Albert Orland Bachman

Albert & Family Bachmans and Moores

Albert was born on March 26th, 1876 in Napoleon, Ripley County, Indiana.  Albert's father was Edmund Eaton Bachman and his mother was Lydia Ann McKee.  His paternal grandparents were Lewis Bachman and Eleanor F Eaton; his maternal grandparents were Samuel McKee and Emily Langston. He had three brothers and two sisters, named Lewis, Clarence, George, Mollie and Elenor.  He was the third oldest of the six children.  He died  due to tuberculosis at the age of 62 on July 24th, 1938 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• General Notes

  AO died from tuberculosis. His wife wife was on crutches from early 30's.
  
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  Albert O. Bachman was born in 1876 in Napoleon, Indiana. He was the second son of Edmund and Lydia Bachman. They came to Conway Springs, Kansas in 1884.
  
  While in school at Conway Springs, Albert met his future wife, Mary Trekell, who was in the 7th or 8th grade then, went to Conway Springs to stay with her brother Will who was teaching school there. For a short while she lived there and did the cooking and housekeeping for her brother while going to school. Albert and Mary became interested in each other and began to correspond after Mary returned home.
  
  In 1893 Albert came to Oklahoma with his family when they filed a claim in the Cherokee Outlet. For a while he taught school near Medford.
  
  Meanwhile, Albert's correspondence with Mary had continued, and they were married in February, 1900 near Wellington, Kansas. In 1901 he took part in the Kiowa-Comanche lottery for land, but failed to win a claim. However, he was able to buy a claim near Apache in Caddo County, and in 1903, with their two small children, they moved in a covered wagon to Caddo County, fording the rivers between here and there. Once there, they dug a well, built a two-room frame house and other improvements and lived there five years.
  
  Their home was about ten miles from the nearest doctor. During this time the Bachmans lost their second child, Clarence, to membranous croup. Eva started to school while there at a little country school. While living there, three more children, Merble, Ruth, and Lester were born.
  
  The Bachmans were not happy in Caddo County. Due to field work, the school term lasted only about three months. As Albert often said, "I didn't want to raise my children where they turned out school to pick cotton and where women worked in the field."
  
  In 1908 the Bachmans sold their farm and bought one near Eddy, Oklahoma where they lived about ten years. One son, Kenneth, was born there. In 1918 they sold this farm and moved to Grant County.
  
  They bought three farms and sold two before finding the spot on which they wanted to build their home. In 1919 they bought a farm one mile north of the town of Deer Creek. This land was near the school and town, so in the winter of 1921 and 1922 they built a house there. Albert and Mary Bachman lived in this house until Albert's death in 1938. Mary Trekell Bachman died in 1949. She was buried beside her husband in the IOOF Cemetery west of Tonkawa.
  
  In 1949 Albert's grandson, Edwin, bought the north eighty acres of this farm and he and his wife Mary reared their family in the house Albert built.
  
  Albert and Mary's daughter, Eva, married Houston Moore and they lived on the Moore farm east of Renfrow.
  
  Merble married Helene McCall and they established a home in the Deer Creek area.
  
  Ruth, Lester and Kenneth were all graduates of Oklahoma A&M College. Ruth taught Home Economics at Hennessey. Lester taught Vocational Agriculture and later was in the Soil Conservation Service in seven counties of Oklahoma. Lester had two children, Dick and Dee Ann. He is now retired and lives in Enid.
  
  Kenneth Bachman went to work in the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington, D.C. In World War II he served as Lieutenant (J.G.) in the Navy. Then after earning his doctorate at Harvard University he returned to work in the U.S.D.A. He is now retired and lives in Reston, Virginia, He has one son, Kenneth, Jr., who is practicing law in Washington, D.C.
  
  

Details of Albert's family with Mary Etna Trekell