(Image above is of a postcard sent by Lon S. Burnam to his parents when he was six years old. It was the inspiration for this site.)
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 lived in Brown Co. There were Indian raids there at least once a month. For safety purposes, they would move into one house with three other families, and would not have light in the house at night. | spent many hours fishing in Wanderer's Creek, a small year-round stream located just west of Chillicothe. He was a great fisherman and an expert at cleaning them. Great tasting catfish was their reward. | |
 snare drums in the school band. She was voted Chillicothe Band Sweetheart. | inspector for the railroad. After inspecting a boxcar, Lon would draw a bird on it using chalk. | |
Little Bill THOMPSON made a mechanical toy for Earl Henry BURNAM to try to keep him quiet. The toy was made of wood and wire. It was about a foot long and had three wheels. The two back wheels had an axle neatly bent to accommodate a wire attached to a little wooden man toward the front, and made him oscillate back and forth. All Earl H. had to do was pull it.
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Job DAVIES immigrated from | in Beasely Caves and found an albino plant near an underground spring so deep in the earth no one had ever been there before. He skinny-dipped with water moccasins in the pond at the old quarry and saw a white wolf sitting high up on the quarry cliff next to a full moon, as he was sitting around the campfire telling ghost stories. David tracked mountain lions in the Cedar Flats on Pease River. |
Minerva Ann TUNE was hauling water near Avis, NM. The horse team was spooked when they stopped to open a gate. Minerva was thrown out of and under the wagon. She died from injuries shortly after. 
James Reno Walker, spouse of Mary Ida Bonine Walker, was the first draftee of World War. He reported for service and although he had been a member of the state militia previously, he was rejected due to physical disabilities.
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| to Florence Nightingale. | factor in establishing the library in Hayden, Arizona. |
 David James PHIPPS, could hardly agree on anything whilst growing up. One such disagreement occurred in the middle of a lake on a canoe. It seems they were arguing over who was going to sit on which end of the canoe. They stood up in the canoe, continued arguing and proceeded to exchange seating. What is amazing is that they did this with such ease, they didn't even overturn the canoe. Dad even put this on his 8mm camera for all posterity. grinz |  Lynette's ten year old daughter, Aislon BURNAM- SHEETS, needed to have her right ear irrigated. Whilst waiting for the doctor to begin, Aislon asked, "Will the water come out my other ear?" The doctor 'swiftly' replied, "Oh--yes--will you please use your finger to plug it?" Aislon quickly put her finger in her left ear. :D |
 the farms and ranches from the age of ten so he'd be able to go to school. He'd get up early and do morning chores, go to school, come home and work late. Then he would work on Saturdays. This is the way he earned his room and board and went to school. |  young, his 'best friend' suddenly said, "I think I'm gonna cut your nose off", and proceeded to pick up an axe and brought it down upon young Lon's nose. Lon's nose carried a reminder of his best friend in the scar, which the axe had left. |
 a small flat bed truck one day when he was young. He was sitting at the back with his feet hanging off. He tells this story: "The truck was going so slow that I knew that I could jump off and run catch it and get back on. I decided to do it. I stood up to do it. When you jump from a moving base, directly away from the direction of movement, things don't work out the way you might think. They said I was spinning around on my head in the road. When I came to, Mother said I had stood up like I was trying to come up behind the cab when I fell off the back. Sounded logical to me, so I never had the nerve to tell her that I jumped until many years later." | fell off the car's running board in Mangum, OK and bonked his head. Edna Florene BURNAM saw her baby brother, Earl Henry BURNAM, in the deep end of the swimming pool at Chillicothe. He was hanging onto the sides. Edna went running and slipped on the wet cement. She bonked her head and was knocked out for a while. When Gaye Lynette BURNAM was about 3 years old, the family was at a Knights of Pythias dinner. The children were running around the whole dining area and outdoors. Lynette ran into the door facing as she rounded the corner, hitting her forehead. The next she remembers is waking up and staring at the stars. (She was lying down in the backseat of the car, as her parents rushed her to the doctors for stitches.) |
 when the frost was on the ground, Pearl JOHNSON was out by the wood pile. Henry hadn't started chopping the wood yet. He dared Pearl to stick her tongue to the metal axe head. Pearl didn't want to be chicken, so she put her tongue to it. Pearl started exclaiming, "Y na u u u", as her tongue stuck fast to the axe. They had to pour warm water on the axe until things thawed out and the tongue came unstuck. | say, "The girls in Texas bathed in Sweetwater, dressed in Plainview, and the boys went to Seymore." (All are towns in Texas.) He also told Jerry and Carol they "shouldn't go jeep riding whilst Carol was expecting because they'd 'knock the ____ off his grandson'. Lon must've been right about that, as his grand- daughter, Traci, was born soon after. :)  |
Louise BONINE enjoyed square dancing.  |    Louise BURNAM, and Tiffany Marie BURNAM were all foreign exchange students in South America. |
BURNAM-SHEETS raised over $2000.00 to aide the victims of the Oklahoma Bombing. |  struck by lighting whilst resting under a tree. He lived to tell about it, but his hair had a white streak where the lightning had hit. |
 plans for the road system of Lubbock TEXAS. There is a main road which circles the city. All other roads lead to and come off of this main road. Many other towns have taken this idea to heart. |  Charles PHIPPS was known as "Bossy Boots" at a very early age. I also have it on good authority that Jonathan was found climbing through the coal bunker. His mum, not wanting to get her nice clean house covered in soot, stripped him naked and proceeded to wash him down with the hose. Needless to say, Jonathan was a bit em'bare-assed'. hehehehe |
 (One might even say they are a bit 'hard headed'. :) |
Gaye Lynette BURNAM was an educator, or as she liked to say, a tamer of dangerous minds. She feels that even more strongly now after she was battered by one of her students which caused her to retire early. |
Nanaimo had an earthquake in 2001. At the time, Gaye Lynette BURNAM
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A story which Sonya Wilson shared about her great grandmother, Mary Walker: |
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My father, Roy King, (eldest son of 9 boys, 5 lived) of Annie Ada (Bonine) & Robert E King talked about an uncle Will Bonine that I believe was an Angora goat rancher in New Mexico or Ariz. Synthia Anderson had a brother Reese Anderson who was a Texas Ranger,for about 20 to 25 years. He had a son Aren. Some of the Bonine's went to White Sulphur, Montana, I believe. The book "A History of Crosby County, Texas" published in 1952. Has some information in it. I can remember my grandmother & great Aunt Lena Bonine talking about information for this book. John Warren Bonine was a Confederate soldier, serving 4 years under General Sterling Price. His father was a Union soldier from what I have in notes. John Warren Bonine's cattle brand BO9. Thought this might interest you. |
| Interesting fact from Jerilyn: We have been watching the PBS program Michael Wood's History of England and he talks about the invaders. The name Kettle means sacrificial cauldron and comes from the Viking Invaders who raided England several times during the Middle Ages. Some time in there, the people had to take a last name and our relatives took the name Kettle. So we are related to the Norse. And of course, Davies is a Welsh name--Celtic! |