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Obit: Olney Enterprise

W.C. BADGWELL SERVICES HELD HERE MONDAY

Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist Church Monday afternoon for W.C. Badgwell, 90, who died Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. B.(D)J. Cooper. Rev. W.H. Townsend, pastor, officiated.
Mr. Badgwell was a retired farmer and well known in this area.
Besides his widow, he is survived by three sons, R.C. and H.J. Badgwell of Bowie and T.J. Badgwell of Fort Worth; three daughters. Mrs. R.E. McNatt of Casa Grande, Ariz., Mrs.R.T. Ward of Bowie and Mrs. Cooper, 38 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.
Internment was in the Olney Cemetery under the direction of Thomas Funeral Home in Wichita Falls.
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The Following article from the Baylor County Newspaper was sent to Betty C. Omholt by Pauline Badgwell(Widow of Clinton Sebern Badgwell). Clinton Sebern was the Grandson to William Chester and the son of John Badgwell and Ira Modine Whaley. Jack Jones was the Nephew by marriage to Walter Cooper(son of W.B. Cooper).


Seymour, Baylor County, Texas Thursday, January 3, 1991

MUSEUM NEWS by Jack Jones

Clinton Badgwell's grandpa was quite a character. He head quartered down around Fruitland, Park Springs and Sunset in Southern Montague And Northern Wise Counties. He had some folks that lived around Olney and as a result spent a good bit of time there. Not much is known of his early life but from middle age on he travelled North and East Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas peddling small items to housewives. He carried a rather large suitcase of merchandise that would sell fast and that was easy to carry. Among other things he handled needles of various kinds, thimbles, Cloverine Salve and cyanide. He made a mixture of cyanide and killed red ants. Cloverine Salve was a fast turning item in the early part of this century. It was used for nearly everything and was probably good for nothing.
In addition to his merchandise he also carried a set of tools to sharpen various instruments. He sharpened knives, scissors, saws, razors and such tools and equipment.
He told about one rather extensive trip he made to the mountain country of Arkansas. That was a particularly lucrative area for peddlers. The womenfolk rarely got to go to town and had to depend on itinerant salesmen for many items. Some of them sold dry groceries and piece goods from hacks and wagons and later trucks. Others had hardware, drugs, linens and such like.
While Badgwell was on this particular trip he was in a little town up north of Nashville, Ark., in the west central part of the state. Late one afternoon, as was his custom, he struck up a conversation with one of the natives in his yard and asked if he could spend a couple of days with him while he worked the town. The man invited him in and he roomed and boarded there two days. At the end of the second day Badgwell asked the man what he owed him. The man replied, "Aw, about a dollar, I guess." The smallest coin that Badgwell had on him was a five dollar gold piece. He gave it to the man and the man went into the house to get his change. The man came back and handed Badgwell four coon skins. He assured him that in those parts a coon skin was considered legal tender for one dollar. Badgwell reluctantly took the coon hides and went his way.
The next day he worked from early to late in another small town. By the end of the day he was bushed and decided to have a drink. He found the local saloon and ordered up a little moose water. After visiting with the locals a while and enjoying his drink, he asked the bartender what he owed. The bartender advised that it would be a dime. He decided to try one of the dollar coon skins on the bartender. He opened his bag and handed the bartender one coon skin. The bartender put it under the bar and fooled around under there for a minute. He raised up and counted out nine little possum hides for change.
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Notes transcribed from e-mail CJB Wednesday, March 26, 2003
There is documentation that William Chester Badgwell, John Thomas Badgwell and Jason Ceymore Badgwell all changed their name from Bagwell. Their parents were Canida Bagwell and Elizabeth Bagwell, Laurens County, SC....................".

transcribed e-mail CJB Thursday, May 15, 200e" William Chester state number is #30046"(death certificate).
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Thursday, May 8, 2003 Review of Jack County, Texas 1910 Federal Census(BCO)Census Transcribed and indexed by NTGA member Travis McClure 1999 Reel T-624 Roll 1567 Supervisor's District 13
Taken from Jack County, Genweb site

Bagwell, William C. 57 years
Susan C. 50 years
Hollis 26 years
Thomas J. 20 years
Hattie 14 years
Robert 11 years
Hazel 8 years
Joseph 5 years*

Death Certificate Index, book 2 1910-1916 Joe Badgwell-no age, no parents. Death certificate obtained from Jack County Clerk-child is Joseph Badgwell died December 25, 1910 of Diphtheria-buried Post Oak Cemetery.
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E-mail from Dee Bailey to CJB Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Dee wrote that his father, Hubert Edgar Bailey reported to him that William Chester Badgwell told him that he(WCB) sat on a split rail fence and watched William Tecumseh Sherman's Army travel by their home in Georgia in 1864 on their way to Atlanta.
That army destroyed, according to WCB all of his family's stock, supplies and stores of every kind, on their way to Atlanta, Georgia. He said that the soldiers would just kill the stock, even if they were not going to use it. They burned their barns and laid waste to everything in their path.

Notes from E-mail CJB Visit with Clint Badgwell April 2004
"He still feels that Grandpa Badgwell was a bank robber. Definitely thinks he was connected to the Younger Boys. He said he saw suitcase full of $100.00 bills. He left home about 2 times a year and came home with money. He reconfirmed story about him sitting around dressed up in a suit all the time; going into town to see who he could con that day." Note: Headstone(Marker) placed on grave May 12, 2005 by G-Granddaughter Betty Carrol Cooper Omholt



Another Child Charley F. Badgwell Findagrave 27651147 is buried in Lafon Cemetery Johnson County, Texas