Volume 12 , Issue 20

Duchess & Sadie's Spring Domain

I want you to meet Mr. & Mrs. Mallard in the photo on the left. They have been spotted only a couple times earlier in the last week. They have been hanging around Weaselskin Creek and pond up at Vallecito.

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Great Event Recalled In 1933 - by Pioneer T. J. Dyer

This "Great Event" was written by Tom J. Dyer, September 16, 1933:

"On Saturday, September 16, 1933 will occur the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Cherokee Strip to white settlement. Time and space forbid the telling of the many changes that have taken place, but the intervening 40 years have been years of progress and development. No state has ever achieved such magnitude in so short a time as has Oklahoma, and I might add that in no part of the state has this progress and development been greater than that exemplified by this part of the state known as the Cherokee Strip or Outlet.

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Elm Springs - Shady Grove

This was also written by T. J. Dyer, April, 1931.

Elm Springs, for more than half a century this name has clung to this memorable and historic place. It was in the spring of 1879 that Stith and Watkins established a cow camp at these springs, which was later moved over to Buffalo Springs, about one-half mile east, now known as the Ellis (?) homestead.

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PEOPLE'S FORUM (October 2, 1934)

To the old timers who have gathered from day to day during the hot days of the past summer, when a blazing sun cast its burning rays upon this parched earth, while hot winds scorched and withered all vegetation: We met under the spreading branches of the trees in the court house park, there to enjoy their immense shade in the coolest place in the city. There was neither class nor distinction, all met upon a common level.

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Amon McKeever Obituary

News Article - Amon McKeever's Obituary was sent to me from Francis Melkus a few years back. Here it is again.

Amon McKeever Died Saturday -- Grim Reaper Takes Only Son and Daughter

From McKeever Family in Three Weeks -- Crepe on the homestead door at any time carries its burden of tears and sorrow, but when twice within three weeks the Grim Reaper hangs his emblem over the doorway of the same home and leaves two aged parents bereft of their only son and only daughter, it would seem that the limit of human endurance has been reached.

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Greer County Beginnings

U.S. Supreme Court
U S v. Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896)
162 U.S. 1
United States v. State of Texas
No. 3, Original. March 16, 1896
[162 U.S. 1,3] Attorney General Harmon, Col. Gen. Conrad, and Edgar Allan, for complainant.
George Clark, M. M. Crane, and A. H. Garland, for defendant.
[162 U.S. 1, 20]
Mr. Justice Harlan delivered the opinion of the court.
By the act of congress of May 2, 1890, C. 182, establishing a temporary government for the territory of Oklahoma, and enlarging the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, it was declared that that act should not apply to Greer county until the title to the same had been adjudicated and determined to be in the United States. And, that there might be a speedy judicial determination of that question, the attorney general of the United States was directed to institute in this court a suit in equity against the state of Texas, setting forth the title and claim of the United States 'to the tract of land lying between the North and South Forks of the Red river where the Indian Territory and the state of Texas adjoin, east of the one hundredth degree of longitude, and claimed by the state of Texas as within its boundary and a part of its land, and designated on [162 U.S. 1,21] its map as Greer county'; the court, on the trial of the case, in its discretion, and so far as the ends of justice would warrant, to consider any evidence taken and received by the joint boundary commission under the act of congress approved January 31, 1885 (26 Stat. 81, 92, 25).

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Charles F. Colcord Obituary - Written by Tom Dyer

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Clymer, Oklahoma

Clymer, Oklahoma - Woods County, Section 18, Township 24N, Range 13W . Size of Woods County... cub-reporter, Nola (Veley) Wilkerson submitted this a few years back:

Some interesting notes regarding places related to our family heritage and regarding the size of Woods County -- I found an old copy of the '10th Anniversary Edition' of the 'Carmen Newspaper', dated before 1910. It has been donated to Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva.

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David Cannon Oates

David C. Oates came to Woods County with the first settlers, then only a young man, he passed through the struggles of the early days side by side with men who were believers in Alva. He served our country as Sheriff when it was a large county comprising Woods, Alfalfa and Major counties. David Cannon Oates was Under-sheriff - 1895-1898; Woods County Sheriff - 1900-1904; Deputy Warden - 1909-1914.

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Patriotic and Other Poems

Patriotic and Other Poems by - Claud Baird, Alva, Oklahoma, First Volume to Public - 1917. I Love My Country More and More - Click Here to view actual poem.]

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Ed Hinton Obituary Written by T. J. DYER

The name is variously spelled as "Hinton" and "Henton" in the article. Another one of Dyer's tributes to the passing of an old-timer. Thanks to Joy Sherman for sharing these Tom Dyer writings with the Okie Legacy.

Like the golden leaves of autumn that are falling, one by one to earth, so with my erstwhile friends who are passing down the valley, one by one to the endless shores of eternity.

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More Claud Baird Poems

Patriotic and Other Poems - cover by Claud Baird, Alva, Oklahoma, First Volume to Public - 1917. Dedication (pg. 2 ) -- Dedicated to his mother for whom he was given his greatest inspiration. This was his first volume to the public that was copyrighted in 1917 by Claud Baird, Alva, Oklahoma. It was printed, published in 1917, and Renfrew's Record Print printed it. There are 30 pages.

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Hatfield Park - Alva, Oklahoma

There is a Warranty Deed (handwritten, filed in the Woods County Courthouse) dated 20 March 1906 concerning Hatfield Park, Alva, Oklahoma. It reads as follows:

This indenture made this 20th day of March A.D. 1906 between William F. Hatfield and Fannie L. Hatfield, husband and wife of Woods County in the Territory of Oklahoma, of the first part and the City of Alva, an incorporated City of the first class in Woods County Oklahoma Territory of the second part.

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Denoya (Whizbang), Oklahoma, Osage County

[Information on Denoya, Oklahoma is from the book written by John W. Morris - "Ghost Towns of Oklahoma".] -- Denoya (a.k.a. known as Whizbang) is located in Sec. 6, T26N, R6E, 7 miles north, 20 miles west of Pawhuska; 1½ miles north, 1½ miles west of Shidler.

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