Marriage Certificate: Wesley Ditzenberger and Capatola Viola Eller

Certificate of marriage performed 4 March 1906 in Woods Co., Oklahoma Territory between Wesley Ditzenberger, white, age 26, born in Indiana, and Miss Capitola Viola Ellers, white, age 18, born in Kansas, both currently of Alva, O.T.  Officiating was Hermann B. Mayo, Presbyterian Minister.  Witnesses were J.A. Bowling and Lillie Bowling. 

Antler's Cafe, Alva, OK

The Antler’s Café, site of Harrison Eller’s crime a year earlier, Alva, OK, in 1918 after a fire. (café sign highlighted in pink.)  source: The Okie Legacy, V.11 Iss.13, 2009-03-29.

In different hours...

...a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man’s skin,—seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gravestone Photo: Mariah J. Ritter (1831-1908), McPherson Cemetery, McPherson, KS

Inscription: "Mariah J. Ritter Born Feb. 14 1831, Died Feb. 28 1908"  Mariah was the wife of William Eller (1831- 1895), and they had (at least) three children, Nick Frelow, Elias Franklin 'Frank' and Eliza Eller.

Elbert 'Lum' and Etta Groves Smith

Elbert Columbus 'Lum' Smith (1877-1943) and his wife, Etta Gertrude Groves Smith (1881-1961).

Photo: James (Jim) Monroe Groves 1844-1939

In the second photo, James is the gentleman wearing a medal he received at the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The man on the left is his brother, John (b.1857).

Photo: Sarah Jane Roop (Rupp) 1850-1926