Volume 14 , Issue 9

Duchess of Weaselskin

It has been quiet around southwest Colorado with some sunshine making a return around here. On those sunny days I like to find a sunny, dry spot outside to take a nap and watch over my yard here in the rockies. NW Okie sure can sneak up on me during one of those times as shown in the photo on the left. We hear it was quite windy last week in northwest Oklahoma, but did it bring much rain?

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On This Day In History (27 February)

On Feb. 27, 1886, Hugo Black, who served 34 years as a U.S. Supreme Court judge and was known as a champion of civil liberties, was born. Following his death on Sept. 25, 1971, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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NW Okie's Corner

This is an old picture of my great grandpa John Robert Warwick's Aunt. It did not say which lady was Great Grandpa Warwick's Aunt. I can only assume, but perhaps Louisa Susan Warwick (Oct. 1835-11 Aug 1923) is seated on the right and Eli Seybert (Seibert) is seated on the left. The lady standing behind resembles my Great Grandma Signora Belle Gwin Warwick, but not sure if that is the lady in the background.

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100 Years Ago Today February 27, 1912

It was a Tuesday, February 27, 1912, when the headlines in the New-York Tribune had some of the following headlines: "Roosevelt Says He Will Support His party's Choice, Roosevelt's Polices Drive Many From Him, Brandt Remanded To Await Trial, Taft Indorsed In Kentucky, Meteor Almost Hit Liner, and Arrest of F. J. Gardner."

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Highland County Virginia - Time of Indian Peril

This week we bring you Chapter VIII of Oren Frederic Morton's book, A History of Highland county, Virginia. The nearest Indian village near the Highland settlement of Virginia was a small village of the Shawnees about 60 miles down the South Branch. The Indians used the Valley of Virginia only as a hunting ground and military highway, which bands of Northern and Southern Indians made forays against one another. The chief of these war trails laid through the Shenandoah Valley and alluded to in the surveyor's book as the "Indian road."

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Abstract of Legislative Work & Sen. Robert L. Owen (1907-1912)

We were digging through some of the boxes of Grandma's that clutter our basement and storage and found this Abstract of Legislative Work In Which Senator Robert L. Owen Actively Participated, 16 December 1907 to 1 March 1912, when Oklahoma had just become a State of the Union. Thank goodness for ancestry clutter, huh? We scanned to a PDF file at the link above.

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Charlie Bias Sentenced to Hang 1899

An online southern historian sent me a copy of some history that I had sent him a few years (2004) back that I had found in the source index in the back of a book by Howard K. Berry, Sr., who wrote about Moman Pruiett - He Made It Safe To Murder. "Charlie Bias' Death Sentence was commuted to Life (See attached DOC file) Charlie Bias case was one of those cases that Moman Pruiett defended back in 1899, going all the way to the US Supreme Court, January 1900.

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About Moorman "Moman" Pruiett

Moman Pruiett defended many cases in early Indian Territory. In November, 1910, though, Pruiett was on the prosecutions side in the trial of N. L. Miller vs. State of Oklahoma for the alleged murder in the Old Opera House Murder of Alva, Oklahoma>. Pruiett was working with the "Law Enforcement League" back then. It was thought that Moman's wife had relatives in the Alva area at this time (1910).

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Oklahoma Pioneer - Edwin Roberts

This week we share with you another Oklahoma Pioneer from the book, History of Oklahoma, written, compiled by Joseph B. Thoburn. We are talking about one Edwin S. Roberts, who was reared to the age of fifteen years in his native Kentucky county, where he acquired his early education in the common schools. He was about fifteen years fold at the time of the family move to Macoupin County, Illinois, where he continued his studies in the public schools, and in 1887, shortly prior to attaining to his legal majority, he accompanied his parents on their move to Sedgwick county, Kansas.

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