Henry & Helen Tracy: Tuttle Teaching Legacy
The inspiring story of Henry and Helen Tracy, beloved Tuttle educators whose 45 years of teaching shaped generations of Oklahoma students. Henry Talmage Tracy (1893–1969) & Helen Seaver Tracy (1894–1991) Few educators have left a deeper and more lasting impression on the Tuttle community than Henry Talmage Tracy and Helen Seaver Tracy. Together they devoted […]
Tuttle Pioneers:
Joe and Anna Belle Hartin, Russell and Pearl Hambleton Shortly after the last great “land rush” of settlers into Oklahoma to claim free government land in 1907, John Robert McPhail purchased a quarter section near Pocasset—section 8 of township 8W-8N. Discouraged by red-dirt farming after a short time, the original claimant was ready to move […]
The Schrocks of Tuttle: A Family That Helped Build a Community
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, when Oklahoma was still Indian Territory and much of what would become Grady County was open prairie, a family named Schrock arrived and quietly became part of the foundation upon which the town of Tuttle would grow. At the center of that story were Frances Schrock and […]
James Harley Tuttle Jr.
James Harley Tuttle Jr. was born in 1859 in Grayson County, Texas. At the age of 17 he left Texas and found work herding cattle on the Washita River in neighboring Indian Territory. In 1850’s the Washita River ran through the land assigned to the Chickasaw Naton as their national domain, bounded on the north […]
Bowers Store – Eula Copp Cobble Bowers:
A Century of Life, Family, and Service to Tuttle Few people witnessed as much of Tuttle’s history as Eula Copp Bowers, who lived an extraordinary 101 years. Eula was born on October 26, 1899, in Indian Territory near Newcastle, Oklahoma, to Tom H. “Tack” Copp (1873–1952) and Lora Alma (Williams) Copp (1877–1951). At the age […]