Volume 7 , Issue 46

52 Towns In Alfalfa County...

My sister-in-law Mary Erskine had collected some information on the towns in Alfalfa County in her research for the Woods County Genealogists. On her retirement she gave me the material. I decided to organize it and have been adding to it. I have started a book about The 52 Towns in Alfalfa County. I found in the Town and Place Locations book by Oklahoma Department of Highways, 52 towns in the county. Some had several names over the years but I am trying to complete this thanks to newspaper articles and other resources. The definition I find is that anywhere there was a a postoffice it was considered a town. Most postoffices were in general stores in the early days. Towns seem to survive wherever there was a railroad. I will be glad to send information to you or anyone else that is looking for towns. I found several towns with different names at some time in history.

The same is true of cemeteries. The Alfalfa County Cemetery book has the different names listed on each cemetery page but not in the index. So I have put all the names in the index and this makes it easier to find when someone is looking for a cemetery with another name. An example is the Cherokee cemetery is also Woodman Cemetery, Cherokee Cemetery and Cherokee Catholic cemetery. I recently had a lady looking for Clay Cemetery which is now known as the Maple Grove cemetery and also Prairie Valley Cemetery." -- Ila Wessels, Cherokee, OK 73728-9612 - Email: gwessels@akslc.net   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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