Volume 10 , Issue 18

Herb Gold's Street Pickups - 1937

While I was thumbing through the Pioneer Footprints 1886-1986 history of Northwest Oklahoma, I came upon an interesting bio for Benjamin Berry that had a comment taken from one of Herb Gold's columns, entitled "Street Pickups," dated December, 1937, after Benjamin Berry's death.

This was also shortly after our Great-Grandfather, John R. Warwick, had passed away. That's why this Gold comment was of interest to this NW Okie.

Gold's Street Pickups comment went like this: "Jacob Achenbach, John Warwick and Milt Berry, three good friends gone in three days; I have known each of them 35 years or more. I'll have to make new acquaintances else at this rate I'll soon be a stranger here. In the Spring of 1901 I helped Trustee Harry Hall, make up the assessment list of Fritzlen Township. Harry read off the names: Ben Berry, Joe Berry and Milt Berry. I remarked to Harry that with so many Berries there should be a bush about. Sure enough the next name was James M. Bush. Milt's passing removed the last member of the family on the Fritzlen tax roll. Ben Berry was Milt's father, a crippled Union veteran and was one of the best 'Old Time Fiddlers' I ever heard play."

So... from that piece of Gold's column I learned that he was a friend of my Great-Grandfather John R. Warwick. Maybe there are some other descendants out there who have heard more stories and read other comments from Herb Gold's Street Pickups Columns in the early Woods County News of Northwest Oklahoma. We would love to share them here in our OkieLegacy ezine/tabloid.
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