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1.arrint, Ivey G. PW Labbook County
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Lubbock, Texas ug. 1
"My father Dr. William Sant, vmol a physieian employed by the government
in the Indian Territory, for 10 years,* Mrs. George B. Bean sAd. "I wae horn
28 miles south of Arkansas Gity in the northern part of Oklahoma, but my aarente.
moved to the South Plains when I wee quite small and iodated at Battu:ado in 1881.*
"The land eronnd Nsteeado used to belong to the State of Texas„but,paxls
Gor acauired aart of it and etxted a little settlement there. This settlement
was aonerally known as "The Qmakmr Colony." and was the only Qniker settlement
ever elteibliehed in the %tete of Texas. In 1884 the ventilation wa$ estimated at
100 Inaabitants, nnebers if new families moving in each year, so that at times it
seemed that Uetalado 'would grow into a nice little town."
"There was one ehnreh in the oolony, the "Priendls Church," they had. a
frame building where they condnoted their services. Also we had a school there,
this !pa the first school on the Plains, anti is often spoken of as the first
school in Lubbodk *runty, but it was really not in 'Jobb.* Gounty, it was in Crosby
Mint
Gountychowever Orosby County had not at this time been organised. mr sister "Daily*/
was the teacher in this first school on the Plains. She tame* in a dugout and had
only sir pupils and I wns one of the six. I as afraid I did not ispicar myself very
diligently to my books thong's, I was only about 5 yeare old and as my iAtater was
the teacher I felt privileged to do as I pleased.
"There was only one water roll in Bstacado at this time." lire. Bean coma
tinned. It WAS called "The Public Well," and was dug by Paris Ger, who heeled
the reek from Diane* Canyon to well the well."
"The Plains suffered a drouft in "84" and the people had to buy almost
everything they needed," Mrs. Bean explained, "The stores had to have their *applies
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'Mxperiencee of a pioneer
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hauled from Amarillo and Colorado City so thet they sometimes ren short on erovie—
ions. lice corn eau the erineipal grain crop raised, and when the colony hen to
face a ehortage on flour, rice corn was eroune into meal and this WAS used to make
hoe cekes. We had elente of -rain the next year and raised abundant croes. Thor.
was one thing that was a great help to the little settlement during the lean yea's
though and that was, that there we neerly alemee plenty of meat for the tehlee,
for wild hogs were still to be found. In the °sentry and thousands of antelope and
beefalo rommed the plains. There were a good many deer here then too, and theoe
provieed food for a good reny of the vowel*. A nueber of the colonists raised
small crops, some of these were ceitiveted with wild horses which they oeetured be—
tween Xstreedo and Amarillo, these animals soon become domisticated and leerned to
de the work of the ordinary reek heree on the femme."
uletteoado enjoyed a Tetr or two of prosperity and rut on a building boom,
rhos the county vs organized. The ()twenty seat wee looted at Mstecedo and they
hilt and a two—story court house there. A number of new reeidenceswere
erected, we already had a boardeng house "The Llano Rouse" which ens owned and oe—
father's cousin,
eratisillw soy "George M. Hunt. Cousin. George also had a store. There raa another
store which wes owned by Charlie Nolies, The Central Plains Academy WAO eeteelished
in Sstecedo by the quakers dnring this time. J. F. Moore of Worth Carolina was one of
the teachers at the Academy. However. Blanc:nolo was not to centime!, hr forward marah
into a rrosrvraus torn, for the county seat ras moved to Una. Later it rns located_
at Orosbyton. The Central Plains Aoedemy closed after about two years, as so man,
of the Quakers left Botleetto that the enrollment we not sufficient to keee the
sehool open, so it ran discontinued,"
"ifs left letecado and came to Lubbock to make our hame in 1S93." ?re. Bean
went otW(We already had friends and relatives in the nrw town and thoegh it lied at
this time jut a few houses net out here on the tile wide prairie, we fonneeit a
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reviences of a Pioneer
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LUbbook 7exas
weneerfel elm(' to live. nnd in all these years 1 have nee°, dhaneed ny mind. I
have wetehed Dobbook (mow, I have done what I &mid to help it grow. "7e hem hod
dvonthe and seedetorms, nmd in 2893 ee had u Asusehoerer plague, the ,-itanev, —ere
even rite the evens in the /Intim., that yeers but all the eay armed I think the
Plaine in the beet rlaoe in the world to live."
"1 nn often amused at seep of the flotitieue tides thet rneee eta c-neerninig
olut early days here" dro. Been said eeddenly. "I eresume that leceinntivo mines,
indictee the reel fects unen etiioh to be their storiec, simply elabere.te.te
in end -nke un r yarn. Ths-reault has beea in ncleft inetenoos nerely indif7,0".1111,
however rlere have 'elm some nisrerreeentatious (lade ehieh haee boon doerle resented
by tho eiene-res heornae they were utterteuntree-0 There ha 0 7!seen one reeere ale.
minted to the effeet that the leekere at etnaatio uzed tn give domes for the
Indiens. I an sure thnt this in not tree., Irees ue at netaeado1 the reeele there
were relatives and friends of ourS, and I met costal.* never have krown or heerd
of anything of this kind to hnve hnenened. In the firet rlaoe the 'iurkers did net
denee themselves. neither did they eive eene-e. besides that. the Tndieno !'r0 been
vanquished fron the eldine be ore the ,Welker %low woo °stanched at 71-AT:e4A0.
I renedber hearine of two event* of Inainne naseine tePotet the eettlerent, htle the,
only ennead over night and went (len their wen, oe that vit,\ the °mention of 1 few
sto itraerled through the country now end thea4 ma did not hem then in eel. nielst end
the nolontstn woeld not have essoolated with them hc1 thew teen there. rrt did not
dislike the Indians, but it is retereetereee to aamne that the lmnkers weeld hew.
hrld ame enterteineente for them whatsoever, had they boon in the enttlenent. The
Inakere. it at he remenhered, whore a very relig1000 mat, and their socials
Imre alweres wellhead in a etriotle difeeifiod manmer."
"I recall my two 'deters* we/041nm emeemonion b-ek in If04 while ee were
ing n 'ieltneede. The fteket-merrineo oereaony was indeed a vet? semen Mufti.