The Okie Legacy: NW Okie's Journey Walking With Sadie 1744 Plat of Calf Pasture Settlement Our Presidents The President's Message To You (15 April 1917) Father's Day History (104 years) Robert Gwin, 1720-1785 (5th Great Grandfather)

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Volume 16 , Issue 21

2014

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NW Okie's Journey

Did you know during the 1920s and 1930s there was a movement to scrap Mothers Day and Fathers Day altogether in favor of a single holiday allied Parents Day?

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Walking With Sadie

My buddy schnauzer, Ruff, is our armchair reporter this week. That's him in his recliner. Everyone likes Ruff and his human, Robert! Especially this little black Pug!

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1744 Plat of Calf Pasture Settlement

Concerning the Calf Pasture Settlers in Virginia -- All here are Irish -- all are Presbyterians, according to description of the people of Augusta County, from a letter written by a Presbyterian minister.

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Our Presidents

The following poem of Our Presidents was found in the 1 January 1909 edition of The Indian Advocate, Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. This was written by someone using their initials,G.M., in the early 1900's. What will the Presidents that followed Taft, up to the 21st century look, read like in a similar poem?

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The President's Message To You (15 April 1917)

This message from the President, April 15, 1917, appeared in The Oklahoma City Times, May 12, 1917, as The President's Message to You, from the White House. It rather long letter, and I will submit it here as space see fits.

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Father's Day History (104 years)

According to online sources, Father's Day was celebrated 104 years ago, on the third Sunday of June. It was on 19 July 1910, the governor of the state of Washington proclaimed the nation's first Father's Day. But it was not until 1972, 58 years after, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.

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Robert Gwin, 1720-1785 (5th Great Grandfather)

Robert Gwin, who was an emigrant ca. 1738, from Wales, on the ship Walpole. In 1746 Robert Gwin was appointed constable at head of Great Calf Pasture River, Augusta county, Virginia. He served in the early Colonial Wars against the Indians in 1756 in Captain William Preston's company of Rangers.

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