Notes:

Dan was a farmer, oil field worker, and bootlegger. Rosa said he was a very strong man, once stealing a good size calf from a man who refused to pay a debt and running with the calf over his sholder most of the way from Wewoka.

Trix tells a story of Dan at a local dance, the sort that neighbors rotated among their homes. Dan was playing fiddle and was ready to leave at some point that was too early for one of the other partygoers. They went outside to fight. The other man grabbed an ax and chopped Dan in the back. The ax stuck, Dan pulled it out and then chopped the man's legs off.

Dan and Rosa's first house at Letha was a 12x24 ft. red wooden house. Their previous place was just off the road to Wewoka Lake.

Dan was wealthy during the bootleg years. Prince remembers as a small boy playing in a tunk full of money. Prince remembers that Dan had more than 20 stills in the Kiamishi Mountains and at least that number of drivers.

A partner of Dan was Red McBride.

Dan built a large wooden house that burned. He built a new stone home in the same location and also put up a stone barn.

After Dan's health went, the family was broke. His wife, Rosa kept up the liquor sales for a time, but couldn't manage it for long. She remarried Bill Clifton, who had managed the business for Dan after Dan was sick. Bill couldn't manage it either and also drank quite a lot, so they were divorced.

Dan was drinking "Jake" whiskey with a man named Rice, another named R.T. Harbor, Woody Woodward, and Sheriff Sims. Rice, Harbor, and Sims got what was called Jake Leg from a poison in the whiskey, Sims was called Jake Sims thereafter.

Dan built a large brick mansion next to the stone house just before his health broke. A local teacher, Ethyl Miller, rented a room in the house during that time. School board did not object to a teacher renting from a bootlegger because board supt. was one of Dan's whiskey customers. Ethyl now lives on her family's place near Antlers, OK near a small town named Finley. She had no furniture so Dan bought her $10,000 worth of furniture, including a piano which Ethyl's sister Mabel used to teach Edna.

Edna says Dan died of pellagra, (from eating too much corn?). Rosa said consumption.

The last 3 or 4 years of his life he had stomach ulcers and was only able to eat raw oysters. These were imported from New Orleans. It was due to his health that Dan surrrendered to the law and was sent to Leavenworth. It is said that he believed he would get better health care there than in Seminole.

Many important politicians, including the Governor, were frequent guests and drinking buddies with Dan, so it is entirely possible that Dan did have, as the family story has it, the option of going to jail or not.

It is said that Dan and John pulled a few jobs with Pretty Boy Floyd. They were going to rob one of the big county dances and the old man at the door told Dan that he knew who he was and he had better go home. Sos they left empty handed that night.

It is also said that Al Capone, sent a man down to take over Dan's bootlegging business. The man made friends with Dan's right had man to whom he told his plans. So Dan's friend went and told him what this fellow planned to do. So Dan had them come and eat breakfast and said to this fellow, "You have been here long enough now. I will show you where all of my stills are." which is what the man had been waiting for. They say a big smile came upon this man's face at this time. As they left the house that morning, Dan took Rosa aside and said one one of us will be back! About a week later Rosa was going to wash Dan's overcoat, and found a bullet hole in the pocket. The man from Chicago was never seen again.
Dan was a farmer, oil field worker, and bootlegger. Rosa said he was a very strong man, once stealing a good size calf from a man who refused to pay a debt and running with the calf over his sholder most of the way from Wewoka.

Trix tells a story of Dan at a local dance, the sort that neighbors rotated among their homes. Dan was playing fiddle and was ready to leave at some point that was too early for one of the other partygoers. They went outside to fight. The other man grabbed an ax and chopped Dan in the back. The ax stuck, Dan pulled it out and then chopped the man's legs off.

Dan and Rosa's first house at Letha was a 12x24 ft. red wooden house. Their previous place was just off the road to Wewoka Lake.

Dan was wealthy during the bootleg years. Prince remembers as a small boy playing in a tunk full of money. Prince remembers that Dan had more than 20 stills in the Kiamishi Mountains and at least that number of drivers.

A partner of Dan was Red McBride.

Dan built a large wooden house that burned. He built a new stone home in the same location and also put up a stone barn.

After Dan's health went, the family was broke. His wife, Rosa kept up the liquor sales for a time, but couldn't manage it for long. She remarried Bill Clifton, who had managed the business for Dan after Dan was sick. Bill couldn't manage it either and also drank quite a lot, so they were divorced.

Dan was drinking "Jake" whiskey with a man named Rice, another named R.T. Harbor, Woody Woodward, and Sheriff Sims. Rice, Harbor, and Sims got what was called Jake Leg from a poison in the whiskey, Sims was called Jake Sims thereafter.

Dan built a large brick mansion next to the stone house just before his health broke. A local teacher, Ethyl Miller, rented a room in the house during that time. School board did not object to a teacher renting from a bootlegger because board supt. was one of Dan's whiskey customers. Ethyl now lives on her family's place near Antlers, OK near a small town named Finley. She had no furniture so Dan bought her $10,000 worth of furniture, including a piano which Ethyl's sister Mabel used to teach Edna.

Edna says Dan died of pellagra, (from eating too much corn?). Rosa said consumption.

The last 3 or 4 years of his life he had stomach ulcers and was only able to eat raw oysters. These were imported from New Orleans. It was due to his health that Dan surrrendered to the law and was sent to Leavenworth. It is said that he believed he would get better health care there than in Seminole.

Many important politicians, including the Governor, were frequent guests and drinking buddies with Dan, so it is entirely possible that Dan did have, as the family story has it, the option of going to jail or not.

It is said that Dan and John pulled a few jobs with Pretty Boy Floyd. They were going to rob one of the big county dances and the old man at the door told Dan that he knew who he was and he had better go home. Sos they left empty handed that night.

It is also said that Al Capone, sent a man down to take over Dan's bootlegging business. The man made friends with Dan's right had man to whom he told his plans. So Dan's friend went and told him what this fellow planned to do. So Dan had them come and eat breakfast and said to this fellow, "You have been here long enough now. I will show you where all of my stills are." which is what the man had been waiting for. They say a big smile came upon this man's face at this time. As they left the house that morning, Dan took Rosa aside and said one one of us will be back! About a week later Rosa was going to wash Dan's overcoat, and found a bullet hole in the pocket. The man from Chicago was never seen again.

Dan married Rosa Bell Chatagnier on 25 Jan 1916 in Houston, Harris, Texas. Rosa was born on 12 Mar 1901 in Abbyville, Louisiana; died on 13 Oct 1961 in Seminole, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Andrew helped his father with driving bootleg whiskey as a child. Chemistry major at the University of Oklahoma. He was an Air Force Colonel, WW II Ace, Pacific Theater. Commander of Dew Line. In later life enjoyed remodeling houses in which he lived. See story in Reader's Digest December 1942, page 3-9 "The Fighters at Humpty Doo" by Lucien Hubbard, copyright 1942, Air Facts, 30 Rockeffer Plaze NYC. Airfacts the Magazine for Pilots, November 42. Biography in "These Men Shall Never Die" by Lowell Thomas

Andrew married Grayce Mary Kanne on 30 Nov 1939. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Joyce Robinson on 1 Mar 1975 in Wichita Falls, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Decker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Rogers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: L. C. Gourley. L. was born on 2 May 1919; died on 25 Jan 1976. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cpl. in Marines at Mohave in WW II, met Sgt. Mary Plowman in service and married her. Occupation: General Contractor, housebuilder, highly skilled woodworker and house designer.

Family/Spouse: Living Plowman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dorothy M. Stanistreet. Dorothy was born in in Dublin, Irland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Scoggins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Dailey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Alter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Shugar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Tina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Cross. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Self. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Sullivan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gold sales, magazine publisher, loan officer for General Powers, personnel director. Loves to fish, hates to eat fish, loves horses. Has travel Agency with 2nd husbands 3rd wife as partner. Lived in Monarch Bay, California.

Family/Spouse: Chuck Garrison. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Noyes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Brison. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Norman. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living Pallas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]