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Zasuary 10, 1910
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District OBO X1 Paso, Texas
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Jolts ,feoit Mow, rionor of Davis ,:;ounty
Biography
JOkiti
January 10, 1989
600 woiN4
Miele John" as he wee universal known, was said to be the first
white °had born at Tort Sie Cavitt, Texas. Bor. in 1954, he married
asp Gay la WT. In 1994, one of the heavy on -drawn lingoes in use is
the.. dnys carrle1 en earnest young men, his family and ell their world-
ly goods from e hone in Lampasses County out to the frontier.
John ,earts had heard of the range country from old .1unters and
determimed to start for this virgin land where wild game was plentifUl
and a maA *mild blamo a trail fctr bigot', if he possum/pod osourso to do
so. Just *Gamin east" they had Ao particular destiastion. Traveling
slowly, they reserld ilent, then known as kntelope station on the rail...
reed whieh ass balug c.:.mpletea into ..A.OTTA Blanes. tor, ttAy sto;ped
to rest o and found the country the.: had sought.
They sot/ black...tailed deer piled hiiih in wegone, and learned that
the land near tn little frontier station opulu b iat1td up, so John
told his wife 'love fund CA, plata) where I want to go.' Thirty miles
bsyoud Lent, they turned their little hard of cattle loose on a tiream
and properad to *toy. What a wriodigal aeloowe kacieve csny04, the
heart of the Levis ;,:ountains, offered t ia tired group of pioneers. Its
remote beauty, zestful cliwne, lipt4litatO •S, bad sbuadant oame wee
more than they hod ever expected on the long and arduous trip.
Two other fenillet, traveling in the same Darner hftd melte the
journey with John Ltsaui, sod they too knew Emit this wee the promised
land.
iLLIOTT:
;ohn 4els Ueans, i'ionoor or :Asvis ouotty
1-10-48
In ]tor '.arc the home of 'Sienna, Arose and bean, were to moko
history in this part of ths it bend of foxes, for it doveloped that
they established a station 'bleb toes to bostome one of the moot fmmous,
and oolorfUl cow (gauntries in the world. A seotion where tbirt7 or
forty thousand hood of tat oaths, boring the brthd or theme people
rangeri over the unteins, whose peaks were named by Utele John.
His wife 3xe Gay loetons found happiness is the new home, but the
-lamp msetin ratted folks', and one thing was "stoking. alms in the
new oountry the fossil; felt the hood of Gloss association with other
poople lc spiritual iostherlago, sod out of this used ir,rew this Cowboys
esmp mooting, a unique spiritual get..together whioh his no duplieeto.
Prom thirty at 104t first netting held in a brush arbor obieh served 03
a church, the ?coatings ha vt 4,:rotor, to an attonAnnee of thousands. ones
year, sometime in the month of ,,,U4ust, :44tlemost of Texas and their
friends moot in i4iseno otes at tho Blois camp mooting grounds for a
weee of iirtyer ena on *ervic-. f,ltrays the servlees oft/ibis boat
preachers evailnhlo are eeaured.
unele Joh* Means tided the land in "'tissue Faso to the Bloys
Camp Meeting A.ssoei,,..tion, drilled water wello at his own oxponse end
spout his life promoting the friendship and good will fostered in those
meetings. It is said that for years this grend jury mot in favis county
without retornint, a singl,:f indiAmont in the county.
Means died Mowasher 2b, 1937. is wish to be interred
in his belotrod.hille .ne ranted. On e bill riming the huge taberusele
la the bloys C:emp 'lest in grounds two gravfit ttre dug, awl the body of
les Ocly Ames who died twelvo years previous, was reuoved frog -6 Valentine
Texas and plcAH1 besido the ho4 of her bust:at-4A. Rev. Geore Truett of
laL10771
Zolu ,Aok
us, tuntlter of i)erie County
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Dollen came to sonduet the funeral service.
In all the e,lory of a fell day when the hills were .overed with
flagir,7olor and birds sangi r uie, oots of friends gathered A
I:Listen° ass Ira the Blois amp westing .meunns to 00 tribute to
Unelt Jolla end his wits. Cattle men from all over the country, ammo
trevelirg ZOO miles, earns to ht4 there for a few minutes. The truek•
lees of nevem were timilhed on the hill beside the Means ezbin. Dr.
Truett in speaking said ato er* not gathered he in defeat, but to
eelcorate a rietritious life."