This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xYB.2ACE/892.2 Message Board Post: I'm sure Martha copied the name from the newspaper but my Uncle Adrian (Adroian being misspelled) was known by his middle name. His wife is my deceased father's older sister, Aunt Katherine. Thank you, Martha, for so many obits. They are of people I knew as a child when growing up in Burneyville, Love County, Oklahoma and others who lived in Hicksville, Leon, Jimtown, and other places my friends lived and were schooled in Burneyville until its final year in 1958. I've recently begun wondering how and when Burney township (later named Burneyville) was established. Was it originally Fitztown?? Can anybody give me its history?? I recall the First Baptist Church and across the street on the corner is where the KINGSTON family lived. We lived behind them toward my grandpa M. M. Moore's farm near Red River. The last house in Burneyville we lived in still stands and is well cared for as of my visit there May 2002. In addition to the FBC was a post office, general store, barber shop, a concrete slab where the skating rink used to be and three little one bedroom houses across from the old FITZ hotel where Old Jim Fitz lived in the 1950's. Turning the corner to the left from the old hotel and on the right was where Dr. Looney lived and across and down the road was where his son lived. They had one daughter, Becky. There were no other houses on the road up to the school. It was Burneyville school that was first to twelvth grade until 1957 and became an integrated 1st-8th grade in 1958, the year I was the 8th grade salutatorian. Some of the people who went to school with me were Gary and Joel Hicks, Margaret Toles (valedictorian), Redmond, Harrill, Sloan, Shankles, and several others. The teachers lived in houses on the schoolgrounds, the lunchroom was a separate building and next to it was the gymnasium. Behind both sides of that were the "restrooms". The girls' restroom (outhouse) had four seats (holes). The baseball field was next to the road in front/beside the school and across the road on the corner was a little store where you could buy something for lunch if you had the money, otherwise you paid fifteen cents for lunch at the cafeteria. So many memories of Burneyville. Other people I recall knowing were the BARRICK (Frank was the county commissioner), IDELL (Cecil/Dutch was song leader at the First Bapt Ch), THOMPSON (Joe was a Marietta Judge and brother of my maternal Aunt Nancy's husband), BONE (Frankie, a soprano, and my mother sang duets in church), and TOWNSEND (Paul had a daughter named Kay) families.