Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "J. W. "Uncle Bill" Cross, left, has been a sheriff's deputy and constable in Seminole County since statehood and a law enforcement officer for 60 years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All fairways are watered and pro-superintendent Richard "Bud" Burney believes the course will experience its best season of growth."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Largest industry in Wewoka is Oklahoma Clothing Manufacturing, Inc., which employs more than 200. Manager of the clothing factory is Jerry Brinkley."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shaded picnic grounds are a popular attraction in Wewoka's East Side Park, which also features nine-hole golf course, shelter house, band shell and swimming pool."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Storms, Tornadoes, State, Cromwell"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When he rides with the troopers the discuss their job, family, new homes and cars."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the most beautiful municipal buildings in Oklahoma is this 24-year old buff structure at Seminole."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prominent among Seminole's business and civic leaders are Milt Phillips, publisher of the daily Seminole Producer."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Wewoka High School Principal."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Storms, tornadoes, State, Cromwell"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescue workers cover the three bodies of Cromwell family killed by the storm. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. David Brawley, Crowell and Laura Ann Brawley, 21, their daughter."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Sarah Perry ... years are rewarding. (Pioneer woman from Seminole celebrates 100th birthday. She was born in 1860 in Pickens County, Georgia, and remembers details from the Civil War)"

Photograph of a gully being shaped prior to planting bermuda grass.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Wewoka Chamber of Commerce, organized at the time of Seminole County's first oil boom in 1923, has 332 active members."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wewoka Brick & Tile Co. has operated its plant northwest of Wewoka for more than 30 years."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Broadway Street in Maud is dividing line between Seminole and Pottawatomie Counties. Maud Post Office, on left side of street, is in Seminole Co., while business buildings across street at right are in Pottawatomie County."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "White men made two significant "invasions' of what is now the Seminole County area of the Old Seminole and Creek Indian Nations. The fist of these was the 1895, the year the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway arrived, the second in July 1926, when one of the greatest oil fields in history was discovered in the vicinity of peaceful little Seminole community."

Article describes the life of Byron S. Blake, a young boy growing up in Oklahoma Territory, and his interesting recollections of attending Emahaka Academy, the Seminole girls' school in the region.