According to his daughter, Mayanne:
"By the time my father, Henry Deweese, had grown to manhood the famous Shawnee Cattle Trail from Texas passed right by the Border Village (or Seneca as it was now called) as the huge herds of longhorn cattle were driven up out of Texas to the railroad in Sedalia or Baxter Springs to the north. They were always in need of drovers, and for a young man then it was an adventure to ride the cattle trail as a cowboy. Henry Deweese, then about 21, succumbed to the lure of this hard, but exciting life, and became a trail driver and cowboy riding the Shawnee Trail and later the old Chisholm Trail.
But in 1883 when he was home in Seneca, he met Margaret Ellen Brunk, a pretty 17 year old daughter of Jacob Brunk. She was pretty, with gray-blue eyes and almost blue-black hair. At the time she was not only helping her parents on the farm but studying art with a passing artist, and painting very good pictures. She could sing and had a lovely alto voice, and it may have been at an all day singing that they first met. He was 28 now and ready to settle down. They were married on Nov. 15, 1883 and moved onto a farm near Bethel Baptist Church. They had eight children. Henry Deweese was an excellent carpenter and builder.
"By the time my father, Henry Deweese, had grown to manhood the famous Shawnee Cattle Trail from Texas passed right by the Border Village (or Seneca as it was now called) as the huge herds of longhorn cattle were driven up out of Texas to the railroad in Sedalia or Baxter Springs to the north. They were always in need of drovers, and for a young man then it was an adventure to ride the cattle trail as a cowboy. Henry Deweese, then about 21, succumbed to the lure of this hard, but exciting life, and became a trail driver and cowboy riding the Shawnee Trail and later the old Chisholm Trail.
But in 1883 when he was home in Seneca, he met Margaret Ellen Brunk, a pretty 17 year old daughter of Jacob Brunk. She was pretty, with gray-blue eyes and almost blue-black hair. At the time she was not only helping her parents on the farm but studying art with a passing artist, and painting very good pictures. She could sing and had a lovely alto voice, and it may have been at an all day singing that they first met. He was 28 now and ready to settle down. They were married on Nov. 15, 1883 and moved onto a farm near Bethel Baptist Church. They had eight children. Henry Deweese was an excellent carpenter and builder.
According to his daughter, Mayanne:
"By the time my father, Henry Deweese, had grown to manhood the famous Shawnee Cattle Trail from Texas passed right by the Border Village (or Seneca as it was now called) as the huge herds of longhorn cattle were driven up out of Texas to the railroad in Sedalia or Baxter Springs to the north. They were always in need of drovers, and for a young man then it was an adventure to ride the cattle trail as a cowboy. Henry Deweese, then about 21, succumbed to the lure of this hard, but exciting life, and became a trail driver and cowboy riding the Shawnee Trail and later the old Chisholm Trail.
But in 1883 when he was home in Seneca, he met Margaret Ellen Brunk, a pretty 17 year old daughter of Jacob Brunk. She was pretty, with gray-blue eyes and almost blue-black hair. At the time she was not only helping her parents on the farm but studying art with a passing artist, and painting very good pictures. She could sing and had a lovely alto voice, and it may have been at an all day singing that they first met. He was 28 now and ready to settle down. They were married on Nov. 15, 1883 and moved onto a farm near Bethel Baptist Church. They had eight children. Henry Deweese was an excellent carpenter and builder.
"By the time my father, Henry Deweese, had grown to manhood the famous Shawnee Cattle Trail from Texas passed right by the Border Village (or Seneca as it was now called) as the huge herds of longhorn cattle were driven up out of Texas to the railroad in Sedalia or Baxter Springs to the north. They were always in need of drovers, and for a young man then it was an adventure to ride the cattle trail as a cowboy. Henry Deweese, then about 21, succumbed to the lure of this hard, but exciting life, and became a trail driver and cowboy riding the Shawnee Trail and later the old Chisholm Trail.
But in 1883 when he was home in Seneca, he met Margaret Ellen Brunk, a pretty 17 year old daughter of Jacob Brunk. She was pretty, with gray-blue eyes and almost blue-black hair. At the time she was not only helping her parents on the farm but studying art with a passing artist, and painting very good pictures. She could sing and had a lovely alto voice, and it may have been at an all day singing that they first met. He was 28 now and ready to settle down. They were married on Nov. 15, 1883 and moved onto a farm near Bethel Baptist Church. They had eight children. Henry Deweese was an excellent carpenter and builder.
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