Volume 6 , Issue 15

Vada Paris & OkieLegacy Website...

"I haven't read a whole lot of this... but wanted to let you know how I came to find this page. My dad passed away back in August of 2003.  Since then I have learned of many family members I had either forgotten about or were just recently mentioned to me. My Uncle put together some pictures for my sisters and I. I chose to take them to the office today and share with some of my co-workers.  On one of the pictures, my Uncle had printed the name of the town, which is Hopeton, Oklahoma.  
       One of my co-workers became very excited as she remembered going there often as a child since her father was from Hopeton (or a town close to there). She and I talked some -- then I told her I could inquire to my Aunt and Uncle and a friend of the family, R. Cobb, about her family if she would just write it down.  Not only did she write down her grandparents names, but that of her father and his brothers and sisters. I passed this information onto my Aunt, Uncle and Mr. Cobb, after I got home from work. The first thing they all suggested was to go to your web page:  okielegacy.net.
It's amazing how quickly I was able to find out things for my co-worker. You see, the list of names she gave me to inquire on are her grandparents, Ernest & Mary Barbara Paris.  Her father, Kenneth Paris who passed away in 1954, and his brothers & sisters, Sammie, EJ, Alvin, Zella (which she remembers referring to as Aunt Jim), Vada, Vernie, Leslie, & Geneva. WOW!!
       My Uncle also gave me the information of back when he, my Aunt and my dad were kids, during the war, they lived across from the Armory.  Alvin Paris lived on the corner in a big 2-story house.  And had three sons, one of which is my Uncles age.  Small, small world in which we live in. This is all just so overwhelming to me, as it brings back memories of my childhood days in Hopeton, Carmen, Dacoma, Alva, and Watonga, Oklahoma years.
       My dad, Gail Monroe Henry.  My Uncle is Marvin Henry. My Grandparents are 'Slim' & Ethel Henry who lived in Alva.  But I spent every summer with them, which took me to the Alabaster Caverns by Freedom -- to my Great-Grandparents in Watonga -- Roman Nose Park -- to Hopeton to visit the grocery store (which to me was huge) -- to the Bank in Hopeton (which I thought was the only place that had 1/2 dollars and silver dollars, because my g'pa would always come out with a handful for the grandkids) -- to a Dacoma farm belong to my Uncle Sam & Aunt Helen VanMeters -- on Labor Day weekend we had a Martin Ffamily Reunion at Boiling Springs. 
       The Martin Genealogy, can be found on my Uncle's web page. At the bottom, click on the Oklahoma flag. Down toward the bottom of that is the family roots, both the Henry's from Tennessee and the Martin's from Oklahoma. There's also some neat pictures from the bakery in Alva where my Grandpa Henry worked as well as some other pictures of Alva.
       I consider myself blessed to have had the opportunities I had as a child and have so many wonderful memories of that great Oklahoma dirt! Would love to know if there are any KEFFER's left in Carmen. Thanks for the reply and a chance to go down memory lane. Thank you for this wonderful page!" -- Christy - Email: ccoulton@cox.net   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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