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Volume 5 , Issue 10

2003

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Oakie's NW Corner

With March here, is Spring far behind? We were traveling to OKC from Alva the other afternoon, March 3, Monday. Out in the countryside a few miles south of Alva and west of Carmen, Oklahoma a huge gaggle of geese were heading north. When we were getting near Oklahoma City and traveling along the NW highway, a few miles west of OKC, we spotted another, but smaller, gaggle of geese heading northward.

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NW OK Marriage 1943

Meixner-Harney - Wednesday,1943, Alva, Okla. - Elizabeth Meixner Married To Ensign Lew Harney Wednesday - Miss Elizabeth Meixner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Meixner, Sr., Alva, became the bide of Ensign Lew Harney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hal H. Harney, Hansen, Idaho, Wednesday morning at the home of the bride's mother, 922 Center. The single-ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. M.F. Langley, pastor of the First Baptist church.

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Early 1890s Family Quilt

McGill Family Quilt --

Recently this part of the McGill family has acquired an early 1890s McGill family quilt. The quilt books called the pattern the North Carolina Rose.

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NW OK Pioneers

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Waynoka Historical Society -Membership & Annual Fund Drive

"The Waynoka Historical Society is conducting a Membership & Annual Fund Drive. Annual dues are $25, and include free admission to the
museum, and a subscription to the Waynoka Chronicles, a quarterly publication that is new this year. Of course donations of any amount are appreciated so very much. They also have special funds for the Log Cabin Restoration and Depot Restoration.

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Birdie Smecher - Smelcher Sod House, Early Woods county

Smelcher Sod House -- "This photo from my Barnett family collection of early Woods County is inscribed, 'Birdie Smelcer [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


Riggs-Murrow wedding 1942

"A writer in the March 1st edition of your newsletter's "Mailbag" mentioned the 1942 article of my parents' wedding in the Dacoma newspaper -- Miss Dolores Riggs and Mr [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


Teachers Institute Photo

"I was very interested in the photo of the 1894 Teachers Institute. Mary Jane Riggs was a teacher at the Green Valley school, which was originally located on land donated for that purpose by her brother, Grant Riggs. We have a photo of her and the students posed in front of the original sod house structure in the early 1890s.

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Oklahoma Survey and Virtual Cemetery

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Alva Public Library - Genealogy Section

"Something you want to look at when you are in Alva (Oklahoma) if you haven't seen them before at the library in the genealogy section there are about 10-12 Volumes of books about Alva and the surrounding area residents or former residents.

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Riggs-Murrow (handwritten above article - Dacoma 2-20-42)

Wedding vows were exchanged between Miss Delores Riggs and Dean Murrow at high noon Sunday in the home of the bridegroom's parents, Mr [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


Waynoka Post Office

"Your newsletter is wonderful! I wanted to add some history of the Waynoka Post Office, which you correctly said was the first one in Woods County - and quite possibly the first one in the Cherokee Outlet other than at Camp Supply.

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Louisiana Luxury Token

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Delhotal-Murrow Wedding - 1943

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Carmen Home - Orphanage

"Did you ever learn anything more about the Carmen Odd Fellows Home located north of Carmen, Oklahoma? My father and his three sisters lived there from about 1920 - 1922 (their mother died and their father couldn't care for them until after he remarried) and I'm looking for anything I can find out about the place (how many children lived there at the time, what was life like for them, etc [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


Heritage Day Rally - Oklahoma State Capitol

"Fellow Genealogists, You are invited to a Heritage Day Rally at the Oklahoma State Capitol on Tuesday, March 11. Sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society and a coalition of Oklahoma historical, genealogical and lineage organizations to show appreciation for our history and support for the preservation of that history, the day will begin at 10:00 a.m. at the auditorium of the Wiley Post Building of the Oklahoma Historical Society at 2100 N. Lincoln, Oklahoma City.

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Quilt & Textile Storage

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Documenting Your Heirlooms - Quilts

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The Quilt Gallery

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