Ollie found this in our paper today in the SKYWATCH column.
#COVID-19, much?
Source: The McDonald Observatory in Austin.
#COVID-19, much?
Source: The McDonald Observatory in Austin.
#COVID-19, much?
Source: The McDonald Observatory in Austin.
Today's TulsaWorld newspaper has a guest columnist's piece on an appalling land grab 100+ years ago in Creek Nation, Indian Territory. No, not THE big land grab when the U.S. Government broke its zillioneth contract with indigenous peoples by declaring their territory the 46th state in 1907. This is about a woman cheated of control of her very own allotment.
Written by a former Tulsan and a forever-Okie, Russell Cobb adapted the story of Millie Naharkey from his new book, The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State.
https://t.co/CNXx8iOFOC?amp=1
(I pray my link leads you to the article. Holler, if not).
Because I can't wait for Prime to bring Cobb's book to my doorstep (we ARE practicing "social distance" in lieu of Covid-19), I plugged Millie Naharkey's name into Newspapers.com.
From the front page of an October 5, 1922 newspaper:
Because front pages of old newspapers rock, here's a partial shot from the same paper. Look who was en route to Muskogee that week. See "Comrades Attention!" at the top:
I was happy to learn from Cobb's article of Millie Naharkey's hard-fought legal victory against Charles Page, head of the corporation named "Sand Springs Home." Good for her! Although she saw little of the profit from the land thanks to her guardians at 1st National Bank of Tulsa. Imagine what the Bank's lawyers hourly fee was to represent themselves in that lawsuit, I mean, Ms. Naharkey.
Having her repeatedly declared "an incompetent Indian" before a judge and then stealing her inheritance! Reminds me of Wells Fargo's recent fine for twice setting up fake accounts under customer's names so it could profit by moving money around--without knowledge or approval from customers, FFS.
Have you ever wished bankers could be tarred and feathered?
https://law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/supreme-court/1936/23023.html
If you also read Newspapers.com, here's the 1922 article's link: https://www.newspapers.com/image/608081786/
“I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read.”
I once saw Johnny sing with June Carter at the church his parents once attended in Meiners Oaks--outside of Ojai, California. He had returned for a revival in the mid-1970s.
Saw him again at a funeral in Bakersfield on the side of a hill. Toni might correct me on that. In the spirit of Harold & Maude, we had crashed the event that hot summer day to catch site of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
And Happy Birthday to my Uncle Larry who turns 80 today. He's now old enough to run for president.
That's Larry in 2006 with his favorite sister-in-law, Elta.
Last year many names in Oklahoma were purged from the rolls due to bad addresses or failure to vote in recent elections. Before Super Tuesday, see if you are indeed registered.
https://okvoterportal.okelections.us/
https://okvoterportal.okelections.us/
I took that link from the Oklahoma State Election Board website.
https://www.ok.gov/elections/
From: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/ancestry-dna-database-search-warrant
A Court Tried To Force Ancestry.com To Open Up Its DNA Database To Police.
The Company Said No.
No, I do not know this man. I ran across his obit while looking for a second cousin. Mr. Borst and my cousin are "resting" in the same "memorial garden."
9/21/1936 - 6/22/2019
This is the story of James Edgar Borst. Jim was a wonderful man that was loved, is missed and will always be cherished. "My Honeybun" as he liked to be called by his wife, was an amazing husband, father, uncle, brother and son.
Whoever wrote his obit, I want her/him to write mine in 40+ years.
This is the story of James Edgar Borst. Jim was a wonderful man that was loved, is missed and will always be cherished. "My Honeybun" as he liked to be called by his wife, was an amazing husband, father, uncle, brother and son.
This is intended to capture Jim's spirit, not his resume. However, his successful businesses and accomplishments are how he was most commonly known. Owner of Jim Borst Auto Repair, Manager at McCullough Corp, Service Manager of Tucson Harley Davidson and concluding his career at Ace Hardware of Green Valley at the age of 78.
He loved his mom, Hazel M. Borst (deceased) who with the help of his grandparents (Euans) reared Jim after his father Edgar's death when Jim was 11. He worshipped his older sister, Phyllis Westfall (Carson City, NV) and cherished his younger sister, Suzanne Hess (Tucson).
Jim married Sydne Ann (deceased) his high school sweetheart and they had three sons, Tony (Tucson), Tim (deceased) and Todd (Benson). Jim married Sabra in 1988. She taught him how to two-step and he taught her how to ride motorcycles. Together they took up golf when he turned 75! Although the scorecards never saw the light of day, he loved to laugh out loud about the fun he had.
He had a life-long affair with root beer, coca cola and Blue Bunny Homemade vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and pecans.
Jim took fashion cues from no one. His signature look was western boots and Wranglers.
Jim was a very private man. If you wanted to know his cause of death, he would have told you that it was none of your business. If you asked Sabra, his beloved wife would tell you Alzheimer's. Although his prognosis was dire, he battled on, lived his life and survived several years beyond the expert's expectations strictly on his terms.
In honor of his wishes, Services will be private for family only, free of any type of "theme". Interment is at Green Valley Cemetery, Green Valley, AZ.
In lieu of flowers please make donations to the , #ENDALZ; https://act.alz.org/donate
(Published in the Arizona Daily Star on June 30, 2019)
He loved his mom, Hazel M. Borst (deceased) who with the help of his grandparents (Euans) reared Jim after his father Edgar's death when Jim was 11. He worshipped his older sister, Phyllis Westfall (Carson City, NV) and cherished his younger sister, Suzanne Hess (Tucson).
Jim married Sydne Ann (deceased) his high school sweetheart and they had three sons, Tony (Tucson), Tim (deceased) and Todd (Benson). Jim married Sabra in 1988. She taught him how to two-step and he taught her how to ride motorcycles. Together they took up golf when he turned 75! Although the scorecards never saw the light of day, he loved to laugh out loud about the fun he had.
He had a life-long affair with root beer, coca cola and Blue Bunny Homemade vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup and pecans.
Jim took fashion cues from no one. His signature look was western boots and Wranglers.
Jim was a very private man. If you wanted to know his cause of death, he would have told you that it was none of your business. If you asked Sabra, his beloved wife would tell you Alzheimer's. Although his prognosis was dire, he battled on, lived his life and survived several years beyond the expert's expectations strictly on his terms.
In honor of his wishes, Services will be private for family only, free of any type of "theme". Interment is at Green Valley Cemetery, Green Valley, AZ.
In lieu of flowers please make donations to the , #ENDALZ; https://act.alz.org/donate
(Published in the Arizona Daily Star on June 30, 2019)
His photo looks nice, too: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200790898/james-edgar-borst
There isn't anything more difficult for me in family history than searching for the first OR last name of a female ancestor. Women were rarely listed on federal censuses before 1850. Daughters and wives were mentioned in wills, marriage records, and an occasional land record (should her husband die before her). The ubiquitous family bible disappeared when the third wife of the patriarch became a widow.
Did you know in gentler times society mandated a lady's name was not ever to appear in a newspaper article except when engaged to be married, in a wedding announcement or an obituary? It was not socially acceptable. Even then, a lady may have been identified as "the daughter of J. P. McMurry" or Mrs. Kenneth L. Watson--with no first name.
Newspapers contained news of a coarse nature. It wouldn't do to have an article of Mrs. Bullock's glorious trip abroad on the same page as Goody McCormick's third arrest for public intox. ("The term "Goody" is an old expression that is short for 'Goodwife.' It is a polite title once given to married women among the poorer classes." You're welcome).
I thought those times were long past.
But I found this today while pulling an obituary from the February 10, 1969 Columbus Evening Dispatch, p. 27 (Ohio). Imagine the need to protect against men seeing the name or photo of an "attractive matron" while reading the morning paper, I can't even! By all means, cover up, girls. Look upon no man when out and about. The subtext is clear: We are responsible for the wayward arousal of men.
Yet I find plenty of bra and lingerie advertisements in the papers of the 1960s.
Elizabeth Post, remove thy girdle. Let your freak flag fly! It was 1969, for crying out loud.
He welded metal art AND worked with steel:
Published in the Charleston Daily Mail, June 7, 1972.
--Your Blog Mistress was unable to obtain from Newspapers.com
--Your Blog Mistress was unable to obtain from Newspapers.com
or Newspaperarchive the continued story from "Page 1-D" of Mrs.
Wilma Higginbotham. The digitized pages went from pages 11-C
to 3-D--omitting 1-D. Pity!
Obituary of Donald Lindbergh Samples (1928-2019)
On Thursday, October 3, 2019, Donald Lindbergh Samples, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, hero, best friend, supporter, overcomer, and rock to many, passed away at the age of 91. He lived most of his life in Procious, WV. Born May 17, 1928, he was a Navy Veteran, a 32nd degree Mason (Clay County Lodge #97 AF&AM), VFW Post 10476, and American Legion Post 0113.
Wilma Higginbotham. The digitized pages went from pages 11-C
to 3-D--omitting 1-D. Pity!
Obituary of Donald Lindbergh Samples (1928-2019)
On Thursday, October 3, 2019, Donald Lindbergh Samples, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, hero, best friend, supporter, overcomer, and rock to many, passed away at the age of 91. He lived most of his life in Procious, WV. Born May 17, 1928, he was a Navy Veteran, a 32nd degree Mason (Clay County Lodge #97 AF&AM), VFW Post 10476, and American Legion Post 0113.
He had many jobs over the years including Dupont, Pipelining, Coal Mining, Kroger, Chevrolet Truck division in Cleveland, Ohio, (making 1200 left truck fenders a day), Freuhauf Trailer in Elyria, Ohio, Cadillac Cleveland Tank plant; where he completed welding school was assigned to the turret division, back to Dupont in 1952, then in 1953 driving a bus in Columbus, Ohio. From there, he got a job as a welder making coal mining equipment and over the next seven years, was promoted to time and standards engineer. He took classes at The Ohio State University, College of Engineering in Welding Engineering, then took a job with North American Aviation, making Navy Jet Fighters. Then 10 years at Clendenin Lumber, promoted to VP, later he started politics and commercial businesses in Clay County: Samples Market and Samples Building Supply, 12 years as Clay County Commissioner. After earning a "University of Hard Knocks" degree from Jim Comstock and Alderson Broaddus, he earned a Regents Bachelor of Arts from Glenville State College in 1980. In 1988, he accepted the position as Supervisor of Clay County DOH, and finally in 1991 he took the camp manager position at the Advent Christian Camp Ground in Santa Cruz, California.
He loved to travel and visited several countries in Europe and completed a goal of visiting all 50 of the United States. In keeping with his favorite, and most-known, piece of wisdom and advice passed down to all who loved him was "fake it till you make it," and he certainly made it.
He had a passion for creating welded metal art sculptures for friends and family. He had an amazing ability to see a pile of scrap metal as people, horses, dogs, flowers, bugs, dinosaurs and more. These sculptures are sprinkled about all over the country and are prized possessions to those friends and family members.
Preceded in death by parents Jake (1941) and Eva Samples (1997); his first wife of 58 years, Nora "Carmin" Samples (2006); his daughter, Vicki Paxton Samples (1995); sister, Violet Claire Wyche (2010); and brothers, "Boy Roy" (Tony) Samples (2019), Dickie (1971) and Mark (1932).
He is survived by his Bride, Judy Samples; his sisters, Phillis Joy Samples, Garnet Kay "Katie" Khan, and Sherry Bassy; daughter, Vivian, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
No services are planned, per his wishes.
From the Charleston Daily Mail, June 17, 1975, page 6.
He loved to travel and visited several countries in Europe and completed a goal of visiting all 50 of the United States. In keeping with his favorite, and most-known, piece of wisdom and advice passed down to all who loved him was "fake it till you make it," and he certainly made it.
He had a passion for creating welded metal art sculptures for friends and family. He had an amazing ability to see a pile of scrap metal as people, horses, dogs, flowers, bugs, dinosaurs and more. These sculptures are sprinkled about all over the country and are prized possessions to those friends and family members.
Preceded in death by parents Jake (1941) and Eva Samples (1997); his first wife of 58 years, Nora "Carmin" Samples (2006); his daughter, Vicki Paxton Samples (1995); sister, Violet Claire Wyche (2010); and brothers, "Boy Roy" (Tony) Samples (2019), Dickie (1971) and Mark (1932).
He is survived by his Bride, Judy Samples; his sisters, Phillis Joy Samples, Garnet Kay "Katie" Khan, and Sherry Bassy; daughter, Vivian, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
No services are planned, per his wishes.
Sandy has pulled articles from either the Charleston Daily Mail or the Gazette which you may find interesting. There is a January 1974 article (with photo) about Belle Arbogast and her educational prowess. There is a 1972 write-up of the first Elk View Junior High Championship Track Team which included Barry Arbogast!
Verba Arbogast--with granddaughter Betsy Samples, appear in a March 1964 article about her many readings of the Bible. We wish that the copy from Newspapers.com was clearer.
Finally, an Arbogast from the 1930s who was something of an entrepreneur. (We know of no relation to him).
Update: The Charleston Daily Mail paper on p.1-B had this big 'ole picture of Barry on January 26, 1974:
