Who was an Oklahoma Territoral First Lady for five years? Who was married in 1885 and moved to Watonga in 1892? Who ran a respected newspaper for nine years after her husband died in 1921? Who participated in three land runs in Oklahoma with her husband? Who gave birth to five children and whose two surviving children died in WW1 or while on a business trip to Washington, DC, respectively? Who answered the telegram from Theodore Roosevelt in 1900 accepting an appointment of her husband as the Territorial Governor of Oklahoma?
Whose reminisces of territorial politics, newspaper work, Indians, outlaws and frontier life provided the basis of Edna Ferber’s novel Cimarron, published in 1930? Who served as a technical advisor to RKO Studios for newspaper scenes for the movie Cimarron? Who wrote the book “They Carried the Torch: The Story of Oklahoma’s Pioneer Newspapers? Who became a leader in the Oklahoma Republican party politics and served as chair of the state delegation to the Republican National Convention in 1924?
Who served as a member of the executive committee representing Oklahoma at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition in 1927? Who was vice chair of the state Republican committee from 19281932? Who traveled extensively in Europe, was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and American Pen Women organizations? Who helped start the library in Watonga? Who was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1933? Who was Oklahoma Mother of theyearin1946? Elva Ferguson, wife of T.B. Ferguson, both of Watonga. 1 Learn more about the Fergusons and the Ferguson Home Museum at the annual Tea to be held at the Baptist Church May 6 at 2 PM.