Lydia Van Loon was born in Illinois in 1863 to John W. Van Loon and Bethiah Jenkins Van Loon, and her family moved to Maries County, Missouri when she was a young child. Her parents likely died before she was grown--likely in Missouri--because she and her siblings were all raised by their eldest sister, Alice Van Loon Goas, in Missouri. Lyda likely was a teenager when this happened.
In the early Spring of 1885, she set out to head to the west coast to the Pacific Ocean; she got off the train in Red Fork, Indian Territory (southwest Tulsa, OK), and stayed. She met her future husband, C.D. "Tony" Antone--who had come southwest from New York to move logs from Sapulpa to Red Fork--and married him June 9, 1885 or 1886. In December of that year, they moved to Sapulpa Station (now Sapulpa, OK); she was the first white woman in Sapulpa. They raised their family there, and saw the small railroad station grow into a town and then a city.
She and her husband ran the Antone Stockade, which was a frontier bed and breakfast and restaurant, and often served both outlaws and lawmen. She invited her sister, Anna Lee Van Loon, to help her in 1888. Anna Lee married James P. Watkins the following year. The sisters remained in the Sapulpa area.
Lydia Antone and husband Tony Antone had six children. Three of her children and her husband preceded her in death. She passed from this world a few minutes before midnight on December 15, 1930, and was laid to rest on December 17, next to her husband and three of her children, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
SISTER:
Alice Van Loon Goas (1854-1940)
BROTHER:
John Wesley Van Loon (1858-1933)
BROTHER:
Horace Van Loon (1860-1932)
SISTER:
Anna Lee Van Loon (1870-1940)
BROTHER:
Ira Van Loon (1873-1953)
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SOURCES:
Oral Family History
1968 newspaper article, Sapulpa Herald, page five
Ancestry.com databases:
1870 US Federal Census. Jackson, Maries, Missouri, USA
1900 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, USA
1910 US Federal Census. Sapulpa Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
1920 US Federal Census. Red Fork, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
1930 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Death Certificate. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming Historical Journal. Summer 2003, Vol. 75, No. 3, Page 28, Seventy Times Seven, by Larry K. Brown
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In the early Spring of 1885, she set out to head to the west coast to the Pacific Ocean; she got off the train in Red Fork, Indian Territory (southwest Tulsa, OK), and stayed. She met her future husband, C.D. "Tony" Antone--who had come southwest from New York to move logs from Sapulpa to Red Fork--and married him June 9, 1885 or 1886. In December of that year, they moved to Sapulpa Station (now Sapulpa, OK); she was the first white woman in Sapulpa. They raised their family there, and saw the small railroad station grow into a town and then a city.
She and her husband ran the Antone Stockade, which was a frontier bed and breakfast and restaurant, and often served both outlaws and lawmen. She invited her sister, Anna Lee Van Loon, to help her in 1888. Anna Lee married James P. Watkins the following year. The sisters remained in the Sapulpa area.
Lydia Antone and husband Tony Antone had six children. Three of her children and her husband preceded her in death. She passed from this world a few minutes before midnight on December 15, 1930, and was laid to rest on December 17, next to her husband and three of her children, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
SISTER:
Alice Van Loon Goas (1854-1940)
BROTHER:
John Wesley Van Loon (1858-1933)
BROTHER:
Horace Van Loon (1860-1932)
SISTER:
Anna Lee Van Loon (1870-1940)
BROTHER:
Ira Van Loon (1873-1953)
==========
SOURCES:
Oral Family History
1968 newspaper article, Sapulpa Herald, page five
Ancestry.com databases:
1870 US Federal Census. Jackson, Maries, Missouri, USA
1900 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, USA
1910 US Federal Census. Sapulpa Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
1920 US Federal Census. Red Fork, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
1930 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Death Certificate. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming Historical Journal. Summer 2003, Vol. 75, No. 3, Page 28, Seventy Times Seven, by Larry K. Brown
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Lydia Van Loon was born in Illinois in 1863 to John W. Van Loon and Bethiah Jenkins Van Loon, and her family moved to Maries County, Missouri when she was a young child. Her parents likely died before she was grown--likely in Missouri--because she and her siblings were all raised by their eldest sister, Alice Van Loon Goas, in Missouri. Lyda likely was a teenager when this happened.
In the early Spring of 1885, she set out to head to the west coast to the Pacific Ocean; she got off the train in Red Fork, Indian Territory (southwest Tulsa, OK), and stayed. She met her future husband, C.D. "Tony" Antone--who had come southwest from New York to move logs from Sapulpa to Red Fork--and married him June 9, 1885 or 1886. In December of that year, they moved to Sapulpa Station (now Sapulpa, OK); she was the first white woman in Sapulpa. They raised their family there, and saw the small railroad station grow into a town and then a city.
She and her husband ran the Antone Stockade, which was a frontier bed and breakfast and restaurant, and often served both outlaws and lawmen. She invited her sister, Anna Lee Van Loon, to help her in 1888. Anna Lee married James P. Watkins the following year. The sisters remained in the Sapulpa area.
Lydia Antone and husband Tony Antone had six children. Three of her children and her husband preceded her in death. She passed from this world a few minutes before midnight on December 15, 1930, and was laid to rest on December 17, next to her husband and three of her children, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
SISTER:
Alice Van Loon Goas (1854-1940)
BROTHER:
John Wesley Van Loon (1858-1933)
BROTHER:
Horace Van Loon (1860-1932)
SISTER:
Anna Lee Van Loon (1870-1940)
BROTHER:
Ira Van Loon (1873-1953)
==========
SOURCES:
Oral Family History
1968 newspaper article, Sapulpa Herald, page five
Ancestry.com databases:
1870 US Federal Census. Jackson, Maries, Missouri, USA
1900 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, USA
1910 US Federal Census. Sapulpa Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
1920 US Federal Census. Red Fork, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
1930 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Death Certificate. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming Historical Journal. Summer 2003, Vol. 75, No. 3, Page 28, Seventy Times Seven, by Larry K. Brown
==========
In the early Spring of 1885, she set out to head to the west coast to the Pacific Ocean; she got off the train in Red Fork, Indian Territory (southwest Tulsa, OK), and stayed. She met her future husband, C.D. "Tony" Antone--who had come southwest from New York to move logs from Sapulpa to Red Fork--and married him June 9, 1885 or 1886. In December of that year, they moved to Sapulpa Station (now Sapulpa, OK); she was the first white woman in Sapulpa. They raised their family there, and saw the small railroad station grow into a town and then a city.
She and her husband ran the Antone Stockade, which was a frontier bed and breakfast and restaurant, and often served both outlaws and lawmen. She invited her sister, Anna Lee Van Loon, to help her in 1888. Anna Lee married James P. Watkins the following year. The sisters remained in the Sapulpa area.
Lydia Antone and husband Tony Antone had six children. Three of her children and her husband preceded her in death. She passed from this world a few minutes before midnight on December 15, 1930, and was laid to rest on December 17, next to her husband and three of her children, in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
SISTER:
Alice Van Loon Goas (1854-1940)
BROTHER:
John Wesley Van Loon (1858-1933)
BROTHER:
Horace Van Loon (1860-1932)
SISTER:
Anna Lee Van Loon (1870-1940)
BROTHER:
Ira Van Loon (1873-1953)
==========
SOURCES:
Oral Family History
1968 newspaper article, Sapulpa Herald, page five
Ancestry.com databases:
1870 US Federal Census. Jackson, Maries, Missouri, USA
1900 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, USA
1910 US Federal Census. Sapulpa Ward 3, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
1920 US Federal Census. Red Fork, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
1930 US Federal Census. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Death Certificate. Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, USA
Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming Historical Journal. Summer 2003, Vol. 75, No. 3, Page 28, Seventy Times Seven, by Larry K. Brown
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