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From: "WALKER T RUSSELL" <>
Subject: Re: [OKCREEK-L] Richard Rudolph RENFRO
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:58:03 -0700


A Brush Arbor was a shelter built to hold an old fashioned Camp Meeting
Revival. They were used in the summer when it was too hot to hold the
revival meeting inside the church. The congregation would build a brush
arbor so they could be outside where it would be cooler.

Walker Russell

----- Original Message -----
From: Donna Ferris <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 2:16 PM
Subject: [OKCREEK-L] Richard Rudolph RENFRO

> I am looking for more information on my grand uncle who died 29 Aug
> 1933, Bristow, OK.
>
> He was stabbed to death by his best friend Bud Watts, after they had
> been drinking during a 'brush arbor' meeting. He died 3 days later in
> the Cowart/Sissler(sp?) hospital in Slick, OK in the early 1930's. Bud
> went to prison for life, I'm told he was devastated and eventually
> committed suicide. Seems like there would have been some kind of news
> story about this?
>
> Just as an afterthought, I have never heard the term 'bruch arbor'
> meeting before, my aunt told me its something like a planting
> celebration or something similar. Can someone tell us more about what it
> is?
> Donna Ferris
> Penn Valley, CA
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/3303
> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/f/e/r/Donna-Ferris
>
>
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