Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962 Page: 69
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"Those present: J.T. Sullivan, Walter Sullivan, Frank
Pierce, John Pierce, Minnie Wicker, Dora Haskins, Ellen Car-
gile, Maud McAlister and her brother, Charley and Obrey and
sister, Josie; and Clara Sullivan and Allie, A.B. Haynes,
Minnie and Myrtle Haynes and Miss Mattie Haynes (now in the
nineties and living in Groesbeck), Harvey Haynes and Charley
Frost (wh ose wife still lives in RED OAK)."
Nov. 3, 1958
Having five generations under one roof is not a novel
experie nee at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Jenkins at 103
Lewis, WAXAHACHIE. Frequent visitors at the Jenkins home
are thei r daughter, Mrs. Doyle Smith of Port Lavaca and her
two youngsters, Doyle Lane, two and half years old, and Beve-
rly Ann, 11 months old. That makes three generations.
In the other half of the duplex, 103 1/2 Lewis, lives
Mrs. Jenkins" mother, Mrs. Eula Reeves, and her grandmother ,
Mrs. V.F. Walker who was 96 years old on May 13.
Mrs. Walker never misses Sunday school and Sunday morn-
ing worship services at the Parley Street Baptist Church
and during the revival which has been inprogress therS for
the last week or so she attends services every morning. Last
Sunday she gave her personal testimony.
Went by to inspect a Civil War mess kit belonging to
Wilbur Nycum, WVAXAHACHIE, painter and an unreconstructed
rebel. The neat little outfil belonged to Mr. Nycum's grand-
father, the late R.B. Swann whose hom# was in Virginia
during the war years.
Nov. 30, 1958
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
According to the records, ELLIS COUNTY has two widows
of Civil War Veterans and one of them will celebrate her
ninety-third birthday tomorrow.
The two widows are Mrs. Allen (Emma J.) Roe of SARDIS
and Mrs. W.R. (Lillian) McNaughton of ENIIS.
Mrs. Roe was born in Tennessee and lives in the home at
Sar dis to which she came as a bride after her marriage in
Somerville, Tenn., in 1894. The lumber had been hauled from
Houston by ox teams.
Among her cher ished possessions are a history of Par sons
Brigade, of which her husba ndc was a member, and a register
sh owing the veterans and their wives who attended the brigade's
thirty-fifth reunion at MIDLOTHIAN, in 1915.
Mrs. Roe's children are Ewell T. Roe and Mrs. J. Howard
Kellyy b oth of WAXAHACHIE; Grady Roe of MIDDLOTHIAN; Mrs.
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Daughters of the American Revolution. Rebecca Boyce Chapter (Waxahachie, Tex.). Genealogical Records Committee. Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962, book, 1962; Waxahachie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth105041/m1/80/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nicholas P. Sims Library.