Obituary published June 21, 1983 in The Enid Daily Eagle:
Mrs. Vinita Hunt - Cherokee - Services for Mrs. Vinita Hunt, 87, who died Saturday in her home, were at 2p.m. today in the Grapes Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eugene R. Spillman officiating. Burial was in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gladys Stallings of Morris, Mrs. Jack (Nada) Bernard, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Gordon (Vanora) Cook, Madiera, Calif., a son, Verlin Prall, Blackfoot, Idaho; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Elwood on March 25, 1972; also by a daughter, a grandchild, a great-grandchild, three brothers and six sisters.
--**--
From an interview with Vinita Hunt printed in the Cherokee, Okla. Republican newspaper on Friday, Dec. 17, 1982:
"'We came here in 1901 from Indian Territory,' Mrs. Vinita Hunt said while visiting in the office of the Cherokee Messenger and Republican, recently. 'We crossed the Salt Plains in a covered wagon to take some school land east of Byron. Behind the wagon we had a horse and buggy, a horse and saddle and some Angora goats. My father got his start raising Angora goats, with the long beautiful hair.'
"Hunt said she thought she was born in a covered wagon at Vinita. She was about the middle of the 10 McDuffee children. She was born in 1896, so was some over 4 years old when the family moved to Alfalfa County.
"To live in Indian Territory, permission had to be obtained from an Indian living there. Hunt thought the name of the Indian who gave her father permission was 'Lamb.' Her father had to put his goats in the Indian's name. A paper was signed to the effect that her father got his goats back when he moved. He did just that.
"Hunt remembers walking across Salt Plains behind the wagon. The salt would make the scratches and cuts on their barefeet smart. They would crawl back into the wagon and lick the salt off. 'We could make both ends meet then,' she said. 'Of course, licking your feet doesn't sound too good now.'
"Edgar Prall was her first husband. They homesteaded in Wyoming.
"Elwood Hunt was her second husband. They owned a farm near Aline. When his health failed, they moved into Cherokee, where she has since lived. Her husband died 12 or 13 years ago."
Mrs. Vinita Hunt - Cherokee - Services for Mrs. Vinita Hunt, 87, who died Saturday in her home, were at 2p.m. today in the Grapes Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eugene R. Spillman officiating. Burial was in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gladys Stallings of Morris, Mrs. Jack (Nada) Bernard, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Gordon (Vanora) Cook, Madiera, Calif., a son, Verlin Prall, Blackfoot, Idaho; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Elwood on March 25, 1972; also by a daughter, a grandchild, a great-grandchild, three brothers and six sisters.
--**--
From an interview with Vinita Hunt printed in the Cherokee, Okla. Republican newspaper on Friday, Dec. 17, 1982:
"'We came here in 1901 from Indian Territory,' Mrs. Vinita Hunt said while visiting in the office of the Cherokee Messenger and Republican, recently. 'We crossed the Salt Plains in a covered wagon to take some school land east of Byron. Behind the wagon we had a horse and buggy, a horse and saddle and some Angora goats. My father got his start raising Angora goats, with the long beautiful hair.'
"Hunt said she thought she was born in a covered wagon at Vinita. She was about the middle of the 10 McDuffee children. She was born in 1896, so was some over 4 years old when the family moved to Alfalfa County.
"To live in Indian Territory, permission had to be obtained from an Indian living there. Hunt thought the name of the Indian who gave her father permission was 'Lamb.' Her father had to put his goats in the Indian's name. A paper was signed to the effect that her father got his goats back when he moved. He did just that.
"Hunt remembers walking across Salt Plains behind the wagon. The salt would make the scratches and cuts on their barefeet smart. They would crawl back into the wagon and lick the salt off. 'We could make both ends meet then,' she said. 'Of course, licking your feet doesn't sound too good now.'
"Edgar Prall was her first husband. They homesteaded in Wyoming.
"Elwood Hunt was her second husband. They owned a farm near Aline. When his health failed, they moved into Cherokee, where she has since lived. Her husband died 12 or 13 years ago."
Obituary published June 21, 1983 in The Enid Daily Eagle:
Mrs. Vinita Hunt - Cherokee - Services for Mrs. Vinita Hunt, 87, who died Saturday in her home, were at 2p.m. today in the Grapes Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eugene R. Spillman officiating. Burial was in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gladys Stallings of Morris, Mrs. Jack (Nada) Bernard, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Gordon (Vanora) Cook, Madiera, Calif., a son, Verlin Prall, Blackfoot, Idaho; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Elwood on March 25, 1972; also by a daughter, a grandchild, a great-grandchild, three brothers and six sisters.
--**--
From an interview with Vinita Hunt printed in the Cherokee, Okla. Republican newspaper on Friday, Dec. 17, 1982:
"'We came here in 1901 from Indian Territory,' Mrs. Vinita Hunt said while visiting in the office of the Cherokee Messenger and Republican, recently. 'We crossed the Salt Plains in a covered wagon to take some school land east of Byron. Behind the wagon we had a horse and buggy, a horse and saddle and some Angora goats. My father got his start raising Angora goats, with the long beautiful hair.'
"Hunt said she thought she was born in a covered wagon at Vinita. She was about the middle of the 10 McDuffee children. She was born in 1896, so was some over 4 years old when the family moved to Alfalfa County.
"To live in Indian Territory, permission had to be obtained from an Indian living there. Hunt thought the name of the Indian who gave her father permission was 'Lamb.' Her father had to put his goats in the Indian's name. A paper was signed to the effect that her father got his goats back when he moved. He did just that.
"Hunt remembers walking across Salt Plains behind the wagon. The salt would make the scratches and cuts on their barefeet smart. They would crawl back into the wagon and lick the salt off. 'We could make both ends meet then,' she said. 'Of course, licking your feet doesn't sound too good now.'
"Edgar Prall was her first husband. They homesteaded in Wyoming.
"Elwood Hunt was her second husband. They owned a farm near Aline. When his health failed, they moved into Cherokee, where she has since lived. Her husband died 12 or 13 years ago."
Mrs. Vinita Hunt - Cherokee - Services for Mrs. Vinita Hunt, 87, who died Saturday in her home, were at 2p.m. today in the Grapes Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Eugene R. Spillman officiating. Burial was in the Byron-Amorita Cemetery.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Gladys Stallings of Morris, Mrs. Jack (Nada) Bernard, Kansas City, Kansas, and Mrs. Gordon (Vanora) Cook, Madiera, Calif., a son, Verlin Prall, Blackfoot, Idaho; 17 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Elwood on March 25, 1972; also by a daughter, a grandchild, a great-grandchild, three brothers and six sisters.
--**--
From an interview with Vinita Hunt printed in the Cherokee, Okla. Republican newspaper on Friday, Dec. 17, 1982:
"'We came here in 1901 from Indian Territory,' Mrs. Vinita Hunt said while visiting in the office of the Cherokee Messenger and Republican, recently. 'We crossed the Salt Plains in a covered wagon to take some school land east of Byron. Behind the wagon we had a horse and buggy, a horse and saddle and some Angora goats. My father got his start raising Angora goats, with the long beautiful hair.'
"Hunt said she thought she was born in a covered wagon at Vinita. She was about the middle of the 10 McDuffee children. She was born in 1896, so was some over 4 years old when the family moved to Alfalfa County.
"To live in Indian Territory, permission had to be obtained from an Indian living there. Hunt thought the name of the Indian who gave her father permission was 'Lamb.' Her father had to put his goats in the Indian's name. A paper was signed to the effect that her father got his goats back when he moved. He did just that.
"Hunt remembers walking across Salt Plains behind the wagon. The salt would make the scratches and cuts on their barefeet smart. They would crawl back into the wagon and lick the salt off. 'We could make both ends meet then,' she said. 'Of course, licking your feet doesn't sound too good now.'
"Edgar Prall was her first husband. They homesteaded in Wyoming.
"Elwood Hunt was her second husband. They owned a farm near Aline. When his health failed, they moved into Cherokee, where she has since lived. Her husband died 12 or 13 years ago."
Family Members
Siblings
-
![]()
Olive May McDuffee Rockwell
1885–1955
-
![]()
Ada Ruth McDuffee Nugent
1886–1965
-
![]()
Harrison Purl "H.P." McDuffee
1888–1978
-
![]()
Coy Armintha McDuffee Ellinger
1891–1959
-
![]()
Sarah Jane McDuffee Porter
1898–1982
-
![]()
Grace Glenco McDuffee
1900–1904
-
![]()
George E "Bud" McDuffee
1902–1939
-
![]()
Ray Linn "Rufus" McDuffee McMurray
1904–1972
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
