Letter to Carolyn Foreman from S. W. Robertson regarding a walnut tree and cemetery Page: 1 of 2
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I
Deer Mrs, Foreman: —
We children
shade of that
I have already sent the above information
more briefly to sister who may relay it to you.
Sincerely,
the front gate driven to market in St.Louis, I think,
were often confined to the front yard and sat in the
Santa Barbara, Calif.,
October 4, T 22 •
Sister Gusta inclosed in a recent letter to me, y
3 our note inquiring about the grave of Miss Thompson and the walnut
tree that stood in front of the old Tullahassee building.
She has probably told you already that Miss Thompson was buried in
the little Park Hill enclosure.
There was a cemetery where several pupils and
others were buried, a mile or so to the north-west on a point where
two water courses came together about 2 mile from the McIntosh place
and almost directly west from it.
day of the week to us.
tree on Sunday afternoons, Sunday, you know, was always the longest
I have all kinds of pleasant memories connected with the walnut
tree, to climb which was one of the stunts of my childhood days, My
initials were carved near its top. My recollections as to its being
there are that .father dug it up down in the Arkansas River bottom and
he himself set it out where it grew up. How good the walnuts were’.
The little ones that fell off before maturity, we gathered and used as
cattle in imitation of the herds of Texas cattle that used to pass by
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Robertson, S. W. Letter to Carolyn Foreman from S. W. Robertson regarding a walnut tree and cemetery, letter, October 4, 1932; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1873059/m1/1/: accessed May 15, 2025), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.