

George Danenhour married a girl from Missouri.

Benjamin Franklin Danenhour was born in Atoka, OK September 7, 1897, at age 20 married Jewel Madeline Adams (born April 12, 1902 in Pound Valley) Pittsburg County OK (to James Adams and Victoria Cox) age 16 in Pittsburg County, OK on January 17, 1918. They had one son, Russell Ray Danenhour born in Kiowa, OK on July 6, 1923. Russell age 21 married Betty Jo Lack born 2/10/1925 in Big Flat, AR age 19 on November 11, 1944. Russell and Betty had two daughters; Olivia Gaile born April 16, 1946 and Russell June born September 5, 1947 at Okemah, OK. Olivia Gaile married Billy Don Bean May 29, 1964 and they had two children. Emily Gaile born August 30, 1966 and Daryl Russell born October 28, 1970 in Okemah, OK. Olivia Gaile later married James D. Jaffke on August 4, 1978 and divorced two months later. Russell June married Clark Lang of Ardmore, OK and later married and divorced Robert Dow Bonnell of Tulsa, OK. Russell June had no children by either marriage. Emily Gaile married Randy Jimenez January 5, 1991 in San Jacinto, CA and had a daughter Danielle Olivia on April 30, 1993 and a son Matthew John on December 3, 1995. Daryl Russell has not married or had children as of this date.

Information from "Tales of Atoka County", Atoka Historical Society, and interviews with relatives.

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