Monday, August 3, 2015
6. The Confrontation
"I love to watch how the day, tired as it is, lags away reluctantly, and hates to be called yesterday so soon." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne House of the Seven Gables 1851 Mary Wyrick Simpson thought her Grandmother Etter was exaggerating when she said, "Don't ever come here again. You are dead to us." A...
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Sunday, August 2, 2015
5. Continuing Saga
Etterville, a tiny village in the Ozark Mountain wilderness of Missouri looked promising to John Simpson. It was named after the Etter family, and everyone in it was named Etter, or married to one, or the progeny of one. There was one really big house that needed painting and repair and upkeep. In...
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Saturday, August 1, 2015
4. No End To Prejudice
As the grandson of a chief of one of the many Algonkian-speaking nations who called the Great Lakes woodlands home, John Simpson was taught the importance of his home, his family, hunting and farming. He worked hard and became a man in his own eyes early on. But always in his mind was the other...
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Friday, July 31, 2015
3. The Métis
Disclaimer: Even though our family has always accepted this information as the word-of-mouth history of my Dad's Oklahoma family, there is very little to prove anything legally. My dad kept hand written journals, names and dates in the family Bible, photos most of which are faded. Best of all we...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015
2. Simpson
The last time I visited my old Auntie Edith in her home in Yukon, Oklahoma, around 1990, I was totally shocked to find an oil-drilling rig working away in her back yard, not many feet from her back door. I'd never seen that before at her home, and my cousins had not shared the information. In fact,...
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