Connecting to Enid's Past
Below is an example of why we built this site and why we ask that you send in any Enid photos or history. A few weeks ago Stefanie Negelein sent us three old photos she had of old Enid businesses. We posted those photos with as much information about them as we had, which was not much. Google picked up our page and indexed it into their search engine. That indexing led to the letter below:
Dear Enid Buzz,
I want to thank you for helping me with my family history. For over twenty years I have been typing Pitman Coal Company, Enid, Oklahoma, into Google, hoping to get some information. Last night I hit BINGO! I am sorry I cannot tell you where the building was located. I can tell you that George Washington Pitman, son of George T. Pitman, my great grandmother's brother, organized the Pitman Coal Company in Enid and operated it for about 33 years.
Mr. Pitman was a native of Missouri and came to Enid from there in 1901. The "Enid Morning News" of Saturday, April 11, 1953, said he died at the age of 83 in an Enid hospital April 10 after an illness of several weeks. Survivors included three daughters: Mrs. Guy B. Johnson, Mrs. Jess Coonrod, and Mrs. C. F. Thomas, all of Enid; one son Dr. W. D. Pitman of Pratt, Kansas, 7 grandchildren; 3 sisters, Mrs. Emma Harmon and Mrs. Albert Wilson, both of Texhoma and Mrs. Sadie Crossfield of Blackwell.


Dear Enid Buzz,
I want to thank you for helping me with my family history. For over twenty years I have been typing Pitman Coal Company, Enid, Oklahoma, into Google, hoping to get some information. Last night I hit BINGO! I am sorry I cannot tell you where the building was located. I can tell you that George Washington Pitman, son of George T. Pitman, my great grandmother's brother, organized the Pitman Coal Company in Enid and operated it for about 33 years.
Mr. Pitman was a native of Missouri and came to Enid from there in 1901. The "Enid Morning News" of Saturday, April 11, 1953, said he died at the age of 83 in an Enid hospital April 10 after an illness of several weeks. Survivors included three daughters: Mrs. Guy B. Johnson, Mrs. Jess Coonrod, and Mrs. C. F. Thomas, all of Enid; one son Dr. W. D. Pitman of Pratt, Kansas, 7 grandchildren; 3 sisters, Mrs. Emma Harmon and Mrs. Albert Wilson, both of Texhoma and Mrs. Sadie Crossfield of Blackwell.
I send this information in the hope that it may help you find the location of the building you picture. I also hope someone who remembers these people will contact me so I may learn more about my great grandmother's family. Again, thanks for posting that picture on your website. I am so grateful.
Joy in Missouri
Please email buzz@enidbuzz.com if you have any information about the Pitman Coal Co. and we will forward it on to Joy.
Please email buzz@enidbuzz.com if you have any information about the Pitman Coal Co. and we will forward it on to Joy.

Inside Pitman Coal and Feed. The calendar on the wall is from
Garfield Cleaners and I think it says 1927?

Outside of Pitman Coal and Feed. Any ideas where this was located?








Park Avenue Thrift




1 Comments:
My aunt sayes she rembers that the pitman coal and feed co. was located on the corner of cherokee and south 2nd st. which is now part of the baseball park
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