❤ Maud Edwards ❤
Maud was the daughter of Sam and Sally (Hornell) Lowery and the wife of Joseph Henry Edwards. After Mr. Edwards's death Maud married a "Mr. Haddock".
Maud was an exemplary pioneer woman of the West Texas plains and her life story in her own words as recorded by "History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971" is as follows:
"I was born May 6, 1878, at Maryetta, Mississippi. My parents were Sam and Sally Lowrey. We came to Texas when I was six months old. We settled in Leon County, staying there five years, and then moved to Severe County, Arkansas. We stayed in Arkansas for two years and then we moved to Eastland County, Texas. I married Henry Edwards in 1892 at the Courthouse in Eastland.
I worked in the field and drove oxen to the plow. My father was in bad health, and my older brothers were married, so I had to do the work."
"We came to Dickens County in 1899 in a covered wagon. We had two boys, Walter and Luther. We camped at Patton Springs until we got a dugout from Jim Davidson on Croton Flat. It was covered with dirt, and when it rained, it leaked. In the fall we went back to Eastland and picked cotton; while there, our first girl (Mary Edwards) was born in December. We came back in 1900 and rented the Old Baxter farm. There was a two-room rock house and a water well there. Aunt Ann Worthington and her family were our first neighbors. Also Uncle Sam and Aunt Caroline Kennedy. Mrs. H. Swarengen was like a mother to me. Hugh and Ida were small and many times when she knew I was alone with the children, she would get on her horse with Hugh and Ida and come to spend the night with me."
"Dock and Larry Edwards came with us back to Dickens County. My husband, and Larry, age 15, went up the trail with the Matadors. John Smith was the trail boss. Dock planted the crops and made good cotton. I picked cotton for 50 cents per hundred, it took me all day to pick a hundred pounds."
"We moved to what is now East Afton and built a half dugout and covered it with shingles and had windows in it. I was so proud of it. We did not have much wood, so we burned cow chips for heat and cooking. The children went to school at Prairie Chapel. They walked nearly four miles. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Arrington was our nearest neighbors. We were great friends. When the men were gone to Quanah for supplies, we would spend the nights with each other. What a good time we would have. We made pallets for the children to sleep on. We always helped each other. We had hard times, but the good outshadowed the bad. Sometimes we had to haul water from the Duncan Tank. I would take my washing and wash out the clothes."
"Once our oldest daughter was bit by a rattlesnake. The nearest Doctor was at Dickens twenty miles away. We almost lost her. I used the old remedies, and if I hadn't she would have died."
"The Matadors claimed our farm, so we bought a farm near Dumont, I made a living by selling milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables to the Dumont folk. I kept account of the miles I traveled selling the produce and it was over three hundred miles."
"In 1917, we moved to Dickens and bought the old Sol Davis house. I am still living in the same house. I am 88 years old; I have seen Dickens county grow from its infancy until now 1966. I love it and the good people I have lived with in the town of Dickens fifty years, and what good neighbors I have had for a half a century!"
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Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Dickens Baptist Church for Maud Haddock, 92. Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated.
Mrs. Haddock came to Texas in 1878 and to Dickens County in 1892. She died Tuesday in the Crosbyton hospital. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1896. She married J. H. Edwards at Eastland in 1892. He died in 1932. She later married Mr. Haddock.
Survivors include two sons, Walter Edwards, Dickens and Luther Edwards, Irving; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nickels, Oakley, Calif.; 15 grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Cecil Meadors, Fred Arrington, Johnny Koonsman, Sam Porter, Kenneth Atkinson and Ned Nickels.
Interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
Published: ©The Texas Spur, 1971
─════════ ••●•• ❤ In Memory ❤ ••●•• ════════─
Maud was the daughter of Sam and Sally (Hornell) Lowery and the wife of Joseph Henry Edwards. After Mr. Edwards's death Maud married a "Mr. Haddock".
Maud was an exemplary pioneer woman of the West Texas plains and her life story in her own words as recorded by "History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971" is as follows:
"I was born May 6, 1878, at Maryetta, Mississippi. My parents were Sam and Sally Lowrey. We came to Texas when I was six months old. We settled in Leon County, staying there five years, and then moved to Severe County, Arkansas. We stayed in Arkansas for two years and then we moved to Eastland County, Texas. I married Henry Edwards in 1892 at the Courthouse in Eastland.
I worked in the field and drove oxen to the plow. My father was in bad health, and my older brothers were married, so I had to do the work."
"We came to Dickens County in 1899 in a covered wagon. We had two boys, Walter and Luther. We camped at Patton Springs until we got a dugout from Jim Davidson on Croton Flat. It was covered with dirt, and when it rained, it leaked. In the fall we went back to Eastland and picked cotton; while there, our first girl (Mary Edwards) was born in December. We came back in 1900 and rented the Old Baxter farm. There was a two-room rock house and a water well there. Aunt Ann Worthington and her family were our first neighbors. Also Uncle Sam and Aunt Caroline Kennedy. Mrs. H. Swarengen was like a mother to me. Hugh and Ida were small and many times when she knew I was alone with the children, she would get on her horse with Hugh and Ida and come to spend the night with me."
"Dock and Larry Edwards came with us back to Dickens County. My husband, and Larry, age 15, went up the trail with the Matadors. John Smith was the trail boss. Dock planted the crops and made good cotton. I picked cotton for 50 cents per hundred, it took me all day to pick a hundred pounds."
"We moved to what is now East Afton and built a half dugout and covered it with shingles and had windows in it. I was so proud of it. We did not have much wood, so we burned cow chips for heat and cooking. The children went to school at Prairie Chapel. They walked nearly four miles. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Arrington was our nearest neighbors. We were great friends. When the men were gone to Quanah for supplies, we would spend the nights with each other. What a good time we would have. We made pallets for the children to sleep on. We always helped each other. We had hard times, but the good outshadowed the bad. Sometimes we had to haul water from the Duncan Tank. I would take my washing and wash out the clothes."
"Once our oldest daughter was bit by a rattlesnake. The nearest Doctor was at Dickens twenty miles away. We almost lost her. I used the old remedies, and if I hadn't she would have died."
"The Matadors claimed our farm, so we bought a farm near Dumont, I made a living by selling milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables to the Dumont folk. I kept account of the miles I traveled selling the produce and it was over three hundred miles."
"In 1917, we moved to Dickens and bought the old Sol Davis house. I am still living in the same house. I am 88 years old; I have seen Dickens county grow from its infancy until now 1966. I love it and the good people I have lived with in the town of Dickens fifty years, and what good neighbors I have had for a half a century!"
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Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Dickens Baptist Church for Maud Haddock, 92. Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated.
Mrs. Haddock came to Texas in 1878 and to Dickens County in 1892. She died Tuesday in the Crosbyton hospital. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1896. She married J. H. Edwards at Eastland in 1892. He died in 1932. She later married Mr. Haddock.
Survivors include two sons, Walter Edwards, Dickens and Luther Edwards, Irving; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nickels, Oakley, Calif.; 15 grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Cecil Meadors, Fred Arrington, Johnny Koonsman, Sam Porter, Kenneth Atkinson and Ned Nickels.
Interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
Published: ©The Texas Spur, 1971
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❤ Maud Edwards ❤
Maud was the daughter of Sam and Sally (Hornell) Lowery and the wife of Joseph Henry Edwards. After Mr. Edwards's death Maud married a "Mr. Haddock".
Maud was an exemplary pioneer woman of the West Texas plains and her life story in her own words as recorded by "History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971" is as follows:
"I was born May 6, 1878, at Maryetta, Mississippi. My parents were Sam and Sally Lowrey. We came to Texas when I was six months old. We settled in Leon County, staying there five years, and then moved to Severe County, Arkansas. We stayed in Arkansas for two years and then we moved to Eastland County, Texas. I married Henry Edwards in 1892 at the Courthouse in Eastland.
I worked in the field and drove oxen to the plow. My father was in bad health, and my older brothers were married, so I had to do the work."
"We came to Dickens County in 1899 in a covered wagon. We had two boys, Walter and Luther. We camped at Patton Springs until we got a dugout from Jim Davidson on Croton Flat. It was covered with dirt, and when it rained, it leaked. In the fall we went back to Eastland and picked cotton; while there, our first girl (Mary Edwards) was born in December. We came back in 1900 and rented the Old Baxter farm. There was a two-room rock house and a water well there. Aunt Ann Worthington and her family were our first neighbors. Also Uncle Sam and Aunt Caroline Kennedy. Mrs. H. Swarengen was like a mother to me. Hugh and Ida were small and many times when she knew I was alone with the children, she would get on her horse with Hugh and Ida and come to spend the night with me."
"Dock and Larry Edwards came with us back to Dickens County. My husband, and Larry, age 15, went up the trail with the Matadors. John Smith was the trail boss. Dock planted the crops and made good cotton. I picked cotton for 50 cents per hundred, it took me all day to pick a hundred pounds."
"We moved to what is now East Afton and built a half dugout and covered it with shingles and had windows in it. I was so proud of it. We did not have much wood, so we burned cow chips for heat and cooking. The children went to school at Prairie Chapel. They walked nearly four miles. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Arrington was our nearest neighbors. We were great friends. When the men were gone to Quanah for supplies, we would spend the nights with each other. What a good time we would have. We made pallets for the children to sleep on. We always helped each other. We had hard times, but the good outshadowed the bad. Sometimes we had to haul water from the Duncan Tank. I would take my washing and wash out the clothes."
"Once our oldest daughter was bit by a rattlesnake. The nearest Doctor was at Dickens twenty miles away. We almost lost her. I used the old remedies, and if I hadn't she would have died."
"The Matadors claimed our farm, so we bought a farm near Dumont, I made a living by selling milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables to the Dumont folk. I kept account of the miles I traveled selling the produce and it was over three hundred miles."
"In 1917, we moved to Dickens and bought the old Sol Davis house. I am still living in the same house. I am 88 years old; I have seen Dickens county grow from its infancy until now 1966. I love it and the good people I have lived with in the town of Dickens fifty years, and what good neighbors I have had for a half a century!"
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Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Dickens Baptist Church for Maud Haddock, 92. Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated.
Mrs. Haddock came to Texas in 1878 and to Dickens County in 1892. She died Tuesday in the Crosbyton hospital. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1896. She married J. H. Edwards at Eastland in 1892. He died in 1932. She later married Mr. Haddock.
Survivors include two sons, Walter Edwards, Dickens and Luther Edwards, Irving; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nickels, Oakley, Calif.; 15 grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Cecil Meadors, Fred Arrington, Johnny Koonsman, Sam Porter, Kenneth Atkinson and Ned Nickels.
Interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
Published: ©The Texas Spur, 1971
─════════ ••●•• ❤ In Memory ❤ ••●•• ════════─
Maud was the daughter of Sam and Sally (Hornell) Lowery and the wife of Joseph Henry Edwards. After Mr. Edwards's death Maud married a "Mr. Haddock".
Maud was an exemplary pioneer woman of the West Texas plains and her life story in her own words as recorded by "History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971" is as follows:
"I was born May 6, 1878, at Maryetta, Mississippi. My parents were Sam and Sally Lowrey. We came to Texas when I was six months old. We settled in Leon County, staying there five years, and then moved to Severe County, Arkansas. We stayed in Arkansas for two years and then we moved to Eastland County, Texas. I married Henry Edwards in 1892 at the Courthouse in Eastland.
I worked in the field and drove oxen to the plow. My father was in bad health, and my older brothers were married, so I had to do the work."
"We came to Dickens County in 1899 in a covered wagon. We had two boys, Walter and Luther. We camped at Patton Springs until we got a dugout from Jim Davidson on Croton Flat. It was covered with dirt, and when it rained, it leaked. In the fall we went back to Eastland and picked cotton; while there, our first girl (Mary Edwards) was born in December. We came back in 1900 and rented the Old Baxter farm. There was a two-room rock house and a water well there. Aunt Ann Worthington and her family were our first neighbors. Also Uncle Sam and Aunt Caroline Kennedy. Mrs. H. Swarengen was like a mother to me. Hugh and Ida were small and many times when she knew I was alone with the children, she would get on her horse with Hugh and Ida and come to spend the night with me."
"Dock and Larry Edwards came with us back to Dickens County. My husband, and Larry, age 15, went up the trail with the Matadors. John Smith was the trail boss. Dock planted the crops and made good cotton. I picked cotton for 50 cents per hundred, it took me all day to pick a hundred pounds."
"We moved to what is now East Afton and built a half dugout and covered it with shingles and had windows in it. I was so proud of it. We did not have much wood, so we burned cow chips for heat and cooking. The children went to school at Prairie Chapel. They walked nearly four miles. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Arrington was our nearest neighbors. We were great friends. When the men were gone to Quanah for supplies, we would spend the nights with each other. What a good time we would have. We made pallets for the children to sleep on. We always helped each other. We had hard times, but the good outshadowed the bad. Sometimes we had to haul water from the Duncan Tank. I would take my washing and wash out the clothes."
"Once our oldest daughter was bit by a rattlesnake. The nearest Doctor was at Dickens twenty miles away. We almost lost her. I used the old remedies, and if I hadn't she would have died."
"The Matadors claimed our farm, so we bought a farm near Dumont, I made a living by selling milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables to the Dumont folk. I kept account of the miles I traveled selling the produce and it was over three hundred miles."
"In 1917, we moved to Dickens and bought the old Sol Davis house. I am still living in the same house. I am 88 years old; I have seen Dickens county grow from its infancy until now 1966. I love it and the good people I have lived with in the town of Dickens fifty years, and what good neighbors I have had for a half a century!"
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Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Dickens Baptist Church for Maud Haddock, 92. Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated.
Mrs. Haddock came to Texas in 1878 and to Dickens County in 1892. She died Tuesday in the Crosbyton hospital. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1896. She married J. H. Edwards at Eastland in 1892. He died in 1932. She later married Mr. Haddock.
Survivors include two sons, Walter Edwards, Dickens and Luther Edwards, Irving; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nickels, Oakley, Calif.; 15 grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Cecil Meadors, Fred Arrington, Johnny Koonsman, Sam Porter, Kenneth Atkinson and Ned Nickels.
Interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
Published: ©The Texas Spur, 1971
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