Pioneers came to this area in the 1890's to homestead land. A diverse group settled in the Brinkman area with most coming from Texas, as well as a significant influx of immigrants from Lebanon. These hearty pioneers braved adversities including . . . — — Map (db m288715) HM
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This monument is dedicated to the pioneers who settled the community. Their strength and courage enabled them to survive adverse conditions, giving us a goodly heritage, for which we are grateful. Most of the land in the Lake . . . — — Map (db m288530) HM
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The 36th Infantry Division was organized by combining the Oklahoma and Texas National Guards. Sixty men who volunteered from Old Greer County were kept together and placed in the 132nd Machine Gun Battalion in that division. . . . — — Map (db m288525) HM WM
Established in Wichita Falls, Texas by Dr. Dan and Eleanor Roberts. Their interest in cemetery memorials, their keen observations and sense of humor lead them to create this unique attraction. The cemetery was originally located at the Roberts' home . . . — — Map (db m287601) HM
Wichita Village in Devil's Canyon was scene of 1st. meeting between the U.S. and Plains Indians in Oklahoma to promote peace, July 21, 1834. U.S. Dragoon Regiment under command of Col. Henry Dodge accompanied by other noted officers and civilians . . . — — Map (db m146590) HM
Alice Florence Sheriff
Daughter of B.F.J. Davis and Margaret Lucinda Ray born July 24, 1885, Bell County, Texas. Came to Reed community, Greer County, 1900 with her parents, brothers, and sisters in a covered wagon. Attended business college . . . — — Map (db m288803) HM
Alice Gilstrap Ewalt
Alice Morning Gilstrap was born Mar. 22, 1862 at Bloomington, Il. One of eight children born to David Wilson Gilstrap and Permelia Frances Stillwell. The family moved to Texas and she married John Francis Ewalt on Sept. 5, . . . — — Map (db m289972) HM
Caledonia Armstrong Trench
Caledonia Armstrong, daughter of Martha Jane Isbell and George Armstrong, was born May 28, 1876, in Panola County, Mississippi. She married Daniel MacKay Trench in Waelder, Texas. They settled in Old Greer County in, . . . — — Map (db m289611) HM
Daniel Mackay Trench
Son of Francis Charlotte MacKay and Daniel Power Trench was born Kingston, Jamaica on Jan. 29, 1867. He was educated at Padcroft College, a boys boarding school near London, and at Glasgow Academy, Glasgow, . . . — — Map (db m289612) HM
Dr. Fowler Border
Born in San Augustine, Texas in 1871. He opened the first hospital in Old Greer County at S.E. corner of Court House Square in 1900. He was awarded a gold medal by the people of Snyder, Oklahoma for service above and beyond . . . — — Map (db m289530) HM
Edith Florence Kromer
Born July 21, 1900 10 a half-dug-out near Carl, Okla. Territory. Daughter of William Henry & Nora Bell Skaggs, pioneer settlers of this area. She attended the Carl School.
Married James Franklin Kromer Apr. 23, 1916 . . . — — Map (db m288711) HM
Frank Edward Powell
Born Feb. 17, 1907, 2 mi. east and 1 mi. north of Mangum. His parents, Wm. and Mallie Powell, came to Greer Co. in 1890. After the death of his mother, and re-marriage of his father, his older brother Hudson, made a home . . . — — Map (db m289979) HM
George Washington Boyd
Captain Boyd was born Sept. 12, 1859, in Coryell County, Texas. He was the son of James and Elizabeth Boyd.
He came to what was later Old Greer County in 1876 with buffalo hunters as a skinner. Two years later he . . . — — Map (db m290623) HM
George Washington Thomason
Born July 20, 1863, Mabank, Van Zandt, Co. Texas. Son of Frank and Martha Thomason. Married Katie Belle Waggoner, Mar. 24, 1898, in Pottawatomie Со., I.T. She was 2/8 Cherokee Indian. Dau. of Alice . . . — — Map (db m289528) HM
Hugh Patrick Vaughan
Born Oct. 4, 1879 in McClellan Co., Tx. The youngest of ten children born to Jane and Patrick Vaughan. At the age of eleven, he moved to Old Greer County, Tx. where he grew to manhood.
He loved to work with livestock. . . . — — Map (db m289613) HM
James Franklin Kromer
Born Oct. 26, 1896, Grimes Co. Texas. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Sherman Kromer at the age of 4, came to Greer Co. on a wagontrain. His father, Sherman, was the guide and wagonmaster of this caravan.
Married Edith . . . — — Map (db m288813) HM
John Francis Ewalt
John Francis Ewalt was born Jan. 15, 1859 at Monticello, Missouri. One of eight children born to Henry Dunkley Ewalt and Curilla Covington Ewalt. Brothers and sisters: Colman Covington 1849, Henry Richard 1851, William . . . — — Map (db m289970) HM
Lella I. (Drake) Pierson
Born june 1, 1900, Eastland, Texas, to Thomas B. and Rebecca Drake. Joining eleven brothers and sisters, moved to Mangum in a covered wagon soon after birth.
Married William (Bill) Pierson, Jan. 29, 1918, at . . . — — Map (db m289544) HM
Lillie Ketchum Vaughan
Born Oct. 5, 1893 in Garland, Tx. The eighth of twelve children born to Virginia Alice Williams and John Albert Ketchum. At an early age she moved to Blair, Ok. with her parents. Lillie was energetic, friendly, and loved . . . — — Map (db m289624) HM
Pearlene (Davis) Weston
Born March 14, 1896 at Graham, OK, daughter of M.E. and Elizabeth (Adams) Davis. As a small girl, moved with her parents by covered wagon, and homesteaded 2½ miles east of Russell & lived in a half dug-out. Her brothers . . . — — Map (db m289981) HM
Samuel D. Rude
Born 1865 in Farmersville, Collin County, Texas. The son of I.J. and Sarah Alexander Rude. Married Sarah Pyeatt in 1888, to which union was born five children - Hester, Lela, Ike, Myrtle and Dorothy.
Homesteaded N.E. of . . . — — Map (db m289126) HM
Thomas Arthur Sheriff
Son of John A. Sheriff and Melinda Burt, born June 9, 1871, Dawson, Co. Georgia farmer - Deacon - On State Board of Southern Baptist Convention & State Orphans Home for many years - 33rd Degree Mason - first Go Agent of . . . — — Map (db m288791) HM
Virginia Hamilton Boyle
Born June 12, 1896, one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Hamilton, who came to Old Greer County in the early 1900s. Virginia married P.J. Boyle in 1919, and to this union was bora P.J. 3rd.
Mrs. Boyle was a . . . — — Map (db m289529) HM
William (Bill) Houston Pierson
Born March 6, 1896, to Ella and Bob Pierson in a half-dug-out, two miles north of Mangum. Orphaned at six, he was raised by Uncle Ervin and wife, Nancy Pierson. Had one brother, E.E. Pierson.
Charter member of . . . — — Map (db m289542) HM
William Jones Petty
Born 1885 in Tennessee. Brought to Waxahachie, Texas by his parents C.R. & Selassie Peevler Petty 1896.
In 1907 he stepped off the stage at Hollis seeing a hustling bustling town, and cast his lot to stay the rest of his . . . — — Map (db m288713) HM
William Rush Vaughan
Born in West Texas in 1875. Came with his family at age 15 to Greer County. Filed on land ten miles S.E. of Mangum. Later traded interest for land four, and one-half miles N.E. of Blair where he and Ida Wicker whom he . . . — — Map (db m288818) HM
During the 1930s severe drought plagued the states in the Great Plains and deepened the Depression. High winds caused dust storms which blackened the sky. In 1934, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a program to help stabilize the blowing soil . . . — — Map (db m39805) HM
