Vol 12, Iss 28Carmen, Oklahoma - Some one requested some information and photos of the Carmen IOOF Children Home, that was located just North of Carmen, Alfalfa county, Oklahoma. So we did a search of our OkieLegacy database and found the following information.
Vol 12, Iss 28Carmen, Oklahoma - We found the following information on Ancestry.com Messageboard, concerning Odd Fellows Orphanage, Carmen, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The lady, Patricia Mills, who posted it gave a phone number for those wishing to records from the Grand masters office in Perry, Oklahoma.
Vol 12, Iss 28Carmen, Oklahoma - Phyllis Lund (Email: phyllisnsf@aol.com) "My mother and her siblings were in the Carmen IOOF Home you featured on your web site. They were Hattie, Irene, Milton and Ernest Cox. They would have lived there for several years, beginning in the early 1920s. Any info from anyone who would remember or have any connection would be great. Hattie and Ernest are still alive and always wanted to come back to visit. Hattie (84) and in great spirits and health. Mother speaks of carrying lunch to school in a lard bucket and being called the home kids. Also, getting hard candy at Christmas. She has lots more memories if anyone "My daughter in law is into genealogy and has discovered the Home my mother and her siblings were in was in Carmen, Oklahoma. It is on the net, under OkieLegacy - Carmen Odd Fellowage Orphanage.
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I am doing extensive research on the 1,237 men of the 8th Iowa Cavalry and wonder if any of them are listed as being buried in Alfalfa. THANKS! ~N. Dale Talkington
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Vol 6, Iss 39Carmen, Oklahoma - I am so glad to locate this. I am going to send the information to a 3rd-cousin, Fern, who's Uncle, Roberton Talley had died leaving a widow and many children. Fern's Father, William Talley married the widow so he could move in and help with supporting the children but the Mother died too.
Vol 5, Iss 10Carmen, Oklahoma - "Did you ever learn anything more about the Carmen Odd Fellows Home located north of Carmen, Oklahoma? My father and his three sisters lived there from about 1920 - 1922 (their mother died and their father couldn't care for them until after he remarried) and I'm looking for anything I can find out about the place (how many children lived there at the time, what was life like for them, etc [more]...
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