Volume 9 , Issue 20

Pine Valley Oklahoma Memories

"I was facinated by the article on Pine Valley, Oklahoma. I was born in Pine Valley on July 24, 1932 to Cecil and Hazel Hinkle. My dad and grandfather worked for Dierks Lumber and Coal Company as did my mother's brothers. My grandad on my mother's side was Hugh (Pa) Harrison who served as the town marshall when I was young. I remember him letting us go inside the concrete jail house to see what it was like to be locked up. I started school at Pine Valley but our family moved to Honobia before going to Dierks, Arkansas. My dad was a logger and operated a catapillar. We lived there until 1941 when we moved to Oregon. My grandad, Pa Harrison, and Ma lived in the old post office when the town was shut down and oversaw some of the dismanteling operations. I remember some of the name listed in the article such a McAdams, Rabb, Woodell. The images of the hotel, movie theatre, Big Store, Ice Plant and Cracklin' building remain in my mind to this day. My uncle David Harrison worked in the Drug Store and my uncle Clarence Hinkle was the butcher in the meat department. Many other things and people are in my memory but I just wanted to respond." -- Eddie Hinkle - Email ehinkle1@windstream.net
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