Volume 13 , Issue 32

Duchess of Weaselskin

How are the rodeos going in your neck of the woods? Does Waynoka, Oklahoma have their annual Stampede Rodeo coming up this next weekend? And . . . Let us not forget Freedom's Old Cowhand Reunion & Rodeo in Mid-August, the next week. If someone gets an extra copy of the Freedom Rodeo program, will you send me a copy? Thanks!

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This Day In History (August 8)

On this day, August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced he would resign following damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal. It was August 8, 1974, Washington, DC, that Richard Milhous Nixon (37th President) announced that he had given up his long arduous fight to remain in office and would resign, effective at noon the next day, August 9, 1974.

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NW Okie's Ancestry Corner

Just had to share this photo of one of my pugs with you. This photo on the left is my black pug, Sadie. The stalking, creeping chipmunk and squirrel dog. Here Sadie is sniffing out a hiding place that the Colorado wildlife use as they scamper between feeding areas. See more SW Colorado images/photos at our OkieLegacy Picasa Web Albums.

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WWII German POW Paintings by Wilhi Sachs

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Cameron Family of Virginia

Peggy McClanhan has a request concerning the CAMERON FAMILY (Written By Maria Boys Cochran Sterrett who died October 31, 1920). The first of this family, who came to America, was Dr. John Cameron who was a son of Cameron of Fassifern, a grandson of Sir Evan Dhu Cameron, and a nephew of Lochiel, the last chief of the Cameron Clan. One of Campbell's best poems "Lochiel" describes Sir Lockiel just before his defeat at the battle of Culloden.

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Obituary - Carol Ann Murry

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Mary Jane (Loveday) McGill's Homicide - 1920

The image on the left shows a Certificate of Death - Place of death, Knoxville, Knox, TN; Mary (Loveday) McGill, died 16 June 1920 from a pistol shot, at home at the age of 50 years. Mary was the daughter of George Loveday (TN) and Elizabeth Helton (TN). Who shot Mary Jane Loveday McGill?

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Towns Of Alfalfa County, OK

Aline -- Aline was laid out in 1901 by the engineer of the Choctaw Northern Railroad. The promoter of the Choctaw northern, Beeks Erick, helped to purchase the town site from Mr. Russell at a time when the town site company was having difficulty in raising enough money to put over the deal.

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