PARENTS: Enos Thomas Akin / Mary Agnes Cunningham
GRANDPARENTS: Edward Akin / Mary Rogers Guest
GREAT GRANDPARENTS: David Allen Akin / Mary Ann Throop
WIFE: Nancy Ola Coffee
CHILDREN: Joy Rae Akin Gray / Roy Lee / Ula Mae Akin Durbin / Joseph Wing / Unknown / Ida Faith Akin Wiley / Lovella Akin Moore
SIBLINGS: Mary / Ellen Akin McKenzie / Laura Akin Simpson / Mit / Infant Son b.1880
Gip came to Howard, Texas 1890. Lived there for 35 years. Worked on a the Slaughter Ranch, where he was a horse wrangler--he was 17 years old. He took care of 150 head of horses. Lived with the wagon - it was home. Started out in the spring about the first of April--worked until Christmas. Ranch covered 5 counties. The year 1897 branded 18,000 calves. Stamped Lazy S on both sides--ear marked figure 7 under bit in each ear. Worked for Slaughter 3 years. Then went to work for Barts Ranch - 200,000 acres. Headquarters where the city of Lamesa is now. (worked there for 2 years). Then took up 4 sections of homestead Land. Post office called Chicago - got the mail two times a week from Big Springs. Built the house on what was called the home section, a little one room house facing the South. Part of this Land is in the city of Lamesa now,then went to Live 16 miles North of Big Springs.
Gip and his brother Mit Akin participated in the Texas Range Wars, and they fought against the Big Ranchers who didn't want them (the nesters) or homesteaders) in the area the outcome being many killings and burnings had occured. Gip & Mit Akin at this time earned the title "The Night Riders".
GRANDPARENTS: Edward Akin / Mary Rogers Guest
GREAT GRANDPARENTS: David Allen Akin / Mary Ann Throop
WIFE: Nancy Ola Coffee
CHILDREN: Joy Rae Akin Gray / Roy Lee / Ula Mae Akin Durbin / Joseph Wing / Unknown / Ida Faith Akin Wiley / Lovella Akin Moore
SIBLINGS: Mary / Ellen Akin McKenzie / Laura Akin Simpson / Mit / Infant Son b.1880
Gip came to Howard, Texas 1890. Lived there for 35 years. Worked on a the Slaughter Ranch, where he was a horse wrangler--he was 17 years old. He took care of 150 head of horses. Lived with the wagon - it was home. Started out in the spring about the first of April--worked until Christmas. Ranch covered 5 counties. The year 1897 branded 18,000 calves. Stamped Lazy S on both sides--ear marked figure 7 under bit in each ear. Worked for Slaughter 3 years. Then went to work for Barts Ranch - 200,000 acres. Headquarters where the city of Lamesa is now. (worked there for 2 years). Then took up 4 sections of homestead Land. Post office called Chicago - got the mail two times a week from Big Springs. Built the house on what was called the home section, a little one room house facing the South. Part of this Land is in the city of Lamesa now,then went to Live 16 miles North of Big Springs.
Gip and his brother Mit Akin participated in the Texas Range Wars, and they fought against the Big Ranchers who didn't want them (the nesters) or homesteaders) in the area the outcome being many killings and burnings had occured. Gip & Mit Akin at this time earned the title "The Night Riders".
PARENTS: Enos Thomas Akin / Mary Agnes Cunningham
GRANDPARENTS: Edward Akin / Mary Rogers Guest
GREAT GRANDPARENTS: David Allen Akin / Mary Ann Throop
WIFE: Nancy Ola Coffee
CHILDREN: Joy Rae Akin Gray / Roy Lee / Ula Mae Akin Durbin / Joseph Wing / Unknown / Ida Faith Akin Wiley / Lovella Akin Moore
SIBLINGS: Mary / Ellen Akin McKenzie / Laura Akin Simpson / Mit / Infant Son b.1880
Gip came to Howard, Texas 1890. Lived there for 35 years. Worked on a the Slaughter Ranch, where he was a horse wrangler--he was 17 years old. He took care of 150 head of horses. Lived with the wagon - it was home. Started out in the spring about the first of April--worked until Christmas. Ranch covered 5 counties. The year 1897 branded 18,000 calves. Stamped Lazy S on both sides--ear marked figure 7 under bit in each ear. Worked for Slaughter 3 years. Then went to work for Barts Ranch - 200,000 acres. Headquarters where the city of Lamesa is now. (worked there for 2 years). Then took up 4 sections of homestead Land. Post office called Chicago - got the mail two times a week from Big Springs. Built the house on what was called the home section, a little one room house facing the South. Part of this Land is in the city of Lamesa now,then went to Live 16 miles North of Big Springs.
Gip and his brother Mit Akin participated in the Texas Range Wars, and they fought against the Big Ranchers who didn't want them (the nesters) or homesteaders) in the area the outcome being many killings and burnings had occured. Gip & Mit Akin at this time earned the title "The Night Riders".
GRANDPARENTS: Edward Akin / Mary Rogers Guest
GREAT GRANDPARENTS: David Allen Akin / Mary Ann Throop
WIFE: Nancy Ola Coffee
CHILDREN: Joy Rae Akin Gray / Roy Lee / Ula Mae Akin Durbin / Joseph Wing / Unknown / Ida Faith Akin Wiley / Lovella Akin Moore
SIBLINGS: Mary / Ellen Akin McKenzie / Laura Akin Simpson / Mit / Infant Son b.1880
Gip came to Howard, Texas 1890. Lived there for 35 years. Worked on a the Slaughter Ranch, where he was a horse wrangler--he was 17 years old. He took care of 150 head of horses. Lived with the wagon - it was home. Started out in the spring about the first of April--worked until Christmas. Ranch covered 5 counties. The year 1897 branded 18,000 calves. Stamped Lazy S on both sides--ear marked figure 7 under bit in each ear. Worked for Slaughter 3 years. Then went to work for Barts Ranch - 200,000 acres. Headquarters where the city of Lamesa is now. (worked there for 2 years). Then took up 4 sections of homestead Land. Post office called Chicago - got the mail two times a week from Big Springs. Built the house on what was called the home section, a little one room house facing the South. Part of this Land is in the city of Lamesa now,then went to Live 16 miles North of Big Springs.
Gip and his brother Mit Akin participated in the Texas Range Wars, and they fought against the Big Ranchers who didn't want them (the nesters) or homesteaders) in the area the outcome being many killings and burnings had occured. Gip & Mit Akin at this time earned the title "The Night Riders".
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Explore more
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
