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Bert Okla Williams

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Bert Okla Williams
This is a photo of Bert Okla Williams added by Jesse Dean Williams on September 2, 2020.
Date & Place: at Oklahoma, USA in Oklahoma United States
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Are they both posing for the camera? Perhaps you have a photo of your parents/grandparents on a pony in your family album? This is Bert Williams on a donkey or mule(?) in 1912 Oklahoma.
My great-grandfather Emmett Davis on the tractor and his farm worker on the horse, named Big Ned
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09/24/2020
Megan Cabrera looks like one of the pony soldier horses. They were TALL
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09/24/2020
Had to look twice. Could have sworn that was Beaver Cleaver.😂😂😂
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09/24/2020
Cute photo This is a donkey. Mules are much larger, closer to horse size. I would guess since it doesn’t look like there is a saddle, that the donkey belongs to Bert’s family or friends.
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09/24/2020
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09/24/2020
I have one of my dad. A guy used to cone by with the horse to sell pics.
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09/24/2020
My uncle Ralph Owen Brown
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09/24/2020
Phillip Brown so cool
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My dad in the Army in the Dominican Republic, early 1960’s
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My mother and her brother. Around 1934, guessing my mom's about 5 years old here. Los Angeles CA
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Me around 1958. Lakewood CA
This was around 1927. The smallest girl on the pony is my Aunt Angelina (Jill), and the older girl is my Aunt Anna. The boy is my Uncle Salvatore; he was about 9 or 10 then.

Anna and Sal were named for two siblings...twins...who had been born before them, but who had died in a measles epidemic.

My dad was the oldest in the family. He and his mother and a sister, Elisabetta, and a brother, Nicolas, came to America from Italy in 1910. Their father (my grandfather, Nuncio) had arrived in the US a few years before and worked to save enough money to bring his family over.

Angelina, Anna, Sal, and another sister, Antoinette, were born in the US.

By the time the youngest, Angelina, was born, my dad was already 21 years old.
This is my Father and he is on a donkey.
I had a pony when I was young but do not have a photo. I have a picture of my nephew on my pony, but he is still living. I do not want to post any photos of any of my living relatives. Thanks for commenting.
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Nothing beats a long ear for character
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I have one of my mom’s cousin.
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09/25/2020
Just think of the stories he could tell when he had reached his 90's!!! What a long, rich life, and just think about what he witnessed over the course of virtually the entire 20th century!
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Peru, Indiana about 1950
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Modesto, CA, about 1949.
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My grandfather on a burro
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10/03/2020
My father, Art on his 7th birthday, Chicago 1920. His parents rented a pony for the day. My dad loved animals.
I have this family in my line.
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Bert Okla Williams
Bert was born in Oklahoma Territory, before Oklahoma was a state. His parents gave him the middle name, Okla. He was their youngest child. After his father died, his mother became very ill and he vowed he would not marry or leave his mother until she passed. One of his brothers was a preacher and Bert began preaching when he was only 14 years old. He later did go to a seminary and made it "official". Bert was an avid gardener and had an uncanny gift with nature and animals of all sorts, both domestic and wild. Within a few days of talking to and feeding them, wild birds would actually land on his shoulders, arms and even his head when they would see him. And different kinds of tree squirrels came and ate out of his hand. As his youngest child, I loved to watch him interact with the myriad of animals we came in contact with. I've had many close contacts with animals in the wild but do not have the complete trust the animals had with him. Bert loved to whistle, so most likely one could find him simply by listening for him. He grew gigantic watermelon and tomatoes that we loved to consume right out in the garden. (We kept a salt shaker in the garden for our frequent feasts). He had a huge interest in poultry, so we had large flocks of chickens and a flock of guinea fowl. He knew the type of trees, birds, ducks, geese and even grass and/or weeds we were looking at. Needless to say, for me, it was never boring being with him. I was always asking questions and he was always patient and willing to stop whatever he was doing to answer. He was a great Dad. He was 50 years old when I was born. Too old? No way...I couldn't have had it better.
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