GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Oklahoma: OK-3
St. Agnes Church
501 East Main Street
P.O. Box 206
Antlers, OK 74523
Phone: 580-298-5204
History: St. Agnes Church, Antlers, Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish with some Native American (Choctaw) parishioners in the Choctaw Nation and in the Diocese of Tulsa (Archives: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma).
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1897-1945 |
Rev. William H. Ketcham and Oklahoma City diocesan priests established and administered St. Mary of the Angels School (Choctaw) and St. Agnes Church/ Chapel (Choctaw) |
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1897-1898 |
Sisters of St. Joseph (unknown) staffed St. Mary’s School |
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1898-1902 |
Sisters of St. Rose of Lima (Texarkana, Texas) staffed St. Mary’s School |
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1902-1945 |
Sisters of Divine Providence (San Antonio Texas) staffed St. Agnes/ Mary’s |
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1945 |
A tornado destroyed St. Agnes Church and School along with some sacramental records; only the church was rebuilt |
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1945-1973 |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception, Hugo, attended to St. Agnes |
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1973-1982 |
Tulsa diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception, Hugo, attended to St. Agnes |
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1982-present |
Glenmary Home Missioners (Cincinnati, Ohio) have administered St. Agnes |
Oklahoma City diocesan priests at St. Agnes attended to the following Native American (Choctaw) missions and station:
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1897-1925 (closed) |
Tuskahoma station |
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1909-1912 (transferred to St. William's, Durant) |
St. William Mission, Boswell |
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1909-1912 (transferred to Blessed Sacrament, Coalgate) |
St. Henry Mission, Bentley |
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1919-1933 (closed) |
St. William Mission, Boswell |
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1923-1945 (became a parish) |
Immaculate Conception/ St. Patrick Mission, Hugo |
Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:
Inclusive dates: 1918-ongoing
Volume: Several entries among several volumes
Description: Sacramental records for Native American parishioners of St. Agnes Church and its Native American missions and station; baptisms, 1918-ongoing, marriages, 1920-ongoing, deaths, 1928-ongoing, first communions, 1950-ongoing, and confirmations, 1935-ongoing.
Unless noted otherwise, the repository named above holds (or held) the records described and not the Marquette University Archives. However, Marquette’s holdings, e.g. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records, include related records about these Native and Catholic groups and places.
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