Volume 16 , Issue 27

NW Okie's Journey

Besides walking along the Vallecito River at the Vallecito Campground, in southwest Colorado I have been engaged with some WARWICK, ECKARD and GWIN genealogy research. We have included some of that information here in this week's OkieLegacy Weekly Ezine/Tabloid.We also have some more information on World War I, 1914 Battle of Waterloo.

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Walking With Sadie

My NW Okie continues her daily walking around the Vallecito Campground, getting over 2-miles each morning before the afternoon monsoons start each day.

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100 Years Ago Tuesday 18 August 1914

According to The Daily Ardmoreite, dated Tuesday, 18 August 1914, out of Ardmore, Oklahoma, one of the front page headlines boasted: Believed Big Battle Is Now On With Armies Near Waterloo. Brussels reported that serious engagement was now believed in progress. British official announcement of landing of expeditionary force in France made today for first time but whereabouts and strength was still guarded as Japan's ultimatum was delivered.

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Ruhama "Ham" (Gwin) Eckard (1857-1921)

[photo image of Great Grand Aunt Ruhama Gwin and Job Eckard] - Ruhama "Hami" (Gwin) Eckard was my Great Grand Aunt, and an older sister of my Great Grandmother, Signora Belle (Gwin) Warwick. They also had an older brother Walter P. Gwin.

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August 18, 1914 President To the People

According to The Tacoma Times, Tuesday 18 August 1914, there was this following front page headline: President to the People, concerning President Wilson's statement issued regarding the European conflict. See a transcription of statement issued in Summer of 1914 by President Wilson below.

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Daniel Boone & Jacob Warwick Fight

There is no reason to question the fact that Daniel Boone and Jacob Warwick had a fight. That is well established. Boone was a surveyor and land looker but lacked the infinite capacity of taking pains to perfect the titles to his locations.

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Historical Sketches Pocahontas County, West Virginia

The leaders that gave our pioneers the most trouble were Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas; Cornstalk, Killbuck, and Crane. Killbuck annoyed the settlements for a long series of years, and when hostilities ceased went to his home in Ohio, and thereafter paid occasional visits to Wheeling. He became blind, and lived to be more than a hundred years old, Killbuck had for a comrade, whose efficiency as a warrior made him nearly as dangerous, named Crane, because of his unusually long neck and legs. Crane was an ugly thorn in the flesh, especially to those of the settlers that located on the South Branch, and made himself a conspicuous nuisance never to be forgotten. But little record is to be found of his exploits, but enough is known to give him the distinction of being considered nearly as dangerous as Killbuck.

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