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My great-great grandmother on my father’s side was an innovator. Her name was Moning Rix Tarpley Gannaway. Our family and the neighbors called her “Annie.”
Back in 1862, as a woman living in a decidedly man’s world, Annie patented a new and innovative boot-blacking stand. The demands of the Civil War were turning the shoe industry inside out, and in her own way, in the specific market segment of bootblacks on the corner and in the barbershop, my great-great grandmother was part of the change.
Annie moved to Oklahoma before statehood, and my family has been here ever since. She was the first of many strong and independent women in our family my great-grandmother, grandmother, and ultimately my mother who have ....

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