https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/Stone Boys Family Historyhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/994990This time it's not fracking that is doing the thrashing and the trashing. It is Tornado Season in Oklahoma and other states on up the line. Son and Family moved from Florida to Oklahoma last August so glad to be away from threats of Hurricanes and house repairs afterward. They have been in Tulsa...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993719I am celebrating my Dad's 126 th Birthday Today. Of course he is not here with me except in spirit. Who was this man called "Hursel Sanders?" Father, husband, friend,acquaintance--loved by all? Just when one thinks he/she really knows him, another facet of his character is revealed to show more...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993414Video's are coming from Tulsa via Son, who of course grew up in Missouri Winter Weather and went to Colorado for fun like tubing and skiing. The videos are of my teen grandkids who are and always have been Floridians. They were not ready for what they got.....a nearly six foot 15 year old boy...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993313Snow had never been a part of their life in Florida....all those years nary a flake.....only hurricanes. Now, their first forecast of snow and Elizabeth is losing her cool. " Oklahoma braces for record snowfall and dangerous travel as an arctic storm brings freezing temperatures, ice, and wind...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993085Part I - Coalgate, Oklahoma and the living was definitely not easy toward the end of the Great Depression.. In fact, it was downright difficult. But no use complaining, no use feelin' sorry for oneself. Papa had died of pneumonia. His funeral service was grand because he had lots of friends in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993077I never knew my Grandfather. In the winter of 1934-35 his respiratory problems increased. "In 1934, pneumonia was a significant health concern, especially due to the emerging 'Dust Pneumonia' linked to the Dust Bowl's massive dust storms, causing lung inflammation and respiratory failure." Ben...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/993052She was born in a little company-built house that followed a tent city that had sprung up for the new coal mine 40 years earlier. The coal mines had closed because of worker strikes, in the late 1920's. At one time the city had at least 65 merchants, plus carpenters, doctors, veterinarians, seven...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/992972By the end of 1929, industrial production was down by 46% and unemployment was up by 607%. Struggling during The Great Depression, the Ford Motor Company was forced to reduce the scale of their operations, to lower wages, and to lay off workers. A month after their wedding in April 1930, Hursel...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/992947During the summer and fall of 1929, Hursel and Rose were totally caught up in their happy lives, their love for each other and the plans for the wedding. They were not paying much attention to what was going on around them. Though they both had good jobs and all they needed at the moment, no big...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Sanders_Stone_Oklahoma/992934The telephone on Ben's desk in his home in Atoka, Oklahoma rang. He had to listen for the number of times it rang before lifting the receiver off the hook because it was one of those new-fangled four-party lines. Ollie peeked around the corner, always curious if it might be for her instead of for...