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Howard and Mattie Cope
Submitted by Charlene C. Smith
Mattie Cluck Cope (1892–1985) and Wylie Howard Cope (1886–1969), parents of my father Charlie Howard Cope, descend from families who came to Oklahoma before statehood. The Copes came by wagon, but my grandmother's grandmother, a new widow, had no wagon so she gathered up eight kids and walked to Indian Territory, getting a wagon ride now and then. Eliza Campbell Teel lived in a tent for years. Of their experience my grandmother would later say "...they had a terrible time, but they made it." Mattie and Howard made it too, like so many others, with determination, grit, spirit...and humor. Mattie loved to laugh and always appreciated a good story.
Submitted by Charlene Cope Smith.
