Volume 14 , Issue 53

NW Okie's Corner

On this last day of 2012 December 31st, here in Southwest Colorado, we are experiencing a fresh coat of snow that seems to be getting heavier and heavier as the day progresses. You can barely see the mountain tops across the way here at the north end of the Vallecito Reservoir, North of Bayfield, Colorado. When we have our UStream - Okielegacy up and broadcasting, you can view a piece of Southwest Colorado weather.

We always love hearing how our website has helped others searching for their genealogy legacies. We heard from Desiree Kirby Rahman, who stumbled onto our Prairie Pioneer News website, when she was looking for some information on Alva's "Castle on the Hill." Her interest in Alva and northwest Oklahoma extends several generation.

Desiree's great grandmother, Olive Ruth Littlefield Whitehead, attended when NWOSU was a Normal School. Her family legend says she was in the first class. Desiree's grandmother, Sarah Ann Whitehead Ackley, attended the Teachers' College and later graduated from the State College along with Desiree's father, Robert Kirby, in 1959. Her mother Ruth Ann Ackley Kirby graduated in 1966 or 1967 and later got a Master's degree from the State University.

Another interesting tidbit I found while reading through Oren F. Morton's, "History of Rockbridge County, Virginia," the mention that a William Warwick, who had married Elizabeth Dunlap, had four children (Jean, Martha, John and Jacob). Jean and Martha were killed by the Indians about 1759. John settled in Kentucky in 1784. Jacob was an extensive owner of realty and livestock in Pocahontas. The widow of William Warwick married Andrew Sitlington of Bath.

I was glancing, searching through the old newspaper at Chronicling America, and found an interesting little news tidbit that I have never heard before about my grandpa William J. McGill. The article on page four of The Mathews Journal, dated 14 November 1907, mentioned in the first paragraph under the heading "The Field of Sport: "McGill, the new pitcher of the St. Louis Browns, is studying for the ministry and won't play baseball on Sunday."

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