Note: [gurley.FTW] Misss Nell sue Jones attended the University of Alabama, tahght at the Rice Shcool, then left for Oklahoma to participate in the Cimaron Runof 1889. Nell Jones, driving her buggy alone, found a desirable site, and filed her claim. she became one of the first schoolteachers in Oklahoma City. she taught classes during the morning, and cultivated her land in the afternoon. It was said that she developed a hihg degree of skill at marksmanship by shooting rattlesnakes on her farm. After several years, she sold out and returned to teaching in Alabama and Texas. she died in 1839 at the home of her niece, Mrs. Eugene Hanszen (Gillie Mae Whitman) in Dallas, at which time her obituary in the Dallas paper recounted her adventures as an Oklahoma homesteader.
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