EIGHT ADDED TO PASS HUNDRED MARK
Passing the hundred mark, membership in the "Pioneer Club" of Canadian
county, Saturday climbed to a total of 107 old timers as the following
filed: Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Folsom, their daughter, Mrs. Aubrey Niles; H. K.
Ricker, his wife, Mrs. Helen McGregor Ricker, Mrs. Mary Porter, W. B. Reed
and Mrs. John Erbar.
MR and MRS. A.F. FOLSOM came to Canadian county in 1889 from Clark county,
Kansas, with their two children and homesteaded the 160 acre farm on which
they now live northeast of El Reno. They drove a covered wagon and built
their own home. Their daughter, MRS. AUBREY C. NILES, 1602 South Evans
avenue has also been a resident of Canadian county since 1889 when she came
here with her parents in a covered wagon.
When MRS. MARY PORTER, 402 South Choctaw avenue, arrived in El Reno, Feb.
21, 1894, the city was composed of nothing but shacks with no sidewalks, she
reported Saturday when she filed membership in the "Pioneer Club",
saying
that she had watched the city grow to its present status. MRS. PORTER, was
born in Illinois, moved to Kansas when four years of age with her parents,
MR. and MRS. JULIUS ISRAEL, where she remained until coming here. She
first
worked for MR. and MRS. CHARLES G. WATSON and later MR. and MRS.
SAM
TANNEBAUM. After she was married she moved to the farm three miles south
and four and a half west of El Reno where she lived unti in 1918 when she
returned here to make her home at 402 South Choctaw avenue. Her husband
died in 1915. She has two brothers and two sisters.
- Return to Canadian County Biographies, Stories and Family Histories
- Return to Canadian County Genealogy
- Return to Oklahoma Genealogy
- Return to United States Genealogy
