Seventh Generation

502. Ruth May Bryan¹⁰⁵. Birth: 18 October 1902, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Death: 10 March 1996, age 93, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Burial: Vernon Cemetery, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. BIOGRAPHY: [Donna Wood Taylor.FTW]
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The Bryan's were a jolly and happy family. Ruth Bryan Hughes was no different. She was no one to trifle with, however, when she gave us kids a direct order. But she had a wonderful infectious laugh which I can hear in my mind today. She had a crooked finger which she had caught in an electric mixer in her early married life. Her fried chicken was some of the best in the country. She was a very hard worker all her life, as most farmer's wives are. She was a great cook, gardener, housekeeper, dairy helper, field hand, nursemaid, hostess, canner of foods and vegetables and loved to fish. (Author - Donna Wood - niece).
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Ruth May Bryan and Oscar Curtis Hughes Marriage: 10 August 1921, Oklahoma.

Oscar Curtis Hughes¹⁰⁵. Birth: 2 March 1895, Muldrow, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Death: 10 July 1980, age 85, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. Burial: Vernon Cemetery, Coweta, Wagoner County, Oklahoma. BIOGRAPHY: [Donna Wood Taylor.FTW]
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Oscar was a farmer all his life. His father, James Henry Hughes, came from Boone County, Arkansas. Oscar married Ruth May Bryan and her brother Fred Jennings Bryan married Oscar's sister, Rena Belle Hughes. Oscar and Ruth and their seven children operated a farm and a dairy on the James Henry Hughes farm which is south and east of Coweta, just south of Highway 51B. He received an award and trip one year for his prize winning corn crop.
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The Hughes home was the site in the late 1940's and 1950's of many large and happy family gatherings. July 4th celebrations were of special note. Home-made ice cream, cakes of all sorts and fried chicken with all the trimmings were a delight for the children and adults as well. There was a huge cedar tree in the front yard of the Oscar Hughes home. The limbs were just perfect climbing rungs for the children to perch upon - sometimes there would be perhaps a dozen kids playing in that one giant tree. Sadly for the whole family, the original Oscar Hughes home was excavated by grandson Randy Swartwood when he built a lovely two story home on the site; however, the cedar tree still stands and was in wonderful health the last time I visited in 1997.

Military-Service: Served in WII in the Army.

Ruth May Bryan-42055 and Oscar Curtis Hughes-42066 had the following children: