Pastor Charles M Schoonover 1919 Newspaper Images, Oklahoma

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August 8th, 1919

Durant Weekly News (Oklahoma)

Christians Call Pastor
The official board of the First Christian Church of this city has extended a call to the Rev. Charles M. Schoonover, of San Angelo, Texas, and the call has been accepted effective on September 7th, when the new pastor will arrive with his family to take up his work. Mr. Schoonover is well known in the southwest, having filled pastorates at Bonham, Greenville, Gainesville, and San Angelo. The board feels that the local church is fortunate in securing him for the church.


April 20th , 1922
Pastor Charles M Schoonover listed as doctor

The Daily Ardmoreite Newspaper (Oklahoma)

Minister Delayed So Lawyer Starts Christian Revival

The revival service Monday night at First Christian church was attended by a good audience which was disappointed by the absence of Dr. Charles M. Schoonover, who has been unavoidably detained, but pleased with an excellent sermon by E. W. Schenk, the lawyer-preacher of Ardmore. He will speak every night this week except Saturday. Four of the men are organizing a male quartet which will sing at every service.
Mr. Schenk spoke on the incident recorded in the last part of the 10th chapter of Numbers. 

Beaver Residents Visit, Work, Accidents and Humor. 1911 Newspaper Images, Oklahoma

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April 20th, 1911, The Beaver Herald (Beaver, Oklahoma)

Maude O. Thomas, Publisher

Home Creek

Carey Barker and family visited W. R. Barker's Sunday evening.

Mr. Jorden and wife visited Newt Taylor and family Saturday.

Willie Howe and wife and Lawrence Hobbs and wife took dinner with Jim Barker's Sunday.

Claud Haskell and wife and Orvel and Ed Haskell are going to start to Colorado Tuesday.

Walter Busch and family took dinner with Mr. Cunningham's Sunday.

Lucy Wilson visited with her cousin, Elva Barker, a few days last week.

Hello! Busch Chapel, wake up.

Raymond Twentier says he is glad Mrs. Barker sets her hens close to the road. (Someone seems to have had a sense of humor)

Gorden Chamberlain's little boy is very sick at this writing.

While Walter Busch was going home from Mr. Barker's last Saturday his horse threw him off bruising him up pretty bad, but he managed to get home all right. His horse was not accustomed to a saddle.

John and Myrtle Schoonover have returned from a visit back east.

W.B. Barker and son C.B. went to Zelma last week bringing back two jacks, one black one gray. He sold one jack to Mr. Black of the South Flat for $500.

W. H. Barker started to Glazier, Texas, with broomcorn for Mr. Groendyke this week.

J. A. Barker is up and around again doing his work.

Austin Humphrey helped Charles Schoonover fix his well last Thursday.

Chas. Kirky went to Liberal last week for C. C. DeGraw and others after a load of freight.

Truax & Hopkins Undertaking, Hardware & Furniture, Tin Shop

1900's Beaver, Oklahoma

In 1900 the population was 112. The economy of Beaver City and the surrounding area depended on cattle ranching until 1902–03, when the Homestead Act brought farmers, whom ranchers sometimes derided as "pumpkin rollers," to the area. This changed the town's population and commerce. One of the first businesses was the Groves Hotel, later known as the Thompson Hotel. It was built in 1885. In 1891 Carter Tracy moved to Beaver and built a general hardware and implement company. The first newspaper was the Territorial Advocate, established in 1887. Although the name changed to the Herald Democrat, the paper continued to inform the county into the twenty-first century. In 1905 W. T. Quinn established a telephone exchange. The 1910 U.S. Census reported 326 inhabitants.

In the early years of the twentieth century two banks, the Bank of Beaver City and the First National Bank, were established. The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad was built to connect to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway in Forgan, seven miles to the north. Other new businesses included the OK Barber Shop, the Beaver Cleaners, the Goetzinger Grocery, the Beaver Motor Company, the Home Lumber Company, and a number of saloons and hotels. During the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl the town, as well as the rest of the area, suffered, and the population greatly decreased. The town of Beaver, however, actually grew from 920 in 1920 to 1,028 in 1930. The community then began to expand, with a 1940 population of 1,166 climbing to 2,087 in 1960.

Encyclopedia of Oklahoma

Beaver is located on Beaver River, and began as the location of a fur-trading post in 1879. Its original name was Beaver City, and was planned to be the capital of the short-lived Cimarron Territory. The Federal government never recognized the proposed Territory, but Beaver City remained the center of business and law enforcement for the area. In 1890, the territory was assigned to Oklahoma Territory, and Beaver City became the seat for the entire Oklahoma Panhandle, then known as Seventh County.

Beaver began as a stop on the Jones and Plummer Trail. In 1880, Jim Lane built a house on the south side of Beaver Creek, that also served as a general store, saloon, hotel, and restaurant.The first post office had been established on the north side of the river in 1883. In 1884 Lane moved the post office to his store and became the postmaster. He also added a corral and livery stable to accommodate freighters and cattle drivers. The Presbyterian Church was built in 1887. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as ""the oldest church in Oklahoma Territory".

Between Beaver and Guymon Oklahoma along Beaver Creek there are several plains Indians ruins. They are on private property and not accessible to the public. These ruins are associated with the Buried City Plains Indian Ruins near Perryton, Texas.^{[8] Wikipedia, Beaver, Oklahoma}

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1900	112		—
1910	326		191.1%
1920	920		182.2%
1930	1,028		11.7%
1940	1,166		13.4%
1950	1,495		28.2%
1960	2,087		39.6%
1970	1,853		−11.2%
1980	1,939		4.6%
1990	1,584		−18.3%
2000	1,570		−0.9%
2010	1,515		−3.5%
Est. 2014	1,470	[12]	−3.0%
U.S. Decennial Census

Enitre Schoonover family in 1820 Randolph County Virginia-free Census Images

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Enitre Schoonover family in 1820 Randolph County Virginia

These are listings and Census images from the 1820 US Census of Randolph County in Virginia. The Schoonover family is living here with the heads of households: Joseph, Benjamin, Ebenezer, and Daniel, and William. Their families consist of 34 people at the time, and occupations are in agriculture, most likely farming.

Joseph Schoonover is listed with a household of 4 people.

1 white male under 10 years old

1 white male between 26 and 45 years old

1 white female between 16 and 26 years old

1 white female between 26 and 45 years old

1 person engaged in agriculture

It appears that this household consists of a family of an adult male and female, a young adult female, and a male child.

Next we have Benjamin Schoonover, with only 2 males in residence.

1 white male between 26 and 45 years old. 

1 white male over 45 years old.

1 person engaged in agriculture.

We can assume this is father and son, and perhaps the son is the working male, this household is explored in again in a moment, as it is possible this Benjamin may be a duplicate listing.

Next we have Ebeneezer Schoonover with a household including 5 people.

1 male between 18 and 26 years old

2 girls under 10

1 female up to 16

and one female between 26 and 45.

1 person working in agriculture.

Since Ebeneezer is listed as the head of household we can assume he is the male adult up to 26 years old. The female adult  may be his wife if she is even one year older than him, or could be his mother. Then there is a teenage girl and two girl children.

Then we have Daniel Schoonover with a household of 12 people...

2 boys under 10 years old

2 boys under 16 years old

1 male up to 18

1 male up to 26 years old

1 male up to 45 years old

3 girls under 10 years old

1 female up to 26

and 1 female up to 45.

4 people working in agriculture.

So Daniel has an adult couple-presumably parents, another male and female who are young adults- which may be one of their children married and living at home, then the children of presumably both couples include a teenage boy, two pre-teen boys, 2 young boys, and 3 young girls. The 4 working are most likely the eldest males.

on the previous page of the census we have another Benjamin Schoonover and William Schoonover in the same county and presumably same family of Schoonovers. This Benjamin has a sidenote written into the margin (leftside) by the census taker, though the note is too small to read. Undoubtedly this note refers to the two listings of Benjamin Schoonover in this county... If anyone can make out the note or has an idea please leave a comment!!! (This image can also be seen in larger view at the TickyTacky blog. The blog link is in the video description.)

So we have the second Benjamin Schoonover, listed with a household of 6 people :

2 boys under 10 years old

one male up to 45

2 girls under 10

one female between 16 and 26 years old

and one female up to 45.

1 person working in agriculture.

It appears this is Benjamin and his wife as adults, a young adult female, and two boys and two girl children. Since the first Benjamin is listed only with one other older male but only one of them working, it is possible that this is the same Benjamin...this listing being his household and perhaps he is working his father's farm in the other listing. Hence, the sidenote in the margins would surely aid in clearing this question and also clarifying family research.

Lastly we have William Schoonover listed with a household of 5 people.

2 boys under 10 years old

1 male up to 45

1 female under 10

1 female between 16 and 26

This family is noted with one person working in Agriculture, and one person working in Manufacturing. However, it does not note whether William is the person who works in both, or if the younger adult female also works.

The only male out all of these Schoonover's who is older than 45 is the one male listed in Benjamin Schoonover's possibly duplicate listing. All of the other Schoonover males are 45 years or younger. 

Further articles on this family will be published on the Schoonover's of 1800 Randolph County Virginia. 

Schoonover still Warlike!! 1910 Oklahoma,Joseph Schoonover, Free Newspaper Images

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This article is from The Guthrie Daily Leader, September 20, 1910 (page 6)(Oklahoma)

Schoonover Still Warlike

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Sheriff Mahoney is keeping campaign promises made to Joseph Schoonover, the war-like German farmer of Oak View township. Last summer when Schoonover was cutting a wide swath around Lovell the sheriff promised to put him in jail, and last night the chance came. Schoonover was bound over for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brant and he failed to give bond. He was housed at the coop last night. Schoonover is still warlike.

(transcribers notes: Joseph Schoonover Born in Pike, Ohio, USA on 14 Feb 1835 to Hiram Schoonover and Mary Coriell Killpatrick. Joseph married Nancy Emily Streete and had 8 children. He passed away on 12 Feb 1924 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA.)
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The next day's news: The Guthrie Daily Leader, September 21, 1910

Schoonover Makes Bond
Joseph Schoonover, the militant German farmer of Oak View, was released last night, he having made the $500 bond required on a charge of shooting at Mrs. Mary Brant, a tenant.
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(5 months later) February 19th, 1911, The Guthrie Daily Leader

Neighbors' Row in Court
Joseph Schoonover of Lovell, Charged with Shooting at Mrs. Brandt
Picking cotton in the midst of shot guns was described in district court today. Joseph Schoonover, an aged German farmer of Lovell, was put on trial for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brandt. Trouble had arisen over the land leased by Schoonover to Mrs. Brandt and by her turned over to her son-in-law. Schoonover is said to have ordered Mrs. Brandt and other cotton pickers off the farm and to have puncuated his remarks with two loads of shot. Somebody found a gun in one of the Brandt wagons and after Mr. Schoonover.
 The defense appears to be that Schoonover was shooting at some ducks in the next township when shot rattled down on the cotton pickers.
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3 days later- February 22, 1911, Guthrie Daily Leader

District Court Proceedings
By assignment of the supreme court Judge Huston went to Chandler today to hear arguments...
...Judge Huston directed a verdict of acquital in the noted Schoonover case from Lovell. Joseph Schoonover was tried for shooting at Mrs. Mary Brandt, but it was found that serious intent was lacking. The shooting was at long range and with bird seed shot.

Etna Schoonover Death, Newspaper Images Free 1892, 1880 census son William Schoonover

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This is a newspaper listing for Vinton
Virginia listed in the Roanoke Times Saturday December 17th 1892.

Mrs. Schoonover, an aged lady, mother of William Schoonover, who had been in feeble health
for some time, died Thursday night at the residence of
her son.

 Etna Schoonover was listed in the 1880 census in Beverly, Randolph
County, West Virginia with herself as the head of household at 48 years old and
her son William Schoonover 30 years old. The only two members.

Indian Agent, Free Newspaper Images and Government Listing Department of Interiors,Bernard Schoonover, 1859

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Bernard Schoonover, Indian Agent, News and Government Listing Department of Interiors

This is a newspaper article from The
Daily Dispatch in Richmond Virginia on Saturday November 26, 1859 From the Plains
reported death of Kit Carson- the Sioux indians threatening the whites
st. Louis November 23rd.

The Omaha Republican announces on the authority
of persons just arrived from Fort Kearny the death of the celebrated mountaineer
Kit Carson at Taos New Mexico where he acted as Indian agent. Major Schoonover
agent for the upper Missouri and Sioux Indians arrived at Saint Joseph's on
Monday he reports that the Sioux had sworn vengeance against all whites found
in their country. Major S says the Yellowstone River is
navigable for steamers 900 miles above its confluence with the Missouri and
that goods can be landed within 400 miles of Salt Lake City and very near
several forts in that region.

This listing is from the Department of
the Interior in 1859. Indian office agency.

and here we see Bernard
Schoonover, Indian agent for upper Missouri . He was born in Pennsylvania and
assigned to the agency from Pennsylvania and was compensated for $1500.