Interview with Jolma Bob Frensley  - Grady County OK 
	
Sandi Carter        SandKatC@aol.com            9 Sep 2000
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INTERVIEW # 8046

FRENSLEY, JOLMA BOB

Warren D. Morse
Interviewer
July 23, 1937

Interview with Jolma Bob Frensley
Duncan, Oklahoma

I was working for Mr. Young one time and we kept missing our horses and I 
lost mine, also.  I trailed these toward Anadarko and found them.  Caddo 
Joe, an Indian, had stolen them and was nearly to Anadarko when I caught 
him.

This land was Indian patrolled but if we ever lost any stock we hardly 
ever got it back.

The first settlement was around Jim Doak’s store.  He came here in 1881 
and started a store in ‘84.  Mr. Morton built the first house.  I bought 
the store later and moved it upon the hill from where it used to be at 
the curve on Oklahoma highway #22.

Mr. J. R. Snow had an old log house which he built in 1889.

All that country in here was “Pickens County” before statehood.

Others who helped in settling this country were Henry Tussey, Joe Fiddler, 
Jim Fitzpatrick and Jim and Dick Forsythe.

Most settlements grew on the Chisholm Trail; Tucker, Duncan store and 
Marlow cabin.

These settlements were close because they had to stop cattle for water 
and rest and at each stop a store was started.

Submitted by Sandi Carter
Great granddaughter of James Albert “Jim” Fitzpatrick, Sr.