MISC - Purcell, McClain County, Oklahoma  The Grand Jury
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The First Grand Jury

The first term of the Federal Court in Purcell was opened at 10
o'clock November 18, 1895 with the Honarable C. B. Kilgore presiding
as judge.  The other officers of the court were as follows:  U. P.
Bruce, deputy clerk and court crier, Floyd L. Phillips, deputy clerk,
R. M. Moore, chief Deputy marshall, with a full force of other 
deputies, and W. R. Blackmore, stenographer.  The first business in
order was empaneling the Grandy Jury, which body was made up of the 
following:

J. S. Gregory, W. A. Hindman, A. M. Corly, W. G. Blanchard, D. A. 
Young, John Crawford, J. S. Williams, J. C. Yeager, James Camden,
L. C. Wantland, John Myers, D. F. Harness, Thos. Sparks, W. C.
Randolph, C. M. McClain, J. H. Hill and W. B. Morter.