RECK

NAME: Reck COUNTY: carter ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: South Oklahoma BEST TIME TO VISIT: All year

COMMENTS: 5 miles south of healton-wilson "y" highway 70,20 miles west of ardmore oklahoma.. REMAINS: Reck cemetery,old Reck school bell

Now only a cemetery,four generations of Bailey"s are buried there.My Great uncle,will Daniels,owned the last general store there.It burned 1950-51.I grew up on the adjoining 80 acres north of the cemetery .My grand father, Joseph Washington bailey was the lay preacher at the old Reck school house during the late 1940's &1950' he is also buried there.My father, Thomas Alexander Bailey,attended elementary school in the same building,1913-1922. He and my mother are buried approx where the front door of the old school stood. Submitted by: Ed Bailey

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