Henry Justus McGuire, came to Burnet Co. in the early 1880s and engaged in ranching 3 1/2 miles north of Briggs known then, as Taylor's Gin. Ranching in those day wasn't an easy task & my father experienced many hardships, with no fences, to keep stock from drifting away required sheep to be herded during day no matter what kind of weather then put in pen at night which was made of barbed wire or brush. Saddlehorse was hobbled or staked with rope at night. The wolf was an enemy to the sheep man for years. Groceries were carried by horse back from Taylor's Gin.
The ranchers menu, consisted mostly, of bread, bacon, brown beans, potatoes & molasses, once, in a while, a sheep was butchered. My father gradually got his land fenced, when he first began to court my mother, Karie Alice Reavis, he went by horse back but finished up his courting day with a buggy & double team of horses.
My parents were probably the first couple to be married in the Prairie View Methodist Church Nov. 9th 1892.
WRITTEN BY ROSE MCGUIRE, DAUGHTER.
HENRY IS THE SON OF JOHN SELLERS MCGUIRE AND EMMA BRANSFORD EUBANKS, BOTH OF BARREN CO., KY.
The ranchers menu, consisted mostly, of bread, bacon, brown beans, potatoes & molasses, once, in a while, a sheep was butchered. My father gradually got his land fenced, when he first began to court my mother, Karie Alice Reavis, he went by horse back but finished up his courting day with a buggy & double team of horses.
My parents were probably the first couple to be married in the Prairie View Methodist Church Nov. 9th 1892.
WRITTEN BY ROSE MCGUIRE, DAUGHTER.
HENRY IS THE SON OF JOHN SELLERS MCGUIRE AND EMMA BRANSFORD EUBANKS, BOTH OF BARREN CO., KY.
Henry Justus McGuire, came to Burnet Co. in the early 1880s and engaged in ranching 3 1/2 miles north of Briggs known then, as Taylor's Gin. Ranching in those day wasn't an easy task & my father experienced many hardships, with no fences, to keep stock from drifting away required sheep to be herded during day no matter what kind of weather then put in pen at night which was made of barbed wire or brush. Saddlehorse was hobbled or staked with rope at night. The wolf was an enemy to the sheep man for years. Groceries were carried by horse back from Taylor's Gin.
The ranchers menu, consisted mostly, of bread, bacon, brown beans, potatoes & molasses, once, in a while, a sheep was butchered. My father gradually got his land fenced, when he first began to court my mother, Karie Alice Reavis, he went by horse back but finished up his courting day with a buggy & double team of horses.
My parents were probably the first couple to be married in the Prairie View Methodist Church Nov. 9th 1892.
WRITTEN BY ROSE MCGUIRE, DAUGHTER.
HENRY IS THE SON OF JOHN SELLERS MCGUIRE AND EMMA BRANSFORD EUBANKS, BOTH OF BARREN CO., KY.
The ranchers menu, consisted mostly, of bread, bacon, brown beans, potatoes & molasses, once, in a while, a sheep was butchered. My father gradually got his land fenced, when he first began to court my mother, Karie Alice Reavis, he went by horse back but finished up his courting day with a buggy & double team of horses.
My parents were probably the first couple to be married in the Prairie View Methodist Church Nov. 9th 1892.
WRITTEN BY ROSE MCGUIRE, DAUGHTER.
HENRY IS THE SON OF JOHN SELLERS MCGUIRE AND EMMA BRANSFORD EUBANKS, BOTH OF BARREN CO., KY.
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