Bryan Co., OK; Town of Kiersey - History 

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Submitted by the Bryan County Heritage Library 
Located in Calera, OK
Written by Mrs. Bennie Fowler	 
Typed for the archives by Trudy Marlow 
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      THE MEMORY OF THE SMALL TOWN OF KIERSEY - WEST OF
             DURANT AND SOME OF ITS RESIDENTS


To many the memory of the old red brick school house-
combination church, there are many happy memories. The many 
singings, box suppers, revivals and community "Christmas Tree" 
where everyone brought gifts for their friends or loved ones-but-
more importantly-every child received something-usually candy or 
fruit. This was always looked upon as a big event. Another familiar 
sound was someone priming and pumping the old water pump or the 
sound of the squeeking swings in motion. The school was torn down 
near the 40's. A local resident named Elvie Coon bought the land 
and used the brick to build a nice home. As for the old school 
yard-well take your pick of the fresh fruit or vegetables that are 
now grown on it.

Now down the road to the north after passing the Roy Brock 
dairy there was this little Rail Road Depot consisting of one room. 
Occasionally if a local resident wasn't too busy-they'd go to the 
depot to "Watch the trains go by" or to see who got on or off. This 
little depot probably will always be remembered by a member of the 
Brease Family that lived just north of the station. One Halloween a 
few of the local boys turned over their out-house only to be met by 
this resident with a shot gun with shells flying way overhead. Not 
to be outdone the boys later returned and put the gentleman's 
"Buggie" on top of the depot.

Now the dirt road on the south of the depot was something 
else to recon with in muddy weather. Many a time buggies, wagons, 
and worse of all cars, would get stuck if you didn't hit the tracks 
JUST right. Occasionally the county or friends would be there with 
"teams" to pull you thru. Now-in dry weather the sandup the hill in 
the "Denton" woods (later the home of Troy and Ella Stone) the goin 
could get rought in the deep sandy "oneway" road. Heavens forbid if 
you happened to meet someone comin your way after all you were 
already up to the hubs or running boards in sand. The dirt road 
from the highway-all the way to Silo was like going over a large 
rub board and your vehicle had whole lot of shakin goin on. Who 
would ever believe all this with the nice black-top that is there 
now?

To the north of Kiersey there were two large families the 
Stones and McLaughlins.  With these two families, there was always 
a large crowd at one or both of the places. Mrs. McLaughlin cooked 
many a large dinner for friends that the kids brought home from 
church for a Sunday dinner. As the years went on and the grand 
children came along, along with the laughter of adults there could 
a lot of noise from youngsters playing. Many of their games 
included "Annie Over", Statue, chase, but when you'd hear the most 
laughter and running was when they would play "Cob" fight, 
especially when some had ~ the forthought to "soak" the cobs in a 
tub water and stashed their ammunition in the old barn loft-and 
catch someone by surprise.

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Written By Mrs. Bonnie Fowler