Eugene Walter (E.W.) Flippen was the son of William Benjamin and Margarette Adeline Terrell Flippen, and the husband of Mary Audra King. E.W. and Audie were married in 1904, in Ardmore, Indian Territory, Okla. Their children were Josephine, Clifford, Ruth, Grace, Sam, Marguerite, Reba, and Eugene Walter. JR. He was the owner of the Texaco Oil Distributorship in Pauls Valley. He was a very outgoing and friendly person. His daughter, Reba said that E.W. "never met a stranger". His bio. in the Garvin Co. Indian Pioneers Papers reads, I came to the Indian Territory in 1894. I was seventeen years old and I came to the Territory to get a job on a ranch. I had been breaking wild broncs to ride for my uncle and I thought I could make more money in the Territory. I went to work for an Indian named Tar Pony. He was a Comanche and he had three squaws. He lived on Cache Creek, southwest of Fort Sill. I went to work for Tar Pony and another Comanche named Petachee. I was breaking horses to ride and I would get one horse for breaking three. I worked all winter and in the spring I would take my horses that I had earned back to Texas and sell them. The Indian police were always on the watch for anyone taking horses out of the Comanche country across Red River, but Tar Pony and Petachee would help me with my part of the horses as far as Red River and then would go back home and I would take my horses on across Red River. My father was dead and I had to make the living for my mother and seven brothers and sisters, all younger than I was. The second winter I had been working for these two Indians, I had worked hard all winter and had fifty-two horses for my part. I had done a good winter's work, so in the spring I started for Red River with my horses. I had them tied one behind the other. I had one horse`s tail tied to the other horse's head. Tar Pony went with me. This was in our agreement that he or Petachee was to help me to Red River with my part of the horses. On this trip Tar Pony helped me and when we came to a place within about five miles of Red River and I thought I was out of danger of the Indian Police, I told Tar Pony that he could start back as he had a long hard ride ahead of him. He waved good-bye to me and left. I rode about three miles on towards the river, leading my horses and as happy as I could be thinking that when I got home, I could cash out for over $1000.00, but I got fooled. Up rode the Indian Police and stopped me. They untied my fifty-two horses and gave them a scare and scattered them. After they were gone I tried to find some of my horses and out of fifty-two I got four. I was lucky to find that many, so four horses was all I got home home with out of all my winter' work, but that was the chance I had to take. That spring I loaded up what we owned and came to Pauls Valley in a wagon. I rented a house at Pauls Valley and I went to work by the day. I was getting 50 cents a day. Later I went to work for Abbott and Sparks. They were in the grain business and while working for them I have bought corn at 15 cents a bushel, oats at from 10 to 15 cents a bushel,wheat was 40 cents a bushel, hay sold at prices from $3.00 to $5.00 a ton, fat hogs have sold for 2 1/2 cents a pound. I have bought lard for 5 cents a pound. I was ranch foreman for Mr E.R. Spears. He owned a cattle ranch on the Table Mountains. We drove cattle to Pauls Valley and shipped them. I carried the mail from Pauls Valley to Erin Springs for Mr. E.P. Baker, who had the contract from the Goverment. On this mail route west of Pauls Valley, there was a place called Garvin Springs and at that time there was a store and three or four houses there, and according to old settlers, Garvin Springs used to be a camping place for wagon trains coming from the East. There were two big springs that furnished plenty of water. And in the early 80's Whitebead Hill was a small town with two or three stores. a boarding house, a blacksmith shop and a stage stand, where they changed horses. When I came to this part of the country, Whitebead was larger than Pauls Valley. I now live in Pauls Valley.