Esther Seay Milburn was the daughter of George Edward Seay and Eula Cooke Seay. She married Jewell Pettie Milburn 30 Jul 1922 in Rockwall, Rockwall Co., Texas.
According to one of Eula Cooke Seay's journals, Esther was born at 5 PM Friday, March 18, 1898 near Fleming, Comanche Co., Texas.
Esther Seay was born in the old family house "under the hill" in Comanche Co., Texas. She grew up on a farm in Comanche County, Texas near a small community called Gustine. Esther attended school in the country and High School in the town of Comanche, Comanche Co., Texas. While in High School she lived with her aunt Annie Shapard who was a school teacher in Comanche. In 1920/1, Esther went to Business College in Dallas, Texas where she later went to work. She met her husband Jewell Pettie Milburn and was married in 1922. She and "Joe" had a double wedding along with her friend Theo. Esther later seperated from Joe and they divorced in 1950. Esther and Joe had two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Barbara May Milburn. Dorothy was born in Calif. and Barbara "Peggy" in Dallas, Texas. Esther was HR Manager for Texas Employers Casulity Insurance company and worked there until she was 67 years of age. Although she moved several times throughout her life and always rented her home, in 1960 she purchased a house in Dallas, Texas at 4442 Bonham. Her grandson, Gregory Alan Harber purchased her house in 1981 when she went to live in a nurseing home in Dallas.
1940 U.S. Census
Esther Milburn
Birth: 1899, Texas
Gender: Female
1899 Birth Texas
1935 Residence Not Provided
1940 Residence 637 Pembroke J P 7, Dallas, Texas
1940 Age 41
Race White
Marital Status 7
Roll m-t0627-04179 Enumeration District (ED) 255-233
Page 10B Family No. 220 Line Number 43
Household
Head Esther Milburn (age 41)
Daughter Dorothy Milburn (age 15)
Daughter Barbara Milburn (age 11)
1922_08_14
Monday Noon
Dear Mama,
I know how anxious you must be to know all the details about my little affair, and I am going to take a few minutes and tell you just a little, I suppose that Mrs. Swann has told you most of it.
We had talked of marrying in September, all of us, but Theo and I had, when we were little kids, planned to marry secretly just to be doing something different. We happened to mention this to Billie and Milburn one day and they were right in for it. We gave it little consideration until we got to talking about a trousseau, not spelled right I know, but I haven’t time to spell right now, and we decided that we could do this and eliminate a lot of that, and keep it a secret for about a month and maybe pay out of debt.
So, on the 27 day of July (Thursday), Billie and Milburn drove over too Kaufman, Texas, about forty miles from here, and got the license. Then we went to McKinney, Texas, on July 30 (Sunday), and were married by a real sweet nice old Methodist preacher. We came home and they went their way and we ours. No one suspicioned we were married and things went on this way for nearly two weeks.
Milburn got a chance to live in one of his friend’s house until the middle of September, free of charge except paying the nigger girl to do the work, and he thought it was such a wonderful opportunity that he over persuaded me to announce the fact. That was when you got the first wire.
We announced it to everyone the day after I sent you the first wire, and everyone was so surprised that they almost died. Even no one in the house suspected it in the least.
Milburn and I are living at 3812 Stratford Street, Dallas, Texas. By the way, my name is Mrs. J. P. Milburn, but should you send anything down here at the office don’t address it that way for I have not told them that I am married yet. I am going to work on up to the first.
Back to our “would-be” home. It is out in Highland Park, the swellest addition to Dallas, in a great big fine home. I have a cook, who does everything except dressing me, and things are so nice and everything, but I am not as happy there as I expect to be in a little two room dingy apartment. We don’t feel at all at home there.
Theo and Billie have a room o the street just back of us on Columbia and expect to stay there until they can find them an apartment that suits them.
I will not be so foolish as to say that Milburn is the sweetest thing in the world, but I have not changed my opinion about him at all, and I do think that he will always be good to me, provided I don’t mill having dinner at the dot, never burn the bread, am always ready, darn his socks, etc., and you know how perfect I am in all those ways, so why shouldn’t we always live in this dream.
I have not got my trunk yet, but look for it in tomorrow. Thanks for the things you put in it, and I am sure, as I am a poor man’s wife, that I can use them all.
Have received several presents, but will go into detail about thing like that when I have more time to write.
Yes, I was married when I wrote you that letter, had been married one day.
I appreciated Earls letter very much and will write him later.
Love to all, Esther
According to one of Eula Cooke Seay's journals, Esther was born at 5 PM Friday, March 18, 1898 near Fleming, Comanche Co., Texas.
Esther Seay was born in the old family house "under the hill" in Comanche Co., Texas. She grew up on a farm in Comanche County, Texas near a small community called Gustine. Esther attended school in the country and High School in the town of Comanche, Comanche Co., Texas. While in High School she lived with her aunt Annie Shapard who was a school teacher in Comanche. In 1920/1, Esther went to Business College in Dallas, Texas where she later went to work. She met her husband Jewell Pettie Milburn and was married in 1922. She and "Joe" had a double wedding along with her friend Theo. Esther later seperated from Joe and they divorced in 1950. Esther and Joe had two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Barbara May Milburn. Dorothy was born in Calif. and Barbara "Peggy" in Dallas, Texas. Esther was HR Manager for Texas Employers Casulity Insurance company and worked there until she was 67 years of age. Although she moved several times throughout her life and always rented her home, in 1960 she purchased a house in Dallas, Texas at 4442 Bonham. Her grandson, Gregory Alan Harber purchased her house in 1981 when she went to live in a nurseing home in Dallas.
1940 U.S. Census
Esther Milburn
Birth: 1899, Texas
Gender: Female
1899 Birth Texas
1935 Residence Not Provided
1940 Residence 637 Pembroke J P 7, Dallas, Texas
1940 Age 41
Race White
Marital Status 7
Roll m-t0627-04179 Enumeration District (ED) 255-233
Page 10B Family No. 220 Line Number 43
Household
Head Esther Milburn (age 41)
Daughter Dorothy Milburn (age 15)
Daughter Barbara Milburn (age 11)
1922_08_14
Monday Noon
Dear Mama,
I know how anxious you must be to know all the details about my little affair, and I am going to take a few minutes and tell you just a little, I suppose that Mrs. Swann has told you most of it.
We had talked of marrying in September, all of us, but Theo and I had, when we were little kids, planned to marry secretly just to be doing something different. We happened to mention this to Billie and Milburn one day and they were right in for it. We gave it little consideration until we got to talking about a trousseau, not spelled right I know, but I haven’t time to spell right now, and we decided that we could do this and eliminate a lot of that, and keep it a secret for about a month and maybe pay out of debt.
So, on the 27 day of July (Thursday), Billie and Milburn drove over too Kaufman, Texas, about forty miles from here, and got the license. Then we went to McKinney, Texas, on July 30 (Sunday), and were married by a real sweet nice old Methodist preacher. We came home and they went their way and we ours. No one suspicioned we were married and things went on this way for nearly two weeks.
Milburn got a chance to live in one of his friend’s house until the middle of September, free of charge except paying the nigger girl to do the work, and he thought it was such a wonderful opportunity that he over persuaded me to announce the fact. That was when you got the first wire.
We announced it to everyone the day after I sent you the first wire, and everyone was so surprised that they almost died. Even no one in the house suspected it in the least.
Milburn and I are living at 3812 Stratford Street, Dallas, Texas. By the way, my name is Mrs. J. P. Milburn, but should you send anything down here at the office don’t address it that way for I have not told them that I am married yet. I am going to work on up to the first.
Back to our “would-be” home. It is out in Highland Park, the swellest addition to Dallas, in a great big fine home. I have a cook, who does everything except dressing me, and things are so nice and everything, but I am not as happy there as I expect to be in a little two room dingy apartment. We don’t feel at all at home there.
Theo and Billie have a room o the street just back of us on Columbia and expect to stay there until they can find them an apartment that suits them.
I will not be so foolish as to say that Milburn is the sweetest thing in the world, but I have not changed my opinion about him at all, and I do think that he will always be good to me, provided I don’t mill having dinner at the dot, never burn the bread, am always ready, darn his socks, etc., and you know how perfect I am in all those ways, so why shouldn’t we always live in this dream.
I have not got my trunk yet, but look for it in tomorrow. Thanks for the things you put in it, and I am sure, as I am a poor man’s wife, that I can use them all.
Have received several presents, but will go into detail about thing like that when I have more time to write.
Yes, I was married when I wrote you that letter, had been married one day.
I appreciated Earls letter very much and will write him later.
Love to all, Esther
Esther Seay Milburn was the daughter of George Edward Seay and Eula Cooke Seay. She married Jewell Pettie Milburn 30 Jul 1922 in Rockwall, Rockwall Co., Texas.
According to one of Eula Cooke Seay's journals, Esther was born at 5 PM Friday, March 18, 1898 near Fleming, Comanche Co., Texas.
Esther Seay was born in the old family house "under the hill" in Comanche Co., Texas. She grew up on a farm in Comanche County, Texas near a small community called Gustine. Esther attended school in the country and High School in the town of Comanche, Comanche Co., Texas. While in High School she lived with her aunt Annie Shapard who was a school teacher in Comanche. In 1920/1, Esther went to Business College in Dallas, Texas where she later went to work. She met her husband Jewell Pettie Milburn and was married in 1922. She and "Joe" had a double wedding along with her friend Theo. Esther later seperated from Joe and they divorced in 1950. Esther and Joe had two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Barbara May Milburn. Dorothy was born in Calif. and Barbara "Peggy" in Dallas, Texas. Esther was HR Manager for Texas Employers Casulity Insurance company and worked there until she was 67 years of age. Although she moved several times throughout her life and always rented her home, in 1960 she purchased a house in Dallas, Texas at 4442 Bonham. Her grandson, Gregory Alan Harber purchased her house in 1981 when she went to live in a nurseing home in Dallas.
1940 U.S. Census
Esther Milburn
Birth: 1899, Texas
Gender: Female
1899 Birth Texas
1935 Residence Not Provided
1940 Residence 637 Pembroke J P 7, Dallas, Texas
1940 Age 41
Race White
Marital Status 7
Roll m-t0627-04179 Enumeration District (ED) 255-233
Page 10B Family No. 220 Line Number 43
Household
Head Esther Milburn (age 41)
Daughter Dorothy Milburn (age 15)
Daughter Barbara Milburn (age 11)
1922_08_14
Monday Noon
Dear Mama,
I know how anxious you must be to know all the details about my little affair, and I am going to take a few minutes and tell you just a little, I suppose that Mrs. Swann has told you most of it.
We had talked of marrying in September, all of us, but Theo and I had, when we were little kids, planned to marry secretly just to be doing something different. We happened to mention this to Billie and Milburn one day and they were right in for it. We gave it little consideration until we got to talking about a trousseau, not spelled right I know, but I haven’t time to spell right now, and we decided that we could do this and eliminate a lot of that, and keep it a secret for about a month and maybe pay out of debt.
So, on the 27 day of July (Thursday), Billie and Milburn drove over too Kaufman, Texas, about forty miles from here, and got the license. Then we went to McKinney, Texas, on July 30 (Sunday), and were married by a real sweet nice old Methodist preacher. We came home and they went their way and we ours. No one suspicioned we were married and things went on this way for nearly two weeks.
Milburn got a chance to live in one of his friend’s house until the middle of September, free of charge except paying the nigger girl to do the work, and he thought it was such a wonderful opportunity that he over persuaded me to announce the fact. That was when you got the first wire.
We announced it to everyone the day after I sent you the first wire, and everyone was so surprised that they almost died. Even no one in the house suspected it in the least.
Milburn and I are living at 3812 Stratford Street, Dallas, Texas. By the way, my name is Mrs. J. P. Milburn, but should you send anything down here at the office don’t address it that way for I have not told them that I am married yet. I am going to work on up to the first.
Back to our “would-be” home. It is out in Highland Park, the swellest addition to Dallas, in a great big fine home. I have a cook, who does everything except dressing me, and things are so nice and everything, but I am not as happy there as I expect to be in a little two room dingy apartment. We don’t feel at all at home there.
Theo and Billie have a room o the street just back of us on Columbia and expect to stay there until they can find them an apartment that suits them.
I will not be so foolish as to say that Milburn is the sweetest thing in the world, but I have not changed my opinion about him at all, and I do think that he will always be good to me, provided I don’t mill having dinner at the dot, never burn the bread, am always ready, darn his socks, etc., and you know how perfect I am in all those ways, so why shouldn’t we always live in this dream.
I have not got my trunk yet, but look for it in tomorrow. Thanks for the things you put in it, and I am sure, as I am a poor man’s wife, that I can use them all.
Have received several presents, but will go into detail about thing like that when I have more time to write.
Yes, I was married when I wrote you that letter, had been married one day.
I appreciated Earls letter very much and will write him later.
Love to all, Esther
According to one of Eula Cooke Seay's journals, Esther was born at 5 PM Friday, March 18, 1898 near Fleming, Comanche Co., Texas.
Esther Seay was born in the old family house "under the hill" in Comanche Co., Texas. She grew up on a farm in Comanche County, Texas near a small community called Gustine. Esther attended school in the country and High School in the town of Comanche, Comanche Co., Texas. While in High School she lived with her aunt Annie Shapard who was a school teacher in Comanche. In 1920/1, Esther went to Business College in Dallas, Texas where she later went to work. She met her husband Jewell Pettie Milburn and was married in 1922. She and "Joe" had a double wedding along with her friend Theo. Esther later seperated from Joe and they divorced in 1950. Esther and Joe had two daughters, Dorothy Ann and Barbara May Milburn. Dorothy was born in Calif. and Barbara "Peggy" in Dallas, Texas. Esther was HR Manager for Texas Employers Casulity Insurance company and worked there until she was 67 years of age. Although she moved several times throughout her life and always rented her home, in 1960 she purchased a house in Dallas, Texas at 4442 Bonham. Her grandson, Gregory Alan Harber purchased her house in 1981 when she went to live in a nurseing home in Dallas.
1940 U.S. Census
Esther Milburn
Birth: 1899, Texas
Gender: Female
1899 Birth Texas
1935 Residence Not Provided
1940 Residence 637 Pembroke J P 7, Dallas, Texas
1940 Age 41
Race White
Marital Status 7
Roll m-t0627-04179 Enumeration District (ED) 255-233
Page 10B Family No. 220 Line Number 43
Household
Head Esther Milburn (age 41)
Daughter Dorothy Milburn (age 15)
Daughter Barbara Milburn (age 11)
1922_08_14
Monday Noon
Dear Mama,
I know how anxious you must be to know all the details about my little affair, and I am going to take a few minutes and tell you just a little, I suppose that Mrs. Swann has told you most of it.
We had talked of marrying in September, all of us, but Theo and I had, when we were little kids, planned to marry secretly just to be doing something different. We happened to mention this to Billie and Milburn one day and they were right in for it. We gave it little consideration until we got to talking about a trousseau, not spelled right I know, but I haven’t time to spell right now, and we decided that we could do this and eliminate a lot of that, and keep it a secret for about a month and maybe pay out of debt.
So, on the 27 day of July (Thursday), Billie and Milburn drove over too Kaufman, Texas, about forty miles from here, and got the license. Then we went to McKinney, Texas, on July 30 (Sunday), and were married by a real sweet nice old Methodist preacher. We came home and they went their way and we ours. No one suspicioned we were married and things went on this way for nearly two weeks.
Milburn got a chance to live in one of his friend’s house until the middle of September, free of charge except paying the nigger girl to do the work, and he thought it was such a wonderful opportunity that he over persuaded me to announce the fact. That was when you got the first wire.
We announced it to everyone the day after I sent you the first wire, and everyone was so surprised that they almost died. Even no one in the house suspected it in the least.
Milburn and I are living at 3812 Stratford Street, Dallas, Texas. By the way, my name is Mrs. J. P. Milburn, but should you send anything down here at the office don’t address it that way for I have not told them that I am married yet. I am going to work on up to the first.
Back to our “would-be” home. It is out in Highland Park, the swellest addition to Dallas, in a great big fine home. I have a cook, who does everything except dressing me, and things are so nice and everything, but I am not as happy there as I expect to be in a little two room dingy apartment. We don’t feel at all at home there.
Theo and Billie have a room o the street just back of us on Columbia and expect to stay there until they can find them an apartment that suits them.
I will not be so foolish as to say that Milburn is the sweetest thing in the world, but I have not changed my opinion about him at all, and I do think that he will always be good to me, provided I don’t mill having dinner at the dot, never burn the bread, am always ready, darn his socks, etc., and you know how perfect I am in all those ways, so why shouldn’t we always live in this dream.
I have not got my trunk yet, but look for it in tomorrow. Thanks for the things you put in it, and I am sure, as I am a poor man’s wife, that I can use them all.
Have received several presents, but will go into detail about thing like that when I have more time to write.
Yes, I was married when I wrote you that letter, had been married one day.
I appreciated Earls letter very much and will write him later.
Love to all, Esther
