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Gee is a former community in
Pushmataha County Pushmataha County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,572. Its county seat is Antlers. The county was created at statehood from part of the former territory of the C ...
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Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
, United States, 11 miles southeast of Clayton. A United States Post Office operated there from May 22, 1909, to November 30, 1911. No longer in existence, it was named for Henry V. Gee, first
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. Gee (1868-1916) is buried in the cemetery in Nolia, a nearby community. George H. Shirk, ''Oklahoma Place Names'', p. 87; ''Pushmataha County Cemeteries'', p. 228; Post Office Site Location Reports, Record Group 28, National Archives. More information on Gee and the Little River valley may be found in the
Pushmataha County Historical Society The Pushmataha County Historical Society is a historical society devoted to collecting and preserving the history of Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It is headquartered in the historic Frisco Depot in Antlers, Oklahoma, which it operates as a public ...
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