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wtuold go to her mother's house and ask for her hand in mar-
riage but always her father would say no because se was
too young. He came back over and over again but sf1 the fa-
ther would n1OL consent. That is why they ran away to marry.
BY CRi STINA OROZCO

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JOHN G. OROZCO
My grandmother and grandfather were born in Old Mex-
ico. He was born September 4, 1899 and she on October 3,
1893. When they were married my grandfather was 17 years
old and she was 23. They lived in Mexico for 20 years. When
they were married they came to Trenton by train. My grand-
mother only knew one of her brothers and one sister. She
did not knew her mother because she died after my grand-
mother was born.
Since 1919 my grandfather John G. Oroz o and my grand-
mother Marie Delorse Orozco have lived in Trenton. He
worked for the railroad for 42 years. Every time he came
home from work, my sister and I and sometimes my cousins
would go to meet him and he used to give us things to eat
that were left over from his lunch.
There were eight children in my father's family. His name
is Lupe Orozcg. They were all born in Trenton in my grand-
parents' house. At one time my grandparents lived in the
boxcars. One day my father told me that when they were lit
tIe they un-ped off the boxcars and played on top of them. In
1929 the same year that the tank was built, my grandpar-
ents bui t a Louse. Now my grandfather is 77 years old, my
grandmother is 82 years old and they love living here. BY
CRISTINA OROZCO
LUTHER CALVIN OWEN
Lu ier Calvin Owen served in the Confederacy for the du-
ration of the Civil War, came home to Jefferson County, Ala-
bama and married Arrena McDanal Inzer. They had ten chil-
die  T on-nas Eugene, Mittie, William Amos, Rufus Harvey,
Elma and Aima who came to Texas with them. Tom and
Amr s came to Texas first in 1896. They came through Valley
Creek in Fanrin County and looked up the J. H. Stevens fam-
ily they had known in Alabama. Tom and Celia Stevens had
been c responding. Tom and Amos went on to San Saba
whcre t.ey worked for a Mr. Self. In 1900 Luther Calvin,
Arrena and the other children came to Fannin County on the
tr   They lived near Valley Creek until 1903 when the fam-
ily moved to Guymon, Oklahoma to homestead a quarter
section of land for Luther Calvin, Tom, Amos and Harvey. It
took 21 days to go from Valley Creek to Guymon in a wagon.
The families lived in dugouts while in Oklahoma. Tom got
too coid while out feeding the cattle and developed rheuma
tism and couldn't work. His wife Celia loaded up the children
and fami y belongings and drove the wagon to Mineral Wells
so Tom could take the hot mineral baths. The family stayed
in Mineral Wells six months and then moved to Valley Creek
In 1910 a doctor advised Luther Calvin to seek a milder cli-
mate and the family sold their land and moved back to Fan-
nin County. In March 1910 all of the family except Tom
moved hack 1( Jefferson County, Alabama. Luther Calvin's
son, Rutus Harvey, had married Arsular Jane O'Barr in
1908 in Alabama. He found a job in the steel mills at Bes-
samer and worked there until he got a piece of steel in his
eye. In December 1919 Harvey and Arsular moved their
family t Fannin County near where his brother Tom lived at
Valley Creek and where they still live. They had seven chil-
dren Arren, Eugene, Loese, Luther, Grady, Marie and Jen-
nic Mae. The children went to school at Valley Creek, Leo-
nard and Trenton, and most of them went to East Texas
Slate at Commerce. Arleen and Loese taught school in Leo-
nard Liuther and Grady still farm land near the Valley Creek
Raptist Church. Tom and Celia moved their family into Leo-
nard and lived in the house of Celia's brother, Dr. J. W. Ste-
vens. Dr. stevens practiced medicine in Leonard for many
years using the back of his house as an office and clinic.
Tom and Celia Owen had five children: Alvin, Eulas, Loy,
Norris and Lurena. Eulas played on the first basketball team
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TWITTY PACE
The Twitty Pace Bible, owned by Bland and Simeon Smith
of Bonham, provided the fan-iily record of this Pace family.
Twitty Pace was born in Greenville County, South Carolina
on December 29, 1789. He married Susannah Duncan April
19, 1810 in Kentucky. His first child, Alfred Elkins Pace, was
born in Kenticky. His other children ar Urah D., Narcissus,
Joh Sexton, Artemysia, Emele Jane Alrt Galatin, Erva
le Joseph E., Twitty Jr. and Ashlev L.In the Early History
of Pope County, Arkansas by David L. Vance, Twitty Pace is
listed as first clerk of the county and named postmaster of
Scotia about 1830. His son, A. E. Pace, succeeded Twitty as
postmaster and was also a member of the Masonic Order in
Little Rock. He was a personal friend of Gen. Albert Pike, the
most distinguished Mason in the United States at that time.
A. E. Pace moved to Fannin County in 1855 He enlisted in
the Fannin County Cavaliers Calvary Company, 14th Bri-
gade, Texas Militia, June 22, 1861.
Twitty Pace moved from Pope County, Arkansas during
the early 1840's. He bought land from John G. Jouett, de-
ceased, Novembe- 18, 1846. He lived in Fannin County until
he died February 11, 1849. He has many descendants in
Texas and Oklahoma. One was Clint Pace who received na-
tional attention when he was sworn in as director of the
White House Conference on Education in 1955.
More recently, the will of Twitty Pace's father was located
in the Greenville District of South Carolina. He is John Pace
and the children named in the will are Issac, Richard, John
Jr., Jeremiah, Twitty, Stephen, Frances, Elizabeth, Patsy
Pace Langford and Francis Pace. The will was filed in 1816.
The newspaper, Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, March
16, 1849 stated: "Twitty Pace died at his residence, Bon-
ham February 11, 1849. He was formerly a respectable citi-
zen of Pope County, of this state." BY RUBY MAE JONES

Jeff and Ella Palmer

JEFFERSON THADDEUS PALMER
Jefferson Thaddeus Palmer (born July 28, 1853) and
Mary Ella Whiteside (born March 15, 1857) were born in
Rienzi, Mississippi and were married there on March 28,
1876.
Four children blessed this union. Myrtle Pink was born on
January 13, 1877 and Mary Pearl on October 15, 1879. The
only son, John Neal was born May 15, 1882. Two years later
on November 9, another daughter Cornelia Ann was born.
The family came to Texas in the later 1880's and settled in
Lannius. For many years Jeff T. Palmer managed the farm-

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