Volume 9 , Issue 16

Back Home Again

This NW Okie is happy to report that she made it back to southwest Colorado, Friday afternoon with enough time to unload, rest up and pet on her pugs while they gave me their special pug kisses.

AND... Saturday afternoon brought thunder storms and graupel to the valley south of Bayfield, Colorado. Also, I noticed that the SW Colorado gas prices were the same as when I left for Oklahoma (thirty-cents higher than Oklahoma's gas prices).

I had the pleasure to met one of our "OkieLegacy" readers while I was at the Shawnee Horse Expo Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma last Saturday. I guess that is just one of the many things that recharges my energy... getting to met some of you out there. Thanks, Jan, for stopping by and looking me up at the Horse Expo Center. It was great meeting, talking to you and your mother.

While I was in Oklahoma City at the History Center (pictured above, on the left), I found some interesting 1924 information to share with you all in the coming weeks as we venture back to the year 1903, 1907 and 1924 in northwest Oklahoma and across the state.

This NW Okie really got lucky and was able to find the full date of the 1924 family farm house fire that took the life of four members of the Osborne family, January 4, 1924 on their farm about 18 miles northwest of Alva, near the Winchester, Oklahoma area. That information is according to the news articles that I found in the local newspapers ("The Alva Record" and "The Daily Alva Review-Courier") of 1924.

All we had to go on was the year. I thought it would be similar to finding a needle in a haystack, BUT... that was not the case. I pulled the 1924 "The Daily Alva Review-Courier," dated January 4, 1924 on microfilm and there was the big headline, spread across the front page, "2 Die, 1 Fatally Burned In Winchester Fire." It jumped out at me and stared me in the face.

As I read closer, I realized that I had found what I was looking for on the first try. Something that local libraries would not do without a full date. Anyway, we have stuck the Osborne obituaries below in the Mailbag Section, with a summary of the fatal farm house fire of 1924.

New Column for OkieLegacy... This week we will be starting a new column entitled "Okielegacy Centennial Moment" to help mark the 100th anniversary of Oklahoma & Indian Territories merging marriage to become the 46th state, November 16, 1907.

If you have any family centennial stories to share, we would love to include them in our OkieLegacy centennial moments. Please email your stories and photos to NW Okie at paristimes@hughes.net. Thanks for your support!

Happy 58th Birthday to Amber McGill Colon this weekend, Saturday, April 21st!
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