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O. W. MORRIS


"SHAMROCK NEWS" by Donna Solomon


From the "News Journal," Mannford, Oklahoma, July 1, 1987

"MEMORIES RENEWED"

60 years ago, my father Troy brought my older brother Lenard, 16, and myself, then 12, to Shamrock from Salisaw in a wagon with a team of mules. It was January and the trip took us four days. This bit of history was told to me in my driveway by O. W. Morris the other day.

The Morris family lived on what then was the C. P. Hall place. They farmed 100 acres using two teams of mules, raising 45 acres of cotton with bowl weavels, 35 acres of corn and 20 acres of kafficorn. C. P. Hall had a hardware store, lumber yard and was a funeral director, keeping his grey Dodge hearse parked in what I call my garage.

The Morris family lived here one year, moving in February 1928, 7 miles west to the edge of Payne County where a daughter, Vera, was born. Lenard later died of a ruptured appendix. In 1929 the Morris' moved north of Shamrock, leased 160 acres from the Carter Oil Co. and raised milk cows, corn and cotton. Early in 1931, Morris sold out, taking the family back to his native Mississippi.

Mr. O. W. Morris, now 71 years young, is a minister of the church of the Nazarene. O. W. and his wife, Avanelle, 74, reside in Somerville, Tenn. It was a sheer delight to me to visit with the Morris family.



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