Many of my formative years were spent with a
couple of families who lived in Oak Grove,
Texas.
At the time both of my parents worked and getting me to school was sometimes an
issue of timing. At the Graham’s I was inducted into a family of six children,
which, being and only child, was much like being dropped into a three-ring
circus. This organized chaos was a great preparation for public school. While Oak
Grove used to be an independent farm community it’s now one of the multitude of suburbs of Fort Worth. Named by three brothers from Kentucky in 1866 for its
large stand of oak trees, there wasn’t much more than farming and ranching in
the area for another ten years. At that time
a post office branch opened and in 1885 Missouri Pacific railroad came to the
area. However, as soon as rail service cease, the community failed to grow. It
wasn’t until the 1960s that excitement returned to the area: the Oak Grove
Airport was established.
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| A part of the Graham homestead |
