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Memories included: • Marching with the Aggie Band to lunch and dinner. • Playing with cap pistols in Guion Hall in the dark. • Having clod fights in the plant nursery where the student center is today. • Playing in the big tree house in the center of the plant nursey. • Playing on the grand stands at Kyle field and riding down the ramps on a tricycle where I knocked myself out. • Watching the building on the bonfire on the drill field. • Going to the YMCA etc. bowling alley, chapel, soda fountain. • Playing inside the bugle stand outside the YMCA. • Getting a hair cut at the YMCA. • Going to my dad's office in Deware Field House. • Going swimming at the college swimming pool. • Going to get the mail, the post office was located in the Academic Building. • Getting ice at the power plant. • Listening to the 8,12,1 and 5 o'clock whistle. • Going to the variety store at the North Gate • Playing in the assembly hall across from the YMCA. • I can remember the original Reville (was she a mutt). • The boys that I played with were Bill Williams, Jimmy Howell, Wally and Rusty Anderson, Knox and John Walker, Ide Trotter, and others. I am including a map of the campus as I remember it as to where people lived. Regards, -- - Wally Penberthy I Li c iFL� SiiE of ��GS ^`r M tACQ 5oM V V NFA HER-�J6uFS Wa��� � raS �NS U (,AMMoti) • ! �— AT91LieTlL LVI Ntfi#V� C- PO o l_ Fie+—� �N�ERSon) ky�j s rIE�n A i I "' • i �l J � i 11 ' �• r �I f x r+ y i. IIr_ 1 j • d t " i Although an Independent School District was organized as early as 1909, public education lacked a real tax base until the incorporation of the City in 1938. This building was constructed on campus in 1920, and served school-aged children until the construction of the "new"A&M Consolidated School on the corner of Jersey and Holik in 1940. COURTESY TFXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES 75 / `/ I am including a map of the campus as I remember it as to where people lived. O ?,u e57A;v Regards, ( - f t. Wally Penberthy D1z I L :S two OZ � v J w,n ail viol Jo aPO QJ I 6A NM oO w�NH�NJc, I C*C i Puo Lr 1 I �jE(l� c .« III I Imo.. � 444 � �I Bu 4 •"'F 0 i " � � � • ,.fir,, x 4U'fik 1 ¢ ; s,. +✓" .i x W_.._. .'" .T - s �f .. _ I IllijMf v.,. - w , Yik al s s X e _ Aj Allow 71 M.. - 11 moiiu Ili WI WI*1 All ALM i«.. r+• �4 .. '_any.. ." -� r.,.:iyaa .. F i Ilir1 ! ' The "College" and the "Station" dominate the landscape in this 1925 aerial view of the A&M College. Faculty and staff lived on campus in College-owned housing (lower left and right), or commuted to Bryan, some four unpaved miles away. COURTESY F•ORAtf•:R STUDENTS ASSOCL\LION Citv of College Station Memory Lanes Oral History A&M College Campus Kids Wednesday, February 18, 1998 Assignment Schedule �) Interview Tape Recorder Camcorder Camcorder Room No. Group Moderator Note taker Provided By Operated By Provided By Tripod 107 Teeny Wicker Katherine Stasny Council Office Willow Branch Willow Branch s '71 e (12 -lr4lv6 Z �a� f� Y � 411 Hunterwood Drive Houston, Texas 77024-6902 May 11, 1998 City of College Station Historic Preservation Committee College Station Conference Center 1300 George Bush Drive College Station, Texas 77840 Attention: Ms. Grace Calbert Dear Ms Calbert: I am returning the copy of the oral history interview of Campus Kids conducted in February 1998. I made considerable corrections. I hope-that they will be incorporated before the transcript is made a part of any permanent record or circulated among other groups. I am glad we had the opportunity to review the transcript. I am sure that its preparation was no easy task, and I am concerned somewhat about its accuracy. By and large each of us used grammatical English. In the transcription, I noticed some errors of number and tense attributed to many of us that I don't think occurred in our conversation. For example, it is unlikely that I would have begun a sentence "Me and my brother came. . . ." I would hate for such ungrammatical construction to become part of a written history. Some words and phrases attributed to me were so misunderstood that I cannot recall the original statement. For example, our group did discuss the fact that Aggie dates and family visitors stayed in private homes, including mine. But I have no idea what I said that could have sounded like the sentence"we had girls stay at our house during Tap Shoes." Of greatest concern to me is the sentence that follows a reference to my father's accidental death in 1948 (which was a horrible tragedy that I feel to this day). I am anxious that you delete a subsequent sentence, which appears to reference Daddy's death, "It was an important contribution in our lives." (Italics added.) I cannot determine whether the transcriber misunderstood the italicized words or whether the "it" referred to an earlier subject, my confirmation. At any rate, my father's death dramatically changed my life, but it could never be"an important contribution to my life." Sometimes the transcriber's misunderstanding was merely amusing. I am relatively certain I did not accuse my beloved Sunday school teacher of"stretching"the Ten Commandments; I do recall her stressing them. All these and many other additions or corrections are noted on the pages you sent to me. In February I sent you several pages of recollections (to which 1 referred in the interview). I hope they will be attached. Did you receive them and replace those I left with you at the time of the interviews? Again I want to thank the City for hosting such an interesting program. I know it is taking many, many hours of hard work to produce this history. I am grateful to have been included. Very truly yours, Lee Adcock Hunnell Enclosure , t cell Orden eabl ne -s P covi d e L Fr ivaCI Ak f-elf Rio 1✓( -moo M Z 4 4 � u�r3oc►L — ref h k e .TnPs y y. Koh 4ko+ oci © 4 h� v& room kcLetass -�h • 411 Hunterwood Drive Houston, Texas 77024-6902 February 27, 1998 City of College Station Historic Preservation Committee College Station Conference Center 1300 George Bush Drive College Station, Texas 778 Attention: Ms. Grace Calbert Dear Ms Calbert: Our morning with other Texas A&M "campus kids"was like spending a glorious few hours in Brigadoon. It was also reminiscent of the return to childhood of the principal character in Our Town. I loved it and was so glad to have been given the opportunity to participate. • Thank you and the Historical Preservation Committee. I have corrected some typographical errors and revised and slightly expanded my personal reflections which I left with you on February 18, 1998. Please discard those typed pages (and the handwritten notes on the back of one) and replace them with the enclosed. 1 look forward to any collected accounts you are able to send to us. It will be an added joy to share them with my mother,who twice elected to stay in College Station (when Daddy was called to the War and again when she was widowed). Although we had no family in Texas or within 1000 miles,I recall her saying then that it was a wholesome place to raise her children. Mother, a very alert 91-year old, will enjoy reliving those traumatic yet happy years through the recollections of the children she watched grow up. Please contact me for any other such splendid days of memory. Very truly yours, 4A4, L�4dlOC-�l Lee Adcock Hunnell Enclosure George Edward Madeley Jan. 17, 1912—April 20, 1999 Services for George Edward Made- ley, 87, of Bryan are set for 11 a.m. Friday at A&M United Methodist Church. The Revs. Guy Pry and Charles Anderson will officiate. Burial will be in College Station Cemetery. Visitation will x Y< be from 5 to 7 P.M. Thursday at Callaway-Jones Funeral Home. Mr. Madeley died Tuesday in St. Joseph MADELEY Regional Health Center. He was born in Navasota, owned and operated Madeley Pharmacy, was a member and Past Master of Sul • Ross Lodge#1300 A.F. &A.M.,was a member of the Arabic Shrine Temple, past president of the Brazos Valley Shrine Club and a member of the York Rite Bodies of Bryan. He served as director of the Better Business Bureau, served as past president of the Bryan Library and six years on the Sterling C. Evans Library board at Texas A&M University. He organized the William Joel Bryan Chapter of the Sons of the Republic of Texas in 1975 and was bestowed the Knight of San Jacinto honor. He was a member of A&M United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his 1 wife, Wilton "Billie" Madeley. Survivors include two god-daughters, Sharon Menn of College Station and Sondra Weaver of York, Maine;a niece, Ruth Hailey of Houston; and a nephew, Dr. James Stephens of Spring. • 5 GEORGE EDWARD MADELEY January 17,1912 to April 20,1999 George Edward Madeley died Tuesday morning. April 20, 1999 in St.Joseph Regional Health Center,Bryan.He was born January 17, 1912 in Navasota,Texas,the son of Mary Abbie Albert Morris and Samuel Madeley.A graduate of Navasota High School and Danforth School of Pharmacy,he received his license from the State Board of Pharmacy in 1932. • He established the Madeley Pharmacy at Chapell Hill in 1932 and married Wilton Estelle "Billie"Madeley in 1934.The Madeleys moved to College Station in 1940 and opened the Madeley Pharmacy which Edward operated until his retirement in 1979. Edward was an organizing member and Past Master of the Sul Ross Masonic Lodge,#1300 A.F.&A.M.,past District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas and was pre- sented the Perfect Ashler Award. A Member of the,Arabic Shrine Temple, he was past President of the Brazos Valley Shrine Club and was a Member of the York Rite Bodies in Bryan. Edward Madeley served as a director for the Better Business Bureau. He served as past President and Board Member of the Bryan Library and for six years on Sterling Evans Library Board of Texas A&M University. He organized the William Joel Bryan Chapter of the Sons of the Republic of Texas in 1975 and was bestowed the Knight of San Jacinto honor by the national organization. He also organized the Sul Ross Camp#1457 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and served as it's first Commander. Edward Madeley was a member of the A&M United Methodist Church since 1940 and served as Chairman of the Church Official Board and as a Trustee.He donated land to the City of College Station for the establishment of the Billie Madeley Park,and will be remem- bered for his kind heart and generosity to those in need and his community. Funeral Services are scheduled for 11:00 A.M., Friday, April 23, 1999, at A&M United Methodist Church.Dr.Charles Anderson and Rev.Guy Pry will officiate.Masonic Graveside Rites will follow in the College Station Cemetery under the auspices of Sul Ross Lodge 1300 A.F.&A.M. Survivors include two goddaughters;Sharon Merin of College Station and Sondra Weaver of York, Maine, a nephew; Dr.James Stephens, of Spring, and a niece; Ruth Hailey, of Houston.He was preceded in death by his wife,Billie Edwards on May 16, 1998. Memorial Contributions may be made to A&M United Methodist Church,417 University Dr., C.S.Tx 77840,or the Brazos Valley Masonic Library and Museum,Box 1300,C.S.,Tx 77841. Arrangements by CaffawayTones juneralHome • ll�A Ct- rliv � q27 _ `v2.d -ol +E c saint- hoase-- c h G a van p u s ck 4-� e. e o rv� e- eka �{ LuaS horv, uv�jI1 ;Married Char�e S AA VA D v, kv� t citiS. 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ASSOCIATION Members of the Children's Rid- ing Class conducted by the A. & M. College Military Department par-i ticipated in a horse show held this+ morning in the new arena laid out in the woodland plot just off High-! way No. 6. Major W. R. Irvin.! teacher of the class, was ring- master. Competition was held in three) classes,beginners,intermediate and' advanced, and cups were present-I ed winners of these groups by the, A. & M. Polo association. Mrs.1 George F. Moore, wife of Col.! Moore, head of the military depart- ment, made the awards. Judges, who included Lt. Col. 0.� E. Beezley, Capt. T. D. Roberts and Jack Ijays, announced the fol- lowing winners in the three classes: Beginners—Little Miss Betty Lou Jones, first; Little Miss Lillian Klipple, second; James Mil- ler, third, and Tyleen Jensen, fourth. Intermediate—Alma Jean Vance, first; Signe Jakkula, second; Ann Cade, third, and Caroline Adriance,, fourth. Advanced—Betty Jo Hale, first; Mitten Howell, second; Betty Joe Cook, third, and Ruth Williams; fourth. • kN (TEXAS)- DAILY EAGLE, � i Reception is Given To College Group. i At Gildhrist Home President and Mrs. Gibb Gil- christ entertained with a brilliant New Year's reception this after- noon at their home from 3 to.6 o'clock for faculty and staff mem- bers of A. and M. College. Receiving with President and i Mrs. Gilchrist were Dean and Mrs. F. C. Bolton, Vice President and Mrs. D. W. Williams, Dean and Mrs. T. D. Brooks, Dean and Mrs. Chas. N. Shepardson, Dean and Mrs. H. W. Barlow, Dean and Mrs. M. T. Harrington, Dean and Mrs. J. W. Rollins, Acting Dean and Mrs. R. C. Dunn, Mr, and Mrs. R. D. Lewis, Dr., and Mrs. Ide P. Trotter, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. An- gell, and Col. aand Mrs. Guy F. M e l o y. Assisting in receiving guests were Mesdames Frank An- derson, N. M. McGinnis and J. E. Marsh, i In the entire reception suite a gracious profusion of Spring flowers were at vantage points and also centered the tea table. Assisting in the dining room were Misses Betty Jo Hale, Pat Orr, I Mary Margaret Darnell, Caroline Adriance, Ruth Williams, Peggy 1 Campbell, ,Laetitia Cofer, Teeny 4 Anderson, Petty- Vance, Louise Marsh and Mrs. Cedric R. Lan- don. During the reception hours guests were delighted with mus- ical selections of Mrs. Chris Groneman, violinist and Mrs. H. 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" ' i At Gilchrist Home President and Mrs. Gibb Gil- christ entertained with a brilliant • New Year's reception this after- noon at their home from 3 to.6 o'clock for faculty and staff mem- bers of A. and M. College. Receiving with President and Mrs. Gilchrist were Dean and Mrs. F. C. Bolton, vice President and Mrs. D. W. Williams, Dean and _ ;Mrs. T. D. Brooks, Dean and Mrs. 'Chas. N. Shepardson, Dean and = f Mrs. H. W. Barlow, Dean and Mrs. M. 'T. Harrington, Dean and Mrs. J. W. Rollins, Acting Dean and Mrs. R. C. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. R. ; D. Lewis, Dr., and Mrs. Ide P. '. Trotter, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. An- gell, and Col. aand Mrs. Guy F. M e 1 o y. Assisting in receiving gzlests were Mesdames Frank An- derson, N. M. McGinnis and J. E. Marsh. In the entire reception suite a gracious profusion of Spring flowers were at vantage points and also centered the tea table. Assisting in the dining room were Misses Betty Jo Hale, Pat Orr, 1 Mary Margaret Darnell, Caroline Adriance, Rut)i Williams, Peggy Campbell, Laetitia Cofer, Teeny Anderson, Betty' Vance, Louise Marsh and Mrs. Cedric R. Lan-. don. During the reception_ hours • _ guests were delighted with mus- ical selections of Mrs. Chris Groneman, violinist and Mrs. H. K. Stephenson, piaz;ist. -7 - Sm 14 ah 5ie too co��ni J Om WI fie- lane ct dam ole-- u e -2, CC / a S S �� r 4- o S-e o 4 'As I rl +In e �44A /Q�e_ (tip wa c/IJ d Ye ss s t H vccv� Su � dQy G �o �h�S G� c� yI'Iee7L a7` )-a k?cxs�et S, AO S ver � Iar � �. ry a >M c�va Q viou d e h o hosf -E- � � s class wer 5 c,v2 �I�- 1 bC I� � U2, + � a7` /firs. Lq ?'�clos�Pr Ne nlonD �or aGr ao raceslal r eve e uvt h� >r 4� of we_ a 1 I 5,e �ew�ed Yafhe r aw )14uJar u � - irSCGtV1C-..) US bQ O r e_ 4- Y► 6 ;1 � u S - ��� � (,� �P Q � 4 Gt/a S �tlCke ri Il �iPlc� . 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J. f)c"dr4x -Conway fridap evening, fcbruarp nineteenth 'nineteen hundred and thirty-seven at scut»-thirty+ o'clock 'bowie 75chool -&Ac orium • PROGRAM (a) March of the Wee Folk----------------------Gaynor (b) Song of the Pines----------------------------Adair Dick Yarnell Vacation Time _______________________________ Williams Peggy Wilbanks The Bars Binger ----------------------------------_-______ Rolfe David Butler (a) A Little March ____________________________ Wright (b) Valse ------------------------------------- Rolfe Louise Marsb (a) Easter Morning Eymn ______________________ Preston (b) The Merry-Go-Round _______________________ Rogers Mary Olive Bullock Rose Petals ----------------------------------- Lawson Dick Yarnell — Mary Ann Munnerlvn (a) A Little Journey __________________________ -Hopkins (b) Katydid ------------------------------------ Kern Mary Ann Munnerlvp (a) Marching Together ________________________ Johnson (b) Spring Flowers ______________________________ Rolfe Betty Benbow Pansies ----------------------------------------- Gray Rosalyn Reynolds Merry Games ___________________________________ Frate Anna Del Koontz Just We Two__________________________________ Presser Rosalyn Reynolds — Louise Marsh (a) The Hobby Horse __________________________ Clafflin kb) A Ghost Came Creeping ___________________ Ketterer Martha Jan oi' r (a) The Old Refrain _________________________ Anderton _- - (b) The Avalanche _____________________________ Heller Caroline Sticknev (a) C i Wild Rose _ ______________ =__=-McDowell (b) Curious Story _ _ Heller Betty Jo Hole, Tarantella ____________________________________ Dennee Maiy Evelyn Anderson Over the Hills _________________________________ Baines Marjorie Moreland The Flower Song _______________________________ Lange Alice Silvey `:arcissus -------------------------------------- Nevin Peggy Paine Evening Chimes _________________________________ Heins Mary Helen Vick Spanish Dapce No. 2 ________________________ Moskowski PeT_rry Paine — :Mice Silvey Chimes of Love -------------------------------- Heller Lucille Thornton (a) Prelude in C Minor -----------_________ Rachmaninoff _ - - tb) May-Night--=------------------------------ Ward Virginia Fairies \-ioloncello— (a) Sorg Without Words, Op. 23----------- Davidoff (b) My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice -------- Saint Saens Marjorie Steel Hungary ------------------------------------- Koelling Thomas Halll Solfegietto ______________________________ C. P. E. Bach Marjorie Steel Valse Arabesque _________________________________ Lack Ruth McCullough Fetitival Procession March _____________________ Rathbun j I Thomas Hall — Ruth McCullough 7 ,es r us k�� s Q .� Ca w►r or _ Sfiu1-0Ott s at- ou l- ekP1M � e�Tpr L`-b �, ��R �� - �� �✓ S 47 X r�N ,pr_ In i wi 1111 MOM r. t� r 4{ 1 � r MaY� /Ens .Muvt� er��n �vi Y cl", `k ab rill COA unrvt��1 5 C ✓� � C �'1a11nG� ok, S �-uTv v1 • •�.��� •� .ram' . ,. • l� a r r' �l��t �C4 l Yl cc� _ i��r s. ���, �,r�R' �v�G�Qd4'!- < „arc -•.�,,,i�y,, ,-� J ■■ l^ nose h t- re .restAevtce U � a :j 4. .►' ��( OiM - . .A 4,'! 1. rr �" '�ti.; � :�are► `�;�. e; .. -� � =. �.: p'�'�,;>,. x,,Ate• `..r .y ;�,- ,} ;l� � / 1 - -•t iF A'`tJ x • I \ C I JJJ t i � ;• t ` _ l In Y" i t r' r _ w Te.xOLS �soFi3a'te�. �(?Y�nentgrtn S Gin o o I �v� /• �w__---�----- '} • STANDING BY SIX WEEK'S PERIODS I I I AV,-. Exam. I Sem. I Aug. Exam. Seni. Yearly SUBJECTS I I I I 11 ( I Grade-I Grade II Ave. 4 0 G l Grade I Grade I Avg. I Standing Arithmetic IA I�r I t���—I 7 ;x i ��I�II_ � Civics Citizenship Drawing I i I I A English i A +I /A I N A I A I t 9 i} I I A I AALI— Geography t Il -I� * T-I�iI p I ri IAI-A— _A I-1 — History, U_S. History, Texas History,Beginnersi t'I A+ IA t I A+ �� _�_A+- .Ik±I A+I�_I Home Economics Hygiene I I I I A 1-1 66_I�I_I—I I Music Nature Study Phonics Physical Ed. I II I I_I_I Reading I A I Q I A I-Z I AI_�_I-Y_I�L_I_ A Shop Rork Social Studies I I I I ��I__I n i I SAelling IA} �:—L�-1-SL_I (��� I-A+- A��1LI Writing Days Present 13 6 2 I G6I ��I Days Absent 6 Times Tardy I 6 6 T Deportment I A. Ifi I A- A- I A I A I I I STUDENT ATTITUDES ATTITUDE TOWARD WORK j—1 5 6 Indolent Wastes time %v�rk carelessly done i Gives up too easily I I I I Shows improvement ( I I I Very commendable RECITATION I I I I I I .appears not to try I I I I ^I Pr,motion in danger Inattentive Capable of doing better I I I Shows improvement I I I I Very satisfactory I ✓ , /� I I I L� 1 rf A• • STANDING BY SIX WEEK'S PERIODS ~ Subjects I I I I Ave. + Exam.-I Sem, + I I Ave. ( Exam. I Sem. I Y�rly 1 2 3 Grade I Grade Ave. 4 1 6 6 I Grade I Grade Ave Standing Spelling A A Q+ nif]f A~ Av► R Reading �p ��K^ �_ LA R Writing I q Q /� A A (� A A A Arithmetic A FI f}f f R Q} I A q Q A English - r Phonics Citizenship Geography - A A A 1s A I p U. S. History I I =I Texas History Beginners History I 1 ! I I Civics Nature Study Home Economics I4. Music ` Physiology I I Drawing A I A I l a A E} R (� A Hygiene Mechanical Draw. ` - Shop Work Days Present 3o Q¢ �O Q I 'f to fog Days Absent p t7 D 0 Times Tardy I D I 4 O 0 I 0 Q Deportment A 9� R STUDENT ATTITUDES ATTITUDE TOWARD WORK I 1 I 2 ' 3 I 4 6 6 Indolent Wastes time Work carelessly done I Gives up too easily i Shows improvement Very commendable RECITATION f Appears not to try _ Seldom does well Inattentive Capable of doing better I - Shows improvement --{,, Very satisfactory • co-r CIO . TO PARENTS OR GUARDIAN �• Q_ j= �pi��pij��f�� Kindly examine card carefully, sign and return promptly. Please notice each gradero�I and confer with us if you desire informa- tion relative to this report. SIGNATURE i Elrmrntaq (Srabrs 1st Period__��`_t'z "-' '`--- 2nd Period_ ' Report to Parents 3rd Period_--------------------=---- { • REPORT OF 4th Period___'`__ =`•_' __-' �=�-'- h. pD � 5th Period-- a--- 6th Period--------------------------- ------- ______Grade LEGENDAge ------9------------------------ Parent or GuardianzL_4'-:�_ A excellent, 90-100; B good, 80-90; C fair, ✓r��'�- 70-80; D unsatisfactory, 60-70; F failing, r below 70. The Home, the School and the State Should Promoted to -"-k Work T03ether for the Good of the Child. getaaxe - ---------------------Grade Teacher �!_ -- �-���[------------- . ------------- . - ---------- Supt. f S Teacher TO PARENTS OR GUARDIAN ', Kindly examine card carefully, sign and return promptly. Please notice each grade - x �' �IIItSD1I�T,t1#E and confer with us if you desire informa- tion relative to this report. • 44 sx o .. ' SIGNATURE ..Ylementzirg Grabco t 1st PeriocL. ..1�.............. r Report to Parents 2nd. Period-... ���`�! - REPORT OF.� POR . 3rd. Period...... 1PIA....D.. .._ . . ._...... JL ._ .A } 4 h- Period......". .4-.....44 ._. 4 ..... >,F }gg 5th. Period_A s------ . .. .......Grade L .. 6th. Period__ .1:._:..._ .t = ................... ::.. • _._ �' Age '`... LEGEND ' A excellent, 90-100; B good, 80-90; C fair, Parent or Guardian__. s ...... 70-80; D unsatisfactory, 60-70; F failing, K below 70. An average of 90 in a subject, and a gen- - t 5' "7 sral average in deportment,-will exempt as ` The Home, the School Should itudent from semester exa 'na�m that Work Tosether for the, ef'the Child. subject. ! Promoted to a " Retained-4r..-C)L.4 ............... ..Grade Teacher (....} _, -ys,,Qi. ' ._b... ' —Teacher Supt. .............. .. ; TO PARENTS OR GUARDIAN r 1 Kindly examine card carefully, sign and ' • �OtTSD�IaisitPL� return promptly. Please notice each grade and confer with us if you desire informa- tion relative to this report. SIGNATURE 751einentartr 05rabez 1st Period.. 2nd Period... nrea...�ntiu� SIK�. i --� � �---�--- � ����--�-�� Report to Parents 3rd Period...��`iv�.�a•...a ... ... REPORT OF 4th Period... ...... . r-- CiA_ (� 5th Period..........r`�'..�..... .....-4.A.. ...�- ...... GthPeriod............................................................ � / ..........Grade 19.31...19A.U.. LEGEND Age .........�A....... .....'V� �.Mj%_ ......................... ....Q /� `, n A excellent, 90-100; B good, 80-90; C fair, Parent or Guardian_IhA' ,.A°�-..... 70-80; D unsatisfactory, 60-70; F failing, below 70. Promoted to The Home, the School and the State Should Work Together for the Good of the Child. Rota inad n_. ....:-..................................Grade Teacher ................................................................ .................%A...... .,.r, ,..........e h.�.. .Supt. .................................................................... Teacher 1 STANDING BY SIX WEEK'S PERIODS SUBJECTSIl Avg. Exam.} Sem. Avg. I Exam. Sam. Yearly 1 2 I 3 Grade Grade I Avg. I. 4 5 ( 6 Grade l Grade Avg. Standing Arithmetic I `1 I I IA l( � 7 I / a I Civics I let _Citisenship.___.I—I I ( q Drawing I.AIA� 7 7— i' /A�A� f3-fI 160 I'.Z I .93 ' _English. .I -1��*114_I_ 19? 1?4/ A //�T I m / Geography— I. I�1!� � I q A` I I I History,,, U_S. I 0111 I o o f-A- - - History, Texas I_ History, Beginners— I____I Home Economics —I--I I_ I -_-_I �'�1� Hygiene I I h� I 1 ��I —1 d' I I I• I I 11 Q 6 -music- Nature Study -- Phonic. Physical Ed. 9 .Reading------Ifs-I.A�I.A� I ----I I-—[��-�-I-tS. �I _Shop Work _Social Studies Spelling _I A I I .A I Writin,T Days Present i I 1 \ �� I�• I ( I _-_- _ ,j1 Days Absent I�1 01 (7 I 1 1 l a l l 61 1 _Times Tardy V_1 0 1 o I __)__-1 t o ICI o f Deportment IA. I A I� I I I lil' 1-1-1 STUDENT ATTITUDES ATTITUDE VOWARD WORK f 1 2 i - 3 1 4 Indolent 1 Wastes time I I Work carelessly done Gives up too easily Shows improvement Very commendable RECITATION (— Appears not to try _ Promotion in danger Inattentive Capable of doing_better Shows improvement 1 Very satisfactory I I I 1 1 10/28/97 04:23 V713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON 10001/003 M JOHN M. ROBINSON 910 TRA'VIS, SUITE 1905 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002 (713) 652-5809 (713) 652-2449 (TELECOPIER) DATE: PLEASE DELIVER THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO: NAME: COMPANY: ��� FACSIMILE NUMBER:( 1,LQ FROM: JOHN M. ROBINSON SANDRA SYMON tat Number of Pages Including Cover Page: RE: 17, AQ L INSTRUCTIONS: THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS FACSIMILE IS CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY ALSO BE SUBJECT TO THE ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE OR MAY CONSTITUTE PRIVILEGED WORK PRODUCT. The information is intended only for the use of the Individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the recipient, or the agent or employee responsible to deliver it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this facsimile in error, please immediately notify us by telephone, and return the original message to us at the address above via the U.S. ,Postal Service. Thank You. 10/28/97 04:23 %Y713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON 10 002/003 AMBER MAY THRELKELD Date of Birth: September 7, 1894 Birthplace: Campus of Texas A&M College School: Bryan Baptist Academy Husband: Clyde D. Threlkeld Married on January 1, 1913. Worked in power plant at Texas A&M from 1911- 1918. Father: Thomas .Rob Carson Great-Grandfather: John Carson, born 1786. Donated 640 acres of the original land to help start A&M as a college. Children: Annie Lee Threlkeld. Born: September 7, 1914 C. D. Threlkeld, Jr. Born: February 5, 1918 Birthplace: Campus of Texas A&M College Four months old when they left A&M. Father-in-law: Dewitt Clinton Threlkeld Lost hand on a Talley Mill plainer located in Keenan, Texas. Moved to A&M and lived with son. Sold popcorn and peanuts at $.05 a bag on campus for 3 1/2 years. Other ancestors: Samuel P. Carson which was one of her ancestors was a signor of The Texas Declaration of Independence on March 10, 1836. Other facts: Mrs. Threlkeld was there when Main Hall burned in 1912. She turned 103 on September 7, 1997. 10/28/97 04:24 %2713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON 10003/003 Dewitt Clinton Threlkeld sold popcorn and peanuts on the campus of Texas A&M College for 3 1/2 years at $.05 per bag. He had moved to College Station to live with his son C. D. Threlkeld, Sr. who lived on the campus of Texas A&M College after he lost his right hand on a Talley Mill plainer located in Keenan, Texas. C. D. Threlkeld, Sr. was employed by the College to work in the power plant. He is regarded as the person who discovered the fire in the Main Hall which was destroyed in 1912. The wife of Clyde D. Threlkeld was Amber May Carson. Her two children, Annie Lee Threlkeld, born September 7, 1914 and Clyde D. Threlkeld, born February 5, 1918 were both born on the campus of Texas A&M College. The great-grandfather of Amber May Threlkeld was John Carson, born in 1786, donated 640 acres of the original land to help get Texas A&M College started. Samuel P. Carson, one of Amber May Threlkeld's ancestors was a signor of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 10, 1836. Amber May Threlkeld celebrated her 103rd birthday on September 7, 1997. Amber May Threlkeld and her son Clyde D. Threlkeld, Jr. donated the engine that ran the popcorn machine to the Stevat Cadet Museum on October 16, 1997. . 0. _ ins` /b'�`zl !1111�� "Ire Ry I, .Ile JOHN M. ROBINSON 910 TRAVIS, SUITE 1905 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002 (713) 652-5809 (713) 652-2449 (TELECOPIRR) October 13, 1997 BY FAX #409-845-1643 Pages: 3 Ms. Sonny Sky KAUM - TV College Station Dear Ms. Sky: Transmitted herewith are several important facts about Mrs. Amber May Threlkeld. The address of Mrs. Threlkeld is 4417 Coyle, Houston, TX 77023, 713- 926-8732. When you come in on HWY 290 from Bryan, get on Loop 610 and go to IH-10. Turn towards downtown. Then enter on to 1H-45 to Cullen exit and turn left under IH-45 (also exit to University of Houston). Then to first red light which is Leeland Street. Turn right and go to second crossroad being Eastwood Street. Then turn right down to Coyle Street (3 blocks) and turn left. You will see a house on left side with porch across front (red and white). Should there be any questions, please do not hesitate to call, otherwise, will see you October 16 at 11 :30 at Mrs. Threlkeld's. s truly o n M. Robinson JMR/sks AMBER MAY THRELKELD Date of Birth: September 7, 1894 Birthplace: Campus of Texas A&M College School: Bryan Baptist Academy Husband: Clyde D. Threlkeld Married on January 1, 1913. Worked in power plant at Texas A&M from 1911- 1918. Father: Thomas Rob Carson 1�s Carson. Donated land to help start A&M as a college. Children: Annelee Threlkeld. Born: September 7, 1914 C. D. Threlkeld, Jr. Born: February 5, 1918 Birthplace: Campus of Texas A&M College Four months old when they left A&M. Father-in-law: Dewitt Clinton Threlkeld Lost hand on a Talley Mill plainer located in Keenan, Texas. Moved to A&M and lived with son. Sold popcorn and peanuts at $.05 a bag on campus for 3 1/2 years. Other ancestors: Samuel P. Carson which was one of her ancestors was a signor of The Texas Declaration of Independence on March 10, 1836. Other facts: Mrs. Threlkeld was there when Main Hall burned in 1912. of She turned 103 on September 7, 1997. y y Y. • "4„aa ta3�'; �tyti+►a"rL'Y':ervwa,,• f • 4 � • • ` �• •, �,Nal +`I , ,® ' �• �� ' ��� `� fir;! Fir ON.?.,A! or:Qr I WN O SEE 534 MAP 1 � • HOME PRODUCTS Export-Import • NOVELTIES /limits �ylfRNAT10N�' TRADERS R. R. ROYALL 1820 HEIGHTS BLVD. • HOUSTON B, TEXAS, U.S.A. PHONE UN 1-69B1 !d July 31 oirs. ]Leland S. Fang 240 Townsend. Terrace Las Cruces N, tex, 88001 Dear Ds Evans Thanks for the informatlon you recently furnished me. I xnnt be able to write the genealogy of the Carson-Curtis families in time for the family reunion but will do so at a latter date and furnish you with a copy: I An going to ask that you forgive any..+typoeo�jij)hieal erroFs_- be- cause twin is the very first latter on any Nbrtabl4` that I hav tii rittn oN i In over four years. They kicked up my Remington ebout 30 minutes ago and I will not have it for two months. I am atter-r t n to ,live you a short breakdown of vrour Curtis connections and :4.1.is connections also. You may tic ::iliar with the *ills connections, and If"' so this will do to harm ;7a When 1 was a small boy V father purchased a I1111s genealoa... It was written in 1399 by B . R. Heyward, alban y, N*Y. and was obviously to on from the 3 or 4 v lums book "Som of Virginl,4,01 'ri by Ploquet DuBellet. A Later &;;nealogf� of the Smith-Mills c,nd rAqted families mal,tea some corre'ttions that I carry in my roily end logy , but is not Include. in this brief f�a,ni4resuwe.. U9'_U _yYz� + R l�r�► e a . (1) Thomas Smith (1648-11/16/1694 name to the .:'rov1'. of Gary=?1ia in 1684. He was govorn.or of south Carolina, lie married to England Barbara Atkins his stop sister, who was baptised 9/12/1650, They had two childrenw The oldest was (2) Thomas Smith, Jrw" (1663-4/5/1738) ,Married in 1689 Ann Corr)#IJA Van M ddagh.. They had 10 children, the yth child was Sabina Smith". Sabina Smith (5/10/1699-12/13/1774) Married first he: cousin May 27, 1714 and he died MPwch 3, 17234 harried 2nd Thomas TaylG � Jar. 10 , 1733 wilo died 12/13/1757• Born to the 2nd marriage Sabina Taylor: (4) Sabina Taylor (9/27/1734-10 �,24/1772) Sabina Taylor married Andrew Taylor August 19,1752, Born to them two children. Elizabeth and Ann; (5) Ann. Tay:'.or (12/l2/1755-61911790) married 9/24/1772 11illiam I'll11s-who - _ ,1€3 o n o �:p c . r he 1st 0 fJl� � omas Gri eh i s aR c ill men. . ]:� acshi1l has `eth J)Xlia l�t#, a She was guy groat grandmother, Ti--e 'y n child was Thomas 'HuaLp treyy Tji S+ He was your ancestor. (6) Thomas Griffith Alls (6/4/1774- } i§Irried June llth 1605 Eliza-Diana Humphreys. The 9th child was Robert Numphfeys Millso (7) Robert I14!--prey a Y il.l s (12/5/1817-4/27/1874) Married May 20 1649 -Mary Jane ,,�}IcLean. Born to this union 9 children. ThC ��'` Pat (8)William Henry Mills b• July 181 1861, married Et tie Hughes o Date of marriage or Bttle Hughes birth date or death not shown. They y were our grandparents* (9T The 9th generation would be , Rex .Mills horn 1889 Laura 1i lls. born 1891 (I think sho was your aunt Lora) , Lilly 13ills born 1893 (She was your mother) Bruce '1111s, born 1895 R;chael 411ls born 1898 The book was published in 1899. The Smith coat -Of -arms is shorn In color on the first rage: Tho:aas Smith, the first Landgrave and Gov- ernor of South: Carolina was descended from George Smith, the Sheriff Of County Devon in 1516* Your Xills ancestor William 14ill$ came to America from DundoO Scotland in 1711'0# The references are the four volumns mentionod' by ZIcquet DuBellot pub�.lshod by J�,k.Bell Co., Lynchburg, Va. 1899- -�►4ur Family Cirale by Anne Elizabeth 111111ort Continental Bonk Co, , DIt-iriotta, Ga, 19� and a "gvuth Carolina Family, Mills, Smith and Related. Lines, by: Latzrons, Tenny Mills.#.; 1,960,w With referenco .to the Carsons o I have had srtic'?es published all over the Uwe, looking for information on tale Caraons* The Brazos County Cargoes-know vexy little about their anoostorac The fic st Carson to Brazos County oame about the beginning of the Republic of Texas. I havo a coat of a land gfant made to John Carson by the Tait President of Togas i, 1845.1 In an Utah magazine was published a no- tice of our family re-unim. to be held this year At:gust nth. Officers were mentlened as Curtis rk Carson and Rey R* Royal.l o Thy name Curtiss attached to a Carson rung a -ball. We heard •from a lady In Corpus chx : * t "V, �t. ';f. who was writingagenealogioal history of she Guwtie , and she knew. that two Curtis Girls had married Carsons* Subsequent correspondenei gave us the Curtis line, i Samuel Curtio b Feb 9, 1750 married Sarah Hicks in Vf79., Sarah fi Hicks born 1.0 /17;7 in Sussex Ca* Va. 33muol Curtis horn in Anson County, A *Ct* They had 12 childz en. The n1tth child was F.homss Roe Curtis. Thomas Roo Curtis b Fob 14,1796 d gear 2: 867* Married Naney Lucy who woe born Feb 1., 1 r)7* Marrl(,.4 on MLr^h. 181 The 6th child wa S Amanda HOO Ouw tis b 8/14,/IW-*4/22/1892}`�. tjo1 married 6thcNathan �'ran2£*� lie Carson 8/3/1842, Nathan Franklin darson (5/29/181-3-F5/26/1836) m 6/3/1842 Amanda Roe Curtis* Their lith child was Thomas Roes Carson*. Thomas Roe Carbon, (1©/9/1361-12/10/1.942) married let Amber May Keaton about 18a6. Amber May Dooton birth date a Wk,* died 4/19/1892. 2 children born to the first marriage. The first child eras Noah Abornatiq Carson, the ?nd chi14 gyres Alvah Nathan Carson.* Alvah Nathan Carson (4/16/1890-1/12/1953) married 1bry Lilly milt (T born 5/3/1893,* y jhroLkeld fives her death as Nov* 17 or 19, 3938, Mary L .11 3 14111. urried I 1911. 1 rio0P You W e%cuae th, errors made on tUs typewriter* It is entirely new and I cannot gat it to space or keep moving* Hope you can come to our rounion on Aug. 7th. Notice of it is inclosed# kth kind reSordS to you and y:,urs, Your cousin, R. R . ?oyall, 1320 Heights :Blvd. Houston, Texas. r/ THE CURTIS & CARSON GENEALOGY ONE LINE TO THE BRAZOS COUNTY,TEXAS FAMILIES OF CARSONS AND ROYA 1S (2/9/1750-1/24/1a 1 Sarah (1) Samuel Curtis n2/1 846 Married 1st,:. S�:�sex Co.)oo, � 779, Hicks, (11/14/1757-9 810) Files of the National Archives indicate that Samuel Curtis served in the Revolutionary War. In 1805 the family moved to Washington County, when it was in Mississippi Territory. He moved to Old Spring Hill, Marengo County, Alabama in 1819 and died there at the age of 96. Married 2nd, Elizabeth Kennon, (1778-1858) The birtYs of the Samuel Curtis children are taken from two family bibles. The last tf`Lr.e'echil- dren are evidently issue from the second marriage. a Sarah Curtis (1780- Married 1806 John Kelly. b Nathaniel Curtis (11/10/1781-7/18/1848 Married Susan and moved to Louisiana c Daniel Curtis (1784- Married and moved to Texas d Susannah Curtis (1782-6/15/1852) e William Curtis (5/8/17$8-6/22/1844) m 3/10/1808 Catherine Jones f Obedience Curtis (1790- m Joshua Lewis g Lewis Curtis (1792- h Thomas 110e Curtis (2/14/1796-3/2/1867) m 1st Nancy L��w',y 2nd) Elizabeth M. Boggs i John Curtis ( Dec 1796 m 1823 Ella Pbr j Elizabeth Curtis (1814 m lst Asa Ski�r 2nd, Joseph Agee k Nancy Roe Kennon C(3/9/1816-10/5/1849) m 1st James B -tr:i.ght, 2nd John G. Allen 1 Dolly Curtis (1818 m 1836_Brack� 0. Watkins (2) Thomas Roe Curtis (2 /1796-3/2 867) Married first in Mid gomery County, Tenn. Mar. 28, 1816, Nancy Lucy (2797-loA/1860) Thomas Roe Curtis whams born in Anson County, N.Co and died at his homestead near ,fit,, %as.'\.M�rried Second 4/3/1862 Elizabeth Mar- garet Boggs, widow of Dr. James Coleman s. No �iSsue from 2nd marriage. Issue from first marriage: Sara . Curtis (3/8A817-3�,3Q i y \ Elisabeth Malinda Curtis (4/12/1818 14 4�8,53) m Ignatius A. Traweke 8/21/1834 Jane R. Curtis (11 OA819- m Edward T. Pistole Jan 10,1837 Mary E. Curtis (1 �81k8 $ - \\,, m 1/20A836 John W. Dunn Nancy Lucy Curtis (3124=P'gb 1920.y m 3/10 842 Thomas Henderson Carson Amanda Roe Curtis 8/14/1826 /22A892) m 8/3�42 Nathan Franklin Carson Martha To G'urtis i(1/24/1828-��t 28,1841) Alfred A. Curtis (11/13A829w9/27/1888) m 1st 0 Margaret M. e lion 6/7r1.832,died 1/5/1870. m 2nd Kate Connet Ball 4 8/1874 (3) Amanda Roe Curtis, (8/14/1826--4/22/1892) Married 8/3/1842 Nathan Franklin Carson, (5/29/1813-5/26/106) Nathan Franklin Carson was the son of John Carson, who received a Land Grant, No. 85, from the; Republic of Texas, March 4, 1845, signed by Anson Tones, President, consisi of 640 acres located on the north side of Buffalo Creek, in Robertw son County, \ing Texas' (Leon) The grant was made out to John So Carson, but referred to as the John Carson Grant�Hi.s son James Carson, listed as James R. Carson in John Carson's got a and Grant--No. 260, from the State of Texas, July 13, 1847 signed by Governor Pinckney Henderson for 640 acres on the north side of Buffalo Creek in Robertson Dis- -� 2. ,.ct (`Leon County) adjoining the John Carson Grant. John Carson's will was signed Jonn Carson, Nov. 1 1864, probated March 16, 1865 (Record Book E. pg 402 and Minute Book C. page 214 Brazos County, Texas) The children are listed as follows: Nathan Franklin Carson Thomas Henderson Carson James R. Carson Sarah Ann McDonald, wife of James B. McDonald of the State of Mississippi Emily D. Thetford, wife of Anderson Thetford Margaret W. Thetford, wife of Matthew Thetford Amelia W. Barbee, wife of John Barbee Grandson Nathan F. Pickens. Evidently a daughter married a Pickens. (2) I have no information concerning the daughters of John Carson other than their names and names of their husbands mentioned in John Carson's will dated Nov. 1, 1864 and a grandson No Fo Pickens. , Deseendants of Nathan Franklin Carson who married Amanda Roe Curtis: A11 born in Brazos County, Texas. 1 Nancey E. Carsoh (6/7 1843-6/21 1844) 2 Martha A. Carson N27V 44-9 24/1847) 3 John T. Carson 46-8 /1862) 4 Alfred R. Carson (12 26/1847 m 12/8/1868 Margaret J. Daughten 5 Edward E. Carson (9/5A849-9/28/1850) 6 Margaret J. Carson (3/15/1851 m 4/9/187- W. H. Barrow 7 Malinda A. Carson (11/11 853 m 12/10/1.872 Joe R. Carson.m 2, p 1883 Sarah 0. 8 Nathan Franklin Carson (5/16A855 � 2 8 M Nancy E. Graham (Carson 9 Willie Ann Carson (12/3A856- m 5/13/1873 H. S. Ramsey 10 Sarah Odelia Carson (12/11/1858-June 1892) m after 1883 Joe R. Carson 11 Thomas Roe Carson (10/9/1861-12/10 1942) m 1,Amber; May Deaton,2, Martha V.Deaton 12 Curtis A. Carson (9/25/1864-6/19 949) m 10/7/146 Lucy Catherine Ramsey Mali.nda A. Carson No. 7 above m Joe R. Carson and Jae R.0 ison m 2nd Sarah Odelia Carson Thomas Roe Carson, No. 11 above, fourth generation from_SarTael Curtis, (10/9/1861- 12/10/1942) m 1st about 1886 Amber May Deaton who died 4/19/1892. Married 2nd 12/24/1892 Martha Virginia Deaton, Amber May's sister. Dates for Martha Virginia Deaton are 4//116/1876- 1 2/1g18- Thomas Roe Carson died in Dallas, Texaso'-..Issue from fir$t marriage which would be the 5th generation: Five Children �� \ 1 Noah Abernathy Carson (11/24/'080-5/1';i: 6) m 11 /26/1910 Mary Anna Royall of Brazos County. Issue: Mary Anna Royall born 6/7/1893. Richard Roe Carson 10/17/1911 m 6/1/1939 Marguerite lielson born in 1919. Issue Barbara Lea Carson b May 29, 194Q . Richard David Carson b Aug.-2., 1941 Anna May Carson 2/8/1914 m---8/2/1,_937 Thurston 14 lton Miller bo 12/17/1915. Issue Thomas, Abernathy NiUen b July 1 1938 Marianne Ifller ; ; b Sept 20 1939 Nellie Estelle Carson 4/13/1916 m st 8AA936 Edwin William Chapman (12/15/1914- 3/li/1945. Edwin Chapman was kil3,64 in action in the battle of Iwo Jima 3/11/ 1945. Born to the union Ellen Jeanne__Chapman Feb 8;-1942 Nellie Estelle Carson married second April 27, 1946 in Dallas Texas Earl Jesse Adams bor4 Sept 16, 1917. Issue second marriage. John Winfred Adams April 18, 1950 Evan Jac' ,\Adams F�'. 2nd, 1956 Noah Abernaithy Carson�Jr. 12/30A918 m May 26, 1943 Eva Jane Teague in Dallas, Texas. Eva Jean was,born 15, 1921- Issue Bradshaw Teague Carsoh Sept 8, 1945 Levris Doyle Carson Apr- 5, 1949 Mary Pauline Carson 12/14/1922 m 12/26/1944 Beorge L. O'Neal. of Dallas, Tex. Issue Suzan O'Neal May 12, 1950 Peggy O'Neal Mar 3rd31956 2. Alvah Nathan Carson (4/16/1890-1/12/1953) m 1/8/1911 in Brazos County, Texas Mary Lillie Mills (5/3/1893-11/17 or 1911938) Mary Lillie Mills was born in Brazos County, Texas and died in Houston, Texas. Issue from this marriage a daughter Ruby Mills 12/9/1911 m 11/1/1934 Leland S. Evans b 5120A909. Issue Robert Hill Evans born Feb 17, 1936 m 8/22/1955 Norene Russell Carlton Lee Evans m 11 7/1962 Lydia DeTuro Shirley Ruth Evans born Feb 26,1939 m 2 7/1962 George W. Smith (3) Sec and Marriage 3 Amber May Carson, b Sept 7, 1894 m 1/1/1913 Clyde DeWitt Threlkeld b May 7, 1894 in Montgomery Courrty, Texas. Amber May Carson was born in Brazos County, Texas. Issue from this marriage: Annelee Threlkeld, 9/7/1914 m 1st Virgil B. Dobbs Nov. 18, 1933- Virgil B. Dobbs was killed in action in World War II. Issue from this marriage: Nancy Ann Dobbs, born Sept 9, 1934 m Aug 17, 1956 Dr. Clifford L. Condit. Annelee Threlkeld married second 6/3/1939 John Wayne May. Issue from this marriage: John Wayne May, Jr. born Nov. 4, 1943 Clyde D. Threlkeld, Jr. born 2/5/1918 m 10/27/1945 Ila Mae Webb, b 10/17/1926. Issue Roy Lyn Threlkeld born Sept 9, 1946 Clyde Dee T Krel l-.eld, born Aug 12, 1948 4Leona Mabel Carson (4/10/1896-5/28/1962) m April 1917 Earl A. Phillips. Earl A. Phillips died �/22/1963. Issue: Lucy Phillips Mildred Phillips Earl A. Phillips, Jr. 5 Effie Malinda Carson born Oct 7, 1897 m 8/14/1918 Henry Harrison Reed (8/24/1897- '1/27/1960) Three children born to this marriage. Henry H. Reed, Jr. born Oct. 19, 1919 _ ;-Ailey Robert Reed born Oct. 22, 1920 /`------_ Effie Lorene Reed born Jan 15, 1923 `�\ 6 Thomas Allen Carson, born 10/19/1900 11�1�' sA?' Vera Holbrook in Bryan, Texas. Born to this union one child. % Edward B. Carson, born March 83 19,2/6 2d �olney X 7 Susan Amanda Carson, born 4/3o/1902 mazr Reed December 5j 1918. Volney Reed was born June 2, IWO. Issue from this marriage Blakie Eugene Reed born JLiiy-- : 920-'\Dried Aug 25 1946 2 children Alice Elizabeth Reed, born A"ril"6� 1922,\married Dec 24, 1940 4 Children Em a Lee Reed born A 29, 1924, rried. Feb. 21, 1948 Leroy Ross, 1 child Thomas Wilson steed., bbt •n July 6, 18 died July 30, 19 50 one child 8 Ida Josephine Carson, born March 34 1903, married Will Phillips first, Married second Leonard Ramsey. ;. 9 Je9se Jam S/Carson born-1906 died in infancy. 10 Jewel Car5dn, died at k4th in 1908 11 Vivian Roe�d*rson, born Nov. 13, 1910 died April 1 1954. Married April 29th 1943 Nora, Dien e—ne1T `� -- 12 Tommie Inez Carson, 6/5/1912-10/10/3/1964- Married May 1, 1937 Theodore (Ted) Mc- Gregor. Judy Kay McGregor, adopted daughter. 13 Clyde Alton Carson, born. April 20, 1914 Curtis A. Carson., the 12th child of Nathan Franklin Carson and Amanda Roe Curtis of the fourth generation from Larmiel Curtis (9/25/1864-6/19/1949) married Oct.17, 1886 Lucy Catherine Ramsey (10/ll/1868-2/18/1921) This couple lived and died in Brazos County, Texas. Issue all fifth generation descendents from Samuel Curtis: 1 Jessie R. Carson born Sept 4, 1887 Married Oct. 18, 1903 Jahn M' Carroll (11/15/1880-2JVA934 or 19%) The Carroll family lived in 3ra,.0s County, TcYas. Issue from this marriage Bruce Carroll 'garx AJ6ne 30,1904 m 4/2 927 Rachel Crenshaw, (9129/1909) Gladys Carroll burn Sept 18,1906 m 12 / Perry T. Crenshaw Leora Carroll born June 11,1009 m 12/22/ Virgil L'. Mauldin Ruth Carroll born Sept 5, 1912 m 12 23/1931 Preston F. Herbert Fannie Mae Carroll born May 1, 1915 m 8 8/193).1 Allen Blank Johnnie Dee Carroll born Jan 5, 1920 m 8/18/1g39 Joel L. JOLy 2 Thomas Irankl:Li Carson born march 16, 1889-died Feb 8, 195E in Brazos County, Texas, married Oct. 20, 190b Martha Gray Royall of Br,.,zos County, Texas. Born to thi t union the followinz; children: Jossi.e Verna Carson b. June 30, 1908 m. 9/5/1926 Curtis C. Williams 1 el- 3- Arvil Franklin Carson b. "lay 5th 1910 no 1120A929 Thelma Alice Payre- Curtis Royster Carson b. Dec 20th 1912 m 5131/1936 :ugh Arde"l Deliar�l ch"i Archibald Hughes Carson b. Apr 1st 1915 m 11/24/1940 Elizabeth Jane Chisum-1 child Thomas Bibb Carson bo Oct 17, 1920 m IIA61191hl ay Dell Smith-2 children William Donald Carson b. Sept 5, 1927 died Aug; 13, 0 3 Ariber Odelia Carson birthdate unlnotrn married Feb 1910 David Aaron Phipps of Brazos County, Texas born (11/4A887- ) Lorn,_t-�_this- on the f alowix�g chil- dren: - -_\ Jessie Clleta Plvpps b Oct 27,1910, m 1212211.930 (The �s��ions gemalogy sets the marriage date as 1 22�929) �` s 14, 1905 7 children David Bartlett Phipps b.Feb. 83 -1 , fi ' �i t Alice Geneva Lippold 1 child Virgil Barto Phipps b Nov. 1, 19 Se'Ot 1961 is about 1938 2 clii.ldre-n Jack Altus Phipps b Nov. 301 / This genealogy, which is subject to e additions, etc., included the and 6th generations beginning with,Sa« Curt 750-1/24A846) but not imludiw- the brothers and sisters of Thomas-Ra& C���n., ,child of Nathan Franklin Carson born Illy 29, 1813 and his brothasj Curtis A: garson,the 12th child of Nathan FrankAX1 Carson. The fourth child, R. Carson, born Dec 26, 1847 left descendants beln � Brazos County, Texas. '.he 6th , M rg f J. Carson, born I-larch 15, 1851 le:I't des- cendants born in Brazos County., sy as the 7th, 8th 91 and 10th child. The iniormat;L abv�fe was ( shed by Mrs. Clyde D. , La 417 Coyle St,' -,I H ouston,Texas T Roe Carson's ti y Thre11ae1d ( dc.,,cer�dants) Mrs, Mary Durso, 915 South winnetka, Da. Texas ,(Th-xnas Roe Ogrson►s aesc 'ladants) ILu tha Carson, 3706 South College Ave. Bryan Texas, (Curtis A. sons s descendents), and from the R R Royall genealogy by . . Royall, 1920 Heights Blvd.� Ruston.. Texas (The i"toyal.ls) The Curtis genealoLZr compiled by two very di..stinguished�nealog:ists of the Curtis Family, Jams R. Curtis ITU0 P.O.Box 792 Longview, Texas and Ih,s :S�ephenie Frost, L425 Fleetwood Lane, Apt 17, Corpus Christi, Tee=as, MI.O. Mrs. Lost is the genealogist for the Boggs Family Peunion I ld at Lake Jackson, Texas. Mr• ItrA D• Boggs, 6M Marshall. St. Houston Texas is tho president of the Bo;; s Family Reunion. H* Re Royall., 1820 Hbights 3 vci• H ouston,Te;;as 77008 Plover-ber 20, 1966 OFFICERS I - BOARD OF DIRJ�R RS/ SETPREL.WE KS ROTARY CLUB OF HOUSTOV HEIGgTS n:,IOE DUPUIs, . W. H. (BILL) ROUSE'- "SERVICE ABOVE SELF" FRANK C. EPPNER - VICE-PRESIDENT •� DON RIVERA CLAYTON F. LEE TREASURER DONALD,G.,NEWCOMER SERGEANT- EMERSON T-ARRIT "HE PROFITS HOST r t WHO SERVES BEST" C. LAMAR TUBBS A 1 i KARL.'H:,OELFKE BS � r I ASST.SGT.-AT-ARMS W. H.{BILL) ROUSE R. R. ROYALL I SECRETARY - HQUSTON, TEXAS C. LAMAR TUBBS '•h SETH L. WEEKS U. S. A. SECRETARY'S OFFICE MEETINGS:WEDNESDAYS.12:13 P.M. 1820 HEIGHTS BLVD. ` n �.�• PINE FOREST COUNTRY CLUB PHONE UN 1-6981 r 1 + ,NO.SHEPHERD& GARDEN OAKS 17 i ///l1 - (�� ) �I/,�• •� . ;��i�'��-'fit-C11�✓t.�_ r - 7`;� `'�✓mil%f/i���c, �' 1 `.... \ � ��,va�t-� 74/L IgO CAL -01,4 1 fi� /� C �/,��.(r'� fir— +a.f �u•1-' !3 y r V � J U o r Ii { i N Ckl YA t Carson CarsonZ-Thomas- b 2-2-1769 near Lynchburg, Va. d 11-7-1825 Butler Co. , Ky. Married (1 ) Mary ..Dinwiddie, daughter of James Dinwiddie Campbell Co� Va. and Green Co. , Tenn. They had three children: Agnes Hunter Carson, Sarah Jimeson Carson, and Frances Ann Carson. I have futher information on these children if anyone needs it. Carspn - Mrs Mayme Parrish Adams of Springfield, Mo. wrote to Edgar E Dinwiddie 6-9-1909 that she was the - lily greatgrandaughter of Mary Dinwiddie and Thomas Carsog;14 � a grandaughter of their daughter Mary Bell Carson who marrie� Thomas E. Carson. Thomas E Carson married Jane Bell Carson and her second husband , Dr. H.M. Parrish m Mary Dinwiddie -Thomas Carson 2-Thomas Dixon Carson - Caroline Eleanor Hines--Albana (Binnie) Carson M John Carter Thomas Carson' s second wife was Sarah Dinwiddie In Louise Carson Drakets: Di.nwiddie Notes in Tylerts Quarterly Jan 1934 tries to tie this line with Lt. Robert Dinwiddie. No proof 1806-1882 William Helm Carson , son of Thomas m Sarah Dinwiddie C Madisovy, Ann, Marther, and Thomas -- Madison Co. , Ky. and Henry Co. Tenn Mary Polly Montgomery Carson second wif e of James Dimwiddie She was born 8-5-1786 Campbell Co. , Va. d 9-18-1878 H my Co. Tenn dau ofJames Carson and Sarah Helm. c Harvey Carson, Newton Alexander, Thomas Helm, William Carson, Joseph Robert Baker, and Mary Ann Sarah. El&zabeth M (Betsy)Dinwiddie second marriage was to William H Carson 1806-1882 widower of her sister Sarah. �ames Carson married Sarah Helm (above) William and Quarterly Vol. 20 pp 49,51 rth4rnhZ Mary Dinwiddie married Ma-r* Carson Madison, Ann, Martha and Thomas were the children of William Helm Carson and Sarah Dinwiddie You will notice repeats but these are from different soucers ) Moses Helm Carson b Campbell cCo. Va. married Elizabeth Dinwiddie 11-26-1793 Madison Co. Ky Lived also in Fayette Co Ky. J Thomas Carson b Campbell Co. Va. 2-2-1769 d Butler Co. Ky. Married Married Mary and Sarah Dinwiddie In 1798 Thomas Carsoh was listed as a eler/ in the Concord, . Presbyterian Church Canpbell Co. Va. Source sAys h2 'was the brother of tAe second wife' of James Dinwiddie (Sarah) Thomas Carson had a brother William (died young' and Sister. Polly Montgomery Married James Dinwiddie. This informatiRn was. taken from old letters 1 i - i rAl 4 LO 4A aws, o-n. �,.e.,2. 3 . / P /� 1. /f� ��• - 77Ht.c..c.. , 13.�ttcR. YYJCv✓u-�p , Q.-�- G��-e'''�_ M lAab, UY-Lh�J rrqo ,.. ,;� m avert J., All ..a Lurt .44- 4.*/) - R-R4.ur+o . `J— � OR , C� -�- A4 rxL� eL b , - � o� 1845 - Nathan Franklin 1928 - Pearsall to Pecos, Reeves Carson on land County, Texas. grant from Repub- 1929 - Pecos to San Antonio, Bexar lic of Texas. C- ounty, Texas. Bryan, Brazos,Tx. 1930 - San Antonio to New Braunfels, Born:Thomad Roe Comal County, Texas. 1861, Thomas R. 1931 - New Braunfels to Houston, (Waller married Martha D"L DBDIX»x.BF[ L.,EDY. ,Harris County, Texas. County) Virginia Deaton, uY `BY" > Marriage of Annalee to John 1892'. Born: Amber "'^"` I YE I �' I•«�•t3 "[Y"»LL Wayne May, 1939- May, 1894 in-To � � Marriage of C. D. Jr. to caTin near College '°T"" I �"°"I Ila Mae Webb, 191.45- Station, Tex. Amber Birth: Nancy Ann Dobbs 1934 May married Clyde (Granddaughter), Roy Lyn,19I46 D.Threlkeld of .YYEBIE..TBDIYSY[B� .BSDIXI ».LL ' and Clyde D.Threlkeld,19148 and Montgomery County. John Wayne.A4ay,19143(Grandsons) Horn: Annalee and �• »SLF DD F wL.MD[3 2 Grea - randc C.D.Threlkeld. -� [I.. D IBTFB 1918 - College Station to IXLTS Houston.Harrij.Cty. -BE Yx w« BTO»(w3LL " I I DEMON I—U. MOVBIW aj fiLY 1918 - Houston to Pearsall Y[,Blwl Frio Cty.J Texas. a° I °I...,[. I TB YNT DS a BYN. "° ~ Oux[] Ww3O» B«IXN BCUBA f13»[3 ANfi �! 31["IIFNS S Martha V. Carson �` �"`"'"�:' ` ' NBA died in Buffalo(L a on , BN YSBYN »Dw"" —ILL S.L« �L.».N l.ST OBEwf NOl3x O[Bt°x ..Nol. ...... fY ».YIL 3.]�N» t D] ." w BD YDLENxY o R BE OWB[BSOM �E ' B[[vFB ,/� I UPTON I BGGN �TOY OB[[x COMD»O [L EN IroV3T« [L f' BELL ' EOIN iTL[B CM ft»LFM:»U YEIY3O Yll"Y ° "L"[ [Em Ww3 BIXN[TT Y"]p1 llwNO " lWY]O» 9]40] Z. SVTTE. ]IYBLE I LESON ONLFSn[ " vn LEE f31r OMI.[ i[BBEU wMWNOTO» vvlsioio »FBB B]]iBW »� [ARBBML BB[w3ilB v3l vEBD[ [DwBBD3 H.IOw[LL ESvfTT[ Bul B"x.F"" wLOBNOO wSBSlun BT BExD au"B ooN["Lu L� BlxNfv uvLIX Y[px3 v"G w»BIITON v"L B"IYOM [" [•v"u NI STSuoM NEB On °"LyoLN OUR TEXAS HERITAGE DIYYIT L"-L. Y°Y°L �"Mlp CARSON 3° NUFc[3 Amber May Carson Threlkeld _ 1771 _ 1976 BTUIB 1771 - Ireland to South Carolina,TTSA 1802 - South Carolina to Alabama 181.45 _ Alabama to Bryan,Brazos County, Texas, TEXAS • HOME PRODUCTS Export-Import • NOVELTIES .rru 14MATON TRADERS R. R. ROYALL 1820 HEIGHTS BLVD. • H❑USTON B, TEXAS, U.S.A. PHONE UN 1-6981 May 27, 1966 Mrs. Hicla= Riley.. 4825 Montgomery Ave. Do;=rs Grove, I11. Dear Mrs. Rileyt I saw you..• notice in the 1962 Sept. Genealogical Helper. I an interested an the ancestors of the jolnz Carson family that cams to Texas in 18-,6 or 1847 and settled an Brazos County Texas, then lamn in som, circles as Robertson Covaity or Leon County., I do not Imov his wife is nay . Obesiously born about 1786 in South Carolina. In the 1860 census he L;,ave his age as 74 and birth in South Carolina. Isis children, however was born in Mississippi. He died in 1864 in Brazos County. Children: Nathan Franddin Carson (5/29 1813-5/26 1886)m Amanda Roe Curtis Thomas Henderson Carson (12 31/i818-7 9/1881) m Nancy Lucy Curtis James R. Carson Sarah Ann IkDonaldj wife of James 3. McDonald of Mississippi. Emily D. Thetford, wife of Anderson Thetford. It_-Caret tit. Thetford, wife of Mtthea Thetford. Amelia -z. Barboo., wife of Jo,m Barbee And Grandson, 11.F. P3cl<ens. This last legatee was obviously in Mss- issi. pi at the tiYm: and very young. He provide.; for him and appoint:d two of his sons guardian of the boy. Obviously this boy was born to his daughter who is not mentioned and presizaod dead at the tim. He must have bu�..n named Nathaniel Franldin Piclxns for that is the family name, however, the will mentions only 13.F. Pickens. Since you are enquiring about Pickens as well as Carsons you may be able to help me. I believe the t:ro families connect and we may be able to find Join Carson's ancestors among the Picken Family. Ono lady I urote to in Dallas states James 'Piclmns Rousseau, son of 14ozes Rousseau and 1,brtha Carson was her great g-randfathar. They may have came from the Family of Carsons that settled in Mississippi. Territory early in the 18001s--Col Joseph Carson.. but I have not made contact as yet, mould be interested an hoarint; from you, ar i e:changing information -with you regarding; the Carsons and what I Imaw about the Pick-us trhich is very little. Sincerely R. o .. 18 Heights Blvd. Houston,Tex-as. A HISTORY Of The CARSON FAMILY And The Allied Families COOK_. KIMBROUGH R And HENDF SON Being An Account Of The Forebears And The Descendants Of DOCTOR WILLIAM CCCKE CARSON And DORCAS ELIZABZIH KIMBROUGH Of Tennessee And Texas By F Tom Carson 1956 i w SAMUEL CARSON, 6C2, JAMES CARSON, 7C2, ATALINE COOKE 1768-1850 1805-1890 CARSON, N9, 1821-1897 E 5 WM. COOKE CARSON, 8C3, DORCAS E. KIMBROUGH 1848-1904 CARSON, 8K2, 1850-1940 DUKE KIMBROUGH, 5K3, I. B. KIMBROUGH, 7K7, 1762-1849 1826-1902 SUPPLEMENT TO CARSON FAMILY HISTORY Corrections and New Data , 2-16 (page 2, line 16) : A better estimate is perhaps nearer a billion than a quarter billion. The estimates made of the number of one's ancestors at various periods in the past are derived from the series: S_2+22+ 23+ 24+------+2 n= 2n+1-2, the exponents being the number of generations counted from the present into the past. The sum of this series, and the value of the nth term, are of course sensitive to the estimate made of the number of generations In a given period. The Encyclopaedia Britannica reckons 3C years per generation. The value yielded by this series for the number of one, ancestors since the beginning of the Christian Kra (n=65) Is about a billion times the total number of people (estimated at about 50 billion) who have ever lived on the earth since man appear- ed upon it, and it becomes obvious that the actual number of one's ancestors over a long period of time is but a very small fraction of the theoretical number. The disparity is accounted for by the extensive (and necessary) intermarriage among distant relatives. 4-36 (Table 1, Gen. 6) , 5-26, 5-34, 6-7, 6C-49, 99-13: Substitute Mohler for Molder. 6-13: A better estimate is about 1000 surnames, evaluated by the nth term. 2C00 represents approximately the sum of the series. 12-1: 8C1 *Samuel Jackson Carson, b. May 10, 1839, In Tennessee. 17-9 (Table 3, 7CJ1): James Harvey Carson and Lavina T. Carson were married Jan. 24, 1828. 18-24: Coon Creek and Koontz Meeting House are homonymous, alternate versions of the original location of the Dandridge Baptist Church. 20-38: Mary Witt Jarnagin died Aug. 7, 1830. 20-44: Burnett (see reference, page 18) relates etc. 21-34: A tintype made as early as 1825 is an anachronism, since the daguerreotype process was not in use until many years later. The original portrait was a painting, copied later by the daguerreo- type ("tintype") process. 22-37: Rhea Springs and Sulphur Springs were two names for the same place, now inundated, 2 or 3 miles above the present Watts Bar Dam. 29-17,21: Hutchison. 30-7, fol. (Table 4) : Margaret Callaway Carson, wife of 8C4, died in 1941. 9C10a Cooke T. Carson, b. 1893, etc. 9C10b Burch Carson, b. 1896. 10C10ca Joe Carson Fowler, b. Sept. 19, 1947. 32-31: The Fowlers' only child is Joe Carson Fowler, Philadelphia, Tenn. 39-9, fol.: The name of Dr. Samuel Carson is Inscribed on a bronze memorial tablet on the University of Virginia's Rotunda. The Colonel Robert P. Carson Memorial Room at V. H. I. houses the historical collection presented' by Charles H. Carson, 10CD1. 41-41 (Table 7, 7;4) : Charlotte Kimbrough, wife of 741, b. June 11, 1811, d. Jan. 8, 1894; Duke Whitman Kimbrough, d. in 1885; Sarah Jane Gilbreath, b. Jan. 17, 1823, d. Apr. 27, 1905; Clarissa Cooke d. Mar. 20, 1885; Thomas Cooper, b. Oct. 13, 1809, d. Feb. 24, 1885; Elmyra Cooke, d. Sept. 4, 1854; James Cooper, b. May 15, 1814, d. Dec. 25, 1841; Sarah Miranda Cooke, d. May 28, 1850, and her marriage to Caleb Hoyl took place July 18, 1841. 44-19: Jane Lindsey and William T. Bockman m. Jan. 21, 1870; Leon Bockman and Nancy Jane Holman m. Sept. 24, 1899. 45-1: Dr. James Cooke, b. Mar. 5, 1805 or 1815, d. Sept. 19, 1885; 2 m. Rebecca ------, b. Apr. 21, 1815, d. Oct. 29, 1872. ' 45-55: The sons of James Watson Cooke, 60.2, were Lemuel, Felix M., Ellison, John Flemming, Robert M. , Benjamin Franklin, James Watson, Hezekiah, and Randolph. The sons of John Oliver Cooke, 624, were William Brantley, Augustine, Wilford Watson, and Robert Marshall. T:.e sons of Hezekiah Gardner Cooke, 6Q6, were Robert Jasper, John Spaulding, and William Wilson. The sons of Alexander Cooke, 6Q9, were William, Austin, and Ausburn. The son of Elias Green Cooke, 60,10, was William Prater. (Information taken from the 1829 letter of Robert Cooke, 5Q1) . 52-31: William Henry Cooke set aside a large community cemetery on his farm along Connesauga Creek in McMinn County, Tenn., where he and his wife were buried. They are surrounded by the graves of many kinsmen, Cookes, Kimbroughs, McSpaddens, Thompsons, and others. In addition to a handsome tombstone, the graves are marked by a memorial plaque, placed there by the Ocoee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 52-38: The farm of Dr. Robert F. Cooke in Rhea County adjoined that of Dr. James Carson, my grandfather. The log house in which he lived is still standing and is occupied. A few hundred yards away, on the summit of a sharp-peaked hill, lie the remains of Dr. Cooke and his wife, Charlotte Kimbrough Cooke, marked by a memorial monolith. The plot is surrounded by an iron-grill fence. 53-53: Delete the last sentence on the page (also last sentence, p. 52) and add the following (bottom P. 53): Dr. Henderson Cooke married Mary (Molly) Kantz. Their children were Annie (m. Briggs) , Fannib, John, Marguerite (Peggy) (m. (1) McCormick, (2) J. B. Car- son, 9C1, 1907) . Another son of Hezekiah C. Cooke, 7Q2, was Robert F. Cooke, born Apr. 10, 1834, who published a newspaper in Denton, Texas, in the 1890's. After leaving the newspaper business he be- came a telegrapher. He moved to Fort Worth, where for some years he was chief train dispatcher for the old transcontinental divi- sion of the Texas and Pacific Railway. A daughter of H. C. Cooke, name not known, also married a Kantz. Their children were Mary Kantz (m. Chan Ambrose, newspaper editor at Barstow, Texas, in the early 1900's) , Matsis Kantz (m. Powell) , Willie Kantz of Fayette- ville, Ark. (did not marry) , Fred Kantz, and Nellie Kantz. 55-41: The Dictionary of American Family Names (Smith) derives the name Kimbrough from the Anglo-Saxon 'Cyneburh", meaning Royal Stronghold. 56-27, fol. (Table 8) : The maiden surname of the wife of William Kimbrough, 6K2, was probably MOHLER, instead of Molder. Duke Whit- man Kimbrough, 6K9, was married a second time, to Julia Ann ------- b. 1803, d. 1856. He died in 1885. Thomas Kimbrough, 6K12, married Elizabeth Austell, who was born Dec. 13, 1810., He died May 12, 1886. For an extensive account of his descendants see "Thomas Kimbrough, 1805-1886, and His Descendants," by Ethel Kimbrough, published by the Washington County Historical Society, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Sept. 1956. John Mohler Kimbrough, 7K2, married Mary Elizabeth Reagan. Ellsha Milton Kimbrough, 7K5, m. Mar. 15, 1849, Lemira Jane Hickox, b. Nov. 22, 1832, d. Mar. 22, 1912. Jacob C. Kimbrough, 7K6, m. Martha Snead. William Kimbrough, 7K8, m. Lizzie Lowrey. The name of 8K1 was probably Sarah Leanora Kimbrough. 'She married William T. Henderson, Aug. 26, 1869 (see 65-53) • 60-46: Several descendants of Duke Kimbrough, 5K3, who are actively engaged in research on the Kimbrough genealogy, have come to my notice since the publication of the Carson Family History. 3 Felix A. Kimbrough, 415 S. W. 33rd St. , Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Is assiduously pursuing the project, while his sister, Miss Ethel Kimbrough of Monrovia, California, is the author of the Kimbrough genealogy mentioned above (56-27) . Nathaniel Duke Kimbrough of Birmingham, Alabama, a veteran of World War II, John Brad Kim- brough of Ocoee, Tennessee, and J. C. Kimbrough of Chattanooga, Tennessee, have also spent considerable time and effort on the Kimbrough genealogy. The lineage of the first two is: Duke Kim- brough, 5K3; Thomas Kimbrough, 6K12; Felix Grundy Kimbrough; Felix Albert and Ethel Kimbrough. The lineage of,the third is: Duke Kim- brough, 5K3; Jacob Carlock Kimbrough, 611C, a physician in the Mexican War; William Bradley Duke Kimbrough, Confederate States Army; Nathaniel Duke Kimbrough; Nathaniel Duke Kimbrough, Jr. The lineage of the fourth is: Duke Kimbrough, 5K3; Isaac Kimbrough, 6K3; Elisha C. Kimbrough; William P. Kimbrough; John L. Kimbrough; John Brad Kimbrough. The lineage of the fifth is: Duke Kimbrough, 513; William Kimbrough, 6K2; alisha Milton Kimbrough, 7K5; Robert Bradley Kimbrough; J. C. Kimbrough. 61-12: John N.ohler Kimbrough, 7K2, married Nary Elizabeth Reagan (whose mother was Polly Cleveland) . They had five children. (1) Mary Elizabeth Kimbrough (m. Dr. Robert P. Crowder) . Their children were Ida Crowder (m. Robert Griffith,--3 children); Hattie Crowder (m. Robert P. Suite,- 4 children) ; and Mary Crowder (m. Albert N. Nuss,- 1 child) . (2) William Reagan Kimbrough (m. Sarah Dorcas Hen- derson, 8H3d) . (See P. 72) . (3) Joseph Bradley Kimbrough (m. Nancy Peck) . Their children were Evelyn Kimbrough, Mae Kimbrough, John Mohler Kimbrough (livin in Madisonville, Tenn.) , Lois Kimbrough, and Frank Kimbrough. (4� Adeline Kimbrough (m. George Laurence Hen- derson) . Their daughter, Mary Henderson, married William Henry Cooke, son of Robert F. Cooke, Jr., 841h (see 52-50 . The latter couple, living at La Habra, Calif., have two children, Robert F. Cooke and Laurence Cooke. (5) John Kohler Kimbrough, Jr. (m. Sarah Crowder) . Their daughter, Maude Kimbrough, married Wade H. Fowler of North Carolina. Their children are Kimbrough Fowler, Corbin Fowler, Carey and Douglas Fowler (twins) , and Fred Fowler. 61-55: Substitute for the first sentence of the last paragraph on page 61 the following: Ten children were born to the union of Elisha M. Kimbrough and Lemira Jane Hickox. (1) Charlotte Isadora Kimbrough, b. July 15, 1850, d. July 2, 1926, m. Sam Howard. (2) William Hor- ace Kimbrough, b. Jan. 4, 1853, d. Jan. 14, 1854, lived but a year. (3) John Hickox Kimbrough, b. Dec. 4, 1854, d. Dec. 28, 1910, m. Ida ------- (4) Mary Ellen Kimbrough, b. May 20, 1857, d. Sept. 3, 1929, m. Joseph Stephens. (5) Sarah Emily Kimbrough, b. Nov. 10, 1860, d. Apr. 14, 1934► m. Robert Brown. She was the Sallie Kim- ,brough Brown who is mentioned on page 65- Their daughter Mabel Brown, married Mr. Sheldon, and lives in New Orleans. (6j Elisha Milton ("Mit") Kimbrough, Jr.,. b. Dec. 17, 1863, d. Apr. 29, 1954, was still a bachelor In 1945, living in Missouri. (7) Isaac Newton Kimbrough, b. Nov. 29, 1866, m. (a) Mattie Morris and (b) Ina ----. He Is the father of Prof. William Duke Kimbrough, whose biographi- cal sketch appears on page 62. (8) Lorena Jane Kimbrough, b. Oct. 10, 1869, d. July 2, 1921, m. Charles C. Cates, and is reported to have been an artist. (9) Robert Bradley Kimbrough, b. Jan. 3, 1873, d. May 15, 1948, m. Feb. 27, 1907, Anna Elizabeth Crosby, b. July 27, 1883. Their son, J. C. Kimbrough, is mentioned above (see 60- 46) . (10) Jacob Wheeler Kimbrough, b. Jan. 3, 1873, m. Utie Curtis, and lives In Dallas, Texas. 4 65-25: Katie Gorman (Mrs. Arthur) Stanbury died in April, 1958. ' 65-53: Will T. Henderson, whose parents were William and Amanda L. Henderson of Monroe County, Tenn., was born May 25, 1848. He married, Aug. 26, 1869 (probably in a double wedding with my parents) , Sallie L. Kimbrough, 8K1, my mother's oldest sister. There were five children: Walter E. Henderson, b. Aug. 28, 1871; William Wallace Henderson, b. July 24, 1875; Woford T. Henderson, b. Feb. 27, 1883; Jessie Worth Hender- son, b. Oct. 22, 1886, d. in Jan. .or Feb., 1958; and Grace Henderson, b. Sept. 14, 1889. Worth Henderson had a daughter, Eunice Henderson, living in Grapevine, Texas. 70-42 to 48: Nancy McSpadden married Mr. Love. Their son, Hanni- bal Love, is mentioned on page 69. Keziah McSpadden, twin sis- ter of my great grandmother, Dorcas McSpadden Henderson (wife of 6H3) , married Benjamin Peek. Nancy Harris, second wife of Samuel McSpadden, was born Aug. 24, 1775, died Jan. 1, 1839. 72-35 to 38: Two younger children were Maggie Henderson, who married Will Love (their son, Leslie Love, lived at Medford, Tex.) , and Hannibal Eli (Mack) Henderson, who married Minnie Creech. (Strike out last two lines of second paragraph, P. 73, which erroneously lists them as children of Sarah Dorcas Hen- derson Kimbrough) . Lula Milligan married John Robert Sheets. 73-16, 19: Robert A. Henderson taught at Carson and Newman Col- lege in the 1890's. Carl Kimbrough married Pearl Hudson, whose mother was Sidney Cleveland. Their children were William Franklin Kimbrough and Aileen Kimbrough (who m. Mr. Richeson) . 79-40: l0C3e Clifford Walker Carson, b. Aug. 14, 1908; etc. 80-27, fol. (Table 10) : Katharine Carson Chaney, 1005b, died June 27, 1958. Kit Carson, 9C6, died at Santa Rosa, N. Mex., and was burled there. Wilbur Watson Wimberly, b. July 17, 1896, whose first wife was Dorothy E. Carson, 9C10, married, Aug. 2, 1958, Mrs. Henry Clay (Erie T:) Van de Water. 81-2: Cidaris hemlgranosus Shumard. 81-40: Sul Ross College. 82-31: Ronald Ginn and Barbara Sewell were married at Monahans, Texas, Sept. 12, 1954. 89-36: Pat Carson was not a direct descendant of John Carson, 4C1, but may be characterized as a counterpart of that early American of our line. 93-45: Lois Violet Luce. She is called by her first name, which was inadvertently omitted. Book and Supplement printed by Ward and Paul, Washington, D. C., using the Xerographic process. F. Tom Carson, Charlottesville, Va., August, 1958. 1006 South Lee Alvin, Texas 77511 Feb. 1, 1979 Mr. Allen Carson 1110 East 27th Bryan, Texas 77801 Dear Mr. Carson: A few weeks back I was in Bryan and visited with my cousin, Stewart Wright, I am one of those nuts who is tracing ancestors and mentioned to Stewart that my grandmother was a Carson and that she had relatives who had come to the area around Brazos County sometime prior to 1860 and that they had come from Alabama, Stewart said he knew, or knew of, two Carsons: Allen and Curtis, who lived in Bryan. The name Curtis rang a bell as my Carsons were related to the Curtis family, also from Alabama. 6rtk,.t 7 Csr b MyA great great grandfather was . Carson. He was, I think, a brother Carson who married .S;anab P-Ates. John S. Carson was born in South Carolina in 1785-86 and moved to Alabama sometime around 1820 or later. John S. had a son, Nathan Franklin Carson who married Amanda Roe Curtis August 1, 1842 in Marengo County, Alabama. Nathan and wife Amanda also came to Texas and settled near John S. Carson. I have a complete list of the children of John S. and Sarah (Bates) Carson and who they married. If you are a descendant of this line of Carsons I would sure like to hear from you and exchange information. If not, then I would still like to hear from you and would sure appreciate knowing about your Carson line. I have been told that there is, or was, a fellow by the name of Richard R. Royall who has done some work on the Carsons of Brazos County. Do you know anything about him? If your interest does not run to genealogy then you don't know how much I would appreciate it if you would pass this letter along to someone you might know who is interested. - Sincerely, Ervin Ros& Hillhouse l �� '1Z Alvin, Texas 77511 f Feb. 1, 1979 Mr. Allen Carson 1110 East 27th Bryan, Texas 77801 Dear Mr. Carson: A few weeks back I was in Bryan and visited with my cousin, Stewart Wright. I am one of those nuts who is tracing ancestors and mentioned to Stewart that my grandmother was a, Carson and that she had relatives who had come to the area around Brazos 70---,Ey sometime prior to 1860 and that they had come from Alabama. Stewart said he knew, or knew of, two Carsons: Allen and Curtis, who lived in Bryan. The name Curtis rang a bell as my Carsons were related to the Curtis family, also from Alabama. Yq great great grandfather was David Carson. He was, I think, a brother of John S. Carson who married Sarah Bates. John S. Carson was born in South Carolina in 1785-86 and moved to Alabama sometime around 1820 or later. John S. had a son, Nathan Franklin Carson who married Amanda Roe Curtis August 1, 1842 in Marengo County, Alabama. Nathan and wife Amanda also came to Texas and settled near John S. Carson. I have a complete list of the children of John S. and Sarah (Bates) Carson and who they married. 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Y:arried sec. `?2, , 1929 to hugh Sessions, Born June 14 , 19Q5 9t ".ells , Cherokee Cr%jIn,ty� Texas , Son of ii James '•i11; am Sessions and Catherine Flizsbeth (Bessie) 00491e# Humphrey of ','ells Texas. Tb this marriage •,?ere born 5 sons and 2 daughters , I ± 'i.11iaM A r Sessions born Oct. 4 930 Wells , Texas. r_ on , 1 ell ex�s. l,nry Catherine Sessions , Born 1�Ay 151 1933 at College Stntlon, Texas . Do- vid hugh Sessions, Born Feb. 1, 19z6 at "fells , Texas. Larry Kyle Se s si nn9 , born Sept. 30, 1939 a t '•ells Texas . Gale 34rt Sessions , born April 27 , 1943 at 'ells ' Pxas. Amber I;rasue Sessions , born Nov. 15, 1944 , at -';ell.s Texas. Cliffnrd SeSsinns , born July 17 , 1946 at ":ells ,0,Tex.9s. 7"illiam -irron, first son of OletP Phipps and Euuh Sessions 1,-arriPd Oct. 16 , 1(.-;490 at Rusk. Texas to Mary Jane Price, Daughter of Jessie and Mary ?rice of Keltys , Texas. Mary Jane was born Sept. 1 , 1931 at Lufkin. Texas. To th* s =,•arria- ge was born one daughter, L)eborah Lynn Sessions on Oct. 11 . 1955 at houston, Texas. --ry Catherine Sessiohs , First daughter of Oleta Yhip-s and Hugh Sessions - mnrried Lay 3, 1952 to '.','illiam Harold Oldham, son of Edgar and Lena Oldham of "'=ells , Tex9s.74'illiam Harold was norn May 7 , 1932 . To this marriage -.,as born 3 sons . �ti11 iam Glenn Oldham, born Aug. 4, 1953. Harold Kent Oldham, born Oct. 21 . 1958. perry huPh Oldhan , born Jan. 7 , 1960. David hush Sessions , Seco#d son of Oleta Phipps and Hugh Sessions married I ., Rose Mary Higgins, daughter of C . N. and Inez Hi�Pins of 'ells , Texas. Rose iwary .vac born on June 10, 1939. Born to this marriage were two daughters, Amnnda Jean Sessions , born Aug. 28, 1957 at Houston , Texas. Belinda Ann -sessions , born Sept. 4, 1960, at Houston, Texaa. Larry Kyle Sessions , Third son of Oleta P �ipps and hush Sessions , married 'N111 ie LnfFrn Sides , dau4_hter of horace and 'Willie Mae Sides of `,`.ells, Texas . Lafern wq; born June 17 , 1942. To this marriage was born one daughter; Vivian Elaine Sessions , born June 1, 1961 at Lufkin , Texas. Gale Bart Sessions , fourth son of Oleta Phipps and huph Sessions Yarri-d Sb irl Ay :-nn Tha.cker, June 10, 1961 at `,'•ells , Texas, daughter of Preston and Oval 1'r�acr.er ( deceased ) of '�Plls , Texas . Shirley Ann wis born Sept. 19 , 194'?. #jTo this marriage #44 was born one daughter; Selena GAil Sessions , born Dec. 17 , 1962 at Lufkin , Texas. timber Imasue Sessions , second daughter of Oleta Phipps and Hugh Sessions married 31111P Joe Fiedler July 13, 1963 at 'ells, Texas. Bil2i P Joe was born Aura. 21, 1942 and is the son of George and t, aggie Lou 2iedler of '-`+ells , Texas. Clifford Sessions , Fifth son of Oleta Phipps and hush Sessions joined the U .J. wavy July 19, 1963. r c �) This Hugs. Sessions is a descendent of the Sessions entering the united States in the early 1600 's , born and reared on the farm he now operates . Never finished high school, but graduated from Texas Apriculturfll & Mechgnical college in 1930 with a B. S. degree in Agricultural Administration. Finding the going hard in the depression days of the 1930 and ' 31 , he returned to college with hi-s wife and one son to persue work for the master degree in marketing and finance , and during the year was a lone student in a class under Dr. Virgil P. Lee , now with the bank of Co-operatives in Houston, In 1932 he returned to the farm with his father who together amassed suite a fortune in land , cs the and sawmilling. Enclosed herewith is a copy of the Sessions coat of arms , along; with other excerpts of research done on the geneology of the S -'essions family, which might make interesting reading to one having had experience in such work . Over twenty years has gone into this research. Of interest is the J. 0. Beasley Laboratory , built on the Texas A� & 1 college campus and named after James Otis Beasley, son of Wygtt N . Beasley and .life Bessie Sessions Beasley of Uells , Cherokee County, Texas. Beasley had done many years work on the development of a cotton that T41ould be suitable for mechanical gathering. He lost w,,is life of the battlefields in Italy durin world war 11. a first cousin. Yrs. Tiny Sessions James , now about 90, and living near -iplle , Cherokee County, Texas , claims to be a cousin of the famed ID'nniel Boone . aY�i'JNL 46k,*"W. ,&At t L E A R N ED- WH A T'S - 1 N-Tn E - N A M E -.A T S E S S I O ' R E U N I O N w d �- t In the ancient Angle-Saion tongue appears a name that may best be expressed in modern english by the word "3Ass". In this old language it me-ns a dweller on or tiller of the soil. Pursuing the storyrof the name further down the annals of heraldry/ n "�SgssOnre "Sisson" "Sesson" And "3essions" all natural the names , , > > dialectic derivities of. the same root, bearing the same meaning and borne by the fnmilies whose avocations were shown by their names . In the history of the ancient town of `Nont-ge, England , appears early in the 16th. century the first records of the English family of Sessions . OIIe Samuel 3egsions , who was one of the body guards of King George j (evidently he got an honorable discharge so he might accompany Governor Dudley to MAgsachusettes ns manager of his estate) • Samuel arrived with Governor Dudley in LAssachusettes in 1630 from wAntage, England AboArd the NA tuliA Christy AR evidenced from An entry in the Port of London Book/ S^,mueliseems to have been the first Sessions to enter America from Ungland Legitimately, but also found in the record is the notation that many famous people left England illegally and were not shown in the register. Thua , there waq one George 9e..qionq who iA believe to have come over with SAmuel ,aR in January 1635 the register of pQAaengera from Boston to Virginia listed one George SesAionA, Age 40 AR a nAssenger. It is believed that he probably was a brother to Samuel and came over with Samuel and Governor Dudley. Many records have been destrpyed in the Southern States by Civil `►' Ar fires making legal proof that Geroge was the father of our branch almost impossible. However , all indications seem that he was . One Francis Yiarion Sessions migrated from Troy Alabama to Texas after his father was killed by a falling tree during a storm as he returned home i Page 2 Sessions. • from making a coffin at night. Francis Vik� MRrion,�married Alice Amelia Coleman of gf�ji Orion, Alabama . Eventually they settled at Wells , Texas and to them were born 3 boys and seven girls . The descendants of this couple met in family reunion for the second consecutive year on August 19th 'at Polks club house nejr Yael.].a. One of the highlights of the meeting was a /' g prepared paper red'`-to the gathering by h1r. Rube aesaions , the oldest son of )Q FraneiA Marion, in which he gave much interesting and amazing information of the geneologieal and heraldic findings made by himself ano( children in the past 12 or 14 years , after many miles of travel , conversing with old-timers, the searching of legal records in several states and a host of correspondence. Interesting characters and incidences were found , such as thet reveal$d by records of the Dedioal Researoh Bureau which states that in 1771 there were two brothers , a John Sessions who was said to be a sere faring man and one of Pirate Blank Beards band. He had a son 004 named Richard who married Ester Boon , a Niece of the celebrated Daniel Bonn. To tlyis couple were born 13 children, eight boys and 5 girls. ##d##M,#6A,many of their descendants live in Mississippi. 'Their youngest son, Silliam, moved to Texas , settling near Marshall. Many of his deooend- ants live near Atoy, Cherokee County, Texas, today. k# By the three boys and seven girls born to Francis Marion and Alice Sessions came grandsons , grand daughters , Greet grind sons , great grand daughters , great, great grand sons and treat, great grand daughters . At the reunion, Mrs Edna Hicks , oldest daughter of Rube Sessions won the prize for having the largest number of grand children, 20. Hugh Sessions , the oldest son of J. `47. Sessions , and his wife Oleta vion the prize for having the largest number of children present at the reunion, there being 5 boys and 2 girls for 1 total of 7. and with their wives, #*. PAge 3, S�Ssions among the crowd as all the boys had on shirts and all the girls had on blouses made from the same material. Eula Morrison , from PAcos , Texas , (also Billie Sol Emtes home) , a niece of Mr . Rube Sessions won the prpze i6 for having driven the longest distance to attend the reunion. Basket lunches brought by the different families were spread picnic style on a long table, and everyone ate as one large family. 41ite a few friends of the differnt f�imilies were present along with a few good prospects that might later be tr3ken into the clan. -after enjoying a good meal, everyone gathered in the assembly room of the club house for a short, but interesting program followed by a short business session in which Eugh Sessions was agin chosen chairman of the committee for the 1963 reunion , and L'Irs Foy ''rilson Osnsler was chosen secretary-treasurer. ,Plans are alre>3dy under way for a greater and better reunion next yer.r which is again to be held at Polks club house on the third 'und y in -august , with a party at the club house the preeseeding Saturday night , as wRs this year. Geneologicl And heraldic studies of the Sessions families Are Atill being conducted and it is hoped that we may have some new information neat yeAr. tiny one having such information not already submitted are invited to contact %ir. Rube Sessions , `$'I 11s, Texas , Hugh Sessions , Wel1A, TexQQ, B. R. Sessions, Box 885 b'-Qrshall , Texas, or just write SESSIONS at Pollok , Viells , Alto or Tuarshall, Texas . i STUB ENTRIES TO INDEI'TS FOR REVOLUTIONARY CLI INS 42 BOOK Y*Z PAGE 248 No 127 ) Issued 30th. February 1787 to Silas Sessions for Sixteen pounds 8/6 S; for 230 Days Duty Z ) in the TRilitia, as paseld bythe Comissrs . Principal 7/16. 8. 6-3/4 Interest (Annual) BOOK ly Page. 7 • NO. 25 ) Issued. 16 August 1784 to Tyr Solomon Sessions BOOK 1 for Fifteen pounds nineteen Shillings &three . "pence half penny sterling, . Provisions for Continal use; also for "Rill tia use in 1782 per acct. Audited, Principal L 15. .1?,, r.3j,, Interest L. .1. .2 ACCOUNTS AUDITED OF REVODUTIO'4,,.1 Y CLAINS AGAINST SOUTH CAROLINA VOLTT�E 2 ) 1780 Decr* to 4 Oxens taken away by' Capt Sessions by Crder of GENERAL MARION for whicl-vSESSIONS" PAGE 14 ) would give no Certificate for * An auditorfs Notation No Voucher L 123. .4. .2 VOLUME 2 ) A 3/4 blooded Philly taken by Sessions for Genl ITARION when on SNOWS ISL,;. D L 45 PAGE 20 ) August a bay horse Leuz. John Futhy had which the British took from him L 35-1 Augt. 81 a half blooded Bay Philly in fold by a full blooded horse Sam. Guest had for Collo. PETER HORRY L 40 one steer C ptn. Mc C lur e had Kild at Nicht on supposed to weigh 250tw at25/8 `NAR DEPAR76ENT ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE WASHINGTON APRIL. 187 1941 GLADIS SESSIONS % RUBE SESSIONS WELLS TEXAS The Name John Sessions has not been found on' th6 records on file in this office of sol_-dies who served in the revolutt6nary War from South Carolina i Howe ver the records s::o"; that one John Sessions Served in that war as a Pri1 ,V.2 o in Hall's Company 2nd North Car- olina- Regiment. he enlisted for three yews in 1777, the exact date is not shown. His name was omitted in November 1777 and he was again mustered in 1779, but the date of his sep- aration from the service is not shown major General E, S. Adams +, by SJR 43 FINAL SETTLUIENT OF THE EST1;TE OF WILLIATI SESSIONS JOHN SESSIONS aDT THE STATE OF ALABA"A, PIKE COUNTY Before me Bird' Fitzpatrick, for skid County and State peEsonally appeared John Sessions adm of the estate of' William Sessions , deceased, sho .being duly sworn saith that the foregoing account current contains the actings and doings as such administrator. JOHN SESSIONS (SIGNATURE) Sworn th' and Subscribed before me this the 7th day of Dec. 1858 Bird Fitzpatrick(Signature) Judge . of Probate J6bh' e'ssions Administrator of the Estate of the William Sessions deceased in account current and final settlement with said Estate To Administration Debits: Amount of Sale Bill Date the 2nd day of Nov 1857 and-`the lst day of Nov 1858 11479010 17.36 Amt of debita 1,49b.4�i cr forward b 1 5.49 Bal due, to be divided as follows 1,32:0 S to-with To John Sessions son of deceased 188.98 Wm H. It , 11 11 11 188.98 Jasper It L " It 188.98 Newton " " " " 188.98 Jane A Shields doughter• of deceased 188.98 (wife of Samuel Shields) FRANCIS MARION SESSIONS; SAR1�H ANN, J9?ES T1. JOSEPH A. , MARY JANE, AND SOLCMON A "MINORS 'OF ABSOLAIT SESSIONS cash the sum of $26.96 making a total of 188.08 To Wm J. ,Louisa M. Sarah, John A. Henny h., Josephine, Fanny and Oliver Taylor, minors of Louis Taylor feceased, case the sum of 23.59 making 188098 $1,321.08 Mrs Ruby Session: Hammond Dr awer lD Arp Smi¢ir. C0 l'e� . Dear Mrs Hammond The Chr ,s�mLtas segson followed r1, a month of "flu'l wh: ch J.s now including me, has been T-jy reason for not writing, you befor this , is ;.In b,,-�ry mucl-� in favor oof tracing back to our original LSESI.11.08 which tradition in my. family Molds come from England. Just as soon as I can I intend to carry out my plan of visiting in Fairfield County. Boykin Sessions said he would drive me out to the place where our family lived. My brother who is a paster of the Presbytenan ; Church in DarIJI-ngton S. Co wont-3 to goo er with me at that time I .roue 10 examine old papers and .racords in the court hoIse. I talked witha a gealoni.st in Columbia in December. S the saI.d. she would be glad to make an invest egat.ion in Columbia go k.ng taro�agh State records pensions papers census books, her charge were by the ho.0 , She is most dependable person and con- ( scientious I to"d he i isould try to get some data to her but so far flue had to be busy other raise. Her add- ress is Miss martha. H5.11mans 14,25 Pendleton St Columbia S. C. I- hope I .will get some S. C . Facys to you before your book is ready in published. As I wrote youB I know that my GREAT GRANDFATHER SAIUEL G IE TO FAIRFIELD from GEORGETOWN Ce S. C. on the coast one Of the first part of S. C . Settled Pre Revuluticnery period. K� Gr-Father Thomas Coleman S :tsions -ras a large ann dank blue eyes, black hair a good blislIIESS man though debts from slavery left him Y»or aft-, the war M y -pother and some of her brothers and sisters had the some colo- ring black hair blue eyes. oa:r e,iediate family are light-haired type since my father Yoh i Simpson cane of Scotish ancestory. Write -ne a sketvh of your tree I believe I haven't any thing with to send you that I haven° t alredy sgnt your sister would you like a list of the children of T Thomas Coleman Sessions . One of my cousins teaches in the Methodist College or University in-,'�allas I believe h_i_s nave is Wesley Davis ';,..., his Mother is 'If n�e` Sessions Davis doughter of John Gingsby Sessions and Rallie Car-sup Sessi-.ons(, Ga) and Grand d0ughter of Thomas Coi6na i. Sessions and his wife Grace grinsley Sessions ; great grand-doughter of Samuel Sessions Georgetowr.& Fairfield and his wife Nancy Coleman (from Va. Settlement near winsbrough S� C. I was told by whom or where I can' t recall that this Gt-gr father Sam Sessions recieved a pension wether in 1812 or M ixican I don't recall but at any rate his name with some data should be in the Goverment Records this Samuel may have had a brother to who went to Alabama that is my impressions he certainly had a Son who went to Texas or left to go to Texas bofor(- 3861 Sincerely yours Ruth. Copeland 62 • A SHORT HISTORY OF WELLS, TEXAS In 18859 Major E. H. Wellsy and the Kansas and Gulf Short line Railroad. Company establisne a town on the new railroad9 named Webs for the Major, who was a railroad t engineer. There pioneer settlers A1 the sections including the Bowman? Chapmans9 Spinks9 Humphreys9 Odoms ,,q ,; , Rozelles' Falveys9 Warnersy Rawlsy Goodwins9 Baileys and i .fir Simpsonsy were Furnished a close market. fJ , Amon the earl merchants were John B"ailey9 William --� , �� ; Herrington W.H. S inks Kemp Davidson. and Winsel Hilencamp3 who !icved his business i't-om Chesseland'in �- t Angelina County; Texas. The First hotel. proprietor9 W. A. Smith, soon sold to J A. Brewer9 For some thirty years Doctor J. C. Falvey served the conwunityd Today Doctor J. L. Dubose is the only physician. r / Among present rnercharits, J . N. Shammassq B. H. Bowman Rube Sessions have; the longest service records) The town has sixteen business houses9 a, j� Veacher school and two churches. ` 1° The methodist church #.s, the pioneer Mt. Hope Church. For a quarter of a century J. R. Oliver j has distributed Wells Mail. The above mentlon9 Dr J . G. Falvey Born Nov 11 1849 � died adge 90 was a personal friend of the SIMOSUAI F all") j as his boys were raised with the Sessions sons. He died at the home of his doughter Mrs Berryy at Cleveland Tex.. . � Was buried at the Mt. Hope cer�e�2tery in We11S «..w� ./ 1. ' /"`"" ��, ,.,fi...77 a ! • c-1'.'.�� 1 .,,. �� ,i �(/'� by / � i/' ��.,,!C�: .,. ., ,j., .���j'.✓,�„s�/1� ///�� ,7 • ' 1+0 HOOTEN °° Emigrants to American Plantationst1 T 1600-1700 I Register of the Names of all Passengers from `Pont of London Year 1635 ( Author states in introduction that the Register is not complete becouse they know that certain famous people came to America about this year and -there is no record of their lea- ving England. Also he states this is a record of those legimately j leaving and there were many who left ilegally. ) i One Page 36 was the following assenger list Fassenger With children Passe tram ye Port of London Post festum Natalis Christi 1634 1 Usq festum Na; Christi 1635 Secondo January 1634 E Thers under written to be transported to Virginia imbarqued k in ye March' bonaveture James Recrofte Me bound thither have taken ye oath of allegencee ( at this point was a long passenger list I did not copy, but about two thirds down the list was Ueo: Session 40 yeres i i On page 52 of same book was the following ; In the Peter Benavertureo Thoo Harman mr bound for the Barbabodoes , theis under written name p order ; they have taken ye oath of Supremacie of Allegeancee ( Among the list was ) Jo Sessions 22 yeres NOTE (BARBADODOES ISLAND off the cost of South A-nerica Charlston South Carolina was settled by people from the B arbadoes Island an English colony and still is.) I M P o G o •� ,z - R3v N 1• -� 1 c H ���,� 5 r l WILLIAM (JACK) SESSIONS 44 DEPOSITION OF T. B. SCARBROUGH, witness sworn and examined under and by virtue of a commission issued out of probate county of Pike and state of Aya. in a certedn case therein pending W. Sessions I John sessions , adm. is plar.tiff and the heirs o f Absolon Sessions, deceased is defendant. T. B. Scarbrough sworn and examined on the part of the plaintiff deposes and says thet he saith that he is 1st INTEROGATORY acquainted with the la nd mentioned .in the fi-, rst interogatory 2nd INTEROGATORY. He saith that he is eldiest FR ,i\TCIS; HARRY? SARAH, JR-TES M. JOHN R. 9 JOSEPH A. ? �TARY JANE Ai'TD SOLWON9 all under the age of 21 none married the:- above name persons are all the heirs of: said estate and are all of sound mind they are all living in the County of Pike, Ala 3rd INTEROGATORY. He saith that his personal property is sufficient to pay his dets . No Slaves . It would be to the inter- est of said hairs to sell the land. kth INTEROGATORY He saith that he nose nothing else. DEPOSITION OF JASON CORGILL SAME AS ABOVE THE STATE OF ALABATIA PIKE COUNTY 30 JARDAN G. GROOKS Know you that we having full faith in your prudence and competency have appointed you commissioner and by these presents do authorizw you at such time or place as you may appoint? to call before you and examine Jascon Corgle and Thomas Scarbraugh as witness in behalf of plaintiff in a cause pending in our Probate court for Pike County, and State aforesaid, wherein JOHN SESSIONS, ADTK OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM SESSIONS DECEASEDt their heirs of WILLIAT? SESSIONS deceased, defendant, on oath to be by you administered upon interrogatories annexed to this commission to take and certify the Deposition of the witness and return the same to our said Court to be holden at I Troy in as id county on the first Monday in Octob or next, under your hand and seal WITNESS Bird Fitxpatrick7 Judge of said Court? At office in Troy Issued the 21st day of September 1857 78 CARL C. CAMPBELL, Q. K. NIMOCKS, JR.. CLSRK RKSIDSNT JUDGK NINTH WANDA S. CAMPBELL, JUDICIAL DISTRICT ASSISTANT CLSRK MALCOLM SEAWELL, DISTRICT SOLICITOR OFFICE of (91trk �$upa im fQm�x# �1Til1�TPf�tDftTYt� �. QI. October 27th, 1951. Mrs. J. W. Hammonds 402 Rose Stree Merkel, Texas. i Dear Mrs. Yanmondst We have been changing office personnel and training new girls has left me no time for other %hings, hence your letter of inquiry was laid aside and I am just now getting to it. i We do not have a genealogist in our town. I have searched the records and fin4 grants from the State of North Carolina to Thomas Sessions, patent dated 19th Dec. 1796. A Quit-claim deed dated March 1896 cites Thomas Sessions as the father of Isaac Sessions. Deed dated March 19, 1805, from Richard Sessions to Isaac Sessions. Grant from the State of North Carolina to Thomas Sessions dated Nov. 30th, 1808. I am sorry that I'm unable to furnish you with more of the details as to heirs of each one, but although our county is an old one, the Courthouse here has been burned twice and many of our old records were burned. I do not find a will. If you would like copies of any of the above they may be had for $2.00 each. A Charge of $1.00 is made for searching records. Yours very truly, Assistant Clerk Superior Court. SOUTH-CAROLINA. ''EORGE the Third, by the Grac-&df God, of Great 1 BmAIN,FRANCE,and IRELAND, I{ING,Defender of; '-and fo forth, To all to wham thefe Prefents fhall come,.Greeting: KNOW YE, That We,of our fpecial Grace,certain Knowledge andinere Motiou,have.given and granted,and by thefe Prefents for Us,our Heirs'and 5uece&iiT*s;'ho GIVE AND GRANT unto JOHN SESSIONS, bis Heirs and Afiigns,a Plantation or Tract of Land containing Six Hundred Aeres situate in Craven County butting and bounding all sides on-vacant land . i And hath fuch Shape,Form and Marks,as appear by a Plat thereof,hereunto annexed:Together with all Woods,Underwoods,Timber and Timber-Trees,La�es,Ponds,Fifhings,Waters,Water-Courfes, Profits,Commodities,Appurtenances and Hereditamentt,tp[►a foeverthereuntobelonging,orm anywise appertaining: Together with Privilege of Hunting,Hawking and Fowling in and upon the fame;and all Mines and M Qerals whatfoever; Saving and Referving•; 4gertheless, to Us, Our Heirs and Sue-. ! eeffouis, all wbl•te Pine Trees, if any there fhould•be lonva, wing thereon; and alfo Saving and, j Referving, nevertheless, to Us, Our Heirs and Succeffours, One Tenth Part of Mines of Gold and i Silver only: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD,the faid Tract of Six Hundred Acres of Land, and all and fingular other the Premifes hereby granted unto the faid John Sessions fHeirs and AfBgns forever,in free and common Soccage: The faid John.Sessions; lis ' Heirs and Af signs yielding and paying therefor, unto Us, Our Heirs and. Succeffpurs,-or to Our j Receiver-General for the Time being, or to his Depdty or Deputies for the"Time being, Pearly,that i is to fay,on the Twenty-fifth Day of March,in every Year, at the Rate of Three Shillings Sterling, or Four Shillings Proclamation-Money, for every Hundred Acres,and fo in-Proportion,according to f the Number of Acres contained herein;the fame to.commence at the Expiration of Two.Years.from the date hereof. PROVIDED ALwnvs, and this•prefent Giant is upon.Condition, neverthelefs, that. j. the faid John Sessions, his i Heirs or Affigns, flrall and do Pearly, and every Year, after the-Date of thefe4"Prefents; clear and, cultivate at the Rate of Three Acres for every Hutrdred Acres of Land,and fo in Proportion, accord- ing to the Number of Acres herein contained,and alfo fhall and do enter a Minute or Docket of theft Our Letters Patent, in the office of Our Auditor-General for the Time being,in Our faid Province, within Six Months from the Date hereof;And upon Conditon„that.if the.faid Rent-hereby refp..rved,,-, fhall happen to be in Arrear and unpaid for the fpace of Three Years, from 'the'Tiine'it flrall become i due,and no Diftress can be found on the faid Lands,Tenements and Hereditaments hereby granted; or if the faid John Sessions, His Heirs or Assigns, fhall neglect to clear and cultivate Pearly, and every Year, at the Rate of Three Acres for every Hundred Acres of Land, and fo in Proportion, according to the Number of Acres• j herein contained;or if a Minute or Docket of thefe Qur Letters;I'.$tent, flrall p6t:lie'tntered`in the Office of Our Auditor-General for the Time being,in Our faid;Provinces within Six Months froT the. Date hereof,that then, and in any of thefe Cafes,this ptcfent'G•rant flrall ceafe, determine, and be utterly void,and the faid Lands,Tenements and Iiereditaments'hereby granted; and every Part and Parcel thereof fhall revert to Us,our Heirs and Succeffours,as fully and.abfoutely,as if Oic fame had never been granted. (5i6=ssu?rPr tEje l eu# , rtxl of Our fttibi �frinc WITNESS The Honble. Plilligm Bull I+;sgr. Lieut'."' ' Governour and Commander in Chief in and over.Our faid Province.of.South Carolina,this fourth Dail of May Anno Dom. 17 71. in the Eleventh Ve'kn. (L.M.8). 'Bull 7/ e e Lieut. Governour in Council, J. Woodin, ' Whereunto a Plat thereof annexed,rch?r! CERT - � John �Bremar, D AND � _.�., r _ ,.. JUKE ' • sa t :' o,,1 a 'Pit. 15th. January, 2T 1, State. �•" •' :` Of f� r ,Y "rIf/ ' ` 1-4 r ,y fit �2 r ! FATHER ' S DAY `TNE 22- y 19)9 On FATHER ' S DP.Y wo not only think of our fathers but also u'r forefathers who have giver us a, rlch' heritage through toil, sweat j and blood. We take pri_d,e in 'our name of Sessions and the ancient. Coat-of-Arms which belongs with its ranks,. The blue of the shield signifies truth and. loyalty while the gold stands for generosity and culture. The grif'f°inyheads symbolize vigilance which was the property of the daring soldier who scaled the wall to permit, his troops to enter an enemy castle under duress of battle . the motto, "SI SONENT TUBAR PARATUS", means " B,�3 prepared when the trumpet blows". ' Below is shown the decendency of our branch of the Sessions ffamily which cane from Offenshier, Er -land. r Isaac (Buck) William (Jack) B. B .D . 1857 John Jasper Newton Absolam , Louisa Jane Solomon Mary J. i B D . 1854 Joseph A. Richard,Monroe Francis Marion Harry, Sarah Ann,Soloman A. B. 9-16-1841 D.12-18-1866 James-W. Charles Carrie Rube Hattie Matt`ie Minnie MARY FANNIE BERTI4 B,eg-16-1.874 `D. Melvin,Clint, Ednni&i ':$unni.,a Homer Rubey, Hayzel, Gladdis B. D'. William Rube 'Be 6-15-1924 !' William Homer Rube B. 1-3-1950 D . Texas �-94-— ARc �r- Mr, Ike Moore San Jacinto !Museum of History i,ss In. Houston, Texas Dear Sir: When I visited you in January of 19421 I promised to send some poeias and a short story of my family who spent their lives in Texas. That was at the time that I delivered the "Fiddle" to the San Jacinto Monument. I am writing this sacred history of them and "our Texas" as I feel they would have had they been here. My grandfather, Nathan Franklin Carson, sr. , was the original owner of a portion of the land where Texas A & M College now stands. He was one of the "Patriotio Pioneers" who founded the college. He Leas the author of the phrase "Who would be wil- ling to serve my time in hell for the sing he would have me to commit in order for him to make money". Two sons survive him. They are Thomas Roe Carson and Curtis Abernathy Carson, 14. F. Carson, Jr. , my father, spent :,post of his life seclusion and solitude around the institution -which was bai.lt on his father's farm, and lived there in stubborn resistance rather than break from his father's tradition. The family record is found in the old family Bible which is in the hands of my cousin, the daughter of Curtis Abernathy Carson, Mrs. Jessie :toe Carrol, R.F.D. ;F3, Bryah, Texas. I have been playing the fiddle approximately forty years. Ten years ago I organized a Bill Billy Band under the name of "The East Texas Acorn Busters" in dedication to the "Ox Cart Pioneers" who first settled Texas. .','e played at caany places and on many ocoasions, including Churches, banquets , theators, house parties and radio programs . yre had a pror;rara once each week in the assembly room of The Texas Company refinery at Port Arthur, Texas. There were thirty-two musicians in the Hill Billy Band. Among them were : Messers. John. Cramer , Bryant Redding, Edward Pete , Olden Landry Ivan Isaac, rrilliam Edgerton, Tony Randaza, Murphy Smith, E. SkItes , Hurold F''e"aver and others. Yours very truly, J. A. CARBON Graceful Old �3 Houseda fist the place of the old building Academ ` i 1 By KATE THOMAS as the Bryan Hospital parking school. H. 0. Boatright was April Fool's Day and we didn't Eagle Staff Wrltar lot. chairman of the board of have any sugar or butter so When the remainder of the Despite BBA's short life, 1905- deacons for the First Baptist I went down to the kitchen to Edge Apartments settles into 19, its students recall their Church at the time. get some. Of course, that was .,,dust in the next week or sc, tutorship at the school vividly. His daughter, Mrs. Travis against the rules." '.,few Bryan citizens will recall Texas Woman's College was Bryan Sr., transferred from 0 n e of the champion the Bryan Baptist Academy. owned and 'operated by the public schools to BBA. Re pranksters of his day was The graceful old brick First Baptist Church chiefly gives some credit to the school Marshall Bullock. ' building on S. Ennis Street wkth through the efforts of the Rev. for helping her meet her "The devilment hit me one Its double porch entry housed George Butler and T. R. Batte. husband. night on the way to study hall.: „ ,•' the Academy in the early 1900s. Public subscription and tuition He held out and refused to We had to go every night. I Modern apartments will take first supported the school. buy a ticket from her for heard the music teacher up Charles Edge says that when "Engaged by Wednesday," a ahead of me and I hid in the soon, and the Academy will be things became a little difficult, play the school put on at the bushes. consigned to memory and old the board members sold blocks Colonial Theater, now the "When he walked by me I record books. in the sidewalk with purchasers' Palace. She won the final round, made a noise and pretty soon names written on them. however. he was running. He finally ran Actually the Academy had a Eugene Edge, his father, T e x a s Woman's College into a pole and tore up his predecessor called the Texas bought the building from the became Bryan.Baptist Academy clothes. I nearly got put out 11Woman's College which was General Baptist Convention in when boys were added in 1910..for that," Bullock recalls with located in the old Bonneville 1919. Edge also served as first Boys and girls both had dormi- very little remorse. r r home. board treasurer. tories with dining halls and He remembers, but disclaims a u In more modern times the old Amos Buchanan served as classrooms. all credit, for an incident in- Bonneville was better known as chairman of the board, Batt e The boys' dormitory burned volving the president's horse. ,,the old Emory home. Most was board secretary and Butler and the school became too big Someone tied a bucket full of •t,people today would recognize it was the first president of the a venture for the church. The rocks to its tail while it was school then came under the resting in a stall. This is where Amber Ma araon� iunsdiction of the Education When the horse decided to for Y Board of the Baptist General switch off a fly, it got a pet Threlkeld attended school for Convention of Texas. 'bucketful. of rocks instead and on one year before she married. Students came from ail-proceeded to kick down fire sul around, Mrs. Bryan recalls—stall. tho Some came from as far away Everyone turned out to chase as Houston, and Beaumont, but down the runaway horse that cat the majority of the boarding afternoon, Bullock says. Ace students came from the small An equally mysterious in- Br, towns around Bryan. cident occurred one evening ent One of those was Lillian when an iron trellis with mil Ferguson. She lived at Harv.�y honeysuckle growing over it fell eve where the school went only to in front of the girls' dormitory. coe n the loth grade. "It happened with apparently F In his book, Dutchman on "Mv dad sent us in to school. no help at all," Bullock wd the Brazos," Hohn reminiseeses I took a regular course and remembers. He does say that fre three freshman college courses the trellis was a favorite about BBA* my last year," she recalls. courting spot. C "I was captain of the A&M Dining was relatively formal, Bullock didn't spend all his twc baseball team that year, and with everyone seated at tables time on devilment. To help put boE dot I received a request from the for meals. Since she studied himself through school he says German, Miss Ferguson says "he hauled every brick that lun nearby Bryan Baptist Academy she sat at the table where built the girls' dorm bhe to cone over and pitch a game everyone spoke German. summer." sto Pranks generally fire �;:e He makes two other claims a imagination of students more to fame. He roomed with Paul Oul than studies and Miss Ferguson Watanabie and he introduced; 01 was no exception. Eleanor and Dutch Hohn to" She remembers particularly each other. a time when she hid from the Watanabie was a, Japanese s c h o o I president, Richard boy who had been sent to the McDonald, under a table in the s c h o o I by the Baptist "We were making candy on Denomination, Bullock says. kitchen. During a big earthquake, so ,,he story goes, Watanabie's mother ran out of a building and ri cted him outside. Watanabie lived, but he was i always crippled. Apparently his ' injury didn't slow him much, , because Bullock save hpo Do you remember this old Building Show this to your kids. ` Sunday,July 20,1969 THE BRYAN DAILY EAGLE—SECTION SECTION A Bryon-College Station,Ta" Pop S e :€ _ { r ou g . }. i-I—01-1101 ' — didn't -�-�'� .ter so -__'� _— _ f !hen to at was g ampion _ _ - r was le one -- y hall - ight. I _ - ,— er up in the me I - r soon ly r'ln p his t: out z with - Maims nt In- horse. (Eagle Photo by Geae Dennlal ull of EDGE APARTMENTS WILL BE REPLACED BY MODERN ONES SHORTLY was The Building Once Served as Dorm for Bryan Baptist Academy ,d to for them. They'd pay 'my ex- "We moved three and four A&M , by the name of Grissom. "and we had to arrange our of a penses — 15 cents each way in a room into one end of the Music played a big part in curls or little knots out from l and on the trolley — and give me girls' dorm. They put a plank the curriculum at BBA. Mrs. under them somehow.,, tile supper. This was legitimate in down the middle of it," he says. G. E. Madeley received her She graduated from Bryan i those days and J accepted. Football games often had diploma in music from the High School and then attended -hale "Well around the A&M added punch. Ball recalls the school when it was still Texas TWC as a voice major. "We that campus B.B.A. — Bryan Baptist time Navasota spread cftt- Woman's College. had an excellent teacher, J. Academy — was nicknamed tonseed on "that old hard naked Music students had to play Bert Graham from the Oberlin In- Brazos Bottom Apes. It never ground." everything, "even long classical Conservatory," Mrs. Branch elling entered my mind, then that I "Paul Ferguson landed on a pieces, by memory. "Prof. remembers. With might meet a pretty girl there, thornbush with a thorn in his Lilebridge from Germany used Mr. Graham was also one of it fell even though the school was back. Afterward we went to a to follow right along," Mrs. her beaux. orY• coeducational." barber shop to shower and tie Madeley says. About 1919 the number of ently But Hohn did meet his future barber got the thorn out of his Students often gave recitals Baptist schools increased to the Ithat wife, Eleanor, later during the back." at the First Baptist Church. point the General Baptist o that free supper. One thing that sticks in C. They were well attended by the convention decided it could do Charlie Ball attended BBA for W. Crawford's mind is the townspeople. without the BBA. his two years. While he was a wooden sidewalk. "It was mado When Mrs. Gussie Branch It was disbanded and the put boarding student, the boys' of two by fours and went from attended Texas Woman's property sold to Eugene Edge. sass dormitory burned down during the corner of Cavitt and then College all the girls wore dark The old school's final passage lat lunch. turned and ran all the way to blue uniforms with a white won't be mourned by many, but bhe "We had an old sheet iron the Academy. blouse and long sleeved slue it may get a little final notice. stove and one of the boys built "People made quite a noise Jacket. The Brazos County Historical aims a pretty good fire in it. It walking on it," he says. "We also wore mortarboard Survey Committee may put a n.,..,,burned the dorm nnli all tho, Thu nn ), h- «,,,,,,,,,,;,,. ;. f t:v,. +i,,,,, ,,___ r «i. « 'w_ Pert—tir#hl j c-xcrs Ike << oorc: :iun Jacinto ,Iu3eWli J1' hi6t'ry ..sL3 ',1. li: ustoll, Texas Dear Sir: '-j her1 I vi -iteu yo in January of I'A2, 1 proalised to send so:+le poei.lo ur,d a :Mort �:ItorY of ,-1Y f<.1::1ily wilo "Pont their lives in Texas. That %,j:js ut tli(; t i:ae that I delivered the "Fiddle" to the -rail Jacinto .-�on"ent. I aril wr.i.tjj,g this sacred history of them ;and "our Texas" as I ft.el they would have Iliad they been here. My grandfather Natilan Franklin Carbon, Sr. , was the original owner of a !)OI'ti-n of the land where Texas A & ►ri College now stand:;. lie ti��_1s ujie of the "i}atriotic Pioneers" vA., founded the oolle.;e. lie :.us the autiior of the phrase V ho would be wil- ling to serve lily tine ill hc1i for ti,e sires he wo:il.d have me to coluuit in order for hill to wake :honey". Tv10 sons s uyv ive him. They are Tho.-aus hoe Lis on and Curtis Abernathy Carsono iie e. Carson, Jr. , my rather, apenL ..ro st of hi:j life seclusion arid solitude around the institution -which was bu'Llt on his fatiler':3 far . , and lived there in stubborn resistance rather than broak f'ruia his father's tradition. The f"ly record is fund in the old family bible which is in the hands of my couain , the daugli r of Curtis r,bernathy Carsong i1;rs. Jessie :-roe Carrol, R.' ,�3, Bryan, Texas. I have been play3.:1;; the fiddle approximately forty ;;ears. Ten years ago I ur,�:wiized a iiill Lilly Band under the name of "The East Texas Acorn Busters" in deuicaLiurr to the "ox Cart Pioneers" who first settled Texas . -,e player: at ,.lLuiy places and on many occasions, inalsuirl Ci�arcl�es, harz� uets , theutors, house parties and radio programs . ,,e had a pr o `Tex;,rw-1 once t�tlah week x the aasumbly room of The 'fe::ss i;o.apuny rofinory at fort :irthur, as. There v;ere thirty-t,,410 i1luoici,ans in the Hill Billy Band. Awn& them ware : : eL�surs. Juhn. Cra_.ier , 13ryunt hedd ing, Edv and Pete , olden Landry, IVLUI J.s:i:.c , illiwa �.d-orton, Tony handaza, i.iurphy "with, L. :�l.ites , ;. :r�l„ c<iv1 r allU others. Yours very truly , J . is. C.�lOP3 i / L1 (This is a copy similar to the one I wrote to Mr. Ike Moore, March 16, 1%2) f via i /a ln�/?Z, /,Well a 6441 . a I r l ,aj K1�% r "a k Lg o das&�4� r A ,I Ct Dot )L lVtl,(7//I/(7,f 3/7-/S&7� /il /'it XF/h gl(- Yid //I D�9!!/t w. 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(___j yrz-- � '� / �• ' � i i i � ♦ ice. ,-i At // � . ,/' times• ,, /u �s I �i(d�.L�HlQ� ---------------- CARSCN-ROYALL FAMILY REUNION ` July 13th 1964 Dear Relatives: We have set August 1st 1964 as the date for the family reunion this year in the Washington State Park. The building has been reserved for the entire day and here we will hold our reunion eating out under the trees if the weather permits. Camping facilities are available under the trees on the banks of the Brazos Ri- ver with lights, tables, barbecue pits, etc. The Superintendent will turn on the lights and electricity for you if desired. The fee for this extra service is y1.00. Plan to arrive by 10:00 A. M. on Saturday if possible. We will spread our bas- ::I kets and start serving at 12:30 P.M. Ice water and ice tea will be provided as here- tofore. You bring the food, also card tables and chairs if you have them. No program has been planned but everyone will be given the opportunity to talk, sing, perform or entertain us in any way possible. We hope Royall E. Pinnell and some of his clan may be present and talk to us, and also Donald Royall of Houston to sing for us. Remember the date, Saturday August 1st at Old Washington on the Brazos at 10:00 A. M. The Committee On Arrangements. Elbert F. Spiller Curtis R. Carson R. R. Royall THE ROYALLS -- I have continued my research on the Royall genealogy and now have the genealogy of Elizabeth Flippen Bedford complete. (See #5 page 23 of the Royall history) Most of the Royalls in Texas and perhaps the Pinnells are descended from Elizabeth Flippen Bedford (1772-1802) who married Captain William Royall (1754-1821).She wap our mater- nal ancester. Elizabeth Flippen Bedford (1752-1802) was the daughter of Stephen Bedford II who died in 1772 in Goochland County, Va., and Francis 11atson Pearson, born 5/15/1756, and granddaughter of Stephen Bedford (died 1758) of Gloucester and Goochland Coun_ ties, Va. who married Elizabeth Flippen. Stephen Bedford was Captain of Militia for Goochland County, Va. in 1740. (Arproved by Act of Parliament order bk IV page 461) The above information was obtained mainly from research by Redmond S. Cole, Tulsa, Okla. now deceased. Mrs. B. C. Bedford, 907 Belmead Ave. Chattanooga 11, Tenn. is going to include the Royall Genealogy in a book she is now in process of compiling and publishing. She advises that she will publish the entire genealogy from the marriage of Eliza- beth Flippen Bedford to Captain William Royall d,pwn to,1962. ABOUT ANN ALEXANDER UNDERWOOD (1802-1836) William Bibb Royall, my grandfather, writing to his niece Phoebie Brewster from College Station, Texas in 1900, writes, and I quote:- "The Bibb family are very high strung and high bred people originally of Virginia. 1•�y great grandmother's maiden name was Jane Bibb." Research, however, indicates that his great grandmother's name was Jane Farrar, daughter of Elizabeth Bibb. (1) Benjamen Bibb came from Wales to Virginia about 1685 settling in King Williams County, Va. He had land deeded to him in Hanover County, Va. in 1685. Wife's name unknown. Issue James, William and Thomas. (2) William Bibb (1665-post 1744) married a Miss Clark and had John, Nancy and Ma ry. (3) John Bibb (1703-1769) of Goochland County, Va. married Susannah Bigger (1711-1786). His will dated 2/17/1769 (recorded in deed book (9) page 213) mentions children Richard, John, James, William Sussannah and Elizabeth. Granddaughter Jane (Jan) Farrar. This will about authenticates Jane Farrar as the daughter of Elizabeth Bibb. John Bibb was the grandfather'vf WilliaktWyatt Bibb, (i78C-1840) first gov- ernor of Alabama Territory 1817-1819 and State 1819-1820. Also Thomas Bibb (1782-1840) second governor of the state of Alabama in 1820-1821. (4) Elizabeth Bibb (born About 1740) married 3/17/1762 William Farrar of Gooch- land County, Va. Their daughter (5) Jane Farrar, born 9/6/1765 married Thomas Farding in Goochland County, Va. Their daughter (6) Elizabeth Bibb Harding (1/3/1783-2/1/1824) married 3/16/1799 in Goochland County, Va. Alexander Underwood (8/l/1769-abt 1800). Aftcr her husband's death she married the second time about 1812 in Tuscumbia, Ala. John Cockrill III. Born to the first marriage a daughter. (7) Ann Alexander Underwood (abt 1801 or 1802-2/18/1836) married abt. 1819 R. R. Royall of Tuscumbia, Ala Jane Farrar (9/6/1765) who married Thomas Farding came from a family that dates back to the Norman Conquest. The Farrars, Ferrero, or de Forrers, were Norman and many of them Crusaders. Bibb Graves, the 39th and 41st Governor of Alabama, in his (2) I have no informtion concerning the daui;lAters of John Caroon utlk r than tlra r aril nam a of tl.:i.r husbands mntiomd in ;Jolm Carsonto trill dated i1ov. 1.7 ?864 and a grazaclson No • rickons. Desc e—ndants a :lathan Frsnl'.l:in Carson who jr=icd Amanda Rce Curtiss All 'born in 1 Nancey i . Carsot.' n2) 2 Martha A. Carson (1.2 9f�u��i�' UZ173 John T. Carson � 27/18tt� 362) . 4 Alfread it. Ccxson 4•, 2G/�847 :i 12/�3/1868 Ma uarct J. DxjZhtcn 5 Edward E. Car con (9�/1ht19-9/28/1-850) /y 6 ��{;a.mt J. Carson (3 ��-n"'!. :i 11/9/. f-117 's1. i.. ,'�rrcr.i 7 1•tslisyaa A. Carron 0-11LIAC 5 n 12/5.0/`1872 Joc R. Cur--on.m .', p 1883 Sarah 0. j 8 rSathuxz i'2•ar.1:11n Carson 5�16/id55 1.1/2,;A§76) i' Nancy E. rxulian (Coarsen 9 Wi1.lic t rn Carson,n i 2/ AR5G- xi 5/13A873 IN s. 1tar=y >o ���� Y e;.1a .Gz.�son C 8e ,8ne, -M Zftor IW3 'Toe 11, f jars 11 Thomas Roe Car.^,on (10 ; 8 -12,�0/`19Z 2) n1,�'..~ux;x' I cy Dc�aton,2, ilar'tha V.neaton 12 Curtis A. Carron (9/25/10361 -6/19A949) m LUcy Ca1ja rinc n"-,3y 14olinla A. Carson 21o. 7 abm; n Joe F, Carson and J e :•i.t.a-Louj: !u 2m ow,L" Wel•±a Carson Thomas Roo Carson, liu. 11 z)bove, fburtli l en::ra*LS_ �.rar -,'�-,irt,,E! ( utis, (10/9/1861- 12/`10/iyu2) m la. eXa tt i 86 ki.-bur, by Eiaton whu c?1��c?- ./`.c9/ .`' M'xr5�.iad 2ni -12 2LA892 It, tha -Virginia Dc•atcn, Are ox M!:y Is sister* i)ttyc:e fyr Yka tila J_ �, nisi ik=ton cre 4f16,/1876w 1/1211918. `s'11cru.s x Car:rc•^ died in i��c, T�ds:�Issz�e irom s '��'`i4arria�e w;iich would be tlua 5thcrTuticlz: '�7c: Ct1`Ll�'.r�za ' 1 hoah Alber.at IW G+u cen C•-1•/ - y 948) ra'1, /26 i-910 'k of Brazos Ommtye iswe s ►ary Anna it nx'n 6/7/ �`I I iticlrrxr Roe OLU-suli 1Gi 1 /1911 m 6 39 ° ex•a:t� n :luvia uora J i 193.9. Issue J wbf.a-a Les Czwsan 'b :' yx; .4�' 1;� s.. iz:i..Chard Davin Qw,son b '► . 2 1'. Anna Iiay Carson 2/6/l.y1.! / 1 7 T on bo �.2/`17/`1315• Issue i T11c :1as Aeac _'nz't.) 4)? u ,►cif a L Zi;;113n F�'.e:1e gas,^,or: .r?y"J. 16 rx L u/'1/1. ;;C� a:i►ri:: : =i!.:i��,: Cluipman (12/15 . !• ..j/Aa/.Li45• E tiliaz (;t7tij�.i4 ,)I in am'j iun in b4itt..,l.e. of 1-vio J311A 3 . r' 19�.15• OT:1 'LO t;�a �4s:.�ij�., � / EUen Jeanx �Cl:e. ran 'o'er .No E r:c Carsonzaor�• xt1 s4coral Al7i•:i1 27, 35>46 lm DLr17.:.w ofo.; Ersl Jesse Asia+,?b?rp SePt,.16�t M7. Tststtm pecn, - - - Jolm W,1:'c 1 J Gams Aji,'-3. .io, 1%5,0 Roan Are. Gnu oaza,Jr. 1,f3 1x 8 m X.J 26 1c2 rc:nia:e in Da�l1:�s, Texan. . ,� _,a JG.._ Eva Jc:c. w:p �r. :;e t 7 5? 1922. l3s ac 13r aclshaw Tca;ue Car soh 5cpty 8, 19�15 Ze:u�:.s Doyio Ca: A 7r. 5a 19?19 MScx *'uulim- C-t-:an 12,'1.c�7.� 42 . 1 P 2G/, Deorge JJ , , t ., 3 J�a- �• ••� /s•�! . �) iti�a"1 O.i t�F.lu.Fs .� iv7.• 1.3SL2@ 5'uuLn 0 tl;:a1 Nuy 12, 1950 a ioQ- Otiw;al liar 3rd,1956 2. Alvah Natl= Carson (I;/`J.6118;0-1/12A953) m 1/8/1911 ill :x€►r..os IOU-,•tyf Tcrao Mary Lillie ifil1. a G//18;3 11/17 car' 3.911.933) aka-y Lillie' tiils� I s bom in �x Couzrty, 'P;::ca; and died l crt^ n,� Texas. Icaua Aran t1tis t y� dauCYitox Rubj- .1,2L.t' 129A911 m 1lAA9V4 Leland -0. Evans b 5/20/1.909. issuc: Robert M-U ;,'vans barn Feb 17, 1936 m 6/22/1.955 t3orew R s:;acll Carlton Lce Evans m 7/1962 LydjA Dc-Ti;ro Shirley Ruth EvansbornFeb 26,1939 n 2 /i.7/1962 i,c car;;u i1. Second lluwia6e (3) 3 Amber May Carson, b Sept 7, 1894 m 1/1/1913 Clyde DQWitt Thrcllmld b MaY 7, 1894 in montl omery County, Texas. AM;7er N&y Carson was born in Drazos County, T. :as. Issue from this rwriaZa: Anrulce T1u 11 1d, 9/7/1M m 1st Virgil D. Dobbs Piov. 1.8, 1933• Virl;.il B. Dobbs i was killed in action n World 1�.Tar I:I. Issue from this marriage Nancy Arm Dobbs, born Sort 9, 1934 m A ; 1 l 6 Dr.7, 95 Clifford L. Condit. Annelee Throllmld iaarried second 6/3A939'John j on-a may. Issue from this raarri-q;e: John Wayne May, Jr. born N(w- 4, 1943 Clyde D. Threlkel.d, Jr. born 21511918 m 10/27A945 71a i"SLe Webb, b 10/17/1926. Issue Roy Lyn Thrcllmld born Sept 9, 1946 Clyde Dee Threlkeld, born Aug 12, 1948 4Leona Mabel Carson N/1.0/1896-5/28/1962) m April 1917 Earl A. Phillips. Earl A. Phillips died 4/22/196j. Issue: Lucy Phillips Mildred Phillips Earl A. Phillips, Jr. %i 5 Effie Malinda Carson born Oct 7, 1897 m 8/14A918 lie Iiarrison Reed (8/24A897- '(j27/ly6U) Three children born to this marriage. Henry 11. 11eed., Jr. born Oct. 19, 1919 Wiley Robert Reed born Oct. 22, 1920 Effie Lorene Reed born Jan 15, 1923 6` Thomas Allen Carson, born 10/19/1900 �/�,AOA 4 Vera 110, ook in Bryan, Texas. .Born to this union one child. Edward 3. Carson, born I1,rch 8, 1y2� 7 Slzsan Amanda Carson, born 4/30/1902 x�ed Volney Reed Dcce, er 5, 1918. Volrxy Reed was born June Zt 1WU. Issue f,om this ikka ,iage Blakie Eugene Reed born J �920. ied Aug ±� Alice Elizabeth Reed, } "o n A r' 6x 19\� ieD 1946 2',�hildren Emma Lee Reed, born A 2 1r' 4,-�190�- Children Thomas Wilson need, bp�n July 6 '1 ^rrdied Feb.eb �' 19�8rLeroy'A,ltoS�s, 1 child July 30, 19 -50 and child 8 Ida Josephine Carson., 1 ptA Ma:-h, 1903, marriod Will Phillips first Married second Leonard R&r=y. 9 Jesse Jarns,6arson born 1906 died in infancy. 10 Jezaci Care, died' at 51 ih in 1908 11 Vivian Roe 64rson, bo.,'Nov. 13, 1910 died April 1 1954, Married April 29th 1943 Nora Mwone ua , 12 Tommie Ines Carson, 6/5/1912-3i6/10/3/1964. Married May 1, Gregor, 1937 Theodore (fed) Ilb- Judy Kay McGregor., ad,>pted daughter. 13 Clyde Alton Carson., born April 20, 1911,. Curtis A. Carson,. the 12th child of Nathan Lranldin Carson and Amanda Roe Curtis of toe fourth generation from bwiuel Curtis (9/25A864-6/19/1949) married Oct.17, 1886 Lucy Catherine Ramseur (1011IA868-2/18/1921) This couple lived and died in 3razos County, Texas. Issue all fifth gen aration descendents from ;armel Curtis: 1 Jessie R. Carson born Sept 4, 1887 11%7r�ric:d Oct. 18,, 1903 Jphn ..Carroll Houston] Texas Jtin 23, 1969 Tars. Joan 'art. Butler, 11C4 Heater St. �` Jonesboro, Ark. 7401. Dear 11ra. Butler: L I an _xicloairag the pa€us y u requested of the Carson Family in"0 rma,tiaoe and want to thank you for t1Ze information you sent me about the Carson serving is the Revolution from Georgia. This infor=tion concerns the Carte found on page 2 of mr (Nwbis-Carson Family information that I an Inaloa ng. Vxwo an sow additions that B:=ld bo made on Mee 2 referred to above: Lineage (1) Jo'nn, Joseph, Thomas, David Z.- Adam served in the 13evolutionesy War or ?gar of the Revolution from Georgia and received land for service rendered' Adam, Devids Joseph & T hmaas askitag for land in Irlamhington County and John for land in Franklin ► County. All of these boys, I can't find Willi€uu listed, from South Carolina to Wilkes County„ Georgia and after the Revolution moved Mississippi.. and Alaxza Territory. David Carson was granted and raceiveed a paspo rt sued ter George to go r3 through the Crack Nation in 1808. Thus Carson, b 1761 die 18070 according to R. �. Lirurrloy married June He found this in the 6th volume Alabama IUztorical C Society. Fk� believes i d before IM3 for 3la Carson's land was t2�i-�aa�, rendered for taxes as theie tea of Thongs Carson. As a matte a fact this happened in 1811 also. This Thomas Carson and Us wife • au a Ferry the Tam ?. h River. Willi m Waller Carson Carson in lAs n a beat Aaarcza Burr w::en c" tared by the °y.So r overtunont stated he cr:ig� U40 w, to Ws. Carson's Parry. 'This was In 1807 and if Mr• Carson had been li it is t ht he would havo said be was on tho way to Ilik. Carson's ferry. Limoa e z taotf on ;has Carson C2=Pt the► . ;.Srurnrn 80 acres to T r �advSses t?mot Jahn Carsou�, � his brother deaaciccl ze o1`�ry. i 1 Sallie Carson nmrried ex Hol.l. VII %L11 was mado in Fpbile* Ala 1866 Will book 3 page 566. Ann Carsons br..�rj Fey.: , 1788 heel lat Feb 122 1814 VIIIiam Bates, end General Joseph D• Churabers. Ti ' inf'ar�at i l.r" on R. E. ib u l.eiy. 4r. B w lei who w, Id not anmier DW letter to , is fa e)A and Bates G�e.locy afthusiast and has ma-'e a mat a tuddy of a rz31 Linea;,ea 3 Margaret ,T Carson b 1828, married Yat.Ww 'Thertfc� d ca. 18,7* J'ailerson and Mtttaow Thetford x son of J , s Thetford of Ldoestone CaunV, irexxas. ' Lirx3arro . 14argant CrarBon d 9A3A9p4 married April 9, 16571 ?a. H. `I:arrow who died 10/28A 17. I have never seuxchud Georgia for infwmation on the Caarsous and am very tha7nb.'- Wl for your infoemaa'tion concerning Georgia. Goorgla, one taf rho or3I;inal 13 Colonies, e-7ten dGd her boundaries at the close of the Drench and Indian wars to than Idavissippi on the West. In 1802 sly c:odesd to the Federal Gmriumat all her land wrest of the Chatta~ huoochaae River embracing most of what is now Masissippi aw Alabama :haters. With reference reference to Gommamhie CourAW, Ga., I am sure tl*t the 1aAy giving me the information meant Wilkes County, Oeargia, for bar people settled in Ccemaaaea a& Corjzty, Tees. IAO you, slxtuld find, aWthing about the Thomas L. Carson and ais taot3a.r Jane L. Lovcjery who gave and i.n:iormid his bible 29th day of August 1661, Please let me kuowt I am maldn; a circlu on page 2 of the Ca rson-Royal . fax3ly rounion report I =ado in 1964, 1 have 16 pages of closely written notes on t w Carsons of U•S. that I p:-e- Tared :or 1'. I'eara Cason of Charlottc:svillc, Vs. that I will send nee you to search over to See if you can find alVthi.ng of value to you, if you will Ln=anteeee to raturn tiNM to me rafter you have studied tuna. It took over a woek to prepare: tsacaa and the copy is orb one I have. I still have thLs zrmny other notes on Carsons. S:Uwere3 re};ards. 111-n-7 tmrn`i1 . 1 r103n t4.,4 ni.i n `.n1 A- R+..-. r d--9(cvtt oc;- c C;/L. � � �/ � O'er �'l � � Y ' � 1 ` �/(���1���/ C � � ." V - •:� ; CL ct t ` n �, x 50 GLA 'n it V Rct vYY1 c,"n ct, / ot�tA qa-)4A VO-IL CL"L Q �O t ce I �� 1 . 7 - 1 L�3, ayl oLo IV �' - ice - � ��t7, c --� � CYY10-tines vI1JaL?W -cJ a o _ i cry ala - �CA�4 Y ► � hl ' � / � -add � rT -ran-rtro� 6� -I ry 0 - Nf bl fa*4 r7,"- .000�PR- A A `�a,�o 07 NU -� a�.a- �o, - 19 - IT. A. Carson, Sr. (Noah Abernathy Carson, Sr. ) Born: Union Hill Community, Bryan. Texas, Brazos County. Oldest of 13th Children. :porn. 11/24/1888. .,.larried: 10/26/1910 to iary Anna Royall, of Union Hill :;omraunity, Bryon, bra zos County, Texas. i.1oved to : Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, 1918 lie i.,Cc contractor and builder of 41. & N. College � in .Stephenville, Texas . Moved to: Dallas, Dallas County, Texas 1920. A student he hired to work on the A. 1z M. College in Stephenville Texas graduated from that College, was employel by Dallas Power °c Light Co. and went out after Daddy to come to Dallas to work for him as Building Superintendent. D.gddy built..all of the original rower and Light sub-stations in Dallas. Church: Joined the Colonial Presbyterian Church about 1924. Was Contractor and builder of the new church on Colonial Avenue, Dallas, Texas . Deacon: 1926 - 1946. Ordained at church. Elder: 1911.6. Ordained by his bedside. Died: May 1, 1948 in his home (Cancer of the stomach) . He was 59 ;years old. 211.00 Peabody Avenue Dallas, Texas . N. A. Carson, Sr. lived a full and tense life. There were four hymn books ded'ic^ted to hiai when he dice, and they went wi-1a t..- new church when it was moved in 1951. The church clamed its name to West Shore Presbyterian Church. When .yew wursrirbuoks were bout lit, four books �,:cre dedicated to him and the old books were given to the family. There were 5 children bor.. to tl.is union: Richard Roe, 10/17/1911, Bryan,Brazos Cty, Tex. Anna Ilay, 2/8/1911�, Lryun, Texas, 1.-llie Estelle, 11/13/1916, Bryan. Noah Ab+)rnathy, 12�30/1919, Stephenville, Texas and ary Pauline, 12/l,r/1922, Dallas, Texas Grand,na, Anna Bughes Royall, died i.l this home in Dallas 2/24/1924. Sl .i els bur*p�! in Boonville Cemetery, Bryan, Tex. Grandpa, Thomas Roe Carson, died in this home in Dallas 12/10/11.2. He was buried in Boonville Cemetery in Bryan, Texas, by his second wife. Inez, Clyde and Vivian spend many summers and holidays with us after their mother, Martha Virginia DeGton Carson, ,lied i2a 1019 1" �`� C:rsori came to live with us in 1926. Hence it Vias a �a..al�r� atherir. _ 1^ce. .y g S p • � � e lived there uii'uil his death in 191.j.2. iuch of their support was dependent on T _ 7 1 - I - n&CI M& ION FCR MAY TIMLIUD. CARSON F91IL.Y OF BRAZOS COUNTY$ `TEXAS $ the Bryan Centennial that was published several years ago was an article on those who signed the Amnesty Oath of Allegiance in 1805 and among them was listed two Carson boys tamely --J. R. CARSON AND N. F. CARBON,, N. F. CARSONj was odviously Nathaniel Franklin Carson the father of the Brazos Couxty Carsona. A lady from Tulane Un ver sity, ids Vera Walker Morels who has worked with me L-i Genealogy cant = this clipping taken fr=--,TEXAS IN THE WAR 1861-65 by 2,Iarcus J. rv;i.ght, Brig Gen CSA edited by Harold B. SiMson, Colonel USAF Retired. "Some 350 to 400 Comanche Indians attacked a small eettlemen*, near the dos ' River on Elm Creak, lb miles from Fort Belknap Oct. 13s 186" Lieutenant N. Carson commanding Co_mpary D. Bourland's Border Regiment of Tex s Cavalry, and fourteen of his men attacked the marauders. Greatly outrnuaberca Lieutenant, Caarsc a and his command were d:►iven back through their camp to Fort Murray and Safe * Carson lost,five mn killed and several woui Aed, imluding him✓elf. All of his eompai-q-ts biggage and equipment and two rules were lost. The Indians killed eleven ci.tj-wm, carried off seven womsn and children, ana ransacked eleven houses. It Was estimated that seven or eight Dxiians were killed and several. wounded. A large contigenrt of Bourland's Regiment pursued the Indians they following, day but could not omrtaka the savages*" I always wanted to follow this up and gee if N.F. Carson, 3s the Carson referred to, Was he a 3, eutenant and attacked to Bourland's Border Regim apb. of Texas Cal- vary Company D.? They may have this information in the Bryan Lilw=y or in the. Taxas Archives at Austin. x.R.Royal.l.. p � p •� II � uw�.e �.3o.l9?FL-- - - -- -'� Ag -...._------- i i r--_ _ - - __--___-._- __GPI✓'�LA�_. _-- I -_-� __-. ,_ � - _ -- _ _.---- 9 :Lyhrmf �t/ C.�'w�A .w� LL6w O )u-m sa , w.d je, a < �, .— H. g ig S ao dh4 ip Ix '40,10, a list Ono Ono C70D tt % j onvi e stLLL t e S 0 E-6,p*—e- entry RV V 4 F Z�r r .VA Reservoir Union Hil 34,0 W Church -v '''Thanes R. Carson 1851-1915 1852-19 0 randfather • and Gran SP 1861 1942 Grandpa and Gran Aver Hill Church-4",, - R. R. Royal' & S.R. Anna Royal Nathan Frvinklin Carson rtis A. 'arson Leo-na�dA'Original owner of a portion 1864 1949, • of the land at A. & M. Col le e Great-grandfather. 1813 1886 118t AA Of At Pr V 1. . hLdrh Coll. St on- 3*,o : P.O. famice, dhLLrch- 11,BM I 226 -bi b 0 14 S �Ti 330 A 0 WIJ *P.O. 0 -Q.)Vl Powling 001 1 . 31 Clh-,Lui % 1�j CD iKo lie B Q P 2111 Prepared by Anna May Carson(Royall) Mi11er,Bellaire,Tex*1976 Prepared under the direction of Col. W. P. St-okey Corps of Engineers U.S. A. Department Engineer Scale 1 : 62500 BRYAN, TEX Sou kern nP.nrfrtmPnt iqi.q (I•' . /l�I t c «I c.. r� /�llL� rlG �.G� a k���t c✓� f ,tlC roi..�.� �Gs„oty �G aa. t - ,�/ ��1� ✓ar t�� � LGl�c�.�/.la �✓.�./ja4L Nn,41c I..aaCc"1a�_aG�7trc docG/� .�y l�«'�d„/�t,.,61�a/. � .-!/tR.;�'�G�✓�Ltr/La.- v, T/.c�.,l. /�L).�..[.a../ia.,� .�G.'/[-Q.�faf./J ✓!u I'i..� r/!�.'/Ll is o�2f d llc.� rr�-_�-[Q cr//!�� 6,v�du,/c� .�. .e.. .!i a•�IL�J�Gc-/_ ' �'.. 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Several other members of the Farrar family became Crusaders." Miss Alvahn Holmes, 5015 Boxhill Lane, Baltimore, Md. who has assisted me great= ly in my research, is going to publish a history and genealogy of the Farrar family; as far as I know, it will be the first one and contemplates including the Royall genealogy in it, beginning with Jane Farrar's marriage to Thomas Harding. I need to know date of marriage of Jane Farrar to Thomas Harding, the names of their children and birthrates, and also information about Thomas Harding. I want al- so the date of Elizabeth Bibb (Rarding) Underwood's marriage to John Cockrill and the date of the marriage of Ann Alexander Underwood to Richard R. Royall. This is not a genealogy, it is more of a genealogical report hurriedly prepared for this reunion and y ou can see the line is rather thin in places. If I live long enough I hope to complete and document it throughout. R.RR THE CARSONS------- I have been unable to connect the Brazos County Carsons with any of the several Carson families innigrating to America during the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact I have very little documentation of the family to implement or assist me in my re- search. The little documentation I have is the will of John Carson, signed Jonn Carson Nov. 1, 1864 to his will. He died in Brazos County, Texas Mar. 11, 1865. All his living children are mentioned and one grandson, Nathan F. Pickens. He men«_ tions one daughter, Sarah Ann G. McDonald of the State of Mississippi. I am having a photostatic copy made of this will for future reference. The main lead here is the daughter living in Mississippi. The Carsons and Lovejoys of Georgia are obviously ancestors of the Brazos Coun- ty Carson also. Mrs. Alberta Carson ^,cord of Houston is the daughter of Oscar Gentry Carson, born IOAO11683 who married Jennie Nelson in January 1903 in Leon County, Texas. Mrs. Jennie Nelson Carson was born Jan 23, 1885 and is now living in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Acord is the granddaughter of Joseph Richard Carson, born a- bout 1852 who married Malinda A. Carson, Dec 10, 1872. (The Curtis A. Carson family bible now in the possession of Bruce Carroll of Bryan, Texas shows that Malinda A. Carson Gas born Nov. 11, 1855) Mrs. Alberta Carson ticord, whose grandfather.and grandmother were both Carsons, has an old bible that has been treasured by the family for generations and assuredly concerns her ancestors. The cover page of this bible is endorsed:- Presented to Thomas L. Carsonby his mother the 29th day of August 1861 while on the eve of starting to the seat of war to fight in defence of his country. Signed--Jane L. Lovejoy. Thomas L. Carson, Comanche County, Georgia. It is assumed that the father of Thomas L. Carson, mentioned above, was de- ceased at the time of this presentation and his mother had remarried a man by the name of Lovejoy. I cannot find Comanche County listed as a county of Georgis in Americana, but it is possible that this county was co^ibined with another county later and lost it's identity. For this reason I am hampered in my research concerning the Carsons or Lovejoys living in Georgia. The Carsons of Mississippi have been mentioned in a previous circular. Mr. Joseph Carson, Vice President, Lcewi & Co. , Investment Pankers of Milwaukee, Wis. advises that he believes that Professor William Waller Carson, who was Miss Katherine Waller Carson's father, got some of the information about the father and six sons who came to America from County Tyrone, Ireland to C L-rleston, S.C., from a Carson is Texas, who perhaps was a relative, named Robert Carson. Miss Katherine Waller Carson, who I understand authored the notes compiled by William Valler Carson, son of Dr. Green Carson, to Dr. John Q. Anderaon's article in the Oct. 1956 issue of the Journal of Mississippi history, advises that her notes do not disclose any knowle4?re of Carsons in Texas, but that they have always surMsed that numerous Carsons in Tennessee and North Carolina were descendents of one of the other sons of Thomas Carson, her ancestor. Mrs. Loraine Epps Anderson, wife of Dr. John Q. Anderson, head of the English Department at the A & M. University, has been of inestimable help to me in my search for the ancestors of the Brazos County Carsons. Mrs. Anderson is an accomplished genealogist herself and in our correspondence, we developed we were remote cot•• sins through the Epps family. (Rod ,11s may refer to No. 2 on page 23 of the Royall History.) Mars. Anderson furnished me excerps from the Carson notes compiled by William Waller Carson. These notes mention the names of the six sons which is the only time I have seen their names. Thomas Carson aprarently without daughters came to America about 1771, landing at Charleston, S. C.. He brought with him six sons;- Williams, John, Joseph, Thomas, David and Adams. John was born about 1758 and Thomas, the I fourth son was probably born about 1761. Five of the sons were in the Continental Army, and one of them Thomas, later settled in Alabama and became the father of Joseph Carson, who was a lawyer and Colonel in the Militia. "It may be", rirs. An- derson states, "that :ib Thcmzs Carson 13 ancestor to your line." This would, of course be the Brazos County Carsons. f � (3) / (1) Noah Abernathy Carson (11/24/1888-5/1/1948) m 10/26/1910 Mary Anna Royall of Brazos County, Texas. Mary Anna Royall born 6/7/1893. Issue Richard Roe Carson 10/17A911 m 6/1/1939 Marguerite Nelson b in 1919. Issue Barbara Lea Carson b May 29, 1940 Richard David Carson b Aug. 2, 1941 Anna May Carson b 2/8/1914 m 8/2/1937 Thurston Milton Miller b 12/17/1915•ISSUE Thomas Abernathy Miller b July 14, 1938 Marianne Miller b Sept 20, 1939 Nellie Estelle Carson b 11/13/1916 m lst,8/1/1936 Edwin William Chapman, b 12/15/1914 d 3/114945. Killed in the battle of Iwo Jima 3/11/1945. Issue Ellen Jeanne Chapman b Feb 83 1942 Nellie Estelle Carson m 2,4/27/1946 *Earl Jesse. Adams b Sept 16,1917.Issue John Winfred Adams b April 18 1950 Evan Jack Adams b F eb. SW 1956 Noah Abernathy Carson,Jr. b 12/10/1918 m 5/26/1943 Eva Jane Teague, b Sept 15 1921 in Dallas, Texas. Issue Bradshaw Teague Carson b Sept 8, 1945 Lewis Doyle Carson, b Apr 5, 1949 Mary Pauline Carson, b 12/14/1922 m 12/26/1944 George L. O'Neal. Issue Suzan O'Neal b May 12, 1950 Peggy O'Neal b Mar 3, 1956 (2) Alvah Nathan Carson (4/16/1890-1 12/1953) m 1/8/1911 in Brazos County,Texas, Mary Lillie Mills (5/3/1893-11/17 or 1911939 Mary Lillie Mills died in Houston, Texas Issue from the marriage one daughter. Ruby Carsonb 12/9/1911 m 11/1/1934 Dr. Leland S. Evans, b 5/20/1909 Issue Robert Hill Evans b 2/17/1936 m 8/22/1955 Norene Russell. Carlton Lee Evans m 11/17/1962 Lydia DeT uro Shirley Ruth Evans b 2/26/1939 m 2/17/1962 George W. Smith Second marriage of Thomas Roe Carson (3) Amber May Carson, b 9/7/1894 m 1/1/1913 Clyde DeWitt Threlkeld b 5/7/1894 in Montgomery Cvimty, Texas. Amber May Carson was born in Brazos County, Texas. Issue Ann4ee Threlkeld b 9/7/1914 m 1st, Virgil B. Dobbs 11/18/1933. Virgil B. Dobbs was killed in action in World War 11. Issue from this marriage: Nancy Ann Dobbs, b 91911934, m 8/17/1956,Dr. Clifford L. Gondit. -�Annglee Threlkeld married second 6/3/1939 John Wayne May b 41isw i Jplin Wayne May, Jr. b Nov. 4, 1943 Clyde D. Threlkeld, Jr. b 2/5/1918 m 10/27/1945 Ia a Mae Webb b 10/17/1926.IssuE Roy Lyn Threlkeld b Sept 9, 1946 Clyde Dee Threlkeld, b Aug 12, 1948 (4) Leona Mabel Cdrron (4/10/1896-5/28/1962) ' m April 1917 Earl A. Phillips, who died in Brazos County April 22, 1963- Issue zrom this marriage: Lucy Phillips Mildren Phillips Earl A. Phillips, Jr. (5) Effie Malinda Carson b 10/7/1897 m 8/14/1918 Henry Harrison Reed, (8/24/1897- 7/27/1960. 3 children born to this marriage: Henry H. Reed, Jr. b Oct. 19, 1919 Wiley Robert Reed b Oct. 22, 1920 Effie Lorene Reed b Jan. 15, 1923 (6) Thomas Allen Carson, b 10/19/1900 m 9/16/1924 Vera Holbrook in Bryan, Texas,f- 'V "'t'P' Born to this marriage one child in Bryan) Texas. Edward B. Carson, b March 8, 1926 / (7) Susan Amanda Carson, b 4/30/1902 m 12/5/1918 Volney Read, b June 2, 1900, Issue from this marriage: $ Blakie Eugene Reed b 7/15/1920 m 8/25/1946--2 children born to this marriage. Alice Elizabeth Reed, b 4/6/1922 m 12/24/1940--4 children it it 11 Emma Lee Reed b 8/29/1924 m 2/21/1948 Leroy Ross. 1 child if It t+ Thomas Wilson Reed, b 7/6/1928, d 713011950. Married and left one child. (8) Ida Josephine Carson b 3/31/1903 married Will Phillips first, Married second, Leonard Ramsey. (9) Jesse James Carson, b 1906. Died in infancy (10) Jewel Carson b 1908 died in infancy (11) Vivian Roe Carson b 11/13/1910 d 4/1/1954 m 4/25/1943 Nora Mendenella. (12) Tommie Inez Carson, (6/5/1912-�CUY);�/1964) m 5/1/1937 Theodore (Ted) McGregor. Judy Kay McGregor, adopte d daughter. (13) Clyde Alton Carson, b April , 1914. Another reference to Carsons of this line ih Texas is this reference sutmitted by Mrs. Anderson. "Professor William Waller Carson, who laid out the station now known as Carson in honor of his ancestor Col. Joseph Carson, visited this grand- father's grave-- couple of miles south of Old St. Stephens, in Washington Co., Ala. and about four or five miles northwest of Carson Station on the Southern Railway. When Prof. Carson visited the grave in 1870-1873, Mr. Smoot, an old man, piloted him and . told him that the vault next to Col. Joseph Carson's grave was the r.rave of the Colonel 'S ncphew who had come back from Texas." The more research I snake the more convinced I am that the Brazos County Carsons descended from this line, that is, from the emigrant ancestor Thomas Carson thrcu;!i one of his six sons that immigrated to America from Ireland in 1771, for all the Bra- zos County Carsons are prone to repeat the 'hearsay' handed down from generation to generation that the first Carson came from Ireland with six sons. L. W. Kemp, in his Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, writes that Samuel Price Carson, one of the signers from Pecan Point and Vicinity, was the son of Colonel John Carson and his second wife Mary Moffett McDowell. Col. John Carson was a man of education, who, so tradition has it, left his native Ireland to eGcape his family's desire that he become an Episcopal Rector, coming to America about 1;'59. (Note that the time mentioned above is 1771) He is said to have lived first at the Yancey Place, then at a home on Catawba River, and finally building his great hc;ne on Buck Creek for his bride FL chef, in Burke County which is now McDowell Count-y,N.C. Could it be tha tthis Col. John Carson was one of the six sons of Thomas Carson, the ancestor of Professor William Waller Carson? -� Samuel Price Carson who s_ig:ed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March loth 1836, was a distinguished and colorful citizen from North Carolina. He was a forceful speaker, an orator and a singer. He came to the Washington Convention on Yarch 10, 1836 and signed the Declaration the afternoon of the same day. Samuel Price Carson of North Carolina, Robert Potter of North Carolina and Samuel Houston of Tenn- essee were the only members that si[med the Declaration that had prior experience in government,all three havirg served as members of the U.S.Congress. His magnetic per- sonality no doubt, prompted the delegates to nominate him for the office of president of T_e_xas ad interim on larch 17th 1836. David G. Burnet beat Carson in the election by 6 votes. Carson then was electea_Secreta.ry of State of the Rerublic of Texas. It may be that Thcrras Carson, the ancestor of Professor William Waller Carson who came to America from County Tyrone, Ireland in 1771, and Colonel John Carson, re- ferred to by L. W. Kemp as the progenitors of the Carsons of Burke and McDowell counties, D;.C.,were both descended from the Carsons of Shanroe, County Monaghan and County Tyrone, Ireland. The family of Carson has been settled in the County Monaghan since the middle of the 17th century. Thomas Carson, of F'eymore,County Tyrone, who was the granting party in a settlement of Nov. 14, 1715, was then owner of Shanroe, among other lands thereby settled. Shanroe ti,^as passed on from father to son, the son and heir invariably being a Rev. Thcmas Carson, all Episcopalians, and Vicors, Cu!- rates, Rectors or Bishops. The Carsons of Shanroe have a coat of arms and this fam- ily as well as the family crest is more fully described on page 63 & 64, Volume 21 1898 Burkes banded Gentry. CARSCPI-PENT-ECGGS GENF.ALCGY Fublished by the Denver Public Library. I have this book which concerns the Carsons settling in Fennsylvania the first part of the l8th century and then moving southward. I am sure that these Carsons are not related to the Brazos County Carson unless the relationship occurred before com- ing to America. Kit Carson's descent is shown below. (1) William Carson emigrated from Scotland or Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania thence moving southward into the Carolinas and 'Tennessee. Married Eleanor McDuff and died before the Revolutionary War. They had 6 children. The second child was Lindsey. (2) Lindsey Carson was born in North Carolina. tarried 1st a Miss Bradley and moved to tadison County, Ky. 5 children were born to this marriage. tarried 2nd in 1797 Rebecca Fobinson and had 10 children by this marriage. The 5th child of the second marriage was Christopher Houston Carson. (Kit). (3) Christopher Houston Carson, (18C9-1868) married Ist to an Arapahoe maiden by whom he had a daughter. Married 2nd to a Cheyenne maiden. She left him. Mar- ried 3rd to Josefa or Josephine Jarmillo who died Apr. 23, 1868. Christopher died May 23, 1868 and both of them are buried at Taos, New Mexico. He had 7 children. Relatives of both families may be interested in doing some research. You know what I want with reference to the Poyall genealogy, and our main effort with refer- ence to the Brazos County Carsons is to rake some connection with the numerous Car- sons who came to America in the 18th Century. If any of you find anything that would help, please mail it to me. Before closing this letter permit me to express my sincere thanks to a wonderful lady who generously supplied me with a wealth of information gathered by Redmond S. Cole in his lifetime covering the genealogy of the Bedford family. Mrs. Mary C. Cole (Redmond S. ) was present at the Dallas Centennial in 1936 when Mrs. Anne Royall Far- ley, ?•:r. Redmond S. Cole and myself sponsored and put on the Bedford-Royall family reunion. Mrs. Cole has sent me Royall letters, clippings, etc. furnished her husband d,sring his research by 1rs. Louise Allen Scott, Mr. John Newell Royall of Corsicana and myself. This material, all of it, 30 to 40 years old, has been filed among the Royall papers, letters, etc. that I have in my possession. July-I3, 1964 R. R. Royall, 1820 Heights Blvd. Houston, Texas. THE CURT IS AND CARSON GENEALOGY, 13CT H FAMILIES AT ONE TINE LIVED IId IIISSISSIPPI TERRITORY IN THE EARLY 19th CEI\TPURY. (1) Samuel Curtis, 2/9/1750-1/24/1846) married lst, Sussex County, Va., 1779, Sarah Hicks, (11/14/1757-9�12/1810). Files of the National Archives indicate that Samuel Curtis served in the Revolutionary War. In 1805 the family moved to Washington Co., when it was Iississippi Territory. He moved to Old Spring Hill, Marengo County, Ala. in 1819 and died there at the age of 96. Married 2nd, Elizabeth Kennon, (1778-1858). The births of the Samuel Curtis Children are taken from two family bibles. The last three children are evidently issue from the second marriage: Sarah Curtis (1780- I'arried 1806 John Kelly Nathaniel Curtis (11/10/1781-7/18/1848) married Susan and moved to La. Daniel Curtis (1784- I4arried and move to Texas. Susannah Curtis (1782-6/15/1852) William Curtis (5/8/1788-6/22/1844) m 3/10/1808 Catherine Jones Obedience Curtis (1790- m Joshua Lewis Lewis Curtis (1792- Thomas Roe Curtis (2AV1796-3/2/1867) m 1,Nancy Lucy,2) Elizabeth I.I. Boggs. Jolm Curtis (Dec 1796- m 1823 Ella Perry Elizabeth Curtis (1814- m 1, Asa Skinner, 2nd, Joseph Agee. Nancy Roe Kennon C. (3/9/1816-10/5/1849) m 1st,James Boatright,2nd,John G. Allen Dolly Curtis (1818- m 1836 Brackett 0. Watkins (2) Thomas Roe Curtis (2/14/1796-3/2/1867) Married first in Montgomery County, Tenn. March 28, 1816, Nancy Lucy (2/1/1797-10/1/1860). Thomas Roe Curtis was born in Anson County, N. C. and died at his homestead near Redland, Texas. Married 2nd 4/3/1862, Elizabeth Ilargaret Pesques Boggs, widow of Dr. James Coleman Boggs. No issue from the 2nd marriage. Issue from first marriage: Sarah H. Curtis (3/8/1817-3/30 1817) Elizabeth Malinda Curtis (4/12/1818-10 18/1853) m 8/21/1834 Ignatius A. Trai%,eke Jane R. Curtis (11/7/1819- m 1/10/1837 Edward T. Pistole Ivry E. Curtis (12/31/1821- m 1/20/1836 John W. Dunn Nancy Lucy Curtis (11/8/1824-Feb 1920) m 3/10/1842 Thomas H. Carson Amanda Roe Curtis (8/14/1826-4/22/1892) m 8/3/1842 Nathan F. Carson Martha T. Curtis (1/2V1828-9/28/1841) Alfred A. Curtis (11/13/1829-9/27/1888) m 1st 1/18/1849 Margaret II. _ Sharpe (6/7/1832-1/5/1870. 2nd, Kate Connet Ball (3) Amanda Roe Curtis, (8/14/1826-4/22/1892) Married 8/3/1842 Nathan Franklin Carson, (5/29/1813--5/26/1886) Nathan Franklin Carson was the son of John Carson, who received a Land Grant, No. 235, from the Republic of Texas, ,birch 4, 1816, signed by Anson Jones, President, consisting of 640 acres located on the north side of Buffalo Creek, in Robertson County, Texas (Leon) The Grant was made out to John S. Carson, but re- ferred to as the 'John Carson Grant'. His son, Janes Carson, listed as James R. Car- son in John Carson►s will, got a Land Grant, No. 260, from the State of Texas, July 13, 1847 signed by Governor J. Pinckney Heiul.erson for 640 acres on the north side of Buffalo Creek in Robertson District (Leon County) adjourning the John Carson Grant. John Carson's will was signed Jonn Carson, Nov. 1, 1864, probated March 16, 1865, (Record Book E. pg 402 and minute book C. page 214 Brazos County, Texas) Issue from this marriage will be shown in the Carson genealogy which follot,rs. THE CARSONS THAT CAME TO AIERICA ABOUT 1771 FROM IRELAND. THIS IS A GEIIEALCGICAL REPORT AND SUBJECT TO CORRECTIONS., The old story about the father and six sons who came to America from Ireland was repeated by some of the Brazos County, Texas Carsons. Heresay does have its value and often is later documented to a certain extent. This family of Carsons settled in South Carolina and five of the sons were in Continental Service. After the Revolu- tion, Thomas, John and perhaps some of the other brothers settled in I•lississippi Ter- ritory that afterwards became Alabama Territory and then the State of Alabama. Professor William Waller Carson, a distinguished member of the family, spent a portion of his life compiling his family genealogy, and thanks to his efforts and some of his notes, which were provided me by relatives, I was enabled after much re- search to compile this report which is subject to further study. Col. Joseph Carson, grandson of the emigrant ancestor was most distinguished in early Mississippi Territory as the U. S. Territorial Papers disclose. He led the at- tack on tl3e Creeks and was one of the motivating leaders that brought Mississippi Territory into the Union as a state. He was a lawyer, Indian fighter and a Colonel in the Mississippi Volunteers. On December 22, 1813 he was nominated by the president of the United States as a member of the Legislative Council from the District of the counties of Washington, t;ayne, Baldwin, Clarke, Green, Mobile and Jacl son. Me mar- ried Caroline C. T. Green May 16, 1814 in Adams County, Iississippi Territory. His w ill was dated May 12, 1817. He mentions wife, Charlotte and an unborn infant. Son James Green Carson and daughter Ws. Johnson of Pascagoula, Mississippi. I ; (2) • Some of the emigrant brothers and other Carsons, no doubt relative, appear on several petitions to the U. S. Congress beginning in 1805 to 1815. Alabama was sepa- rated from Mississippi Territory in March 1817 and organized under a Territorial Gov- ernment of its own. On Dec 10 1817 Mississippi was admitted as a state of the Union, and on Dec 14, 1819, Alabama was admitted as 4 State of the Union also. According to Joseph Carson, Milwaukee, Wis. Robert Carson who gave Prof. William Culler Carson much of his information was a resident of Texas. Prof. William Waller Carson, in his notes states, that Robert Carson was the son of John Carson, born 1758 and who was 13 years of age at the time of the arrival of the party in America. Rob- ertfs mother died in 1845, age 84. She was born about 1761 and was 10 years old, when the party arrived at Charleston, S. C. (1) Thomas Carson, (died 1783) Wife's name unknown. Came to America from Ireland with six sons about 1771 landing at Charleston, S. C. Available records do not indi- cate there were any daughters. The sons were:- William Carson John Carson Born 1758 Wife unnamed, born 1761,died 1845, Son Robert Carson. Joseph Carson Thomas Carson Born 1761, died 1807 JJ ` ��� L«i e i ci David Carson- Adam Carson (2) Thomas Carson Born 1761, died 1807 wife's name unknown, He was born in Ire- land and came to America with his father in 1771 when 10 years of age. He served in the Revolution from what is now Blount County, Ala. An early Land Entry near .hobile was made by Thomas Carson. He was a resident of Washington County, Mississippi Terri- tory (Alabama) in 1802. A number of his descendants were living in Washington County, Alabama in 1870-73 when Prof. William Waller Carson visited there. Issue: Col Joseph Carson R-766-3/11/1865) 785-1817) m Caroline Charlotte Green, May 16, 1814 John Carson m 5/6/1810 Sarah Bates. Thomas Carson Adam Carson Mentioned in Deed of Trust between Adam Carson & Jos-C. Bates Sallie Cz<rson Married 1- ` Y- Hollinger, Pp ,.ff, 9t,&I� (a <<=r Ann Carson,.f%rzl;y� ?;,m.lst 2/12/1U14 William Bates- 2nd ����� 0, Chambers r (3) John Carson (1786-3/11/1865) Married !,Tay 63 1810 Sarah Bates of Baldwin County, Mississippi Territory. John's sister Ann Carson, married Feb. 12, 1814, William Bate in Baldwin County, Mississippi. His brother Adam Carson is mentioned in a Deed of Trust between Adam Carson and Joseph C. Bates in Monroe County, Ala. Deed Book A, pg 574-5 April 4, 1840. Adam Carson is indebted to Ann Chambers for 412,COO.00 to secure the debt. John Carson was born in S. C. according to the Census of Brazos County, Texas in 1860 and at that time was 74 years of age. John Carson received a Land Grant from the Republic of Texas I-Iarch 4, 1845. The grant was issued to John S. Carson, but that was the only time the initial was ever used. Reference thereafter in the Land Office was to John Carson. His will was dated Nov. 1, 1864 and probated March 30th 1865 in Brazos County, Texas. He named the following children: Nathar Franklin Carson (5/29/1813-5/26/1886) m 8/3/1842 Amanda Roe Curtis Thomas Henderson Carson (12'/31/1818-7/9/1881) m 3/10/1842 Nancy Lucy Curtis v James Re Carson (10/23/1820-4/7/1880) m J.C.Carson (10/2/1823-7/9/1894) Sarah Ann G. Carson m James Be McDonald of Mississippi Emily D. Carson m Anderson Thetford G Ilirgaret We Carson m I~atthew Thetford ;v T Amelia We Carson m John Barbee 1 Daught�r m Pickens, son N. F. Pickens ` (4) A1a' "an Franklin Carson, (5/29/1813-5/26/1886) Married Aug 3, 1842 Amanda Roe Curtis (8/14/1826-4/22/1892) Nathan Franklin Carson was born in South Carolina and came to Texas from Alabama with his father in 1845 settling in Brazos County, Texas. Born to the marriage the following children: All born in Brazos County, Texas, CX-�'�� 1 ) Nancy E. Carson (6/7/1843-6/21/1844) Martha A. Carson (12/19 1844-9 24/1847) John T. Carson (5/27/1846-8/11/1862) Alfred R. Carson (12/26/r1847- m 12/8/1868 Margaret J. Daughten Edward E. Carson (9/5/1-849-9/28/1850) Margaret J. Carson (3A511851- `9/',311 i1-0"r m 4/9/187y W- He Barr ow,-V ra/-7 Elf Y+9 Malinda A. Carson (11 11/1853- m 12/10/1872 Joe Re Carson Nathan Franklin Carson (5/16/1855- m 11 25 1876 Nancy E. Graham Willie Ann Carson (12/3/1856- m 5/13/1873 He S. Ramsey Sarah Cdelia Carson �'12/11/1858-June 1892) m After 1883 Joe R. Carson Thomas Roe Carson (IC/9/1861-12/10/1942) m 1,Amber May Deaton, 2,Maxtha V.Dea- Curtis A. Carson (9/25/1864-6/19/1949) m 10/7/1886 Lucy C. Ramsey. ion (5) Thomas Roe Carson, (10/9/1861-12/10/1942) Lived most of his life in Brazos County. Texas. Married lst about 1886, Amber May Deaton who died 4/19/1892. Married 2nd, Dec. 24, 1892, Martha Virginia Deaton, Amber May's sister. Dates for Martha Virginia Dea- ton are 4/16/1876-lA2/1918) Thomas Roe Carson died in Dallas, Texas. Issue from first marriage: z. (4) (5) Curtis A. Carson, (9/25/1864-6/19/1949) son of Nathan Franklin Carson and Amanda Roe Curtis, married Oct. 17, 1886 Lucy Catherine Ramsey (lo/11/1868-2/18/1921). This couple lived and died in Brazos County, Texas. Issue from this marriage: (1) Jessie R. Carson, b 9/4/18873 m 10/18/1903 John M. Carroll, (11/15/1880-2/27/ 1934) One record states John M. Carroll died in 1935. The Carroll family lived in Brazos County, Texas. Issue: Bruce Carroll, b 6/30/1904 m 4/2/1927 Rachel Crenshaw of Bryan, Texas. Gladys Carroll b 9/18/1906 m 12/21/ ? Perry T. Crenshaw Leoxa Carroll b 6/11/1909 m 12/22/ ? Virgil E. Mauldin Ruth Carroll b 9/5/1912 m 12/23/1931 Preston F. Herbert Fannie Mae Carroll b 5/1/1915 m 8/8/1934 Allen P. Black Johnnie Dee Carroll b 1/5/1920 m 8/18/1939 Joel E. Jolly (2) Thomas Franklin Carson b 3/16/1889,d 2/8/1956 in Brazos County, Texas. Mar- ried Oct 20, 1906 Martha Gray Royall of Brazos County, Texas. Born to this marriage: Jessie Verna Carson b 613OA908 m 9/5/1926 Curtis C. Williams--1 child Arvil Franklin Carson b 5/5/1910 m 1/20/1929 Thelma Alice Payne Curtis Royster Carson b 12/20/1912 m 5/31/1936 Ruth Ardell DeHart--1 Child Archie Hugh Carson b 4/1 19 5 m 11/ / 940 Elizabeth Jane Chisum-1 child Thomas Bibb Carson b 10 -7920 m-11 161/1941 Ray Dell Smith--2 children William Donald Carson b9/5/1927 d 8/13 1943 (3) Amber Odelia Carson birthdate unknown, married 2/6/1910 David Aaron Phipps of Brazos County, `texas. Born to this union: Jessie Oleta Phipps b 10/27/1910, m 12/22/1930 Hugh Sessions-7 Children David Bartlett Phipps b 2/8/1914 m 6/5/1943 Alice Geneva Lippold--1 child Virgil Barto Phipps b 11/1/1917,d 9/13/1961 m about 1938--2 children Jack Altus Phipps b 11/30/1920 This genealogical report of the Carson Family covers the descendants of Thomas Roe Carson and Curtis A. Carson, the llth and 12th child of Nathan Franklin Carson and Amanda Roe Curtis. . There were six other brothers and sisters that left descen- dants, most of them in Brazos County, Texas. My grateful appreciation to the following relatives who furnished information and assisted in the compilation of this genealogy: The Curtis genealogy compiled by two very distinguished genealogist of that Family, James R. Curtis, 1`RO P.O.Box 792, Longview, Texas, and Mrs. Stepheni.e Frost, 3909 Live Oak Street, Corpus Christi, Tex. Mrs. Frost is the Genealogist for the Boggs Family Reunion held. at Lake Jackson, Tex. each year. My sincere thanks to Mrs. Clyde D. T hrelkeld, 4417 Coyle St. Houston, Texas. (Thomas Roe Carson Is descendants). IT s. Mary Dunn, 915 South Winnetka, Dallas, Texas (Thomas Roe Carson's descendants)*Mrs. Martha Carson, 3796 South College Ave. Bryan, Texas. (Curtis A. Carson descerdants),and from the Royall genealogy, by R.R. Royall, 1820 Heights Blvd. Houston,Texas, and the Carson Family Bible, owned by Bruce Carroll, Bryan, Texas. To all of these I am duly grateful. There is still documenta- tion needed in many instances, please let me hear from you if you have anything to add or any correction that should be made. R. R. Royall, 1820 Heights Blvd. H ouston, Texas 77008 April 17, 1967 10/21/97 21:23 V713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON 0 001/005 JOHN M. .ROBINSON 910 TRAMS, SUITE 1905 HOUSTON9 TEXAS 77002 (713) 652-5809 (713) 652-2449 (TELECOPIER) October 22, 1997 BY FAX #409-845-1643 Pages: 5 ATTN,, Ms. Sonny Sky KAUM - TV College Station Dear Ms. Sky Transmitted herewith are several clippings from prior news stories on Mrs. Threlkeld. I will send a picture of the popcorn machine when I receive it. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call me. 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She'.would get a stick, ut it ; did she live alongside It;�he'' ,�• pp f gcandfathe{,a6lin.:Cars6 once 'onher'shotilder and march;lon I' � p with them:•,..•., g Q,"e&land�that'ended,up Bona d" =,ftThat*;as�in:1898, ' to•,rA&M.'Her;lather,ThQmasCarr'*:.. i h eabout the ' sonvV0rke6n tlie;A814i tirrmeith6.4anis rican War., raisin 1 g animals.used for,rase vas:goin lonWl arp NcMn ey, ; Aii Iier4 + ' •aas president°:. 4 di hust�a.d. ,�!de�D nd the:,peanita, ", 'S ►�.,a• th��l8ca�q that one of=berh� ret'attves;sold"' c he,ys'<PlaYui 'rth .o4; ' .out'of a carton! }a ur�h,.when Threldkeld'maniged f an introduction.' hater,-elpped+..'•;,. Pus.went for a with her:-Th'eresyvas,no real;rea-:. son for them.folelQ in,1913,ex. ' �.. pe. Since Th�eI�-�' ,_cept1'tfi t.;l er,hiMand did n :.�="•''''''+, Qt. held turg.102Y, z " ' toendueywba�ticomgs;,witli ' le,we fon"Se !aJ tr, church sty of;her- eco ' ' ' . eYJett�BiazoaW:C.ou�jty�for^,,y:,4,h tipns fall'igto' �cVIHoustori'ln-l9is Vth thee• " the Ion Fla r �` el Jkeld�'r A ,,, t�vo;;,'. S, Iong„° ���s.,, ':. . _: ,TlietTl�teliik.4 flu'has . a o cate o ggrroown•to'include'foun' " � :w !}� .` dre and furdClill',�: } pad her_ d$, ar�d;timethasdone ° o. J eat an is ' m:anost of herteyesigbt: id£hear= She has:resided for decades.in,a' ing, butshe has,her•memones.' :. s �n�UY'tned home;near BVith . i,"she;can.te!! about. �t�'stateA4 ,'south:of,do�vntown, faring a pistol,at what,spe!..thougtit�, :�.where;.accorduig'to her'ho.use-'• . . . was a burglar'arid ldlling`a'laigge'`� ,keep r,,;sh teats:.anythi agg aeai$y'',tjtij j black dog snacking on,meat left( " ;.;s 'ed; goes to the'besutyahopp , hanging on her porch,'about.woik-t•; Iocc�sion d 4d,radao in as eph p rator,.and y liste e.'r. S a;tel one o e c� �• an;;enve1ope=sthM*at About m other`things e' :old;"`she admitted:`. ' ? 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' ' �. ;celettQr �'Sept��;�1,620 J1 ► : !. +.:• f4ii. 9ih '1e,hirnti.•ta,ir:liltiv'' 1%i t'+'By MKI+BOMI(E'THOMSON'� ''+ r• r',Th+sWeekCorre'sporident`"?!'`�%;dh''�,;,",i4li�! �;, * ;�" 1, r'A name'iisua ;s on pus4i �'l;i i; ;• ' uS' Yr► yr th'silver I>., rMl !!:.will shine.gold'Sept.16-20 as the Gulf'Flree- :n ' .,.,way .fficeW Sterling Ba�ilc'marks'its'SOth ' la anniversary;c17163 ,,sSli%�P;• :i;fl1?i!i�{`i::(f0i gj! r k ! t;,;;;`•,The cgebration',tezplained Sterling'Bank -a. „„senior•vice president Russell"Jackson'i:is t 'J r . ,,l.especiallY agdlSel�:_to,the;peoplg.�of't�e; ��. `�� � i' 1a�, �. ! ,,pst End i ;i'-';j}"It's.our_way 0f.saying'thank youUdAhtsw mature;'se t�lo�,yHoustonittit><5 is^ "� ( � •. � ..'p,�011St0Ili�S�+�IiS�,OI�i 11i�sCil�8(lI�• �w ! ,��11'0 ,:� ': r r .•i' �• {t„which'Hopstogxis; nternaWpo, iy?' e N." and the m�icture,of socie ; i • . gropps.that have khrived,tog6'e' o ii i+ ous4v for so'manyyears t';he s d: No othgii4 T 71 ,` 1 '. sect�ori,of Houston csn.el,3im"tttie:richtiess» 1! I}� ° `-"that has;been the,East!End 4'J•', `0.4��i; ;..t �� � ,�i A."'WiTtd �' IMI :,Unge known as''East'End.StaterBaulc;thee' financial,'in�titutaQn know r officing:at'4600 Gu �'� r•., if l�•eewsy,was foUnded••,by constructiott. ^`,magnatg;Tom,Tellepp�ett in a'free=standing�� t� g�x, " �� y '+ `"� • i;buiding once�tised b.;the".�'ehr�lVlid;Ba14 •;' �r t F} ingl C,omP. Y 9iv w�}olesale"'bread ales:" ' !`'!the temporary,add,less,of the:fust 1 cation' on.f ngeborq'Stre$rbpFQ xhe.'�ame"of�the ""f°unders..wtf' when`ix'iopened:ontS6 t 18' •i4-.1 K.,• vy)r'•1 pr . , rrBusiness ' red;'wid ,. ui , N I '.1 , :prospe >the,,batik'tirel�"W,�F�.�.. „�•,.t + � Bated twi a%within e�saine,area`- tat0 ;L 12I5Leeland'inD.eccetnberi9,46;aadn ta''' cs pig''aV. `4200 LQelandJp',-jar►ua1y�1959;,Bq.Wbcifi-i',)5rh • ties were;b ' t•.b ;� e e senkConstructio 4 p "° �',} Y4 �t��r,-P,..,:� .,{4�� i'r ComRany:a; �,'.sr¢1.'•.v �'` ',a '.a'. 1 "!'M *'fry r KgvarTZgp tdt, ahi�k ifatEher ti aa a, great=qp tirtaityrwlc■ 1°111R7yl� relished;7as'hereatered;his,senio •y ea. s. , eeri t was >n�!ol�ed uteostivctionand nod,; o ;3r'bankia0;;but; ,g;,�, nk�wasal,aysra source " ;s�of adtnu id andi e;Al9y e 4 hun; he; i !;!said'�.H"feltParuc larly fortunate to have �i..Louis iiieti from;SQur.,IlAke as'�tt,president i. ;.dur#nB��►ecturles"t�e;,Wasthe�reHe:awas .N r r treated with, a at skres" c and it was t ! a• ,,> t p i w aft an associatio m3':daddy,a dyed treinen• r t ;f•.l , L •. (SASµ. G �.K. .Accg>}nty;s r,�ics. r,.epre5,entat}ve f1?a '', a (?y 1�;Berry,,4 22 yearg pl yee"-remeiilbers Tell F � `i e�5e W ll 1(Li}, r�, ' gy mo !�•,.,,, n; 't qx�: See,BANK!on;Page 10/21/97 21:26 V713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON Z 003/005 .ng . •. .I.. . . nds �> :' �Bin Janua 19 „r ,•. ,.3' '. :'Ro , IY 82,,:, :` �ba lsto fined iri 298 .and the: Gulf,?Me% Off f 1 , Se ,; ,' .,, .. , nk s note a will! Bank ,one o 3 Ster- th . Continuedfroni:Ragei ' ;'Ys�''� :gin"�anothef;;;bank -Purchased froni:Y pn' effi�s'�t3'�'ide.' ;..._ yy �. by eifounder.,sy;; or`to•.the''sale, Ent u' `•When'I s startedt grandsomHoward Tellepsen Ji:'-as,. Bank'had.occtrpfed the entuera' a, who'workedfor a d)meWeveryone trustee of a voting•trusk Whi1e'serv;. floor,.theirieziariinennd the seco�r . lepsen would call ;,Tel- he be a as me�an of Telieppsen Co floor of this buildin y :said.w a him Mr,Toni, she c. the banks chairman�of 'Today.we occu g, she salt He lived close to'the bank-for the board from 1989 until its sale to .floor lobby." •.PY Part of the merrYYears,and was the rust of five Sterling Bank, Today,he serves on rmen ofBank pe only one to;,whpm ems- and the S Breling Ban board of directors.. P blic w ll of�'el are hoping t�rY•" ,V.�„ not acre- rrY•,sald„although a bra J m.the five-da0y lei �;,•:i r has always. building • tion.'.Drawin s ,., Y5 been , savin g for ;log U.S�•. Berry said Gaston` ' gisticW',than the.same size,%lo, Savings bond,' $soo U.S, savui He�ngton;• , geS,Were made,in]ate ',.bond,.'fiveYear free.. n 1973 ad.the.¢anK,6inTellepsen '44994'Justpridrtoits.ear 1995'pur-::::depositbox;.i;50U:S.' ton a.&'If m 1973.arid;; chase'b '� w ""' the board'=until ed as' °f lin Y�.the`Houston-ba �25. U.S,' gold piece ap 1977«w Bans =, . .. sg Ster-. gold i , bought b , ' hen it was' g .• k�, <,,, ri, ' ' Pere will take pia , g Y.Kenneth�E° Sterlin ty, rid. t�uf hout the week ' ,. Rolston who Shished everyone jobs,. Musics! entertainment became'chalrrnan of a b' ' no'one was lef' o" T„ o oard,' time,we had about 100 emgloyeeslat Herb a:concert b will in; •.A name charge to Houston United y occurred in March 1979. Berry re-. this location.Sterling found a place 1:30 Remrn on steel f�iraim..j called the bank moved t' fts present for eve p•m..on Z�'ues from 11:30 ; th Gulf Freeway location six months work-we had the'''.sounds,of Dodson Elements the' later• oPon of moving to other depart. School musi ' menu or leavin clans"from I1:30 "Back thin` bank was the.hub' Lion on Highway 290 and W ployees..' 12;1,5 gin,-. yydn a m.-�were sent to Sterling's'home Iota and;The-HouseBan�y,;Sept, 183 o�commerce;'-she;s�ck,%6wever,',, West Little moans led':b Ste' in g Bank; r we'.were alwa s �d•�.We also•received, g' with"another bankge unitli nfused''•fits some g°O�` ?���.'" ssell JaCcson;Th s United Bank:.:that we did'not haverobetore Beforey+�Sept.20, from n irrsdan` :Fri 1 Houston..,Too. much''of'the:;'name;.,.Sterlin g �°'f`r'om 11:30 a.iri:=1:30 p.m::andFY! confliAlmilct socausied we took an out=o cation<•,+�,' before. 00n=2 P. : ,..da!3`7'� malot3';of,,the,.�tock.had b �,� -,Wednesd�y,;.,Se t. settlement and beta �- : the,Tellepseri,fami " `with',I.j - -s.. . B P :18, .refresh me•Ente rise,,*; e �Y, : :'�: ;:- :,�,Servi Y° ennie:Ferrell b g «:. < ''1'Th3' nployeesno ►work in ce•.wW'b'Qi served in Ca I ' .. : .:. .... .i{;�:,�, ,:. •. . :. the...:,�m.9.a:m:3;p the Q bY;� Vie - ��'h?8;opened !i.•. i .:,yeare•agorEastE d a�0untjust2l.{.., Mai,:.Threlkeld resident Amber"' ' Ys;so'Jadison:and an accordion;. ConUnired from Pa a 1. comers LS a .relative. ,?Ala.Ver,.made a 9 ', as"compared new.,.,;.: le j pause, In rhos !`' ' Howev Telle p tg�'. �' _ corn -► e days, eve , e1',having Puree psen.: both oe';,andr mull UP. t4 go into. to ry°nedressed,. ageSePG'?,there's`' 0 102yiearsof;" �;:a ceasto ;;r - on wn. and-i' the:b n doubt .; A-rnb c ; dressy outfit,";. Ile' artlts olcjest.cu sheia�. r's?:fai►o ov mPlete ,.. a•,• ,,...^::, sto ,�, Bl�' ritA:►•son „ gl es and with•hat; r:'r"We refer.. Ater:•.,, '.,,tti�;r,�, ue:Heaven; :which I' g N4 so.excftin she said:.,. to,:;%9mber: ,.� .r:;:to her he: � Ys sing,! I It was• •.senior:senlor, as o1W most , ' ' §aid.'. he's ve two•;'small�hi�emember'having teen-a aria'she;,calls: ,,,.as brr t,e S ryalert -= dren my, teen-age ,,,� me=her.•,• gh Yed'and'b'd �. who^was in.tow:;- Yfriend,.-..sal ,�,,ever:y:. hY-taile Y anld8How theKne'en,?ti,..�ank-s nior:vice ti �rded'Ster!!n checkboo�, 'sti�Y1., o d:not et d:Toma'ur. o .2.I.,, arks ,.-;74;`�whp.res nt•RUsselgls>V"'z, ek 7`X, c� her rn.:the following.y !;'h,.,was rbnk's Senfor,Cit' 'e0ordlnates�tJie' �+ ? r'elk !d„.whoI- J.. :.::��'.. . r.. lzQns'S°cial !e `i rcould.; .ackson. claims;' Even though;'she'has ' ' :: ``f�' rough:the a "`^'the' " ,C•, , ^ '(��ff obi i theitftle'of..Mlss America• ��Th count for 50 years had'an'aN' '=assisted , y ars, b8nk'h N re,.offe the' r .t W`elebra Aq a red tor,'cen mine°admits`s g andmoWe ag F` ting:.T lket '`�'�' � l,was:egti tenari-. e: a?lyc ban of vis r :. ,t4 er P„ entary e he has ot, r: ,.. , ,,..;: , , t ) o liiii the ;n Y.;;A . .,;., ,,.: k ten. . ,, • ited;c: ,.,For. r.` 2•.,• • ` .,':r.,.:,s•;:. .��I�...g�'+BaNtd .r t,, o bi uthday,we ve beert've • I guess ,;. :M.,,. threx�ac,=. one of You could sa"•IYe, g Par ty.and trxe.. u - y sociatlon✓'` .ry haPPY with my as.%: those s oiled' been(''throne' ,J ,d",p chair like a ,:, ! ,the,bayr,:s husband a on.:said";"yye, Nte "`'�enit;Was,EastEndStateB 9-0 (Howes d Te ep n h ca` -cub 'oii'Cl �e;:Jr.;arid!pll the seiiio to` ttie' has al '`` s waYs.taken;care'of members'too : :�. mp pre e11t►::,;;:iWd the anku & she.said. „0e.bank-.:: d• :i „� ther�:.of"'fo Van?,,' ur r'8n G. r, a elkfl was:a�blt`.uiid.`Y:`. mother:of,eight:. &'eat-grand-J, ,1 0; 1 er"'thee,,:.,, u, d.; s`►{"'•, , ;,t l:.,_, ;`-,ing.MY,103rd „t0 celebrat-= . .. .. � /.'•r��•ti'�r..i`Ci;•ir.�1"S�'7�S'" t! i 10/13/97 00:24 V713 652 2449 JOHN ROBINSON [L. ,, JOHN M. ROBINSON 910 TRAVIS, SUITE 1905 HO USTON, TEXAS 77002 (713) 652-5809 (713) 652-2449 (TELECOPIER) October 13, 1997 BY FAX #409-845-1643 Pages: 3 Ms. Sonny Sky KAUM - TV College Station Dear Ms. Sky: Transmitted herewith are several important facts about Mrs. Amber May Threlkeld. The address of Mrs. Threlkeld is 4417 Coyle, Houston, TX 77023, 713- 926-8732. When you come in on HWY 290 from Bryan, get on Loop 610 and go to IH-10. Turn towards downtown. Then enter on to IH-45 to Cullen exit and turn left under IH-45 (also exit to University of Houston). Then to first red light which is Leeland Street. Turn right and go to second crossroad being Eastwood Street. Then turn right down to Coyle Street (3 blocks) and turn left. You will see a house on left side with porch across front (red and white). Should there be any questions, please do not hesitate to call, otherwise, I will see you October 16 at 11:30 at Mrs. Threlkeld's. s truly o n M. Robinson JMR/sks 1 11 i . • 1 '1' 1 � 11 11 �.V w_ •, ;,} rk��� � 1. mat• ••. � � ���' � :'•!�t�,pre=w^ • • • if • " R . SEE 534 MAP 1 , w,.,»,:" PRIMpirp 40 w ¢ - _. v r,r 'r .- -_._,,.f „ ,_.„__ -#i a•r;,t," ,'.: 's �k+_jilkl . r.. .,_ • "d_.. ..�. 1 A� .fit,_. w L♦ ' � -,. _ � ." ..vim. °.. ^a w, -vim•.-. _ ,� :� ...'• •OEM— t st r' rl�l t o a The "College" and the "Station" dominate the landscape in this 1925 aerial view of the A&M College. Faculty and staff lived on campus in College-owned housing (lower left and right), or commuted to Bryan, some four unpaved miles away. COURTESY FORMER STUDENTS ASSOCIATION r. k Y '1 p Although an Independent School District was organized as early as 1909, public education lacked a real tax base until the incorporation of the City in 1938. This building was constructed on campus in 1920, and served school-aged children until the construction of the "new"A&M Consolidated School on the corner of Jersey and Holik in 1940. COURTESY TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES 75 the Old Texas A&M Camuus Houses, by Paul P. Van Riperl r 3 This is to request authorization of a Texas historical marker to commemorate the faculty and staff houses once on the Texas A&M University campus, which, sold and dispersed, mainly in the 1940s, now comprise the principal historic residences in the city of College Station, Texas. This application was initially proposed by the Brison Park Com- rinity Association of College Station as its sesquicentennial project,,2 r and has been endorsed by the Citizens for Historical Preservation of Brazos County.3 The immediate sponsor of the marker application is the city government of College Station, supported by Texas A&M Univer- sity.4 It is expected that any approved marker would be placed on the Texas AM University campus.5 The supporting data to follow are divided into three sections: 1) the development of faculty and staff housing at TMU, 2) the removal of this housing, and 3) its present location, ownership, etc. While there was housing erected on many segments of the Texas A&M University property, both in College Station a,--!* elsewhere, this pro- posal and documentation apply only to the rousing once in the section long recognized as comprising the central Tiff cau:rus. This area is bounded by University Avenue (formerly Su1chur Springs Road) on the North, Texas Avenue on the East, Jersey Street on: :* _ ,c.*h, and, Wellborn, Rcad (old highway 5) can the West. . 2 Develo-,)ment of Camvus Eousin-c Fo,.Lnded` in 1876, the early Texas AM University encompassed. close to 2000 acres of open country land more than four miles from the small town of Bryan, Texas. Of.-necessity, the university, then f a small college (the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas), had to function much as a military post, with housing furnished and officially allocated to many faculty and staff. That, as a land- grant institution, the college's curriculum included compulsory military training only underscored the analog-f. 2-lost of the school's old building records were destroyed w-hen the principal administrative building, Old Main, burned to the ground in May of 1912. Nevertheless, the growth of campus housing can be outlined: in a general way. The first houses were five brick faculty homes erected in 1876 on the cast side of Throekmorton Street.? These formed the nucleus of what became known for many years thereafter as Quality Row along both sides of this street. However, the last of the brick houses was demolished in 1949. Additional housing was rapidly constructed from the 18°Os on. 3Y 1914 there were nearly 50 houses on the central eampus.8 Con— . � strsction of additior_al homes continued apace until the middle 1920s. By then suitable housing for faculty and staff was rapidly- becoming available in the College Station area around tha university. ;�Crecver, it was becoming evident that it would be recessar- to use • more and pore of -the central can cus acreage for the neaded expaa lsion �_`' � e , , ot th2 zca}iorai facilities t0 3^C: ?oQ3te r ? 3 student body, which nearly doubled between 1917 and 1925 and then doubled again between 1925 and 1935.9 In early 1913 the board of directors ordered -the numbering of the facult-l- and staff homes. The initial '_ ambering system was changed 3 effective May 1, 1919,10 and all references to�house =ambers in this proposal use the 1919 numbering system, which is also thAe system used in the property records of t1z TANU Fiscal Department, BY 1938 there were approximately 110 faculty and staff homes on the main campus, but only, two (nos. 251 and 422) had been erected after 1923. Only the latter (r_o. 422 on ihrocl=orton St. ) remains.11 As for style and construction, there were no more brick houses after the initial five. All the rest have been frame. Sizes have varied from largish txo-storied structures to small cottages of perhaps 1,200 square feet. The styles of those known to be in ex- istence can be grouped into four main types, - hick can be designated as follows :12 1) Queen Arne, most with neo-classical features, constructed between 1890 and 1910; this was the predominant style. 2) Cotta5es, smaller houses with a small porch and simple lines, erected here and there over perhaps a forty year period, some of the earliest in a simple carpenter Gothic, with the more recent very plain indeed. 3) American Four-Square (using termiroloKr of the Old House ti rely plain and sglariStl two-story str:c- Jour:2al), rela . t,.ares with _ one story fr.:nt porch, erected between 1910 --and 1920. T:_ere were at e y Cs t ._Fee Jr _`Our of t^a3e. 4 4) Bungalows of varying sizesp bi?t most smallish with square footages from 1,200 to 1,,600, erected between 1910 and 1925. 'Phis style comprised the second largest group. Early campus photographs confirm these main styles.13 It should also be noted that there were no great oansiong, or fancy Victorian structures among. them. These, even the university presidents' houses (see house no. 410) were essentially middle class types of housing, usually well-built but, in no sense, ostentatious. 0f the known remaining homes, the ages vary from 1890 for house no. 222, now at- 611 i?ontclair, College Station (and perhaps the oldest house in the city) to 1923 for two homes, no. 204, now at 502 Kerry, College Station, and no. 289, at 1004 Ashburn. + In the early years of the university, housing assignments were �;- controlled directly by the president and the board of directors. .' Effective in 1913, the directors authoi1 zed the president to delegate this task to a Committee on Housing consisting of the deans. This committee met several times a year from 1913 until 1939, when the board of directors decided to close out camp,:s housing for facul�-,r and staff. This committee developed an initial set of housing —.ales and regulations, which were approved by the board of directors on Augast 18, 1913.15 In Wain outline, these -r-ales guided housing use policy for the entire twenty-six years of the Housing Committee's existence. 5 Removal of Houses With the formal incorporation of the City of College Station, Texas, in October 1938, conditions were propitious for the disposition of campus housing for faculty and staff. On Se'pt. 2, 1939 ` e universityts board of directors adopted a resolution stating that "on or before Sep— tember 1, 1941, all campus residences be vacated and those that are vacated prior to that time be not rerented or occupied."16 Excluded. were residences of officers required to live on campus, such as the president, the commandant, the surgeon and several others. It was ascertained that many faculty and staff would like to buy the houses they lived in, or perhaps others, and the first of several sales, via, bids, was authorized by the board in March of 1941. i These initial sales involved some-35 houses,- or about a third of those on the campus in 1938. Another thircl were gradually sold off in the next twenty years, while the final third is recorded as having been burned or otherwise destroyed or demolished, given to the Firemen"s Training School for use, moved somewhere else on the Lniversity's farm properties, etc. The last sale of a main campus house appears to have been in 1972.�7 in the early 1940s these houses were apparently a drag on the market. They had to be moved and that was expensive. In the first echelon of sales, the houses ;cent for between '200 and $800. 18 Not until the 1960s did houses bring as much as $2,000 to 33,000. • .cw'_+- .. v.rw.e�W.b" • ..•.Rv'�:.¢.w�...sMsa.�_aw.r.�1_ac .. ___-.. .. -.�.. .r o.. ur.....-•s—.5site:+a�MiL.c�'.'.ir.rf...� .r[.iM►440 r.lL'i.Uri:J'-.t:.Y..�'wu'MJ►TL:i�+.ar_... „ - 6 Present Location of Old Campus Houses For the past three years the author and his associates have been attempting to locate as many of the houses Loved off the campus as pos- i sible.l9 The search has been seriously hzapered,' by the fact that the university's records do not show, except in three or four cases, to whoa aarticular houses were sold. As a result, the. search has mad to be thsvuEh a combination of inspection and interview. The results of this search are summarized in the "list` of houses" to follow. Altogether, we have found forty-one houses for which the evidence is overwhelming that they were once on the Texas A&M campus. Of these, the campus location of thirty-two is lLnomm with considerable to absolute certainty. 'For nine of the forty-one the prior campus location is u:noertain to crying degrees. Thirty-eight .of the houses have been found Li College Station. This group forms by far the largest: segment of the ci,,y l s histories houses, for there apparently are no College Station nondcamipuas houses which antedate the early 1920s. Of the remaining three houses, there are two in Br•�an, Texas, and the third nearly two miles north of 3.-yan and out in the country. In addition to the forty-ore identified houses, ktu least another four are known to have been burnt or demolished after being moved off the campus. As approximately seventy campus houses were sold at some time or other, this leaves the whereabouts of twenty-five or so un:nown. Nevertheless, during the last. year of our fairly extensi-Te and careful search----calendar 1935—we have been ab e to add only :.4o pr?7icusl-T P^ 0+R1 ;ormer campus houses zo cur 1is4- 20 4See letter from Dr. Frank Vandiver, President of Texas A&M University, dated Jan. 31, 1986, and attached as Exhibit A in the appendix to follow. SThe site presently favored is on Throckmorton Street on the main campus, near the only remaining house erected prior to World: _. War II. GSee the College Station map attached as Exhibit B. Mlost of this area is shown on the 1938 TAMU map attached as Exhibit C. 7For old photographs of the brick houses see photographs 1 and 3-in Exhibit F. For their location on campus; see.houses numbered 403, 407, 411, 415 and 419. For their destruction, see • the "Building Records," '1' MU Fiscal Department. BSee the campus map of Jan. 4, 1914, attached as Exhibit D. The house numbers on this map are those of 1919. 9For the university enrollments, see Henry C. Dethloff, A Centennial History of Texas A&M University 1876-1976, 2 vols. (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1975), II, table P. 583. 10For the directive establishing the original cumbering system, 4 see Mirrztes, Board of Directors, TA`nU, vol. 39 P. 59, Jan, 6, 1913 and D. 88, March 31, 1913. For the revised system, with cross-ref- erences to the original system, see Minutes, Committee on Housing, p. 629 TAA'[U Archives. For use of house n mbers in a few examples of pro;,erty Mecords, see Ec:libit H. • Women F1* 1e Sul* To Enter A&M Suit, tried in district court here, No Date favored the all-male policies of the college. For Hearing In their petition, the women con- tend that the denial and deprivation Has Been Set of an education at Texas A&M is a direct violation of the Equal Protec- tion Clause and the Due Process From the Wednesday,Jan.29,1958, Clause of the 14th Amendment to edition,The Bryan Daily Eagle the Constitution of the United States Bryan attorney John M.Barron to- of America and a direct violation of day filed a mandamus suit in 85th Article 1,Section 19,of the Constitu- District Court here asking that the tion of the State of Texas. court order the admission of Mrs. The two women, both mothers of Lena Ann Bristol, 34, from Willacy children, are college students. Mrs. County and Mrs.Barbara Gilkey Tit- Bristol commutes from Bryan to tle, 20, Bryan, into Texas A&M Col- Huntsville three times a week to at- lege. tend classes at Sam Houston State The suit named H.L. Heaton, col- Teachers College while Mrs. Tittle lege registrar, Dr. M.T. Harrington, attends Allen Academy, a military A&M System and College president, school which recently opened its jun- and the college board of directors as for college division to women.... defendants. Ten years ago proposals to permit Barron said he has asked that Dr. women to enroll in A&M received py� Harrington and Heaton be notified little serious attention and were met of the suit this afternoon.No date for mainly with sarcasm or derision. the hearing has been set. Today,the story is different. Filing of the suit this morning ended several days'speculation over possible legal action in behalf of the two women, who, along with Mrs. Myrna Gray, have been refused ad- mission to the all-male college. The three women applied for admission to the college last week and were turned down. The suit is based on the argument that Texas women are citizens and taxpayers with the same legal rights as men and that to deny them the use of public-supported institutions such as Texas A&M is illegal dis- crimination. Barron is optimistic about the • chances of the suit's success despite the fact that his father, former Dis- trict Judge W.S. Barron, failed in a similar suit nearly 25 years avn 7%. COLLEGE STATION DAYS 1922 - 1940 My father, Dr. C. B. Campbell, came to A&M in 1903 and was head of the Modern Language Department from 1903 through 1948. He met my mother, Margaret Boulware, from Palestine, Texas at a house party at the Henry Seale home in Benchley, Texas. How he got there I'm not sure, but I expect it was horse and buggy, as Benchley was about 8 miles north of Bryan. They were married in 1917, and my sister, Peggy, was born December 16, 1919. 1 was born on November 13, 1922. With a doctor in attendance we were both born at home - a big argument later on as to who was born in College Station and who was born in Bryan (at the hospital). Bryan and College Station were like St. Paul and Minneapolis - rivals. I had my first newspaper clash (there were many later) when wrote a letter to the Bryan Eagle complaining about the coverage of the Bryan Broncos and the Consolidated Tigers. I (as a 2nd stringer) was nearly wiped out at the next basketball game between the two schools. WORK I sold Rival wall mounted can openers and magazine subscriptions door to door. I worked at the Aggieland drugstore when I was 14 or 15 years old - 6 days a week - 12 hours a day - $45 a month. I took a 10 day train trip to Cuchara, Colorado with my drugstore earnings. I had my first summer job taking care of clay tennis courts working for Mr. Fritz Hensel - I was 12 years old "I think" - for 75 cents an hour - "I think." • TROUBLE I was bored one summer day and chunked some rocks through windows of the old Animal Husbandry Rodeo Arena. I got caught, of course, by D. W. Williams, Sug'.s father. (I always got caught!) I spent a half day a week sweeping_out the grandstand area until damage was worked out. In those days we respected our elders and everyone knew everyone so word of misdeeds always found their way home. Mother told the story that one time when she confronted me with something I knew she couldn't have known about, that I said, "Woman! You think you're God!" got spanked. Another time, out of boredom, 5 or 6 of us climbed out a 3rd floor window of Old Main building and walked completely around the building on the 18'' wide cornice ledge. We also frequently slipped in the P.L. Downs Natitorium and went skinny dipping - when A&M was out of school. Once we found a bunch of girls' clothing outside as we were going in, so we hid the clothes, but weren't smart enough to hang around! We also played tin can shinney on roller skates on the "Little Gym" basketball court - another no-no. I'm afraid on Halloween we might have tipped over a privey or two. Bill Hensel had a tree house we built in his backyard in an old Hackberry tree. We used to go across campus and get a 10 cent hamburger and a 5 cent Nehi and have lunch in the tree house. 2 Some of us would take the family car on dates to Brenham or Navasota or Calvert. I would disconnect the odometer and put in what I judged to be the right amount of gas and reconnect it. This worked fine until the car broke down and Bill Hensel came to get me - I got home at dawn with my folks in the driveway! While collecting coke bottles in the old Cedar Grove across the street on Thanksgiving day right after the game with T.U., I got hit by a car and broke my leg. It was a wild ride through post game traffic to the hospital. That Christmas we had the biggest snow in memory, and I was in a cast! We played Cowboys and Indians all the time. We also had inner tube rubber gun fights. We climbed trees alot, and generally made our own games and fun. Growing up as a child in College Station was a wonderful experience. We went to Sunday school every Sunday. We had a neat life - no one was rich - no one was poor - and everyone knew everyone. We had superb teachers in school, as most of them were either faculty wives and/or daughters. Carolyn Mitchell, Mrs. C.C. (Henrietta) Doak, Ethel Walton, and my Spanish teacher, Mrs. Spencer come to mind. They could all make you learn in spite of yourself! We walked to school and came home for "dinner." We had "supper" at night. The old grammar school was about 3 or 4 blocks away. For high school (we had no IL middle school), we went to old Pfeiffer Hall, a condemned building on the campus - just south of Old Main where Dad had his office. 3 Mr. Ferguson, the principal, gave me a hard time. We got caught kicking trash cans downstairs and I got caught smoking - tobacco. (Dope had never been heard of). Brooks Cofer never got caught, but Jack Miller and I always did. We started the Shorthorn in high school - the first annual. We only had 11 grades, and when I graduated.in 1939 we only had about 18 or 20 seniors. No one had TV, of course, but we had radio. I had a crystal set with earphones and could get the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago - wonderful music. Being "campus brats" we were huge Aggie fans. I think I remember a 6-6 or 7-7 tie on Thanksgiving of maybe 1928. First game I remember. We used to go over to the Assembly Hall near Sibisa Hall to hear radio broadcasts of Aggie sports events. Everyone was in the Corps when I was young, and we had both horse cavalry and horse-drawn artillery. Final Review - across the street from our house - was the ultimate thrill for me. The band kept playing "Home Sweet Home" and "Auld Lang Syne" - a teary time, as the Corps passed in review. In the early years, I remember the bugle calls that ran everything - Assembly all the way to Taps. The Corps marched to Sibisa Hall for meals. 4 I don't think we had a street address. Our mail came to Box 273, Faculty Exchange. On our street coming west was Dr. Ball's home, Sug Williams' home, the Morgan home, and the Hensel home. Then the street going south to Kyle Field and then the Bagley home and then our home, the Karper home and one more before Highway 6 and the RR Station. We were across the street from the Cedar Grove on what is now the site of Cain Hall athletic dorm. There's a picture of my sister, Peg, me, and our dog Lucky at the RR Station. Lucky was a huge dog of mixed parentage who used to take one end of a heavy rope and pull 4 to 6 of us kids all over the place. We had no air conditioning, not even an attic fan until the late '30s. We didn't know any better so it was all right. We had ice deliveries and ice boxes. We'd put out a card for 25 or 50#s of block ice. Milk was delivered to the door. Actually, the ice was brought in and put in the ice box. We never locked doors in those days. The depression didn't really affect us, as the faculty didn't get laid off, and their salaries, while not wonderful, were never cut as far as I know. As a result, when prices fell off the scale, our parents probably had improved buying power. Many of us had "servants' houses" on our lots. We had a young black woman named Leila who baby-sat, cooked, cleaned, washed - did everything in return for bed and board, utilities and a very small weekly wage. This is just the way it was in the '20s and '30s in College Station. • 5 Leila had a "man friend" and also a real temper. She chased another woman up on the hospital steps one night and cut her with a razor. When the authorities came to question her, Mother was appalled and asked Leila how she could have left us children when she was baby-sitting. Leila said, "Mrs. Campbell, I wasn't gone 30 minutes. I went out to my room to get something and this woman was out there talking bad about me, so I chased her and cut her up. The children didn't even know I was gone cause they wuz asleep!" got my driver's license when I was 12 years old from the County Judge. Grandfather Campbell had come to live with us after his wife died. Dad didn't have or allow any beer or whiskey in the house, so I needed to drive Granddad down to Ed Hardlika's bar every afternoon for his daily beer. No College Station stories would be complete without some Jean Benz stories. Mrs. Mayo, one of the College Station grand dames whose bachelor son Tommy taught English at A&M, was having one of her high teas, and Jean came with her mother (her father was a Major in the Army). Mrs. Mayo said to Jean, "Jean, dear, wouldn't you like to have one of these lovely cookies?" Jean's instant reply was, "You're Gdamned right I would!" Another time Jean was repeatedly asked if she mistreated a neighbor's cat, and Jean repeatedly denied any such act until finally she gave up and said, "Well damned near twisted his tail off!'' • 6 College Station had its characters, in spades. One was old Doc Asbury, and eccentric bachelor on the faculty. His collection of pictures and paintings covered the entire walls and ceilings in every room in his house. Later, his hobby was climbing roses, and his small house was completely hidden by climbing roses on tall poles and trellises - probably 20 feet high. In the mid '30s, campus expansion required that the faculty homes be moved off campus with the occupants given the 1 st chance of buying the state-owned homes. It was said that when the occupants added to the homes at their own expense that the additions belonged to the occupants provided they were bolted on - not nailed on! In any event our home caught fire one Saturday afternoon while Mother and Dad were at the movie at the Bloody Bucket theater (actually the Queen ) in Bryan, and Peg and I were off somewhere. The fire department was volunteer; many cadets showed up, too, and they got Grandfather Campbell out. Their inexperience showed, however, when they got the baby grand piano to the front door where it burned. Had they broken the legs they could have saved it. We lived at the Aggieland Inn for I suppose a year while rebuilding, and, shortly after, our home was cut into 3 pieces and moved to 315 Suffolk where it was family occupied until the untimely death of my sister, Peg, in 1989. The house was later sold, remodeled, and is presently occupied. • 7 At one time the house south of the Hensels was occupied by D. X. Bible, the legendary football coach, and later Matty Bell lived there. I believe the next house south toward Kyle Field was the J. M. Jones' house where Virginia and Johnny Jones lived. I couldn't pronounce "Js" when I was small, so it was "Donny Dones" to me. Brooks Cofer and I went to a beauty parlor and had our hair peroxided. Brooks was blonde and his hair turned white. Mine was dark and turned strawberry blonde. Dad was on his knees working in a flower bed when I showed up. He looked up at me and raised his eyebrows but said nothing. I said, "It looks pretty silly, doesn't it?" He looked me right in the eye and said, "It damned sure does!" The first time, and only time, I ever heard him curse! A bunch of us went to a summer YMCA camp on the Bosque River near Waco. We called our cabin the Aggie Cabin and, to our surprise, our hero turned out to be Preston Bolton who could run like the wind. He won the track meet for us. As we were kids there was a younger boy, Jimmy "Red" Cashion, who was allowed to play with us rather reluctantly since he was so little but very talented. To my surprise, while I was in the Navy, Jimmy quarterbacked the Kiddie Korps to a SWC championship! His younger brother, Mason Lee, later became a famous NFL referee. • 8 ti . Naming names is risky as you will inadvertently omit many who were important to you. Age differences of only a year or two were huge when we were young. Sara Allen Cofer, my sister Peg, Edith Thomas, Bill Hensel, Alan Madeley, Frank Brown, Paul and Leila Haines, and Preston Bolton were "older", but closer perhaps than the "younger" such as Mary Beth Winkler, Ruth Williams, Little dee Cofer, David Williams, and the Cashion boys. Our group included Betty Jane Winkler, Lucille Thornton, Sug Williams, Ruth and Johnny Jones, and Brooks Cofer. Jack Miller and Betty Shelton and her brothers, who were not original "campus brats", were a real part of our bunch during high school and several years earlier. Others such as Archie Hopkins, Ann Washington, and Jack Beasley were "military brats" who came and went but with whom we were close. Our graduation from A&M Consolidated was in June of 1939. Betty Shelton and Sug went to Sophie Newcomb, most of the boys went to A&M, and I stayed home and worked on the campus grounds for the entire school year for Mr. Hensel. Among other things, I must have rooted and potted 10-20,000 alta nanthera which were used to make the letters Texas A&M in the oval at Kyle Field and other topiaries and sheared designs on campus. Being born on campus, I wanted to go to school away somewhere, so I followed Sug and Betty to New Orleans and Tulane University in 1940 which really was the end of my College Station life except for 1946-1948 when I came home and went to A&M on the G. I. Bill. I was labeled with the name ''Sunny" when I was 4 or 5 years old, and to this very day when I go back to College Station my name changes from Charles to "Sunny" to those few dear friends still living in College Station. I suppose it will ever stay that way, but growing up in College Station was a wonderful experience. C. B. Campbell, Jr. February 14, 1998 9 .- ��� Section 1at Ule Home , sweet Agg In the early 1900s,families lived on the A&M campus, giving kids an idyllic place for childhood fun and frolic ter' X Wally Anderson stands atop his fire engine near Houston Street .K ° on the Texas A&M campus.The photograph was taken in 1934. 4,, t He!en Thomas c>'nrs around on the statue of Su a„'S,:iy"Ross outside the Academic Building a'Texas A&M University. • By JODY BATES Special to the Eagle A s a child growing up on the Texas A&M campus in the 1920s and '309,Red Cashion had a scheme for acquiring free peanuts at the movies. "I'd get to the Assembly Hall early,and I'd pick up a peanut off the floor and throw it at an Aggie,"says Cashion."U- sually,about five Aggies would throw pean- uts back at me,and I would put four in my pocket and throw another back.By the time the show started,I had a pocket full of pean- uts." Growing up on the Texas A&M campus— which was small and isolated in the first several decades of this century—held enormous charms for young children who 1 didn't have to worry about wars or depres- sions.All of the college's social,recreational c and cultural events wire part of the life of � children of A&M faculty or staff members. The campus was isolated—eight miles from Bryan,the nearest town—so the col- lege provided many goods and services: dairy products from the creamery,laundry service,ice at the college power plant,facul- ty housing built on campus and a private ,' n. school—first grade through high school. "Everyone knew and cared about each " other,like a big extended family,"says He- In the 1930s,trash was collected and piled high,then held in place with a few logs for the bonfire on Simpson Drill FielL. len Thomas Perry,an artist who now lives near College Station's Thomas Park,which "Once Billy Gammon and I held off the "In fall we played touch football;basket- is named after her father."The children rest of the neighborhood from the workshop ball in the winter;and softball in the sum- were always welcome in every home and of- behind the Gammon house,"Anderson says. mer,'Jim Cashion says."With a$3 pass we flee—even on roller skates." Unlike today,the campus back then was "Our opponents marshaled behind a piece of could spend the entire summer in the home to families and children,and scenes of plywood,which Sam Rae,Silly's brother, Downs Natatorium swimming pool.It was domestic life were carried on where uni- supported finger one exposed finger. direct the most comfortable place in a town with- domestic activities and buildings now are lo- hit on that finger by an acorn fired from our out air conditioning." cated firecracker cannon resulted in the collapse Jim's brother Red says he made sure"our "We all lived around the drill field and of their installation. mother got us up from our nap before 3 p.m. south of that,"says Bill Hensel,whose "This may have pointed Sam Rae toward because that was when the pool opened,and father was Fritz Hensel,former head of the diplomacy.Before he retired,he had become I wanted to be the first in line and first to A&M landscape art department for whom an ambassador." jump into the glassy pool and make waves." Hensel Park was named."Until I was 8 we feiffer Hall,built in 1887,was the high The Cashion boys'father was a minister lived in a house that backed up to the woo school."That was an unparalleled ex• who headed the campus YMCA,the social hub for all the college students. den bleachers at Kyle Field.I loved to ride perience,"says Perry."The walls were „ff it wasn't academic,it was at the Y,' my bike down the ramps." pink and the bricks fell out—what fun it says Red,who now heads Anco Insurance in Later,his family moved to a house at the was!On graduation night I climbed the Bryan,"Because the students couldn't af- corner of the drill field."We got to see all the water tower and nearly fell off." ford to leave until summer,the Y and faculty parades and military reviews from our Not all pranks had a happy ending, porch,"Hensel says. however.Red Cashion tells this on himself: homes were the center of entertainment and Perry's childhood activities included her "The train brought coal for the socializing. winning a silver cup at the College Horse plant on campus.It was a spur line that ran We'd entertain students on the weekend Show,taking hikes to the Fish Tank,parti- right alongside the with homemade ice cream.As the smallest,I cipating in bonfires and yell practices,fol• Drive.Somehow,I piled office stone big sat kids the had to crank-quart freezer,while all the lowing the Aggie Band down Military Walk on the rail and managed to singlehandedly big kids had to crank,a tough job! and enjoying Cokes with high school chums overturn a steam engine pulling the coal The faculty always took time with the at Casey's in the YMCA. cars.Luckily,in those days it was just con- students and were contributors to the com- munity,""A&M was woven into the fabric of our sidered a prank by that red-headed kid." Red says."They took a personal lives,"she says. Jun Cashion,a retired public school prin- hand in all the programs on campus,a sig- Perry says that in the summers,the kids cipal,says summer was his favorite time. nificant factor in A&M's greatness." on the south side of campus would challenge You couldn't go barefoot though,because Campus life helped supplement the allow• the kids who lived north of Simpson Drill of the goathead stickers that were every- a nces of some of the youngsters.Anderson Field to water fights. where.They were so tough they would punc- Dr.Frank Anderson Jr.,an opthalmolo- ture your bike tires,"he says,adding that Please see CAMPUS,page D5 gist,remembers dirt-clod fights,acorn fights students with push mowers provided the and firecracker cannon battles as major ac- only"landscaping"effort during the sum. ■Jody Bales is an independent journalist and local tivities of the boys in 1930. mer. teacher. Bryan-College Station Eagle Sunday,April 24,1994 Page D5 Lifestyle a m(-CnU S les, whose father became presi- dent of A r+ after she was grown and w -` From 01 married. All the faculty fam- ilies sat on recalls using his bicycle to take their lawns or messages from the telephone porches in the'. ;ll center to students in the dorms.A evening breeze I round trip was worth a dime. and visited one HIRSCHg < 7t' Red Cashion used his big wa• another.No one gon:"I rented it out to Aggies at entertained formally in the sum. ` the end of term to load their mer because all the kitchen help trunks for and maids went to work in the o` summer stor- cotton fields. Basically, every- age or to take it thing stopped until after the to the train sta- harvest and the students returned tion," he says. to campus in the fall." "One of the Bolton says because there rules for rent- weren't any hotels, the faculty ing the wagon wives served as hostesses and is that I hqd to chaperons for all the big social ride and they events. A costumed birthday party in 1933 honored Helen Thomas'and Paul Manglesdorf.At- had to pull — R.CASHION "Sometimes we would have five tending were(back row,from left)James Yarnel,Duke Thornton,Charles Kent,Sam all for 25 cents.' or six girls packed into the house Rhea Gammon,Peggy Medina,B.J.Lloyd,Jack Marsh,Dick Richards,Nelwyn Martin, Jim Cashion recalls a near dis. for the Thanksgiving dance or at (middle row)Betty Harriet Irwin,Martha Jane Porter,Grace Schrader,Marjorie McMll- aster averted by the proximity of graduation," Bolton says. "We Ian,Elizabeth McNew,Tom Leland,Mary Jane Fuller,Betty Vezey,Mary Beth Winkler, his family's home to the college stored all their crinoline slips on (front row)Cynthia Lancaster,Paul Manglesdorf,Helen Thomas,Marie Schrader,Stan- hospital. the roof for lack of space." ley Vezey and Ella Frances Cofer.All these children grew up on the campus of Texas "Red and I were playing with a Mary Munson Hirsch re- baseball because their fathers served on the faculty or stall. baseball inside the Y;I threw and members gathering sticks and it hit Red's face.We ran across to wood at the curb for the Aggfes to with housing for$15 per month. fore 1920, in tuxedos in the '209 Mrs. Cleghorn,the nurse at the take to the bonfire.She says she "It was a mad scramble to get and suits in the'30s. hospital,and she stitched him up could watch the cavalry horses housing off campus," Walker "Bridge parties,music practice before we went home to Mother." Perform drills on Simpson her Held says. Many bought the house and performance,poetry compo• Nancy Reynolds Tiner, s Sr., from the windows of her two they lived in and had it moved to sition,painting,discussions and father, a E.B. Reynolds the story house. the south edge ofcampus." visiting were significant parts of signed the charter to establish the Munson Street was named after This marked the end of an era life in many of those houses," city of College Station in 1839, ing prHirscofessor father,o civil engineer. during which faculty families says Frank Anderson Jr."There lived where the Memorial Student ing professor who did the survey hosted formal dinners in their was a special quality of life in the Center is now. velIngopment for the College Hills area de- campus houses. These affairs campus community in those I loved to watch the to the ve"Locate in whe19'39re were attended by men in tails be- years." Band march on their way to the "Located where the Corps football field,"she says. dorms are now was the house we Tiner remembers the special used as an elementary school," +ns that brought football fans Hirsch says. "I was in second �ggie games. grade when we moved off campus One time the Aggfes caught to a new facility on Timber Street. e Baylor Bear mascot and It was quite an event for our painted it maroon and white,then community." paraded it down our street." Hirsch recalls that the people These were the years of the who came off the trains for foot- Great Depression. "They were ball games would stop at her quiet times but we had lots of fun porch and ask for a drink of w i t h o u t water. The arrival of the fast money,"Hensel p evening train was a regular draw. says. "We al- She says she loved going to the ways went train s to watchthe people. down to the o people coming to train station in the football games created havoc the evening to in College Station: see who might "It was bedlam," says Knox be arriving on Walker,whose father,a civil en- the fast train— HENSEL glneer, was superintendent of the Sunbeam building and Special — a streamlined train college utilities, w ; from Dallas to Houston." "There were Mary Leland, a local music only two cam• teacher,remembers "walking to pus police be- Old Main with my Dad each day cause it was for the mail. It was our special normally a time to talk." quiet campus, V Leland says her favorite game but football was played at night.She tells of games brought theatrical productions put on by thousands of WALKER campus children after the sun people. went down. "In 1B37,Franklin D.Roosevelt "We would make up plays,get came on his presidential train, with his touring car on a flatbed. the costumes together and put a ed it and drove him curtain across a clothesline.Flor• They ence Richey was the instigator," to Kyllee Field where the student Leland says,adding that the boys body, faculty and citizens always loved to 'play dead' and to entire county weererefrom gathered have lots of sword fights." to hear him talk." Frank An on says,"Tom Le- Walker says vividly re- land lived next members Wallyy door and had an Anderson, affinity for chemistry. He used dressed it, a white Palm Beach their garage for a lab.I once asked linen suit, but too many questions about the barefoot, run• g out and contents of his bottles.He replied, jumpingon he one was Deuteronomy,the other running board Kul Leviticus.'I retained those n dames of the touringg until Sunday School 1n the went of,uion Hall gave me car to shake r. insights.Tom later became hands with of the chemical engineering FDR, department at Rice(University)." In 1940, Wal PERRY ker says,it was "Summers were quiet and de- decreed that A&M faculty and lightfal,"says Mary Bolton Eck- staff would no longer be provided Monday, August 28,1989 The Battalion Rage 7E Agd-rie r rim sen ® g,listens f lk re With where seniors turn their rings around so the number By Kelly S. Brown faces the world to say, "I am an Aggie." Many others "christen"their rings in a different manner. Of The Battalion Staff Christening rings is a tradition that E.C.Jones,Class of 1894, probably didn't have in mind when he de= An Aggie in an airport reaching for his luggage no= signed the first senior ring the dropping of the ring lees someone staring at his hand. Conversation begins in a pitcher of beef at Northgate, something like this "My nrme is Lynn Walker,Class of at particular tradition most likely never will find Its '6L"The raised eyebrow reply - ". . .T.J.Smith,Class way onto the senior ring as one of the engraved symbols of'80." representing a major part of the University's,as well as This hap ns all the time—Texas A&M folklore has Texas, history. A leaflet printed by the Association of volumes of stales involving a senior ring bringing to- Former Students explains the meaning of each symbol © gether Aggies who once were strangers. on the ring. The tradition of the senior ring began in 1894. The On the top of the ring is a shield symbolizing protec- ring, as long as it is worn, is the one thing that always tion of the good reputation of the alma mater.The 13 will distinguish an Aggie from anyone else. One of the things that makes an A&M ring unique ii from other school rings is the accomplishments a stu— dent must have undergone before the ring can be slipped onto the finger. Jones, Class of 1894, probably didn't have A&M requires students to have completed 95 hours. In mind When he designed the first senior If students have transferred to the University, they must have taken at least 30 of the 95 hours at A&M.A ring—the dropping of the ring in a pitcher of cumulative GPR of 2.0 is mandatory. The Senior Ring Committee reviews these qualifica- beer at Northgate." tions before a student can file an order for a ring. Veri- fication takes three days to complete. Although prices stripes in the shield refer to the 13 original states and of school rings are generally the same as at other col- symbolize the intense patriotism of the graduates and leges, most universities have no requirements to get a undergraduates of A&M. The five stars in the shield ring. refer to phases of development of the student: mind or Rings must be paid for when ordered, and students intellect, body, spiritual attainment, emotional poise can choose between the traditional and rose styles.Car- and integrity of character.The eagle is symbolic of agil- olyn Swanzy, director of the ring office, said most stu- ity and power and the ability to reach great heights and dents order the rose style. ambitions. The only difference in the rings are in size,quality of Each side of the ring has a meaning as well. 10 or 14 karat gold and the finish. On one side, the seal of the State of Texas; a five- Prices for the basic 10-karat gold ring range from pointed star with a wreath of live oak leaves and laurel $145 to$150 for the smaller woman's ring and$248 to leaves surrounding it, representing strength; but the $260 for the larger men's ring.The costs uctuate with desire to use this strength peacefully. the price of gold.The Student Financial Aid Office has The other side shows a cannon crossed with a saber loans specifically for senior rings. and rifle representing the Texas determination to fight Swanzy said eight to ten orders are placed with the for home and family. Also on this side, the U.S. and L.G.Balfour Company each year(the next order will be Texas flags are joined together to symbolize unity. sent Sept. 15). The rings arrive several months later Orders are accepted the first two weeks of September • and the celebration begins. in the Association of Former Students Center on the Some initiate their rings at the annual Ring Dance, corner of Bizzell and Jersey Streets. .ate � � - • DESCENDANTS OF PIONEERS OF CENTRAL TEXAS These interviews concern the settlement and growth of central { Texas and especially Bryan/College Station from about 1900 to the 1940' s. Participants have various backgrounds and occupations and they discuss topics such as race relations, politics, farming, transportation,ion, indUstry, and changes at Texas ARM. All interviews are transcribed and open. Add icks, John H. Life as a farmer and teacher in Brenham from the 1910' s to the 1970' s. Interviewed by Charles Weiss, July 30, 1976. 14 pages. nderson, D. A. ayor o - allege Station ( 1966 - 1971 ) discusses city from 1930' s. Interviewed by Jerry A. Nickerson, April 3, 1975. 17 pages. Blasdel, Joe and Lena Ft. Bend County from the 1910' s to present. Interviewed by S. Craig Wright, March 17, 1975. 27 pages. Box, Freda Growing up and farming in Bryan area in 1920' s. Interviewed by Nancy A. Heuber, April 4, 1976. 15 pages. Bryan, Mrs. Travis Wife of the grandson of the founder of Bryan relates several anecdotes describing life in Bryan since the 1910' s. Interviewed by Marty Romero, April 15, 1976. 24 pages. Bryan=-Tra--v-irs-- H. JIr. � Great grandson of the founder of Bryan explains his ancestry and settling of town. Interviewed by Paul Lippincott, March 30, 1975. 3 pages. Caddess, Mrs. Harvey C Role of parents and grandparents in settling Texas and life in Bryan since 1920' s. Interviewed by John Friedli, May 12, 1975. 26 pages. Carnes, Dons, Coulter, Parents settling in Bryan in the 1860' s and life as young girl tt from 1880' s. Interviewed by Penny Knodel, March 24, 1975. 17 pages. �Noah Experiences as farmer in Brazos County from 1920' s. Interviewed by Debbie Forster, spring 1975. 10 pages. t 1 65 Daniel, W. C. Jr. Impressions of a black man in Bryan/College Station from (W 1930' s to the present. Interviewed by Terry Hanger, March 11, 1975. 12 pages. Dulaney, Louie R. Early years of College Station from shortly after annexation in 1938. Interviewed by Foam Garner, spring 1975. 10 pages. Duller, Nelson M. Dr. Duller sketches his involvement with A&M as a student in late 1940' s and as a professor of physics from 1962 to the present. Interviewed by Scott Logan, spring 1976. 15 pages. Edge, Mrs. Harry Life in Bryan from 1910' s to 19401s, describes teaching on the Fierce ranch from about 1917 to 1922. Interviewed by Gloria A. Schiavo, spring 1976. 10 pages. Hardee, Sparkee M. Owner of Sparkee ' s Pizza from 1973 to about 1978 traces changes in Bryan/College Station from the late 19501s. Interviewed by Bruce F. Welch, April 1976. 17 pages. Hoppess, Coulter Bryan/College Station lawyer discusses Bryan from 1920' s, including impact of WWII, integration and agricultural technology. Interviewed by John O' Hara, March 30, 1976. 20 pages. Jackson, Grace Life as "Mom" to 900 Aggies during 1920' s. Interviewed by Jim Crisp and Adela. Lopez, March 24, 1975. 14 pages. r.iuu, nerry L.. - Assistant Dean of Graduate School discusses early life and development of A&M from late 1930' s to present. Interviewed by Mark Burnett, March 23, 1976. 28 pages. 40 Krobot, Frank. Farming in Caldwell area from 19401s. Interviewed by Sharalynne Hester, spring 1976. 9 pages. — Lampo, Sam J. Son of Italian immigrant desc"ibes life in Dallas and Bryan from 1900 to present ; farming, Italian relations discussed. Interviewed by Jeff Haugh, spring 1976. 14 pages. Lancaster, Mary Life of parents and grandparents in Beaumont area, development of Bryan/College Station since 1950. Interviewed by spring 1976. 5 pages. . . Lawrence, John M. Jr. Life in Bryan about 1910, including farming, social life and growth of the city. Interviewed by John C. Greve, May 4, 1975. 16 66 40 1 / (W TABLE OF CONTENTS sd� Intez~vicwee Interviewer Page D.A. liAndy" Anderson Jerry A. Nickerson;Jr. 1 oe and Lena Blasdel S. Craig Wright 19 Travis B. Bryan,Jr. ✓ Paul Lippincott 46 irs. Harvey Caddess John FriecM 49 1rs. Dona Coulter Carnes Penny Knodel 75 Noah C. Cole Debbie Forster 89 W.C. Daniel, Jr. V/Z Terry Jane Hanger 99 Yrs. Grace Jackson ✓ Adela Lopez and Jim Crisp 1.1.2 Mrs. I>Iary Lancaster Rebecca Schiller 126 �r John I• . Lairrence John C. Greve 145 Samuel Montoya -Z Adela Lopez and Jim Crisp 16, ..�i,....... Q-Arl ^'r.Rarfi al d Airs. 7ris Potts Jim Copeland 185 Yrs. C.0. Powell T-Tike Stevens 202 Yrs. .Joe Soso1_ik Tony Govednik 219 Miss Irene Taylor Lanie Holder 227 Yr. Clem Taylor Lanie Holder 238 ir. T anford Williams James Sebesta 239 Map , BRYAN - COLLEGE STATION In 1982 the Historical C-ri mittee -Df the City of College St at ion approved a $6, 000 grant for a history graduate student, Debbie Parks, so that she could write a Master' s thesis on the history of the city. Unless stated, all interviews are by Debbie Parks, t_ra_ns_c_ri bed_ and r open. In addition, some interviews were held with Bryan residents, and are transcribed and open. Also consult Descendants of Pioneers of Central Texas. Anderson, D. A. C -11ege St at ion Counci Iman 1957-1963; C ,l lege St at ion Mayor 1966-1971. Details council and riiayc-r^a1 terms in -,ffice. Discusses rapid growth of the city. September 22, 1983. 87 pages. • Anderson, Frank G. College Station Mayor, 1940-1942. Described cornmur,ity before incorporat ion and events that toy.k. place during his adm i ri i st rat i or,. March 23, 1983. 17 pages. Bonnen, C. A. and Mrs. College Station Councilman 1971-1973 and ARM Consolidated High School Board 1944-1959. Discussed the development Is tht- education program iri College Station and the incorporation of College Station. Interviewed by Deborah C. Parks, March 25, 1983. 35 pages. Burgess, Herschel Presi,�er,. of Oakwood Realty, past presider,t of Chamber of Commerce, and a director of College Station State Bank. Explained the physical environment of College Station before inc-erp=Irat ic-In. March 16, 1983. 49 pages. Crawford, Charles College Station Councilman 1943-1946. Actions taker, by the city official his term in office. March 24, 1983. 45 pages. one , Luther and Mrs. Cr-4 11ege Station C._�_�ncilman 1939 discusses the incorpc_,ration of � ollege Station and beginning of the city. March 25, 1983. 27 page Krenek, Herman Long time resident describes early Czech settlement (Shiloh) and the beginnings of College Station. April 28, 1983. 53 pages. Turner, Ples . First black postal carrier in Bryan, Texas in 1955. Bryan city cr_-1_tnciloran, 197E-present. Discusses discrimination and Civil Rights. Interviewed by _A1 __5Qn_...Bealei __March _21-_---I-%-5_ _tom White, J. O. Long time resident discusses early history of College Station, its relationship to Texas A8M University, and the black comraunity. July 11, 1983. 33 pages. E '; TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Oral Histroy Report INTERVIEWEE: Luther G. Jones INTERVIEWER: Charles R. Schultz SUBJECT: Interviewee's autobiography with emphasis on life as a student at Texas A&M PLACE: TIME: 1:30 p.m. DATE: August 22, 1974 CRS: First, Dr. Jones, tell us something about your early life, incluuing . the names and dates and places of births of your parents; something about your parents, if you can remember, and then the place and date of your birth, and the schools you attended before you went off to college. LGJ: Starting in with my parents; Father was born almost in Galveston. ilillillrll�lfil ifCil��IlY���iYliilliiloiil i�lli It happened early in New York City, and his mother a down t0 to get .. ��- i IJI!l" to get into Galveston, where my grandfather, who went to Galveston in 1838 4%6a"a watchmaker, held forth as a defense captain. She was on a sailing vessel and got into port and they couldn't find him. Finally, they looked around and found thatQ-n those days, they wore the hooped skirt, he was under the hooped skirt. And the life during the Civil War was rather uneventful, but after that, the family, his family, father's family, moved up into Saratoga, New York, where he had some property and when jW Father got old enough, he went to a college, what was a small Presbyterian college in Princeton, New Jersey. As soon as he got out, he came into Texas, because he couldn' t get Galveston out of his mlm4. But, the competition was so heavy, that he went up to San Marcos, in 1883, 2 t LGJ: and opened up what was very rare in those days, an ice making (W machinery4oerrd- ice factory. Where they had, to distill water in order to r; get it to freeze quick enough, because the Pcondensing process wasn't what it became later. He went from there with a friend called Frank Ball ' of Galveston, into Temple, in 1887, and opened up the Temple National Bank where he was president and part owner, and he kept on there. He helped _. open up the First National Bank of McGreW.-""Shortly after than, he married in 1889, the daughter of the President of Baylor Female College, which had just p:w*4e"o�y moved from Old Independence in Washington County up to Belton, Texas. In 1894, I was born, in a town of about 3200, which later friends that we had in other states said I was born with the blackland, praire dirt between my toeEU)Th-ey called it mud. I was able to be in a _ neighborhood where the boys were pretty well schooled with catch-as-catch- can type of living. I learned to pick cotton, learned to chop cotton, learned to herd cows, Father took up a little ranch in New Mexico, continued to live in Temple. By virtue of getting a scholarship, I was able to go to Princeton in 1913, graduated in 1917, in time to get into the loth Engineers. CRS: What was your major at Princeton? LGJ: Geology CRS: How did you happen to pick that field? LGJ: Due to Father. He was, they called him a Forest Enthusiast; - t called him a forest nut, and the intermediates called him a consery on something. Because whenever they'drber'ft�n in Bell County, t ►e muter N y would run_ downsomebod�.y� 3ti _.__, call him up and say, Jones, Bell County is washing into the Gulf's Temple is on a branch of the Leon which goes into the.Little River, which es into the Brazos, which is / recorded history because in, I believe it was either 1921, or 1919, the Little River rose to such an extent that the Braozs River ran up hill, from }� place A(est of Hearn on the Brazos where it runs over the rocks, uphil ;- nd many of the local settlers in that area thought the earth has come to an end, because the river was running up hill. But, he was familiar with all that history, he passed it on to us. Then after the first World War, I was then transfered into the service of the rear where I'd come in close contact with what Europe did with their conservation work with forests. Was able to get a job under Mr. Siecke, at A&M. CRS: You did serve in Europe then, during the first World War? LGJ: 18 months. CRS: 18 months. What area? LGJ: Mostly, from the standpoint of survival, in the service of the rear, { : in the production of railroad ties, and stakes for the front, and narrow `= gauge equipment, and temporary huts for use at the front, and was able and was fortnuate enou ht to et on a logging crew with Minnesota lumberjacks. g g gg g j ' .. Where in spite of my size, I held my own in a four man crew on daily ,produc y� 3 • CRS: So, I would guess from what you've said at that point Western Europe was somewhat ahead of us in conservation? LGJ: His father who hacf married a German Girl, in 1890, my grandfather, had taken my father into the forest of Germany just as a matter of interest to study the Schwartzfalt, The Black Forest. And he became a forest en- thusiast and was appointed the first individual in Texas to study the extent of the forest area of East Texas, some 21,000 acres, I think. As a result of that, he was able to get, with the a:14 of Dr. Bizzell, who helped him compose the ticket, he was able to get Jim Ferguson to create a State Department of Forestry in 1914. ^I CRS: Was your father appointed to study the forest*r area of Texas by the State of Texas? LGJ: No, by the National Forest Service. CRS: The U. S. Forest Service. LGJ: Without stipend. And he was that enthusiastic, he used his own funds to canvas the 14jislature and against odds, such as one of the legislatures says, "Jones, what are you going to make out of this? If it's passed, this Bill on Forestry?" But, he didn't make anything out of it. In fact, he gave to it. But, with that interest, he thought that maybe it would be a good thing if maybe I went into that.`niecke gave me a job in charge of the �y so-called Forest Fire Prevention Work in 1919. I was able in the First 11t✓ • Division to get out in Apfil, 1919. And, I got quite interested i but began to see the advantage of a background in agriculture, got an assistant- ship under Dr. J. 0. Morgan, Head of the Department of Agronomy. . . CRS: Here at Texas A&M? t e tall of 1919, and another assistantship due to having written some editorials, and letters to the people in Houston, in the Tribune, on the defense of the YMCA. It was right in the "t World War. So, I served as ssistant secretary of the "Y" and also as �e assistant of Agronomy�9�9 to 1921. Became a General Secretary of the YMCA in '21 '` to '22, then got wanderlust and started teaching in Houston in mathematics in '23, and came back to teach under Dr. Humbert, in freshman chemistry in = = fall of 1923. Which was quite a varied back ground. CRS: Yes, it was. ' LGJ: I organized the wrestling team here in the fall of 1919 just out of having created general interes from a man as small as I was to make a `" public demonstration for the Club with Oscar Frazier who was a middle weight. It interested the students enough to ask for a team. CRS: There had not been one before, I take it? LGJ: No, there had been some interest in it, but we didn't even have mats• ,x and we were able, through various meanIS to get some mats, and-in .the -pldi� chapel, we had our workout place, and for three years, we had-;a"recogaUed `y varsity team. And tied Oklahoma A&M in the Spring of 1922 we,got titee •6� j sts, they got three firstS T. U. got one first. '_, r t - x 4 CRS: When you started your classes at A&M for your master's, did you then leave the employment of the forest service? LGJ: Yes. CRS: So, you said, you were an assistant in Agronomy? Plus assistant secretary of the Y, so you had in a sense two jobs plus taking courses? LGJ: If I'd been any better, had devoted more time to wrestling, as a T, as a letter sport, I mean as a letter sport, it would have remained, but, we didn't give it enough' time after that first three years. CRS: You indicated that you taught chemistry for one year. Did you have some chemistry background when you were working on your bachelor's, I take it? LGJ: Yessir, on both the bachelors and the masters degree. CRS: I believe, I picked up in the newspaper somewhere that you organized a Boy Scout troop in 1923? LGJ: Yeah, we organized a Boy Scout troop in College Station, and outside of three months, the first onP_in the county. Judge Baron beat me to having the first one in the county. • CRS: I gather then at that point that certainly most of the boys must have been childred of faculty members? LGJ: Yes. CRS: Had you been a Boy Scout in your younger life? LGJ: No, I had seen the first Boy Scouts organized in, I think 1921. It wasn't too old, prior to that. It was brought over from England. We had two scout organizations`that time. One survived, Boy Scouts of America. CRS: I gather that you left the campus retty soon after that didn't you, to go ono Cornell for your Doctoral LGJ: Yes, I had a friend who was also named Jones, the boys called him Had'In Jones fit was B. C. Jones, the late B. C. Jones, died two years ago. Who was a good friend in chemistry. I had tought a year in Houston, ~ at Central High, enjoyed teaching so much, he said, "you'd never get anywhere, unless you go on and do graduate work for a doctor.GM dftree. I took that advice and entered Cornell University with a scholarship. CRS: Let's talk a little bit more about your masters work at A&M. At fir. that oint, of course, this was prior to the creation of the graduate schoof who awarded your degree? SGJ: Dr. J. 0. Morgan was head of tW agronomy, and was also a graduate of Cornell and a very able and enthusiastic advisor; and he gave me a lot of boost in my research work of all things, in buckwheat, S■ which econom3. .._ didn't fit this climate enought to become a major factor. 5 CRS: That was the research for your dissertation? LGH: Yes sir. Here at A&M. CRS: But, was your degree, then I take it would have come from the College of Agriculture, rather than, since there was no Graduate School? LGJ: Yes sir, Dean Puryear/ I had several very pleasant aquaintantships, as —1 1, Dr. Fraps, in the chemical work that I did. CRS: Did you have to do a proposal for your dissertation? t LGJ: And Dr. Hedges, of course. CRS: Did you have to do a written proposal for your thesis work? LGH: Yes sir. But, for the masters, I�idn't have to pass any language. But, having learned German, from the ti e I was seven years old, it helped me quite a bit, in my language requirement at Cornell. And the French in the army helped quite a bit in the two language requirement# at that time. O-Vt- 0,( CRS: Your thesis proposal then, who would S bmit that to, yout- head of the Agronomy Department? LGJ: Yes, it was to go to Casper Allen Wood, who in torn, well we had . Mr. Casper Allen Wood, and Dr. J. 0. Morgan, as the two advisors on it and for the minor, Dr. C. C. Hedges. CRS: I was aware that you had your sters from here, and I checked, and we do have a copy of your thesis backiles. It's still there :with all the prictures in it yet. Was one of your fa- members here some influence LGH: Dr. Morgan. It wasn't too easy at that time to get a fellowship, but Dr. Morgan was very 01pful in getting his personal friends, Dr. T. Nelson Lion, Dr. Harry 0. Buckman to get me into Cornell. CRS: And the/, did you continue with agronomy at that point? LGJ: Yes sir, we called it later, Soil Science. CRS: So, did you have some arrangement whereby you could come back to A&M after you completed you degree, or was it sort of by accident that you were able to come back? LGH: Dr. Morgan said he would like to have me on the staff. But, that's as far as it went. At that time, in that summer I started out at the University ? of uolbrado, where incidently I met my wife in le summer of '24. I took ° physical chemistry there, and differential and integral equations and calculus there, and finally, with all that chemistr}* seemed to offer then, I decided to take Dr. Morgan's, and Jone's advice and take agronomy. On the way East, I sold my car in Boulder and on my way East, I stopped at the University of Nebraska, University of Minnesota, Wisconsin U. , the University of Illinois, and the University of Ohio, to Columbia, and Yale, _ - i 6 [ LGJ: to see what I might like there. I had a cousin, my father's cousin, (r at Yale, but, I had too many antipathies from undergraduate work. But, I wound up at a place, the only place where I had lost my honors for an intercollegiate championship to a Cornell/an. But, that's where I decided to stay. They wouldn't promise me a thing as to the line of time to take to get a graduate degree, at all. But, they did take me on, I was happy to say. :CRS: And so, you were there what, four years? LGJ: Three. CRS: Three. LGJ: Counting the summers it was three years. CRS: At wohW time you had the doctors degree then? LGJ: I had to do a little extra, afterwards, but confirmed the degree in '27. CRS: O.K. Then you came here in '26? LGJ: Yessir. CRS: Back to the Agronomy Department? LGJ: Yessir. 41-P CRS: Were you appointed what, an instructor? Or did you have a higher ranking than that? LGJ: Dr. Morgan gave me a tentative professorhip, which later under Dean Kyle was verified as a professor. The highest I got ever was aw Acting Head. And I may honestly say, that's as much as I ever deserved. CRS: You were Acting Head of the Agronomy apartment? LGJ: Yes sir. For two sessions. First in 1933, and the second time in 1944. CRS: The Agronomy Department retained that same name, as agronomy, the whole time you were in it, '26 through '52? LGJ: Yes, through '52. CRS: It :was later that it became soil and crop sciences section within that? O.K. , what courses did you teach in agron my? LGJ: One of my students students who worked with me and we started the first course in soil conservation in 193/�, Ray Thompson, who is now the Associate Dean at Iowa State University. I taught the course in Soil Con- servation, general soils, which while I was in A&M as a teacher was required, ,; " two graduate courses, Soil technology, and soil management. And I filled ` 's in during the depression in helping Professor MOgford in 105 Agronomy `` crops. 8 yF 7 CRS: Did you have a number of graduate students working under you at different times? LGJ: Yes, we had the captain of the track team Emmons, for the time being it slips me. Schultz, from Houston County. ^ ?`t_o sad, ` `` _,ybsw Houston isn't in Houston County. fin-- `who with my help we started one on the transportation ova-ratio of cotton. And, I regret, exceedingly we didn't publish the results. There were some unfortunate occurrences. We did three years of work on that, we used a 55 gallon drums Of them for replecations, and found that water require- ' meats in the cotton plant is about 105, but we never did publish it. CRS: The water requirement? a LGJ: The water requirement of a cotton plant, it means it takes 105 lbs J� of water for ever�J cotton plant. Which at that time was, we didn't find too~much work on that particular specific problem. He was a very remark- able graduate student. But, due to unfortunate circumstances, didn't get to finish his work, and I didn't either. CRS: Was this discovery that you made, as to the amount of water necessary, I guess what, to produce a pound of cotton? LGJ: Yes, that is the whole plant. CRS: The whole plant. '�. LGJ: Including the very minor lint received. CRS: O.K. This would be what, helpful to people in determining to how much water -to use fobirrigation? LGJ: It is used, but in the Rio Grande Valley, they through trial and error, they found approximately that amount. It varies of course, according to the relative humidity. CRS: Does the type of soil have any bearing on it? LGJ: The physical condition of the soil would be important. CRS: By that you mean the amount of humus in the soil? LGJ: Well, if it's a sandy loam over a clay, or a sandy loam over a saner clay. of had been referred to as what the Lord put here to tie the black land prairies a(r East Texas sandy land j�because of our impervious(clay subsoil. CRS: While you were on the teaching faculty did you also do some individual research on your own, that is other than assisting graduate students with their research? i 'tee"". ♦'4.i� '4.y 8 ♦ SC AIM r LGJ: In my first years, I was president of the science seminar, then later the social science s(tninar. I did a little bit of writing, but in productive research where we use the biometrical methods to determine the quality of it, I was, `assistant with Dr. Ralph Stewart and Dr. Reeves in working on certain ecological plant relationships. One of them, the Bull Nettle, where my main interest was, was where you found the Bull Nettle, you'd find the deep sandy soil. And otherwise, the value at the Bull Nettle might produce in making Tapioca, through that enormous subsurface growth. But outside of one article in the Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, I didn't do any. CRS: You did do a lot of supervising of research? LGJ: Quite a bit. I was admitted to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Texas. I was made a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow in the Texas Scientific Association, but I didn't finish what I started. CRS: What was your average teaching load? r _ � T�C.1: Fi ol+tonn ti+O11L&•.......+.......,,r.. ..+�,...._:_ .wr CRS: Eighteen hours, which meant that there was not a whole lot of time for research. LGJ: To be a good teacher, using Watergate terminology, from my „.. L view, a man ought not to have in soil science more than 25 to 30 students at one time, in one class. Both from the pleasure of teaching standpoint, and the communication with the students standpoint. Where you lecture to classes of 65 - 140, you lose part of that personal relationship. -£RS: I would certainly think" LGJ: Some of the pleasantest classes I had was when we werelAk crowded, and I had classes of 25 - 30, in the top deck of Goodwin Hall, where I could remember every boy's name and his face and his background. Sy Y, CRS: The size of the class I take it was limited by the size of the room. fir. LGJ: Yes sir. 'a CRS: I believe I remember having seen a clipping about you that indicated that as of a certain date, and I guess it was about your retirement time, that you had at one time or another had about 95% of the agronomy graduates in one of your courses. -a. LGJ: Yes sir, that was in advanced soil management. The background here at ABM, coming here from Ithaca, -l. 11.. a to teach, I had to up my, what I had begun on Long Island, as soi surveyor, which Dr. Lion z said, I really needed. Dr. W. T. Carter who held the position of the division of Soil Survey for the State of Texas, %ad-+Zg,duced thy�f.��r,�.... 4, fine soil map#of Texas, and the discussion and descriptions of the soila;. types, and soil series of Texas. He took me in hand and not only: took-lest r;ti 9 ' • but took my graduate students and me into the major soil divisions of Texas. And conducted our investigation of the main soil regions, and ��. e�3 which was th �v-e�;r _yell recognized in 1926, the soil profile, 127 and right on up ' 4B-4. when we had a soil science, and in the federal branch in 1935, changed to Soil Conservation Se'fvice. Soil Errosion Service for one year, and then changed to soil conservation,_,and, I _took the cooperation and suggestion of can Kyle andrrow,�Lewis� T. _Marrow; was able to spend the summer %�1934 in the Soil Conservation Service, near Tyler, in Smith County. In the summer of 1930, the depression was being felt pretty strongly at A&M and most teachers took a cut of around 30%, and our second child was born that year, and due to family background, I took my wife to Temple to give birth to the child, Scott and White Hospital and drove over to College Station twice a week, to help Dr. J. 0. Morgan on 1H-k -W laboratory. Dr. Morgan was then begi r�ing to feel the results of his night-and-day work when he worl��6n his Ph.D. at Cornell. He got tooth trouble and died later in '33. And then the job was offered at Prairie View, teaching soils there, which I was very glad to have in that summer of 1930. When I came back, Fred Hale, who was meat cutting man, and animal husbandry expert, looked at my hands and said, "Well, Luther, you haven't turned black yet.". CRS: When you were on the faculty, say from '27 on, did you live on campus? In campus housing? LGJ: In126 -127, we rented one of the new houses from Dr. (Reid)Clark's College Station Development Association, south of campus. In the fall of '27, Thomas F. Mayo, Libarian, encouraged my wife and me to sublet his house on the campus next to the hospital. In the fall of '28, the faculty committee on housing wanted us to rent a house behind what was in the �teele�'tadium, next to Pofoessor Ness. Had some valuable association in those years. _ -,.�-]L_r. .,.s[_`�. _�—..rim.. i�t'...=•xr.r-.Psi.R.src.v<�De._e.. -�.:..... --:.�r....::.-. �-��,...,r CRS: Was the steel stadium located in the same place as the current Kyle Field? LGJ: Yes. And when it was dismantled, in the summer of '29, then they moved our house down to a place looking upon the beginning of the hundred yard dash, what was then the hundred yard dash, straightaway. CRS: What type of house were you in? LGJ: Frame house which had previously been part of the old hospital. The other half was the one that had been used on the campus, by Dr. Mayo. CRS: Did you continue to live on campus through all of your teaching career, or what point did you move off? -, LGJ: -+-lived on the campus ti n1 the rule came up in 1941, that nobody, be he dean or be he instructor, should continue to live on the campus, in be►�campus house. We built a hous@ then, in our present location in a five-acre tract, later a 26-acre tract, which we developed. CRS: Was that '41 or '51? 1 i �Yu S ;i 10 LGJ: 4941. CRS: But, there were still houses on the campus, for a good long while. LGJ: Yes, for a certain group, such as the electricians, and the librarian the sewer, and the physical, such as required night work. CRS: They were primarily staff instead of faculty. LGJ: Yes sir. CRS: Was there a considerable amount of socializing among the fami l ies who. lived in those houses? LGJ: Quit so. A&M, even then, was the most pleasant places that I had ever been. In fact, when I got out of the army and came down and rented a room in the YMCA and looked out of the back room onto Military Walk, and saw the students doing sitting up exercises, at 7 a.m. , I decided that this was the place that I wanted to be m Juture. .4 ;11 CRS: In speaking of housing, I am reminded of 4 question I meant to ask you earlier. While you were working on your masters at Texas A&M in what 1919, and '20 and '21, where did you live at that point? LGJ: Getting out of the army until the fall of 1919, I lived in the old Shirley Hotel, which werd two frame buildings and offered not only housing, but good food. The Shirley Hotel was torn down later to make was for the Aggieland Inn. In the f 11 of 1919, in September, I was able to get into Milner Hall, with W. Wil_iam P. Derick, who later became animal husbandry chief at Nebraska University. - And I had to o from there to second year in graduate work and lived in Leggett Hall Were we found _ entirely free of anything that might molest sleep4,�Milner Hall was always a delightful dormitory to me, from my view. CRS: Were there all graduate students living in Milner Hall? LGJ: Ws4J4. it was mixed then. CRS: What about when you moved to Leggett? Was it also mixed? LGJ: Mostly undergraduates, but my roommate there was a graduate student too. Later I went to Brazil for the Presbyterian Church to in t duce agronomy work in Brazil. CRS: Where did you have your meals? LGJ: We were fortunate to be able to eat in Sbisa Hall. ="1 a� CRS: But, I take it sinceNou were not military, you did not have to march in with the corps. f LGJ: No sir, we ate with what they called the Civilians, they didn't call them civilians, they called them another name then. F ," t a 11 CRS: At one point, they called them casuals. LGJ: Casuals, yeah. CRS: So, you had a separate dining area within Sbisa for meals. LGJ: Yes sir. CRS:Jed elieve, I picked up 0' m a newspaper clipping in our fiAls, that you a number of years on the College Station City Council. LGJ: Yes sir, I was on the initial organization. Where we met in the Chemistry Building lectur oom in, the best of my recollection in October 19, 1938. It was either fteSpring or Fall of 1938. We resolved that we didn't have but one road to get to Bryan, and I had been_ppointed to the , committee, to see if we could get what ollege Main Street;'^- .LC� nz.�e�,�► graveled, am we could get to Bryan easier. And the County Judge says, "Where is the money coming from?" and I said, "From the county sources or perhaps Bryan can furnish a little to help get that trade into Bryan.". He 54id, "We can't spend money on that." So, we met, we got together, and said we needed another gorcery store, we had one Luke Patranella and Charlie's at Northgate, then, and organized the City of College Station and without pay for anybody, John Henry Benny was the mayor, Will Varga the City Attorney, and we gave Jack Floyd, the 4w"TaT5._AJstinction of being deputy. We each forked up a little and got a deposit in the bank of '/0--`"' tom, dollars. � CRS: You mentioned that you only had one road. LGJ: We had to go and follow the railroad track, on what is now called -.Old College Road. .0 CRS: and that's the one that you wanted to have graveled? LGJ: We had a piece of, yes, we wanted that road graveled. Because what is now College Main didn't extend beyond what is now the complex of apartment houses about 200 yards. CRS: That is the four4sed portion of College Main that runs between Skaggs-Albertsons and the College View Apartments? LGJ: That didn't exist. That came into existence under Chancelor Gilchrist. And I remember that distinctly, because I was on the advisory committees and the county wanted to build a road to directly enter ,from what is now r Bizzell Street, and Mr. Gilchristo stated that might not�fit�too well into the campus plans that were already made. and it was opened up then into the present location. It almost coincides. I was also on the school board of Consolidated School, I think in the year of 1939. D. B. Cofer John Mitchell, decided that we needed to have a school outside of the A&M campus which was meeting then in old Pfeuffer Hall, and that wooded} building adjacent to it. And he made the rounds from different people, to try to get enought to buy a littl iece of land where we could have { school. And at that time, anion my other activities, I was one of t .- competitors for the Open Hanll competition we held for a c ampionship, a °= t 12 LGJ: and Mr. Cofer, and Mr. Mitchell walked all the way dwon to the old handball courts which were in that wooden building and asked me if I would contribute to buying that old piece of ground. I think I gave them, what was then, was we thought was the end of the depression, $200.00. Mr. Cashion, that was treasurer and went over and bought that piece of land from the Dobrovolnies and the Holicks. CRS: That was where? LGJ: Where the orignial school is now. CRS: It was what where the three story brick building is that faces Jersey Street? LGJ: Yes sir. It's not three stories through, is it? CRS: Two. LGJ: It does well to be a good one and half. CRS: Well, it was the middle school a couple of years ago, now the middle school has moved across the street where the high school used to be, by the football stadium there. LGJ: That' s ei7r� out first teaching place was. CRS: Where? LGJ: The so—called hunk of land going out Bizzell Street into Jersey, you come right into what was the first piece of land for the school. And various citizens were allowed to volunteer to put in the pavement for the sideonlandDr. A. shrDunlapTh and .1',-did a -Idt"of wo�rkott ,-the getting p s a whole lot of community feeling in those days. CRS: At that point, I would say probably everybody whose children went to that school was either a faculty or staff member at Texas A&M? LGJ: I believe it was, yes sir. That's right, faculty or staff members. That's a good way to put it. There was some folks from the dairies, there were certain dairy families. Milk production families, their children went to Consolidated. CRS: You mentioned something about either getting the road paved to Bryan or else having to have another grocery store. Did you get that other grocery store? LGJ: We would up having a grocery store on, or we didn't wind up, we had .° alread inveigled the faculty, I mean the management of the Department of Physical Plants, to put in a store right next to Milner Hall. And they did big business. It was very conVentient and helpful, and the other grovery store that we were talking about was at ."outhgate, and resulted from that incorporation, as a incorporated municipality. :+5 13 CRS: This store that was on the campus, how long was that in existence? LGJ: About 10 years. CRS: Did that start in '38 or '39? LGJ: It was in the '30's. CRS: It was in the 30's, then it started. So, it carried a general line of groceries. ° LGJ: Yessir, and bought from wholesale from what was then the Howell Wholesale Grocery. CRS: I would have tkc-augL that would have been a unique sort of situation. LGJ: It was irGeed unique. CRS: Where the college would run its own. j I r ,,n1 LGJ: Well, the college really did' have/Z indYrect control over the lease. But, it was put in for the help of the faculty. And I was one of ita, Pete Butler and Burgess and Mr. (the printer) we needed also a place where a man could cash checks, at odd hours, which was then odd hours, and we put h. in for that purpose, organized a little State Bank in 1946. 4, CRS: Where was it located? LGJ: It was located in a wooden shack behind where Homer Adams has his insurance store. What�became of that bank?' x LGJ: It is now the University National Bank. CRS: It became the University National Bank? a-v LGJ: We had on the campus, we thought Ide P. Trotter wee president, and I resulted in assistant to the clerk. And a had a faculty loan and discount organization on the campus, and went together and- organized that bank. We allowed the bank to buy up that little faculty loan association. Onampe I get a mental block now and then. The only 4ing I c remember is Dr. Ide P. Trotter and I , as his assistant, hadloset, and Mrs. Bower was also one of the last to give up. CRS: That was for your loan association, faculty loan association. You F� ! sold that•out to the University National Bank? t LGJ: Yes. CRS: Was that always its name, or did it have! . LGJ: It started out as the College Station State Bank in 1946. We hadt which you may not want, we had an up-and-down ealleidascopic career,` the first five years, which you might have heard of. =t s r.:.. 14 CRS: No, I hadn't heard anything. LGJ: Well, ter about three years, we had an executive vice president which I won't name, who decided to make a loan of 40,000 dollars, to a man who didn't have too good of a record, to buy ♦ pipe, awd 4t the close of the second World War, about 1948, and on, ube pipe was to be bought from a s man in Dallas who didn't really possess the pipe and the money instead of v{_beiN ut ind- +1 put this in writing instead of being handled in el tegraph, was handled by telephone by th executive vice president and when it got to the big bank in Dallas, this man owed them more money than the amount the pipe cost and the *eery was geit%@ &a--skeee So another case C/� We went to sfiit and got back if of it, and everybody out of $26 a share counting the stock and the reserve, everybody put up $12 gladly, and surprjed all the State Banking Departments in Austin. All our directors met over there in Austin on a Saturday, Pete Muslin, Hursinburger and myself and had the money ready by Monday. NoW I have over 17,000,000 below the line. CRS: I take it you have continued your connection with the University National Bank? LGJ: Yeah, my interest in it has continued. I guess you could call it a director. • CRS: You're still on the Board of Directors at the bank? LGJ: At the age of 80. CRS But,•you -were one-of- the-founders of -it. :., �...?� .rds.tiei>s ..: - .:: • ,,.«r.-:;.t. „_;,, ,. :,.a- - - - - ., '-use.„�ifr. �1•� LGJ: Yeah, I was the first president of it. CRS: I see. LGJ: Because they couldn't get anybody else to take it. CRS: Back a little bit to your service on the city council, the city of College Station, I believe, I picked up sevep years, which would have begun in 1938, or 193r,,7h-ose must have been some pretty important years since that was when the city was actually incorporated or created. I imagine you had to do a lot of planning, did you not? LGJ: We did irkieed. We had to be very careful of promises and when arguments took place between dewellers on the best streets such as Lee,, Street, and the +ellers on--what's the name of the general in the f vW,111- World War? CRS: Pershing? LGJ: Pershing 1treet on whether the alleys should preserve its trees or should have the trees cut, so as to permit the entrance and exit of the >_ garbage pickup truck. The council has some very great problems to,handle* , K. o out and help open up certain • LGJ: Sometimes members of the council would g me of the busiest times was when the counciforlgravel and afor d areas. So you had to try to get room with the school board and y and for housing for some of the teachers pavement, for sidewalks at least, started the first in the schoolr.CollegerStationVes credit for having housing Plan CRS: This is F. B. Clark? LGJ: Dr. F. B. Clark. And it was very difficult in 1926, for a Professor of poultry husbandry to get a loan locally in order to build a house. He had to go to Houston Building and Loan to get his loan ca order to bull ened up very well indeed, because the teaching / his house. But, later that op person who Lei liuuxi�h on e of p staff during the depression had a then you got a faculty m mbe who made the dot. But, it was hard money. y $2,000 he thought he was riding high. lot of people who were CRS• Yeah, I can imagine, because there were a not making anything. LGJ: Yes sir, wasn't making anything. One of the daughters of one of our eminent men on the campus, one of the deans, married one of the most Of our graduates here, who opened up a series of service stations promising productive jobs in the world. in Memphis, which looked like one of the most p person that Woul&d up having to service his own gaystae him $1800d she said t didn't know how had a job on the A&M faculty that g ears lucky he was. She was the daughter of a dean. Those depression y produced a type of man we wonder now what kind of individuals we have that can get elfare and wont need to work. lw�-�,� it's a CRS• Well, I think yodie not at all alone in making that comment•I doubf/�.�.�9+ _;�� fairly widely--held belief, and 1 think with some justifressionation•era. A a ou-would--sew-oust y�dvocate goi back to the dep ____ -. ... in the amount that is given and social securit LGJ: Well, we l*ve welfare, We wouldn't have grown to a place we had in 1932 and we have friends who have read White's, not Stewart Edward White, but the other Whiteft- who was the originator oAk f Cornell ell insity andrheCwrotel g°� Dr. White to ma 'j, out the foundation of Corn �: r ay i 3 a r Il El- I� w Ott FRANK BROWN WITH POWER PLANT IN BACKGROUND 1924 A WILLIS AUTO - 1937 (Frank Brown) *6015 ! . FRANK BROWN AND THE BACK OF THE POWER PLANT 1924 t� , Y v . i i r '. L3 x ,t 1ST A&M CONSOLIDATED FOOTBALL TEAM (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) l.CLARENCE VITOPIL 2.FRANK BROWN 3.JACK MILLER 4.TOMAS FERGUSON (COACH) 5.DAVID SHELTON 6.BEN YOUNGBLOOD 7.CURTIS HOLLAND 8. ?? 9.ALLEN 10.MIT SCHULTZ 11.J.O.ALEXANDER 12.REDMOND ''(13-15 unknown) r - �- - _ { _ - - v _ - _ r . BIRTHDAY PARTY (Frank Brown) GARBAGE PICKUP 1937 (Hazel Prewitt Chastain) �j do e "ZEE" HARDWICK PORTER AND HER SON, WALTER LEE PORTER,JR ON THE CAMPUS OF A&M COLLEGE PORTER HOME BEHIND THEM (Mary Jane Hirsch) r A No �yyy Dr. Asbury was connected with the college. I think he was a bachelor. He lived in a house surrounded by trellises of climbing roses. In addition to this oddity, the interior " was a well known wonder with all of the walls J'd �' ss ~"� ��"e it- `' » and ceilings covered with framed pictures. I C ' 1 took this snapshot in 1937. Ns(1.21 — *36 Jid e was a cousin of one of my campus friends. She visited from time to time. 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S� 1��ey, -CrfG cXc_-w� ���or 5+ . Lou Burgess Cashion Sept. 7, 1932—March 30, 1999 Graveside services for Lou Burgess Cashion, 66, of College Station are set for 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the College Station Cemetery. Memorial ser- vices are set for 1:30 p.m. at First ._ Baptist Church in Bryan. Dr. Tim Owens of the First Bap- tist Church will officiate. Arrangements CASHION are under the direction of Call- away-Jones Funeral Home. Mrs. Cashion died Tuesday at home. She was born in Bryan and was a lifelong resident of College Station and a friend and mother to many in the community. She was also a life- long member of the First Baptist Church in Bryan. "Survivors include her husband, Red Cashion of College Station; a son and daughter-in-law, Jim and'Mary Cash- ion of Conroe; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Sharon Cashion of _Conroe, Joyce and Bicker Cain of Col- lege Station, and Shelley and Bob White of Houston; and six grandchil- dren. Memorials may be made to The Lou Cashion Memorial Fund: c/o Texas A&M Foundation, 1501 Texas Ave. South, College Station,Texas 77840- 3398. The funds will be designated for use of the Texas A&M Horticultur- al Department. Lou Burgess Cashion CS resident Lou Burgess Cashion, beloved Lou Burgess wife of Red Cashion, died at her home in College Station on Tuesday Cashion dies morning, March 30, 1999. She was born in Bryan,Texas,on September ~ Eagle Staff Report 7, 1932. She was a life-long resident of College Station and friend and Lou Burgess Cashion,66,wife of mother to many in the community. retired NFL referee Red Cashion, She was also a life-long member died Tuesday at her College Sta- g er o tion home. Graveside services are First Baptist Church of Bryan.She is scheduled for Thursday. survived by her husband of 46 years, Mrs. Cashion lived in College Red Cashion; her four children and Station all her life and will be remembered for her prayer life, their spouses, Sharon Cashion of Conroe, Jim-and Mary Cashion and said the Rev. Tim Owens, minis- Joyce and Bicker Cain,all of College Station,and Shelley and Bob White ter of the First Baptist Church of of Houston; six grandchildren, Cashion and Field Cain, and Caitlin, Bryan. Mrs. Cashion was a life- Colter, Mason and Marshall Cashion. Visitation will be at the family long member of that church. home from 4:00 to 7:30 on Wednesday, March 31, 1999. A family "She was part of the intercesso- ry prayer ministry where you graveside service will be held at College Station Cemetery at 10:30 commit to coming to the prayer Thursday morning, April 1, and a Memorial Service at First Baptist room one hour a week," Owens Church of Bryan at 1:30 on April 1 with Dr.Tim Owens officiating. said. "She was real faithful at In lieu of flowers,memorial contributions,may be directed to the Lou that." She also sent frequent prayer- Cashion Memorial Fund c/o Texas A&M Foundation, 1501 Texas Ave. grams, Owens said. "As a pastor, S.,College Station,TX 77840-3398.The funds will be designated for use she wrote.several of those prayer- by the Texas A&M Horticultural Department. grams to me, saying she was pray- ing for me. She was just a lady Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Callaway-)ones Funeral Home. that...you knew she was spending time with the Lord." Owens said he will also remem- ber Mrs. Cashion "as an encour- ager. She was one of those ladies that always had an encouraging word for someone." A family graveside service will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at College Station Cemetery, fol- lowed by a memorial service at 1:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Bryan. She is survived by her husband and four children, Sharon Cash- ion of Conroe, Jim and Mary Cashion of Conroe, Joyce and Bicker Cain of College Station and Shelley and Bob White of Hous- ton. She also had six grandchil- dren. Arrangements are under the direction of Callaway-Jones Funeral Home in Bryan. CITY Of C11 STATION iMI J t /.. 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