East Texas Family Records, Volume 4, Number 3, Fall 1980 Page: 33
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ETFR - 33 - FALL 1980
O.H. Methvin was born March 10, 1815, and married about 1835.
The 1840 census lists him in Lowndes County, Ga., then Alabama
territory. He and his wife had three sons, Alexander, minister;
B.J. a physician, and O.H. Jr. who operated a restaurant and
owned the street car system.
O.H. Methvin Jr. was born in Belton, Texas, in November 6,
1851. Possibly the family had moved to the Longview area prior
to this time, however, as the late G.A. Kelly recalled that he
came here in 1848 and the first person he met was Ossie Methvin in
his corn field where the court house now stands.
Family records show that Mr. and Mrs. Ossie Methvin Sr.
reared orphan children. They legally adopted their granddaughter
Margie R. after her father's death in the war and her mother's death
when she was only three. She married R. F. Capps, who sold mineral
water to residents of the area.
The Methvin Home, which was said to have three stories, was
build on the hill where the water towers now stand. The hill has
been cut down as rock was quarried from it and used in the foundation
of numerous public buildings including the courthouse and the
Presbyterian Church. It was from the porch of Methvin's home that
a surveyor is supposed to have remarked that there was a long view
from the spot. Methvin agreed and the new town had its name,
Longview.
The old Methvin home burned Dec. 31, 1893, several years after
Methvin's death on Feb. 9, 1882. He was buried in Greenwood
Cemetery.
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