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Note: LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT ELI. HE WAS FIRST MARRIED TO CORA WHO GAVE BIRTH TO JOHN N. HEWITT. WHEN JOHN WAS 3 YEARS OLD CORA DIED (1893). HE WAS A TRUE PIONEER GOING INTO OKLAHOMA LONG BEFORE THE TERRITORY WAS OPENED TO SETTLEMENT. HE LIVED OUTSIDE PAULS VALLEY, OKLAHOMA IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS WHITEBEAD, OKLA. THE PAULS VALLEY DEMO CRATE (NEWS PAPER) STATED THE FOLLOWING ON JANUARY 16, 1916
"E.F. HEWITT, A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN AND FARMER LIVING NEAR WHITEBEAD AGED 52 YEARS, DIED AT HIS HOME MONDAY OF LINGERING ILLNESS OF KIDNEY DISEASE. THE FUNERAL SERVICES TOOK PLACE AT HIS RESIDENCE TUESDAY AFTERNOON CONDUCTED BY REV J.B. REEVES AND THE REMAINS WERE BURIED IN THE WHITEBEAD CEMETERY. MR. HEWITT IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN. HE WAS ONE OF THE OLD TIMERS IN THE COUNTRY."(Only child known is John Nelson Hewitt)
JOHN IS THE ONLY KNOWN CHILD OF ELI. WHO THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IS UNKNOWN. SEE DEATH CERTIFICATE #C1266 OKLA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
AFTER CORA"S DEATH, HE EITHER LIVED WITH OR MARRIED EVA WHO DID A GREAT JOB OF BEING JOHNS' MOTHER. ELI IS APPARENTLY BURIED NEXT TO CORA IN THE WHITEBEAD, OKLA CEMENTARY OUTSIDE OF PAULS VALLEY, OKLA. ELI MARRIAGE TO CORA OCCURRED IN TATE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI AND IS ON CD RECORD #5 TITLED MARRIAGE, AR, MS, MO, TX UNDER RECORD NO H3OO & J300 Sec III, Chap 69
HIS NAME ON THAT RECORD SHOWS AS E. T. HEWITT. TATE COUNTY MAY HAVE BEEN SPLIT UP INTO TATE AND DESOTO COUNTIES IN 1879 . . . . . . . . . IT ALSO MAY BE TRUE THAT TATE COUNTY WAS NOT CREATED UNTIL 1880 CENSUS
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