Best of Great State: Yukon’s Mollie Spencer Farm has been in the same family since 1894

YUKON, Okla. (KFOR) – Chris Keesee and his son Blake are the rare father and son who can walk the same creek bank and pasture their ancestors purchased in 1894.

Mollie Spencer would have come earlier but she had a baby to consider while her husband, L.M. Spencer, founded the town.

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Her great, great grandson grew up with stories of her quiet determination.

“She was a women’s libber before there was women’s liberation,” Chris argues. “The reason being, when her father died, he left her real estate.”…

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