Anniversary of Boren, A. B. - Beckham County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Delma Tindell 13 Sep 2009 Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Boren, A. B. (14 May 1925, Thursday, Texola Tribune, Texola, Beckham Co, OK): On May the 10, 1925, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Boren celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary with a gathering of friends and kinsmen at the Belknap bridge east of Ringgold, Texas. They had lunch on the ground, after which they were entertained by a program prepared by friends, consisting of singing, preaching, reading, and music by the Ringgold band. There were photos made of the entire groupe(sic) of kinsmen, then one made of the four generations of Borens, A. B. Boren, Lon, Cleo and Wayne, also of Mrs. A. B. Boren, Mrs. A. D. Southward, Mrs. H. Kern and Miss Fae Kern. Mr. and Mrs. Boren have seven children living, thirty one grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren. They moved to Montague county, Texas, in 1871 and built a log house on their homestead. He farmed with oxens the first year, but on account of being crippled from being shot in one of his lower limbs some years before, he had to herd cattle on the shares. At the end of five years he had a herd of his own and in 1878 he started to Arizona with twelve hundred head but never reached there, and at the end of two years he sold out and bought land around his homestead. Then he began to raising Herford cattle. He was very fond of hunting; before the Civil War he had hunted over Western Texas and Oklahoma. He served in the army under age and at the end of the war he married Miss Elizabeth Wilkerson, who was working for his grandfather, who had reared him from the age of 4, being an orphan. She was born in Iowa and her father and mother died before she was 7 and then she was reared a few years by her grandparents in Illinois. Three times before she was married she made the trip from Illinois to Texas in an ox wagon. For fifty two years they have lived on the same place and forty two in the same house. They gave one hundred and twenty acres of land, ten cows and calves as a wedding present to each of their ten children. This settled them all in one community. There they built a school and church house. Three of the children live in Oklahoma now and A. Boren in west Texas, near Texola. (Contributed.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.html