Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.Ĭontains Saline Cemetery, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.It’s a creepy place now, but it was a bustling mining town 100 years ago.The school at Oak Grove, which is still inhabited by 386 residents. The only standing church in the area has no discernable cemetary any longer. We couldn’t find Honey’s mother’s plot it may have been in Cardin, now under mining spoils. He is buried with the Union soldiers from the Civil War. We went to the local cemetary in Miami, the nearest remaining town, and located Honey’s father’s burial site, but the tombstone is gone now.
They had quite a life together, living out their latter years in Florida. Honey married my grandfather, Harry DePriest, a traveling businessman passing through town, when she was only 15 and got out while the gettin’ was good. Could it be that the mining operation needed the land cleared so that it could expand operations? There still seems to be a lot of mining activity going on here. It turns out that these two towns were part of a thriving lead and zinc mine throughout the 1900s, but the air became contaminated with lead and zinc dust from the mining and people started getting sick, so the government bought up or condemned all the property and moved everybody out. No one lives here anymore and nearly all the buildings have been destroyed or moved away. “Honey” was born Gertrude Dalby her father was Victor Dalby and her mother was Mary Ann Pierce, who had died when Honey was only 8 years old.Ĭardin, like nearby Picher, Oklahoma, is now a ghost town. I noticed, while looking at the map during a fueling stop, that by adjusting our route just a little we could go through Cardin, Oklahoma, where my grandmother was born and raised. It was driving all day, with only one long stop. We drove through six states today: Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas, our stopping point for the night, just outside Wichita.
This was going to be a long driving day on our trip out to Colorado to take the Jeep to Trevor. We awoke in Mississippi, having driven there from near Tallahassee, Florida, where we had spent the night before. JCategories Oklahoma, United States Leave a comment
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