MRS. J. F. BRADLEY
My husband, J. Finis Bradley, filed on the school section north-west of Lakeview to teach school that fall and about Christmas time my mother, Mrs. Scott, wrote us a man had jumped our claim. I came out with my baby. Myrtle, and after some trouble got the man off and held down the land until Mr. Bradley could come in April. He first made a dugout down on the creek but decided the frogs would make too much noise and moved up on the hill. Later when it turned off so dry he often wished he could hear a frog. We lived in a half dugout, 10x12 feet, for a long time. Our furniture consisted of a stove, table, a regular bed and a one-leg bed. These beds were built in a corner, rested on the sills and had only one leg. I had a refrigerator. It was a hole dug in the ground floor, under the bed, and rilled with water. When the water soaked out I would refill it and could keep milk sweet in it for 24 hours. We planted wheat until we ran out of seed and money, and that would have been sooner if Mr. Bradley had not taught little schools around over the country. During the first years people had a hard time. The drought came and we could not raise anything. One man, with a large family, told his grocer at Memphis he was running out of money. The grocer said: "We will sell you as long as you have a dollar." When the man got down to his last dollar he went in and bought some groceries, showed his dollar and put in back in his pocket, then took the things and walked out. At hog killing time we mixed jackrabbit meat with our sausage meat to make it go farther. We would go out at night and I would hold a lantern while my husband killed the rabbits with rocks.
We established the first dairy in the county, at Memphis, and later installed a milking machine. Soon after our son, Earl, became ill and his father took him up north. While they were gone the light plant burned and the girls and I milked 100 cows for two days by hand. Mr. Bradley had used an old Ford to furnish power to cut ensilage, but he had taken that car and left us a new one. We talked it over and I sent for Walter Hill and Andrew Bradley and they came and connected up the new car to the milking machine. We ran the milker with it for over a month, but nearly ruined the car. As a pioneer woman I had learned to meet any emergency, those cows had to be milked and our customers taken care of. Mr. Bradley and I were both school teachers and knew the value of an education. While it meant many sacrifices, we gave all of our children a college education. When he was running against Allen Wilborn for county clerk, in 1898, he thought it would not be polite to vote for himself so he voted for Allen. The vote was a tie and had to be run over. in the summer of 1888. He returned to east Texas. Source: Yesterday in Hall County, Texas by Inez Baker 1940
My husband, J. Finis Bradley, filed on the school section north-west of Lakeview to teach school that fall and about Christmas time my mother, Mrs. Scott, wrote us a man had jumped our claim. I came out with my baby. Myrtle, and after some trouble got the man off and held down the land until Mr. Bradley could come in April. He first made a dugout down on the creek but decided the frogs would make too much noise and moved up on the hill. Later when it turned off so dry he often wished he could hear a frog. We lived in a half dugout, 10x12 feet, for a long time. Our furniture consisted of a stove, table, a regular bed and a one-leg bed. These beds were built in a corner, rested on the sills and had only one leg. I had a refrigerator. It was a hole dug in the ground floor, under the bed, and rilled with water. When the water soaked out I would refill it and could keep milk sweet in it for 24 hours. We planted wheat until we ran out of seed and money, and that would have been sooner if Mr. Bradley had not taught little schools around over the country. During the first years people had a hard time. The drought came and we could not raise anything. One man, with a large family, told his grocer at Memphis he was running out of money. The grocer said: "We will sell you as long as you have a dollar." When the man got down to his last dollar he went in and bought some groceries, showed his dollar and put in back in his pocket, then took the things and walked out. At hog killing time we mixed jackrabbit meat with our sausage meat to make it go farther. We would go out at night and I would hold a lantern while my husband killed the rabbits with rocks.
We established the first dairy in the county, at Memphis, and later installed a milking machine. Soon after our son, Earl, became ill and his father took him up north. While they were gone the light plant burned and the girls and I milked 100 cows for two days by hand. Mr. Bradley had used an old Ford to furnish power to cut ensilage, but he had taken that car and left us a new one. We talked it over and I sent for Walter Hill and Andrew Bradley and they came and connected up the new car to the milking machine. We ran the milker with it for over a month, but nearly ruined the car. As a pioneer woman I had learned to meet any emergency, those cows had to be milked and our customers taken care of. Mr. Bradley and I were both school teachers and knew the value of an education. While it meant many sacrifices, we gave all of our children a college education. When he was running against Allen Wilborn for county clerk, in 1898, he thought it would not be polite to vote for himself so he voted for Allen. The vote was a tie and had to be run over. in the summer of 1888. He returned to east Texas. Source: Yesterday in Hall County, Texas by Inez Baker 1940
MRS. J. F. BRADLEY
My husband, J. Finis Bradley, filed on the school section north-west of Lakeview to teach school that fall and about Christmas time my mother, Mrs. Scott, wrote us a man had jumped our claim. I came out with my baby. Myrtle, and after some trouble got the man off and held down the land until Mr. Bradley could come in April. He first made a dugout down on the creek but decided the frogs would make too much noise and moved up on the hill. Later when it turned off so dry he often wished he could hear a frog. We lived in a half dugout, 10x12 feet, for a long time. Our furniture consisted of a stove, table, a regular bed and a one-leg bed. These beds were built in a corner, rested on the sills and had only one leg. I had a refrigerator. It was a hole dug in the ground floor, under the bed, and rilled with water. When the water soaked out I would refill it and could keep milk sweet in it for 24 hours. We planted wheat until we ran out of seed and money, and that would have been sooner if Mr. Bradley had not taught little schools around over the country. During the first years people had a hard time. The drought came and we could not raise anything. One man, with a large family, told his grocer at Memphis he was running out of money. The grocer said: "We will sell you as long as you have a dollar." When the man got down to his last dollar he went in and bought some groceries, showed his dollar and put in back in his pocket, then took the things and walked out. At hog killing time we mixed jackrabbit meat with our sausage meat to make it go farther. We would go out at night and I would hold a lantern while my husband killed the rabbits with rocks.
We established the first dairy in the county, at Memphis, and later installed a milking machine. Soon after our son, Earl, became ill and his father took him up north. While they were gone the light plant burned and the girls and I milked 100 cows for two days by hand. Mr. Bradley had used an old Ford to furnish power to cut ensilage, but he had taken that car and left us a new one. We talked it over and I sent for Walter Hill and Andrew Bradley and they came and connected up the new car to the milking machine. We ran the milker with it for over a month, but nearly ruined the car. As a pioneer woman I had learned to meet any emergency, those cows had to be milked and our customers taken care of. Mr. Bradley and I were both school teachers and knew the value of an education. While it meant many sacrifices, we gave all of our children a college education. When he was running against Allen Wilborn for county clerk, in 1898, he thought it would not be polite to vote for himself so he voted for Allen. The vote was a tie and had to be run over. in the summer of 1888. He returned to east Texas. Source: Yesterday in Hall County, Texas by Inez Baker 1940
My husband, J. Finis Bradley, filed on the school section north-west of Lakeview to teach school that fall and about Christmas time my mother, Mrs. Scott, wrote us a man had jumped our claim. I came out with my baby. Myrtle, and after some trouble got the man off and held down the land until Mr. Bradley could come in April. He first made a dugout down on the creek but decided the frogs would make too much noise and moved up on the hill. Later when it turned off so dry he often wished he could hear a frog. We lived in a half dugout, 10x12 feet, for a long time. Our furniture consisted of a stove, table, a regular bed and a one-leg bed. These beds were built in a corner, rested on the sills and had only one leg. I had a refrigerator. It was a hole dug in the ground floor, under the bed, and rilled with water. When the water soaked out I would refill it and could keep milk sweet in it for 24 hours. We planted wheat until we ran out of seed and money, and that would have been sooner if Mr. Bradley had not taught little schools around over the country. During the first years people had a hard time. The drought came and we could not raise anything. One man, with a large family, told his grocer at Memphis he was running out of money. The grocer said: "We will sell you as long as you have a dollar." When the man got down to his last dollar he went in and bought some groceries, showed his dollar and put in back in his pocket, then took the things and walked out. At hog killing time we mixed jackrabbit meat with our sausage meat to make it go farther. We would go out at night and I would hold a lantern while my husband killed the rabbits with rocks.
We established the first dairy in the county, at Memphis, and later installed a milking machine. Soon after our son, Earl, became ill and his father took him up north. While they were gone the light plant burned and the girls and I milked 100 cows for two days by hand. Mr. Bradley had used an old Ford to furnish power to cut ensilage, but he had taken that car and left us a new one. We talked it over and I sent for Walter Hill and Andrew Bradley and they came and connected up the new car to the milking machine. We ran the milker with it for over a month, but nearly ruined the car. As a pioneer woman I had learned to meet any emergency, those cows had to be milked and our customers taken care of. Mr. Bradley and I were both school teachers and knew the value of an education. While it meant many sacrifices, we gave all of our children a college education. When he was running against Allen Wilborn for county clerk, in 1898, he thought it would not be polite to vote for himself so he voted for Allen. The vote was a tie and had to be run over. in the summer of 1888. He returned to east Texas. Source: Yesterday in Hall County, Texas by Inez Baker 1940
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