Dave was born at Ft Griffin, Shackelford County, TX, and later the family moved to Throckmorton where descendants of the family still reside. When Dave was a young man he and his brothers would go on cattle drives to Kansas on the Santa Fe Trail.
After he and Cora married they lived in Proffitt and in Throckmorton. According to Grady's military papers the family lived in Proffit until 1929-30 as Grady went through 8th grade which he completed in 1929.
Through the years Dave had several businesses among them a produce and dairy products business. Dave was also a carpenter this is from Grady's military papers also. They built wooden oil derricks, did frame work on homes, school houses and barns, laid floors and also built cabinets.
According to Avis, his daughter-in-law, Billie Jo called him HAHA because he was always laughing when she saw him.
Elsie once told a humorous story about her father when the first cars came out. Dave was driving the car and was trying to get it to stop by hollering Whoa!!! several times at it but it just kept going causing him to run into a tree. He wasn't going fast enough for anyone to get hurt.
Dave used to tell a story how he and other men would go to Newcastle to the tent revivals to see all the young girls that would attend. In those days tent meetings, church gatherings of all kinds and town celebrations were ways to get together with the ladies! Perhaps this is how he met Cora as she lived in the Profitt community near Newcastle, TX.
A niece, Frances Free Morrow, stated that Dave was left-handed as is his granddaughter, Kathy Thorp Cooper. She stated that one of the things she remembers most about her uncle Dave was how he placed is paper, putting his pen in his left.
David Calvin Thorp and Cora Stella Wilkinson were united in Holy Matrimony on Sunday the tenth day of April 1910 at Proffitt, Texas. This information is from Cora's Bible.
During their marriage they lived in Proffitt for several years, then moved to Throckmorton. After moving to Throckmorton about 1925, the family lived there the rest of the time. The family lived in several places while in Throckmorton -- one of the places was in a house on a road leading to the present lake a little SW of main section of town. Also they lived about 1943-46 in their business on the Albany highway just off the square. The date of their moving from Proffitt, Young County, to Throckmorton, Throckmorton County is a guess. They possibly moved about 1925 as there is a graduation certificate for Elsie Ruth from Throckmorton Grammar school dated 1925.
Dave's family lived in and around Throckmorton and Cora's lived in and around Profitt.
After he and Cora married they lived in Proffitt and in Throckmorton. According to Grady's military papers the family lived in Proffit until 1929-30 as Grady went through 8th grade which he completed in 1929.
Through the years Dave had several businesses among them a produce and dairy products business. Dave was also a carpenter this is from Grady's military papers also. They built wooden oil derricks, did frame work on homes, school houses and barns, laid floors and also built cabinets.
According to Avis, his daughter-in-law, Billie Jo called him HAHA because he was always laughing when she saw him.
Elsie once told a humorous story about her father when the first cars came out. Dave was driving the car and was trying to get it to stop by hollering Whoa!!! several times at it but it just kept going causing him to run into a tree. He wasn't going fast enough for anyone to get hurt.
Dave used to tell a story how he and other men would go to Newcastle to the tent revivals to see all the young girls that would attend. In those days tent meetings, church gatherings of all kinds and town celebrations were ways to get together with the ladies! Perhaps this is how he met Cora as she lived in the Profitt community near Newcastle, TX.
A niece, Frances Free Morrow, stated that Dave was left-handed as is his granddaughter, Kathy Thorp Cooper. She stated that one of the things she remembers most about her uncle Dave was how he placed is paper, putting his pen in his left.
David Calvin Thorp and Cora Stella Wilkinson were united in Holy Matrimony on Sunday the tenth day of April 1910 at Proffitt, Texas. This information is from Cora's Bible.
During their marriage they lived in Proffitt for several years, then moved to Throckmorton. After moving to Throckmorton about 1925, the family lived there the rest of the time. The family lived in several places while in Throckmorton -- one of the places was in a house on a road leading to the present lake a little SW of main section of town. Also they lived about 1943-46 in their business on the Albany highway just off the square. The date of their moving from Proffitt, Young County, to Throckmorton, Throckmorton County is a guess. They possibly moved about 1925 as there is a graduation certificate for Elsie Ruth from Throckmorton Grammar school dated 1925.
Dave's family lived in and around Throckmorton and Cora's lived in and around Profitt.
Dave was born at Ft Griffin, Shackelford County, TX, and later the family moved to Throckmorton where descendants of the family still reside. When Dave was a young man he and his brothers would go on cattle drives to Kansas on the Santa Fe Trail.
After he and Cora married they lived in Proffitt and in Throckmorton. According to Grady's military papers the family lived in Proffit until 1929-30 as Grady went through 8th grade which he completed in 1929.
Through the years Dave had several businesses among them a produce and dairy products business. Dave was also a carpenter this is from Grady's military papers also. They built wooden oil derricks, did frame work on homes, school houses and barns, laid floors and also built cabinets.
According to Avis, his daughter-in-law, Billie Jo called him HAHA because he was always laughing when she saw him.
Elsie once told a humorous story about her father when the first cars came out. Dave was driving the car and was trying to get it to stop by hollering Whoa!!! several times at it but it just kept going causing him to run into a tree. He wasn't going fast enough for anyone to get hurt.
Dave used to tell a story how he and other men would go to Newcastle to the tent revivals to see all the young girls that would attend. In those days tent meetings, church gatherings of all kinds and town celebrations were ways to get together with the ladies! Perhaps this is how he met Cora as she lived in the Profitt community near Newcastle, TX.
A niece, Frances Free Morrow, stated that Dave was left-handed as is his granddaughter, Kathy Thorp Cooper. She stated that one of the things she remembers most about her uncle Dave was how he placed is paper, putting his pen in his left.
David Calvin Thorp and Cora Stella Wilkinson were united in Holy Matrimony on Sunday the tenth day of April 1910 at Proffitt, Texas. This information is from Cora's Bible.
During their marriage they lived in Proffitt for several years, then moved to Throckmorton. After moving to Throckmorton about 1925, the family lived there the rest of the time. The family lived in several places while in Throckmorton -- one of the places was in a house on a road leading to the present lake a little SW of main section of town. Also they lived about 1943-46 in their business on the Albany highway just off the square. The date of their moving from Proffitt, Young County, to Throckmorton, Throckmorton County is a guess. They possibly moved about 1925 as there is a graduation certificate for Elsie Ruth from Throckmorton Grammar school dated 1925.
Dave's family lived in and around Throckmorton and Cora's lived in and around Profitt.
After he and Cora married they lived in Proffitt and in Throckmorton. According to Grady's military papers the family lived in Proffit until 1929-30 as Grady went through 8th grade which he completed in 1929.
Through the years Dave had several businesses among them a produce and dairy products business. Dave was also a carpenter this is from Grady's military papers also. They built wooden oil derricks, did frame work on homes, school houses and barns, laid floors and also built cabinets.
According to Avis, his daughter-in-law, Billie Jo called him HAHA because he was always laughing when she saw him.
Elsie once told a humorous story about her father when the first cars came out. Dave was driving the car and was trying to get it to stop by hollering Whoa!!! several times at it but it just kept going causing him to run into a tree. He wasn't going fast enough for anyone to get hurt.
Dave used to tell a story how he and other men would go to Newcastle to the tent revivals to see all the young girls that would attend. In those days tent meetings, church gatherings of all kinds and town celebrations were ways to get together with the ladies! Perhaps this is how he met Cora as she lived in the Profitt community near Newcastle, TX.
A niece, Frances Free Morrow, stated that Dave was left-handed as is his granddaughter, Kathy Thorp Cooper. She stated that one of the things she remembers most about her uncle Dave was how he placed is paper, putting his pen in his left.
David Calvin Thorp and Cora Stella Wilkinson were united in Holy Matrimony on Sunday the tenth day of April 1910 at Proffitt, Texas. This information is from Cora's Bible.
During their marriage they lived in Proffitt for several years, then moved to Throckmorton. After moving to Throckmorton about 1925, the family lived there the rest of the time. The family lived in several places while in Throckmorton -- one of the places was in a house on a road leading to the present lake a little SW of main section of town. Also they lived about 1943-46 in their business on the Albany highway just off the square. The date of their moving from Proffitt, Young County, to Throckmorton, Throckmorton County is a guess. They possibly moved about 1925 as there is a graduation certificate for Elsie Ruth from Throckmorton Grammar school dated 1925.
Dave's family lived in and around Throckmorton and Cora's lived in and around Profitt.
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