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Gloria Grade-Olson --- from Taloga,Oklahoma to Topeka, Kansas Click anywhere on the screen. Hedrick_Bland A NOTE FROM GLORIA: I copied this from "The Oakie Legacy" an e-newsletter edited by: Linda K McGill Wagner. Her mother and my mother (Gladys Hedrick Grade) were classmates. Some of her distant relatives and mine were married to one another. I wrote to Linda and sent my mother's high school graduation picture. She added it and the note I wrote to her webpage.

Seiling High School Seniors of 1936... "I found your website (Vada Paris' High School graduation) while looking for references to Chester, Oklahoma My mother graduated from Seiling High School in 1936 with your mother. My mother's name was Gladys Hedrick.

Her parents were George and Susie Hedrick. She grew up on a farm north of Chester (Oklahoma). She had two brothers, Clyde and Doyle. A cousin, Pat Coursey, also grew up in the home. My mother married my father, Emil Grade, of Taloga, in 1941. Both of my parents died in 1995. I grew up in Taloga but have lived in Topeka Kansas since 1965. Cecil Condreay was my mother's first cousin and also graduated with the 1936 class. I think the Bland girl in the class was also my mother's cousin. Susie Hedrick's maiden name was "Bland." I am sending my mother's high school graduation picture here. -- Gloria -

GLADYS MARIE HEDRICK GRADE

MUCH OF THE INFORMATION INCLUDED HERE CAME FROM A GENEALOGY COMPLETED BY ORA ELLEN DOYLE IN 1966 ENTITLED "OUR LOGAN HISTORY." HEDRICK FAMILY HISTORY
HEDRICK FAMILY HISTORY
Tradition has it that six Logan brothers came to America from Scotland and landed on the shores of Virginia. they separated and went their separate ways. due to the lack of communications they lost track of one another. However we know one David M. Logan settled in Tennessee, married and raised a family.
For generations before any of them came to America, they had been plain people in Ireland, accustomed to rely upon themselves for their individual respectability as well as for the means of subsistence, and were sturdily independent. Their tradition is that their ancestor was a Presbyterian who fled from Ayrshire to escape the persecutions of John Grahame, the Bloody Claverhouse, and. with others of his name and kindred, found shelter and refuge among the protestant plantations in the North of Ireland. Urugan was the locality of his home. In the following years, descendants of this one found their way to Pennsylvania, whose Colonial treasurer, James Logan, for whom the Mingo Chief was named was, in no distant degree, their kinsman. To of these, James and David Logan, soom left Pennsylvania and settled in Augusta County. They were very nearly related; it is believed that they were brothers. They were both young when they went to Virginia, and both were soldiers in the French and Indian Wars: their names appear upon the official lists. James settled near the new Providence Church, in what is now Rockbridge County.
David Logan, the other of these two emigrant brothers married when young , in Pennsylvania. He probably went to Virginia early in 1740. (to be continued)

THE GEORGE AND SUSIE HEDRICK FAMILY
Pat Coursey, Doyle Hedrick, Susie and George Hedrick, Clyde Hedrick, Gladys Grade

MY HEDRICK COUSINS ABOUT 1951
Left to Right: Terry Grade, Keith Hedrick, Gloria Grade, Patricia Hedrick, Cheryl Hedrick, Mickey Hedrick, Lanny Grade

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