| dc.description.transcription | DEXTER Tex., METEORITE At Dexter 1937 Oct. 24 we learned that Ed Oxley had married into the Cochran family. We found "Tut" (C. C. Cochran) about 3 to 4 mi. S and somewhat east of Dexter, who confirmed the marriage of M. E. Oxley to C. C. Cochran's sister; he said the Oxley's own their home in Chickasha, Okla., and are presumably there now. The meteorite was found by Tom Wallace on a farm owned by C. C. Cochran's father, J. R. Cochran, and now owned by his (C. C. 'S?) brother's estate, and his son-in-law, Burn Dellashaw, lives there. It was found between the present house and an old (former) house on the property, to the si, about 2/3 of the way from the present house to the old house, say 250-300 yards from the present house, 100-150 yrds. from the old house. Wallace was a tenant and found the iron while plowing, but he was not breaking fresh land. Old man Cochran kept it a number of years around the house, and they had the blacksmith tried to break off a little piece. It looked like a lump of platina, in the words of C. C. Cochran. He had never heard of any others like it being found. The site of the find is NW of Dexter and in Cooke County; it is about 2 miles W and then off on the firt right turn to the north about 1-2 miles, a 1½ story house, where Dellashaw lives. We talked to Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Deckard, just to the north of there; they had each seen the Crescent Oklahoma, fireball of 1936 late summer, but knew of no meteorites. No meteorites were found in collection of D. W. Lewter, 90 year veteran W and S af Dexter; his son took us there to examine the rocks, but we did not get to see the father, D. W. We talked to Burn Dellashaw before knowing of his connection with the matter, and he promised to be on the lookout for meteorites. [Wrote Dellashaw 1946 10/25] | |
