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).

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)

1897-1898

Sisters of St. Joseph (unknown) staffed St. Mary’s School

1898-1902

Sisters of St. Rose of Lima (Texarkana, Texas) staffed St. Mary’s School

1902-1945

Sisters of Divine Providence (San Antonio Texas) staffed St. Agnes/ Mary’s

1945

A tornado destroyed St. Agnes Church and School along with some sacramental records; only the church was rebuilt

1945-1973

Oklahoma City diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception, Hugo, attended to St. Agnes

1973-1982

Tulsa diocesan priests at Immaculate Conception, Hugo, attended to St. Agnes

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:

1897-1925 (closed)

Tuskahoma station

1909-1912 (transferred to St. William's, Durant)

St. William Mission, Boswell

1909-1912 (transferred to Blessed Sacrament, Coalgate)

St. Henry Mission, Bentley

1919-1933 (closed)

St. William Mission, Boswell

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 otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Archives.

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