Martha Alice Selectman and Lawrence Nile Houston

LAWRENCE NILE HOUSTON, son of TABITHA KIMBALL and SAMUEL DEXTER HOUSTON, was born July 9, 1858 in Manhattan, Riley, Kansas,^{4718, 6720} and died January 3, 1945 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.⁶⁷²⁰ He is buried in Okmulgee Cemetery, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.^{6720, 456}

He married MARTHA ALICE SELECTMAN on November 1, 1880 in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri.⁴⁵⁶ She was born February 26, 1858 in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri,⁶⁷²¹ and died March 9, 1945 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.⁶⁷²¹ She is buried in Okmulgee Cemetery, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.^{6721, 456}

• Descendant Reports
  • Samuel Houston Descendant Report (Ancestor of Lawrence N. Houston)

Children of MARTHA ALICE SELECTMAN and LAWRENCE NILE HOUSTON:

1. LABLANCHE HOUSTON, b. August, 1881, Concordia, Cloud, Kansas;⁶⁷¹⁹ m. JOHN PERCIVAL COOK on August 19, 1903 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma^{2330, 4738}; d. March 12, 1966, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.^{456, 6719}
2. LOYD HOUSTON, b. 1883;⁴⁵⁶ d. 1883.⁴⁵⁶
3. HAZEL KIRK HOUSTON, b. September 23, 1886, Concordia, Cloud, Kansas;⁴⁵³² m. GUY LEO LEVERS on August 15, 1909 in Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma²³³⁰; d. July 13, 1951, Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.⁶⁹¹³
4. HAROLD HEARST HOUSTON, b. September 23, 1886, Concordia, Cloud, Kansas;⁷⁹⁸⁴ m. VELMYA ARLETTA FOSTER on April 5, 1914 in Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma^{2330, 7983}; d. June 21, 1971, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.⁷⁹⁸⁴

Personal Information

• Martha Alice Selectman was a member of the First Methodist Church, Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma. ⁶⁷²¹

Work History

Clubs and Associations

Obituaries

Daily Oklahoman, January 4, 1945⁶⁷²⁰

L. N. Houston, State Pioneer, Dies in City

Lawrence Nile Houston, 86, pioneer Oklahoma resident and founder of the Okmulgee Daily Times, died Wednesday at St. Anthony hospital, following an illness of several months.

Houston, who was born July 9, 1858 at Manhattan, Kan., came to Enid at the opening of the Cherokee Strip in September, 1893, where he served as city attorney for a number of years. He later served as register of the United States land office at Guthrie, where he moved in 1906.

Houston served there until 1915, later moving to Okmulgee where he helped found the Okmulgee Daily Times, which he served as vice-president until recent years. He maintained his home in Okmulgee but due to ill health was living with his daughter, Mrs. John P. Cook, 1325 NW 19.

Son of Samuel Dexter Houston, Kan. pioneer, Houston was a graduate of Kansas State college law school, and served as county clerk and county attorney of Cloud county, Kan., for 10 years before coming to Oklahoma.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice M. Houston, Okmulgee; one son, H. H. Houston, Tulsa; and two daughters, Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Guy L. Levers, 1225 1/2 NW 18; two sisters, Mrs. Hortense Martin, Miami, and Miss Lou Houston, Denver, Colo.

Services will be conducted at the First Methodist church, Okmulgee, with burial there, under the direction of the Davis funeral home. Time of services had not been set Wednesday night.

Daily Oklahoman, March 11, 1945⁶⁷²¹

Alice Houston Rites Monday At Okmulgee

Services and burial for Mrs. Alice M. Houston, 87, who died late Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John P. Cook, will be Monday in Okmulgee.

Widow of the late Judge L. N. Houston, she had been visiting with her daughter at her residence, 1325 NW 19. Her death followed that of her husband by just two months.

Mrs. Houston had been a resident of Okmulgee for 30 years. She was born in Savannah, Mo., Feb. 16, 1858. She and her husband pioneered Oklahoma Territory, settling at Enid in 1893. Mrs. Houston was one of the founding members of the First Methodist church in Enid. THey later lived at Guthrie before moving to Okmulgee.

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

She is survived by one other daughter, Mrs. Guy L. Levers, 1215 1/2 NW 18; one son, H. H. Houston, Tulsa; nine grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
April 6, 18604720	Riley County, Kansas	Samuel Dexter Houston Tabitha Kimball Katharine Amanda Houston Annie Elizabeth Houston Samuel Dexter Houston Mary Louella Houston Charles Sumner Houston Lawrence Nile Houston
June 6, 18704719	Manhattan, Riley, Kansas	Samuel Dexter Houston Tabitha Kimball Samuel Dexter Houston Mary Louella Houston Charles Sumner Houston Lawrence Nile Houston Ulysses Grant Houston Hortense Lorene Houston LaBlanche Houston
June 8, 18804724	Concordia, Cloud, Kansas	Samuel Dexter Houston Mary E. White Samuel Dexter Houston Mary Louella Houston Lawrence Nile Houston Ulysses Grant Houston Helen Houston
June 7, 19004732	Enid, Garfield, Oklahoma	Lawrence Nile Houston Martha Alice Selectman Harold Hearst Houston LaBlanche Houston Hazel Kirk Houston
April 30, 19104733	Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma	Lawrence Nile Houston Martha Alice Selectman Harold Hearst Houston Hazel Kirk Houston Guy Leo Levers