My Great Grandparents Theodore & Mary (Roehl) Dirks & Henry & Mary (Lenhartz) Stork moved to Hinton, OK. in 1907 from New Market, MN. They lived on farms east & south of Hinton. They both had very large families. The Seurer's were another family who moved there from New Market. Kate Seurer married my Great Uncle Bill Dirks & they had Raymond, Sylvia, Lawrence & Jerry. Jerry (91) is the only one living (July 2015) & he is in Canyon, Tx. Jerry has shared many old photos & stories with me over the past 15 yrs. & he speaks of his relatives still in Hinton. My Mom, Julia Frances (Stork-Dirks) Gerber also told me of Hinton, OK., so I HAD to stop by one day after visiting family in Edmond. I went into the museum & was in total AWE! I felt transported backwards, in time! I was shown a small book about Hinton, which I bought, but what really opened my eyes were two hand-drawn large photos on the wall of Jerry Dirks' Seurer relatives! His Grandparents & his Great Grands! I snapped photos of them & showed them to some people back in MN. Someone said they had the original photos (or paintings?) & they were equally stunned to see that there were copies of their originals, & done SO WELL! I WILL be back to Hinton, to spend a night or two & find out all I can about the place where my ancestors lived. They did move on to Nazareth, Tx. in 1908, after 1/2 of the town burned down, & we future generations became Texans instead of Okies! I like both! We have so many relatives from Germany & MN who stayed in OK., we could say we are "both". A Dirks cousin told me recently at a reunion that the Dirks home SE of Hinton is still standing. Now I HAVE to go back! Maybe I'll meet the Seurers who are still there!
pretty cool if you wanna know about where hinton came from, the tomb of matthew brooks was pretty freaky, check it out when you get a chance!
Hinton Historical Museum is a US Museum based in Hinton, Oklahoma. Hinton Historical Museum is located at 801 S Broadway Ave, Hinton, OK 73047, USA.
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