Volume 6 , Issue 31

West on Hwy '64...

"Heading west out of Alva 11 miles west was Hilltop. This was ran by Leslie and Golda Lyon from 1947 to 1967. The building was moved from the POW camp in Alva. It was a first a full service Mobil Station then a Conoco. Later Leslie and Golda started rewinding electric motors and had a good business doing this at Hilltop.I have many memories of Hilltop. Don't forget Setmore located 12 miles west at the highway 14 junction. In the thirties it was a station/store and ran by E.H. (Hack) and Mary Lyon. Later a blacksmith/repair shop was run by Harry Lyon and later by Frank McMurphy. Cora had a store/post office in the early day. For a time traveler's cabins were there and it was also known as Cora Camp. The store was run by several people including H.B. Winters, the Stewards and was last run by Kenneth and Pearl Benningfield in the late thirties. The Nazarene Church was started in the early twenties. A Reverend Cocanauer led a substantial building program and outreach for the church in the early fifties. Whitehorse (Tegarden) actually has been at three different locations, the last being on highway 64. The post office was in Wadkins Grocery, just east of Ma Beck's Grocery. Clyde Rader ran the Sinclair station/shop on the north side. There was a ball diamond across the road east of Ma Beck's. I enjoy the Okie Legacy very much." -- Ed - Email: goldbug66@cox.net   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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