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Brazos Genealogist CONTENTS PAGE Brazos County residents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Page 123 From the Editor’s Desk . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 133 Business issue -Apr. 22, 1913 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janis Hunt 135 Texas Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Page 138 White Elephant Passes to a Doubtful Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ruth Hary 139 Mount Calvary Cemetery -Board of Directors . . .
. . . . . . . . Regina Opersteny 144 When I was 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janis Hunt 149 A Few Baptist Churches . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bill Page 155 Index compiled by . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Dean 156 BRAZOS
GENEALOGIST VOLUME XXV NUMBER 4 FALL 2004
BRAZOS GENEALOGICAL ASSOCIATION P. O. BOX 5493 BRYAN, TX 77805-5493 OFFICERS 2004 PRESIDENT . . . . . . . . . . . . JANE HORN email: jhorn@tca.net VICE PRES . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . SECRETARY . . . . . . . . . VICKI SIMONS email: victsimons@aol.com TREASURER . . . . . . . . . . . RUTH HARY email: rhary@txcyber.com COMPUTER GROUP . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALLEN DEAN email: allendean@compuserve.com PAST PRES . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN BLAIR STAFF EDITORS RESEARCH/QUERIES . . . . RUTH HARY
LOCAL HISTORY . . . . . . . . RUTH HARY CONTINUING SERIES . . . . . BILL PAGE PRINTING/INDEXING . . . ALLEN DEAN MEETINGS Meetings held the third Monday of each month from 7:00 pm to
8:45 pm in the Bryan Public Library. Please arrive early as the library closes at 9:00 pm. Membership is on a calendar year basis, January through December. QUARTERLY The GENEALOGIST
is published as Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall Issues. Each volume of the GENEALOGIST corresponds with the membership year. This publication is offered in print or electronic (PDF)
version. With PDF you receive CD at end of year with four issues plus copies of handouts from meetings. $15.00 /year if printed version picked up at meetings or PDF selected and CD picked
up. $20.00 /year if quarterly mailed or PDF version with CD mailed. Checks for dues may be mailed to the address at the top of the page. WEB SITE The web site for the Brazos Genealogical
Association is: http://www.brazosgenealogy.org EXCHANGE The GENEALOGIST is available for exchange with other organizations or publishers who have publications to offer. Send inquiries
or samples to P.O. Box 5493, Bryan, TX 77805-5493. SOLICITATIONS We solicit queries, family charts, copies of Bible records, articles and stories with Brazos Valley ties. Family charts
should be 8 ½” x 11". EDITORIAL POLICY Neither the Brazos Genealogical Association nor the staff of the Quarterly will be responsible for error of fact or opinion expressed herein. Every
effort is made to publish reliable information. The editorial staff reserves the right to accept appropriate material with editing privileges on a space available basis. Members are
encouraged to submit pictures/articles of interest concerning the Brazos Valley. Research pertaining to deeds, Bible records, schools, churches, and other groups or organizations are
desired. Research on material before the turn of the century is especially welcome. The Association will do limited local Brazos Co. research for $10.00 /hour. Write for details and
please enclose a SASE.
123 Brazos Genealogist Volume XXV Number 4 Bryan/College Station Fall 2004 Texas Brazos County Residents by Bill PAGE Sample of families who have lived in Brazos County. A continuing
series. 14 Feb. 1996 PRESNAL family --many family members buried at Alexander "Mr. J. K. PRESNAL, having completed his house...," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 11 Feb. 1904, p. 5, col. 6 "L.
M. PRESSNAL Dead," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 8 Feb. 1912, p. 2, col. 1 "KERN-PRESSNAL," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 11 Jan. 1917, p. 7, col. 6. Miss Mary PRESSNAL "Mrs. PRESNAL, Mrs. PATTERSON Win
Cake Prizes," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 22 Jan. 1925, p. 1, col. 6. Mrs. C. R. PRESNAL "Burglars Enter Store of Will PRESSNAL, Tabor," Bryan Daily Eagle, 20 Sept. 1928, p. 1, col. 5 "Funeral
Service for Mrs. PRESNAL to Be on Sunday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 11 Nov. 1933, p. 1, col. 3. Mrs. Mollie Frances PRESNAL [J. K. PRESNAL], Brazos Valley Cotton Grower, 1 (3):8 (Nov. 1941).
"87th Birthday of J. K. PRESNAL is Observed Sunday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 13 July 1942, p. 2, col. 5 "Pioneer Citizen, J. K. PRESNAL, Will be Ninety Sunday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 14 July
1945, p. 1, col. 6 "Bill PRESNAL `Mr. Farmer'," Bryan Daily Eagle, 12 Aug. 1964, p. 1, col. 1 "Susie Mitchell McCALLUM PRESNAL," Bryan-College Station Eagle, 21 July 1992, sect. A, p.
5, col. 1 PRESTRIDGE family "Death of Mrs. Marietta WORLEY," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 15 Jan. 1914, p. 6, col. 6. Maiden name PRESTRIDGE PRICE family *G. W. PRICE was a Millican school
trustte, Galveston Daily News, 2 Aug. 1885, p. 2, col.
1241 *G. W. PRICE was secretary of the Primrose Alliance, (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 2 Jan. 1890, p. 8, col. 1 PRIDDY family --family members buried Bryan "Messrs. E. W. CRENSHAW and J. B.
PRIDDY have purchased the grocery ...," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 21 July 1904, p. 2, col. 1 "For County Commissioner," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 30 Apr. 1908, p. 1, col. 3. J. B. PRIDDY "Mr.
PRIDDY to Build," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 24 Feb. 1910, p. 4, col. 6. J. B. PRIDDY "For County Treasurer," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 14 Mar. 1912, p. 8, col. 6. J. B. PRIDDY "Ben PRIDDY Announces,"
(weekly) Bryan Eagle, 16 Apr. 1914, p. 1, col. 6 PRINZEL family --German Americans "KELLER-PRINZEL," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 20 Jan. 1916, p. 5, col. 4. Miss Ella M. PRINZEL "Philip PRINZEL
Dies at Kurten Residence," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 1 Nov. 1923, p. 1, col. 4 "Henry PRINZEL is Killed in Runaway," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 12 Mar. 1925, p. 3, col. 1 "Aged Kurten Man and Post
Master Passes 77th Year," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 2 July 1931, p. 3, col. 2. August PRINZEL "Funeral Service Held Today for Woman of Kurten," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 10 Sept. 1931, p. 6, col.
2. Mrs. Lizzie PRINZEL "Aged Kurten Man Celebrates 81st Birthday Friday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 29 June 1935, p. 5, col. 7. August PRINZEL "Kurten Residents Grieve at Death of Mrs. PRINZEL,"
Bryan Daily Eagle, 24 Oct. 1937, p. 1, col. 8. Mrs. August PRINZEL PUGH, Marion C. (6 Sept. 1919-20 Nov. 1976). Buried College Station; member of College Station city council in the
1950s; owned "Jubilee Junction", a local amusement park; professional baseball player "PUGH Signs With Miami Pro Club," Bryan Daily Eagle, 6 May 1946, p. 5, col. 1. "Marion PUGH Condition
Poor," Bryan Daily Eagle, 7 Apr. 1964, p. 10, col. 8 "Western Town Opens In July," Bryan Daily Eagle, 13 June 1967, p. 1, col. 2 "Western Town Receives Name," Bryan Daily Eagle, 15 June
1967, p. 1, col. 3 "Amusement Center Opens On Saturday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 28 July 1967, p. 1, col. 1 LUNIN, FANCHON, "Junction Starts With A Bang," Bryan Daily Eagle, 30 July 1967,
p. 4 4 "Here's A Good `Un For Ripley," Daily Eagle, 26 July 1970, sect. A, p. 7, col. 1 PURYEAR, Charles (1860-Jul. 11, 1940). Dean at Texas A&M Bryan Eagle: Film N 557 Battalion: Film
N 560 "Acting President Chas. PURYEAR...," Bryan Morning Eagle, 14 June 1907, p. 5, col. 2 "Phi Beta Kappa Honors PURYEAR," Battalion, 20 Nov. 1929, p. 1 "PURYEAR Reported Better; at
Home," Battalion, 23 Oct. 1930, p. 8
125 "Dean PURYEAR Reported to be Improving Slowly," Battalion, 7 Jan. 1931, p. 1 "Celebrates His 75th Birthday," Battalion, 1 Nov. 1935, p. 1 "Dean PURYEAR Has Had Intense Scholastic
Activities During Life," Battalion, 25 Mar. 1936, p. 1 "Dean Emeritus of College Has Been Connected with A&M for 50 Years," Battalion, 29 Jan. 1939, p. 1 "Dean Emeritus Near Death,"
Battalion, 11 July 1940, p. 1 "Funeral Service for Dean PURYEAR," Bryan Daily Eagle, 12 July 1940, pp. 1, 6 "Dean PURYEAR Dies in Bryan," Battalion, 18 July 1940, p. 1 Soundex Code:
P660 1920: Brazos Co.: ED 12, sheet 7, line 60 PUTZ family --Polish American family "Mrs. Jacob PUTZ, Jr.," Brazos Pilot, 2 January 1908, p. 6, col. 2 "Mrs. Jacob PUTZ, Jr. Dead," (weekly)
Bryan Eagle, 2 Jan. 1908, p. 8, col. 4 The 1920 Brazos Co. census (ED 12, sheet 4b, line 63) shows: PUTZ, Jacob J. 42 head of household , Mary 32 wife , Louie 12 son Brazos County Deed
Book 54, p. 616. J. J. PUTZ adopted Mary Josephine PUTZ, about 4 months old; dated 14 May 1921 "Mrs. Frank PUTZ Died Saturday," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 24 Dec. 1925, p. 3, col. 5. Mrs. Carrie
HANUS PUTZ Mary Josephine PUTZ m. Tony S. PICOLLO, Jr., 2 Oct. 1938, Brazos County Marriage Records, Book W, p. 130 "Funeral Service for Mrs. PUTZ , Aged Resident," Bryan Daily Eagle,
16 Feb. 1946, p. 1, col. 8. Mrs. Mary PUTZ *Jake PUTZ, aged 67, was survived by his widow Mrs. Mary PUTZ, a daughter Mrs. Tony PICCOLO, & a son Louis PUTZ, "Funeral Services for Jake
PUTZ to be Wednesday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 21 Oct. 1947, p. 1 RAHNERT family --family members buried at Kurten "Popular Bryan Girl is Wedded Sunday to Resident of Kurten," Bryan Weekly
Eagle, 5 May 1937, p. 3, col. 1. Carl RAHNERT "Fritz RAHNERT Services to be Saturday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 28 Feb. 1958, p. 10, col. 3 "Mrs. RAHNERT," Bryan Daily Eagle, 19 Aug. 1964,
p. 14, col. 7. RANDLE family "Address of the stockholders of the Galveston & Red River Railway Company...," Galveston Tri-Weekly News, 1 July 1856, p. 2, col. 1. William RANDLE "From
Bryan," Galveston Daily News, 26 June 1874, p. 1, col. 2. Irwin RANDLE serve on coroner's jury *Solon RANDLE killed William LIVINGSTONE, Galveston Daily News, 26 Sept. 1877, p. 1; Galveston
Daily News, 2 Oct. 1877, p. 4 *PARKER-RANDLE case, Brenham Daily Banner, 24 Feb. 1878, p. 1; 5 Mar. 1878, p. 1
126 *Fight between W.R. KING & Solon RANDLE, Brenham Daily Banner, 25 Jan. 1879, p. 1, col. 3; 26 Jan. 1879, p. 2, col. 1; 8 Feb. 1879, p. 1, col. 2 *I. G. RANDLE acquitted, Brenham
Daily Banner, 19 Mar. 1880, p. 1, col. 6 *I. G. RANDLE on trial, Brenham Daily Banner, 2 Oct. 1880, p. 1, col. 5 *I. G. RANDLE & Thomas BOYETTE fight, Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 15 Feb.
1889, p. 2 RAO family "Notice-Sheriff's Sale," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 9 Oct. 1913, p. 5, col. 6. Leo, Francis, Ned, & Lucia RAO RAWLS family HARY, Ruth, & Janis HUNT, "BARNETT and RAWLS
Families of Brazos County," Brazos Genealogical Advertiser, 11(1):3-5 (winter 1990) "Mrs. Ella RAWLS," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 23 Aug. 1906, p. 1, col. 6. Daughter of W. R. PARKER "RAMSEY-RAWLS,"
Bryan Weekly Eagle, 8 July 1915, p. 1, col. 3. Miss Leila RAWLS, daughter of E. R. RAWLS RECTOR family. Brazos Co. pioneers. Josephine FOLEY married W. RECTOR 1850 Brazos Co. census:
p. 415 (FOLEY family) 1860 Brazos Co. census: p. 82a (FOLEY family) RECTOR burials in Brazos Co. include: RECTOR, Clifford, d.12 Nov. 1885, aged 9 months, 4 days; infant son of N. W.
and E. G. RECTOR, buried Bryan RECTOR, John P., d. 21 Apr. 1862, aged 12 years, 3 months, 9 days; buried Boonville RECTOR, Presley, b. 26 Sept. 1789, d. 4 Sept. 1853; buried Boonville
RECTOR, Sivey, b. 14 Dec. 1796, d. 20 Sept. 1859; buried Boonville Taken up & estrayed by Nelson W. RECTOR, Co. Commissioner for Brazos Co., a dark brown horse, about 15 hands high,
9 or 10 years old, no brands to be seen. Texas Baptist, 3 June 1857, p. 3. "Lewis RECTOR v. Henry G. HUDSON," 20 Texas Reports, 234 (1857). "Millican's, Brazos County," Galveston Weekly
News, 14 June 1859, p. 2, col. 1. Shooting took place near his home *N. W. RECTOR attended firemen's convention, Waco Daily Examiner, 13 June 1883, p. 4 *N. W. RECTOR's barn (near Millican)
burned, Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 26 Dec. 1886, p. 1 John KOEHLER, aged about 30; killed by Capt. W. G. RECTOR, his father-in-law, at El Paso, Tx.; KOEHLER allegedly seduced Miss Lee
RECTOR, his 18-year-old sister-in-law; KOEHLER was a blacksmith; RECTOR lived at Bryan until 1880, when he moved to El Paso; KOEHLER left a 22 year-old widow & 2 small children; his
wife was pregnant with a 3rd child when he died. Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 13 Apr. 1888, p. 4, cols.3-4. Galveston Daily News, 13 Apr. 1888, p. 1, col. 4; 14 Apr. 1888, p. 3, col. 3;
18 Apr. 1888, p. 3, col. 4
127 "Letter from an Old Citizen," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 4 Nov. 1915, p. 2, col. 3. N. W. RECTOR "Former Resident, Mrs. Emma RECTOR, Dies at Abilene," Bryan Daily Eagle, 15 Jan. 1943, p.
1, col. 8. Widow of N. W. RECTOR REDMOND family "REDMOND-NORWOOD," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 20 Mar. 1914, p. 5, col. 6. E. J. REDMOND REED, Horace T. (15 July 1900-2 Aug. 1941). Buried
Bethel; Brazos Co. sheriff; his father was also sheriff "Newlyweds Brought Into Court On Bench Warrant Charging Contempt; Were Paroled And Made Gift Of China," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 26
Feb. 1931, p. 5, col. 1 "Son Of Sheriff Married Sunday; Occupy New Home," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 26 Feb. 1931, p. 5, col. 2 "Constable REED Candidate For Another Term," Bryan Weekly Eagle,
4 May 1932, p. 2, col. 3 "REED Gets Hunch; Result, Recovery Sack Of Watches," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 12 Oct. 1932, p. 1, col. 7 "REED Appointed City Policeman; on Duty Friday," Bryan Daily
Eagle, 6 July 1935, p. 1, col. 3 "REED Candidate for Nomination as Sheriff," Bryan Daily Eagle, 1 Apr. 1936, p. 6, col. 7 "Wife of Sheriff Goes Into Action on Emergency Call," Bryan
Daily Eagle, 27 Apr. 1939, p. 1, col. 4. Mrs. Horace REED "REED Will Seek Second Term as Brazos Sheriff," Bryan Daily Eagle, 10 Apr. 1940, p. 8, col. 4 "Funeral Is Held For Horace REED
Sunday Afternoon," Bryan Daily Eagle, 4 Aug. 1941, p. 1, col. 4 REGMUND family "Horrible Death Near Smetana," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 22 Mar. 1917, p. 3, col. 6. Frank REGMUND "Mrs. Gobina
BANJO Dead," Bryan Daily Eagle, 12 Sept. 1917, p. 1, col. 1. Daughter of Frank REGMUND "REGMUND Expects Thing to Be Over Pretty Soon," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 29 Aug. 1918, p. 3, col. 3.
Henry REGMUND "F. F. REGMUND for Commissioner Precinct Number 3," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 7 Feb. 1924, p. 2, col. 7 "Custody of the Child is Given to Grandmother," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 1
Oct. 1925, p. 3, col. 6. Lena BANJO, granddaughter of Mrs. Mary REGMUND "F. F. REGMUND a Candidate for Commissioner," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 14 Jan. 1926, p. 3, col. 5 "Funeral Held for
Miss Lois REGMUND," Bryan Daily Eagle, 14 Oct. 1927, p. 1, col. 4 "Former Bryan Man Pays Visit Here," Bryan Daily Eagle, 28 Sept. 1928, p. 6, col. 5. Henry REGMUND
128 "AM Short Course Highly Praised by Brazos Girl," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 3 Aug. 1932, p. 4, col. 5. Emma REGMUND "Smetana Club Woman Makes Prize Aid Kit," Bryan Daily Eagle, 30 May 1939,
p. 2, col. 1. Miss Emma REGMUND "Frank J. REGMUND Funeral Services Held on Thursday," Bryan Daily Eagle, 16 Oct. 1942, p. 1, col. 8 "REGMUND in Race for Commissioner of Precint No. 3,"
Bryan Daily Eagle, 6 Feb. 1946, p. 7, col. 6 REID, David (29 Sept. 1885-11 May 1962). Buried Bryan; English grocer "Business Change," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 4 Jan. 1912, p. 3, col. 2
"David REID & Co., Staple and Fancy Groceries," Bryan Daily Eagle, 22 Apr. 1913, sect. 2, p. 5, col. 5 "REID-GREEN," Bryan Daily Eagle, 26 June 1913, p. 5, col. 4 "John REID Sells Out
to Go to the War," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 29 Nov. 1917, p. 3, col. 7. John, brother of David REID "Former Resident of Bryan Dies, Age 75, at Washington Home," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 3 July
1919, p. 3, col. 3. J. W. ENGLISH, uncle of David REID. "When I Was 21," Bryan Daily Eagle, 31 Dec. 1926, pp. 1, 4 "REID Grocery is Oldest in Trade Area," Bryan Daily Eagle, 19 Sept.
1933, sect. 2, p. 5, col. 6 "Tribute is Paid David REID for Work in Church," Bryan Daily Eagle, 13 Jan. 1938, p. 6, col. 4 "Former Resident, John REID , Dies in Washington," Bryan Daily
Eagle, 5 Aug. 1943, p. 1, col. 8. John, brother of David REID SYPTAK, Virginia, "Reid Clock Doctor," Bryan Daily Eagle, 20 Nov. 1957, p. 1, col. 3 REID (or REED), J. S. --African American
doctor *Acquitted of killing W. T. GREEN, Bryan Daily Eagle, 1 June 1896, p. 4, cols. 5-6; 4 June 1896, p. 4, col. 1; 25 Mar. 1897, p. 6, col. 4; 1 Apr. 1897, p. 3, col. 1 "Colored citizens
of Bryan have organized a burial organization...," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 22 Jan. 1903, p. 7, col. 5 "Two of the local colored doctors...," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 1 June 1905, p. 2, col.
3 "Two Fires," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 2 Sept. 1897, p. 3, col. 3 RESTIVO family --Italian American family; family members buried Mt. Calvary "Luke L. RESTIVO," in Astride the Old San
Antonio Road, A History of Burleson County, Texas, 1980, p. 389 "4-H Club Boy Enters Corn Contest to Win Prize at Legion Fair," Bryan Weekly Eagle, 10 July 1930, p. 5, col. 8. Sam RESTIVO
"Negroes Rob Cash Drawer in Steve RESTIVO Store," Bryan Daily Eagle, 12 July 1933, p. 1, col. 6 "Funeral Service for Aged Citizen Held Here Today," Bryan Daily Eagle, 15 Nov. 1934, p.
1, col. 5. Sam RESTIVO "Bonds Recovered by Police; Taken at RESTIVO Store," Bryan Daily Eagle, 28 Mar. 1946,
129 p. 1, col. 6 "Police Search for Robber of Grocery Store," Bryan Daily Eagle, 28 Feb. 1958, p. 10, col. 4. Joe RESTIVO grocery was robbed. "Party to Honor Couple," Bryan Daily Eagle,
26 Jan. 1964, sect. 2, p. 3, col. 5. Andrew RESTIVO RHODES, William Rufus (28 Oct. 1823-29 May 1899). Died in Bryan; born 28 Apr. 1823 in Green Co., Ala.; came to Tx. in 1850, settled
at Huntsville; came to Bryan in 1869; founded CHATHAM gin manufacturing business; Mexican American War veteran; Baptist; Mason; survived by wife & children: Mrs. Fred M. CONNOR & Mrs.
Jas. L. CONNOR, of Madison Co.; Mrs. John Q. TABOR of San Antonio; Mrs. Lucy KING, Mr. A. M. RHODES, Mr. H. G. RHODES, Mr. Sidney E. RHODES, & Miss Edith RHODES, all of Bryan, & the
last 2 unmarried & still living at home. (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 25 May 1899, p. 7, col. 3; 1 June 1899, p. 7, cols. 4, 5 "Death of Mr. Sidney E. RHODES," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 25 June
1907, p. 1, col. 3. Son of W. R. RHODES. "Death of H. G. RHODES," (weekly) Bryan Eagle, 28 Dec. 1911, p. 8, col. 4. Son of W. R. RHODES. 1870 Brazos Co. census, p. 32 (book p. 64): Rufus
RHOADES 1880 Brazos Co. census, p. 255a From The Editor’s Desk This issue is dedicated to the editors of the Brazos Genealogist. Obituaries of Mary COOPER and Janis HUNT, who recently
passed away, are below. A lot of work goes in to publishing a quarterly: acquiring articles, formatting for the correct number of pages, indexing, printing, labeling and mailing. Perhaps
you have a few tidbits of information about Brazos County, or a picture we could use. If so, please contact us.
130 Janis Jones HUNT, a Bryan native, died at 7:30 p.m. on September 13, 2004, at College Station Medical Center. Visitation will be Thursday, September 16, 2004 from 5 to 7 at Hillier
Funeral Home and services on Friday, September 17, at 10:00am at the funeral home. Interment will be at Bryan City Cemetery. Janis was born in Bryan, Texas on November 5, 1940 to M.
Linton JONES and Erna Jay FREEMAN JONES. She graduated from the University of Texas in Austin in 1962 and spent most of her working career as a Property Management Accountant before
her retirement. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bryan and participated in several activities there. She was an avid Genealogist and was a member of the Brazos
Genealogical Association and the Research Ramblers. She enjoyed researching her own Family History and one of her greatest pleasures was in helping other people find their roots. She
volunteered at the Carnegie History Center and at the Brazos Cemetery Association. Both of her parents preceded her in death. Survivors are her husband, James S. HUNT, a daughter and
son-in-law, Dianna Ruth and Steve HERRING of Bryan, a son David L. HUNT of Bryan, a sister and brother-in-law Merry and Jack WATTS of Arlington, and nephews Jeff and Jason WATTS of Arlington.
Memorial Contributions may be made to: Brazos Genealogical Association P.O. Box 5493 Bryan, TX 77805-5493
131 Services for Mary Evalyn COLLIE COOPER, 82, of Bryan are set for 10 a.m. Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at Hillier Funeral Home. A visitation will be held from 4-7 p.m. Monday and from
8:30-10 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Interment will follow at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Land of Memory Cemetery in Palestine, Texas. Mrs. COOPER died on Saturday at her home. She
had been a resident of Bryan since 1958, and a longtime member of First United Methodist Church of Bryan. Mary COOPER had an extensive education, receiving many honors and degrees during
her lifetime with a B.A., B.S., and M.A. from Texas Women’s University. She did post-graduate work at Trinity University, Baylor University, Texas A&M University and others. She taught
elementary school as well as junior high and high school classes. When she moved to Bryan, Mary worked at Texas A&M for a while and then got a job with the Bryan ISD as a speech pathologist
for 13 years. She moved to College Station ISD as an education diagnostician where she worked for 10 years. She retired in 1968 after a total of thirty-five years in the educational
profession. In 1974, Mary began her family research studies. In 1977 she began teaching classes in Genealogy, first with the community education program and later from her home where
she’d created a classroom with materials she’d collected for doing research. Mary developed and compiled materials from countless libraries and bookstores across the country on Genealogy
resources. Through the years, Mary has taught hundreds of people how to search for their ancestors. In 1979, she organized the Brazos Genealogy Association and became the editor and
publisher of the Brazos Genealogical advertiser, which was a forty page quarterly magazine until 1986. Mary also published several books including a listing of the Willowhole and Keefer
cemeteries, Brazos County 1860 Census (1842 tax roll and 1850 index), Brazos County 1970 census, Bryan city cemetery books 1,2,3 & 4 and wrote a novel – Letters from Two Brothers dating
from 1870 1870 to 1973. In 1990, Mary organized the Texas Research Ramblers, which is a local genealogy organization that met monthly to do research and to take trips together looking
for their ancestors. The Ramblers were formed from class members that Mary taught and it continues to grow having been taken over by other members since Mary became ill in June of 2003.
Mary belonged to several genealogical organizations including the National Genealogical Society and several regional organizations. She was also a member of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, United Daughters of the was of 1812, Daughters of the American Colonists, Magna Charta Dames, National Society of New England Women and Americans of Royal Descent. Mary COOPER
donated all of her research materials to the Carnegie Library in Bryan so that it will be available for all that might wish to use it to do their own research in finding their own ancestors.
Mary is survived by one son, Clyde Russell COOPER, Jr. and wife Vivian EASLEY-COOPER; five grandchildren, Russell Wayne COOPER and wife Tina; Ronald Lee COOPER and wife Bonnie; Robin
Denise COOPER-GONZALEZ and husband Jose; Diane Lynne COOPER-REYES and husband Lupe; and Donna Jean COOPER-ADAMS and husband Robert. Seventeen great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Most of the family resides here in Bryan, Texas. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Hospice Brazos Valley, 502 W. 26th. Street, Bryan, Texas 77803, Still
Creek Ranch, 6055 Hearne Lane, Bryan, Texas 77808 or the memorial of your choice.
132 Table of Editors of the Brazos Genealogist Year Editor 1979 -1986 Mary COOPER 1987 Nadine BILLINGSLEY 1988 -1989 to be filled 1990 -1992 Nadine BILLINGSLEY 1993 -1996 Janis HUNT
1997-2004 Allen DEAN Thanks to Bill PAGE for the following pictures.
133 SANGER
134 W. T. CLARKE, W. A. SAYLOR
135 This issue continues another series on individuals in The Bryan Daily Eagle Business Issue on April 22, 1913. Transcribed by the late Janis HUNT. Villa Maria Ursuline Academy The
Villa Maria Ursuline Academy of Bryan, a boarding school for little girls and young ladies, is a premier institution of its class in Texas. It is a branch of the Ursuline Convent at
Galveston, Texas, a pioneer establishment which in the long history of its splendid achievements has numbered in the list of its graduates a large number of girls who in after life left
the lasting impress of their worthy example and potent influence upon the mental, moral and spiritual development of the population of Texas. The Ursuline Nuns are justly honored in
history as the greatest and most successful educators of female youth, the far reaching influence of whose benign teachings have been important factors in the wholesome development of
Christian civilization among all peoples who have received the lasting benefits of their efficient and intelligent labors. No system of training so enduringly impresses upon the student
the tenets and virtues of a Christianity and the refinements of an advanced civilization as does that adopted by the Ursuline Nuns while its salutary and refining influence is noted
in the wholesome, moral, and exemplary lives of their students. Villa Maria Ursuline Academy, in the matter of the mental, moral and spiritual training of young girls, follows strictly
the methods and curriculum which have been successfully tested for more than a century, the success and beneficial results of which are no longer problematic nor a matter of speculation,
and which wisely reckons with the uncontrovertible fact that the efficient training and education of the young girls, destined in after life to exercise a potent influence in holding
and sustaining the tenets of Christianity, the purity of home life and moral standards of social life, is the most important heritage that the present owes the future generations. The
academy occupies a modern substantial and elegant main building three stories high, supplemented by two annexes of two and three stories in height, respectively, of an architectural
beauty and design unexcelled in any like structures in Texas. Each story and every apartment therein is comfortable, commodious, large, and well ventilated, the building being lighted
throughout by electricity and acetylene gas manufactured on the premises at a safe distance from the buildings. All the buildings are constructed and equipped in strict compliance with
the underwriters fire regulations, thus insuring the safety of occupants, and are steam-heated throughout with auxiliary flues for use in case of accident to the heating plant. An ample
supply of the purest cistern and city water is provided for the use of the institution. The academy occupies a beautiful and picturesque
136 locations on St. Ursula's Hill, a healthy and charming plateau of fifty acres about one mile from the business district of the steadily growing and progressive city of Bryan. The
extensive and beautiful grounds, with its stately oaks, afford ample space for outdoor exercise, and are provided with croquet, tennis, and basketball courts. The orchard, vineyard,
and kitchen garden are among the best and most productive in Brazos County, supplying an abundance of the best, freshest, and most wholesome fruits and vegetables for the table. The
location of the academy is one of the most sanitary and healthful in Texas, and during its history of twelve years has been entirely free form climatic diseases. An important feature
of the institution is that its location is such that its students are sheltered from the distraction and disturbing influence of city life so necessary to requisite study and reflection,
but is within wheezy reach of all the residences and other schools owing to the extension of the car line line which has just been completed to this school. The course of study consists
of a primary department concluding in the academic with branches of a collegiate course, and is systematic and thorough, embracing all that is necessary for higher culture. Classes are
divided into departments and each department into first and second sections; the grading of the several classed receiving careful attention and the pupils are placed and promoted according
to efficiency, progress, and ability. Blessed with exceptionally striking advantages as touching associations and surrounding favorable to mental, moral, and physical development, a
pupil of Villa Maria must be benefited, and can hardly fail to acquire those virtues and accomplishments that render
a woman a blessing to the family and an ornament to society. * * * * * John M. SEBESTA -Dry Goods and Groceries The dry goods, grocery and general merchandise establishment of John M.
SEBESTA is one of the successful enterprises of the city of Bryan. It carries an extensive stock of well selected goods pertaining to the lines handles by it, and has enjoyed a large
and constantly increasing volume of trade during the man years of its successful activities in this city. John M. SEBESTA, the founder and proprietor of the business, was reared in Brazos
County, entering business seven years ago while quite a young man, and owing to his superior business capacity and strict attentions to the details of his work, has advanced his establishment
to the front rank of prominent and prosperous enterprises of this city. In the conduct of his business Mr. SEBESTA has been ably assisted by Mr. John OPRSTENY, a native of Bryan, who
has rendered valuable services for the house for seven years, as also by Mr. Frank ELZNER, who although new in the business, is an energetic and capable business man and justly popular
with all who know him.
137 * * * * * C. C. SHELBURNE -Livery and Boarding Stable The livery and boarding stable conducted by C. C. SHELBURNE has been in successful operation here since it opened for business
in 1902. This stable contains a large livery barn and complete equipment for the care of houses, and keeps some of the most reliable teams and elegant rigs of any stable in this locality.
Mr. SHELBURNE came to Bryan in 1889, and served with credit as Deputy City Marshall until 1894, when he was appointed marshall to fill out the unexpired term of R. M. NALL, elected Sheriff
of Brazos County. Thereafter he served ably as City Marshall of Bryan for several years. He is one of the oldest, most reliable and substantial citizens of this city and is esteemed
by all. In the conduct of his livery business Mr. SHELBURNE is ably assisted by his son Jack, who is everybody's friend, and who has contributed very materially to the success of this
popular business. The SHELBURNE livery is conducted exclusively for white patronage. * * * * * * Dr. B. U. SIMS -Surgery and Diseases of Women In the list of capable and efficient physicians
and surgeons of this city, Dr. B. U. SIMS is entitled to distinctive mention. His specialties are surgery and diseases of women, in which he has attained enviable success. Dr. SIMS is
a native of Bryan. He received his professional education at Tulane University in New Orleans, La., graduating in the class of 1901. He first entered the practice of medicine at Bogalusa,
La., subsequently removing to this city, where he has acquired an extensive and remunerative practice. He is a most capable physician and surgeon, and a popular, congenial, and pleasant
gentleman.
138 Texas Correspondence from Bill PAGE Milican [sic], Brazos Co., Texas, Feb.12 Editor Herald -As I see in your valuable paper items from all parts of the country, I thought I would
let your readers know that Texas is still alive and in the front. The only excitement here is the silver dollar. Texas wants the old silver dollar, and the universal demand is, we must
have it. This part of the State is beautiful prairie, with narrow skirts of timber on the small streams. Bryan, the county seat of Brazos county, has 3,000 population, about one half
being freedmen. The country is filled up with northern men from Illinois and Missouri. The only drawback on our county, is that we cannot raise small grain, no fruit, nothing but corn,
cotton, potatoes, cattle and horses. But it don't pay, for cattle are very cheap; milch cows sell for $8.00 per head, horses $25 per head. We have a regiment of Texas Rangers station
on the frontier from our county. Land is very cheap, unimproved land sells for $3.50 per acre. Land in cultivation sells for $20.00 per acre. Farmers are planting corn this month. The
weather is as warm as I ever saw it in Illinois. In some places roses are blooming. The prairie is covered with wild mesquito grass, which makes splendid pasture for stock. They have
a very poor way of settling their troubles here. The pistol is the law. The most of the men are outlaws from Northern States, and they rove from town to town, stealing whatever they
can get at. We see such men every day. Our jails are full our State prison is at Huntsville. There were fifteen thousand convicts hired out to planters at $6 per month. They work them
the same as they were worked in slave times. Any person wishing information concerning Texas land, can get all information by writing to M.M. Creery, General Land Agent, Milegan [sic],
Brazos County, Texas. S. M. CAMP (from The Quincy (Illinois) Daily Herald, February 16, 1878, page 2).
139 Article on Bryan-College Interurban Trolley written by Tabitha MILNER, daughter of R. T. MILNER, who was President of Texas A & M during the period 1908-1915. Tabitha was one of
the early female students on campus, having attended classes during her father’s administration as a “special student,” though of course she was not allowed to get a degree. Article
appeared in Dallas Morning News, July 13, 1930. “Feature Section,” page 6. Transcribed by Ruth HARY White Elephant Passes to a Doubtful Record In the Dear, Dead Days This Temperamental
Trolley Hauled A. & M. College Students Into Bryan and Vice Versa to the Continual Enlightenment of Everybody Concerned–Its Perambulations Disrupted Households, Made Romances and Gave
Muscular cadets Something to Do. –With Almost Human Intelligence, When the Engine Sighted a Lowing Herd on the Lea, It Sat Down and Rested Itself, and Then the Accepted Procedure Was,
“Ladies, Keep Your Seats, Profs Get Out and Walk and Cadets Get Out and Push.” “Bryan Trolley Gives Up Ghost,” a recent copy of the Texas Aggie announced to a world sympathetic or otherwise.
For more than fifteen years the Bryan-College interurban had hauled A. & M. students, professors and Bryan girls from college to Bryan and Bryan to college, to dances, to football games,
to numerous and various festivities, to shows and shopping trips, and even sometimes to classes. It always ran at the most inopportune times, and meals, dates, shows and classes had
to be accommodated to the erratic hours kept by the sole means of public transportation. It began its career as a high-pooped gasoline motor car. The elite of Bryan and college sat in
the seats of the haughty in the rear end of the car, the riffraff and the overflow reposed upon the huge boxlike platform that covered the extremely temperamental gasoline engine that
was supposed to propel the whole affair. If one should be impervious to the mingled aroma of hot gasoline, whiskey, Ethiopians and the garlicky breath of the local Bohemian farmers,
the porch was fairly comfortable in winter. In summer – well, that was another story. The mechanically-minded cadets chose to ride up there so they could lavish free and unsought advice
upon the motorman when he had – as he frequently did – engine trouble, and some not so mechanically qualified did it for the same reason. In looking back it seems to me that the various
engineers of the Bryan trolley must have been direct descendants of Moses the meek and Job the patient. They submitted to a severe test when they put up with the vagaries of an engine
that wouldn’t start and a host of cadets who wouldn’t stop whatever it was that they were doing to vex and annoy the poor motorman. Fortunately just about the time the man’s patience
and good nature were ready to snap the motor would begin a fusillade of back-firing that sounded like rifle practice and under cover of the volleys and the terrified shrieks of the nervous
females on the car the remarks of the motorman were practically inaudible. It Disrupted Everything In those early early days the most systematic housewives of college found their schedules
of daily chores torn to tatters by the trolley. The women who set out at 8:30 in the morning
140 to attend a sale in Bryan at 9, expecting to scoop up a few bargains, buy the groceries for dinner that night and return in ample time for lunch, often found themselves at 9:30 marooned
at Dellwood or elsewhere, reached the sale after the Bryanites had skimmed it of all the choice bargains, likewise the groceries, and if they were lucky reached college again with the
fresh vegetables for dinner in a sadly wilted state, and found the household in wild disorder due to the all-day absence of the pilot. Maybe they had gotten back in time to go to Mrs.
So-and-So’s party, maybe Mrs. So-and-So had gone to town herself and was not yet back for her own party. The most nervous Bryan parents became inured to their daughters coming in at
the most astonishing hours. It was not at all remarkable to have daughter depart for a ball game on the 2:30 car and have her come back at 9:15 that evening on foot, supperless and very
warm and flustered because she saw only the last quarter or the last two innings of the game, according to the season, and after running clear across the campus with her beau they had
caught the car by an eyelash, as they thought, and then had sat on the edge of college for two hours while the refractory creature refused to move and her date dwelt on the supper he
was missing and become crosser and glummer and glummer and finally they had had a magnificent fuss and she had broken her date for the next dance she had promised to attend with him
– and he had stamped back to college and she had limped on in to Bryan, the car having succumbed for the third time just a mile from home. The favorite breaking-down place for the car
was the big pasture just south of Bryan. I means that site was the car’s favorite place; the passengers looked with equal disfavor upon all scenes of delay. That pasture was a hazard
as long as I rode the trolley and was until the end, I suppose. Like all orthodox pastures, it was the grazing place of herds of cows who for countless bovine generations, had held sway
there against all all comers, and why they should have to tolerate the intrusion of a rackety vile-smelling gasoline monster was a matter that never did become clear to them. When the
creature came rattling and clanging, hooting and tooting, feverishly over the hill the yearlings and smaller fry kicked up their heels and capered awkwardly away or, at the boldest,
alongside the track, but the elder matrons stood their ground right between the iron rails and looked superciliously down their noses, never missing a champ on the good old-cud. When
the trolley was college-bound, it wasn’t so bad, for the motorman could set his brakes, hop out and shoo away the offenders, hop back on and then merely releasing his brakes the car
would coast on down the grade and pick up sufficient momentum to carry it on toward college, but if bossy defied the Bryan-headed vehicle it was just too bad. The inevitable result of
that encounter was that the car had to slide back down to Dellwood and there get up enough power to make the hill – and maybe maybe the first cow wasn’t on the track but another would
be! Pepping Up the Lowing Herd One summer the cadet who was subbing for the regular motorman with typical A. & M. ingenuity, conceived the bright idea of arming himself with a squirtgun
and a few gallons of carbon dioxide (which would never be missed from the chemical laboratory) and the cattle movement picked up. He braced his steering crank in place and clinging precariously
to the step, he liberally sprayed the lowing herds but there was no slow winding o’er the lea when his liquid ammunition found its mark. Unfortunately before he adequately had trained
the cows to keep their distances the authorities intervened, not on
141 the score of cruelty to dumb animals, but of man’s inhumanity to man. The spray from the squirtgun was constantly blown back upon the travelers in the car and they contended that
it was just too painful to be borne. How to Know a Hill The stations on the interurban were Allen Academy at the north end of Bryan, Bryan downtown, Hill Crest, two miles out; Dellwood,
midway between Bryan and the college and intended for a park but usually occupied in those early days by horse traders or gypsies; Union Hill, commonly called Onion Hill by the students
and the Agricultural and Mechanical College, known simply as college. People from mountainous regions professed great amusement at such designations as Hill Crest and Union Hill and
said they were the merest of elevations, but after helping push the car up either declivity a time or so they didn’t guffaw half so noisily when some one spoke of the hills. Besides
pushing the car up hill it frequently became necessary to set it back upon the rails. Clever of Them Nothing short of a notary witnessed attestation would be believed as to the accuracy
of a count of the number of times per trip that the trolley left its track. On Saturdays and other occasions when there were numbers of students among the passengers it was the affair
of but a few moments to heave ho and set it back in place, the regular routine being, “Ladies keep their seats; profs get and walk, kaydets get out and push” or “lift” as the case might
be, but when the cadets were not along the whole outfit usually descended and walked to the nearest station. On long spring evenings when the cadets had much loafing time between 6 o’clock
supper and dark, one of their preferred pastimes was to stroll a mile or two down the track where they shrewdly suspected the car was derailed and after easily reinstating it they won
a free ride back to the campus. Sir Walter Raleigh Stuff. The conductor besides being a man of might in the sense of authority had also to be a mighty man in the sense of physical ability.
He not only had, at times, to decant obstreperous individuals, he had also to function as a conductor who put on certain passengers. One time I specially recall was on an extremely rainy
day when a number of Bryan girls were going out to college to a party and the feminine fares had the car to themselves. The last girl to be picked up lived in the south edge of Bryan,
but as the car approached her corner she was not visible and the conductor, all unaware, made no effort to have the car stopped. Not so his excited passengers: Two or three rang the
bell. “Stop! Stop!” Half a dozen commanded, “You have a passenger here.” “I don’t see any,” the conductor protested, not unreasonably. “Ring your gong,” some one recommended. The motorman
stamped vigorously upon it and in swift response, the door of a house seventy-five feet away opened and out debouched the tardy passenger and her mother, the latter with an armful of
newspapers which she began to spread for her elegantly shod daughter to tread upon. It was soon evidence to to the onlookers that had Queen Elizabeth trod upon such mud, Raleigh’s head
would have been lost sooner than it was, but Nita never lost hers. She looked at the black ooze squishing up, over and through the limp newspapers, measured the distance to the
142 car and beckoned to the conductor, “You’ll have to carry me,” she ordered. “Nita,” her outraged mother reproved but she wasn’t half as outraged as the astounded public servant. “Me?
Carry you?” he protested. “Yes. Come on. I can’t ruin my shoes in that mud. You will just have to carry me.” Successful Portage Nita’s most devoted and tactful admirers were never to
infatuated as to characterize her as petite and the poor conductor undoubtedly realized that he had an armful when he obediently shouldered his fair burden and floundered back to the
car. He was tottering the last few feet of the portage and the interested girls on the car held their breaths. It would be terrible if in her efforts to preserve the pristine beauty
of her slippers Nita and her preserver both fell full length in the bottomless mud of College avenue. Finally the man flopped feebly against the side of the car and let Nita spring nimbly
up the steps without any assistance from him; as a first aider he had done his stuff and was inclined to call it a day. He feebly rang for the motorman to start on and the car was almost
in the college precincts before he recovered enough to collect the fares. His R-r-revenge! He was trying to revenge himself, perhaps, a little later that same season when I had five
girls visiting me and we were going to a masquerade in Bryan on St. Valentine’s. Since it was a masquerade the girls went unescorted and as usual the car came fifteen minutes before
we were ready for it. My smallest brother was sent to hold it for us and he did. We reached it in breathless haste and in all sorts of fancy dress, half dress and undress, happily concealed
by our wraps, and, as we were unused to going anywhere at night without a beau, without a cent among the bunch of us. My eldest brother was somewhere in the seething mob of cadets and
young instructors likewise bound for the dance, so when the conductor elbowed and pushed his way to us we told him to collect our fares from my brother on the front platform. When the
affair was checked up later we found that he collected for the six of us from five different cadets, telling each one that I had said for him to pay for us and that my bother would pay
him. There was nothing remarkable in the gallantry of the five cadets who came so nobly to the rescue, but we always did wonder how that conductor located five cadets who were able to
pay so many fares at one time. Romance Undone The item I quoted from the Aggie said that many romances had been made possible through the aid of the old trolley and that many had been
the sprints put on to catch the last car, but it wot not of the romances–one at least–unmade by sprinting for the last car. There was a College professor who feared and suspected he
had a very heavy and dangerous rival for the affections of a popular Bryan girl who lived right on the car line. The ardent “prof” always waited till he heard the car approaching before
beginning his farewells and one night it was so close before he began that his desperate spring just did enable him to swing on. The encouraging cheers of the other night hawks changed
to jeers that embarrassed him deeply when they discovered that in his haste he had forgotten his hat.
143 As it was not only a good hat but the only one he possessed, the professor took advantage of a vacant period early the next morning to go in after his headgear. He dropped off the
car at the lady’s very front door and barged up the walk and into the front door before she knew he was within five miles of her presence, but what he saw sent him charging out as impetuously
as he had come in, for on the hither-to ringless finger of her slim left hand there now blazed the oft-rumored but never before discovered diamond of the dangerous rival, and the car
never stopped at that corner any more for him. Dear Dead Days In course of time the trolley really became a trolley when it was electrified, but it was temperamental to the end and had
no stability except for its characteristic for running at unearthly hours. And now it is to be discontinued, dismantled, junked. Busses may be surer as they bowl along over paved roads
and are doubtless more convenient to hours but I defy anyone to have half the delightful recollections of them that we have who rode the interurban. The trolley riders constituted a
fraternity, or several different fraternities. There were the early morning travelers from Bryan who had to take the 7 a.m. car to be on time at their work at College stat 8 or 8:30.
Their password was one of abuse for the car they must perforce ride at such an ungodly hour. There were school children who filled it to the guards twice a day; there were women who
chattered all the five-mile journey and what they had to say about the service was calculated to scorch the ears of motorman and conductor, and then in the evenings there were the hordes
of boys going to the movies, going to see girls, going to take girls places, going to do all the thousand and one things that youth can find to do. And their passwords were as varied
as their Interests, but to them all the trolley was indispensable. And So I Sign And I defy any one to have half the fun on busses that we had on cold winter nights when we ran panting
across to the car and pulled ourselves on the last one out, on our way home from seeing “The Man From Home,” or “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” or “The Chocolate Soldier,” at the old Bryan
Opera House. We were packed in, three girls to every seat, our strap hanging escorts swaying perilously in the aisle and piling up like a file of pushed down dominoes when we jerked
around a curve, all this to a strident accompaniment of shrill feminine conversation and giggles, deeper masculine rejoinders and the stags whistling or humming snatches of the show’s
hits–then suddenly the abrupt stopping of the car, its stubborn refusal to move on and the usual denouement with cadets prompt to the rescue. Or on fragrant spring evenings when we were
going home on the open summer cars and the moonlight was so silvery magical that the motorman turned off his lights and we rolled along through a scene so enchanting that we were held
in a thralldom of blissful silence except for the glee club quartet on the back seat, and so great is the charm of being young that we loved their singing of “Sweet Adeline” or some
other of the classics in their repertory and never considered that it shattered for some the magic of the night. Far be it from me to low rate busses–but I’m glad I have ridden the Bryan-College
Interurban. As an experience it is unique.
144 Miss Tabitha MILNER, Writer, Club Woman, Buried at Henderson Special to the News. HENDERSON, Texas. Jan. 2.–Miss Tabitha MILNER, daughter of the late Col. R. T. MILNER, former president
A. & M. and first Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, was buried here Monday afternoon. She died Sunday night after a lengthy illness. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. R. T. MILNER,
and a brother, R. T. MILNER, Jr. Services were held at the First Presbyterian Church, with burial in Old Cemetery beside her father. Miss MILNER was prominently identified with club,
literary and church work in Henderson. She was graduated from Henderson High School, after which she attended St. Mary’s College in Dallas and the University of Texas. During her father’s
administration as president of A. & M. College, she took special work at that institution. Miss MILNER was well known over the State for her feature articles in The Dallas News and other
State papers. Dallas Morning News, January 03, 1933, Section 1, Page 2. Mount Calvary Cemetery -Brazos County Board of Directors Established August 9, 1965 Regina OPERSTENY On Monday,
August 9, l965 at the K. C. Hall, Bryan, Texas the following minutes were taken: The first meeting to discuss forming a St. Joseph’s Cemetery Committee was open with a prayer said by
Father Tim VALENTA. Nomination of temporary officers followed: CHAIRMAN: Frank E. HUBACEK nominated Frank VAVRA, seconded by A. C. PLASEK, Frank VAVRA elected unanimously. TREASURER:
Irvin CARROLL nominated Edward A. PATKE, seconded by A. C. PLASEK, Edward PATKE elected unanimously. SECRETARY: Irvin CARROLL nominated James FICKEY, seconded by Frank E. HUBACEK. James
FICKEY elected unanimously. Irvina CARROLL made a motion we have nine members on the cemetery committee, seconded by Edward A. PATKE. Motion passed. Father Tim will select the two others
members. Discussion followed on various subjects. No definite plans were made until the committee is complete. Chairman set next meeting for August 16, 1965. Father Tim
145 St. Joseph 1 Mount Calvary Cemetery Board of Director Minutes of August 9, 1965 closed with a prayer. 1 This first meeting started the current day Mt. Calvary Cemetery Board of Directors.
But why was it necessary to form such a group? Let’s go back in history and look at what was going on prior to this first meeting. Before 1965, the Pastors and their rectory staff and
parishioners like Mr. Charlie SOSOLIK and others whom we are aware of helped in selling grave spaces, keeping track of records, and overall maintenance of the cemetery. As is the case
so many times, too much work for too few people or too much on one person. Lot owners were responsible for the upkeep of their own lots. Some of the lots were well manicured while others
had tall grass and old flowers left over from funerals years passed, unsold areas were not being mowed, the cemetery just needed a little attention. In early years, most parishioners
were farmers and local business people. They lived in a time when the pace was slower and every-body knew everybody and the parishioners took care of the cemetery. After World War II,
life styles started changing, people were on the move and the pace has been getting faster and faster. Some families moved away, some died out, some just didn’t have the time, and some
just didn’t care about taking care of the graves of their ancestors. The Catholic Youth Organization (C.Y.O.), Brazos County Commissioners and other groups were called upon to help clean
up the cemetery from time to time but as the cemetery got bigger, the need for a group to oversee the cemetery was necessary. All monies that were given for upkeep and sale of spaces
were put into the Parish Funds. They were not kept separate. Surely money collected did not cover expense used to care for the cemetery. The Cemetery needed to be self sustaining and
not a burden on the Parish Funds which were already being taxed by St. Joseph Catholic School and the other parish needs. What else was going on in 1965? The new St. Joseph Church was
finished in 1960 with that debt remaining. The Vietnam conflict was getting bigger. The major source of funds for St. Joseph School was coming from St. Joseph Church. Nuns were still
teaching at St. Joseph School. St. Mary’s Church at Texas A & M was a mission of St. Joseph’s Church. The Bishop of Austin Diocese was Louis J. REICHER. The following burials were per
year: 1963--43, 1964--23, 1965--43. This was a large number of burials compared to 2000--54, 2001--48, and 2002--42. In talking with some of the original members of the Cemetery Committee,
certain subjects were reoccurring topics: 1. Purpose of the Cemetery Board was to manage all affairs of Mount Calvary Cemetery. 2. To relieve the Pastor of the burden of running a cemetery.
3. To make the cemetery self sufficient and not a burden upon the already taxed financial resources of St. Joseph Church. 4. To establish and keep up-to-date records of financial transactions,
lot ownership (Right of Burial), burial location, and other records pertaining to operation of a cemetery. 5. To provide maintenance and upkeep of the whole cemetery year round.
1466. To serve the owners of Right of Burial and their heirs to eliminate confusion and problems in a families time of need. One last note as to the Records that were available before
the Cemetery Board. There was a book that listed some names of lot owners which was incomplete and there was a map that showed lot numbers which also was incomplete and not up-to-date
and a 3x5 card file with the names and addresses for St. Joseph Parishioners. The Church Death Register told who, and when, but only the cemetery, not where the burials were in the cemetery.
In the early years of the Board of Directors, it is noted that Frank VAVRA, Frank KOCMAN, Jr. and Frank KOCMAN Sr. and many other members of the Cemetery Board spent a lot of time in
inventorying existing burials in the cemetery and tracking down lot owners. Frank KOCMAN, Jr. also set up the bookkeeping system, although it has been modified to keep up with the times.
In 1988, Mount Calvary Cemetery entered the computer age. A computer was purchased, and the slow task of customizing software and entering data was started. The Cemetery now has the
most complete listings of all burials ever, (who, when and where in the cemetery they are buried), lot owners, drawings of the Mausoleum and a complete detail layout of Mount Calvary
-Smetana. All financial information is now on computer. Financial statements, ledger, check ledger, and a general transaction ledger are all entered and updated regularly. These milestones
were not accomplished easily, but all future Cemetery Boards and pastors will benefit from them. The following is a list of important events and discussions made by the Board from 1965
to 2004. These were taken from the Board Minutes. August 9, 1965: Prices set for lot sales: $25.00 per space and $10.00 baby space. December 14, 1965: Perpetual Care Approved -but not
mandatory. Price set
at $300.00 per lot, $150.00 per ½ lot and $40.00 per space. January 16, 1966: Trust Officers for Perpetual Care to be Pastor and others. March 9, 1966: By-laws submitted and approved.
September 13, 1966: The start of the Cemetery Envelope. January 24, 1967: Frank KOCMAN Jr. set up bookkeeping system. June 19, 1967: Perpetual Care becomes mandatory with the sale of
new spaces. January 1, 1969: Frank VAVRA elected as Permanent Chairman. Mt. Calvary Cemetery purchase 5 acres of land from Dansby Estate. Block 4 opened for burials on the new 5 acre
tract. October 13, 1969: Rules and Regulations passed for Block 4. May 11, 1970: Approval to start mausoleum. July 26, 1973: Purchased unsold crypts from Southern Memorial Co. October
5, 1973: Withdrawal of all funds from Austin Diocese Credit Union they were not insured. July 19, 1974: Purchase repossessed crypts from Southern Memorial Co.
147 October l3,1975: By-laws revisions approved. September 19, 1977 -September 22 1977: Monsignor Timothy J. VALENTA dies at age of 70 after over 30 years of service to St. Joseph’s
Catholic Church, Bryan, Texas. He was the founder of the Cemetery Board of Directors. Burial was in the Msgr. Gleissner Memorial Mausoleum September 22 1977 October 20, 1977: Father
Walter MATUS is welcomed as the Pastor of St. Josephs. Price increases for new lots and lot dues. Sale price for a burial space went up from $40.00 per space to $100.00 per space. Lot
dues increased from $2.00 per spaces to $2.50 per space, half lot from $5.00 to $7.50 and full lot from $10.00 to $15.00. April 20, 1978: Father John DRISCOLL is new Pastor of St. Joseph
Church. All burials will require the caskets to be place in a container, minimal requirement of wood. July 27, 1978: Water line ran to Block 4. April 26, 1979: All graves are to be dug
by a bonded grave digger. January 28, 1981: Oil lease for Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Bryan. February 10, 1981: Antone M. WOLFE elected as permanent treasurer. October 11, 1982: Oil lease
for Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Bryan completed and oil well drilling in Progress on Dansby Property. Dirt being hauled in from Babcock and Wilcox Plant to fill in area behind the Mausoleum.
January 31, l983: Approval to pave all roads in Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Bryan was passed. May 10, 1983: By-laws were revised. Lot upkeep dues were increased as follows: Full lot from $15.00
to $20.00, half lot from $7.50 to $10.00, single space stayed the same at $2.50. July 28, 1983: Perpetual Care prices also increased for existing lots as follows: full lot from $300.00
to $400.00, half lot from $150.00 to $200.00, single space from $40.00 to $50.00. October 27, 1983: Elaine BERGER writes History of Mount Calvary Cemetery with research by Antone M.
WOLFE. Increased the cost of Baby spaces from $40.00 to $70.00. Increased the price of spaces from $100.00 to $175.00. April 27, 1984: Crypt preparation charge started at $50.00 per
burial. June 11, l984: R. T. MONTGOMERY was given the bid to pave the roads on St. Joseph side of Mt. Calvary Cemetery. April 29, 1985: Msgr. CHATHAM is now pastor of St. Joseph Church.
Purchase of l acre tract from Freddie Curry. June 20, 1985: Frank HUBACEK retires from upkeep of the Mausoleum due to illness. Mr. HUBACEK worked for the Cemetery Board for many years.
August l, 1985: Father Bobby HAJOVSKY temporary pastor of St. Joseph’s Church. November 30, 1985: Father John McCAFFERY pastor of St. Joseph’s Church. July 31, l986: Revision of Rules
and regulations. August 14, 1986: Approval to purchase l acre tract from Barron Estate. October 29, 1986: Affirmed that Mt. Calvary Cemetery is open to all faiths and persons wishing
To be buried in it. August 11, 1987: Frank VAVRA, permanent chairman of the St. Joseph Mt. Calvary Cemetery Board Of Directors retires after 22 years service to St. Joseph Church and
its
148 Parishioners. A special dinner was held in his honor. Bill ZIEREN was guest Speaker. August 31, 1987: Vice-chairman, Bobby MANSEL takes over the duties of Frank VAVRA. October 21,
1987: Review of by-laws, revised and amended. No more permanent positions. February 11, 1988: Mr. & Ms. Don VITOPIL donate 11.9 acres for cemetery at Smetana. Approval given to purchase
a computer for the cemetery. The start of the computer age for the cemetery. April 26, 1988: Incorporation of Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Smetana into by-laws and also setup guidelines for
Mt. Calvary Cemetery Smetana. October 26, 1988: The Perpetual Care money for the Mausoleum in the amount of $17,117.00 was removed from the Austin Diocese and turned over to St. Joseph
Mt. Calvary Cemetery Board of Directors. The first burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Smetana other than a member of the Cahill Family was Ms. Edward SIKORSKI. January 26, 1989: Motion
passed to have the two one-acre, tracts cleaned up and prepared for burials and to install a fence in the same area. By-laws revised to update the Mausoleum Perpetual Care Fund due to
the fact that the Board now has control of the money. April 27, 1989: Proposal to consolidate all accounts into fewer accounts and use computer to keep them separate on paper. This was
approved. The Board started on a project to straighten all the headstones throughout the cemetery. This project will take a while. October 26, 1989: Property owned by the Catholic Church
was discovered in Millican. Father John requested the Board look after this property due to the fact that one of the lots found was given to the Church for the purpose of a Cemetery.
Lot Mausoleums were approved by the board. Replacement of the water system was approved. April 26, 1990: Open and closing fee for the Mausoleum was increased from $50.00 to $100.00,
and also new security lights were installed in Block 4. The first loan was issued by the Board of Directors to St. Joseph Church for the purpose of purchasing the Old Travis Public School
Building. July 26, 1990: Security lights installed at Mt. Calvary Cemetery -Smetana, 1992. 1992: Last year that the Cemetery Envelope was included with the regular church contribution
package. September 8, 1993: The Board of Directors approved the funds to start construction of another Mausoleum next to the existing Monsignor Gleissner Memorial Mausoleum. The Mausoleum
will have a capacity of 252 burials. April 7, 1994: Report was made to the Board of Directors of the death of Charlie Lee BUSH, Jr. He served Mount Calvary Cemetery for 9 years before
his tragic death. He will always be remembered for the pride he took in the appearance of the cemetery. July 27, 1995: Project to pave a road around both Mausoleums to facilitate ease
of access and parking was approved. April 25, 1996: New flag pole was erected at Mount Calvary Cemetery thanks to the efforts of Jack DeMUYNCK and Johnny HOELSCHER. Due to research on
St. Joseph Church by Joanne GLOWSKI to make St. Joseph Church the site for a Texas Historical Marker, she found the the old Catholic Church site in Millican had been sold in 1992 and
the
149 2 Ibid Diocese had not notified Father John McCAFFERY of this. July 24, 1997: Memorial Fund for Mt. Calvary Cemetery was established. October 23, 1997: A joint meeting of the St.
Joseph and St. Anthony Cemetery Boards met and finalized a set of regulations for the whole of Mount Calvary Cemetery. 1998: Earnest Money Contract executed for property at 1610 Congo
Street, 2.57 acres from Petunia Smith Estate. Memorial marker in memory of unborn infants. Suggested by KC #1834. 1999: Prices increased to $300.00 per lot. 2000: Roads resurfaced. 2001:
Charlene Miller Elected Chairman of the Board. Bobby MANSEL retired after 17 years on the Board and 13 as Chairman. Charlene resigns and Liz ZEMANEK Elected chairman. By-laws and regulations
up-dated. Clean-up days designated. Records transferred to the church. Allen ½ acres tract purchased. October 16, 2002: Antone WOLFE resigns. A tree will be planted in appreciation for
his years of service on the Board. Ricky ALDERETE will be the financial secretary. June 5, 2003: Letter received from Most Reverend Gregory M. AYMOND, Bishop of Austin requesting that
one Board of Directors govern the Mount Calvary Cemetery properities. 2 January 1, 2004: A Board of all Catholic cemeteries is being formed in the Brazos County with two representatives
from each of the Catholic Parishes in the Bryan-College Station area. The Parishes being; St. Anthony’s, St. Joseph’s, Santa Teresa. St. Mary’s Center, and St. Thomas Aquinas. This series
continues on individuals remembering what their life was like when they were 21 years old published in The Bryan Daily Eagle. Transcribed by the late Janis HUNT. "When I Was 21" -December
8, 1926 Henry LOCKE "When I was 21 I was running a confectionery by the name of LAWTON & LOCKE in Bryan where HOLMES Bros. confectionery is located now," said Henry LOCKE, owner of Model
Tailors. He operated this place for two years it being destroyed by fire. After the fire he was employed by Howard CAVITT in a drug store, where he remained for six months. His next
job was with the City National Bank, where he stayed a year. Apparently being tired of changing jobs so frequently he went to work for A. M. WALDROP & Co., where he remained for 13 years.
"Was it a lucky 13?" we asked him. "Yes, for me,"
150 he answered. Before he was 21 Mr. LOCKE worked in the LAWRENCE Grocery store, which means that he has worked at almost every kind of business. When a boy he attended country school
at Cottonwood and later finished at ALLEN Academy. In 1922 he opened up the Model Tailors, and has been up and at it ever since, having built up an unusually large patronage. His business
has increased every year, in good times and in bad times. October in Bryan is the best month in the year for the tailoring business, while August is the poorest. The many big football
games held in October are largely responsible for the increase in business in that month. Another factor is the many old clothes that people dig up out of the cedar chest and send down
to have pressed for winter wear. Mr. LOCKE's customers among the women are about as numerous as among the men, his ladies trade being 50 per cent of the volume of business. Bryan people
may be good money spenders but they do not leave any of it around in the pockets of clothes sent to the tailor. Mr. LOCKE said one time he found $64 in a man's pants and the fellow was
after the money before he could get the clothes pressed. He said that men frequently left letters in the pockets and especially bills. Occasionally a valuable lapel pin finds its way
to the tailor shop. The ladies occasionally leave pins in their dresses. Although old men need most to have their clothes in good order, young men are his best patrons by far. "If a
man will keep his suit clean, its life will be greatly prolonged. A suit should be cleaned every month, whether apparently it needs it or not. In former years men never thought of having
their suits cleaned--they wore them dirty until they were worn out," said Mr. LOCKE. * * * * * "When I Was 21" -February 9, 1927 J. T. MALONEY "When I was 21 I was in Dallas in the freight
claim department for the Texas and Pacific railroad," said J. T. MALONEY, former mayor of Bryan, who, in common parlance, has knocked around quite a bit. Mr. MALONEY was born in New
York City, but hardly before he had his eyes open his parents brought him to Bryan. His father, J. P. MALONEY, was agent for the Southern Pacific railroad here in 1871.
151 Mr. MALONEY's first job was that of a messenger boy with the Missouri Pacific railroad in St. Louis at the age of 15. He came back to Texas in 1888 when Governor Jim HOGG forced
the railroads to move their general offices back to Texas, Mr. MALONEY going to Palestine. His next jump was to Sedalia, Mo., where he had a whirl with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad.
From St. Louis he went to Dallas, where he was working when he reached the age of 21. In that year he worked for Palestine and Greenville, and then went to Houston, where he was employed
by the Houston East and West Texas railroad. In 1900 he was cashier of the I. and G. N. railroad in Bryan. Two years later he was transferred to Palestine in a smaller capacity. In 1905
he came back to Bryan, where he has been a citizen ever since. That year he went in to the drug business with E. R. EMMEL. Later he bought the Exchange Hotel and operated it for a number
of years. In 1908 he was elected mayor and held this position until 1912, when he was elected county judge of Brazos county. He was county judge for eight years, and during that period
he also engaged in the dry good business. Since 1920 he has been in the insurance business in Bryan. While mayor he made the surveys for the interurban to College, had the city to buy
the public utilities, and extended the sewerage system. He and Joe W. BATTS organized the Chamber of Commerce. They went around to every business man and collected 50 cents without telling
the purpose of the collection. A mass meeting was then called and $10,000 was subscribed for the interurban. Mr. MALONEY is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Woodman of the World,
Mascabees, A. O. U. W., and Catholic church. Bryan City Cemetery Joseph T. MALONEY Born: 01 Jun 1870 Died: 15 Jun 1953 Mary R. (ROHDE) MALONEY Born: 05 Jul 1881 Died: 23 Dec 1959 * *
* * * "When I Was 21" -November 3, 1926 J. D. MARTIN "Where were you born?" we asked J. D. MARTIN, the genial manager of the PARKERASTIN Hardware Company. This, of course, is of little
importance, especially when you are a native Texan, but reporters ask the question as a matter of record. "I was born at Steep Hollow," he answered. "Well, then, since you were born
in the county, you are qualified to run for office." "No, no," he protested, I was (not) born in the Harvey community--that is where all of our politicians come from.
152When Mr. MARTIN was 21, which was about the time William Jennings BRYAN electrified the county with his "Cross of Gold" speech, he started in at the store, which has since changed
ownership, where he is now employed as manager. In those days the firm was know as the Allen MYERS Hardware Store. His first monthly stipend was for the unpretentious sum of $41.66,
or at the rate of $500 per year. "And I was just flushed with money. I thought I was in competition to the financial wizards of the day," he stated facetiously. In his previous job he
received $25 a month. In 1892 Mr. MARTIN was a student of A. and M. College. He formerly had attended school at Steep Hollow, where he worked on the farm in this spare time. He was president
of the Hardware Dealers' Association of Texas in 1921-22, and for several years prior to that time he was on the governing board of the organization. The hardware business has undergone
fewer changes in the past 30 years than almost any other line of endeavor. About the only changes are that in the late 90's they sold only 10 or 15 cultivators a year, while now they
sometimes sell more than 200 cultivators of one particular brand. In the "good old days" walking plows were the most popular. However, they often sold 100 wagons a year. Mr. MARTIN has
watched a veritable human parade from the same location for 30 years, and he says that Bryan is improving wonderfully with each passing year. Bryan City Cemetery James Duncan MARTIN,
SR. Born: 1875 Died: 1955 * * * * * "When I Was 21" -November 16, 1926 Rev. H. H. McCAIN An account of the life of a minister is supposed to be quiet, calm, and placid, but in the case
of Rev. H. H. McCAIN, pastor of the First Methodist Church, he has had more bouts outside the ring than Jack DEMPSEY. "When I was 21 I was on a steamboat out of New Orleans bound for
Montgomery to start the practice of medicine. I had finished Tulane University in 1889," he stated. After practicing medicine two years in Montgomery, he moved to St. Maurice, where
he practiced for six years. Rev. McCAIN explains that when he was a young man he had had a call to preach, but failed to accept. While attending a revival meeting at St. Maurice, he
pledged to go into the ministry. Then came a five-year period of hardship and self-denial. During this time he farmed and preached on Sundays as he prepared himself for the
153 ministry. He became an itinerant minister, and has preached at the following places: St. Maurice, Shelbyville, Hughes Springs, Lake Charles, Houston, Rosebud, Henderson, Conroe,
and Bryan, and for seven years has been a presiding elder. He has been in the pulpit for 30 years. He has had some thrilling and dangerous experiences in his long service as a clergyman.
A good many years ago he was preaching in the Caddo oil fields, which contained ruffians from Kansas City, Shreveport, and other cities. He was conducting a revival campaign against
drunkenness and debauchery in the community, which was similar to the Borger field near Amarillo. While out riding one afternoon five thugs attacked him and declared they were going
to kill him for trying to break up their gambling dens and other places of crime. They whipped him severely with the butts of pistols. After beating him up. they held a conference and
decided for some reason not to continue in their plan of killing him, and he was allowed to go alive with with a number of oaths from the ruffians. The revival meeting continued to flourish.
Upon another occasion he was conducting a revival when a couple of drunks came into the church and started to break up the service. After being reprimanded from the pulpit, they remained
in the church, resolved to "get him" after services. When Rev. McCAIN walked out of the church, one of the drunks attempted to strike him over the head with a heavy club. Fortunately,
one of the church members saw the incident, and grabbed the board in time to save Rev. McCAIN of perhaps fatal injury. The law dealt severely with this thug, and he left the country.
Dr. McCAIN is an assiduous worker and a thorough student. He often gets up at 4 o'clock in the morning to read a helpful book, and pursues the pages of literature until late at night.
He says that being a pastor is harder than farming or practicing medicine, but its rewards are greater. "You have to approach human nature from a different angle when you are a minister,"
he said. He He stated that the most discouraging part of the ministry was to try to preach to a congregation of empty benches. The fruits of his efforts have been many. He has converted
more than 3,000 persons during his ministry, and 25 of these converts later became preachers or foreign missionaries. * * * * * "When I Was 21" -December 23, 1926 W. I. McCULLOCH They
say that experience is the best teacher. If this be true, then W. I. McCULLOCH of the McCULLOCH-DANSBY Furniture Co., has had remarkable advantages.
154"When I was 21 I was working for J. W. ENGLISH in Bryan, who conducted a grocery establishment," said Mr. McCULLOCH. A number of former and present citizens also received their pristine
training under Mr. ENGLISH. Among the other who started under him were the late W. B. ROMAN, who Mr. McCULLOCH describes as the best retail salesman he ever saw; Marshall DANSBY, Milburn
NEWTON, Will THOMAS of the Fair, Frank BITTLE, Ross MONTGOMERY, and George GRIFFIN. Mr. McCULLOCH was born in Harvey, which is the Ohio of Brazos county politics. He came to town at
18 and worked for the Farmers' Cotton Yard. He worked for two years for Mr. ENGLISH, who sold out to DANSBY and DANSBY. He worked for the new firm for six years. Then he and Will HIGGS
went into the grocery business, but after a year he sold out to Mr. HIGGS and in turn purchased the HIGGS farm. A few months as a tiller of the soil were enough for Mr. McCULLOCH, and
he soon forsook the farm for business. The Farmers' Union Warehouse was organized and for two years he was manager of it. He then bought out the grocery store of Charlie BULLOCK, and
after a year he sold it to COOPER & BROGDON. The say that business and politics do not mix, so Mr. McCULLOCH abdicated business and entered the political arena. In 1914 he ran for county
tax collector and won by a flattering majority. He served two terms and quit with the proud distinction of being Brazos county's first office holder to step down at the end of his second
term purely on his own volition. In January 1919, he bought out the furniture store of LEVY Bros. and when he purchased this stock he says, "I did not know the difference between a chifforobe
and a chiffonir." In March of 1920 he and the late J. M. GORDON bought out the DANSBY furniture store and consolidated the two establishments. Mr. McCULLOCH says he likes the furniture
business better than anything he ever tried with the possible exception of the stock business. For a number of years he has owned some stock which he has looked after in spare time.
The furniture stores in which he has been interested have shown a nice increase in business every year, and adds that the people of Bryan and College demand high class furniture. There
have been a number of notable changes in this line of industry even during the comparatively short time that he has been engaged in it. A few years ago golden oak bed room suites were
popular sellers, while today walnut and mahogany are in demand. Wood stoves have been abandoned, and now 75 per cent of the stoves burn oil. In the way of living room furniture duofold
suites were the best sellers, while now sofas and chairs are used. The public buys more expensive furniture all of the time, the people here having been educated to quality furniture.
155 The undertaking business has come in for much more attention and now his firm has a modern funeral home. Bryan City Cemetery William Irvin McCULLOCH Born: 1878 Died: 1940 Bertha
HIGGS McCULLOCH Born: 1884 Died: 1939 A Few Baptist Churches by Bill PAGE Over the years hundreds of churches have been located in Brazos County. Here are a few references to some of
the older Baptist Churches that can be found in the deed records. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church On 30 June 1892, Mary A. WILLIAMS and her husband David WILLIAMS sold land to C. T.
and E. T. GRAHAM, deacons of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, for church purposes and for "burial purposes" (Brazos Co. Deed Book 10, pp.468-469). Then, on 14 December 1892 J. M.
POWERS and G. W. WILLIAMS sold land to C. T. DAVIS and E. T. GRAHAM, deacons of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. This deed mentions "Bethel Church and grave yard tract." (Brazos Co.
Deed Book 9, pp. 576-577). Cottonwood Baptist Church In 1907, Robert HUDSPETH and R. H. HUDSPETH sold land to J. S. FRANCIS and Cyrus KOONTZ, trustees for the "Baptist Church of Cottonwood",
for "a place for the erection of a church building" (Brazos Co. Deed Book 32, p.196). Providence Missionary Baptist Church On 31 October 1885, S. W. MONTGOMERY and his wife Alice MONTGOMERY
sold land to the Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Brazos Co. Deed Book 2, p.272). Saints Rest Baptist Church In 1873, H. MITCHELL, B. DAVIS, Thos. J. BEALL, and M. W. McCRAW sold
5 acres of land in the J. W. SCOTT league to Saints Rest Baptist Church; trustees were ---WILLIS & Charles PETERS (Brazos Co. Deed Book O, pp.356-357). Then, on 30 January 1874, Charles
PETERS sold 6 acres of land in the Richardson PERRY league to Saints Rest Baptist Church, J. WILLIS, trustee (Brazos Co. Deed Book P, p.30):
156 Wellborn Baptist Church On 17 Jan. 1887, Annie M. PERKINS (formerly Annie M. FLETCHER) and her husband J. B. PERKINS sold land to the Baptist Church at Wellborn, for cash paid to
them by W. L. ORR and O. R. ORR (Brazos Co. Deed Book 3, p.267). On 30 Oct. 1889, A. HILL and his wife Annie HILL sold land to the Wellborn Baptist Church (Brazos Co. Deed Book 6, pp.
446-447). On 30 Oct. 1889, J. R. DONNELL, A. HILL, J. F. EAVES, and W. M. FOLSON, trustees of the Wellborn Baptist Church, sold the land they got from Annie M. FLETCHER to A. HILL (Brazos
Co. Deed Book 6, pp. 448-449). Then, on 28 Feb. 1890, the Wellborn Baptist Church trustees, who were J. R. DONNELL, J. F. EAVES, and A. HILL, sold land to A. HILL and his wife Anna HILL
(Brazos Co. Deed Book 7, pp. 268-269). INDEX ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 ALDERETE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 ALLEN
. . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 132, 141, 149, 150, 152 ALLEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 ASTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 151 AYMOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 BANJO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 BARNETT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 126 BATTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 BEALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 BERGER . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 BILLINGSLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 BITTLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 BLACK . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 BOYETTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BROGDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 BRYAN . . . 2, 123-131, 135-144, 147, 149-155, 160, 161 BULLOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 154 BUSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 CARROLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 144 CASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 156 CAVITT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 CAVITT . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 CHATHAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129, 147 COLLIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 CONNOR
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 COOPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129, 131, 132, 154 COOPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129, 154 COTTON .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123, 138, 154 CRENSHAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 DAILY . . . . . . . . . . 123-129, 135, 138, 139, 149 DANSBY . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 146, 147, 153, 154 DANSBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 DAVIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 DAVIS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 DEAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 2, 124, 125, 132 DEMPSEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
152 DeMUYNCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 DONNELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 DRISCOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 147 DUNCAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 EAVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 EDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 140, 141 ELZNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 EMMEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 ENGLAND . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128, 154 ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 FANCHON .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 FICKEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 FLETCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
156 FLETCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 FOLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 FOLSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 156 FRANCIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126, 155 FRANCIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 FREEMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 FREEMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 FRITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 GERMAN . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 GLOWSKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 GORDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 GRAHAM .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 GREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 GRIFFIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 154
157 HAJOVSKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 HANUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 125 HARY . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 126, 139 HEARNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 HENDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 153 HERRING . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 HIGGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154, 155 HIGGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154, 155 HILL . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136, 140, 141, 156 HILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 HOELSCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
148 HOGG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 HOLMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 HOLMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 149 HOUSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151, 153, 160 HUBACEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 HUBACEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 144, 147 HUDSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 HUDSPETH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 HUDSPETH . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 HUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126, 129, 132, 135, 149 JAMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130, 144, 152 JONES . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 130, 160 KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 KERN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 KING . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 KOCMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 KOCMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
146 KOEHLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 KOONTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 KURTEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 124, 125 LAWRENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 LAWRENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 LAWTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 149 LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126, 131, 148 LEVY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 LEWIS . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 LIVINGSTONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 LOCKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 LOCKE .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 LUNIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 MALONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 150 MALONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 MANSEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148, 149 MARSHALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 137, 154 MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151, 152 MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 MATUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 147 McCAFFERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 149 McCAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 McCAIN . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152, 153 McCALLUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 McCRAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 McCULLOCH . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153-155 McCULLOCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 McKAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 MEEK . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 MILNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139, 144 MILNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
MITCHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123, 155 MONTGOMERY . . . . . . . . . . 147, 152, 154, 155 MONTGOMERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 155 MYERS . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 MYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 NALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . 137 NEWTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 NORWOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 OPERSTENY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . 144 OPRSTENY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 ORR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 PAGE . . . . 1, 2, 123, 131, 132, 138,
139, 144, 155, 160 PAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 PARKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125, 126, 151 PATKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 PATTERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 PERKINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 PETERS . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 PICOLLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 PICTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 PLASEK .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 POWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 POWERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
155 PRESNAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 PRESNAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 PRESTRIDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 123 PRICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123, 124, 146, 147, 161 PRICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123, 124 PRIDDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . 124 PRINZEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 PRINZEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 PUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 PURYEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124, 125 PUTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 PUTZ . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 RAHNERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 RAMSEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
RANDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125, 126 RAO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 RAWLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 126 READ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 RECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126, 127 RECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 REDMOND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 REED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 128 REGMUND . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 128 REGMUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127, 128 REICHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 REID . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
158 REID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 RESTIVO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 RESTIVO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 128 RHOADES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 RHODES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 ROHDE . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 ROSS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 RUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 126, 130, 139 SCOTT . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 SEBESTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 SHELBURNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 SIKORSKI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . 149 SOSOLIK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 STREET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131, 149 SYPTAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 128 TABOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123, 129 TABOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 THOMAS . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 VALENTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 VALENTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 VAVRA . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144, 146-148 VAVRA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 VITOPIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
WALDROP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 WATTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 WHITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 137, 139 WILL . . 2, 123, 127, 130, 131, 142, 144, 146-150, 154, 160 WILLIAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 WILLIAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . 155 WILLIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 WOLFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 WOLFE . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 149 WOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 154 WORLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 YORK . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 ZEMANEK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 ZIEREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
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