Cleo was the daughter of John Wesley Houser and Ollie Lee [Hudgens] Houser. Second oldest of thirteen children born to John and Ollie. Cleo was born in a covered wagon in Midland. Her family moved south of Mexico City, Mexico. When the Valista's took their ranch, they were allowed safe passage back to Texas and Hamilton County.
The Houser family moved to Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico where Cleo met her future husband, Norvil Ellis Taylor. He was a friend of her brother, Wendell. They married in a double wedding with his brother in Brownfield, Texas where Ellis' grandfather, Reverend Jacob Clay Lewis was living at the time. He performed the ceremony. Ellis and Cleo raised ten children during the depression years. Cleo sewed tents for families to live in while picking cotton. She also made buttons from toothbrushes, beads from old pencils and mocassins from deer hide for her younger children. Cleo could see a use for just about anything most people would throw away.
Cleo was a quiet, intelligent woman who worked hard to keep her family together. She, along with her husband, raised ten, healthy, loving children on very little. She kept track of each grandchild and great-grandchild as they were born and loved having a large family.
The Houser family moved to Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico where Cleo met her future husband, Norvil Ellis Taylor. He was a friend of her brother, Wendell. They married in a double wedding with his brother in Brownfield, Texas where Ellis' grandfather, Reverend Jacob Clay Lewis was living at the time. He performed the ceremony. Ellis and Cleo raised ten children during the depression years. Cleo sewed tents for families to live in while picking cotton. She also made buttons from toothbrushes, beads from old pencils and mocassins from deer hide for her younger children. Cleo could see a use for just about anything most people would throw away.
Cleo was a quiet, intelligent woman who worked hard to keep her family together. She, along with her husband, raised ten, healthy, loving children on very little. She kept track of each grandchild and great-grandchild as they were born and loved having a large family.
Cleo was the daughter of John Wesley Houser and Ollie Lee [Hudgens] Houser. Second oldest of thirteen children born to John and Ollie. Cleo was born in a covered wagon in Midland. Her family moved south of Mexico City, Mexico. When the Valista's took their ranch, they were allowed safe passage back to Texas and Hamilton County.
The Houser family moved to Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico where Cleo met her future husband, Norvil Ellis Taylor. He was a friend of her brother, Wendell. They married in a double wedding with his brother in Brownfield, Texas where Ellis' grandfather, Reverend Jacob Clay Lewis was living at the time. He performed the ceremony. Ellis and Cleo raised ten children during the depression years. Cleo sewed tents for families to live in while picking cotton. She also made buttons from toothbrushes, beads from old pencils and mocassins from deer hide for her younger children. Cleo could see a use for just about anything most people would throw away.
Cleo was a quiet, intelligent woman who worked hard to keep her family together. She, along with her husband, raised ten, healthy, loving children on very little. She kept track of each grandchild and great-grandchild as they were born and loved having a large family.
The Houser family moved to Lovington, Lea County, New Mexico where Cleo met her future husband, Norvil Ellis Taylor. He was a friend of her brother, Wendell. They married in a double wedding with his brother in Brownfield, Texas where Ellis' grandfather, Reverend Jacob Clay Lewis was living at the time. He performed the ceremony. Ellis and Cleo raised ten children during the depression years. Cleo sewed tents for families to live in while picking cotton. She also made buttons from toothbrushes, beads from old pencils and mocassins from deer hide for her younger children. Cleo could see a use for just about anything most people would throw away.
Cleo was a quiet, intelligent woman who worked hard to keep her family together. She, along with her husband, raised ten, healthy, loving children on very little. She kept track of each grandchild and great-grandchild as they were born and loved having a large family.
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