Dear Tim,
You are asking for something which I can tell you very little. I was born 1-29-06 in Okmulgee, I.T. Why I do not know. Dad had married a girl in Sapulpa, but grand father Elijah Riley was teaching school in Okmulgee & I assume we moved there to be with him, later moving back to Sapulpa. Grandfather was born in Missouri 8-6-1852, don't have the date of his death. He married a Maria 5-4-57 and died 12-8-1916.
Dad had 2 sisters, Charlotte Myers who lived in State College, Pa. I lived with her and her family during my senior year of high school & planned to enter Penn State but came back to Sapulpa when sschool was out & never did go back. Got a job with the Frisco R.R. and stayed in Sapulpa. The other sister was Lucinda Rudolph and I never did [know] what happened to her.
Grand dad was raised in Missouri where he attended Missouri University & obtained a degree in law which was in the early 1900s before Okla. state hood. He didn't practice law but taught school in Okmulgee, I.T. Later he got in a poker game and lost his diploma to a shrewd person, erased Grandfather's name and put his on & became a great criminal lawyer.
Dad had married a Nora Belle Harman who he met at the boarding house for RR men operated by her mother in 1882. Mother raised me as a sissy, taught me to cook, sew and everything about a woman. I never did outgrow it and would always rather play with girls than boys. She died in 1918 or 1919 of blood poison in an operation she had had.
Dad later [married] the nurse who had taken care of mother -- Electra somebody. They had 2 sons (1/2 brothers to me). One lives in Sapulpa (Pat) & one died (Bub).
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