[eddie gein]

My great paternal grandfather came from Sweden and landed in Nebraska. He came to Oklahoma for the run and settled in eastern Kingfisher county. The story goes that the Dalton gangs mother lived on the next quarter.

He bought out a bunch of people in Kingfisher Co. Sold his holdings there and along with his brother did the Cherokee strip run and settled in the Waukomis area.

In 1995 I was doing a project in Poteau and living in an apartment. I noticed that the pretty young girl who lived above me had Kingfisher Co. plates on her car. Pretty unusual for Poteau. When I asked her about it she told me that she had bought the car in Kingfisher but was actually from Drummond (the town next to Waukomis in Garfield county).

After talking to her for a while it turned out that her great grandfather was that brother of my great grandfather who came over from Sweden to do the Cherokee strip run.

[karibear]

Originally Posted by LadyRobyn

If you don't mind me asking...

Some things a few of you have mentioned, (jessaka's great-grandmother and the trail of tears, redbird learning the teaching of his people etc.) got me to wondering.

My father's family is from OK, mostly. His mother was half Apache and was born in a covered wagon outside Paint Rock, TX, and she married a Cavalry sergeant major who went all over the world. They had 5 kids who were born every which where, but all went back to OK when he retired from the Army. She had a lot of relatives in OK and wanted to be around them - one of them, her brother, was Farmer Ray who played ball for the St Louis Browns. One of my uncles said they all knew they were Indians, but it was 'socially inhibiting' in those days, so they just didn't claim it. One of the more interesting bits about the grands was that being in the cavalry in OK, he was busy chasing Indians, and some of her relatives worked with him as scouts to help him catch others of their relatives. My uncle said at times like that it got very tense at home, but people did whatever they had to in order to survive and feed their families. Whatever they did, it worked. My father and all his brothers and sisters went to the university at Norman, and all of them graduated with honors and some of them went on to graduate schools of one kind or another. My father went to the Naval Academy in DC, and two of his brothers went to whatever the Army equivalent was in DC. Eventually my father switched too, because he loved playing polo and the Navy didn't keep horses. So I have roots in OK. Even in Alaska I had roots, that's where my father was born when his father was stationed at Fort Seward. He claimed he wasn't even entirely sure he was American, because he was born somewhere in the Chilkoot Pass, and no one knew whether it was on the US side or the Canadian side.

I don't reallly think there's any way to trace any of them, because my grandmother apparently changed the names of her relatives and offspring on a whim. She'd just decide one day she was tired of 'Frank' and he was now going to be 'Henry' and so he was. Her name, though, before she got married was Jenny Running Deer.

[Annemieke Roell]

Originally Posted by Brasidas

Mother and Grandfather are buried there. Was born in Wichita, raised in Tulsa and Cleveland, Ok.

Adopted mom, her parents (my grandparents), all live in Cleveland area. My sister lives in Bixby, and I visit every six weeks or so.

My son lives across the highway from my mom and grandparents.

We live about 8 miles from Cleveland, in Terlton.

I was born and raised in the Netherlands and lived in Canada, Maine and Cape Cod, MA for 25 years before moving here. For the second time in my life I feel I am "home", the first time when I lived in Newfoundland.

I loce Oklahoma and as far as I am concerned I'll never leave.

[carmelita elias]

I was born in Perry Memorial Hospital in 1957. I was raised in Perry. We left Perry when I was going into High School. I now would like to move back home and am looking for a home to lease at this time.

[Bass&Catfish2008]

4 Generation Okie Here.

My Dad's grandparents came from Georgia back in the early 1900's.

My Mom's family came from Mississippi and North Carolina around the same time.

Whereever I go: I'll always be an OKIE first.

[ironhorseherb]

My parents were born in Arkansas and Oklahoma, they left Oklahoma around 1942 and I was born in California in 1944. They moved to California to work in the shipyards in San Francisco. Right after I was born they came back to Cleveland and I was raised there until I joined the Airforce in 1966. I managed to be stationed at Tinker AFB until I was discharged in 1970. Could not find a job in and around Tulsa, except for the one that sent me to Northern Indiana. Thats where I met my wife and I have been here ever since. Now we are almost moved into our house in Cleveland (Westport) 10 miles East of Cleveland. I AM FINALLY HOME and my Wife loves Oklahoma and our new to us house.

IronHorseHerb

[Goodpasture]

So give us your address and we will drop off a bottle of Oklahoma wine next time we get some........

Is it that 1532 sf, two bedroom, one bath, two car garage house with the nice sunroom off the back on almost half an acre? Do you have a view of the lake or just the woods? If that's the place, that is a nice one.

[ironhorseherb]

Goodpasture I think that was the first one we were looking at. It was grey stone and had bars on all the windows and doors. Ours is farther down the road, no lake view almost 1800 sf. and 3 bed 2 bath.

IronHorse

[Goodpasture]

Ok, I didn't see it as a sale in MLS.......guess I will have to check the courthouse records so I can get you your welcome gift.........after all you are less than 10 miles from me.......

[ironhorseherb]

We closed on it in February. Now we need to sell the Indiana house.

IronHorse