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Charles Birnie

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:09:56 CDT

Charles Birnie was my great grandfather. I live in the UK. He was born in 1864 in McDuff, Scotland.

He married Agnes Duncan and emigrated from Scotland to Duncan in the 1880's. He came to join his brother in law William Duncan. I understand that William Duncan was instrumental in founding the city of Duncan and that Charlie Birnie helped him in the early days.

I would love to see a photo of Charlie if anyone has one. Even better would be to contact some of his descendants.

Can anyone help?
Regards,
Sheila

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By sellio on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:09:56 PM

Place: duncan

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:03:59 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: (no data)

Name: duncan

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By sellio on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:03:59 PM

Rocky, Washita County

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:57:05 CST

Does anyone know the history of this town? When it was founded, why,who etc.? It seems there were a lot of folks from Alabama who settled in Rocky or in Rainey just east of Rocky. Has anyone done any research or is there any research to be found?

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By Adopted on Saturday, February 04, 2012 1:57:05 PM

Oklahoma Cemetery Map

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:23:00 CST

Duncan Cemetery & Henderson Harris Cemetery are properly located on the OK Cem. map; however the location icon displays "Grady" county. They are located in "Stephens" county.

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By broadsword on Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:23:00 PM

Santa Fe, Stephens county

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:05:54 CST

Location: 2 miles south of SH 7 at Velma

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By broadsword on Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:05:54 PM

(12/21/2011) (no data)

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:03:36 CST

Oklahoma historical event for our This Day in Oklahoma History database

Date: 12/21/2011

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By sdharm on Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:03:36 AM

A Lincoln County Farm Family in Hard Times, 1891-1941

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:21:25 CST

Book Release: Students and scholars of Oklahoma and other cotton states of the southwest should be interested to know that Wayne Pounds� North of Deep Fork has appeared in an updated, second edition. The book is a history of a farm family in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, 1891-1941, and works across the sub-genres of regional history, county history, family history, genealogy.

Setting: The Deep Fork of the title is is a tributary of the North Canadian River, its headwaters flowing from north of Oklahoma City. The river empties into the North Canadian at Lake Eufaula about 200 miles (320�km) away, bisecting Lincoln County, the subject of the book and the setting of its narratives.

Content and Structure: Subtitled A Lincoln County Farm Family in Hard Times, 1891-1941, the book is divided into two sections, His Story and Their Stories. �His Story� is the author�s, providing a traditional third-person objective history of Lincoln County, of the cotton production which was central to Oklahoma�s economy in the period, and of the author�s paternal ancestors, beginning with a Swedish widow with three children who came to Lincoln County at the time of the 1891 land run. �Their Stories� comprises oral histories garnered from the four siblings (two brothers, two sisters) of a farm family born about two decades after the land run.

Style: The style of the narrative in �His Story� is free from the sort of sentiment that mars many books is this genre. Its enlivening wit is evident from the opening of the �Historical Sketch� of Lincoln County:�"Oklahoma is shaped like a meat cleaver, the panhandle of the west forming the grip, the northern border the blade's straight back, and the east line its square-cut end. This haunting shape was noticed by pre-statehood politicians, who proposed that it be adopted as the official seal for the several pieces of unconnected territory being put together to form the state of Oklahoma. . . . The Red River on the south, forming a serrated cutting edge, suggests some other implement, however, not a cleaver but a crosscut saw. There is something similarly mutilated in Oklahoma's topography and history."
The Author: Wayne Pounds has published four chapbooks of poetry and �a silo� (his word) of academic essays. He teaches in Japan, where he has lived for the past twenty-five years. He states that this oral history of a Lincoln County farm family is born of family affection, and that his intent is to preserve ancestral memories, the stories of the people he grew up among.�

Intention: In the introduction, Pounds states that listening to stories was the best part of his childhood. Stories, he says, give us a world and a way of understanding the world. "The stories I heard lengthened my memory, stretching it back and stitching it seamlessly into the past so that I could never find where my earliest first-hand memories ended and my second-hand recollection of what I had heard began. Here was the first impulse to record family history, and the source of the desire to preserve some of these stories for future generations whose parents, their memories curtailed by television, would have fewer to tell."

Availability: The book is available at Amazon with its companion volume, Oklahoma Elegies: Chronicles and Family History, for a combined price of $18.91, corresponding to the year of the land run that opened central Oklahoma for white settlement. The book runs to 256 pages. Bibliographies appear at the end of each chapter. The index includes a genealogy and an index listing165 family names, an additional resource for the genealogist.

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By wapo on Tuesday, November 01, 2011 1:21:25 AM

Place: John Martin's Grave

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:56:46 CDT

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By programwitch on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:56:46 PM

Place: Texas Road (The Shawnee Trail)

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:50:40 CDT

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By programwitch on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:50:40 PM

Place: Manard

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:48:33 CDT

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By programwitch on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 1:48:33 PM

Place: Manard

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:47:15 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: Cherokee

Name: Manard

Text: SITE OF MANARD SETTLEMENT ON BAYOU MENARD. NAMED FOR PIERRE MENARD (1766-1844). MENARD, AN EARLY DAY FUR TRADER, MERCHANT AND MEMBER OF THE CHOUTEAU FAMILY, SERVED AS THE FIRST TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS.

SPRINGS AT MANARD IDENTIFIED AS A CHEROKEE COUNCIL GROUND PRIOR TO 1828. TRADING POST EST. BY BARTHOLET & HEALD TO 1828. CHEROKEE AGENCY EST. BY MONTFORT STOKES IN 1837. BURIAL PLACE OF HT MARTIN (1822-1868). FIRST POSTMASTER OF CHEROKEE NATION WEST.

SITE OF CIVIL WAR SKIRMISH JULY 27, 1862, INVOLVING US MAJ WM A PHILLIPS AND INDIAN HOME GUARDS WHO ENCOUNTERED AND ROUTED WATIE'S CONFEDERATES UNDER LT COL THOS FOX TAYLOR.

STAG STOP AND SITE OF HOLDUP OF US MAIL COACH BY COOK GANG OON JULY 14, 1894 AND SHOOTING OF JOSEPH GLAD BY OUTLAW JIM FRENCH IN LATE 1894.

POST OFFICE FROM 1883 TO 1913. MANARD SCHOOL EST BY 1863 AND CLOSED WHEN CONSOLIDATED WITH FT GIBSON SCHOOLS IN 1966.

Directions: North side of Highway 62 approx. seven miles east of Ft. Gibson. East of the intersection of Manard Rd and Highway 62 just west of the community of Zeb.

GPS: +35.79958, -95.10447

Other: (no data)

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By WayneG on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:47:15 PM

Place: John Martin's Grave

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:31:49 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: Muskogee

Name: John Martin's Grave

Text: HERE LIES BURIED JOHN MARTIN, A CHEROKEE INDIAN, BORN OCTOBER 20, 1781. HE WAS FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE FIRST SUPREME COURT ESTABLISHED IN THE CHEROKEE NATION. HE DIED OCTOBER 17, 1840.

ERECTED BY THE OKLAHOMA PLANNING AND RESOURCES BOARD 1938.

Directions: East corner of the intersection of Jackson St. and Elm St. in the town of Fort Gibson.

GPS: +35.80312, -95.25577

Other: (no data)

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By WayneG on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:31:49 PM

Place: Fort Gibson National Cemetery

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:57 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: Muskogee

Name: Fort Gibson National Cemetery

Text: (no data)

Directions: East of Fort Gibson; South side of Cemetery Road, East of N Willey Rd

GPS: +35.80578, -95.23031

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By WayneG on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:16:57 PM

Place: Cherokee National Cemetery

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:07:13 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: Muskogee

Name: Cherokee National Cemetery

Text: A national Historical Landmark. Designated by Cherokee Nation as National Cemetery before Civil War and maintained until 1906. Transferred to town of Ft. Gibson Indian Territory. Principal Chief Wm. P. Ross and other officials and dignitaries are buried in this cemetery.

Directions: East of Ft. Gibson on OK Highway 10, before the highway merges with Highway 62.

GPS: +35.79882, -95.22876

Other: (no data)

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By WayneG on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 5:07:13 PM

Place: Texas Road (The Shawnee Trail)

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:37:39 CDT

Entry for the Oklahoma Historic Places Database

County: Wagoner

Name: Texas Road (The Shawnee Trail)

Text: Texas Road- The most Ancient and important trail through Oklahoma.

Three Forks- At the head of navigation of the Verdigris River the oldest trading post in Oklahoma dating from 1812.

Creek & Osage- Indian agencies on the east and west banks of the river below the falls of the Verdigris in buildings acquired from Col. A.P. Chouteau in 1828.

The First Party- Of emigrating Creek Indians were landed here in February 1828 between here and Fort Gibson Sam Houston resided during his stay with the Cherokee Indians, 1829-1832.

Irving Trail- Near this spot on October 10, 1832 Washington Irving forded the river on his tour of the prairies.

Erected 1932 by Muskogee Indian Territory Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution to commemorate Washington Irving Centennial and George Washington Centennial.

Directions: Located on the West side of Highway 16 approximately half of a mile south of Okay.

GPS: +35.84109, -95.31793

Other: http://theshawneetrail.com/Documents/maps.pdf

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By WayneG on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 6:37:39 PM

Rt. 66 Pictures

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:12:10 CDT

I would have to defintly say the Blue whale in catoosa & the round barn in arcadia for starters, the rock cafe in stroud & the restored vintage phillips 66 station in chandler

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By Purple-Okie-Princess on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:12:10 PM

Test Topic

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:56:58 CDT

This is just a test topic.

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By programwitch on Friday, March 11, 2011 9:56:58 PM

Bank at Roosevelt

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:33:19 CDT

Hi to all,
I hope I'm in the right place to ask,
Does anyone know what happened to all the old pictures and things that were in the basement of the bank when it closed?
There was so much stuff�to see it�would take hours to look through it all.

Thanks Bunches

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By mrsliljohn on Tuesday, March 08, 2011 7:33:19 PM

austin charles ward

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:18:11 CST

Looking for any information on austin charles ward born 1863 ohio usa. 1910 residence was Chickasaw Ward 1 Grady Oklahoma. This page says a William Ward killed in 1876 in gunfight. any information , doing family tree.

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By roberthendry78 on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:18:11 PM

School in Colony, OK

eoh@blogoklahoma.net (Exploring Oklahoma History) — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:58:22 CST

I recieved this in an email on Flickr where I had posted the pictures.� It contains more history of the school and these buildings.

sportly said:

The above building was completed in 1954 to provide new space for the elementary school and to replace the high school building that had been destroyed by a 1951 tornado. The Seger Indian School was closed as a Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian boarding school in 1932, but some of the buildings were used for educational purposes well into the 1960s.

What little remains of the campus is on land that has been owned by the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho since 1869.

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By jcorbridge on Monday, January 17, 2011 10:58:22 AM