I worked for Bechtel at San Onofre Nuke Plant and worked for Granite here on the East Main. g On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> wrote: > As Bechtel does, so does Brown and Root. They tried to send me to China oil > fields once. Good money, but I quickly said no. The equipment might be OK > now as China has some money, but back then it was used USSR > equipment....just junk. > > don > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:36:38 PM > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > The one that seems to always bust... ;-)) No, they didn't work on the East > Main, Granite did but they may have worked on the AZ Central from the river > to Tucson.. Bechtel was also on the central canal. > > Brown & Root could have also been at Climax, the mine, in Colorado. > > g > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:32 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You mean the canal that busted and spilled a lot of water last year? > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:56:00 PM > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > Maybe I put them in the same class then as Granite.. or maybe Brown and > > Root > > were on the canal here??? > > > > g > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Head Frames? > > > > > > No, they built dams and oil refineries and pipelines mostly. > > > > > > don > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:11:30 PM > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > My son's great great grandmother was, off the top of my head, Carrie > Love > > > who was born in Thackerville. > > > > > > Brown & Root, did they build head frames? > > > > > > g > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:51 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Velma Gladys Pruitt born 1908 Thackerville, south of Ardmore, > Oklahoma > > > > > > > > Grandpa Pruitt died in Ardmore in 1917 in an accident while building > > the > > > > new courthouse. > > > > > > > > After grandpa was killed, grandma married a Love. Her marriages did > not > > > > last as she married six times. Her last husband was a Root of the > huge > > > Brown > > > > and Root Construction Company. > > > > > > > > At one time in the 1980s I worked for that company in Alaska. > > > > > > > > Small world. > > > > > > > > don > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:38:25 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > > What was your mother's name? > > > > g > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:33 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Floy Mable Beebe born 1877 Belton, MO just south of Kansas City. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:38:35 PM > > > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > > > > What was your grandmother's maiden name? > > > > > > > > > > g > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:03 PM, donkelly <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Not my grandfather Henry Pruitt apparently as he according to > > grandma > > > > was > > > > > a > > > > > > workaholic, but his Pruitt brothers and counsins were a rowdy > bunch > > > > > around > > > > > > Ardmore and locals. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > From: "Gail Kilgore" <[email protected]> > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 6:34:33 PM > > > > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > > > > > > Thackerville is Chickasaw. The Loves and Stewarts were from > > > > > Thackerville. > > > > > > Off the top of my head, but if it is not Garvin Co. it is > probably > > > > Love > > > > > > Co. > > > > > > > > > > > > g > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Billie Walsh < > [email protected] > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > For the most part whites were not allowed to "settle" in Indian > > > > > > > Territory by law. They could visit but they weren't allowed to > > live > > > > > > > there unless they had a tie to the Indians, like married to an > > > Indian > > > > > > > woman/man. The Chickasaw were one of the "Five Civilized > Tribes". > > I > > > > > > > don't know to much of the Chickasaw history, but I assume it > > > > parallels > > > > > > > the Cherokee fairly well. Probably by the late 1800's there > were > > a > > > > lot > > > > > > > of very well [ college ] educated people in the nation. About > the > > > > only > > > > > > > thing they lacked was a written language of their own. The > > Cherokee > > > > > were > > > > > > > the only ones I know of that did. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If she was born in the Chickasaw nation it's very probable she > > was > > > > > > > Chickasaw. But, there is a chance she could have been Choctaw, > > > > Cherokee > > > > > > > or any other tribe. There are instances of someone from one > > nation > > > > > > > living in another. Also many instances of, say, a Choctaw > > marrying > > > a > > > > > > > Chickasaw. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/20/2011 05:52 PM, donkelly wrote: > > > > > > > > Also of interest is the 1895 map of the area. There were an > > > > > astounding > > > > > > > number of labeled towns in the Chickasas Nation. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can I assume that most of those towns were built by Indians, > OR > > > did > > > > > the > > > > > > > Indians allow white people to come in and build the towns? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > don > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > > From: "donkelly"<[email protected]> > > > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:37:55 PM > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mom was born outside the nearest fair size town north of > Texas. > > > > That > > > > > > > would be the closest Indian territory to the border with Texas. > > Mom > > > > > > didn't > > > > > > > mention Cherokee, but she did often mention Chickasas. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > don > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > > From: "Billie Walsh"<[email protected]> > > > > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > > > > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:45:51 PM > > > > > > > > Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Henry may not have been part Indian. From my reading it's > > pretty > > > > > > obvious > > > > > > > > that by 1900 it was pretty hard to find a lot of full blood > > > > > Cherokees. > > > > > > I > > > > > > > > don't know that much about the other four "civilized tribes" > [ > > or > > > > > other > > > > > > > > nations either ], but the Cherokees were mostly mixed blood. > I > > > > > suspect > > > > > > > > it was very common by 1900 to be of mixed blood in most > > > > > tribes/nations. > > > > > > > > Remember also that during that time it was very unfashionable > > to > > > be > > > > > > > > "Indian". Many that could pass as white preferred not to > admit > > > > Indian > > > > > > > > blood. Vehemently denied it in fact. Large numbers of mixed > > > blood, > > > > as > > > > > > > > well as full blood, people denied their heritage and avoided > > the > > > > > Dawes > > > > > > > > Commission. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/20/2011 03:48 PM, donkelly wrote: > > > > > > > >> My mother Velma Gladys Pruitt was born in Oklahoma 1908 just > > > after > > > > > > > statehood. She always said it was Indian territory, and though > > > > grandma > > > > > > > Pruitt was part Indian, no evidence has been presented to show > > that > > > > her > > > > > > > husband Henry Pruitt from Kentucky was part Indian. Another > > family > > > > > > mystery. > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> don > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > >> From: "Billie Walsh"<[email protected]> > > > > > > > >> To: [email protected] > > > > > > > >> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:40:24 PM > > > > > > > >> Subject: Re: [TTTP] Learned something > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> December of 1905: > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> I recommend that Indian Territory and Oklahoma be admitted > as > > > one > > > > > > state > > > > > > > >> and that New Mexico and Arizona be admitted as one state. > > There > > > is > > > > > no > > > > > > > >> obligation upon, us to treat territorial subdivisions. of > > > > > convenience > > > > > > > >> only, as binding us on the question of admission to > statehood. > > > > > Nothing > > > > > > > >> has taken up more time in the congress during the past few > > years > > > > > than > > > > > > > >> the question as to the statehood to be granted to the four > > > > > territories > > > > > > > >> above mentioned, and after careful consideration of all that > > has > > > > > been > > > > > > > >> developed in the discussion of the question, I recommend > that > > > they > > > > > be > > > > > > > >> immediately admitted as two states. There is no > justification > > > for > > > > > > > >> further delay, and the advisability of making the four > > > territories > > > > > > into > > > > > > > >> two states has been clearly established. ---Theodore > > Roosevelt. > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> On 10/20/2011 10:55 AM, Billie Walsh wrote: > > > > > > > >>> I never knew that at the time of the debate over admitting > > > > Oklahoma > > > > > > and > > > > > > > >>> Sequoyah as separate states or a single state, there was > also > > > > talk > > > > > of > > > > > > > >>> combining Arizona and New Mexico territories as one state. > > > Seems > > > > > that > > > > > > > >>> some of the congress critters of the day thought that was a > > > good > > > > > > idea. > > > > > > > >>> Not a very popular idea back in those two territories. > > > > > > > >>> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for > > > dinner. > > > > > > > Liberty is a well-armed lamb." - 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