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Compiled by the history departn cnt Weatherford High School, Weatherford, Texas Monday, March 1, 1976
Pop recollects the past
A house built in the Civil Ikar still stands at Horseshoe Bend.
Morgan’s house
filled with legend
J.W. Morgan interviewed by
Billy Joe Morgan.
Before the civil war had
began a man by the name of
Walker bought a thousand
acres. This land is located
South of Weatherford. The
place is Hors'e Shoe Bend.
O.i the land that he had
bought he built a two story
house to legend.
According to legend, Wal-
ker designed the house so he
could live in the upper half
and, put his slaves in the low-
er part of the house. Also
according, to legena, the hot-
ter pari of his house would
be used to keep prisoners
during tkr civil war.
Mr. Walker later went to
war. As t he months past Wal-
ker became a captain. When
the war was over Captain Wal-
ker went back to the home
place.
When Captain Walker died,
the place was sold to a cat-
tle company. Tney made great
changes on the house. They
put plaster all over the cut-
side cf the house. The house
has dfnncod hands many times
since t hen. Now a man by the
name of Cotton Whitenead owns
the place. He has had an the
plaster taken off of the out-
side and had the whole house
remodled. The house still
stands and is more beautiful
than ever.
RICK LEDOUX
Pop and Maggie Linville
live on Linville lane, which
was named for them because
of them living on it so long.
Pop was born November 14,
1897 in Edna County. Soon
after he was born his family
moved to Oklahoma, traveling
only in a horse-drawn wagon.
"My father told me often
about that trip. He said we
were lucky to have made it
without even seeing an Indian
even camping.
He grew up in Oklahoma
rr.d joined the army when he
was about 20, which, was in
1918. He never left the States
in the war because of an eye
injury. He was stationed at
Turtle Bay in Madigordi County
and often would fish with his
buddies during their spare
time. After leaving the army,
he met his future wife and
would travel by wagon from
Oklahoma just to see her.
They got married and then
moved to Weatherford in 1945.
"When we were young, we
lived in a small house, wiithout
a car, electricity or running
water. We even had to pump
water for the cows. Even dur-
ing the depression, wedidn’t
even notice the difference,
because we had lived poorly
all our lives," Maggie said.
Later, supporting income
came when Pop took a job
driving a-school bus for$30.00
a month. The food came from
whatever they could grow
in their garden. "With a good
crop, we ate well, with a bad
we hunted a lot. Usually we
hunted," Pop laughed.
The children never had it
easy. After a long day at
school, they would come home
and do their chores. During
the spare time that came rarely
they played with handmade
toys. "If they got candy once
a week, they were in *h!gh
heaven,” said Maggie.
Maggie remembers going
to dances on every Tuesday
and Friday. Pop says he would
talk to some of the indian?
that hung around. "I even
learned some of their mumb-
ling", lie said,.
At the school their x.idf
attended a teacher and iwo.
students were killed by
indians. "The blood stains
were still on the wood floor,"
Maggie said. The name of the
school was Pecan School.
When asked what part of
life did he like best, Pop
ar,:;v ered "I like it now,
cause I don’t work from sun—
up till sun-down, and also,
I always hated riding in
wagons!”
War memories painful
Trader Jim wins trust
among Indian traders
A story has been told that an/
early Arerican, known as
Trader Jim, lived in this area,
in this manner. He lived in
Boston in the early days at a
time where business v/as very
slow. He heard about the de-
mand for American furs in
Europe. So he decided to move
into Indian country to trade
for furs. After some traveling,
he picked a location for a tra-
ding post where twojrivers ran
together. He built a log cabin
and stocked his shelves with
hardware, salt, sugar, and
seeds.
Ho waited a long time
before an India,-, cheif came
V'Niv, his arms full of furs, 'n
osun language, tnf „r,Ju coun-
ted them as nine furs. Trader
!im ^iso counted the^ and in-
dicated tnai there wefe ten
furs. The chief insisted that
there were only nine and se-
lected his purctrase-as accord-
ingly.
Trader Jim traded for the
'nine, furs and then pushed a
sack of flour into the cheifs
arms for the tenth fur. Sonn
tf.ere- after; all the rnoians
trams to Jim’s trading post with
their furs.'The cheif had test-
ed Jim, and his reputation bad
been;established for "years to
come.
KRISITE VOWELS
When the war first started
my Great Grandfather said the
first thing he did was to go
to the church with his family,
and pray.
But soon Papa Whitaker
went and joined the war. He
was out fighting for his
country; he wanted to help
them alot. He had been on the
battlefield about two weeks
when he was shot just above
his heart. He lived through it,
and went back to fight in the
war. He said in the-time he,was
there he saw more bloodshed,
and destruction than ever. He
was a country man, and he
was not used to seeino or
hearing any of the noises be
heard on the battle field. He
had lived up in the mountains
where it was quite.
Papa Whitaker was wounded
and could not get back into
die service. When he came back
to the country, he was not
able to cope with life very
good. He kept having flash-
backs of when he killed some
people, and of other things.
He said several times he
would liked to have killed
himself. But he knew that if
God had wanted him to die;
he would have done so in the
war.
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History Department of Weatherford High School. Yesterday & Today (Weatherford, Tex.), Ed. 1 Monday, March 1, 1976, newspaper, March 1, 1976; Weatherford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1099502/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Weatherford High School.