Volume 14 , Issue 15

NW Okie's Corner

We had a few interesting emails this week concerning the "Old Sam Lindsay" home place south of Monterey, Virginia. We did found out that the 77.9 acre someplace and old house are "For Sale!" It is a three bedroom a bath home that sets next to the highway 220, south of Monterey, Virginia.




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Sam Lindsay married my 1st cousin 2x removed, Lucy Eckard/Echard, who was the daughter of Reuhama "Hami" Gwin and Jobe Eckard (my Great aunt and uncle). Hami and Jobe Eckard had a daughter, Lucy, that married Sam Lindsay. Jobe Eckard had a brother Isaac Eckard. As for Reuhama, she was the middle child and older sister of my great-grandmother, Signora Belle Gwin. There was also an older brother, Walter P. Gwin. I was told that the Gwin/Eckard cemetery is located in an overgrown field on that piece of property with the stones having been knocked down by the cows grazing in the pasture. My great-grandmother, Signora Belle Gwin married John Robert Warwick. Sometime in the late 19th century, after 1887, they moved to Oklahoma Territory via Coldwater, Kansas. Signora and J. R. Warwick's children were: Constance Estella (1882-1968) and Robert Lee Warwick (1887-1952), both showing born around Monterey, Virginia. Another son Wilbur William WArwick was born in Alva, Oklahoma, but died in his first year or so and is buried in the Alva Cemetery.

Also, we received an email from another person concerning a booklet (instructional manual) on how to write commercial english letters that was printed in 1940 in Germany. What is so fascinating about this booklet is not the booklet itself, but someone, maybe a POW or another person, had written a note into the booklet about "Camp Alva" and dated the remark "1945."

Klaus Scholoesser had found the booklet last week at a shop, where they receive things from people who do not need them any more, like books, clothing, household items and such. Anyway, he was getting the booklet in the mail to this NW Okie. Can not wait to see what the inscription is about "Camp Alva."

We also passed along to Sandie Olson with the Waynoka Historical Society, a person who is researching the "Old Lindbergh Line (TWA)" that went through Waynoka, OKlahoma on its way to California. Dr. Robert F. Kirk and his wife live in California. Dr. Kirk is writing a book about the Lindbergh Line, pictures of their trip at the airports that still exist. Dr. Kirk was born and raised in Oklahoma City and met his wife at University of Oklahoma. You can view some of Dr. Kirk's books by clicking this link.

Did you finally get on to the government archives of the 1940 census last week? I checked into it through my ancestry.com account (paristimes) to find my grandparents, Wm. J. & Constance McGill, on page 7, enumeration district 76-3A, living at 815 Maple Street, Alva, Woods, Oklahoma, with William listed as head of household (age 60) and Grandmother (age 58). William was listed as joint owner of furniture business. On page 8 it listed my Dad, Gene (Merle) McGill (age 25), as joint owner in ranch, in same house as Constance and William McGill; and Bob Lee (23 years) listed as absent.

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