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November 30, 1936.
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Wawa 2eminisainco* Of Newly Days
Dietriet IT. In labheok County.
Bibliogrsohy
Nes, in
T. Beene.
13th St,
Lubbock, Texas.
aame to Labbook from Fannin County 41 years ago; 941d rts. T. Boone, 82
yanr old Lubbock pioneer: 4NV health was failing, so we decided to move to the pliklas
in the hoe that the change would help me. We hitched our mules to two big farm emg.
ens, loaded heavily with furniture and all of the other things that we felt.thet we
could not part with and could pile in the wagons and started out. 74 brought a Small
herd of cattle along with us part of the way and they hindered us a great deal, so
we made slow progress on the roads at first. The weather was sultry, it was in Au.
gust, and after a few days the cattle boon to show the strain or the long drive and
lost considerable weight. But we managed to find a good place to camp over Sundays
and there was usually a grassy spot where the sows could spend the day grazing* We
had three little children then and oticourse after the novelty of the trip wore 'off
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they grew tired of ?idling so much and warned the opportunity to Ahleaoa a. day to
get out rnd stretch their cramped legs and ploy*
'People were very nice to us all along the way, exoopt that they were sort of
afraid of our (settle* ihey had ticks-'. *ether Boone laughed. It was a salon*
thing therkir soon found out thrt the western people had a horror of the eastern
pow ticks. They feared the outbreak of sone stock doisoeso, as there had been an
epidemic of fever semi -Time before this ohleh had been attributed to the transport.
ntion of tick infested cattle into the pountry.see felt the Opposition toward our
little herd growing stronger as we journeyed westward and finally we oese-Se-Ohe
decision to to get something dons about the ticks. When we reached Archer City we were
fortunate enough to find a man who would tam ears of the cows and esterminatelabe
4 -qnrren, rve7 G.
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Iabbook county
Listriat 17
Reeiniscencee of Norly Delis
In Lubbock 0ounty.
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inseclE, so xe 14ft our 0.7tttle tleo end traveled fnster ovlr otutr. raids
that -led US to our new 'home In the west."
"Al effeats of the hot, dry weather on the oro4s alad te pc -stores became nave
unticable ard the disoournsement of the ft)rears was apparent n11 through the coner.
try. The r-q•t:14r west we oara the dryer 43 found ity. until et last we Sa3nn todl
goes to farms tr.; hvd been abandoned. -!;or would drive up to a plso?,, some of us
vomit( .et t mnd !,;efu tt the houses it would be vaanntorthe wthflrfl1 would be
turned off. There would be no 1st+ life vetted). only the birds on win;r in tie
nir or ?eAlps 3 wild rnboit would scuttle by. 40 clamped n; these desertaft flrme
uumetiffJ' o /t ,Afrys sorud and lonely foolinTi• ILIbthqr 3cono 0.011ndm
inj t4r A k
'In ont of the ha so would be the winding rend, not mesh more than lane, but
over it „Aa)le hid 30MS with bih hopes behind the house lay the fields where
ho- ies Ii1U died.- area nnd aores of parahed land,rgithing for the eye to see
then
but withurod twi:7e, that had once been grass or erop.pl nts, eftemgreen and promie-
iniT, non. auruad nod gone. it i:cs alarming Un think tiv,t the countiv in whieh
or17; •::ith OMP all, wns '1 drouth striaken nren.tv
:6110 ,LInk17- 1otlocl rA stai.1/Aio tend- an enrollment of CO5 str.detIttv, _ titer
C/94.R44"-S Nolwies
:',Oon ef,:ri".Mnd, zut wham WQ !Qt tO 214ROMOD WO were told by a Ayliemes, OM Of the
morshn,ts thulre, :.?,ho •iblie of up f,ker IFith, thnt the school hse jus boln dis,Inntinnetio
r.6. GO Mtiflc ,N..) the oeorle Itsd left there on soonni of the drouLh. loan or the most
promInent •)eoplo or aOtaccdo hcd moved to Tnhboak, lr. golmos snid, cror.,7 those Aso
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he taetipnec. ,,ere,tilmq7-;401,VE2vrtiliteckd
te sod-jusge/lAan. .:43 met those fine
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PnoPle wLur, .:1•J ctn to LobbooklicASIdes...Amonewbent4ets,410e,nd everfone kow;:s that they
hve don man to make this Uvula zity wiS it Ls today.*
e renabee our dostintition, we stopped at a small sheep -ranch.. Pother
Boone wont on with her story. .'1,t was nearly night, the people grnoious1;), inAted US
in Lid ukeLi us to 'wry for supper. Let when I went into the kitahen, I wrs shocked
to thnt the hos by the cook stove wee filled with old dried waste from the cow
pens, anAtedeemanessar she .11.1.1s went over to the bow and replenished the fire elms
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Warren. Ivey 3.
November 30, /966.
Zubbfaa 001117
District -IT
Rettlftleconaes Of Zarly4tryie
likhook OeuftSy•
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this rofuseaiwes suddenly siok and felt that I emit net possibly est or no up fondly
pariahs of food that Mittman oohed in this manaer, tut I wens tut and pinauded my
husband Sc into an exam for no. Ne did an and wo left been the weed wrs resdy to
serve, But there as no wood in the winG and Goal was not only expensivo, it had to be
hauled a long distance and when supply gave out it was bent Lens diffioult to send
to the other towns after montgo feel was molly stores, end though at first I reboil.
ed. against it., the time same when I had te usa in the fire box of
my own dook stove".
vre4 get to /abhor* Count; in Beptemberic it took is about m month tn unks the triDie
tfr4i)
vio located about 9 miles east of town Mother Booas-elieesel.quitily. "We bought a
Sion of land out there rand as soon 21 we mould we sent r:fter our eattleA they had been
left with the man in Amber County for six weoks then. -s die not try to farm =eh At
that tivatx.pere was not muoh terming in the west thentroottes was not raised here that
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stArly, so we had a little ootile renehomer-shout I00 hoad.was-mhs4-wo-usuolly-kurrt. ra
*ailed this plows of stirs the Boone Benoit, and our brand was a double 3, so all of our
.,031110 wart, branded with BB."
"here was not any railroads through /Abaci* in Oats dsys, the nearest linos
at mumrillo and Colorado 01t6.Peeple mall to go in wagons to one or the other of then
towas to bay'provielons and twill( it generally took them three days tote and five days
,to return with their loads if tho weather turned off real bad, it would take thin a day
or two longer," Mother 3oono reoallsd, "And the folk at home amid get worried about
them sometime* before the; got loaek."
"There was two stores in Ubbook when we move& hero* ono of till* was ewes& by Irvin
Nast and the other one belonged to J D. Caldwelly,The old. id smiled, "Oh, yet, all
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these/elderly men you see areant town, .ere here thong( thins atao. as I just said, litr.
Oaldtall and. Wuraspre-eini Ths Irown/ he was stated ,lotunty Judo of
labboak County. XY &min G. %swum was first &O;nty judgex Judie Brown begia his
first term in 1896 when Oman cloorge went out of that eat*. Otusla.Seorge was flue
ferrets, Ivey G. Dehtbsolt Oottety
November 50, I938.
District IT
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Restinlikteueslt Of Fatty Dogs
Oquaty•
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in, but he had lots of trouble, poor 'fellow. le was getting along in years even
at this time., he has a Colonel in the :.zzei durilog the Jiwil war. -iris wife died and
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left him one ohild, a girl x Lobe sFkrrilli and Med thee her baby vas eatallif *Fat a
girl. I do rket know what became of the grandchild, but Cousin leorve finally took a
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little boy co zniseA ii-Cer vas still living mad elish they slat, 00usin 04:torso
had looms to love the boy se welt that he twirried the-ebiles-mother. He left 'here
stud went to Tacint4 we hoard hot he hod died at Jorpes
t.::*et Iw-tt telling !leant the peoi,lo who were here 4
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AstigeJ ostm here
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.1..u-stae-fthent-I9050,-seser Mrs. J. !3. Mobley Aim hers In those early da,ve too. ,"Jot her
-Woe sty -Ailed a minute," Tess and O. Holes* hin wife B a sister of Rollie !urn*."
4theti we first got -onS hare there wee not a church beusaAssio. theiphod aorvliv!s
sepot.tame the those Oben. a visiting preaoher wou14, acme auci-psbaosh=for=us„.' bet.
lifter r time IA•se bb24skloosteced tafg“ttius. sonations which amounted to '4100.00 to
go in art a building for a Lapilst Ohurch. As rowboat' over the eountry grlve p large
pert of: this money. The church vms bu.lilt two bleaka north of •.'here Jnage/InGes now
Avian&
lives on towns G* title Wald. be 1.:boet where the Hodges '';torts is now located tAmoss
from the leireoeit ;Peolerel amilalne. c, flog sugogy sgaggi thgn &go Judge Naillgg lag
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our 7uperiateneentg sad be was -just as faithful as I* Gould soon -brays there to rthg.
th,t be 1.
OC,A+ Le-*-aJ -F-144-ft a-e.e. rAowt/tAia.
dadoslee-tioes-hot-eervioes-
lding belonged to the 3a$Ist peolle, was sort of a oommtnity hews. there any
of the other thurchos could hiAve their surviees har, .i ViStiriF; star awe bemires*
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orweeny e i.oloose to 346allo the services there.°
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'Mu Naawrfeee had a flatlaing here t4o2t* in a tba-trilrEa1114 be 304441 th3
gIlitfEIVA4'n *nd we were st serVi4iss One Itaffit: Alm 140 had e storm': Mottar
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Aaloa--citia-wiltattioverehere woo seveml ir the tent when It down bat them
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liarren, Ivey G. Liabboak County Reniniscenoes Of Early Days.
November 38, 1936, District 17 In Labbook county Pg.6
Nether l'oone.prondly. "1 have a dollar now tiut was handed down to him from his great
grant sv,ndfather* it is dLted 1810."
4Vy husoand died In June 134, Mother !,00rie sighed and leaned back in her chair"
e al s had to take oar* of mw health, but now he is gone, and I an loft here with.
out him. I have been crippled ur in two or accidents. The first tine was about ZO
yobra dgo when we ware going to Plaiaviell one day it we were in a hack and here come a
fellow in an old oLr that haa had the wind shield broken out and he hrd put
beard in it anti Gould not see where he was going* be ran right into us, broke nc, arm
but did not hurt any of the rest of the family. Then about IO yeers age we were coming
home from Achita ?Oaf hhat-&e where one of my sons live, and we rfn off of an enbenk-
sent. broke my hip and the other arm, so I am kind of stiff in my limbs, but r guess
do pretty well to be oe old as I slow
Eo I do not mini the sand stor7Iiwnnt like I use tor I just .it here and
let them blow. I think thot to take it all the way around, this is one of the finest
countries in the world. I will never forget when they first tried to raise cotton out
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here on the plains* abet was in I906* a NO Peeler had planted some and Mr. Boone
was skeptioal* he said bic was going over and take a look a t tha!;,patch of oottonpr
'moody
well he came back just thrilled to doatka he said it simply looked flpio, Mr. Peeler
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took the cotton to Post and had towels and thing* like that tads at the mills there and
showed them all around the country, just to demonstrate what the west plains 'cotton
oe),
could do. this is a wonderful country. I went to Fort Lavaca and stayed a while
wher Igot back the RaiffealrgremWeing,6011TrYlas as but I beve been here
t!wi most of 41 years watehing Lubbock grow, and I think this is a mighty fine place
to live".
*I sometimes fear that our country is likely to be confronted with a very serious
neve situation in the next few years*, Nether Boone unexpectedly buret forth, showing
that she does not always *well an the past, but that her keen perceptive mind is 111414r
with the problems of the ise,, which she feels are already casting their gigantic
Marren, Ivey O.
Voveveler O. 1936.
laibbock County Reminiscences Of Sarly Demi
District /7 In laibbodk County
'Shadows across our future paths. The social equalisation of the hips with the Shit*
will never be eAlitttea to by those Whose bemrts tent with the proud blood of South.'
emn. ancestors. I think thct the negro has his rights, but they Should be exercised
in hie awn environment and that this effort to smooth themselves uron the -whites is
a grave mistake whiCh is ceirtatn.to receive a rebuff sooner or inter and cause s
vast degree of unrest threuel-out the Mite& ltatelV.
vlow this thing with elites, Rather loon. confeesed. 'And it OR,114 to me thnt
the only satiefotory goy to dispose of it lo to provide n reservntiln for the noels',
such as was sot aside for the Indians. Rare they would he allowed to live their ono
lives and.the olportunity would be afforded thee to become political and stall leaders
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amongNown cnste. The attempt to break down the barriers and place the Repro population
on on equal standard with the white people is not only preposterous, but is is also
to
detrimentlesp-both whit. and negro alike. I do not beitve it mill ever be accompliehed,
1 -nit I -do thirer thcA it may cause a conflict among our people and perhaps may lend to
mother nn.tional war, unless it is thwarted While there is yet time.*