The History of Okfuskee/Haydonville Community
compiled by Reverend Otto Goins
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Chapter I

How It All Began

A century ago pioneers from surrounding states began to move into
an area of the Indian Territory named by the Indians, "Okfuskee",
meaning "sharp waters".

Some of the early settlers were: the Southwick family 1891, from
Kansas; the Manwarring family, 1889, from Arkansas; Ed and Mrs. Stine,
1900, from kansas; the Days and Wades, 1902, from Texas; Edwards
and Haddoxes, 1902, from Texas; the Wheelers from Indiana, 1886;
the George Collins family and sons, 1886, the Bacons,Rayborns,
Purkeys, Beets, Charley Phillips and Bartows.

A government building and mail service were established one-half mile
north of the present-day community building. The building was a
rough sawmill lumber-type building with handmade shingles. The build-
ing was 20X24 feet in dimension, surrounded by a barbed wire and chick-
en wire fence.

The post office was operated by Mrs. Coulter, affectionately known
as Grandma Coulter, and Grandma Post. A trading post was opened by
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Harman, and another by the Collins family. The mail
was carried out of Okemah by horseback riders with government mail
bags in front and back of the saddles. Some of the first pony express
riders were: Theo Manwarring, Jim Day and Quim Wheeler. They usually
carried a six-gun on their hips or a rifle on their saddles.

The Collins bought 160 acres on the east side of the road running
north and east. Bud Collins built a cotton gin and a lovely home
on or near the southwest corner of present day highway 56. He also
donated the northeast corner for the "Okfuskee Free Cementery".

George Collins built a new building and moved his store one-half mile
south and on the south side of present day Okfuskee. Soon Grandma
Coulter moved the post office to a location one-fourth mile west of the
corner on the north side of the street. Soon other buildings were
built.

A.G. (Guy) Wheeler open a drugstore on the southwest corner;
Dr. A. C. Bartow built a store front building for an office and
living quarters, and soon a little town sprang up on the south side
of the street. A blacksmith shop was built to the west. Ed Lawsor
and Morse Boaz were early day blacksmiths. A cafe was opened by
Lottie Bacon and also a barber shop. Early day barbers were
Orville Ward, Mr. Murphy and John Wade.

A board sidewalk ran the entire length of the town because the
streets in Okfuskee were extremely muddy. Most of the town was on
the south side of the street.

Seeing the need of a school and a church, a lot was acquired on the
southeast corner and a two-story building, 50'x70' in dimension was
built which would be used for a school, a church and community
affairs, with an Odd Fellows Lodge upstairs.

All the buildings on the south side of the street were built on
land owned by a friendly Indian woman named Millie Johnson.
Other families to move in and have apart in the community life of
Okfuskee were the Goins from Sparks, Oklahoma, and the Loveladys
from Asher in 1910 and 1912. Tom Goins and family rented land one-
half mile south of Okfuskee and one mile east of Okfuskee. In
1914, P. L. Goins and Tom Lovelady bought out the store owned by
George Collins. Alonzo Dunham and family had moved to Okfuskee in
1912 from near St. Louis, Missouri, and Mr. Dunham had been
employed by Mr. Collins. So when Goins and Lovelady bought the
store from Mr. Collins, Mr. Dunham built and opened a store on the
north side of the street.

The community prospered. The rich farm land produced good crops of
corn, cotton, oats, and Kaffir corn. New families moved in that
would have a long life in the Okfuskee community. The Joe Walker
family moved in 1913 from Norman, Oklahoma, via Okemah.

The community building became over crowded; a one-room school was
too small for a growing community with large families. In 1909 a
tract of land, six and three-fourths acres, with an ever-flowing
spring, was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Warner for $400. It
was located one mile west and one-half mile south of Okfuskee.




Chapter II

The Ever Colorful Okfuskee School

On the west side of the six and three-fourths acres, construction
began in 1909 on a two-story, quarried rock building. The building
was strongly built with a beautiful doorway and windows, a wide
arched opening in front with a belfry housing a large cast-iron
bell that could be heard for miles around.

Okfuskee School, District No. I, was to be a source of education
for many children and young people. The spring on the northeast
corner of the school property would supply water for the entire
community and the town, where water was hard to come by. Neighbors
would come to haul water from the spring in wooden barrels. Often
a barrel would be overturned when a team would jerk the wagon
pulling of the incline, and the process of drawing the water with
a bucket and small rope reoccurred. Neighbors would often visit
long at the spring.

School kids would also carry water in buckets from the spring for
drinking water, and they too, loved to visit at the spring,
sometimes dousing their heads in the spring and washing their feet
in the water running out of the spring. Many friendship and
courtship was started there that lasted a lifetime.

Some of the early teachers in the new building were: Lillian
Thompson, principal; Nata Lawrence, Mary Raybourn, and Eula Ball.
E. H. Hall, W. E. Ritchie, T. A. Holbrook and M. A. Hall were to
follow with lengthy terms.

Okfuskee School District, No.1, was to have a large place in the
literary meets and the track and field meets of the county and
state. Among the first and well known athletes were Bill and Tite
Manwarring, a two-brother, two-man track and field team.

The Okfuskee community would really turn out to watch Bill and Tite
compete in the county field and track meet at Okemah. In
grandstand style, Bill and Tite would place first and second in the
race, the pole vault, the jumps and the weight throwing events.
They would bring home the first place trophies for the school and
many first and second place medals for themselves. The school with
Bill and Tite became a legend and tradition in this area.

Then in 1915, tragedy struck the beautiful pride of the community.
The two-story building burned, leaving only the huge quarried rock
walls standing.
So back to Okfuskee in the community building, downstairs and
upstairs, and a store front building, until a building could
built on the six and three-fourths acre school land.
Construction began on a three-room quarried rock building, the huge
rocks being quarried one and one-fourth mile north of Okfuskee.
The building of a new building and the hiring of teachers and the
signing of warrants and the financial burden of the school placed
a lot of responsibility on the school board.
Some of the first members elected for this were G. M. Manwarring,
Mrs. A. C. Bartow, secretary, Clay Lovelady and W. B. Riley.
During their terms as members, a need was seen for transportation
for a widening consolidated school district, state laws making that
requirement for schools to receive state aid.

It had been a sight to see, kids and teachers any morning on their
way to school, most on foot or horseback. The Phillips boys, the
Beets, Edwards, and the Brazeels and Roundvilles coming from the
east as far as six miles, riding together picking up a kid or two
along the way to ride behind the saddle. The Stines, Jones, Adams
and Hixons, Wades, Bacons and Rayborns, coming from the south. The
Southwicks, Medleys, Thomases, Burklins, Bartows and Walkers coming
from the north. The Manwarrings, McCulleys, Loveladys, Shannons,
Beets coming from the west. And from Okfuskee town, Dunhams,
Goines, Browns and Cunninghams.

In 1918, transportation was beginning for kids living the farthest
away. There was none for kids living with two miles (who could
ride). Poss Manwarring hauled kids in a covered wagon, pulled by
horses from a distance of six miles from the school. Other
homemade buses were driven by Wayne Hixon, Garland Coffman and
L. R. Richardson.

Some of the teachers of the newly built school were Otis Scott,
Hazel Dunham, Grace MossIer, Edgar Turner and Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
Henry. Some of the athletes of that era were Earl Manwarring,
Raymond Haddox, Austin Stine, Hershel Lovelady. Some of the
basketball players were Olen Hixon, Victor Hanvie, Vernon Walker,
Isaac Deere and Dave King. Some of the girls teams were made up of
Hazel Manwarring, Imogene Lovelady, Gladys Haddox, Lone Bean and
Ella Davis.


Chapter III

Community Life

The early history of Okfuskee would not be complete without telling
of the rich and pleasant community life and the get-togethers of
neighbors.

A fish fry and basket dinner, an almost weekly affair, would
attract a crowd of people. The campground was two miles west and
two and one-half miles north of Okfuskee at the bridge across Deep
Fork River. The river was abundant with fish, and groups with 60
foot seines would seine and noodle the river for fish. Sack full of
fish would be taken to the camp for the women to clean and begin to
fry in deep grease on open campfires. People would gather for
miles around for the fish fry and basket dinners, all were free.

Then each fourth of July, the Odd Fellows Lodge would sponsor a
Fourth of July picnic. Jim Day would furnish a beef and Ed Stine
would donate a hog, and over an open fire barbecue pit, Doc Kimball
and helpers would slowly barbecue the meat using a pitch fork to
turn the chunks of meat. The Goins' and the Dunhams' stores would
furnish the bread and the lemons and sugar for the lemonade.
The picnic ground and ball field were one-fourth mile north and
one-fourth mile east of Okfuskee. For the gigantic dinner, ladies
would bring pies, cakes, salads and spring vegetables. In the
afternoon, there would be speaking, goat roping, bronco riding and
a ball game.

Much of the community life was built around the community building
and the school. Aunt Lindy Bacon is said to have started the first
Sunday School at the Okfuskee Community Building with preachers of
different denominations preaching in the morning and night
services. Some of the well-known preachers were Tom Hill, S. E.
Garrett, Grandpa Pinion and Brother Champion, the latter two local
preachers.

Okfuskee had a well-known singing class and would compete in a
county-wide singing convention, often bringing home the banner.
Some of the well-known singing teachers and singers were Crady
Moose, Alonzo and Hazel Dunham, and later, Chester Robinson, a
singing school teacher and Baptist preacher. Singing classes were
taught to read shaped notes.

A famous ladies club was organized by Mrs. A. C. Bartow, Mrs. 0. W.
Hollowell, Mrs. Clyde Lovelady, with Mrs. P. L. Goins being their
first president. The club still exists and is active to this day.
It has had many helpful projects in the community.

Neighbor helping neighbor was a feature of the community. Sharing
early vegetables in the spring and fresh butchered meat in the
fall; helping one another in the field when one, because of
sickness, would fall behind in the crops, and sitting up with the
sick and sharing the sorrow in time of death were worthwhile
practices of the community.

A country doctor, Dr. A. C. Bartow, had an office at Okfuskee and
would make house calls and often sit up with a patient all night.
'
A community-wide Christmas tree and program would be held at the
community building or the school house. Neighbors would exchange
gifts and all would receive a big sack of candy with an apple and
an orange. Pie suppers would be held to finance the treat.

Chapter IV

War and Turmoil in Okfuskee

In the late teens the friendly Indian woman on whose allotment the
town and community building was built, married a white man named
Matt Bargo. Bargo was not at all friendly with the town or
townspeople.. In 1920 he notified all people owning buildings on
the south side of Highway 56 would have to move them, even the
community building. He said, "move it or I will fence it in or
burn it down." This is what he started to do (fence it) and that
is when the little war began.

Ivan Geller was walking across the land back of the church to his
brother-in-law's house to the southeast, when Matt encountered him,
threatened him and ordered him off the property. That lit the
fuse.

That night was Lodge night, and gathered in for Lodge were Doc
Kimball, Jim Day, P. L. Goins, Ed Stine, Bill Manwarring, Ivan
Geller, Murphy and others. When the shooting started, Bargo was
hiding and shooting from a picket rail fence and a rifle ball threw
splinters in his face.

During the next few days, Millie deeded the 150'x150' lot to the
Okfuskee IOOF Lodge for $100. But the rest of the town, stores
and dwelling houses, had to be moved because the owners did not
have a good title to the land.

So the painstaking process of moving the town across the street
began. Guy Wheeler moved his drugstore and telephone office across
the street to the northeast corner. A. Dunham moved his store,
which at the death of Grandma Coulter in 1918 became the post
office. Dr. Bartow moved his office building across the street and
the other large store, now owned by the Beidlemans was moved.

The Beidlemans had also bought the cotton gin from Bud Collins.
The store was moved and the gin remained on the north side one-
fourth mile north. The blacksmith shop, barber shop and all
dwelling houses were moved so Matt could plow up the land for a
cotton field. Only one house was left for a renter.


Chapter V

The Friendly Well Loved Indians

The history of Okfuskee was preceded by the Indians, who were there
before the first white settlers came. Okfuskee was a part of their
Federal allotments, the Creek Nation. But in general they were
friendly and were to become a part of the Okfuskee community, or
better stated, the early settlers were to become a part of their
Nation.

The Indians gave Okfuskee its name. The town was named before the
county was named. The Creek word, Okfuskee, means "Sharp Waters,"
and indeed it was given a meaningful name, lying between two major
creeks, Buckeye and Nuyaka Creeks and Deep Fork River.
Nuyaka Creek could cover the road and land for one-half mile east
and south; Buckeye for one-half mile west of Okfuskee, and when
Deep Fork River overflowed, it went for a mile or so on each side
of its banks.

The moving of the Indians to Okfuskee can best be told by Benjamin
Porter. Ben said, "My family was moved by the Federal government
from their land in Florida and Georgia to Ft. Gibson. My
grandmother died from the hardship on the Trail of Tears. At Ft.
Gibson, we were processed for tribal and family allotments. After
a cold winter there, living in tents or quickly built shelters, we
were told we would have good river bottom land west of the Creek
Nation Capitol (Okmulgee) on Deep Fork River. So we were loaded
into mule-drawn government wagons and moved to our new homes and
land."

"you should have seen it. It was like the Sac and Fox reservation
south of Stroud on Deep Fork. Nothing could survive there but a
mosquito or a water moccasin. There was barely enough high ground
out of the flood waters to build a house and plant a field. But
that was it, live or die, sink or swim. So we adjusted to our new
homes and land."

The bottom land was abundant with wild life -'possums, coons,
squirrels, fish in the streams, lakes and sloughs, pecans and
walnuts in the trees, also wild plums and 'possum grapes and wild
blackberries in the spring.

A ten-acre tract was acquired to build a church and campground
exclusively for religious Christian worship.

In 1980, when Senator Henry Bellmon and the Fish and Game
Department proposed to buy a tract of land on each side of the
river from the Sac and Fox Reservation in Lincoln County to

Okmulgee by condemnation for public land to be used for a wildlife
refuge and for hunting and fishing purposes, Ben Porter, in a
public meeting at Okfuskee put it this way: "The Federal
Government pushed us Indians on the Trail of Tears to Ft. Gibson
then to Okfuskee and I will be pushed no further."

He referred to that Indian picture "The End of the Trail." He
said, "I.had that picture hanging on the wall in my room at Bacone
College." Someone asked me, 'Who put that drunk Indian on that
horse.' I said, 'That Indian is not drunk, he is slumped over
because he is tired and battle weary. But don't count him out, he
still has a spear in his hand and has a lot of fight left.'

"I'm like that Indian on the spotted pony. I'm at the end of the
trail but will be pushed no further."

The Montezuma Indian church and campground has been a tradition and
a landmark for over 100 years, a place of worship for Christian
Indians for miles around.

The summer camp meetings were something to be long remembered.
There were open air services under a large pavilion or brush arbor,
singing gospel songs Indian style and often in the Creek language,
fiery gospel preachers the likes of Billy Stoddard, Billy E. Holy,
later Ben Porter and Dave King. Also open air dining tables, meals
free to all, including their white neighbors and friends, large
pans of fried chicken, squaw corn, dried beef, jerky, dried fruits,
roasting ears and garden vegetables.

Clyde and Lilly Lovelady owned land across the road from the church
and were friendly with the Indians and gave them access to a dug
well on their land across from the church, as well as a space for
their rest rooms. And they deeded them a tract of land east of the
church for a cemetery, which is used to this day by the Indians.
Some of the well known and well loved Indians and families were
Jonas Henehah, Kogie Knight, Walter Knight, Ella Davis, Margie
Davis, Louise Scott and sons, Freeman, Yoeman, Tom and Nicie (a
daughter), Ben and Jasper Porter, Dave King, Roman Caney, Loney and
Annie Bear, Chick Roberts and Isaac Deere.

The Cherokees also came to Okfuskee. Jerry Foreman, a half-
Cherokee decided to accept an allotment in the Creek Nation rather
than in the Cherokee Nation because he could get twice as many
acres in the Creek Nation than he could in the Cherokee country.
So he and his sisters and brother were allotted 1400 acres of good
bottom land on Deep Fork River, all overflow land except just
enough high ground to build a house and barn and a few small
fields.

Jerry and his wife, Iva, moving from the plains and hay meadows
north of Claremore (Foyil and Bushyhead), made two or three
attempts to tough it out before they finally decided to stay. None
of his brothers or sisters would stay, so Jerry was the king of a
1400-acre bottom land ranch, living in a house built on the side of
a hill. Jerry and Iva raised their family, and the Foremans were
to be a great part of the community life and the school and church
life of Okfuskee.


Chapter VI

Development of the Land -The Wilderness Tamed

In 1916, Grover Haydon, a young and determined person bought land
two and three miles west of Okfuskee, on the river and on Buckeye
Creek. He was determined to carve out a pecan empire in a wild
wilderness, vile with poison ivy and green briars, water moccasins,
over flow land with lakes, swamps, sloughs, rough timber, big
trees, lake brush, red mud and red water.

With axes and cross-cut saws and the help of Sherman Harness, a
partner, and Oscar Wells, a nephew, and later the Combs boys,
Grover started cutting trees (leaving the native pecan trees),
clearing, draining swamps and sloughs, building dikes and terraces.

What Grover could not do with an axe and a saw and a team of
horses, he left for Paul to do with chain saws, dozers, tractors,
trucks and machinery. Paul and Maxine, with hard work and good
management, have fulfilled their father's dream of a pecan empire
as good as any in the nation. Grover, also being a pecan grafting
genius, left hundreds of grated paper shell trees to bear fruit for
years to come.

Grover and Thelma also built a large rock store building on the
southeast corner of their property that was to be a trading post
for many years, and the beginning of the little town of
Haydonville.

The Gormlys came to Okfuskee in 1920 from Arkansas. Mr. Gormly
bought land on Nuyaka Creek, a mile east and south of Okfuskee.
With his hard working family, he began the development of the land
on the wild, overflowing Nuyaka Creek, clearing the timber,
draining the swamps and wet lands, building dikes and drain
ditches, clearing the hideout for moonshiners' stills and mash
barrels, and would develop rich farmland for his children and
grandchildren to farm for years to come.

The Gormlys would also be active in community life and school and
church activities.

The Walkers came from Kansas via Norman in 1913. The Walkers would
own and control much land in the area -pasture land, hay meadows,
peanut fields and many cattle. The young people were gifted in
learning, arithmetic, and education and would make a place in
education and industry and in church work.

The L. C. Richardson family would also excel in development and
education. Coming to Okfuskee in the twenties, Mr. Richardson and
family had a quest for learning and development. Mr. Richardson,
also a school teacher, drove an Okfuskee School bus for 17 years.
He saw to it his children had a good education. He once said, "A
highlight of my life was to give the best corner of my land for a
location to build a church." Thanks to Mr. Richardson, the church
is still there after 50 years.

Noel Wade and family acquired much land around Okfuskee. Noel and
Mrs. Wade also saw to it that their children and grandchildren
received a good education, James Wade spending a life time in
education and being the last principal of the Okfuskee school. He
served 25 years as teacher/principal for Mason public schools.
Okfuskee, Morse, and Welty schools consolidated with Mason Schools.

The Lewis Gates family also owned land east of Okfuskee on Nuyaka
Creek. Lewis was a leader in the community and remained on the
school board until the school closed in 1968. The Gates family
also had a great part in the community life and the spiritual life
of Okfuskee.

Time and space and memory would fail the writer to tell of the many
people who have graced the moral and spiritual life of the Okfuskee
community during the last 100 years.

No community has had a more colorful and illustrious past, a
history that is worthy to preserve and pass on to a future
generation.

Though modern transportation, automobiles, school buses and
electronic devices in the home have done much to diminish the
community life, the school life and the church attendance, life
goes on. And there is a great day now and a bright future for God-
loving, peace-loving and right-living people.

CHAPTER VII

TOWN OF OKFUSKEE -POPULATION 30

In the twenties people living in Okfuskee were never over thirty or
thirty-five persons. But the little town was a thriving, busy
place. The store owners would generally have a one or two room
living quarters in the back of their store with only two or three
houses back of the store.

To the extreme east and on the north side of the street, Guy
Wheeler operated a drug store and telephone office. Guy had the
telephone switcher board in a room back of the store where he also
had a bed, dresser and a pot-bellied stove. There were also a few
chairs for the many visitors that themselves welcome there. Men
would come to visit with Guy and with one another. Ladies and
girls would come to curl their hair or powder their nose. Mothers
would come to change their babies diaper. Guy never complained and
would visit while operating the switch board with a receiving set
on his head. Along with shelves of patent medicines, he had a soda
fountain at the front of the store where he sold pop and candy. On
the week-ends he would have a freezer of ice cream. The front of
the store and the porch outside was a hang-out for the young people
of the community.

Across the street west, Carol and Vada Fulsom operated a grocery
store and a gasoline pump. They also lived in a one room apartment
in back of the store with their children, Richard and Betty Lou.

The next building west of a store-front building owned and operated
by P. L. and Kilie Goins. It was a general merchandise store,
selling groceries and dry-goods, shoes, hardware, tires, kerosene,
gasoline and oil. They also had living quarters in the back of the
store and a room was added on for their son, Otto, a teen ager.

Thet next building west was a tiny, one chair barber shop. The
barber was Mr. Murphy, the father of Bessie, Oriole and Ella. They
had lived in the last building west, a building that was formerly
Grandma Coulter's Post Office.

Next to the barber shop west, was a sheet metal building where
Perry Cunningham worked on cars. Perry and his son, Chester,
operated a garage there for many years. At a moderate price they
helped people with car trouble. Cars were most T-model
Fords.

Next to the garage was a store front building with consecutive
owners of: Alonzo Dunham, Walter Margadent and Austin Stine and
Tite Manwarring. This building also housed the Post Office.
Austin and Hazel lived in a small house back of the store. They
were newly married.

The next building was Dr. A. C. Bartows's office. Dr. Bartow lived
3/4 of a mile east and 3/4 mile north of Okfuskee and for many
years walked to his office carrying his pill bag. In later years,
one of his sons, George, John or Arthur would drive him and would
also drive him to make house calls.

In the west side of the Doctor's building was a two room living
quarter that for years was the home of the town Black Smith, Bert
Brown and his family. A small building out side was used for their
kitchen. Mildred, Irene, Estelle and John lived there for many
years and was a part of Okfuskee town life. The Black Smith shop
was an Old Barn, where Mr. Brown had an anvil, a blower forge,
hammers and tools for shoeing horses. Mr. Brown was fearless in
shoeing a horse. I can see him now, wearing a leather apron with
the foot of a big horse between his knees, rasping and trimming the
foot for a shoe and heating and shaping the shoe for the horses
foot.

North of Okfuskee, about 3/4 of a mile was the cotton gin. It was
first owned by Bud Collins, then by Joe Beidleman. John Dickson
and his sons, Arthur, Herman and Homer could operate the Gin with
some outside help.

Beginning about the first of September, the ginning season would be
a busy time around Okfuskee. A line of wagons or old trucks would
be backed-up almost to the store, waiting to get the cotton
weighed, unloaded and ginned. But in those days, cotton was a way
of life in Okfuskee. Although the pecan harvest would run
concurrently with the cotton-picking and ginning, school kids loved
that time of the year because it meant money in their
pockets...picking cotton and picking-up pecans.

I can still hear the humming of the old Gin, the steam, pop-off and
the whistle blowing at the close of the day, as the last bale of
cotton would roll off the press into the yard with many other
bales.

This was Okfuskee in the twenties. Just a part of Okfuskee's
history.

CHAPTER VIII

NOWATA

Water was a problem at Okfuskee. Only one or two wells and they
produced "gyp" water with a very small supply. One or two buckets
full and the well was dry. Water was generally hauled from the
spring at the school house or from a neighbors well, more than a
mile from town. Hauled in a large wooden barrel with a canvas or
a was tub over the top.

CHAPTER IV

PEACEFUL, QUITE AND MEMORIES

Things were generally quite and peaceful at Okfuskee. Maybe no
more than a checker game going on, on the front porch or kids
playing pitch and catch in the street. But occasionally the
serenity would be broken by a run-away team, or some mean boys
tying a tin-can to a dogs tail. Sometimes a dog fight by a
farmers dog that followed them to town. Then occasionally a fist-
cuff on election day or at a ball game. But all-in-all life was
pleasant at Okfuskee and people who lived there will not forget.
On September 7, 1991, at that location they will commemorate and
celebrate a 100 year Anniversary.

Gone is the humming and moaning of the old Cotton Gin, a familiar
sound at Okfuskee in the fall of the year.
Gone are the white cotton fields and the tasseling corn fields.
Gone is the ring of the Black-Smith's hammer and anvil. Gone is
the legendary telephone switch-board and the "hello" voice of Guy
Wheeler. But on September 7 we will remember. We Will Not Forget.

Epilogue

This writer makes no claims of absoluteness or documentation in
dates or events of the manuscript, but received information from
courthouse records, school records, genealogical records, cemetery
stones, old picture and by word of mouth and memory of people who
were there -people who lived, loved, worked and died in the
Okfuskee community.

And if there are other events or people that need to be included
in this documentation, the writer will be glad to make an insert
and add to.

On September 7, 1991, Okfuskee people will commemorate a century of
friendly community life. The celebration will begin at 10 a.m.
with visiting, music and history, and then at noon there will be a
fish fry, barbecue, potluck dinner. The afternoon will be spent
singing and reading the history of Okfuskee, along with talks by
people who were there.... .

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
September 7, 1991

Submitted by: James L. Wade
Email Address: jhwade@cotc.net
Date Submitted: 2/12/04
 

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