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The Robinson Family
MarkD submitted on September 21, 2025
Well, about the first thing I can know about our family is that my mothers father and mother, Grandpa and Grandma Davis, took a train near Kingfisher when the opening days in Oklahoma were and they were there and so we know that some of our ancestors lived in Oklahoma. We didn't move here though until about 1899 and they had not been there for some time and they had moved back to Missouri. And I think my Grandfather had died already. It was just a horse and buggy age that they had then. And as little time as they had, we didn't ever get to go back to Missouri...
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The Move to Kansas
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
I was born in Walnut Grove in Gentry County about two miles north and about two miles east of McFall, Missouri on the old McCammon homestead. That is where my Mother's family lived. That's where Mamma and Papa moved and had a home after they left Nebraska. My family moved to Kansas before I was a year old. [Linus: When she was 5 yrs old the family went by covered wagon to Kansas. Then moved to Garfield Co. on a farm on the main road about mid way between Garbor and Covington on the East side of the highway.] I don't know anything about what the family had. But I...
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Growing Up in Kansas
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
I helped my Daddy on the farm a lot. He would let me drive the horse or do he mowing or plowing. I would milk the cows and I just worked on the farm. He seemed to enjoy having me work with him. I enjoyed it because I liked the farm outdoor work better than I did washing the dishes. I didn't cook because with four older sisters, one of them always decided to do the cooking if mother wasn't doing it. My mother wanted us to be real nice and clean. Of course maybe not like in this modern age but she would have us get a little...
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The Move to Oklahoma
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
Aunt Lizzy and Uncle John visited us in Kansas and then they told us all about the farm they had there in Oklahoma, at Garber, and then they talked my Mamma and Papa into thinking it might be nice to live there. They decided they would go down to Oklahoma and see how they liked it. Mamma and Papa went. Anyhow, I can't remember how mamma got to Garber. Any way, I remember we came to Oklahoma. We came down to visit my Aunt Lizzy and Uncle John. Mamma and Papa and Orma and I came down just to see how Oklahoma was and to visit Aunt Lizzy and Uncle...
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Moving to Enid OK
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
We didn't stay there on the farm too long. Mother and Daddy decided that with six girls, they didn't have anything on the farm to live for, so we moved to Enid. We were there on the farm for I think about two years. I am not too sure how long. I don't think it was two years but it was I believe over one year. We enjoyed it there but then we just hadn't been planning to work on the farm. I know I enjoyed working for Daddy on the farm. After we moved to Enid, Daddy rented farms and he would do farm work and he would take...
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Teaching School
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
I believe my father was a college graduate. Now what kind of colleges they had, whether it was equal to high school or any thing about it, I don't know. But anyway, he did teach school and he didn't have any trouble keeping any job he had. And then his sisters all taught school and they were all supposed to be collage graduates. And so they were well educated any way. I don't think that my mother, at least it was never mentioned if she went very high in school. So I really don't know about it. My Mamma's sister, that was Aunt Lizzy Cooper and her husband, John...
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Moma's Brothers and Our Trip to Wyoming
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
At different times, I don't know if it was when I was teaching there, Mama's brothers, Uncle Newt and Uncle Lewis, would be at Aunt Lizzys and Uncle Newt came over to our house to stay a while and Uncle Lewis got a home there close to our house. By our house, I mean where Mamma and papa and we children lived. That was at 921 North Sixth Street, Enid, Oklahoma. Then Papa's sister stayed with us a while and as I remember it, Uncle Newt lived there close to us and I know they had some sickness and then I believe they moved back to Missouri for a while...
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Teaching and Mama's Cancer
MarkD submitted on October 3, 2025
When we got back from Wyoming, as usual, I went to teaching at Central School in the third grade. I had started out teaching in the second grade and then proceeded to the third grade. I want to tell you one thing about how I proceeded from grade to grade. I didn't know why. I didn't ask. It didn't make any difference to me. The next year when they put me in the forth grade, the principle told me why they had changed me from the different classes. There was a boy in the class whose name was John Seely who wouldn't behave. The teachers couldn't make him behave...
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Papa's Postal Route
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
Talking about driving cars, Papa had a car and I know the main reason that he got it for was he needed it in his business of carrying the mail to and from the post offices and the depots. Sometimes he would get me to drive the car to and from the East Enid post office which was located close to the Oklahoma Christian University. [Linus: "I just thought of the time that Virgie's Aunt Lizzy's husband, Uncle John, he had a rural mail...
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Getting Married
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
[Robert: "Mother told me that Dad went over to Kenneth's house and that is how they first met. Then they ended up going to the same sunday school. Mother taught dad how to play the violin. Orma taught dad how to play the piano. Then they got better acquainted and finally ended up in love and got married."] [Linus: "We were married in a Methodist Parsonage in Kansas City by the Methodist minister. His name was Moore. His son was the fellow who sold marriage licenses. I went to the place where you buy marriage licenses and I found that I couldn't get the licenses without Virgie being there. ...
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Chicago and Lake Michigan
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
The next day, we didn't get up much before noon. We went down and made arrangements for Virgie's mother to return to Enid. It was about 5 in the evening when she left for Enid. We left the same night for Chicago. The first thing we did after we arrived in Chicago was to walk over to see the lake. We never had seen a large body of water like that. Then we went to a restaurant and got breakfast. Then we bought a paper and began to look for a place to stay. We found this room with kitchen privileges at 4611 Vincennes Ave. Then I believe we ordered...
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Back to Enid
MarkD submitted on October 4, 2025
[Linus: "We made arrangements to establish a home at 606 East Chestnut St. I thought it was owned by Virgie's parents, but I found that Virgie had title to it and was making payments on it. We returned to Enid the last of July 1920."]
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Riding and Radios
MarkD submitted on October 6, 2025
On September 21st 1924, Virgie wrote a nice long letter to my folks. She told about canning peaches and tomatoes. The peaches were $1.25/bushel and the tomatoes were $1. She told about us driving to Spavinaw Lake, that was quite a nice little trip for us and we were very impressed with Spavinaw Lake and enjoyed Spavinaw Lake very much. We ran thru a rain while on that trip and had to put up the side curtains. That was something that was ordinary in those days and the best was to keep out of the rain was to put up the side curtains. It took about 20 minutes or so...
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