Comments on: The Christmas letter from Medford http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/ Rattlesnakes, redbuds, rodeos and everything in between Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Patty Mennem http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3792 Patty Mennem Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:55:26 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3792 Just read this in the Oklahoman. I live at Medford and this really peaks my interest. I will see what I can find out from some elderly Medford people. If decendents are not found, my son is President of the 1893 Land Run Historical Center being built in Medford and would be interested in placing the articles in the museum. Please keep me informed.

]]> By: Janice Main http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3706 Janice Main Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:31:41 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3706 Alyse, you are wonderful! If you need me to do more on this end, let me know. Please keep us posted on everything!

Have a wonderful Christmas!

]]> By: Alyse http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3686 Alyse Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:59:59 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3686 Okay, using the info from Ancestry (where I now have a 14-day free trial membership) I haven’t come up with much more than the notion that Darline and Dorothy would be 84 and 85 years old now. I have phoned a Darline who is in Blytheville, AR, and left a message that will either prompt a phone call from a relative or cause someone to think that I’m a stranger completely out of her mind :) . Carrie, I hope you are okay with this, I also gave the Denver Post a call about reprinting your piece. It might prompt some response here if they re-run it in Colorado. Dang…I’m getting hopeful!

]]> By: Alyse http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3684 Alyse Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:48:54 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3684 I am going to do what I can from this end to see if I can perhaps find them since Lakewood is so near; I can only hope that they are still in the area.

]]> By: Janice Main http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3679 Janice Main Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:34:03 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3679 I now know that the Joe True in your pictures of letters and envelopes is the father of Mitchell E. (True) Hardin She has several siblings. You have found such a wonderful treasure for this family. I truly hope they find this Web site, and will be able to let you know that that they would love to have this wonderful tin that you now possess.

]]> By: Janice Main http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3666 Janice Main Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:48:08 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3666 Alyse, you are so thoughtful to have done this. Looking at the picture of the two little girls that was included, I wondered if it might be Darline and Dorothy.

Someone from that family would have to feel this to be a real treasure. If it was my family, I would be so grateful.

]]> By: Alyse http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3657 Alyse Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:17:46 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3657 The last name “Hardin” is in these papers somewhere. I am sure you have found her and her family. I live in Jefferson County and Lakewood is a stone’s throw from here (although I bought the papers in Golden). I don’t know if Dorothy and Darline would want their mom’s letter but I think it’s a real heirloom.

]]> By: Carrie Coppernoll http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3652 Carrie Coppernoll Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:35:07 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3652 I love Ancestry.com! Thank you so much for the insight, Janice!

]]> By: Janice Main http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/2011/12/20/the-christmas-letter-from-medford/#comment-3651 Janice Main Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:34:12 +0000 http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/?p=1327#comment-3651 I believe the Mitchelle who wrote the letter, was born 1906 in Nebraska, and was married to Theodore A. Hardin, born 1902 in Kansas, son of Florence & John Hardin. In the 1930 Federal U. S. Census, ‘Mitchell E.’ and Theodore Hardin are living in Valley, Grant County, Oklahoma. Theodore is farming. Two daughters, Dorothy, and Darline are with them. A family tree found on Ancestry.com reveals that “Mitchell Estelle Hardin” died in 2005, in Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado.

This article was very interesting. Thank you for sharing!

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