Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, Colorado - While a chilly cold front was dumping about an inch of snow at the north end of the Vallecito Res., North of Bayfield, Colorado, was passing through our neck of the woods, Northwest Oklahoma was experiencing a full day of tornado watches and warnings Saturday, April 14, 2012.

From Woodward through Woods county, a bird-echo cloud formation traveled in a NNE direction towards Wichita, Kansas via Shattuck, Mutual, Waynoka, Hopeton, Dacoma, Ingersoll, Cherokee, Byron, Amorita, Driftwood and other towns leading towards the Kansas border, in the northwest corner of Oklahoma.

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Highland County Virginia - Towns, Villages & Hamlets

Highland County, Virginia - We continue our little history of Highland Valley of Virginia with the mention of a few town, villages and hamlets. We find that Highland was organized in 1848 with 4,000 people and the only center which might be termed a village was the little place of McDowell. It was more properly considered a hamlet than a village, though.

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1905 Tornado Devastated Snyder, I.T.

Snyder, Indian Territor - May 1905 -- It had been only one month after the area's citizens greeted President Theodore Roosevelt on his arrival in Frederick for his famous wolf hunt, the town of Snyder, in Kiowa county, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) was devastated by a massive tornado. The May 10, 1905 tornado claimed at least 97 lives and stands as one of the worst natural disasters in Oklahoma's history.

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100 Years Ago Today - April 16, 1912

America - It was one hundred years ago today, on a Tuesday, 16 April 1912, in which the infamous Giant White Star Liner (RMS Titanic) sank after a collision with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, which began 10 April 1912. 1,800 lives were reported lost with this World's greatest marine disaster.

Only 675 aboard were known to have escaped an icy death in the ocean. Besides some of the wealthy passengers aboard the Titanic on 16 April 1912, there was over a thousand emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. Were your ancestors some of the survivors of the Titanic?

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Snyder, Oklahoma Visited By Disastrous Cyclone (1905)

Snyder, Indian Territor - It was May, 1905, when the town of Snyder, Oklahoma was visited by a disastrous cyclone wiping out whole families and homes. The Daily Ardmoreite, dated Thursday evening, May 11, 1905, in Ardmore, Indian Territory, had the headlines of "Death Rides Upon the Storm." The exact number of lives lost were unknown. Estimates ran all the way from 25 to three or four hundred dead. There were injured members in almost every house in town.

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Great Grand Uncle Walter P. Gwin

Braxton county, West Virginia - Walter P. Gwin was my great grand uncle, older brother of Signora Belle and Reuhama Gwin, and son of Samuel and Eleanor "Ellen" Dever Gwin. Walter was born 22 April 1856, in Highland Virginia and I believe he died in Braxton, West Virginia in the late 1930's, but have not pinned down the exact date as yet.

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NW Okie's Corner

Bayfield, Colorado - We received some MCGILL ancestry information this last week, but I am not sure where or even if this Capt. William F. McGill fits into our McGill ancestry. The photo on the left is a WWII photo of Capt. William F. McGill. Does he fit into your ancestry?

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Tornado of 1905 - Snyder Wiped Off the Map

Snyder, Indian Territor - It was reported in The Guthrie Daily Leader, Thursday, 11 May 1905, that an appalling calamity was visited upon the little city of Snyder, Oklahoma, with fatalities reaching hundreds, as a storm descended at midnight while helpless victims were asleep. many were killed outright and hundreds were injured.

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