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3.	Nora McArthur - born on August 27, 1895 as found on her baptism record at O. L. G. Church. She was listed as “Nora McCarthy.” In the 1910 census of Ardmore, OK, we find “Nora McCarty,” bom 1897 in MS, Indian, and living with her “aunt,” Ann Barns, who was bom in 1875 in MS. This Nora is most likely Johnny McArthur’s daughter.
Johnny’s first wife died, and he remarried to Mary “Mamie” or “May May” LaFontaine in Hancock County but had no children by her. Mary was the daughter of Antoine LaFontaine and Fannie Favre (see our Francois Favre History for more on her). Mary was first married to a Berton “Bud” Lindsley and had one child by him: Alice, bom in 1898 who was first married to Cleveland Taylor and second to Joseph French. She resided in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and had a daughter, Inez that was married to William LaRossa of Oklahoma City. Inez had one son called James.
In 1901 Johnny, Mary, and the four girls moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma with the Indian migration to the reservation there. After arriving in Oklahoma, Johnny and Mary separated. He moved to Kingston, Oklahoma where he died around the year 1909. Mary remarried a third time to Justin Skidmore in Oklahoma and had no children by him. She died and is buried in Oklahoma under the Skidmore name.
Johnny’s three daughters were last known to be married and living in and around Ardmore, Oklahoma. Mrs. French has long since lost contact with her three stepsisters and could not give any additional information on them.
On March 17, 1906 “John McCarty” gave a deposition to the Government Indian Agents regarding him and his family’s “Indian blood.” In it, John “Johnny”
McArthur gave the following:
*	He was about age 35 or 36 at that time (1870 - 1871).
*	He lived in Lone Grove, Indian Territory.
*	His father was “Jack McCarty” and mother was “Millie Yearby.”
*	His sister, “Nancy McCarty” married first to (first name forgotten) “Agloff.”
*	His sister, Nancy had a child called “Vallery Bour-ris.”
*	He had three children: Lillie, Mary, and Nora McCarty.
*	Many other details regarding this family.
II.	Lott McArthur - from all indications, he was the second bom in this family, probably shortly after his parents arrived in Hancock County, MS. Although we do not have a specific date of birth for Lott, we can refer to the previously mentioned 1820, 1830, and 1840 Hancock censuses and conclude that he was bom in or around the year 1812.
From later census records of his children, they state that their father was bom in “Mississippi.” Then we found the obituary for Lott McArthur in the Gainesville Advocate, dated July 26, 1845 (Vol. 1, p. 3). It said he died “on Sunday, inst.” (or July 20, 1845) at “age about 30” (thus bom “about” 1815). Same paper, issue dated April 11,
1846, page 4, is a notice for “all persons having claims against the estate of Lott McArthur, deceased, are notified to present them duly. /S. M. McArthur, extr.” (Found on microfilm of “original newspapers” at the University of Southern Mississippi library in Hattiesburg, MS)
Lott grew up in the area of Hancock County called Gainesville on the Pearl River.
This is where the NASA Test Facility (Stennis) now stands. As discussed in the D’auby Family History, Lott married Marcelline Celeste D’auby in Hancock County, MS. Early
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