Life History

Notes

• The 1900 census reports Thomas was born in Texas, but the 1910 census says Oklahoma.  His WWI and WWII Draft Registration says it was Jefferson County, Oklahoma.  That county was created at the foundiung of Oklahoma in 1907, out of mostly the Comanche-Kiowa-Apache Reservation and a small portoin of Chickasaw Naiotn.
  
  The Comanche Reservation had become open land, part of Oklahoma Territory in 1890.  So perhaps he was born in that area.  It seems more likely he was born in Texas, and the family moved to former Comanche land a few years later.  But the 1900 census, when he was 5 years old, reported his birth place as Texas.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Montague County, Texas, 11 June, Justice Precinct 4, District 52, page 6A, Hse/Fam #103
  Peacock, Timothy Head W M  Mar 1873  27 Married 8 years FL FL GA Farmer Owns
  Peacock, Mary Wife W F Nov 1872  27 Married 8 years 4 children/4 living Ind Terr TX TX
  Peacock, Thomas Son W M  Jan 1895 5 TX FL Ind Terr
  
  1910 Federal Census, Tillman County, Oklahoma, 29 April, Red River Township, District 258 (scan 1212), page 9B, Hse #151, Fam #150
  Peacock, John T  Head M W 38 Married 19 years FL US US Farmer Owns
  Peacock, Mary M  Wife F W 38 Married 19 years 7 child/7 living AR MO MO
  Peacock, Tom J Son M W 18 Single OK FL Ark
  
  In his 1917 WWI Registration he is listed simply as Thomas Peacock.
  
  U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
  Thomas Peacock
  Residence Frederick, Tillman County, Oklahoma
  Born 21 Jan 1895 Jefferson County, Oklahoma
  Farmer, Self-Employed, Frederick
  Wife and Child
  Tall, Stout, Blue Eyes, Dark Hair
  Registered 5 June 1917 Tillman County, Oklahoma
  
  His place of birth is reported as Jefferson County, Oklahoma.  This came into being after the establishment of the State of Oklahoma in November 1907.  Jefferson County was created out of part of Chickasaw Nation and a portion of Comanche County, Oklahoma Territory, which before 1890 had been part of the Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Reservation.  It is not clear exactly what location in Jefferson was the site of his birth.
  
  "It was created in 1907 from a portion of Comanche County in Oklahoma Territory and the southwestern corner of the Chickasaw Nation. A marker on S.H. 70 in Waurika, the county seat, designates the 98th Meridian, the dividing line between Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory."
  --  Jefferson County, OKGebWeb, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~okjeffer/
  
  U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
  Thomas Jefferson Peacock
  Birth 21 Jan 1895 Jefferson County, Oklahoma
  Residence Rt 1, So Edge town, Fredrick, Tillman County, Oklahoma
  Contact Mary M Peacock (Mother)
  Employer A C Shelton, Contractor, Lawton, Oklahoma
  Blue Eyes, Brown Hair, Light Hair
  Registered 25 April 1942 Frederick, Oklahoma
  
  U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current
  Thomas Peacock
  BORN 21 Jan 1895
  Died Jan 1973
  Last Residence Walters, Cotton, Oklahoma 73572
  SSN 442-12-2730 issued Oklahoma (Before 1951)
  
  Thomas J Peacock
  Birth Jan. 21, 1895
  Death Feb. 1, 1973
  age 78yr
  Burial Walters Cemetery, Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma
  Created by David Woody Oct 13, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #78345143, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Peacock&GSiman=1&GScid=99738&GRid=78345143&

Sources

• 1. 1910 Federal Census, Tillman County, Oklahoma
  • 29 April, Red River Township, District 258 (scan 1212), page 9B, Hse #151, Fam #150
• 2. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 3. 1900 Federal Census, Montague County, Texas
  • 11 June, Justice Precinct 4, District 52, page 6A, Hse/Fam #103
• 4. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 5. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 6. OKGenWeb
  • Jefferson County, Oklahoma