Person:Ophia Carter (1)

According to newspaper articles regarding T.R. she was murdered at Drumright,OK by thugs while he was in prison awaiting execution. Should be possible to trace her data via death and newspaper records there. Good chance that marriage was also there or at her Carter parents' home in Missouri (Ebenezer, Springfield, Joplin?).Other records indicate that Louisa, the daughter of T.R. and Ophia lived with Ophia's parents in MO. after Ophia was murdered. Louisa may have been born in Drumright and there should be some question if she kept the Braught name after moving to MO with the Carter family. 14 Aug 2004 phone call from 75 yrs. old Charles Johnson (775) 226-9435. 4309 Pescado Way, Reno. NV email=cjohnson@intercomm.com. He is researching Carter heritage for a cousin in CA and saw my name on Rootsweb with May Carter and T.R. Braught. Much chat verified that we have data to share and pledged to do so soon.He said that he has considerable documentation on T.R. from OK Court records he found on Google.com and he has more data on Carter famiy. Johnson's records show that May's first name was Ophia, b. 20 May 1888 at Ebanezer, Greene, MO, married T.R. about 1910 and died (murdered) 22 July 1917 at Drumright, OK while T.R. was in prison waiting execution. He said the state report of the trial indicated that T.R. had stabbed Robbins several times at a Drumright tavern, drug him into a car that he drove to a garage about 3 miles from Drumright, threw Robbins a gun but shot him to death in the car and dumped his body on a garage floor near Oilton Creek. Robbins was a cousin of Sam Cook, the man that T.R. had murdered. That report stated that Robbins told T.R. and others at the tavern that he was T.R.'s best friend and meant him no harm. (I had understood that Braught was drunk at the time, according to a newspaper account that I would share with Johnson via snail mail copy). According to Johnson, T.R.'s wife, Ophia was murdered only days after T.R. murdered Sam Cook. August 22, 2004Information by phone and email from Charles Johnson (775) 826-9435, 4309 Pescado Way, Nevada 89502, email= cjohnson@intercomm.com (yes, double m's). included conversation and notes (some with documentation) about T.R. and his wife. (see T.R. file 32c5s2c3).