And Mr. Brewster that inked the deal with Jed lived in Tulsa.
They claimed Texas roots a couple of times, the oak/pine/hickory forest of the Southeastern states occupies a large part of deep East Texas, where you would also have found hills, a subspecies of Hillbilly, and a fair amount of oil. Their speech mannerisms, however, had nothing to do with Texas, especially deep East Texas back in the day when the slow cadence of speaking was greatly exaggerated by mangled pronunciation accompanied by a maddening elision in the middle of most sentences. Interestingly, this is the speech pattern W Bush used for his fake Texas accent. Jed’s (no not Jeb’s) favorite exclamation of “Weee Doggies” puts me in mind of the sort of polite as marshmallows cursing one might hear from a Tennessee gentlemen when the ladies are around. Check out No Time For Sergeants by Mac Hyman and also Andy Griffith’s portrayal of Will Stockdale in the movie version to see where all the hillbilly silliness came from.
I’m confused. If she’s Jed’s mother-in-law, how could she not be Elly May’s granny? Did Jed or his late wife have a fling on the side? :dubious: 
As an aside here, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family was Morticia’s uncle, not Gomez’s brother, as was claimed in the movies.
I agree that Granny’s last name was Moses, (or was that her maiden name?)
Though given the way cousins marry in those parts, it’s not that implausible that Jed’s mother-in-law could have the same surname. 
Gomez did have a brother, Pancho, though he didn’t appear in the series. He was in the 1977 TV movie Halloween With the New Addams Family, played by Henry Darrow. Almost all of the original cast members except for Blossom Rock returned for the movie.
It’s possible that the scene I’m remembering involved Jed and Jethro but that doesn’t really make sense either because Jethro would have known that his uncle’s MIL was not his grandmother.
That just shows there were oil companies in Oklahoma that would have gone in and done the deal since there probably weren’t any in Arkansas. Where my mother’s family was, it was only 35 miles from the Oklahoma state line. One great-uncle even went off to work the oil fields around Tulsa. No, the Clampetts were not in Oklahoma, but the company buying their oil was.
No one at the time seriously entertained any notion that the Clampetts were from Oklahoma or Texas. The mere suggestion simply boggles the mind.
I’ve never in my life heard of anyone in or from Oklahoma or Texas being referred to as a “mountaineer” either, poor or otherwise.
Maybe she was Pearl’s grandma or MIL too?
I wonder if anyone connected with the show ever sat down and drew out a Clampett/Bodine/Moses/Bradley family tree…
Then again, this is Jethro we’re talking about.
In 1962 when the show started the abbreviation for Oklahoma was Okla. not OK. Two letter abbreviations were adopted the next year.
Oklahoma as “OK” predates a zip code introduction. Start with the lyrics to the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.
Before 1962, people used all kinds of abbreviations. The postal service used a lot of pre-existing abbreviations.
It doesn’t matter what the abbreviation for Oklahoma was, because the Clampetts were not there. Is there some sort of law that says an oil strike in a state must be processed by a company inside the same state?
And as was mentioned earlier, there were never any mountaineers in Oklahoma, and for one very good reason.
If you look at a map, you’ll see that Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee come together at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. It’s my guess the Hillbillies came from here, within a radius of 100 miles or so. This would definitely place them in an area of interest to the OK Oil Co.
The very eastern edge of Oklahoma does cut into the Ozarks. I’ve been there. Very green. But I agree the Clampetts were not Sooners.
I think I assumed they were from the southern end of Missouri, because that’s where I’m from. But I appreciate that they’re meant to be from a sort of vague “up in the hills” that could be recognizable to viewers in multiple states, rather than being firmly set in one particular place.
You don’t need very cold winters to get ice. Little Rock is subtropical, but still gets ice storms.
Bad enough to make you want to move to California?
Yes, I don’t know about Little Rock but it gets really cold in the Ozarks during the winter. Part of my family lives in Northwestern Arkansas and it isn’t uncommon for it to be colder there during the winter than it is for me in New England. One of the coldest nights I have ever spent was in Fayetteville, AR when it was -12F.
The seasonal temperature swings are wild in that part of the country as you can see here:
http://www.intellicast.com/local/history.aspx?location=USAR0189
I really doubt the kinfolk would have said “Jed, move away from here!”. I would expect most of them to say “Rich Uncle Jed, y’all know y’all always been mah favorite kin, right?”