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© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma March 3, 1937 April 7, 1860 ~ February 25, 1937 Services Held Saturday For Mrs. M.M. Sinclair Mrs. Mary M. Sinclair, a pioneer resident of the Alfalfa community, passed away February 25, 1937 at the home of her son, Walter W. Sinclair. She was born at West Bridgewater, Penn. April 7, 1860 and was the youngest of a family of four children. She was married to William H. Sinclair and to this union were born two children. The older child, a daughter, Zelia, died at the age of seven at Marion, Indiana. The younger child, a son, Walter W. Sinclair, is now a resident of Tulsa. The husband preceded Mother Sinclair in death and is buried in the Alfalfa cemetery. She leaves behind two sisters, Mrs. Kate Cummings of Philadelphia; and Mrs. Louise Haffley of West Bridgewater, Penn; a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Sinclair, and four grandchildren, Mrs. B.W. Recker, and Grace, Allen and Marion Sinclair. Mother Sinclair led a very active life until her health failed her. For the past several years she has suffered severely from a broken hip and rheumatism, yet, thru all her suffering, she never failed to greet those whom she met with a smile and pleasant words. She has gone but her words of wisdom and cheerfulness shall not take flight from those to whom she was so dear. She had lived in the Alfalfa community 36 years. Burial was made Saturday afternoon following funeral services in the Baptist church conducted by Rev. Howard Davis, pastor of the Alfalfa Methodist church. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma February 18, 1987 December 28, 1884 ~ February 17, 1987 Living alone at ninety-seven is not for everyone, but Walter W. Sinclair much prefers such a life; especially when his is near his son Allen and wife. They can provide cleaning, laundry and some food on a tray; but he can handle most cooking, and even build both a summer and winter house for his dog. William H. and Mary M. Sinclair were living in Belleaire, Ohio, when their only son Walter was born on December 28, 1884. His sister, three years older, died when he was four years old; thus he grew up as an only child. The father worked in a glass factory in various places including Belleaire, Chicago, Marion, Ind., Alton, Ill. and St. Louis. From there he moved to Sheridan County, Kansas where he worked as a carpenter in several of the small towns. Young Walter had begun his education in a kindergarten in Marion, and continued wherever the family lived. He spent four years in the schools at Sequin, Kansas, before the three moved by covered wagon to Enid, Okla. When Mr. Sinclair entered the land drawing at El Reno. His number was 4953 which entitled him to a farm eleven miles north of present Carnegie, the east eighty of which is the present home of his oldest daughter, Rachel Recker. The school which was first held in a tent, and called Caddo Valley, was taught by William Sinclair. This was where Walter received his last formal education. Shortly after his marriage to Nellie Bennett, his parents left for Penn. where his mother's family lived. Later they traveled to Oregon and other places before returning to Alfalfa where the father died in 1913. Since Walter was not a farmer by inclination, he spent his days working with all kinds of machinery. He drilled wells for homes and businesses. He was in the fields at threshing time running a machine, or in the broomcorn crops running a seeder. While the family lived on the home place he moved about from Colony, to any nearby place he was needed to carry on his work. Here were born the four oldest children, Rachel and Grace, now in California; Allen of Carnegie, and Marion of Weleetka. Bill arrived after the family was living in Tulsa. It is no wonder that with his interest in machinery of all kinds that he had the first automobile hereabouts, a Ford C which cost less than $400.00. Later came the first 4-cylinder Chevrolet, the four-ninety- because that was the price of the car. About 1915 he opened car agencies for Overland cars in Carnegie and Anadarko. He lived in the latter town most of 1916, but then moved to Tulsa where he lived for over sixty years. In his early years there, he was away from the Tulsa home on drilling jobs for the Consolidated Oil Co. in Gatesville, Tex., Stedham, Okla., and Collinsville. In 1924 he joined the Norville Dodge Agency which had branches in nearby towns. From time to time he was sent to these other agencies to help out in emergencies. During W.W. II he worked for the government involved in putting up buildings for such manufacturers as Spartan Air Craft, etc. After the conclusion of the war he ran the second shift of a factory building house trailers. His reminiscences of his travels and various experiences are most interesting. He was in San Francisco the week after the big earthquake and fire, when everything was still smoking and a pile of rubble. he was, and no doubt still is, a masterhand at trading. When a banker was reluctant to lend him needed money for some business venture he managed to find the funds even though it might mean two or three profitable trades to gather the total needed. His eyes still sparkle when he recounts some of his most successful trades. As a carpenter he could and still can handle tools with much more ease than many young men. About four years ago his eyesight became so poor that he could no longer drive his car in Tulsa. He had to use a cane to steady himself and his hearing was not too good, so he left his home in Tulsa which he had shared with his son Bill and returned to his early home area near his son Allen. He says that he is always home and enjoys visiting with any and all of the old-timers, and other who are interested in such facts as--Alfalfa at one time was much larger than old Lathram or even Carnegie. he has a listed phone which he can use for visits, and is glad to entertain anyone who cares to stop by his small white home just north of the Cedar Creek bridge on the east side. What an unusual man! Sinclair has five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and five great great grandchildren. Reception December 30 to honor Sinclair on 100th birthday. Family and friends are invited to gather at the fine Art Building in the Carnegie City Park Sunday, December 30 to celebrate Walter William Sinclair's 100th birthday. Although he was born December 28, the reception will be held on December 30, 1984 from 2:00 to 4:00. Mr. Sinclair was born in Belolaire, Ohio on December 28, 1884 to William Hayden and Mary Werner Sinclair. His parents were both from Pennsylvania. The family kept moving west from Ohio to Marion, Indiana, where his sister, Zelia, died in 1890 at the age of seven years. Their next home was Alton, Illinois, where his father worked in a glass factory. They left Alton for St. Louis, Missouri and then moved later to western Kansas, and then on to Enid, OK. His father drew a homestead north of Alfalfa where his daughter, Rachel, and her husband Beecher Recker, still live today. Mr. Sinclair and his father operated a hardware store in Alfalfa until his father's death in 1913. He then had the Overland Agency in Carnegie, Anadarko, and Tulsa. He also has operated cotton gins in Chickasha and Colony, threshing machines, drilled wells, and at times worked as a carpenter. He now lives near his son, Allen Sinclair, north of Carnegie. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma February 25, 1987 December 28, 1884 ~ February 17, 1987 Services for Walter W. Sinclair, of Carnegie, were at 2 p.m. Friday, February 20 at the Alfalfa First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jack Sawyer, pastor, officiating. Sinclair was born December 28, 1884 in Ohio and died Tuesday, February 17, 1987 at the Carnegie Nursing Home. He was a retired carpenter and a 32nd degree Mason. His wife, the former Nellie Rose Bennett, preceded him in death. Also preceding him in death were his father, William H. Sinclair; his mother; a daughter and an son. Survivors include one daughter, Rachel Recker of Alfalfa; two sons, Allen C. Sinclair of Carnegie and Bill Sinclair of Cleveland; seven grandchildren, and 14 great grandchildren. Burial was in the Alfalfa Cemetery under direction of the Pitcher-Hackney Funeral Home. |
© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma October 3, 2007 December 28, 1884 ~ February 17, 1987 Graveside services for Walter William "Bill" Sinclair, 70, of Carnegie were at 1:00 pm Saturday, October 27, 2007 at Alfalfa Cemetery with Rev Lynn Richardson officiating. Bill was born Marech 28, 1937 in Oklahoma City, to Jewell Ella Martin Sinclair and Walter William Sinclair Sr and passed awat Tuesday, October 22, 2007 at Southwestern Medical Center in Lawton. He grew up in the Oklahoma City area and attended Choctaw Schools, graduating in 1955. He served in the US Army from 1956 to 1959 and again from 1959 to 1960. Bill worked in California building mobile homes and later he worked in Tulsa as a boat salesman and as a security guard. He had lived in the Carnegie area for the past 15 years and enjoyed hunting, fishing, reading, visiting and telling of his past. He was preceded in death by his parents and is survived by several nieces and nephews. Military honors were performed by the Fort Sill Casualty Office. Arrangement were under the direction of People's Cooperative Funeral Home of Long Wolf. |
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