Duchess & Sadie Sleepy Domain

The second week of the New Year 2010 finds us publishing our 2nd issue of The OkieLegacy eZine this evening in SW Colorado. Our temperatures reached 48F in the valley North of Bayfield. It is suppose to be warmer Tuesday around here.

We hear Oklahoma all the way to Florida has been experiencing some deep freeze temps. Is it the global warming effecting the south differently than their normal Winter time?

Some of you commented on our panorama of Vallecito Lake here in SW Colorado.

Rod says, "I'm liking your panorama shot quite a lot! Just learned in today's Enid News & Eagle that Cliff's Camera Shop is for sale. Cliff is retiring after a 61-year career! Good for him, but Enid is losing a great guy - and maybe a "last of its kind" camera store if a buyer can't be found!"

Speaking about Cliff's Camera Shop, I hope Cliff can find someone to continue his camera shop in Enid, Oklahoma. I remember Cliff's Camera shop (Cliff's Camera & Digital) at 122 East Randolph Avenue, in Enid, Oklahoma 73701. I think I bought my first 35mm camera and lenses (Not digital, either) at Cliff's! Sometimes our retirement creeps upon us and causes great business to close, though. Perhaps … It won't close and will find another buyer to continue this small homegrown business.

Does anyone out there know where a photo of the Old Avard, Oklahoma Frisco Depot can be found? Sandie Olson at the Waynoka Historical Society was asking for another person who is searching for a copy of the old Frisco Depot of Avard. If you know where to get a copy of the Frisco Depot, send a copy to Sandie Olson at the Waynoka Historical Society, in Waynoka, Oklahoma. Thanks for your help!
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Frostin' Freezin' Oklahoma

Jan. 7, 2010 … Roy says, "A good frosty morning to you. At nine o'clock last night a freezing mist began falling here in Perry as this wintry blast began and in Oklahoma City it was so windy along with an ice storm, that power lines were snapping and leaving folks in the cold and dark. They're still having major problems there but by nine o'clock this morning our sun was shining brightly and our streets were clear again! Perry was spared everything except the bitter cold. It may warm back up to about 30 degrees here today but the bad stuff is still predicted to be on its way. I understand that Oklahoma's 'panhandle' (which frequently gets the worst weather) is experiencing warm, spring-like weather today (around 70 degrees). I'm ready for summer to return."
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Aldridge Family Inquiry In NW Oklahoma

Paulita Aldridge Hayes is looking for more history about her grandparents, Jesse and Floris Patterson Aldridge of Alva, Oklahoma.
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Kemper Military Academy Memories

K. Racette (email: diamondfire1947@yahoo.com) says, "My cousin, the late Edward S. May, son of the late Stanley & Louise May of Alva, Oklahoma, also attended Kemper Military Academy … somewhere between 1937-1939. He was also a graduate of Alva High School, but I'm not positive about the year … somewhere in this time frame. His sister, the late Jean (May) Garvin told me she thought he attended Kemper about 1939.

NW Okie (that's me, Linda) dug out an old Kemper Annual of that period (1937-39) and will try to figure a way to scan those pages into a pdf file. the thin annual is like a thin, magazine and does not quite fit my 8x11 inch scanner. We shall see what we can get done to share it with everyone out there.
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New Oklahoma State Song … NOT!

Marvin says, "For all my relatives and friends in Oklahoma and those with an Okie connection. Oklahoma is changing the words to the State Song. It now goes like this:

SNOW.......klahoma
Where the cold front's sweepin' down the plain
And the piles of sleet, beneath your feet
Follow right behind the freezing rain.

SNOW.......klahoma
Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Travel home from work and hope some jerk
Doesn't wreck our car in passing by!

We know we belong to the land
But it could use some more salt and more sand

That's why we say.....WHOA!
We're the sliding the other way.......YIKES!

We're only sayin'
You're slick as snot SNOWklahoma
SNOWklahoma
SNOW-K-L-A-H-O-M-A
SNOWklahoma, SNOW-K!"
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Photo Wanted: Avard Frisco Depot

Sandie Olson says, "Hi Linda - Please ask your readers where one might find a photo of the Frisco depot in Avard. It is wanted for a magazine article about the Avard rail connection. Thanks for any help.

"I don't have any info at all about the depot. It would have served passengers going east from Avard toward Enid, or coming west to Avard from Enid. At Avard, the trains would transfer to the Santa Fe going to Waynoka and on west."
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John Jacob & Mary Jane Vance Warwick Sketches

Shirley in Richmond, VA says, "We also have a copy of the portrait likenesses that the lady from California shared with you. My Mother remembered the original pen and ink drawings being given as a parting gift to.

"I believe a Mary Moore Hanna or maybe it was Carrie Moore Hanna. She was the Warwick descendant. Her husband was Rev. Hanna and was taking a church (Presbyterian?) out west (Arizona or New Mexico) and I guess this was a way of letting them take their heritage with them.

"Several copies were made and kept by descendants at that time, which is why I have my copy. I can find details if you are interested. A file cabinet is bulging.

"Lately, I have wondered if the portraits might really be of Andrew Sitlington Warwick and his wife. He was the grandson of Jacob. But the fact that they have been so long ago identified as Jacob and Mary make me wonder if that might really be true. I have often wondered what happened to the originals. It was very interesting to read what was written on the reverse, because my copy does not record all of that information. -- Shirley Morris Ricmond, Virgina."

Michele Hankins in Virginia says, "My husband and I are very interested in getting the Warwick family history correct. What was so strange is we recently went to NYC and had portraits done in Central Park and although the drawing of my son looks little to nothing like him, it looks EXACTLY like the portrait done of Jacob Warwick that I viewed online. There was a Hannah Gatewood that died during childbirth. She was married to John Woods Warwick. Her only child, Sally, lived and went on to have eight daughters and a son who grew up in the house we are restoring a clover Lick, WV. John and Hannah were the last with the name of Warwick to live in the house."

Shirley says, "I spent an afternoon at Clover Lick years ago, (BC as in before children). There was a neat house up on a hill that intrigued me because it was on such a hillside that they buried Mary Vance Warwick. Is that the house you are restoring? I am sure I can get a good copy of the pen and ink drawings and will send to you. John Woods Warwick is my 2 great grandfather and I am descended from him and his second wife, Caroline E. Craig. I named my daughter after her. She was from Huntersville. I knew about Sally Gatewood and have a friend from school who is related to her. I never knew that she died in childbirth."
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Henry Clay Paris - Son of Arthur Henry Paris

Jennisue Ostermeier says, "My name is Jennisue Ostermeier and I am the grandaughter of Henry Clay Paris, son of Arthur Henry Paris, Son of Henry Clay Paris, Sr..

"My grandfather Henry passed away in July of 2006 and he had 6 children. If you would like information about my grandfather and his descendants I would be happy to tell you. My email is -- jenizzlisue@gmail.com."
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2010 Waynoka Historical Society Calendars

Have you gotten your 2010 calendar yet? If NOT … Then you need this collectors item - the Waynoka 2010 Collectors Calendar Honors 100 Years for Santa Fe Depot, Harvey House.

It was 100 years ago, in 1909, that Waynoka witnessed the construction and opening of the Santa Fe Depot and the adjacent Harvey House. The 2010 Waynoka Historical Society Collectors Calendar is dedicated to to the special anniversary of the buildings. The colorful cover features nine photographs of the beautifully restored structures and their Spanish mission architecture.

Each month of the calendar has a different theme with multiple pictures. January's photos are from the Belva-Heman area west of the Cimarron River, and include Good's Dance Barn. February features nine Waynoka businesses in the 1950s or 1960s. Other themes are Harvey Girls and the Harvey House, sports, churches, the Santa Fe Depot, Transcontinental Air Transport, leisure, schools, farming and ranching, Santa Fe Railroad, and for December, a variety of winter scenes.

The calendars can be purchased at the Woods County Enterprise and the Museum Gift Shop, or can be ordered by mail. They are $8.66, each, tax included. For mailing, add $2.50 for one, $3.00 for 2, or $3.50 for 3 to the same address. Send payment to Museum Gift Shop, PO Box 193, Waynoka OK 73860. Visa and Mastercards are accepted with name, card number and expiration date.

The Waynoka Historical Society has published calendars since 1989. The 2010 collectors calendar has a new format, and contains almost 100 photographs. A few calendars remain at the Gift Shop from prior years. Please call 580-824-1886 with any questions or for Credit Card orders. Or email waynokahs@hotmail.com.
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Avard, OK Info

We did a search back through The OkieLegacy archives and found the following information in Vol. VI, Iss. 43 concerning Avard, Oklahoma:

Avard, Oklahoma Information ... "After getting your reply I had to re-think everything that was handed down to me through my father by word of mouth, none of which is documented.

"My father, Joseph Samuel Avard, was born in Leesville, Louisiana, December 29, 1843 and passed away April 27, 1921 in Leesville, Louisiana. Avard, Oklahoma Information.

"Dad always said that Avard, Oklahoma was named after an aunt or maybe a great aunt whose name was Mary Isabell Avard, who married a man by name of Todd. Now I don't know if they met at Avard or not.

"Dad always said she was the first post mistress at Avard. It's been a long time. I wish I had written some of the information down, but didn't.

"My Dad was a depot agent for Frisco Railroad, and my mother was also in later years. She worked at Avard during wheat harvest season on different occasions as depot agent in the 1960's. Dad used to tell that a banker came thru Avard one time and couldn't decide whether to open a bank at Avard or Tulsa. He chose Tulsa.

"That's my knowledge of the name of Avard Oklahoma. I have been there several times, and my brother married a girl, Martha Bliss, from Avard while he was attending college at Alva Oklahoma, since divorced. I live in suburbs of Tulsa.-- sent in by Vernon - Email: vernonavard@netzero.net and appeared in Vol. 6, Iss. 43."
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History of Avard, OK

On the Avard Folk Festival you can find some more history of the little town of Avard in Woods County, in Northwest Oklahoma. Such as:

The town was originally one mile south of the present location. Where Avard is presently at today, the property for Avard was purchased from Mr. Frank Todd. The Town was named after Mr. Todd's mother. Avard grew from the efforts of A.F. Wolf, from Fayetteville, AR., who anticipated th extension of the Frisco Railroad westward in 1904 from Enid, OK.

Avard is located 7 miles south and 6 miles west of Alva, Oklahoma. Avard was the end of the Frisco Railroad and then it continued on the mail line of the Santa Fe (now the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, BNSF), within these two junctions, Avard, OK. is now established. The town boomed and exceeded a population of 350, which was large for early day towns in Western Oklahoma.
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