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My husband's mother had told him that during the
dust bowl and depression era many Oklahoma
people came thru the area heading west to California. They usually had all their children and belongings on top and hung all over the
old cars (and trucks)
Oklahoma Lane was an area they traveled thru (Farwell) Parmer
& part of I believe Bailey Co., Texas.
So it got the name Oklahoma Lane.
It would be great if you can find some old-timer in that area that
remembers Oklahoma Lane, the two churches, school and cemetery.
I wish my husband's folks were still around. They both died in 1986. My husband's maternal great-grandmother Katherine (BOHL) WEGMAN died in 1934 and is is buried there in the Oklahoma Lane Cemetery near Farwell, Parmer Co, Texas. It is out in the country. (could this be near Texaco?)
Katherine (BOHL) and Frederick Henry WEGMAN I had a son
Henry Edward WEGMAN who died in Oct 1939 and is buried there near his mother.
Henry was killed by a bull in a neighbor's barnyard.
Henry Edward WEGMAN was Margaretha (WEGMAN) KLOEPPER 's brother.
My husband's parents Ralph Burns & Dorothea Blanche (KLOEPPER)
BARGER moved to Albuquerque, NM in 1938.
Times were hard on the farm/ranch then.
[RALPH BURNS BARGER'S parents were JAMES HENRY & FLORENCE JESSIE (BURNS)
BARGER of BAILEY CO. TEXAS. earlier post from Beverly HIMES BARGER, emc]
My husband's grandparents John Frederick & Margaretha
(WEGMAN) KLOEPPER lived in Parmer Co, Texas until 1946.
John & Margaretha KLOEPPER had went for a visit that October to Ralph
& Dorothy BARGER in Albuquerque, NM.
While they were gone Henry Edward WEGMAN went to feed a bull in a neighbor's
barnyard for them and it gored and killed him.
Henry Edward WEGMAN was married to Sylvia Marie LAWSON.
FAMILY STORIES:
I loved to listen to Virgil's folks talk about those early days in Western Texas.
Ralph Burns Barger was a Track Athlete winning the Texas State Track Championship
in a running event in 1921.
His trophy cup disappeared after his mother's , Florence's death. His father
had a sale after her death and this trophy most likely was sold.
[Beverly send me a picture of Ralph Burn BARGER wearing his State Track Medal,
this is featured on Bailey county School Pictures.]
Virgil's mother, Dorothy, drove the cotton wagon to the cotton mill while the
men were picking cotton.
My husband's mother liked to tell the funny story about where they were married.
"They were married in a car on the TEXAS - NEW MEXICO (State
) Line ( mostly likely TEXICO , emc) with the preacher in the front seat
in TEXAS and them in the back seat in NEW MEXICO. They lived close to the east
border of NEW MEXICO.
They had not thought when they got their marriage license and went to New Mexico
, I think Tucumcari, NM.
Well, the preacher was from their church in Texas in or near OKLAHOMA LANE .
So, the preacher said, "I am NOT licensed to do weddings in New Mexico."
Virgil's dad was always a comic so he said, " We will get
married in the car, you sit in the front seat on the TEXAS side and we will
sat in the back seat on the NEW MEXICO side."
Barger's First Irrigation well in Bailey County
Photo © Beverly Barger |
Maternal great-grandmother of Virgil Barger |
Website Modified: 14 November 2022
State Coordinator: Gina
Heffernan
Assistant State Coordinators: Jane
Keppler, ,
Laura Gregory Roberts
and
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