Old Boggy Depot and Butterfield Trail Reverie
Old Boggy Depot now sits quiet as a state park with a single bronze plaque marking the Butterfield Overland Mail route. The article recalls the town’s rise and fall, its Choctaw capital era, and travelers’ tales, noting Ormsby and others who described Boggy Depot and the surrounding history, with locals and visitors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wapanucka
Aloha
Oklahoma Historical Society
Congress
San Francisco
Old Boggy Depot
Confederate States of America
Confederacy
Old Boggy
U. S
Dawes Commission
Tiss
Butterfield
New York Herald
Waterman L. Ormsby
Geary
Chronicles of
Oklahoma
Ormsby
Doaksville
Boggy Depot
G.B. Hester
Missouri
Kansas
New Boggy
Allen Wright
Muriel Wright
Baggy Depot
Atoka County
Apothecary Shop
Lula Grade School Pupils Begin Summer Term in Lula
Readable fragments show Lula Grade School opening with 40 pupils in grades one to four and 25 in grades five to eight. Teachers are Mrs Arthur Dennis and C D Whelchel. Local families visit, baptisms at Ada church, and community news from Lula and Ada areas appear amid scattered notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lula
Tupelo
Helon Leader
Betty Fortner
Linda Cannady
Roberta Bain
Allen
Jake Brady
Hy Missionary Baptist Church
Ada
Sharon
Debbie Brazier
Arthur Dennis
C. D. Whelchel
John Harden
Thomas Fortner
Around The County PARISH CHAPEL Item
Around The County notes visits and social calls in Parish Chapel area. Mr and Mrs Ray Magar and others, including Susan, Mrs Ver Dryden, Frank Dryden, Newell Pennington, Willie Issacs, Elma Law, Verniece Dryden, and J W Law, are recorded as Sunday and Monday visitors in various homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen Magar
Abloso
Irene
Klutts
Doris
Sue
Stratford
Ruth Magar
Ada
Frank Dryden
Alene, Anderson
Patsy Henson
Curtis Hogue
Ray Magar
Chilee
Bue Smith
Ahlo
Floyd
Wood
W. N. Isaacs
Joe Thompson
J. A. Patton
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Oklahoma
Aaron Morris
Baby
Jimmy Farmer
Ruby Dryden
Virgie Fennington
Manley Maddox and
Manley Charles
Milo Pennington
Penningtons
Woodrow Harris
Stockton
Calif
Garland
Pennington
Mark
Miami
Wayne Pennington
Bobbi
Lovelady
Rosa’ Jane Pennington
Norman
Connie Clay
Alfred
Lorraine Pennington
Ruthie Pennington
Me. Kaskle
Cindy Miller
Midwest City
Ann Hamblin
J. W. Law
Max
Virgle Ray -Miller
Troy Miller
Lillie Miller
Clara
Elma Law
Joan. Ramsey
Jack
Susan
Verniece Dryden
Newell Pennington
Glen’ Dryden
Willie Issacs
Jim ‘Magar
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. Knickmey
Staly
Boggy
Chickasaws
J. B. Wright
McAlester
Johnston
Murray
Old Baggy Depot
Oklahoma State Park
Wright
Abid
Hank Burk
Mrs Willis Sulton
Zeva Lee Sanders
Edwina Hudson
Adz
Okmulgee
John Qualls
Lonnie Qualls
Oklahoma ‘City
Leroy, Qualls
Leroy
Maysville
Lester Palmer
Gentry
Emmit
Johnnye Qualls
Mildred Altom
Dessie
Ruth Sutton
Inlaw
Floy Burk
Thelma
Garrett
Sie] Idra
Hank. Burk
Mes
Jim Kight
Mikeight, Slaton
Tex
Mr and Mrs. Senior Love Iwerel
Lake Texoma
Clyde Kendall
M.C. Cox
M. C. Cox Jr
Marshall Cox
Lena Brown
Ann Bowles
Vamposa
Senior Love and
Machelle
Wilma Lindsay
Amarillo
Mary Cox
Wilma
Maxwell
Mary
Herbert Henderson
M. R. ‘Tucker
Pearl Gray
Clara Chandler
McGee
Garnet Jones
Don ‘Henson
Etta Hightower
Don Henson
Cliff
Mears
Mae Edwards
Patsy Hensa
Donald Ray Henson
P. C. Henson
LaDon Morris
Virgle Farmer
Clifford Lamb
Mrs
E.c. Caviner
H. 7
Ray
Lamb
Mr.,and Mrs. Allen Hightower
Clayton
N. M
Hellen
Martha Love
Cal Barnett
Albert Pinley
Pinley
M. G
Cox
P. Q. Henson
Walter Baucom
Atwood
Arch Neighbors
Dorothy Matthews
Francis
Dorothy
Bob Maxwell
Florence Wren
Juanita Rowe
Hazel Melton
C. L. Hicks
Mray Lille Miller
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
United States
Lois Clifford
Dickie Clifford
Roger Dalt Massey
Centrahoma
Edgar Cross
Roger
Albues
Lois Cliford
Annie Stout
Lester Davis
Jake Treas
Dolph Treas
Fort Towson
Mrg
J. G. Treas
Nansay “Folsom
Becky Sanders
Ahloso
J. C. Treas
Nancy Folgom
D. R. Clifford
Darrel Stonecipher
Larry Stonecipher
Donald Brooks
Linda
Diane
Dwayne
Clifford
Dorine Burris
Marlyn
Johnny
Wasco, Calif
Boss Woolley
Davey Johnston
Sam Johnston
Johnstons
Ben Johnston
Ed Smith
Nazerine Church
Stonewall
Missionary Baptist Church
Simon Young
Mra
Short Formner and Joy
Cheater Treas
Joan
Lavoyce Young
Gay
Debbie Clifford
Humboldt Redwoods'State Park
Eureka
Fae
Florence Isaacs