09.23.04
Posted in History at 4:52 pm by NW Okie
Is this the First Grand Jury of WOODS Co.?
We recently received this interesting old photo showing Scott Cummins seated on the front-row, 4th from the left.
To the right of Scott Cummins (Pilgrim Bard) is Thomas Dyer, seated front-row, 3rd from left.
Notice the dark hair gentleman standing on the back-row, 3rd from left. That is my Grandpa, Wm. Jacob “Bill” McGill. Looking at the picture of McGill… it looks like some of those photos of him during his early 1900’s baseball photos around 1907… or so.
We would like very much to find out the names of the other gentlemen. Someone suggested that it may be the First Grand Jury of Woods County … OR … Is it an Alva Lodge Group?
Some of these faces seem familiar as if I have seen them in the 1903 Souvenir Edition of the Alva Pioneer. These are NOT positive identification:
- Center-row: far left, George Crowell; 2nd left, W.F. Hatfield; 3rd left, L.W. Moore;
- Back-row, 2nd right, F.P. Alexander;
Do you recognize any of your ancestors in this photograph? Is it a Lodge photo? Could this be a photo of Alva Businessmen in the early 1900’s? Could this be the 1st Grand Jury of Woods County after Statehood?
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09.22.04
Posted in Misc at 8:24 am by NW Okie
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09.18.04
Posted in History at 1:34 pm by NW Okie
School Photograph The Pioneer Teacher… 
“My name is Earl Fugit and several of the students named are my Great Aunts or Uncles who I knew as a child and young man.
I am also fortunate to have a copy of the Woods County Atlas 1906 and a copy of Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County. I also have a copy of genealogy notes compiled by Neil Fugit (deceased) and albums containing many photographs of the Fugit, Oviatt and J. B. Ross family dating from late 1800 thru 1950.
One of these albums contains the exact same school photograph. These albums belonged to Mrs. Nellie Oviatt Fugit and were passed down to me by my father Ray Fugit. Using the above documents I believe the school was Liberty School located approximately 6-miles South and 1-East of Alva — about 5-miles North and one 1-East of Hopeton. This school was about 5 miles from the Warwick homestead.
believe the names on the back of the picture are all in the same hand writing and was added sometime after the picture was taken. (the inclusion of spouse names would indicate after 1919), I also feel the picture was taken prior to 1910 because of the birth dates and marriage dates of some of the students as shown below. I think the year could be as early as 1904 or 1905. I have arranged the list by gender and in age sequence in hopes of being able to identify some of the students from other photographs I have — in the Pioneer Footprints. No success so far.” — Earl Fugit - Email: erfoknym@comcast.net
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Is this the First Grand Jury of WOODS Co.?