Bios: Mr. & Mrs. Wade H. Hampton: Stark County,Ohio ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted to: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okmulgee/okmulgee.html Transcribed & Submitted by: Mylon1@excite.com ************************************************************************ My grandfather Wade Harris Hampton was born November 26,1884 in Brookenville,Mississippi.My grandmother Ivory Ann Bruner was born November 11,1882 in Econtuhka,Indian Territory.They were wed on January 20,1914 in Yeager,Oklahoma.To this union were born five children,Gwendolyn,Inez,Archille,Edna and Jewell.The Hamptons lived in Yeager until they moved to the town of Okmulgee,Ok. in 1924.Wade worked as as oil speculator and Ivory Ann as a homemaker at their home at 916 E.3rd Street.There they lived happily,my mother Jewell has many memories of her youth spent there.Of their milk cow tethered in the vacant lot behind the house which supplied milk to the neighboors;of their Creole,Native American and Afro-American neighboors;and the family moments spent with their grandparents. Wade died early in life at the age of 49 on January 18 1933.Ivory lived for another 52 years in Okmulgee dying at the age of 90 on April 16,1983. Wade's parents Mr. H.F Hampton and Mrs. S.J (Menesi)Hampton lived in Boley,Ok where they farmed a small place there.Wade was one of five children,two boys and three girls. Ivory's parents were Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin (Ellen) F. Bruner lived in Holdenville,Ok where they also farmed.Ben was a Seminole Freedman whose family is credited with the founding of Bruner Town, an historic black settlement founded shortly after the Civil War in Indian Territory.Ellen was a Creek Freedwoman,one of 10 children of Pickett(John) Rentie.Pickett served in the 1st Kansas Colored Home Guard. Wade and Ivory's son Archille was their only child to remain in Okmulgee dying at his home on 4th Street on August 4,2000.He was a retired Okmulgee Public School educator