Mrs. Ada Appling of Claude is the wife of John Wesley Appling and they were married in Marshall County, Kentucky in Sept. 1881 and moved with the entire family of Wilson Cario Appling to Cooke County, Texas as soon as they were married. Unlike most families that come West in those days they came by train most of the way, coming by Memphis, Tennessee, and Texarkana, Texas to Sherman, Texas which was then the western terminal of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The rest of the journey to Cooke County was made in a wagon to a small inland town known as Era, Texas, about ten miles Southwest of Gainesville, Texas, where the family lived for several years, most of them moving to Vernon, Texas where the elder Applings built and operated a hotel until the year 1893 when he bought a section of land 9 miles southwest of Claude where Mary E. Appling died in November 1896 and Wilson Carion Appling died in November 1898. They are both buried in the Claude cemetery.
In the summer of 1896 Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Appling and six children landed in Armstrong County, making the trip overland from Wise County in a covered wagon a distance of most three hundred miles. We had traded a piece of land in Wilbarger County for a bunch of horses and my daddy or brother, Wilson, took time about riding horseback and driving the horses. We went to the home of my Grandfather, Wilson Cairo Appling who lived nine miles Southwest of Claude and had moved to the pains about three years prior to our coming. We spent several weeks with them, then moved to the Vince Terry place which is now owned by W. H. Averyt. We only lived at this place a short while when the house caught fire and burned while we were away from home. We returned to the home of grandfather and in a few weeks my grandmother passed away and grandfather went to spend the winter with relatives at Vernon, Texas.
In January 1897 some of the neighbor men and our men folk went to the canyon to get our wood as we used wood most all together for fuel. Mother and we children went to our nearest neighbor, Mrs. M. C. Darter on New Years afternoon to spend the night. It was a beautiful afternoon most too warm for coats. About midnight a snow storm blew up and we were not able to get home for three days on account of the high wind and the snow drifting so, it took us quite a while to go the distance of 2-1/2 miles. A lot of stock farmers lost cattle in this blizzard, among them was Mr. J. T. Baker who lived South of us a few miles. A bunch of his cattle drifted down in the canyon in a ravine and were completely covered up with snow. This snow stayed on the ground for several weeks and one incident that occurred at our place was that an old hen went to roost under a cultivator and was covered up by several feet of snow and it was two weeks before the snow melted and we found her. She was still alive.
We children either went in a cart or buggy to school and part of the time we went nine miles and one place where we lived in the country we walked almost three miles to school and in this day and time some children cannot walk a few blocks.
We most always raised good gardens and crops during those days. We healed up turnips, cabbage and potatoes for our winter use, also had dried bean, peas and peanuts for winter. One of our neighbors sent us a watermelon for Xmas that he had kept in his cellar all fall. Very few people had orchards in those days so we had to depend on wild canyon grapes and plums for our fruit which was made into jelly, preserves & etc. Apples and oranges were a real treat, we usually got them in our stockings on Xmas Eve night.
The John Wesley family moved to Claude in 1899 where some of them still reside.
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In the summer of 1896 Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Appling and six children landed in Armstrong County, making the trip overland from Wise County in a covered wagon a distance of most three hundred miles. We had traded a piece of land in Wilbarger County for a bunch of horses and my daddy or brother, Wilson, took time about riding horseback and driving the horses. We went to the home of my Grandfather, Wilson Cairo Appling who lived nine miles Southwest of Claude and had moved to the pains about three years prior to our coming. We spent several weeks with them, then moved to the Vince Terry place which is now owned by W. H. Averyt. We only lived at this place a short while when the house caught fire and burned while we were away from home. We returned to the home of grandfather and in a few weeks my grandmother passed away and grandfather went to spend the winter with relatives at Vernon, Texas.
In January 1897 some of the neighbor men and our men folk went to the canyon to get our wood as we used wood most all together for fuel. Mother and we children went to our nearest neighbor, Mrs. M. C. Darter on New Years afternoon to spend the night. It was a beautiful afternoon most too warm for coats. About midnight a snow storm blew up and we were not able to get home for three days on account of the high wind and the snow drifting so, it took us quite a while to go the distance of 2-1/2 miles. A lot of stock farmers lost cattle in this blizzard, among them was Mr. J. T. Baker who lived South of us a few miles. A bunch of his cattle drifted down in the canyon in a ravine and were completely covered up with snow. This snow stayed on the ground for several weeks and one incident that occurred at our place was that an old hen went to roost under a cultivator and was covered up by several feet of snow and it was two weeks before the snow melted and we found her. She was still alive.
We children either went in a cart or buggy to school and part of the time we went nine miles and one place where we lived in the country we walked almost three miles to school and in this day and time some children cannot walk a few blocks.
We most always raised good gardens and crops during those days. We healed up turnips, cabbage and potatoes for our winter use, also had dried bean, peas and peanuts for winter. One of our neighbors sent us a watermelon for Xmas that he had kept in his cellar all fall. Very few people had orchards in those days so we had to depend on wild canyon grapes and plums for our fruit which was made into jelly, preserves & etc. Apples and oranges were a real treat, we usually got them in our stockings on Xmas Eve night.
The John Wesley family moved to Claude in 1899 where some of them still reside.
Information found on Texas Genealogy Trails website
Mrs. Ada Appling of Claude is the wife of John Wesley Appling and they were married in Marshall County, Kentucky in Sept. 1881 and moved with the entire family of Wilson Cario Appling to Cooke County, Texas as soon as they were married. Unlike most families that come West in those days they came by train most of the way, coming by Memphis, Tennessee, and Texarkana, Texas to Sherman, Texas which was then the western terminal of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The rest of the journey to Cooke County was made in a wagon to a small inland town known as Era, Texas, about ten miles Southwest of Gainesville, Texas, where the family lived for several years, most of them moving to Vernon, Texas where the elder Applings built and operated a hotel until the year 1893 when he bought a section of land 9 miles southwest of Claude where Mary E. Appling died in November 1896 and Wilson Carion Appling died in November 1898. They are both buried in the Claude cemetery.
In the summer of 1896 Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Appling and six children landed in Armstrong County, making the trip overland from Wise County in a covered wagon a distance of most three hundred miles. We had traded a piece of land in Wilbarger County for a bunch of horses and my daddy or brother, Wilson, took time about riding horseback and driving the horses. We went to the home of my Grandfather, Wilson Cairo Appling who lived nine miles Southwest of Claude and had moved to the pains about three years prior to our coming. We spent several weeks with them, then moved to the Vince Terry place which is now owned by W. H. Averyt. We only lived at this place a short while when the house caught fire and burned while we were away from home. We returned to the home of grandfather and in a few weeks my grandmother passed away and grandfather went to spend the winter with relatives at Vernon, Texas.
In January 1897 some of the neighbor men and our men folk went to the canyon to get our wood as we used wood most all together for fuel. Mother and we children went to our nearest neighbor, Mrs. M. C. Darter on New Years afternoon to spend the night. It was a beautiful afternoon most too warm for coats. About midnight a snow storm blew up and we were not able to get home for three days on account of the high wind and the snow drifting so, it took us quite a while to go the distance of 2-1/2 miles. A lot of stock farmers lost cattle in this blizzard, among them was Mr. J. T. Baker who lived South of us a few miles. A bunch of his cattle drifted down in the canyon in a ravine and were completely covered up with snow. This snow stayed on the ground for several weeks and one incident that occurred at our place was that an old hen went to roost under a cultivator and was covered up by several feet of snow and it was two weeks before the snow melted and we found her. She was still alive.
We children either went in a cart or buggy to school and part of the time we went nine miles and one place where we lived in the country we walked almost three miles to school and in this day and time some children cannot walk a few blocks.
We most always raised good gardens and crops during those days. We healed up turnips, cabbage and potatoes for our winter use, also had dried bean, peas and peanuts for winter. One of our neighbors sent us a watermelon for Xmas that he had kept in his cellar all fall. Very few people had orchards in those days so we had to depend on wild canyon grapes and plums for our fruit which was made into jelly, preserves & etc. Apples and oranges were a real treat, we usually got them in our stockings on Xmas Eve night.
The John Wesley family moved to Claude in 1899 where some of them still reside.
Information found on Texas Genealogy Trails website
In the summer of 1896 Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Appling and six children landed in Armstrong County, making the trip overland from Wise County in a covered wagon a distance of most three hundred miles. We had traded a piece of land in Wilbarger County for a bunch of horses and my daddy or brother, Wilson, took time about riding horseback and driving the horses. We went to the home of my Grandfather, Wilson Cairo Appling who lived nine miles Southwest of Claude and had moved to the pains about three years prior to our coming. We spent several weeks with them, then moved to the Vince Terry place which is now owned by W. H. Averyt. We only lived at this place a short while when the house caught fire and burned while we were away from home. We returned to the home of grandfather and in a few weeks my grandmother passed away and grandfather went to spend the winter with relatives at Vernon, Texas.
In January 1897 some of the neighbor men and our men folk went to the canyon to get our wood as we used wood most all together for fuel. Mother and we children went to our nearest neighbor, Mrs. M. C. Darter on New Years afternoon to spend the night. It was a beautiful afternoon most too warm for coats. About midnight a snow storm blew up and we were not able to get home for three days on account of the high wind and the snow drifting so, it took us quite a while to go the distance of 2-1/2 miles. A lot of stock farmers lost cattle in this blizzard, among them was Mr. J. T. Baker who lived South of us a few miles. A bunch of his cattle drifted down in the canyon in a ravine and were completely covered up with snow. This snow stayed on the ground for several weeks and one incident that occurred at our place was that an old hen went to roost under a cultivator and was covered up by several feet of snow and it was two weeks before the snow melted and we found her. She was still alive.
We children either went in a cart or buggy to school and part of the time we went nine miles and one place where we lived in the country we walked almost three miles to school and in this day and time some children cannot walk a few blocks.
We most always raised good gardens and crops during those days. We healed up turnips, cabbage and potatoes for our winter use, also had dried bean, peas and peanuts for winter. One of our neighbors sent us a watermelon for Xmas that he had kept in his cellar all fall. Very few people had orchards in those days so we had to depend on wild canyon grapes and plums for our fruit which was made into jelly, preserves & etc. Apples and oranges were a real treat, we usually got them in our stockings on Xmas Eve night.
The John Wesley family moved to Claude in 1899 where some of them still reside.
Information found on Texas Genealogy Trails website
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