Volume 5 , Issue 3

Oakie's NW Corner

The 1941 era brings us to a time when young couples were scurrying to the altar before young servicemen were sent off overseas to fight in WWII. Some other young men were working on their Master degrees at Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College in Stillwater. One such young man was Wm. Hankins Hughes that wrote his thesis on Old Fort Supply.

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NW OK Marriages 1941

Price-Langley - 1941, Abilene, Texas - Engagement Is Announced - Rev. and Mrs. John Price, Coahoma, Texas, wish to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Patty Jeane, to Fred Langley, son of Dr. and Mrs. M. F. Langley, Alva. The wedding will take place in the First Methodist church of Abilene with Rev. Price reading the ceremony.

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1956 AHS Honors

Valedictorian - Martha Newby, who leads the 1956 Alva high school graduating class in scholarship, will give the valedictory address at the senior day program here.

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Standard 1906 M (Woods) County Atlas.

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Old Fort Supply - Chapter I thru V

Old Fort Supply - Chapter I ... The Establishment of Camp Supply; The Geographical Location of the posts; Sources of the Difficulties with the Plains Indians; Indian Depredations; Efforts of the Military to Punish Them; General Sheridan's Plan of Campaign; Establishment of the Post - submitted by Wm. Hankins Hughes, to Oklahoma A &M College in 1941 for a Master of Arts degree in History.

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Ties to History & Community

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1890 Photo

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Old Alva Photos

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Hezekiah Niles Cummings

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Whitter's in Edinburg, Scotland

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HURT Family

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Beegle Baby Photo

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Abbie, Oklahoma (Sec. 2-T28N-16W)

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Old Fort Supply Cemetery & Camp

Old Fort Supply Cemetery -- "Old Fort Supply Cemetery on US 270 at East side of Fort Supply, Woodward County, Oklahoma. Bodies of old soldiers formerly buried here were moved to Leavenworth, Kansas. The fort was officially closed in 1895 and was placed in the custody of the Department of the Interior. It was later ceded to the state of Oklahoma for use as a mental hospital. The first patients, several hundred, arrived in Tangier by train in 1908 and were transported by car to the hospital."

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Great Western Cattle Trail

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