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Benjamin Ambrose “B.A.” Atchley

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Benjamin Ambrose “B.A.” Atchley

Birth
Catlettsburg, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Death
15 Sep 1947 (aged 73)
Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA
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ATCHLEY, B.A.
Known as 'Wheat King'
B.A. Atchley once was known as "Wheat King" of Deaf Smith County. He moved here from Olney in 1917 and settled in the Summerfield Community. There he raised from 200 to 300 acres of wheat per year. He bought the first combine in the county, but his daughter, Mrs. Bill Knox, recalls that his wheat was hailed out while he was in town getting the combine; so he had to wait a year to use it.
Atchley often recounted that he lost his title as wheat king when farmers in the county began raising wheat by the section. He said he came here because his older children were tired of picking cotton and preferred to shock wheat, a job which they no longer had to do when he acquired the combine.
He was born in Tennessee in 1874 and was married to Tennessee Christine DeLozier there on Sept. 17, 1895. They came to Texas a year later, settling at Olney, where they lived for 10 years. They lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at their home in Summerfield in 1945. He died Sept. 15, 1947.
Nine of their 12 children still are living: Mrs. Ellen Thomas, Mrs. Lorene Knox, and Mrs. Christine Lance, all of Hereford; Mrs. Mary Belle Staats, Bentonville, Ark.; Mrs. Gertrude Wade and Thurman Atchley, Summerfield; Mrs. Vergie McKenzie Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Annie Hawkins, Lamesa; and Mrs. Ruth Marceau, San Antonio. There are 22 grand-children. (A History of Deaf Smith County, by Bessie Patterson, 1964
ATCHLEY, B.A.
Known as 'Wheat King'
B.A. Atchley once was known as "Wheat King" of Deaf Smith County. He moved here from Olney in 1917 and settled in the Summerfield Community. There he raised from 200 to 300 acres of wheat per year. He bought the first combine in the county, but his daughter, Mrs. Bill Knox, recalls that his wheat was hailed out while he was in town getting the combine; so he had to wait a year to use it.
Atchley often recounted that he lost his title as wheat king when farmers in the county began raising wheat by the section. He said he came here because his older children were tired of picking cotton and preferred to shock wheat, a job which they no longer had to do when he acquired the combine.
He was born in Tennessee in 1874 and was married to Tennessee Christine DeLozier there on Sept. 17, 1895. They came to Texas a year later, settling at Olney, where they lived for 10 years. They lived to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at their home in Summerfield in 1945. He died Sept. 15, 1947.
Nine of their 12 children still are living: Mrs. Ellen Thomas, Mrs. Lorene Knox, and Mrs. Christine Lance, all of Hereford; Mrs. Mary Belle Staats, Bentonville, Ark.; Mrs. Gertrude Wade and Thurman Atchley, Summerfield; Mrs. Vergie McKenzie Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Annie Hawkins, Lamesa; and Mrs. Ruth Marceau, San Antonio. There are 22 grand-children. (A History of Deaf Smith County, by Bessie Patterson, 1964

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