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As we prepare to honor our mothers Sunday, I wanted to share three articles that I hope you enjoy as much as I did . . .
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Jackie Lee Siegrist passed away Monday, May 4, 2020 at Mercy Hospital in Ada, Oklahoma at the age of 74.
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Leroy A Arthur, age 84, passed away at his residence on May 2, 2020.
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Fern Iris Hall Leewright was born July 9, 1933 in Lawrence, Kansas. She died April 29, 2020 in the loving arms of her husband, Earl Leewright. She was the 11th child born to Rev. W.E. and Lela Elizabeth Hall. Fern married Earl L Leewright on June 24, 1953, and they were happily married for almost 67 years. Together they had four daughters; Lynette Pardue, Sherry Ekstrom, Teresa Shepherd and Renita Landers. Fern gave her heart to the Lord when she was a young girl.
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The little girl in the middle is my grandmother, Wanda. She was born in 1912 to two Swiss immigrants. Her father was a blacksmith, and they lived outside Yakima, Washington.
Read moreThe All-Black towns of Oklahoma represent a unique chapter in American history. Nowhere else, neither in the Deep South nor in the Far West, did so many African American men and women come together to create, occupy, and govern their own communities. From 1865 to 1920 African Americans created more than fifty identifiable towns and settlements, some of short duration and some still existing at the beginning of the twenty-first century. For the next several weeks, we will focus on the following surviving towns, also known as the Thirteen Original All-Black Towns of Boley, Brooksville, Clearview, Grayson, Langston, Lima, Red Bird, Rentiesville, Summit, Taft, Tatums, Tullahassee, and Vernon.
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