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William Henry Harrison Keltner
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Hickory Cemetery
Hickory, Murray County, Oklahoma

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Information furnished by Martha Reddout

© Marietta Monitor
24 March 2023, Page 5
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Near Leon was a settlement called Keltner. At one time there was a school and a post office in the small community. In fact, there is a Keltner Road located in the same area today. The post office was established in 1892, and the first postmaster was William Keltner.

William Henry Harrison Keltner was born in Fannin County, Texas, in 1852. The Keltner family crossed the Red River and moved into the Choctaw Nation. James Christopher Columbus Keltner married Nancy Spring who was a quarter Choctaw and they settled near Leon.

Their son, William Henry Harrison Keltner, left home and began working as a cowboy. In 1874, he left the ranch work and became a stake driver on the railroad. He eventually became qualified as a civil engineer and followed that profession until 1895, amassing several large tracts of land.
 

In 1900 he moved to his farm on Red River and lived there until 1912 at which time he moved to Reck, six miles south of Wilson to a 600-acre farm. His Red River farm had consisted of over 2,000 acres.
 

At one time he served on the Love County Election Board, was postmaster at the Keltner community, and is listed as one of the owners of the Marietta Telephone Company in 1896. The Red River farm was located east of Leon where he had a large peach orchard and cannery. The road to Marietta ran through his farm.
 

Keltner was also a minister of the Church of Christ. He married twice. His second wife was of Chickasaw descent. William H.H. Keltner died in 1946 and is buried at Hickory in Murray County.

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