Claude Englehart Jr

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per sister's obit he is called Jeff

Research of Feb 2006 of E.Myrick [ Ehistory2@aol.com ]
My brother Jeff was cremated and half of his ashes were buried at the foot of his grandparent's Walter and Bernetta Sisco-Englehardt's graves in this cemetery.
The other half was buried on two different locations on the Chisholm Trail. The first half was buried at the Chisholm Trail Monument north of Enid Oklahoma on Hwy. 81, a ranch with longhorns and horses are next to the monument. The other half was buried on the Chisholm Trail north of Enid just past where 81 turns and heads west, a county road continues north that has a full size Indian setting on a horse metal cut out on a high hill over looking the Chisholm Trail.
Jeff was having a number of heart attacks, the last month of his life he had five. He was a tough man and just wouldn't give up. The number of times Jeff and I discussed what he wanted done, he would always reply " Heck Cheeter I don't care, just throw my body out in the pasture and let the coyotes have it." He loved the metal Indian cut out high on the hill over looking a pasture full of horse and cattle on the actual Chisholm trail. So we decided it was fitting to place part of his ashes there.
My brother was a true cowboy. He was born 100 years to late. He rodeo-ed, and was an all around cowboy in 1985. He also ran stock for the rodeo. When he sat upon a horse and it moved you couldn't tell where the horse stopped and Jeff began,they moved as one. It was a beautiful site to see.
From an early age he and I broke horses for our neighbor. He purchased his first horse Teddy Tabo when he was 14. After he got back from Vietnam one of the first things he did was to purchase a beautiful black stallion. From that time on he raised quarter horses and one thoroughbred mare. He raced one great stallion, Boggie Wheels and won many races. Jeff was a welder and was hurt bad on his job in 1985 and it put an end to the horse. But he just couldn't give up his nature and purchased a new born stud to raise a few months before his death. All his horses had great blood lines.
Jeff was also a saddle and boot maker. He spent hours upon hours designing and curving beautiful patterns into the saddles he made. They were and are a true work of art.
Jeff was married five times. He married his high school sweetheart Glenda in 1964, it end when he returned from Vietnam.
He never felt he was ever loved and kept looking for that lady to truly love him. He never found it in last four women. He had two children, a daughter Diana by one of his wives and a son Jade by another wife. He never had a relationship with his children.
I will be back to add a good bye letter is wrote you the day you were cremated. It broke my heart but you deserve to have it on your memorial, so you know you were loved.

CarolParrish826 <http://www.ancestry.com/community/member/profile.aspx?cba=CarolParrish826>; photo courtesy of C. Parish

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