Coleman County, Texas, San Angelo, United States
· 1938-01-13
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Holt, William F.
-4.0140ipotfiwg }e -lore Lellie Cox Gan ‘,/velo, RAliGL-LoRE Alliam F. holt was one of the earliest settlers at Ben Ficklin. Es had many years of adventure before coming to the Lest. he says: Page one "1 was born in Baltimore, Ittrylaad, in 16b0 but do not remember any thing of my parents. I was passed around, it se, among friends and kinfolks. I have never gone to school a dt-.4 in my life but I have learn- ed to read and write. Alen I was about ten, a family in Baltimore was going to send me…
Texas, Ben Ficklin, United States
· 1941-02-11
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Howard, Jim
Range -lore PBC from Continuity of Nellie B. Cox RANGEIORE Page one Having lived in the Concho Country in pioneer days, Jim Howard relates the following story: "The people who pioneered the West didn't have brick houses to live in as the younger generation has. Their houses were built out of logs. These logs had the bark peeled off and were cut flat on one side. A trench was dug and these were stood up close together. This made comfortable walls, and with a roof made of buffalo hides, made a…
United States, Coleman County, Texas, San Angelo
· 1941-02-11
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Jones, Hardy
re2. 7 Pangi-Lore Nellie 1. ox, n angel°, Texas. 111.fiGE -LORE Fags one although he is 72 years old, Hardy Jones of Can angel°, Texas, is still an active cowboy. ::xlme men of that age become cooks or do other light work (It any) when on cattle works but not so with Mr. Zones. He hus his mount alloted to him, rides and accomplishes as much as any other hand and such more than many, be- cause of his years of experience. "My brother-in-law raised me", says Mr. Jones. "as lived in nlam County…
Coleman County, San Angelo, England, Texas, United States
· 1938-02-08
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Keith, Seaton
y Range -lore Nellie L. Cox son iingelo, Texas. RiNGE-LORE Seaton Keith, (Englishman), came to west Texas in 1881. He was the owner of the Lipan Springs Rentsh and his style of living was befitting one to the manner born". His large house was luxuriously furnished and servants kept it in perfect order. The meals were pre- pared and served scoording to the best of English tradition-aorrect ohina, silver and napery, the carv- ing of the immense beef roast by Mr. Keith, and the passing of the…
United States, Coleman County, Texas, San Angelo
· 3 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Ketchum, Mrs. Helen
Range -lore Nellie B. Cox San Angelo, Texas RANGD-LCRE Page one Mrs. Helen Ketchum of San Angelo, Texas, wife of the late J. Tan Ketchum, tells of Jim Ketchum (Tan's father) being killed by the Indians. Eugene MoCrohan, (now deceased) one of the early settlers of this country, gave the details of the story to Mrs. Ketohum. Jim Ketchum was a cousin of TOM Ketchum, the noted outlaw. "In the spring of 1867, Jim Ketchum startoc. with a large herd of cattle to Pert sumnert New Mexico, The…
Coleman County, Texas, San Angelo, United States
· 1938-01-24
· 7 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Massey, Tom
Range -lore Nellie B. Cox San Angelo, Texas. (77;r —Z -to° RANGE-LOU Page one #111I father and family came from Mississippi to Dallis when I was one year olds" says Tam Wissey. "There was a very small settlement around one store* I've heard my parents tell' of their hardships in traveling by'wegon train. I can remember that in those years we -didn't have a great variety to eat but we were happier than people are now and we didn't ask "Mr* Government" for no help either. "In 1873 we moved to…
United States, Texas, Coleman County, San Angelo, Mexico
· 1938-05-01
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Morgan, Mr. Tom
t1angc-lore tiellie L. eox oii HANGt-L0Ri vege one. r. Tom k,orgen, or "Uncle Tom," as he is familiarly (felled, hes served many years as a Texas Banger on the Mexican border. He was reared in ell the treditimas of the ranger service, for his father end his unele served as rangers in the earliest days of. the orgenigetion, to protect the Texas frontier from Indian depredations. Mr. Morgan tolls: "My father came to Taxes in 1849, and to the western part of the state in 1856. Mother's family…
San Angelo, Coleman County, Texas, United States
· 1938-02-02
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Russell, Mrs. Cicero
Rene -'lore Nellie 13, Cox San Angelo* Texas, RANG33010RE Poge one Urbo, Cicero Russell, of San Angelo,, Texas, re- lates the following story or pioneer days: "My father, John Burleson, come from Alabemalo the an Sete Country There he aocumulated a small bunch of cattle and then for soma reason, he went to Williamson County. There he married my mother, Naty Williams.' "Grandfather Williams'hed been killed by the Indiana before the Civil War. no and a man by the name of Freeman had started a…
Texas, United States, San Saba County
· 1938-01-09
· 5 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Sheen, Mr. J. D., Sheen, Mrs. J. D.
Range -lore Nellie B. Cox San Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LORE Page one ",my father and mother, Mr. Mrs. J. D. Sheen,went to the San Saba etZUrttrywhen they were first married in 1868," says Mrs. J. F. Treadwell. "Indians were every- where and always on the war path. As there were no fenced pastures, my father was away from home all the time riding to look after his cattle. For one whole summer my mother lived in a one -room house with no door shutter, just a blanket stretched across the opening.…
United States, Coleman County, Texas, San Angelo
· 1941-02-11
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Cox, Nellie B., Webb, Pinkey Joel
_Range -Lore Nellie B. Cox, San Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LORE Page one. Pinkney (Pink) Joel Webb, an old-time cowboy tells: "I have worked on several rranches on what seems now to have been sorry pay but our needs were not many and there is no work that carries with it the pleasure, freedom and comradeship which we found when we worked on the ranches. "One winter I camped on Spring Creek in a big pasture where we kept some calf- heavy cows and some old, poor cows. I had a tent with two wires…
United States, San Angelo, Coleman County, Texas
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Armstrong, Noad, Doyle, Elizabeth
Range -Lore Elizabeth Doyle San Angelo, Texas. n 7 cft i.e RANGE -LORE Page one Noah Armstrong, Ex -Texas Ranger and retired ranchman, came with his parents from Lincoln County, Missouri to Bell County, Texas when he was only ORO year old. "My childhood", says Mr. Armstrong, "was spent on the open range with my father, who owned the first horse ranch in Navarro County. Dealing in horses made our danger from the Indians much worse than any other business we could have been in and on moonlight…
San Angelo, Texas, Coleman County, United States
· 1937-11-17
· 13 pages
Recorded by: Byler, Jake H., Doyle, Elizabeth
Range -lore Elizabeth Doyle -;an Amgelo, Texas. fli:14M-LORE J. H. (Jake) Byler of Mertzon, Texas, came from 'i.ashington County, lawkansas, to Collin County, Texa!, at the age of sixteen. The family traveled in covered wagons, canped out at night, cooked on an open fire, and lay awake nights watching for Indians. Page one first real work," related Mr. Byler, "vas on the Coughlin Ranch in Collin County. I ran cattle all over .est. Texas, from Tom Green to the Pecos and from there to New…
San Angelo, Texas, Mexico, Coleman County, United States
· 1941-02-11
· 11 pages
Recorded by: Campbell, Brook, Doyle, Elizabeth
Range -lore Elizabeth Doyle San Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LORE Brook Campbeil'cume from Indep a. siouri, to Tom Green County when a lad of twelve. Throughout his ranching experience he worked all over West Texas before he settled at Mertson, IrloaCounty, Texas. Mt. Campbell's story follows: "1 used to come to San Angelo with my father when we had to camp in the wagon yard where the Woolworth building now stands. "One Sunday morning we had been in for a. few days and Tom Ketchum was hangin' 'round…
San Angelo, Texas, Coleman County, United States
· 1937-11-18
· 9 pages
Recorded by: Carr, W.j.d., Doyle, Elizabeth
Bange-lore Elisabeth Doyle San Angelo. Texas, iiI RANG -LORE Page one W.J.D. Carr, old time rancher of Sherwood, Texas, was born in the Indian Terri- tory before it beams the state of Oklahoma. His father was prineipal of the Broomfield Academy, a govermmeat sehool for /Mien girls, sad Mrs Carr was tea years old before he ever sew a white. *hilt* "When I was a small biy in the Indian Territory," says Mr• Carr, "I got the fright of my life. My tether was a very quiet, dignified men and our…
Texas, Coleman County, United States, San Angelo
· 1937-11-22
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Cox, L.m., Doyle, Elizabeth
Buis -lore Elinabeth Doyle Ban Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LORE L. U. Cox of Brownwood, Texas was born in Benton County, Arkaw. sae, in 1858 and came to Lrownwood in 1880. Re engaged in the repair tug business for a number of years before retiring. Page one "The cowboy's life as we knew it was certainly lacking in the glamour which we lee on our sereens to- day," says L. 11. Cox of Brownwood„ Texas. "1 have known cowboys to rideane hundred miles per day. I know this sounds unreasonable but they were…
Texas, Coleman County, United States, San Angelo
· 1937-11-17
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Doyle, Elizabeth, Dunman, Mrs. R. L.
Fr: I 14 s-i-bt -)1 y Range -lore Elizabeth Doyle San Angelo, Texas, RANGE -LORE Page one Mrs. E. L. Dunman of Coleman, Texas, was born in Liberty County, Texas in 1848 and has been a native of the stets for 90 years. Her husband was the owner ottheD&OR ranch, one of the largest in the state. He brought to this eountry the famous Double Fleur de Lis (Lily of ?ranee) brand and was the fiction abstracter in Walter Gann'e late novel, "The Trail Bose", His ranch which covered a large portion of…
Texas, Coleman County, United States, San Angelo
· 1937-11-15
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Doyle, Elizabeth, Evans, R. A.
761 AlChA..ff- TR e- b Range -lore Elizabeth Doyle San Angelo, Texas. RANGE -LORE Page one Born in Prinestown, Kentuekr in, 1867, Mr. R. A. Evans of Eldorado, Texas, was a member of one of the first wagon trains which went from that place to Springfield, Missouri. They remained there only a short time before gOing On to Kim- mel then from Kansas back to Vissouri, twice crossing whet was then the Indian Ter- ritory and escaping dangerous attacks from the Indians only by the most careful…
Texas, Coleman County, United States, San Angelo
· 1937-11-15
· 4 pages
Recorded by: Doyle, Elizabeth, Halbert, B. M.
Benge-lore .aizaboth ,oryle nee lo, Tex s. RANGE -LOBE E. LI. Halbert of :Anoxia Texas, is one of the oldest and most interesting characters of that section which is known as the "Penehmen's Paradise." Pege one "I've been here a long time," said 1„.r. Halbert, ."but I've never learned to like cows yet, maybe be- cause my father made me milk them when I was a boy. Talk about a goat a-stinkin', why I'd rather smell a dozen goats than one old wet cow. You know they al- ways small worse when…
San Angelo, Texas, Coleman County, United States
· 8 pages
Recorded by: Doyle, Elizabeth, Henderson, J.f.
r -C Ran6e-lore laIzaheth Doyle Page one R44GE -LONE J.I.(Red Horse) Henderson has been a resident of Coleman County for 58 years. Born in Robertson County, Texas in 1864 he came to Cole- man with his father's family at the age of fifteen and has lived there con- tinuously, except when off on drives. "I can hardly remember when I became a cowhand", says. r. henderson,for I think I began to fool with cattle long before I was old enough to make a first class hand. 14 father and four neighboring…
San Angelo, Texas, Coleman County, United States
· 1937-11-16
· 6 pages
Recorded by: Doyle, Elizabeth, Hoover, Mrs. Laura
7 F; A ti Range -lore zlizabeth Doyle ban Angelo, Texas. Ria4Gb-LORI Pose one Mother Hoover, as Mrs. Laura Hoover is affectionately known to her friendatis one of Ctoekett County's most interest. and lovable pioneers. She helped to build, and lived in, the first house in Crockett County. Her present beautiful and hospitable home is known far end wide as a haven of welcome, interest, and *harm. "we Hoovers are really old timers here," smilingly related Mrs. Laura Hoover of Ozone, Texas, "and we…