Volume 11 , Issue 11

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Yep! The wearing of the emerald-green for some of us Irish is just around the corner. Tuesday to be exact! I am thinking about wearing my green into Durango and partaking of some Irish stew and green beer on St. Patricks Day.

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Simple Nickols Photo - Alva, OK

Another Alva, Oklahoma photograph that I found amongst my grandmother's photos was this photo of a young girl [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Fairmont, Marion County, WV

We found this unknown family photo in my Grandmother's treasure chest of genealogy photos. Why Grandma Contance Warwick McGill had it ... I do not know! The backside was dark and you could barely make "Palatine" scratched into the backside. The old photograph is one of those photographs you see on cardboard type photo-backing. When did they start and end doing photographs like that?

We did a Google search for Fairmont, WV and found some history of Fairmont, Marion County, WV.

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Marlinton, Pocahontas Co., WVa

Marlinton, West Virginia is the county seat of Pocahontas county. It was settled in 1749 by Stephen Sewell and Jacob Marlin, first white settlers on the Greenbrier River. An old oak in Marlinton marked the corner of the first land survey made west of the Alleghenies. The survey by Col. Andrew Lewis of lands granted to the Greenbrier Company in 1751 consisted of 100,000 acres of land along Greenbrier River.

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Capt. John Robert Warwick Family Photo

Michelle says, "I have a picture of Captain John R. Warwick and his wife and daughter. That is what it says on the back. Someone gave this to us last year. They actually picked it up at an auction (sound familiar) and gave it to us. The original picture totally fell apart, but ... I had it remade.

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Capt. David T. Gwin - Revolutionary War

Back in 1920s, or perhaps closer to the mid-1920s, my grandmother, Constance Estella Warwick McGill, begin her compilation of Guinn/Gwin/Gwyn ancestors. I know this, because I have my grandmother's DAR certificate that was dated around 1925. She used Capt. David T. Gwin has her Revolutionary ancestor.

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Bill McGill & Baseball Buddies - 1906

Another treasure that we looked back at and scanned this week is an Austin, TX, april 2, 1906, baseball photo of my grandpa Bill McGill when he played for the Austin Senators, South Texas League in 1906 before moving on to the St [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Insight Into Grandma

Our next letter from John C. McClure, Quincy, Illinois, takes us back to February 16, 1904 as he writes yet another letter to Miss Constance Warwick. Constance received the letter two days later. Before I get into the letter, though, I talked with Bud & Lovina Clark this week and they told me that John C. McClure was some relation of J. L. "Bud" Clark.

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Glen Eyrie Castle - Colorado

I found this 1914 photo of a sandstone monument in one of my grandmother's photo scrapbooks that she had compiled of one of her early 1909 trip to Colorado Springs, Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, etc. I have not gotten those 1909 vacation photos ready for viewing this week, but will stick them in next weeks newsletter.

Glen Eyrie is a 67-room English Tudor-style castle built by General William Jackson Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs.

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1937 - Landlady In College Town

We are going to take you back to a news article that appeared in The Oklahoman, dated Jan. 3, 1937, on page 59, with the headlines that read: "Landlady in College Town Likes Old Fashioned Girls - Mrs. Nellie Noble Has Rented Rooms to More Than 3,000 Students in 40 Years."

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Alva High Class of 1959 Reunion June 2009

Bill says, " The weekend of June 5, 2009 (Friday Evening) and June 6, Saturday, the Alva High Class of 1959 will be holding their class reunion. For information contact Janet Jakubek (Hefner) - jkjakubek@hotmail.com or Bill Beeler - brbeeler@swbell.net. The? Nescatunga Arts Festival weekend on the downtown square will also be going on that first week in June 2009.? Hope to have lots of food, visiting, and renewing acquaintance."?

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1937 Ranger Fraternity Photo

Sean Manchester says, "I stumbled upon the website regarding the Northwestern State College Wranglers. I was searching for LaVan Beckwith, who happens to be my great grandfather.

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Thanks For Sending Snow & Ice Our Way

Roy says, "?I wanted to thank you for sending some of that snow and ice our way! ?Early in the week we had a genuine heat wave but it was followed by a really cold north wind which brought us snow followed by sleet and then freezing rain on Thursday. ?Then it warmed up some again.

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W. P. (William Pruitt) McFadden

?Wm. McFadden, Jr. says, "W.P. (William Pruitt) McFadden was my grandfather, and Alexander McFaddan my great grandfather. ?I have seen the movie he wrote about, Cimarron, and it is a very good representation of how we might envision that event, had we been there to witness it.

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Marilyn Marcum Passed Away

Steve says, "Marilyn Marcum has passed away [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Warwick, Pocahontas Co., WV

Awhile back some Oklahoma friends (Bud & Lovina Clark) visited West Virginia and Virginia family land sites. They told me that there was a town called "Warwick."

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