Goodwin/Shattuck, Oklahoma
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William, using his carpenter trade skills, built a wooden frame house in 1909 – about a year before the William and Martha Kirmse family moved to Alva, Oklahoma.
- WHAT: The second home of William and Martha (Cordes) Kirmse
- LEFT TO RIGHT: William Kirmse; Julius Henry Kirmse; Martha (Cordes) Kirmse; Margaretha (Meier) Cordes
- WHEN: Circa 1910
- WHERE: Near Goodwin, Ellis County, Oklahoma – 1 mile east andabout 7 miles southeast of Shattuck, Oklahoma.
- SOURCE: KIRMSE, WILHELM (WILLIAM) family biography, from “Pioneer Footprints Across Woods County 1893-1975” by the Cherokee Strip Volunteer League, 1976. p.138.
- NOTES: Note the dog in the picture – it seems to have the same markings as the dog in the Chapter: Oklahoma Harvest picture.