In 1907 the SR Ranch became the residence of another of the Captain's children, when his daughter Alice moved her husband and three small children into the ranch house originally built for George Williamson and his bride. Alice, the third child and second daughter, was born in 1878 and married to Thomas Hill Ballowe in 1902. Her senior by fifteen years, Tom Ballowe was a member of another old Brazoria County family and a carpenter by trade.
Two of the most vivid of my memories occurred in 1908. A picture of my Aunt Alice Ballowe standing, weeping, beside the wagon, which bore the homemade casket in which they buried her son, Calvin McNeill Ballowe. Born in December 1905, by accident he got hold of some poison and died in May 1908. He was buried on a knoll northeast of the Cole house (now known as the McNeill SR Headquarters home); a small marker bearing his name identifies the location of the grave.
Permanent occupancy of the SR ranch house ended in 1917 when the Ballowes bought a house in Crosbyton as a solution to the problem of educating their children. Conveniently located for ranching operations, the house was completely shut off from any public school. Terrain and distances were such that even the advent of school busses, years later, would not have provided an answer to the situation.
Tom Ballowe and son used the place thereafter as a batch camp, a base from which to look after their livestock and participate in seasonal activities at the SR ranch.5
J.P. Ballowe, was (another) son of Alice and Tom Ballowe.
by J.C. "Cap" McNeill
The McNeills' SR Ranch, Texas A&M University Press; College Station, 1988, 73
Two of the most vivid of my memories occurred in 1908. A picture of my Aunt Alice Ballowe standing, weeping, beside the wagon, which bore the homemade casket in which they buried her son, Calvin McNeill Ballowe. Born in December 1905, by accident he got hold of some poison and died in May 1908. He was buried on a knoll northeast of the Cole house (now known as the McNeill SR Headquarters home); a small marker bearing his name identifies the location of the grave.
Permanent occupancy of the SR ranch house ended in 1917 when the Ballowes bought a house in Crosbyton as a solution to the problem of educating their children. Conveniently located for ranching operations, the house was completely shut off from any public school. Terrain and distances were such that even the advent of school busses, years later, would not have provided an answer to the situation.
Tom Ballowe and son used the place thereafter as a batch camp, a base from which to look after their livestock and participate in seasonal activities at the SR ranch.5
J.P. Ballowe, was (another) son of Alice and Tom Ballowe.
by J.C. "Cap" McNeill
The McNeills' SR Ranch, Texas A&M University Press; College Station, 1988, 73
In 1907 the SR Ranch became the residence of another of the Captain's children, when his daughter Alice moved her husband and three small children into the ranch house originally built for George Williamson and his bride. Alice, the third child and second daughter, was born in 1878 and married to Thomas Hill Ballowe in 1902. Her senior by fifteen years, Tom Ballowe was a member of another old Brazoria County family and a carpenter by trade.
Two of the most vivid of my memories occurred in 1908. A picture of my Aunt Alice Ballowe standing, weeping, beside the wagon, which bore the homemade casket in which they buried her son, Calvin McNeill Ballowe. Born in December 1905, by accident he got hold of some poison and died in May 1908. He was buried on a knoll northeast of the Cole house (now known as the McNeill SR Headquarters home); a small marker bearing his name identifies the location of the grave.
Permanent occupancy of the SR ranch house ended in 1917 when the Ballowes bought a house in Crosbyton as a solution to the problem of educating their children. Conveniently located for ranching operations, the house was completely shut off from any public school. Terrain and distances were such that even the advent of school busses, years later, would not have provided an answer to the situation.
Tom Ballowe and son used the place thereafter as a batch camp, a base from which to look after their livestock and participate in seasonal activities at the SR ranch.5
J.P. Ballowe, was (another) son of Alice and Tom Ballowe.
by J.C. "Cap" McNeill
The McNeills' SR Ranch, Texas A&M University Press; College Station, 1988, 73
Two of the most vivid of my memories occurred in 1908. A picture of my Aunt Alice Ballowe standing, weeping, beside the wagon, which bore the homemade casket in which they buried her son, Calvin McNeill Ballowe. Born in December 1905, by accident he got hold of some poison and died in May 1908. He was buried on a knoll northeast of the Cole house (now known as the McNeill SR Headquarters home); a small marker bearing his name identifies the location of the grave.
Permanent occupancy of the SR ranch house ended in 1917 when the Ballowes bought a house in Crosbyton as a solution to the problem of educating their children. Conveniently located for ranching operations, the house was completely shut off from any public school. Terrain and distances were such that even the advent of school busses, years later, would not have provided an answer to the situation.
Tom Ballowe and son used the place thereafter as a batch camp, a base from which to look after their livestock and participate in seasonal activities at the SR ranch.5
J.P. Ballowe, was (another) son of Alice and Tom Ballowe.
by J.C. "Cap" McNeill
The McNeills' SR Ranch, Texas A&M University Press; College Station, 1988, 73
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