Brunken Home in Lahoma, Oklahoma
Magnified: Who are these children?
  • WHAT: Brunken home near Lahoma, Oklahoma
  • WHEN: After 1910
  • WHERE: Section 25, Meno Township, Major County, Oklahoma
  • SOURCE: Grandma Brunken’s Album
  • NOTES: This is the house that grandparents, William Leopold and Clara Maria “Mary” (Petersen) Brunken, lived in on their farm near Lahoma, Oklahoma after they moved from Nebraska in 1910. Note the vines are just beginning to grow on the screened porch.

William and Mary Brunken Farm – Circa 1980

William Leopold and Clara Maria “Mary” (Petersen) Brunken, lived and raised their family on their farm near Lahoma, Oklahoma after they moved from Nebraska in 1910. Note that the house screen porch with vines that are in many earlier pictures are gone and the porch was eventually enclosed.

Brunken Home near Lahoma, Oklahoma
Another View of the Brunken Home
Barn and Windmill
LEFT TO RIGHT: Evelyn (Pereboom) Brunken, Alvin Brunken, and Harold Brunken
Barn as seen from the road
Oil Well Drilling Rig in the Background – As seen looking up the driveway from the road
 The barn was blown down in a windstorm
  • WHAT: Brunken farmyard near Lahoma
  • WHEN: Circa 1980
  • WHERE: Section 25, Meno Township, Major County, Oklahoma
  • SOURCE: Evelyn Brunken.
  • NOTES:
    • The house has since burned down.
    • Lahoma or Meno? There is plenty of opportunity for confusion as to where the William and Mary Brunken family lived – Lahoma, Oklahoma or Meno, Oklahoma? The “William and Mary Brunken Home – Lahoma” is in Meno Township of Major County, Oklahoma and was on a Meno US Mail route hence any mail that was sent to the Brunken family should have been addressed to Rural Route, Meno, Oklahoma. Lahoma is in another township in the next county to the east – Logan Township of Garfield County, Oklahoma. However, since Lahoma is where the Brunkens went to church and Lahoma was the closest location for obtaining supplies, the Brunken family considered themselves as being from Lahoma, Oklahoma. As may be seen from a Bing Map, the Brunken home is a little over a mile closer to Lahoma then it is to Meno.

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