Sunday, June 28, 2009
LEXINGTON GUNNERY
The Lexington Gunnery, now known as a wildlife refuge, was located just east of Lexington, Oklahoma.
WORLD WAR II
The U. S. Navy took over the farmers' land S. E. of Noble and east of Lexington. They were forced to sell out and leave. A local visitor to the Rose Rock Museum at Noble told me about his father, Bruce Garner, who had a farm next to this area. He had some old farm machinery sitting idle in the pasture. The son asked him why it was there and Bruce explained it was left by a farmer and his family who were forced to leave in a hurry and temporarily left it there, but never came back for it. They had refused to leave despite all the warnings from the military. However, the machine gun firings started and when bullets came in the dining room window, they left in haste.
BULLETS FLYING
Mr. Garner and his hands were baling hay one day, and a bullet landed in the dirt nearby. It was still hot when one of them picked it up. Then they continued with their baling. My dad, Walter ("Sam") Nance, dismantled his parents home and moved the lumber to Purcell where he built property on Comanche Street, a few blocks S. of Main Street and the houses still stand. The parents were Thomas and Sally Nance.
GENERATIONS CONTINUE ON
My grandmother went to school where the Garners and family lived. The families all knew each other. So after all these years, the older folks all had passed on and this gentleman and his wife stopped in here, both of us descendants of these people who were friends, got acquainted. Time never stands still, but people are not forgotten. This is why the history of our families should be recorded, even if it's only brief notes penned by hand.
WORLD WAR II
The U. S. Navy took over the farmers' land S. E. of Noble and east of Lexington. They were forced to sell out and leave. A local visitor to the Rose Rock Museum at Noble told me about his father, Bruce Garner, who had a farm next to this area. He had some old farm machinery sitting idle in the pasture. The son asked him why it was there and Bruce explained it was left by a farmer and his family who were forced to leave in a hurry and temporarily left it there, but never came back for it. They had refused to leave despite all the warnings from the military. However, the machine gun firings started and when bullets came in the dining room window, they left in haste.
BULLETS FLYING
Mr. Garner and his hands were baling hay one day, and a bullet landed in the dirt nearby. It was still hot when one of them picked it up. Then they continued with their baling. My dad, Walter ("Sam") Nance, dismantled his parents home and moved the lumber to Purcell where he built property on Comanche Street, a few blocks S. of Main Street and the houses still stand. The parents were Thomas and Sally Nance.
GENERATIONS CONTINUE ON
My grandmother went to school where the Garners and family lived. The families all knew each other. So after all these years, the older folks all had passed on and this gentleman and his wife stopped in here, both of us descendants of these people who were friends, got acquainted. Time never stands still, but people are not forgotten. This is why the history of our families should be recorded, even if it's only brief notes penned by hand.
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