Bio of Hysmith, Logan G (h253) - Latimer County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Ginger McCall 6 May 2004 Return to Latimer County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/latimer/latimer.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Logan G. Hysmith Transcribed by G McCall from: A HISTORY OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA By Luther B. Hill, A. B., With the Assistance of Local Authorities, Volume II, Illustrated, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago / New York, 1909, Page 309-310 LOGAN G. HYSMITH, postmaster of Wilburton, Latimer county, and for some years pervious to his appointment thereto (in 1902), identified with railroad work in eastern Oklahoma, dates his advent to what was then the Indian territory from the year 1899. At that time he located at Hartshorne, as an employe of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad, but the following year was transferred to Wilburton as the agent of the road at that point. After two years of service in that position, he was urged by his Republican associates to seek the postmastership, the office becoming vacant upon the death of Millard F. Campbell. The result was that in July, 1902, Mr. Hysmith received his commission, and his record for the succeeding four years earned him a re-appointment, and he is now in the seventh year of a service which the local public has found most satisfactory. Postmaster Hysmith is a native of McNairy county, Tennessee, born on the 6th of September, 1869, and is a son of Elias J. Hysmith, born in the state named in 1846. When a young boy the grandfather, William Hysmith, was apprenticed to a North Carolina man and accompanied his master's family into Mississippi, where he was reared. He married in that state, but finally settled in McNairy county, Tennesee, and lived there many years engaged in farming. His wife was a Miss Davis, by whom he had the following children:--William, Elias J., John, Edward, Samuel; Aby, wife of Calvin Plunk; Malindy, who married John Gray, and Teanie, who became Mrs. John Smith. The father, Elias J. Hysmith, passed his early life on the family estate in Tennessee, and at the outset of the Civil war, then a boy of sixteen years, joined the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry of the Union army, commanded by Colonel Hurst. As a regimental unit of General Rosecrans' corps that command participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Franklin and Nashville and was not mustered out of the service until the conclusion of the Rebellion. After the war he settled as a farmer in McNairy and Hardin counties, Tennessee, and from the latter locality migrated to Texas, settling at Celeste, Keller and other places in the state. Although in a Democratic stronghold, he continued to be a firm Union Republican, and at one time was postmaster of Keller, Texas. Later, he brought the remnant of his family to Wilburton, which has since been his residence. His wife, who was formerly Miss Hersilla Barham, daughter of Thomas Barham, a McNairy county farmer, died in 1877, mother of the following: William T., Logan G., Charles B.; and Emily, wife of James Johnson, of Leonard, Texas. For his second wife Mr. Hysmith married Miss Elizabeth Musser, and by this union is the father of Flora, wife of Gus Howard, of Kansas City, Missouri; Maggie, who married Homer Hovencamp, a resident of Amarillo, Texas; Bessie, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, and Daisy, wife of John F. Roberts, of Hugo, also in that state. Logan G. Hysmith, of this biography, was educated in McNairy, his native county, his final training as a student being obtained in the Adamsville High School. After an experience of one term as a country school teacher, in 1899 he came to Oklahoma in the employ of the C. O. & Y. R. R. in whose service he remained until the commencement of his term as postmaster in 1902. He has made an admirable record as a government official and as a public spirited citizen of Wilburton. He is a member of Wilburton Lodge No. 108 A. F. & A. M. and has held the chairs of junior and senior warden. On December 23, 1900, the postmaster married Miss Lettie McGinnis, who died in 1905. On January 1, 1908, he wedded as his second wife, Miss Rose Edwards, daughter of Mrs. Mary Edwards, of Denison, Texas. Mrs. Hysmith was born February 12, 1880, at Santa Rosa, California. (Note: Errors are transcribed as they appeared.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Latimer County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/latimer/latimer.html