"Mother"
James Christopher Cox recorded his cattle brand in Lampasas County September 11, 1873 and Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle Cox recorded her brand there February 17, 1874. The two separate recordings portended domestic trouble.
A feather bed was the downfall of the domestic tranquility of James Christopher and Betsy Van Winkle Cox. James Christopher had promised his eldest daughter (by a previous marriage) that she would receive a bed that her mother had treasured while she was living. And when this daughter married sometime before her 17th birthday in 1870, he proceeded to take down the bed and deliver it to her new home. That's when Betsy stepped into the picture and forbade any such generosities with her household furnishings, regardless of what had been promised before or after her coming into the family. James Christopher ignored the protest and delivered the bed to his daughter. At that point Betsy stated defiantly that as soon as she discharged her obligation to raise her family under his roof, she was leaving- - and she did, too, about 20 years later. For the rest of their lives they lived separately.
On January 1, 1876 James Christopher transferred his farm to Betsy, according to Lampasas County Deed Book D, page 280, apparently in an effort to reconcile the matter.
Story goes that after Elizabeth and James Christopher were living separately she and the daughter dug a well on their place and one of the horses fell into the well. They shoveled dirt back in until the horse was able to get out and then they redug the well and put a fence around it so the horses couldn't get into it.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle was the family's "medical expert." She went about visiting the sick, and waiting on them and serving as midwife. She gathered roots and herbs and concocted medicine from them.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" was a large woman with a great capacity for physical work. She smoked a corncob pipe which was ultimately handed to a great-grandson, Dorman Elmer Cox. She had an " air of independence" and although she was entitled to a widow's pension upon the death of her husband, she refused it.
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James Christopher Cox recorded his cattle brand in Lampasas County September 11, 1873 and Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle Cox recorded her brand there February 17, 1874. The two separate recordings portended domestic trouble.
A feather bed was the downfall of the domestic tranquility of James Christopher and Betsy Van Winkle Cox. James Christopher had promised his eldest daughter (by a previous marriage) that she would receive a bed that her mother had treasured while she was living. And when this daughter married sometime before her 17th birthday in 1870, he proceeded to take down the bed and deliver it to her new home. That's when Betsy stepped into the picture and forbade any such generosities with her household furnishings, regardless of what had been promised before or after her coming into the family. James Christopher ignored the protest and delivered the bed to his daughter. At that point Betsy stated defiantly that as soon as she discharged her obligation to raise her family under his roof, she was leaving- - and she did, too, about 20 years later. For the rest of their lives they lived separately.
On January 1, 1876 James Christopher transferred his farm to Betsy, according to Lampasas County Deed Book D, page 280, apparently in an effort to reconcile the matter.
Story goes that after Elizabeth and James Christopher were living separately she and the daughter dug a well on their place and one of the horses fell into the well. They shoveled dirt back in until the horse was able to get out and then they redug the well and put a fence around it so the horses couldn't get into it.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle was the family's "medical expert." She went about visiting the sick, and waiting on them and serving as midwife. She gathered roots and herbs and concocted medicine from them.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" was a large woman with a great capacity for physical work. She smoked a corncob pipe which was ultimately handed to a great-grandson, Dorman Elmer Cox. She had an " air of independence" and although she was entitled to a widow's pension upon the death of her husband, she refused it.
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"Mother"
James Christopher Cox recorded his cattle brand in Lampasas County September 11, 1873 and Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle Cox recorded her brand there February 17, 1874. The two separate recordings portended domestic trouble.
A feather bed was the downfall of the domestic tranquility of James Christopher and Betsy Van Winkle Cox. James Christopher had promised his eldest daughter (by a previous marriage) that she would receive a bed that her mother had treasured while she was living. And when this daughter married sometime before her 17th birthday in 1870, he proceeded to take down the bed and deliver it to her new home. That's when Betsy stepped into the picture and forbade any such generosities with her household furnishings, regardless of what had been promised before or after her coming into the family. James Christopher ignored the protest and delivered the bed to his daughter. At that point Betsy stated defiantly that as soon as she discharged her obligation to raise her family under his roof, she was leaving- - and she did, too, about 20 years later. For the rest of their lives they lived separately.
On January 1, 1876 James Christopher transferred his farm to Betsy, according to Lampasas County Deed Book D, page 280, apparently in an effort to reconcile the matter.
Story goes that after Elizabeth and James Christopher were living separately she and the daughter dug a well on their place and one of the horses fell into the well. They shoveled dirt back in until the horse was able to get out and then they redug the well and put a fence around it so the horses couldn't get into it.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle was the family's "medical expert." She went about visiting the sick, and waiting on them and serving as midwife. She gathered roots and herbs and concocted medicine from them.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" was a large woman with a great capacity for physical work. She smoked a corncob pipe which was ultimately handed to a great-grandson, Dorman Elmer Cox. She had an " air of independence" and although she was entitled to a widow's pension upon the death of her husband, she refused it.
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James Christopher Cox recorded his cattle brand in Lampasas County September 11, 1873 and Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle Cox recorded her brand there February 17, 1874. The two separate recordings portended domestic trouble.
A feather bed was the downfall of the domestic tranquility of James Christopher and Betsy Van Winkle Cox. James Christopher had promised his eldest daughter (by a previous marriage) that she would receive a bed that her mother had treasured while she was living. And when this daughter married sometime before her 17th birthday in 1870, he proceeded to take down the bed and deliver it to her new home. That's when Betsy stepped into the picture and forbade any such generosities with her household furnishings, regardless of what had been promised before or after her coming into the family. James Christopher ignored the protest and delivered the bed to his daughter. At that point Betsy stated defiantly that as soon as she discharged her obligation to raise her family under his roof, she was leaving- - and she did, too, about 20 years later. For the rest of their lives they lived separately.
On January 1, 1876 James Christopher transferred his farm to Betsy, according to Lampasas County Deed Book D, page 280, apparently in an effort to reconcile the matter.
Story goes that after Elizabeth and James Christopher were living separately she and the daughter dug a well on their place and one of the horses fell into the well. They shoveled dirt back in until the horse was able to get out and then they redug the well and put a fence around it so the horses couldn't get into it.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" Van Winkle was the family's "medical expert." She went about visiting the sick, and waiting on them and serving as midwife. She gathered roots and herbs and concocted medicine from them.
Elizabeth T. "Betsy" was a large woman with a great capacity for physical work. She smoked a corncob pipe which was ultimately handed to a great-grandson, Dorman Elmer Cox. She had an " air of independence" and although she was entitled to a widow's pension upon the death of her husband, she refused it.
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