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From contributor Edith Guynes Stanley #47114458---
SKELLYTOWN - (HC) - Word has been received here of the recent death of Winfield Maltby, pioneer resident of Phillips and Borger. Maltby was 86 years of age at the time of his death in a Pawnee, Okla. hospital. Funeral services were conducted in the Mannford, Oklahoma Church of Christ. Burial was in Cleveland, Okla.
Few pioneers have helped to tame as many frontiers as had Win Maltby.
In 1879 he left New York State at the age of ten, driving a team and covered wagon behind his father's wagon to Nemaha county, Kansas, taking a month and a half to make the trip.
In 1889 he rode a buckskin horse in the race for land in the Cherokee Strip, only to find he had filed on school land. He was married in 1894 to Mina Carrie Jane Henry in Wabaunsee, Kansas. In 1896, they left in a prairie schooner for Monte Vista, Colo. His wife's health failed and they returned to Kansas.
In 1900 he went to Roger Mills county, Okla., where he filed on a claim in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian land opening for homesteads. There he helped organize the school district and assisted in building a school in his community. In 1907 his wife died, leaving him three small children. He farmed and drove freight teams, hauling supplies from the nearest railroad at Weatherford and Elk City.
Suffering one reversal after another, he decided to hitch hike to the Oklahoma oil fields near Cleveland. He went to work for Skelly Oil Co. and in 1926 the corporation sent him to Burkburnett. He married Mrs. Bessie Settle of Cleveland in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Maltby were among the first to arrive in Borger, where he was employed by Skelly Oil Company at the plant in Whittenburg. They lived there a number of years, later moving to Skellytown.
Maltby had retired when World War Two broke out, but he went back to work in the capacity of night watchman. Following his second retirement, he bought a home in Mannford, Oklahoma, where he lived at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Bessie Maltby; two daughters and a stepson, Claud Maltby.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 6, 1955)
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From contributor Edith Guynes Stanley #47114458---
SKELLYTOWN - (HC) - Word has been received here of the recent death of Winfield Maltby, pioneer resident of Phillips and Borger. Maltby was 86 years of age at the time of his death in a Pawnee, Okla. hospital. Funeral services were conducted in the Mannford, Oklahoma Church of Christ. Burial was in Cleveland, Okla.
Few pioneers have helped to tame as many frontiers as had Win Maltby.
In 1879 he left New York State at the age of ten, driving a team and covered wagon behind his father's wagon to Nemaha county, Kansas, taking a month and a half to make the trip.
In 1889 he rode a buckskin horse in the race for land in the Cherokee Strip, only to find he had filed on school land. He was married in 1894 to Mina Carrie Jane Henry in Wabaunsee, Kansas. In 1896, they left in a prairie schooner for Monte Vista, Colo. His wife's health failed and they returned to Kansas.
In 1900 he went to Roger Mills county, Okla., where he filed on a claim in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian land opening for homesteads. There he helped organize the school district and assisted in building a school in his community. In 1907 his wife died, leaving him three small children. He farmed and drove freight teams, hauling supplies from the nearest railroad at Weatherford and Elk City.
Suffering one reversal after another, he decided to hitch hike to the Oklahoma oil fields near Cleveland. He went to work for Skelly Oil Co. and in 1926 the corporation sent him to Burkburnett. He married Mrs. Bessie Settle of Cleveland in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Maltby were among the first to arrive in Borger, where he was employed by Skelly Oil Company at the plant in Whittenburg. They lived there a number of years, later moving to Skellytown.
Maltby had retired when World War Two broke out, but he went back to work in the capacity of night watchman. Following his second retirement, he bought a home in Mannford, Oklahoma, where he lived at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Bessie Maltby; two daughters and a stepson, Claud Maltby.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 6, 1955)
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From contributor Edith Guynes Stanley #47114458---
SKELLYTOWN - (HC) - Word has been received here of the recent death of Winfield Maltby, pioneer resident of Phillips and Borger. Maltby was 86 years of age at the time of his death in a Pawnee, Okla. hospital. Funeral services were conducted in the Mannford, Oklahoma Church of Christ. Burial was in Cleveland, Okla.
Few pioneers have helped to tame as many frontiers as had Win Maltby.
In 1879 he left New York State at the age of ten, driving a team and covered wagon behind his father's wagon to Nemaha county, Kansas, taking a month and a half to make the trip.
In 1889 he rode a buckskin horse in the race for land in the Cherokee Strip, only to find he had filed on school land. He was married in 1894 to Mina Carrie Jane Henry in Wabaunsee, Kansas. In 1896, they left in a prairie schooner for Monte Vista, Colo. His wife's health failed and they returned to Kansas.
In 1900 he went to Roger Mills county, Okla., where he filed on a claim in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian land opening for homesteads. There he helped organize the school district and assisted in building a school in his community. In 1907 his wife died, leaving him three small children. He farmed and drove freight teams, hauling supplies from the nearest railroad at Weatherford and Elk City.
Suffering one reversal after another, he decided to hitch hike to the Oklahoma oil fields near Cleveland. He went to work for Skelly Oil Co. and in 1926 the corporation sent him to Burkburnett. He married Mrs. Bessie Settle of Cleveland in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Maltby were among the first to arrive in Borger, where he was employed by Skelly Oil Company at the plant in Whittenburg. They lived there a number of years, later moving to Skellytown.
Maltby had retired when World War Two broke out, but he went back to work in the capacity of night watchman. Following his second retirement, he bought a home in Mannford, Oklahoma, where he lived at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Bessie Maltby; two daughters and a stepson, Claud Maltby.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 6, 1955)
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From contributor Edith Guynes Stanley #47114458---
SKELLYTOWN - (HC) - Word has been received here of the recent death of Winfield Maltby, pioneer resident of Phillips and Borger. Maltby was 86 years of age at the time of his death in a Pawnee, Okla. hospital. Funeral services were conducted in the Mannford, Oklahoma Church of Christ. Burial was in Cleveland, Okla.
Few pioneers have helped to tame as many frontiers as had Win Maltby.
In 1879 he left New York State at the age of ten, driving a team and covered wagon behind his father's wagon to Nemaha county, Kansas, taking a month and a half to make the trip.
In 1889 he rode a buckskin horse in the race for land in the Cherokee Strip, only to find he had filed on school land. He was married in 1894 to Mina Carrie Jane Henry in Wabaunsee, Kansas. In 1896, they left in a prairie schooner for Monte Vista, Colo. His wife's health failed and they returned to Kansas.
In 1900 he went to Roger Mills county, Okla., where he filed on a claim in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian land opening for homesteads. There he helped organize the school district and assisted in building a school in his community. In 1907 his wife died, leaving him three small children. He farmed and drove freight teams, hauling supplies from the nearest railroad at Weatherford and Elk City.
Suffering one reversal after another, he decided to hitch hike to the Oklahoma oil fields near Cleveland. He went to work for Skelly Oil Co. and in 1926 the corporation sent him to Burkburnett. He married Mrs. Bessie Settle of Cleveland in 1922. Mr. and Mrs. Maltby were among the first to arrive in Borger, where he was employed by Skelly Oil Company at the plant in Whittenburg. They lived there a number of years, later moving to Skellytown.
Maltby had retired when World War Two broke out, but he went back to work in the capacity of night watchman. Following his second retirement, he bought a home in Mannford, Oklahoma, where he lived at the time of his death. He is survived by his widow, Bessie Maltby; two daughters and a stepson, Claud Maltby.
(Published in Borger News Herald, September 6, 1955)
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