"The occasion for the picture was not fair competition...his young son John had won a ride and picture on Dad's prize horse for obediently taking medicine...This photograph was taken about statehood time...and donated by Mrs. John Earp."
This is a family history blog. It is the story of the William A. Earp family, who homesteaded in Oklahoma Territory, and their descendents and those other pioneer families whose lives intertwined with theirs...Martin Van Buren Wright, George and Mary Jane Deal Earp Ewing, William Cornelius Flatt, and more.
The "Old Home Place" abt 1900-1910
The Earp Family Blog
THE EARP FAMILY BLOG
Here you'll find a family parlor for descendants and other kin of William Asbury and Mary Frances (Wright) Earp, who settled near Stroud (Lincoln Co.) Oklahoma Territory in 1892. May it be a resting place along the highway of time for all who pass this way. Come on in--the door's open. Sit down and rest a spell. Let's swap some stories and photographs from the treasure chest of time. Y'all come on in now, hear?
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
William Earp, young John, and Percheron
"The occasion for the picture was not fair competition...his young son John had won a ride and picture on Dad's prize horse for obediently taking medicine...This photograph was taken about statehood time...and donated by Mrs. John Earp."
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