I was born in Hochatown in 1937 and lived there until 1957.
I left just before they started the Broken Bow dam. I am the one the other node talks about that helped his dad with his moonshine.
The Choctaw Lumber and Coal Co. turned into Dierks Lumber and Coal Co. and then about the time the dam was being built it was sold to Weyerhauser Timber Co.
I (along with everyone else) went to school in a two room school house with no electricity, no running water and we heated the school with wood heat.
I spent many days following a team of horses or mules down a row of corn or cotton. My dad was a share cropper as well as a moonshiner.Most of the kids in Hochatown went to high school in Eagletown which was about 19 miles from home. We would ride the bus every morning and then home in the evening. Anyone interested in knowing about some of the things that went on during these kinds of times, I would love to share anything I can.