From: "Living, Believing, and Loving, Family Album by Lahoma"
Following Easter 1892, Mama had a short honeymoon with Mr. Wills in Abilene, Texas, where he was selling heavy equipment for a harrow company. She told me of staying at a hotel and of a lady who became a good friend, a Mrs. Peters whose little son was named Ovid Peters.I think she was the one that gave Mama a little prairie dog and Mama made a pet of it and brought it home with her.
The next February 25th, 1893, came Mama's firstborn, a son she named Ovid (O. W. ) Wills. Ovid was a serious child; he grew into a responsible young man and in 1911, the year I was born, he and Ludie Ray Moore were married. Some years went by and they worked hard clearing some land on the farm, putting in crops and managing to make a good living for those times, but no babies came to them soon.
Then, after I was old enough to remember, a beautiful blue-eyed baby boy was born to them and they were so proud of him. But tragedy struck when the baby fell into the fire and was badly burned on his face and hands. After that, the baby, Elton Wills, took pneumonia and died. The young couple were heartbroken. After some time, they're expecting another child, which only lived a few hours, another little boy. Their grief was a sad thing to see. They never had any other children.
They moved to Houston and Ovid operated a street car. They went back home and Ovid bought the forty acre place that had belonged to my Aunt Alice Smith (Papa's sister). They farmed for a while but were dissatisfied, sold the place to Albert Higginbotham (Bill's father) and went back to Houston. Soon, they went back home and re-bought the forty acre place and they lived there until February 29, 1936, when Ovid died of pneumonia and complications.
The forty acre place is the land Hubert and I bought in 1966 from Edward Kastrop.
---Lahoma LaRue Lamance
Following Easter 1892, Mama had a short honeymoon with Mr. Wills in Abilene, Texas, where he was selling heavy equipment for a harrow company. She told me of staying at a hotel and of a lady who became a good friend, a Mrs. Peters whose little son was named Ovid Peters.I think she was the one that gave Mama a little prairie dog and Mama made a pet of it and brought it home with her.
The next February 25th, 1893, came Mama's firstborn, a son she named Ovid (O. W. ) Wills. Ovid was a serious child; he grew into a responsible young man and in 1911, the year I was born, he and Ludie Ray Moore were married. Some years went by and they worked hard clearing some land on the farm, putting in crops and managing to make a good living for those times, but no babies came to them soon.
Then, after I was old enough to remember, a beautiful blue-eyed baby boy was born to them and they were so proud of him. But tragedy struck when the baby fell into the fire and was badly burned on his face and hands. After that, the baby, Elton Wills, took pneumonia and died. The young couple were heartbroken. After some time, they're expecting another child, which only lived a few hours, another little boy. Their grief was a sad thing to see. They never had any other children.
They moved to Houston and Ovid operated a street car. They went back home and Ovid bought the forty acre place that had belonged to my Aunt Alice Smith (Papa's sister). They farmed for a while but were dissatisfied, sold the place to Albert Higginbotham (Bill's father) and went back to Houston. Soon, they went back home and re-bought the forty acre place and they lived there until February 29, 1936, when Ovid died of pneumonia and complications.
The forty acre place is the land Hubert and I bought in 1966 from Edward Kastrop.
---Lahoma LaRue Lamance
From: "Living, Believing, and Loving, Family Album by Lahoma"
Following Easter 1892, Mama had a short honeymoon with Mr. Wills in Abilene, Texas, where he was selling heavy equipment for a harrow company. She told me of staying at a hotel and of a lady who became a good friend, a Mrs. Peters whose little son was named Ovid Peters.I think she was the one that gave Mama a little prairie dog and Mama made a pet of it and brought it home with her.
The next February 25th, 1893, came Mama's firstborn, a son she named Ovid (O. W. ) Wills. Ovid was a serious child; he grew into a responsible young man and in 1911, the year I was born, he and Ludie Ray Moore were married. Some years went by and they worked hard clearing some land on the farm, putting in crops and managing to make a good living for those times, but no babies came to them soon.
Then, after I was old enough to remember, a beautiful blue-eyed baby boy was born to them and they were so proud of him. But tragedy struck when the baby fell into the fire and was badly burned on his face and hands. After that, the baby, Elton Wills, took pneumonia and died. The young couple were heartbroken. After some time, they're expecting another child, which only lived a few hours, another little boy. Their grief was a sad thing to see. They never had any other children.
They moved to Houston and Ovid operated a street car. They went back home and Ovid bought the forty acre place that had belonged to my Aunt Alice Smith (Papa's sister). They farmed for a while but were dissatisfied, sold the place to Albert Higginbotham (Bill's father) and went back to Houston. Soon, they went back home and re-bought the forty acre place and they lived there until February 29, 1936, when Ovid died of pneumonia and complications.
The forty acre place is the land Hubert and I bought in 1966 from Edward Kastrop.
---Lahoma LaRue Lamance
Following Easter 1892, Mama had a short honeymoon with Mr. Wills in Abilene, Texas, where he was selling heavy equipment for a harrow company. She told me of staying at a hotel and of a lady who became a good friend, a Mrs. Peters whose little son was named Ovid Peters.I think she was the one that gave Mama a little prairie dog and Mama made a pet of it and brought it home with her.
The next February 25th, 1893, came Mama's firstborn, a son she named Ovid (O. W. ) Wills. Ovid was a serious child; he grew into a responsible young man and in 1911, the year I was born, he and Ludie Ray Moore were married. Some years went by and they worked hard clearing some land on the farm, putting in crops and managing to make a good living for those times, but no babies came to them soon.
Then, after I was old enough to remember, a beautiful blue-eyed baby boy was born to them and they were so proud of him. But tragedy struck when the baby fell into the fire and was badly burned on his face and hands. After that, the baby, Elton Wills, took pneumonia and died. The young couple were heartbroken. After some time, they're expecting another child, which only lived a few hours, another little boy. Their grief was a sad thing to see. They never had any other children.
They moved to Houston and Ovid operated a street car. They went back home and Ovid bought the forty acre place that had belonged to my Aunt Alice Smith (Papa's sister). They farmed for a while but were dissatisfied, sold the place to Albert Higginbotham (Bill's father) and went back to Houston. Soon, they went back home and re-bought the forty acre place and they lived there until February 29, 1936, when Ovid died of pneumonia and complications.
The forty acre place is the land Hubert and I bought in 1966 from Edward Kastrop.
---Lahoma LaRue Lamance
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