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Almost In Heaven
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Divine Revelations, Angels, And Holy Coincidences
In 1977, about ten years before she died, I asked my grandmother, Nellie Jane Kittle Sumwalt, then in her early eighties, if she would allow me to tape record some of her family stories. Grandma had plenty to tell. She told me about my great-great-grandmother, Catherine Isbell, who with her three oldest sons claimed 640 acres of Black Jack woods in the Oklahoma land rush of 1889: 160 acres each, as the Homestead Act allowed. They immediately set about clearing some of the timber so they could plant crops, and they began to build a house.
