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©The History of Alfalfa Community Page 108 Printed in 1976 David Milt Bybee D. M. "Milt" Bybee married Mary Bizzell in 1905 at El Reno, Oklahoma. Milt had homesteaded the farm located one and one-half mile east of Alfalfa School. Henry, Gertrude and Bertha were born here. Bertha died on July 28, 1911 at Garden City, Kansas, when the family was returning home from Colorado where they had gone for Mr. Bybee's health. After the family returned to Alfalfa, Mr. Bybee died on August 1, 1912. He was buried in Alfalfa Cemetery. Milt and Mary were both active members the Alfalfa Methodist Church. Milt was a member of the I.O.O.F and Mary was a member of the Rebekah Lodge at Alfalfa. On December 2, 1912, Mrs. Bybee gave birth to twin boys, G.D. "Dutch" and G.M. "Irish." The way the Bybee twins acquired the nicknames of Dutch and Irish was from Rob Wilkinson who taught school at Alfalfa. One summer he chapped cotton for the family and the twins would get into a fuss and wrestle. Rb would say "Watch the Dutch whip the Irish" and vice versa. Therefore they have carried the nicknames for over fifty years. At the time Mr. Bybee homesteaded this land, he had a neighbor across the road east, C.J. Wilkinson and across the road south was Charles Chalk. All were bachelors and Camp Creek ran through the Chalk and Wilkinson farms, so it was nicknamed "Bachelor's Creek". The Bybee's had a large orchard of peach, cherry and apple trees. People came from miles around to buy apples by the bushels, to be stored in their dirt cellars where they would keep for months. Henry and Garland "Irish" now live near Apache, Oklahoma. Gertrude Netherton lives in Carnegie. Garnet "Dutch" lives near Cowden, Oklahoma. In 1915, a sweetheart of Mary's, Sam Brown, came back to Oklahoma from the Dakotas, and they were married in 1916. They had been sweethearts before Mary met and married Milt Bybee. Mr. Brown had remained a bachelor. Three children were born to the Browns, Malcolm who now lives in Mill Valley, California, James of Ft. Worth, Texas and Alta Mae Graham of Carnegie. The family was living at Grandpa Bizzell's when Mary and Sam Brown were married. Grandma Bizzell and the kids had gone to bed when a bunch of men came to charivari them, beating on buckets, shooting guns and making an awfully lot of noise. Gertrude was really scared and raised up off her pillow and Grandma Bizzell said "Lie down kids, the Devil is coming." Gertrude remembers going to a big home wedding at the Frank Burleson home. It was the wedding of Audie and Matt Reece. After the wedding a bountiful meal was served. In those days, these were community affairs and most families attended and took a covered dish. In the depression days the Browns left the farm, going to Tollison, Arizona where they worked a ranch. They later moved into Phoenix, Arizona. They returned to Oklahoma in 1945 and lived in Apache a few months, then moved to Carnegie and lived until their deaths. Mary passed away on November 10, 1971. Both are buried in Alfalfa Cemetery. |
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