Last Saturday Tommy Whiteman of Ft Worth and I took pictures of the entire Overton Love Cemetery 8 miles SE of Marietta next to the Red River. Overton was a prominent Chickasaw tribal member. WHen I got home I made a discovery. A popular website had him buried in the Love Cemetery (Oil Springs) 15 miles away. I notifed the manage of the website and within a couple hours he had corrected the mistake. Now I’m wondering how many others are misplaced in the wrong cemetery. There is Love Valley Cemetery and Love Cemetery, so it can be confusing.
Both Overton Love and and his son, Henry Love, were recorded in the wrong cemetery. Below is a picture I took of their grave stones, buried side by side in the Loves Valley Cemetery 8 miles SE of Marietta.
Find A Grave for Overton “Sobe” Love
Overton’s burial ceremony was attended by the largest crowd ever of a Chickasaw citizen.
Find A Grave for his son, Henry Love
https://www.okcemeteries.net/love/love.htm
On our way back north to Highway 32 we saw a sign for the Love’s Valley School. The school itself is gone, but there were several remenents of what is left.
Also the sorm celler is still there.
And also the water well pump house.
Ardmore Main Street 1909
From the Mailbag
Remembering 5 Occupations of the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUna2S-uics
Q. Anyone remember the full name of the owner of Aleta’s Dogs and Spuds in the old Mountain View Mall years ago (now named Shops At Ardmore).
A. Aleta Rylant (1935-1991)
Butch, In your last news letter the question of the tunnel at Lincoln School on Stanley was discussed. When I was in the 6 grade at Lincoln, I was a proud member of the Junior Police. We were on duty in the morning before school, during recess, and at lunch time. At times, I was assigned to the tunnel entrance on the school side of Stanley to keep the kids from going into it. That year was 1940, however I don’t know the years that it was opened or closed down. It was tempting at lunchtime for the kids to try to go through it to get to the small candy store directly across the street. I think the lady that ran the store’s name was Edwards. I remember Ms. Howard had a store directly across the ally on the west side of the school ground. -Virgil Harris
Butch, I remember drip gas very well, especially in the early forties during World War 2. Everyone was on gas ration stamps, and it was used by many. My Dad worked at one of the refineries at Graham, and along with most of the employees, used it. It’s downside was vapor locking. I don’t know what he did to get us moving again, but I do know he gave our car new names each time it happened. -Elisabeth
Butch, enjoyed your March 7 edition. In it I noticed an old photo of Daugherty. Back in the fifties. I often rode with a bread truck driver (Jimmy Lamer) on his route which included Mannsville, Gene Autry, and Daughtery. I remember on one occasion we made a delivery in Daugherty, and Kay Starr was there visiting. I understand that was her hometown and she went to school there. They had signs up announcing her visit at the grocery store we delivered to. I also used to shop at the original John Small’s bakery on 3rd N.E. My friend Charles (Jug) Bailey’s father, Charlie Bailey, worked there and at the later location as well. -Jim Guess
HAM Talk by KC5JVT via Echolink
Below is the roster for the last couple of Sunday’s of HAM check-ins.
Hope to see more HAMs check this coming Sunday at 8pm.
Below is from my newsletter dated
March 17, 2001 – Issue 204
This week I went to the Oklahoma Tax Commission’s Website and filled out my 2000 Tax Return using their free Online option. As last year, it worked great, and since I had my ID and password from last year, all my info from last year’s return was transferred to my 2000 Return. All I had to do was basically enter the new amounts. And as last year, I opted for the electronic transfer to my checking account for my Refund! Pretty neat, and its all free for Oklahomans!
I received an email this week asking about the old Ardmore Akron Tire and Rubber Company. This is not the first time I’ve received an inquiry about this old Ardmore business. I did some digging and found it started about 1918 and was located “3 miles north of town”. The President was John C. Harmony who roomed at the Hotel Ardmore. Elmer and Arthur Wood was V-Presidents, Fox Wood was Treasurer, and Roy Wood was Secretary of the corporation. The business’s downtown office was at 209-212 West Main in the Von Weise building. From what I found, the company ceased to be about 1925.
Some other interesting facts I ran across…. in 1910 the Hardy Sanitarium was located at 212 First SW (where the post office is now). I thought it was several years later that Dr. Hardy opened the hospital at 212 First SW. Also in 1926 Harvey Brothers Funeral Parlors was located at 300 West Main.
I found this old box of inner tube patches in my garage. I used to work with these same kind of patches when I fixed flats at Kenneth Chandler’s Service Station at East Main and D Street when I was about 16 years old. This particular patch kit was made in Muskogee, Oklahoma by the H.B. Egan Manufacturing Company back in the 1940s.
Every now and then I get bored (haha), so last Saturday morning I decided to get some Trustys from the county jail and re-paint the stripes in the south parking lot across from the courthouse. County sheriffs office across the state have been providing jail Trusty’s to do some of the needed work around Oklahoma courthouses since statehood. Our new sheriff, Harvey Burkhart, is continuing this tradition. Trusty labor sure helps when there is so much to do in the upkeep of four buildings.
Q. A reader asked if I’ve had any info on the extinct town of Coatsworth, Oklahoma. Coatsworth was located in Marshall county near Madill, Oklahoma. Maybe someone out there knows something about Coatsworth.
A. In northeastern Johnston County, 5 miles east of Connerville. A post office from April 1, 1903 to Jnary 2, 1907.
-from Oklahoma Name Places by George H. Shirk, first edition 1966
The past week around Ardmore it seems like Spring has sprung. This Bradford Pear tree is across from my house at the Ardmore Garden Center, and its in full bloom. (note: the tree is no longer there, wiped out by an ice storm)
“Butch, have you ever heard anyone use the word “tump”? As in, “Be careful, you’re going to tump the boat over”. I think it’s a southern term combining “turn” and “dump”. I have heard it all my life and some people I know said that they’d never heard of it.”
“In February 1966 I was teaching school and received my draft notice. I was to report to Los Angeles on April 21, 1966. It was quite a confusing day but at last a group of us were told we were going to Fort Bliss, Texas. I was glad to find two friends that I had graduated in 1961 from high school. In the early afternoon we were bussed around LAX to what seemed to be on the south side of the airport. We were to get in a white and red prop plane. They said we would be leaving in a few minutes. Several times during that long afternoon we kept getting announcements that the flight had been delayed. We were finally told that they were going to load the plane. I had never flown and the long wait made me very more apprehensive. I remember how one engine was the last to start and fire came out of the back. The plane shook more than I expected and it seemed like the wings went up and down as we headed down the runway. I thought, “Well I’m sure the crew wouldn’t fly a plane that wasn’t safe.” We landed in Texas and had a good flight. I was separated from my two friends and the rest of the group in Texas. They wanted me to take additional test for OCS. A few weeks later I saw one of my friends and he told me that the plane had crashed the next day killing all aboard. I remember thinking that I hoped that our crew was not on the plane because they had been so nice to us. I was glad to find the American Flyers Memorial website. It is great to see that people remember what we did in those years. I would have been there the next day.” -Sp5 Robert Gollihugh
American Flyers 1966 crash link
“Mystery of Three Oklahoma Tombstones Solved: Three tombstones were found along side an Oklahoma highway north of Davis, Oklahoma and no one knew where they came from. Dennis Muncrief decided to investigate and return the stones to their original location. Read the story of how this happy-ending came about.”
https://www.interment.net/column/feature/stolen/index.htm
There was a grocery store also on Caddo and my dad worked there for a long time. I’d walk down there over the railroad tracts to be with him. We lived on G. Street N.E. His name was S. H. Mapp. There’s a lot of memories, (good ones) there and 713 4th N.E. where my Grandmother lived. I also went to Washington School. I remember Small’s Bakery. Thanks for the wonderful memories.”
“I tried out that new BBQ place in Davis called Buffalo Gap. It is VERY different. The ribs are smoked and seasoned with a tasty rub. The sauce is a mustard BBQ that is unique. It’s not your typical Okie-style BBQ, but if you’re looking to try something different, this is the place. Prices are reasonable, atmosphere is fun. Thanks for another entertaining Saturday morning!”
“Butch, Good Morning, I intended to write you last week about your grandfather building the Methodist church in Hobart, but you know how time gets away from you, but now after this week’s newsletter, I am glad I did not write you until now. My grandfather, James A. Anderson, hauled the first load of lumber into Hobart to start their town. He is also the great uncle of your good friend, Leroy McDaniel of Mannsville, Oklahoma. He hauled this load of lumber with his big wagon and several of his large mules. James Anderson later moved to Frederick, about 60 miles south of Hobart and was a farmer there until his death in 1932. I have several family members buried at Hobart.
“Butch, Tell your reader, that there is a leather shop in Lone Grove, called Lone Grove Boot and Saddle, Susan and Randy Watterson 580-657-2802, do great work, they custom made a T-bag for our motorcycle, and it’s beautiful, they are good folks and can do just about anything you want, they do quite a bit of work for us bikers. Hope this helps.”
“Dear Butch, On the corner of S. Commerce & Myall Streets (I think this is where the old Randolph’s Saddle Shop used to be located) there is a business called B and C Saddle Shop. It is owned by Bud Stewart. He makes wonderful saddles, chaps and many other leather goods. He might be able to make a gun holster for the person who wrote in asking you about such a place. He is only open from about 8 AM to around l:30 or 2:00 P.M. It would be well worth a person’s time to check it out. I hear that people come from all over the US to have him make saddles and other things for them.. He and his wife are nice Christian people and I know them personally. “
“Butch, just thought you might like to have a photo of the side of Overbrook, Okla. that most people don’t see. About a mile south of the Overbrook Road railroad crossing, down in the “boonies”, is this sign by the tracks. On Feb. 25, 2001 I shot Oklahoma’s Heartland Flyer blasting past the sign and a waiting freight train on the siding track to the left. Sorry folks, no stops here!!” -Dwane Stevens
“Finally got them. Think part of the problem was Netscape. So I went to IE. The pictures just don’t do the fire justice. I spent a couple of hours or so watching it. The immediate rumors said that it started in the peanut mill near the underpass got on a conveyor belt so it spread rapidly at the outset. Then driven by a good? breeze it progressed northward pausing briefly at a firewall in the cotton warehouses. I remember that the heat was so intense that it lifted pieces of corrugated sheet iron into the air like leaves. When they passed beyond the heat they dropped to the ground, a few farther north than Broadway.” –Leroy McDaniel
“hi butch i am glad you spoke of cecil button. i remember him when i was growing up. he lived around from me. i used to see him at Moore’s grocery. i think him and mr moore where brother inlaw’s. he was a very nice man. thanks for bringing back memories”
“Butch, Pruittville, east of Madill has a new Sign. The old one was knocked down about 2 months ago in an accident. You’ve been to Pruittville before back about 8 years ago. Wonder if any of your readers might have any information on the old community of Kinlock before it was known as Pruittville? Or any pictures? My family used to have a Dairy down there back in the mid 1900’s.” -Jayson Pruitt
Kinlock is In Marshall County, 7 miles southeast of Madill, Oklahoma. A post office from February 7, 1905 to November 30, 1927.
“Hey Butch, how about this strange looking pumpjack that one of your readers emailed to me. It doesn’t have a gear box. I wouldn’t want to have to buy all of those belts for this one.”
“Butch, in regard to whoever wanted leatherwork done. Bud Stewart bought the old Randolph Saddle Shop (on South Commerce and Myall) and it is now called B&C Saddle Shop.
Poor people have poor ways.
See everyone next Thursday!
Butch and Jill Bridges
Ardmore, Oklahoma
580-490-6823
