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From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] King - Finley
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:37:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000b01c8d8b0$9c747260$0201a8c0@cfoster>


Hello, Pat! I had message typed but messed up and it's gone into cyberspace. I was asking if you're connected to any FOSTER families around Broken Arrow. I was born in Broken Arrow, went through twelve years of school, and very familiar with it. Before I left Tulsa, was indirectly offered the job as curator at Broken Arrow museum, but was commited to moving to Texas, or say, commited to my daughter to move to Texas. So I left my beloved Tulsa and Broken Arrow. My school classmates are still upset with me for moving away. The class of 55 has a luncheon the first Tuesday of each month at the restaurant in the country club on East 71st Street, east of Broken Arrow.

Thank you, Pat, for the offer of taking pictures at cemetery (Park Grove). I have most all of mine and intend to finish on my next trip. If I'm not there before, will be in September when one of my great-nephews marries at Haskell, Oklahoma.

But -- a major feat would be to get pictures of Silas TURNBO (and wife ?) gravestones at Park Grove. After my last visit to Park Grove, learned (believe from this List) that he is buried there. All that information is on my back-up FTM diskettes that I've not converted to CDs. Kinda' interesting because as I remember they lived near "Punkin Center" which is what we used to call 101st and South Memorial. That was Highway 64, which took you from Tulsa to Muskogee, and the bus stopped there (if needed).

When I was young and living in Tulsa, I'd let my parents know I was taking the bus to Punkin Center. Daddy would drive straight west two and half miles. We lived on East 101st Street, one-half mile East of Garnett Road (Cedar Ridge CC). Our land was bordered by Haikey Creek. The Haikey Creek Church is one-half mile east of Punkin Center. Mrs. Oller had a service station / convenience store on the Northeast corner at Punkin Center. There had been another store on the Southwest corner but by the time I remember, it was inactive. Oh, how all of that has changed.

We could hear the bell toll at the Haikey (we called it Chapel) Church, because then you could hear a long way off. But not now, too many tires turning on the roads. The HAIKEYs were Creek -- and my mother would say, the "Cadillacs" of the Creeks. Some of the HAIKEY family had a house on the North side of East 111th Street, just west of Garnett. We passed it all time when I was a kind. They didn't paint the house (like in the book "Painted House") but they buried family in front yard. They had huge stones painted white and blue (bright blue). Oh, if we had thought to take picture before those disappeared!

I always digress ...

So, if you can, make it to Park Grove and take pictures of TURNBO gravestone!

Logan County is where my uncle George DRAPER's family was from (married my Dad's youngest sister Veah Agnes KING, product of Baxter County, AR).

Peggy {KING} TRUESDELL

Fort Worth, TX
(transplanted Okie



Pat Foster <> wrote:
Does anyone need tombstone photos from Broken Arrow, OK??
Yes, BA covers lots of square miles and part of it is in Tulsa County and
part of it is in Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
I'll try to get them but you'd better let me know before October--we are
moving to Logan County about that time.
Broken Arrow is in the process of building a real nice building on Main
Street that should house some historical and genealogy info.

Pat
In BA, Oklahoma

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