Alfalfa County

Alfalfa County Courthouse
Cherokee, Oklahoma, SW Corner
(photo taken September 7, 1999)

Alfalfa County was named after Alfalfa Bill Murray, President of the constitutional Convention and later Governor of the State.

Stella Friends Academy... Aline, Oklahoma - 2000 & Beyond - Aline is located in Alfalfa County. Aline is in the SW part of Alfalfa County in NW Oklahoma. Aline was established as a post office two miles south of the present town, April 27, 1894. It was named for the postmaster's daughter (Aline Hartshorn). When the railroads came the town moved to the present site. Aline is situated in the valley of the Eagle Chief Creek, a tributary of the Cimarron River. READ about their History while you are at their website."
Alfalfa Electric Cooperative - located in Cherokee, Oklahoma
Carmen Odd Fellas Home - Yesterdays & Today (1907-1944)60th Anniversary of Carmen Home - Article from Enid Morning News, dated April 27, 1967, pg. 8Carmen Parade - Parade through downtown Carmen.IOOF Cemetery - North of Carmen, Oklahoma IOOF Childrens Home - North of Carmen, Oklahoma (Photo) Dairy Barn at the IOOF Childrens Home - North of Carmen, Oklahoma, destroyed by tornado June 2, 1949.Carmen Home Roster of Families - 2002 List of those residents or spouses still living Page-1 -- Page-2Aline - Heritage Manor Bed & Breakfast - by The Rexroat's (Carolyn & A. J.)
Ingersoll - Alfalfa Co., Sec. 21/28, T27N, R11W, 2 miles north, 2 miles west of Cherokee. Newspapers: Ingersoll Review; Ingersoll Times; Ingersoll News; Ingersoll Midget. Railroads: Choctaw Northern Railroad (Rock Island); Denver, Enid and Gulf Rairoad (Santa Fe). Post Office: September 13, 1901 thru December 31, 1942.
Short Springs
Yewed - Alfalfa Co., Sec. 32, T26N, R11W, 4 miles south, 3 miles west of Cherokee, Oklahoma. Its Post Office started December 24, 1898 thru April 30, 1952. Their Newspaper was The Hustler and their Railroad was Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway (Santa Fe).

Biographical Sketch About the Life and Times of Elizabeth Hampton, -- She was living in the Green Valley community west of Carmen in the first quarter of this century. She was born in 1816 in Missouri, had two husbands who were both murdered, and a writer for the "Aline Chronoscope" (who was a good friend of the Sherrell family) did a series of interviews with her in 1921. She died in 1923. The story is quite interesting and I transcribed it with all the grammar and punctuation preserved from the original newspaper articles. The story is on my ancestry page. (there's a five-generation photo on that page and SHE is the oldest person in the photo).