The Journal-Record - Bicentennial Edition Thursday, July 1, 1976 Section A, Page 3 R. K. SHIREY A WINFIELD FIRST R. K. SHIREY was born about four and one-half miles northwest of Winfield in 1875, on a three-hundred-acre farm. His parents were Reuben SHIREY and Emetine ADKINS SHIREY. Dr. SHIREY and his parents moved to Winfield in 1897, and he had attended school near the place of his birth and then in Winfield, and studied for two years at the old Agricultural School in Hamilton, and returned to teach school for a short time in the school near his birthplace. He worked for three and a half years in a General Store in Winfield, then went to Mineola, Texas and worked in two stores there for a period of approximately two years. Dr. SHIREY was married to Nannie R. OLDEN(sic), the daughter of H. P. ODEN, who was agent for the Frisco Railroad in Winfield, for a good many years, in 1902, and returned to Winfield in 1904 and entered the drug business, the business he has continued to the present time, the business now being ODEN-SHIREY Drug Company. Dr. SHIREY has been an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winfield, for more than fifty years, serving in official capacity during many of these years.