Monogrammed Brick Stories
Brick: George, A. E., Maud
Contributed by Burnis George Argo
In 1900 my paternal grandfather, Absalom E. George, a young Quaker man, left NE Kansas for the Osage where he was sent by an employer to be foreman of a ranch until a new foreman was found. He liked the country there so well he stayed on and when he went back to Kansas and married Maud Farrar. In December of 1905, he brought his new bride to land he had rented on Little Beaver Creek in the Osage. In 1909, the family moved across the Arkansas River to Kay County and the little town of Kaw City where they bought a farm just outside of town along the river. This brick honors them and their son, Preston George, my father, and his brother, Elvin, who died at age 3.
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In 2012 the Oklahoma Historical Society invited those who purchased one of the monogrammed bricks paving the Red River Journey at the Oklahoma History Center to share about the person or group their brick honors. Below is a list of those who submitted stories and the message shown on their brick. Use the links below to read the contributed story.
This project was made possible by a generous donation from Catherine B. Wootten.
