Wedding Handkerchief – Treasure Chest Thursday

February 11, 2010

Delicate, embroidered and lacey! Ottie carried this handkerchief on October 1, 1930 when she married Claude Brown. Typically, wedding handkerchiefs …

Framed for Life

February 8, 2010

In 1925, after her father died, Ottie Rury quit school to go to work at Woolworth’s in Enid, Oklahoma. It …

October 11, 2009

He was tall, dark, handsome, wore a cowboy hat especially when he dressed up, liked country music and was left …

October 6, 2009

I can’t imagine what it must have been like for a 9 year old who was immigrating to the U.S. …

October 3, 2009

Watching the OU football game tonight reminded me of our Siamese cat who was a football fan. Felicia, who was …

July 30, 2009

The Hennessey Clipper, April 24, 1912 front page A Most Disastrous Cyclone Sweeps Hennessey and Vicinity The most destructive storm …

July 28, 2009

Lacey Cemetery is quite small & is on the south side of highway 51 about 10 miles west of Hennessey. …