In 1906, Phyllis Carpenter's grandparents, Arthur and Eddie Burns Reed, traveled by covered wagon from Lamar County, TX to Marlow, in Indian Territory. Their three oldest children -Eula, Lee and Earlie - were with them. My mother, Eula, remembered the day in 1907 when Oklahoma became a state. Two of my uncles, Floyd   and Paul, were born in Marlow. My grandfather worked for a local undertaker.   There was a train wreck near Marlow and my grandfather told about how terrible it was to walk along the railroad tracks and pick up bodies. He decided that this was NOT the job for him. About 1915, they went back to Texas by train. We know that Ophelia Burns Cypert and her husband were also living in Marlow in 1907 when her mother, Rachel Burns died. Rachel was the mother of William A. Burns who was Pat's and my great grandfather. I think there is a real possibilty that William A. Burns was living in Marlow when he died in 1910 and is buried there rather than in Purdy in Garvin County.

 

Members of the Burns family were in Garvin County, OK in 1910 and likely shopped in Pauls Valley.