The Okie Legacy: Obituary: DeVerl Paris (1928-2013) Old Timers In Three Counties Smith Cleaners in Alva Baseball Memories & Connection of 1903-06 Hankin's Dairy & Smith's College Cleaners Great Grandma's Bible Warren Spahn Grandma's German Thrieviel Sup German POW Camp In Texas History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - War of 1861 (cont.) NW Okie's Corner Over Hundred Years Ago - 28 January 1913 Duchess of Weaselskin

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Volume 15 , Issue 4

2013

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Duchess of Weaselskin

Snow! Snow! Snow! And more Snow keeps falling. It started Sunday with a wet, heavy snow that continued into the evening hours and knocked out our electricity during the day at the north end of Vallecito, north of Bayfield, Colorado. It's still snowing this Monday, dumping almost over eight inches of that white, fluffy stuff on the old.

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Over Hundred Years Ago - 28 January 1913

One hundred years ago today, 28 January 1913, one of the second page headlines in The Democratic Banner, out of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, read: "Reception Cut Out At the Inauguration." There are some other interesting headlines as well, but we picked this one.

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NW Okie's Corner

This Saturday a group of citizens from Bayfield, Durango, Vallecito and other parts of Colorado gathered in the 2300 block of County Road 500 to help keep the memory of missing Dylan Redwine alive. Dylan went missing a few days before Thanksgiving, 2012, when he was visiting his father at Vallecito. The following is a home video of the Redwine Rally for Dylan held Saturday, January 26, 2013, in front of his father's home.

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History of Rockbridge County, Virginia - War of 1861 (cont.)

We continue where we left off last week with Rockbridge county, Virginia History and it's part in the War of 1861, as compiled by Oren F. Morton around 1910 (1912).

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Grandma's German Thrieviel Sup

Remember this feature concerning Grandma's German Thrieviel Sup that the OkieLegacy featured in Vol. IV. 2002, of the OkieLegacy Ezine? We received this recipe for "Grandma's German Thrieviel Sup" (I believe) from Rod Murrow back in 2002. Thought it was worth saving to our OkieLegacy database archives.

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German POW Camp In Texas

I just thought you might be interested in reading the attached story (click on image for story), taken from the Jan/Feb. 2002 Reminisce magazine. It is a story about a German POW camp in Texas.

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Warren Spahn

Virtual Baseball Hall of Fame Gallery, Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame . . . Who Was Warren Spahn? Spahn was born: April 23, 1921, Buffalo, New York; Bats: left; Throws: left; Elected to Hall of Fame by BBWAA: 1973 -- 315 votes of 380 ballots cast: 82.89%.

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Great Grandma's Bible

Back in 2002, I had rummaged through some old family boxes of memories, finding what I thought to be some great family treasures. One of those treasures was my Grandmother's (Constance Estella Warwick McGill) bible that was handed down from her mother Signora Bell Gwin Warwick.

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Hankin's Dairy & Smith's College Cleaners

Before we called it a night back in 2002, Vol. IV, we asked many of you residents of Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma if you ever heard of Hankin's Dairy (located east of College in a 1934 Ad) and something called "666 Liquid Tablets Salve & Nose Drops."

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Baseball Memories & Connection of 1903-06

Back ten years ago (2002), in our Vol. IV edition of the OkieLegacy Ezine we received this story concerning Benj Whittenberg and his connection to our Grandpa McGill Baseball days.

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Smith Cleaners in Alva

This Vol IV feature of the OkieLegacy Ezine comes to us from a descendant of Erroll Smith, who operated the City Cleaners in Alva, Woods county, Oklahoma.

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Old Timers In Three Counties

This old timers story of Jessie Sluder Guffy came to the OkieLegacy about ten years via Lois Guffy, and was written by Jessie Sluder Guffy.

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Obituary: DeVerl Paris (1928-2013)

Last week the following obituary for a cousin of my mother, Vada Eileen (Paris) McGill, past away and his obituary appeared, 22 January 2013, in the Alva Review Courier.

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