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Sweet Home Acres, A true story by Oklahoma's author Mosezickle Ray Pitts II based on the lives of an American Quardroon family that began in Mayumba Africa which set the chain of events in 1822 Newberry South Carolina. After the Civil War, President Benjamin Harrison opened two million acres of land for settlement during the 1889 Landrun north of the Red River. Many settlers ran toward the twin territories and claimed millions of Indian surplus land. During the year of 1891 in the Otoe district of Indian territory, a community of settlers inhabited the territory and called it the Sweet Home Community, its the home of the Sweet Home Baptist Church and Sweet Home Acres was the original homestead of pioneer settler Rufus Morgan Pitts who patented the Rufus Pitts headright as it is called today. In 1902 President Theodore Roosevelt signed the declaration of ownership issued and assigned the 160 acre tract of land to Rufus Morgan Pitts which was later sold for $1,000.00 at public auction due to the negligence of his widow Vera Pitts in 1941 by her second husband Christmas Ragsdale who once worked for Pitts on the farm once known as Sweet Home Acres.