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Note: ! Walter Sylvester Allred was born 13 February 1912 in Cornish, Jefferson County, Oklahoma which was in Indian Territory. He was the son of Harvey Allred and Beedie Hancock. Walter was a Brick Mason by profession. He had redish blond hair and light blue eyes about 5 foot 8 inches. He was a very handsom young man. He married twice first he married Jaunita Carriker of Love County, Oklahoma on 20 Aug 1933 in Wilson, Carter County, Oklahoma. There is no record of their marriage as the certificate was lost and the court records were destroyed. They had 4 children Joyce LaDean, Walter LaVon, Marjorie Kathleen and Jerry Gail Allred. Second wife was Anna Luella Hudson of Adair County, Oklahoma, married 13 November 1948 Borger, Hutchinson County, Texas. There was no issue to this Marriage. THE HISTORY OF WALTER SYLVESTER ALLRED History taped Nov 1979 in Stilwell Oklahoma,by Jerry Gale Allred McFarland My fathers name was Harvey Allred he didn't have a middle name. He was born in May some time. I don't know the date but I believe he was born in Waxahachie, Texas. My Mothers name is Beedie Irene (Hancock) Allred. Her birthday was Feb 19 I believe. I really don't know where she was born. I don't know when my dad or mother died. I just presume they were married at Cornish, Okla I don't know.( m. Ellis Co.Texas). My full name is Walter Sylvester Allred. I have had several nick names. Speck was one of them. Ah well I used to be freckled: I think the nick name came from the Hancock tribe, Some of the others were Dynamo and Dynamite, I got that from my uncle on my daddys side Fisher Allred. He named me that, that's the way he wanted it ( thought I was full dynamite). They used to call me Red because of my name and on account of I was red headed. I don't know of any other nick names. I was born in Cornish Feb 13, 1912, Clornish, Oklahoma, it was in Feb and it was a windy day in the morning sometime. I am not positive. For as I know I was a healthy baby. Mama said that she had a rough time. I don't know what kind of personality my mother had She was strict (real strict). At times she was sad and happy and at times she wasn't. She wasn't tall skinny or fat. She was medium, the color of her was kinda brown and her eyes were (light) blue. The only talents were plowing in the Garden. She could play the piano and she would sing. She never did play any other instruments that I know of, She tried to play the fiddle. One of the family stories that I heard about her was her getting on top of the house and peeing off on every body. She liked to dance, but her and papa didn't go dancing a lot. Her roll in the home was a homemaker. She got and made a garden and raised Cattle. She got out and helped on the farm. My dads personality was - well I hate to say it but along time ago he used to cus a lot Swear. And he would beat the fool out of the stock but then after Bert died well then he quit that. Then he was just a changed person. He went religious. We used to drink a little before my brother died, all they had right then was, he liked some kind of old lager beer , I don't think it even had any, any up spirits in it at all but he liked it. It was bitter and he kept some corn whiskey which he never did drink to much. There was a special drink he liked but it was grape juice, He liked grape juice. What was his statue like? I really never did know, he was taller than me, I am 5 foot 10 1/2 so he went close to 6 foot. I say he waighed 150 lbs. when he was middle age. his hair was dark brown or nearly black. I believe he did have wavy hair kinda wavy. He had black dark eyes. He would burn pretty well he was real dark red in his skin, look like he was blood shot sometimes. Mama was white real fair complected, and her hair was real thin what I mean is silkey like. (Talents) the only thing that papa had was his carpentery work,he was a contractor, General contractor. ( also wasen't he an accountant) not that I know of. ( he had a license hanging on his wall in his office in Wilson that he was a License Accountant.) He could play french harp and Jews harp, he was average at playing them. He did ride a horse. Mama rode a horse along time ago side saddle. (Family storys about him) My grandma couldn't controll him when he was a kid , She said that she exhausted every thing that she had and didn't know what to do an so she took him out in the wood shed ,or some kind of garage or woodshed and just told him that she was going to have to hang him. and she couldn't do nothing with him. So she put the rope around his neck and pulled it up tight and he thaught he was a goner. He said he had lost all respect that he had ever had for his mother right then said he just, knew that she was going to kill him. but she didn't she let him down. Well when papa was a kid Grandma was a carpenter doing carpenter work and there's where he got his carpenter work from . So his grandfather was a modern woodsman, and they give him a chore making axes for this modern woodsman lodge. And that was one of the first things he made. They were little hatchets or axes for modern woodsman. After he got up grown he went up to Denver, oh not Denver but that town south of Denver where Pikes Peak is at and Colorado Springs and he drove a stage coach up there with tourist and things they went to the garden of the Gods, and places like that. But in them days they already had that log train up there, and he and his brother-in-law and some other folks walked clean to the top of Pikes Peak from the bottom where the rail road cars start. He was a slinder like fella an the tourist would buy a lot of stuff, rich tourist and he would get 5 or 10 % of what they bought. But he had a stage coach that he went up there in. (Role in the home) Well he was just the bread winner. He was a general contractor. and he worked for Gypsy Oil Company a long time up close to north of Healdton, Dixie and all through there I believe it was Caddo Mountain, Boler camp. (was there any business mama & papa went into together) Oh nothing only he would buy cattle and she would claim them. He had to feed them and she got the money and he didn't get it. Papa owned store building's in Wilson, Okla where he rented them out. Papa owned quite abit of land at one time. He didn't farm them but he had people farm them, and me and mama would do most of the farming for feed for the cattle. (Did mama have any property of her own ) Only on her mothers side when they married she has wheat land she has a 6th interest in 640 acres at Perrytown, Texas. She is still receiving money from that and pasture land. Papa and Mama and papa's sister and her husband Otto Dulaney they went in together drilling for oil south of Healdton and struck oil and papa thought oil never would be worth a durn and so he just sold his intrest out. Papa just went out and went to work for him self contracting so that is the way he wound up. Hell Otto Dulaney got to be a millionair drilling for oil.(Otto moved to Ft Worth, Texas and owned the Dulaney building.) I had 3 brothers and one sister a 1/2 sister. She was papa's by a former marriage. My sister's name was Opal Lavon Allred. My brothers were Bert LaVon, David Sherman, Monti Dean. Bert died when he was 12 years old, I had a quarter horse and we had an old work horse that we use to work all the time and he kicked, and me and Bert would get out in the barn and through a rock at him or something and he would kick the post and we thought it was funny. So one day we was going to see a sick friend of ours and when we did I had my horse already saddled and tied up. We had to go down to the field to get his with a ear of corn and we got him and brought him up there and I saddled him and I didn't see him and he came around side me and put his hand on the old horse's hip, and when he did the old horse kicked him in the groin and kicked him down. So then he went and hid from me he was hurting. and I run over there on my horse and got mother and we came back and he just lived 24 hours. The horse kicked him in the side and busted a blood vain. But in them days they didn't know anything about repairing them or taking them out or doing anything. As far as I know they tryed to stop it with ice. By freezing it or putting ice on that spot but it didn't do any good. So it was a busted blood vain and he died in 24 hours. Papa and mama didn't say to much but we were poor as a church mouse we couldn't even hardley buy him a casket for him to be buried in. He was buried in a casket but it was a cheap casket. He was buried at Dixie, Okla in Dixi Cemetary. and they hauled him down there in an old T model school bus. Bert had a nice personality to him but he couldn't see to good. He was an albino and he was real fair complected and he couldn't take much heat and before that they had some trouble with him having a pus bag or something over on one side of his, I believe it was on the left side and some how or other puss formed in there and they had to take him and send him to the hospital in Rino, Okla. It was where your appendix would be but on the other side. He was pretty well over that when the other happened. Bert would kinda take a back seat in away because he, he wasen't timid and he was to. He could fight pritty good and he did pritty good in school for the shape he was in. He wasen't a sickly person only those two times. For his chores he got chips and wood in, thats about all. We had wood fires. David was next in line he didn't come up like we did. He was uh more or less kinda done a little better toward them. Mama and papa said that they had seen where they had done wrong with us. What they had done rong with us they changed and did different by us. David had a pritty good personality every once in a while he would pull a few things on you or something like that. Monti came up laughing one day and they had them a tree house down there on the creek and so Monti is kinda a kid that liked to laugh and and have fun . Dave was showing him what he was going to do so, he crawled up in this old stuping tree and he was going to take him a dump and when he did he took a dump alright but when he did he fell backwards out of the tree and hit the ground right in it. So Monti came to the house laughing about it. Just a busting his inside's. Dave rode horses a little bit, and they played a little football. They didn't have to do very much of anything they got away with a lot. Monti and David both grew up to be finished carpenters. Some of the rules we went by. We had to come in at a certain time, suppose to be in a certain times and we kinda respected them on that. Sometimes we would get kinda out of hand I would. (what were some of the things they did different in the two older ones that they did with the younger ones?) Well I got alot of whippings myself and they didn't get them. It could have been I was a little meaner than them. (Visitors) Aunt Cora and Uncle Joe Hncock use to bring the kids and come up to visit with us and we had Jody and Mildred Hancock they lived across the creek from us on our place, and us kids that was all together all the time. Me and Jody would do anything like going rabbit hunting and he would have me stick my hand up in the tree in the summer time and pull a rabbit out cause he was afraid there would be a snake up there. There was people coming through there all the time. We use to have Searians come through there selling goods alot of times they would stay all night with us and they had hack's they went in. We had Gypsys came by they would do things if you didn't watch them but we watched them. A lot of people would come by and talk to my dad , they were making the moon shine up above us there and they would come in there an talk over the telephone every once in a while. But my dad never would say any thing about them cause he was afraid they would burn him out. We had those kind of old telephones , where every body was on it. They just had one telephone line for the whole shabang. When your phone rang everybody picked theirs up and listen in to. We use to go down and spend the night with my grandparents on my daddys side when I was a kid and we would go in there and the best I can remember of him they would have Prayer, and he would give prayer first they were religious. It was a family prayer before they go to bed. then when every body was tucked in bed and them my grandmother would cut loose. and she would pray for every body in the house and every body else all her grand kids and everything. My grandpa would kill old shaperall's and eat them, a shaperall is a road runner. and he got to where he abandon his old well out in the orchard where he use to put his milk and stuff in there to keep it cool. and then he got to loading it up with old dogs from the town he would kill one and he would throw it in that well. And I have seen him go down through the field and take an old lamb's quarter and just jurk the top out of it and eat it just like it was an onion top and everything like that right out of the garden. he liked fresh vegetables. I liked to go to their house because they had a mulberry tree in the yard and we would get out there and eat them mulberrys. Then we would go down and get a pocket full of pecans or any thing they had good pecans. I use to go there and help them hoe cotton and then when we would get through hoeing cotton why they would just scream and holler just so all the neighbors could hear them that they had got through with their cotton. We would go there on Christmas you had to sit at the time you had to eat every body had to listen to you know giving prayer and everything. Every body had to listen to you know giving prayer and everything. Every body would fix food. We would have fried ham I liked that an auful lot. Every body would stay all night the floor ws full of kids. We slept on palets there was no fire place so we had wood stoves, My dad built the house it was a single level frame house I say it had 5 rooms. I use to go down to the barn and shell corn and I still got that thing the corn sheller that belonged to my grand father. I still shell corn on it. My grandma had a china clauset with nice little tea things. She had a big old nice range cook stove. I can remember my dad buying a bunch of cattle during the war and they didn't have any thing to feed them and he couldn't feed them at all. It was the lst world war. My dad was not in the first world war he didn't have to go he missed that some how or other. He had them cattle all over the place and they would get in a small place on up the bank you know where a trail would go and they would be so poor they would fall down and they would have to get up out of there. They swang them up on trypods all over the place 3 poles to hold them up. he lost a lot he liked to lost most of them before they could do anything. They just couldn't get a hold of their feed. I was 5 or 6 when I first started school in the lst grade the name was Caddo I believe. I did go to Duncan some school up there. 1921 or 1922 it seems like. It must have been 4th 5th or 6th I don't know. It was a 2 story brick school (in Duncan). Caddo was a big frame building l story. We heated with wood stove and we had to help carry in the wood. My dad was a member of the school board. They didn't have lunches in those days you had to bring your own. I walked to school we were right at it you could see it from our house. Ocasionally some of the kids would ride horsed to school most of them walked. There weren't any school buses at this school. They had smaller grades in one room and different ones in others on up. I had pretty good teachers and some I didn't like. I never had a crush on any of my teachers but I had them on the girls . I had one girl friend when I was in grade school I don't remember what her name is now but she sent me Valentine's and every thin in the world and she sent me notes. And I sent her notes and Valentines back. I hardly ever skipped school cause I would get a whippen. I wasen't to good in school I was about average. Sometimes I would throw paper wads. I made good grades. I liked arithmatic the best. I was in a little christmas carol play and I played the part of the little fur tree I didn't play an angel because I wasen't no angel. All my Teachers liked me and some of them stayed with us. My favorite Aunt was Aunt Cora she is on my mothers side, I had all kinds of favorite uncles on both sides. My grandparents on my mothers side was wheat farmers raised wheat and mila maise and they had horses that they raised they had about 75 head. when my grand dad died. and they were out of an old stallion that they called John Wilkens and John Wilkens was out of Peter McCune and this old Stallion got the one that they called Joe Hancock or smokey Joe. and he was the fastest quarter horse in his time of the world now I don't know wheather he was ever out run or not. If he was it wasen't very many times And he wound up this on Burke Burnett Ranch and he was about 22 or 23 years old. and he had a peg leg when he died he had an infection and they had to cut his front leg off. I use to ride some of these horses but I don't think I ever rode Joe Hancock, but I rode Jolly he was another horse that my grand dad had out of this same stock. And comeing through a buffalo waller, I had gone to get the mail up there one day and the gert broke and he dumped me in the middle of this, this buffalo waller I like to broke my leg. I never did race any of the horses I watched them and they were real good. My grand father didn't have a race track of his own he just galloped them around and done the best he could with them. They didn't have any walkers in them days , didn't hardly have any horse trailor. He had an old stock trailor made out of a front end of a car 1 wheel trailor that hauled them in. He raised them in the north west part of Texas around Perryton & Spearman. They filed on a section of land up in there that is where my mother still has her share of the land. I liked to go visit there because it was way off and we would stay a week or two. My dad would work building granery's and things like that to make enough money to get back home on. We traveled mostley in a old T Model Car or T Model Truck with a make shift house on it. and it had hard tires on the old truck I hit an old chunk hole down in Oklahoma or on the Texas Okla line and I like to have broke my neck I was rideing my dads tool chest and my head flopped up there and I liked to broke my neck. We never did go there in the winter time it was always some where along in April or May so we wouldn't hit them blizzards. They would go down in the cedar brakes to get their wood for the winter. The cedar brakes was about a mile south of the house. They would go down there and pull out cedar wood out of the brakes they called it the big canyons and they had roads going down in there to. They also made whiskey down in there . My grand parents made whiskey down in there. It was made out of rye, rye whiskey. they sold it to the public over in Pampa and Borger for $7.00 a gallon they sold it illegal, I don't think they ever got caught they talked about it a lot but they never did do anything with them. (John Jackson and Laura Hancock) Mother had an old Organ out there but somebody there in Perryton got a hold of it. They had bought it for her when she was a young girl and they took it by wagon and took it clean to Perryton. but some one came down there and took it out of the house, of course the old house was rottening down but the old organ still looked good yet. Their home was an ordinary home. the snow would come so deep there some times they had carbide lights for a long time and they had wind mills to pump their water some of the wind mills were 12 and 14 feet . through that pumped water out. I remember one that was a wooden windmill it was about 14 feet now they have changed to. they still got a well there and the house an barn and everthing is gone but the well is still there and the light plant is still there that they had carbid. They had a l story framed house and my daddy built it. they useto have an old rooster setting up on the old lightning pole on top where they had a little square looking top where it had a little top. they useto have a lot of coralls but they just kinda faded away they had a ol buffalo waller in front of the house but all the buffalo were done gone. I got a hold of one of the knives that was found out on the prarie there and my brother has got it now David has it.it had several notches on it and it was sharp on both sides made in westing home England. When I was between 5 and 12 years old I had dogs as pets. I had one named Bounce he was a collie dog. he would bite mama in the hind in when she would whip me. mama would fight her but mama would have to get me in the house to finish whipping me. I had an ole mule one time that I rode had a saddle on him an he would get down in the sand pile right east of the house between our house and the school house. he would duck his head and here he'd come, he would come right back to the house. I would have to whoop him two or three times to get him to go. We useto play games like kick the can and roll an ole wagon hub that little iron. I take me an ole stick and roll it all over the place. Now me and mama useto go squirl hunting and my dog ole Bound's would tree a squirl and mama would coon it. She would climb it get up there in them big ole trees, an there would be a hole up there and she would put her foot on one limb and cut a hole there and she would reach in and get that squirl. she would put her hand down and get him by the hind feet and warp him over a limb and kill him and she done that a lot of times. We useto play marbles an go swimming. I played a little bit of vollyball. When my cousins were around we would play mumbly peg. or go down on the creek and hunt frogs. I liked to go to the movies but it was to far off we couldn't go. the movies cost about 10 Cents the movies played Buck Rogers and stuff like that. The only songs we ever sang around the place mama she'd play them on the piano. I never did go in for rhymes or poems. I never did have any fads like saving box tops or bottle caps but some time my sister would send off and get a barrel of junk and sell it. She would sign up people and they would have I don't know what all to sell and they would have them pretty dishes. But I was always mischievious I guess. I was out in the back yard trimming up the tree trying to make an oil well out of it. or drill it I got holes all over the place. My dad built one of the first radios I guess that was ever built. when they first came out he sent off and got a blue print and it consiste of 2 boards and 2 oat meal boxes and then it had a lot of copper wire and he would take like an according if he wanted to move it in and he had the head phones on it and he made her play. So we were the first ones to ever have a wind mill in the country and he made that wind mill out of an old car motor put mobile motor and he put a tail on it, and a fan on it and made it work. and my mother had the first water in the house and this old stove that he had, range stove had it fixed where you put pipes in it and had a heater there and we had hot water and everything . Bathtub and all before any body else ever had any thing like that, in that part of the country. When we had the radio the only way you could listen to it was through those ear phones and couldn't but one listen to it at one time. I liked to listen to just anything but a racket. Some of the clothes I didn't like to wear back in that time was, mama had some ole bloomers that they made you wear in them days, they was made out of Kaki, and me and my brother both hated them. They had long socks and bloomer britches, and the rest of the boys were all wearing kinda long pants kakis and things and there we'd have to ware them dang things or get a licking. I would like to have worn some of them long pants but she wouldn't let me. I never tryed getting them dirty so I could take them off, cause I would get a whipping if I did. I liked to ride around over the country on a saddle horse or something like that, when I got a little older. my chores was getting in wood my dad fed most of the animals. and when he wasen't there, then we would feed them. We also had to take the trash out. never did have to much home work only just get in and do the chores feeding the hogs something like that. Never did work out side the home. When we would take vacation's we would go across the river to Nocona Texas. We would have to take a ferry and take a team the old horse that killed my brother and an old white horse , a buggy horse. When I was small we would have to sit on the tail end of that thing it was just a one seat buggy. Then we went in the wagon several times my dad would have a house down there to build or something. We would never go with him but he would take the wagon and go. The only family projects we had was working in the garden. When I got up a little older big enough to run a plow, I plowed the gardens. I plowed it with the horses. When I was about 12 years old we were about as poor as a snake, didn't have any thing, that is when my brother died. Later we were a little better off than a lot of people we were classed that way. When I was a baby we lived at Cornish then to Duncan and Wilson. They have moved the old house at Cornish to Ringlin now, about 4 or 5 miles. My dad built all of these homes that we lived in. In Wilson there was a 2 story guarage Apt where I stayed and a 2 story house. We had real nice neighbors, we had a big neighborhood we lived within a mile of town there was about 5000, people in Wilson about that time. Some of the First oil wells ever drilled in the country were drilled right in there. They had tank farme where the big steal barrels were 55,000. gallens each. and our school was the 3rd richest school in the country. We had a 4 bed room house they were up stairs and a bath room. Papa designed the house and drew up all the plans and then he and I and others helped build it. Mama also had a hand in designing the home. we had a party line on our phone line there were about 2 or 3 people on it, and it was that ring kind where you turn the handle, and our phone number was 5. (5 rings) Papa owned a telephone exchange company at one time and he went from Waurika to Rag Town and they sold it out to Bell Telephone, They cut big long poles on the creek and stuck them up for telephone lines. I never had any illness or diseases, I was to dam mean to have any. only Burt had any illnesses. I hurt my fingers one time on a pully. I was up there guiding brick up on a two story building and had a horse on the bottom pulling up that brick on a brick bar and I let my hand go to far up and it caught me. I think David and Montie broke some bones. I dont know for sure or not. My folks never had any bad heart problems or Cancer or T.B. nor any bad operations. We never did have any or belong to any religion until Burt died and then my Mother and Dad joined the Baptist Church. My sister Opal she joined the Holiness Church of some sort. Like I said before papa wasen't a mean man but he used foul language there every other word. and then after my brother died he quit it. All his vises that he had. He wasen't a bad man but he just seamed he couldn't get the cussing out of his system. Doesn't very many people know about that. He kinda gradually shoved everything back he really took the death of Burt pretty hard. Papa was about as close to him as he was me. Mama was close to Burt she took it auful hard and still thinks about him I guess. After the death of Burt, Mama and papa took us kids to Ckhurch for a long time but after a while I quit going. I never was Baptized. (He was baptized about 1994 in Stilwell, Okla) Note: Walter was blamed for the accident and felt it all his life he was saddling the horse when Burt was kicked. Mama and Papa never got over it Mama kept all of Burts things in an old trunk even his lunch bucket a syrup bucket) (ages between 13 & 19) I never did start laying brick until I was 16, I really did want to be a Doctor, I would cut on a bunch of animals, I enjoyed that type of work, I would work on cattle and horses. I thought about being a Vet when I was a younger kid, but I didn't know what I was doing, I'd just buy some of these old horses some crippled and would try to repaire him up where he would go. You could buy them for a $1.00 a piece. When I was 16 I started laying brick. One day my daddy told me that I kwas going to have to find me a job, said you are going to have to get you a trade. He said now you can have any thing you want and I didn't say no. I just went and got me some tools and crawled up on the wall and went to work. I learned my trade at Terral, Okla, they had a school house down there and I built a chimney by myself. I never graduadted from school I quituated at the 9th grade but I was some where in the 10 grade in math. I was always good in math and I liked english pretty well. I started to join the glee club one time but I think that's when I quit school. Did you ever win any honors or awards in high school? No if there was it would be out side the house with 4 or 5 girls hanging around. I never did get into any trouble at school. I just didn't want to go. I never played any tricks on any teachers, but I knew one of them was going to whip me with a rubber hose, an I went down in the basement. I beat him down there an I knew he was a coming and I screwed the handle out off a broom and when he went down there to whip me. I just reached over and got my broom handle and I was going to work him over with it, I told him to go ahead, and I had to quit school. I had a pretty good social life every body liked me, I went to a lot of dances and picnic's. I dated a lot when I was a teenager. We went around town on my dates. I didn't have no place to take them. Most of the time I layed brick but I drove a truck and I would always help carpenters or plasters or just any body that wanted to work me. I started in when I was 12 years old. One time I started off on my own, well I left out at night me, and an ol boy did. and we never did come back we just kept on going. We caught a freight train. We rode all over the train just any where you could get a seat. There were alot of people that road a freight train like that, back in those days. We went to Billings Montana. I was about 12 years old then we stayed a week or two something like that. I wrote my folks a card and I like to beat the card in. I didn't get lonesome or home sick, I got out and bumed around, bumed eats and things. When I came back I caught a freight train. I got to where I would catch a passanger train after I got kinda used to them. Lot of times I would go up to Colorado and Wyoming, Colorado mostly and pick up potatoes in them days and rake beans with a pitch fork, make a little money. I always made money. I always went by myself. I didn't want to take anybody with me. I always found my fiends. I guess you would call me a loner until I found somebody I liked. I made friends easy. I got my first social security number when they first came out 440122917. In my early romances I never fell for the girls, I just liked them. A lot of the girls would give partys. and we would have Waltz's at the dances I didn't know how to jitterbug. Foot ball was a real active sport back when I was young. and in the news it was about china, the Chinese was over running the U.S. troupes and alot of them and Japan that was way back, as far as Presidents I remember Rosivelt mostly. The earlyest (Hoover). fad or fashion I can remembe is I always went with a white shirt and kakie pants the other kids weren't near as forchinant as I was, I was pretty well cleaned up there when I was going. I had a little bit more clothes then they did during the depression. Juanita was the first wife I ever had. When I first saw her she kept watching me over at the vanhive school there were 2 or 3 that kept watching me and I guess I was a pretty good ketch. If you want to call it that. I had an old flop eared hat on that I wanted to get rid of, but I didn't have money enough to buy another one, but I did have those kakie clothes on and looked pretty nice. I was building a fence out in front of there. and then we got to talking to them and one thing brought on another and she was visiting some girl down in Wilson. and she got aquainted with me. through her. My first impression of her was that I liked her and I thought she was pretty. I would walk 8 or 10 miles to see her for a date. We never had any arguments while we were dating, that I know of. We didn't date to long before we got married. I had a friend that got married and I guess I thought I aught to get married to. Juanitas Mother wanted me to get married to her, but her dad didn't want me to get married to her he was wanting to kinda run me off, but I stayed around pretty close. So him and her got into it and she said well (I didn't hear this but it was what was said) if you are going to run him off I am going to go with him. Then they consented to letting us get married. We got married down town at the justice of the peace (Wilson). Bill Neal and his wife and his mother and a party or two were there as witnesses. After the wedding we went out to the house and I bought whiskey and one thing and then another and a bunch of us got drunk. (At Auther Carrikers) As for wedding gifts Juanitas mother and dad gave us something but, I don't remember . Gifts wasen't very easy to come by, we didn't go any where for a honeymoon we couldn't afford it. We lived in the guarage apartment at Papas house after the wedding. We lived in Wilson, Okla until way after the kids got up a little bigger. It was hard in the beginning making ends meet. We didn't have any thing to start house keeping with so, I got out and made it. Juanita didn't work she stayed home. It was about a year later before we owned our own home we stayed at papas until then. It was in the depression time and I worked at laying brick or anything to make a living it was hard times then. Juanita made pretty good biscuts she was a prety good cook when she wanted to cook. When we got married we found out that it wasen't a bed of roses, there were a lot of adjustments to make one was just being married. I chose brick laying as a trade and how it came about was, one day if I wanted to learn a trade and he was general contractor and so he said well you choose the trade you want and I'll help you learn it so, I learned it under him. I was an apprentance for about 3 years. (what made you decide to strike out on your own?) Well I think that just kinda grows on you. You gota fly out of the nest sometime, I finally made these decisions on my own after, I learned what to do and how to make money, but I always knew how to make money. There were a lot of jobs some of them I didn't do to good, and alot I did real good in. One time there was a job in Wichita Falls, me and two other people contracted brick work and worked together a long time , so I started contracting back when I was a young kid, one of the first places I help build before I was ever married was at Prarie Grove my dad had a building and thats where I started out laying brick. down at Okla out in the country if you wanted to go back and see some of the work that I had done, I built a chimney on this building I was telling about. I believe it is at Prarie Valley or Grove or something like that. The building was a big school house it was all grades in one, when I first started to work, I was about 12 years old and my daddy built a building a school house over at Dourty and I pumped water for it. I guess the water pump is still in there (during the depression when you were working what effect did your job have on your family?) I traveled alot to different jobs but I generally took my family with me when I could, I provided for them pretty good, but in the depression didn't nobody provide too good. I belong to the bricklayers Union, I belong to the Masonic Lodge I joined it in Stilwell, Okla. I have fired engins on the southern Pacific out of Ogden Utah. It consisted of doing firemans work, providing steam for the rail road engins to run on. I had a Shrimp Boat of my own for about 5 years, during the depression. I worked on pipe lines down in Louisiana, Texas & Okla, they carried crude oil and gas but I helped dig them up with a sharp shooter.I have doug as high as 1100 feet in one day with a sharp shooter. Juanita and I had 4 children, Joyce LaDean, Walter LaVon, Marjorie Kathleen & Jerry Gale, all the kids minded me pretty good . I didn't have much trouble with them. Kate use to go and pick a few flowers and go around the neighborhood and sell them for maby a dime or 15 cents just wild flowers. Joyce useto go with me to town when she was a baby she was a daddys baby , she would go to sleep and I would just put her up over my shoulder and catch a ride back home with out my mules and things go on home see and when I would get to the bridge there they would be waiting for me and Joyce to come in. One time Von and John Harding was playing like they were a chicken and they were diging them a hole out and laying eggs in it, so I was painting and I accidently stepped in one of the holes they had scratched out and turned my ankle and threw the paint all over me. In the same place he and John got out and took an old china berry tree and just stripped it from one end to the other and I said son how come you to do that? And he said well daddy it looked like the old tree needed a good skinning and said I just skin it. Von was always making something, One time I heard something going around the block and it sounded like some kind of engin and he and John had made them an old Wagon and they had it hooked up with some kind of gasoline motor in it and they were up there riding it going around the block on it. One time when me and Juanita were getting a divorce Von was just a young kid he came down ith pneumonia, he came down to see me and he took pneumonia. I was down there on my boat at Corpus Christi Texas. I think I had done sold my boat though and he came down to stay with me until I went back so he took Pneumonia he had to go to the hospital , but he didn't stay very long. Joyce when she was a baby we thought we were going to lose her, she had some kind of stomach trouble and she was passing flood so finally we took her over to a doctor over at Healdton an old family Doctor and he brought it out of her. I never did know what was wrong some intestional something or another. I think I was to strict on the kids because when I would whip one of them I would whip to hard. I wished I haden't done it now. I cant remember any family traditions only things we did ever so often. If they lived far off we would go see them or we would make a move. On birthdays the kids would have a cake and a party and have some friends over. I believe Joyce was the only one that Graduated from High School and the rest of the kids got their GED certificates. During vacation time we would go from Ogden, Utah to Wilson, Okla and down to Corpus Christi and back . We would take the train. I have about 24 Grand Children I haven't seen all of them I don't think. Now that I am passed middle aged and at retirement Idon't see my life pattern changing. I have more time on my hands now and I have a hobby running race horses, and I really like it. I useto race and fight roosters. I have some real good ones. Me and Anne built a pit for them to fight in , it was a big long barn with 3 pits in it. There were 2 drag pits and l main pit the 2 drag pits were where they had fought (the roosters) to where they could not fight any more, but weren't dead yet and they were put into the drag pits so they could go on with another fight in the main pit. The largest crowd we had at one time was 600 people. We had the pit for about 5 or 6 years. There were seats all around the main pit. I always wanted a good horse so finally I got one. I raised it the father is named Angel Jet Rail, and Mother was DeMona, I got DeMona off of the Miller Ranch. I had her bread to Angel Jet Rail and came up with Haleys Comet. I came up with the name when Haleys Comet was going around the sun. I have one a lot of races with her and she has made me 2 tripple AAAs. and about $4500.00 I have raced her at Denver they had 307 horses to run against and I came out with the 22 horse. I liked 300ths of a second getting into the ferturity. But it coust me $800.00 (14) a day for my horse. I won about 1200.00 betting at the gate. I made one bet that payed me $620.on a $10.00 ticket.I rased some at Tahlequah, Okla . I daylighted them there twice that means I was 2 links ahead of the whole bunch. Then I went on down to Sallisaw and I daylighted them one length, and I made a 91 I didn't make any money but, I did have a bet of 150.00 that they give me 5 to 1 so I won $900.00 off of $150.00 Bucks. Then I came back in the finals and I run 6th that wasen't in the main race it was called second best I made a 93 and won about $750.00 I think I have done real good with the horse. There are still somegood friends here that I have met over the years like Johnny Karpack, Harry Thomsen, E.J. Davis. and there are a lot that have moved off. About 31 years ago I met Anne hudson on a blind date I didn't really know what she looked like until I saw her comeing down the stairs and I figured that was the one I wanted and she was a good looking one to. We got married at Borger Texas. Anne was a wool presser silk finisher, we didn't stay there to long we moved to Wilson, Okla and stayed down there. We moved all over the country while I was laying brick going from one job to another. Anne had folks here in Adair Co. Okla so we came here for a visit and I met her folks then. I came down here and bought a piece of ground off her Dad and Mother over at the home place between Oak Grove and Piney in Adair County. I bought 20 acres bare land and I gave 10 dollars a acre for it later I bought land around me and built it up to 145 acres. The house we lived in we built a little at a time we would go off and work for a while to make some money and then come back and work on the house for a while. When we first started on the house we stayed in a little log cabin on Tom Plones. over close to her mothers and dads. We did have nothing but the sides and the sub floor on and the fire place and we went in and had it sealed off where we could have a little heat in there and then we moved in. We had a little furniture not much but we had one of the first Television sets in the country. People would be there every night if we would let them, to watch it and then they would be there even if we weren't there watching it. They had a key and they would come on in. Some of the neighbors were Ott Dold, Chambers, Coons, Davises, there were some more but that was the ones I can remember. We lived there ever since we were married about 28 years off and on. I had Cattle, Sheep, and hogs l have tryed a little of everything Ducks, Pheasants, Geese, Chickens, Fighting Chickens you name it I have had it Billy Goats. We have had some big stormes come through there . There never did hit the house but it hit the side of my barn and riped the tree down, the barn was 36 by 60 something it was an oval type Buck Hudson and I built it. I really enjoyed it when my mom and dad would come to see me and when my kids would come. That was about once a year. My mom and dad really liked the place. Just before papa died he wanted to come down there he wanted to come see me. The kids really liked it there I think they liked Anne's cooking best but they liked just being on a farm and all the animals. I had a swimming pool in the back yard Anne and I built it ourselves. Every now and then one of my kids would come live with me. We moved away from the farm and 6 years ago to another farm (smaller) Continued under Annie Hudson Stilwell, Oklahoma News Paper TWIST MOUNTAIN PROJECT OFFERS BEAUTIFUL VIEW By Wade Zumwait A song from a Broadway show says, "On a clear day you can see forever". Well Saturday was a clear day and on top of Twist Mountain, one could see almost that far. Twist Mountain in northeast of Stilwell, just east of the Piney community. While it isn't inaccessible, to reach its summit one needs to know the way. To get to the top, the road really twists. Walter Allred, who is overseeing the orchard project underway there, says that the view stretches from 30 to 40 miles towards both the east and west, it is hard to believe differently. Allred sold the place to a company whose principal stockholders are E. Julian Davis Sr and E. Julian Davis Jr. The younger Davis is actively occupied in the project. The holdings include 438.9 acres to date, only 85 acres have been cleared plans are to continue Clearing and planting most of the land. Some 10,000 dwarf "spur" trees have been set out. Varieties include Starks Crimson, Early Glaze, Jonathan and Yellow Delicious. The trees are set in rows 18 feet apart. However, the trees are only seven feet apart in a row. Allred said the process is called bedging. When grown, the trees will touch one another in a row. Trees are expected to bear "some" at three years. They should start in real production in four years. All rocks are being removed from the orchard as to allow complete tilling of the soil. Saturday a tractor was pulling a tiller over the land already cleared of rocks. Irrigation will be carried on by a permanent watering system Twelve-inch pipes are being shipped from the company's wild rice operation in Minnesota. The pipe will be laid under ground and sprinklers will spread the water over the trees. A huge lake has been constructed on top of the mountain to supply water for the irrigation system. Two wells have also been drilled. One of the wells, however, may be used for something else. Davis Sr. owns Dayon Drilling Company of Oklahoma City and he intends to move a rig to the well on the west slope of the mountain. He expects to go to l,500 feet in search of oil. A real interesting aspect of the drilling on the east side of the mountain was that the drill struck a cavity some 40 feet deep. "We mayhave another Carlsbad Cavern right here in Adair county," Allred said. Several other projects are in the making for the property. For one thing, 20 acres of squash will be covered with polyethylene to prevent weed groth. Bulldozing of the 85 acres was done by the DeJarnatt Brothers of Stilwell, using four Caterpillars. Ten "hand-laborers" have been busy on the clearing, planting and cleaning-up program. A 3,000-feet north-south runway allows airplanes to land on top of Twist. The runway also serves as a road to reach the cabin the younger Davis is restoring. The log cabin, built over 100 years ago by Mack Messer, is one of the oldest dwellings in the county. The last residents of the log house were the John Croziers. Mrs. Crozier, the daughter of the Messers, lived all her life in the cabin. She was over 70 years old when she died a few years back. The logs in the house have been "chinked" and a fieldstone rock addition is being built at the rear. Plumbing and lighting fixtures are on hand, ready to be installed. The cabin faces a small ravine that slopes toward Dutch Mills, Ark The sleepy little Arkansas town can be seen from most any place on Twist Mountain. By the time the Davis father and son get through with the 85 acre project they will spend between $150,000 and $200,000. One can multiply the amount by the restof the nearly 439 acres and you'll get a pretty fair chunk of cash. Ann Hudson Walter Allreds 2nd wife was raised just below this place all of her family is in the grave yard near by. Ann spent many years on the Messer place playing as a child. State of Texas County of Hutchinson Rites of Matrimony between Walter S. Allred and Miss Anna Hudson Sinnett Texas 13 Nov 1948 Rev Charles E. McDowell Returned 22 Nov 1948 recorded Indirect Index Deeds Address 1020 12th st Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., TX Allred, W.S. et eux Bessie Vaugh Wise etal Deed Book 365 P. 210 4-29-1947 Lot 10 Block 1 Bay View Add # 2 Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., TX Address on Hillcrest St Allred, Walter S. et ux William Grigg Simmons Rel of L. B. 361 P. 276 3-21-1947 Lot 6 Block 27 Hillcrest Add Direct Index to Deeds Allred, Walter S. et al Farm & Home Savings & Loan D?T Book 224-65 1-14-1946 Lot 6 Block 29 Hillcrest Addition Allred, W.S. et Ux Guaraty Title & Trust Co. at al DT B254 P.57 4-29-1947 Lot 9 & 10 Block 1 Bay View add #21 Allred, W.S. The Reliable Life Ins Co. of St Louis Mo & etal Book 279-172 4-6=1948 3-25-1948 Lot 9 & 10 Block 1 Bay View Add Unit 2 Wilson Post Democrat 11-7-1996 Walter S. "Red" Allred was born 13 Feb 1912, in Cornish, the son of Harvey Allred and Beedie Hancock. He passed away on 1 Nov l1996, in Ardmore. A lifelong resident of Oklahoa, Walter was a brickmason by profession. He married Jaunita Carriker on 20 Aug 1933 in Wilson . They had four children : Joyce Allred Brereton, Walter L. (Von) Allred, Marjorie Kathleen Allred Buss, all of Wilson , and Jerry Gale Allred McFarland, Houston, Texas. Walter had one sister and three brothers: Opal Boyd, Bert, David, and Monti Allred. He had 24 grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren and one great great grandchildren. He married Ana L. Hudson on 13 Nov 1948, in Borger Texas, and rhey lived in Stilwell Many years. He had one Stepson, Buck Hudson, Stilwell. Walter was a member of the Masonic Lodge there for over 25 years. He enjoyed racing horses, fishing and raising and fighting game chickens as a hobby. Certificate of Death State of Oklahoma Walter S. Allred b. 13 Feb 1912 Carter Co. OK d. 1 Nov 1996 Ardmore, Carter, OK Mercy Memorial Hospital Ardmore 7:50 A.M. Bur: 4 Nov 1996 Stilwell City Cem. Stilwell, Adair, OK-Culver Funeral Home David W. Roberts Roberts/Reed SS 440-12-2917 Brickmason Construction Residence Wilson, OK Father Harvey Allred Mother Beedie Hancock Informant Jerry McFarland Mailing address 6835 Glenray Dr. , Houston, Texas 77084 Coranary Artery Funeral: In Loving Memory Walter S. "Red" Allred 4 Nov 1996 2:00 P.M Brother Donald Lewis,officiating Opening song : "How Thou Art" Prayer: Monty Allred Biography?Obituary Reading Jerry McFarland Speaker: Bro. Donald Lewis Grandchildren Sing: "As I Have Loved You" Dedication of Grave - A.J. Brereton Closing Song- "God Be with you til we meet again" Closing Prayer Stan Brereton, Jr. With the thorn comes the rose, with the dusk comes the dawn, After the snow of winter, the glories of spring, After every ending, A new beginning and God's promise of life everlasting.
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