Mary Jane Cummins lived in London, Tx and meet her future husband A.D. Cummins while she was cooking midnight meals for her father's gin hands. They married on Dec. 26, 1900. In 1902, shortly after the birth of Clarence Dale Cummins, they left London,Tx in two covered wagons. The trail from Midland, Tx to Monahans, Tx they had to go thru the sand hills which was littered with furniture others had left to lighten their loads thru the heavy sand. Water for people and horses got first priority.The Cummins traveled into New Mexico: Carlsbad, Hope, Roswell and Cloudcroft. At Hope Mr. Cummins left the wagon bed for his wife and baby and went into the mountains to cut Cedar Post. Mrs. Cummins loose-tied a dog at each end of the wagon for protection. The dogs barked all night. The next morning she found tracks of men who had circled the wagon. She told the boss she would shoot to kill if the hands bothered her again. They were amused. She raised a Winchester and shot a road runner about a 100 yards away. She wasn't bothered again. Later they camped by a springe on the Pecos River and met Will Murry, who suggested they go to Grandfalls, Tx. They settled in Grandfalls in 1903. They had 8 children-6 boys & 2 girls. They homesteaded there.
Mary Jane Cummins lived in London, Tx and meet her future husband A.D. Cummins while she was cooking midnight meals for her father's gin hands. They married on Dec. 26, 1900. In 1902, shortly after the birth of Clarence Dale Cummins, they left London,Tx in two covered wagons. The trail from Midland, Tx to Monahans, Tx they had to go thru the sand hills which was littered with furniture others had left to lighten their loads thru the heavy sand. Water for people and horses got first priority.The Cummins traveled into New Mexico: Carlsbad, Hope, Roswell and Cloudcroft. At Hope Mr. Cummins left the wagon bed for his wife and baby and went into the mountains to cut Cedar Post. Mrs. Cummins loose-tied a dog at each end of the wagon for protection. The dogs barked all night. The next morning she found tracks of men who had circled the wagon. She told the boss she would shoot to kill if the hands bothered her again. They were amused. She raised a Winchester and shot a road runner about a 100 yards away. She wasn't bothered again. Later they camped by a springe on the Pecos River and met Will Murry, who suggested they go to Grandfalls, Tx. They settled in Grandfalls in 1903. They had 8 children-6 boys & 2 girls. They homesteaded there.
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