The Hamilton Herald-News (Hamilton, Tex.), Vol. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1958 Page: 62 of 72
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All that has been changed in our generation.
Labor-saving devices and a hosts of new frozen foods
has made life easier for every member of the family.
This firm is happy to have been a part of the
growth and progress of Hamilton County for one-half
of the past 100 years and we pledge our cooperation
for the continued growth of our town and county.
Good Old Days"
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the churn faced a
★ It is always inspiring to look back, on an
occasion such as this, to the accomplish-
ments of the past.
* We join in the tribute to Hamilton County
and its citizens for 100 years of progress and
wish our community many happy returns
of the day.
JOHN E. PERKINS settled in
the Shive community in 1882. He
was the father of T. A. Perkins.
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The track on the Centrad Rail-
road is finished within half a
mile of Hempstead. The road will
be completed to that place by the
29 of this month, when a grand
barbecue will be given, to which
the citizens of the State are in-
vited.
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THE SAM STILES FAMILY—Front row, seated: Mr. Stiles’ sister, “Aunt Jane,” Sam
Stiles, Mrs. Sam Stiles. Back row, 1. to r. George (married Ludie Nations, moved to
Floydada), deceased, Launa (deceased), Tom (married Saphrona Ashton, Hamilton), Mat-
tie (wife of Frank Miller, Hamilton) Amanda Cook (deceased), Edd Stiles (married Lizzie
Ashton, deceased), Ella (deceased) Mary (wife of Dr. W. C. Jones, Houston), and Mar-
vin, of Floydada.
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Sam Stiles Did Much to Advance
Early Culture in Hamilton County
cognizing the hat, it was plain
that this boy had killed and rob-
bed his son. “I have a letter here
in my pocket from his sweet-
heart in Louisiana. I know where
to find him, and I think that
young man needs some atten-
tion”. He rode east, agreeing to
stop and spend the night on his
return. A few weeks later he
came back. “Yes”, he said, “I
found him and my two horses
grazing in his pasture. The
young man has been attended to.
Now I must go home and tell
his mother the whole gruesome
story.”
Such was the law of the early
days in Hamilton County.
Mr. Stiles dealt extensively in
cattle, sheep and horses. He was
a very successful business man,
and he did much to help his
neighbors. Two of his children
live at Hamilton: Mrs. Frank
Miller, and Tom Stiles, who owns
and operates his father’s farm,
at the advanced age of 84.
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PLAYING CROQUET at the home of Dr. S. W. Young in Fairy in 1894. Reading left
to right: Mont Young, unidentified, Jake Ogle, Maude Smith, unidentified, unidentified,
Dr. Young’s daughter, and John Blackman. The children in background are unidentified.
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TEXAS NEWS 100 YEARS AGO
Maj. E. A. Carroll, of Hender-
son, County, who received auth-
ority from the 1 Governor to en-
list a company or men to serve
as Rangers, we learn from the
Palestine Advocate, has succeed-
ed in raising about half of the
number required.
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(By Mrs. Bessie Brow?a)
Few early settlers did more to
advance the cultural side of our
county’s civilization than Sam
Stiles and his family.
Mr. Stiles was born in Louis-
iana in 1837. He, with his par-
ents, came to Texas when he
was a small child. In 1875, he
purchased a 1500 acre ranch in
Hamilton County, near Ohio,
300 acres he put under the plow.
This property is still owned by
members of the Stiles fiunity:
Tom Stiles of Hamilton and
Mary Stiles Jones of Houston.
The first Stiles home was a
one-room log cabin, with a dirt
floor and a fireplace.
In 1879 he built one of the
most magnificent homes that the
county afforded at that time. He
hauled the lumber from Waco
by wagon team.
This place became the social
center of the community. Every
weekend people, old and young,
gathered there. Besides their
merely social visits, they went
“nutting” in the autumn, grape
and plum hunting and fishing in
the spring, and on the spacious
back porch they enjoyed water-
melon feasts in the summer. It
was in 1876 or 77 that he made
the ghastly discovery that caus-
ed one of the most beautiful
Cowhouse tributaries to be nam-
ed, “Dead Man’s Canyon”. He
and one of the cowhands were
riding in the small creek near
the McFadden home, when they
found a young man that had. been
murdered. According to the cus-
toms of that day, they buried
him. There was no time to notify
the law, or to have investiga-
tions. They noted the tracks of
two horses, the blood stained
turf and most important of all, a
man’s hat in a clump of brushes
near-by. Mr. Stiles took the hat
home, and hung it on the wall,
remarking “We will need, this
later.”
In a few weeks, a man rode
up and asked to spend the night,
a favor never refused by pione-
ers. He asked Stiles if he had
heard of two men riding through
the settlement on two white
faced bay horses, traveling west?
He had moved his family to a
location far west of here. His
wife and step-son owned a farm
in east Texas. The son had gone
back to sell it, and bring the
money in saddle bags, so that
they could buy land in their
new location. A boy from Louis-
iana had worked for them in
west Texas for several months.
He insisted on making the trip
with the step-son to protect him
from redmen and wild animals
and thieves. The mother, fearing
for the boy to make the trip
alone, had consented. After re-
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Billingslea, W. F. The Hamilton Herald-News (Hamilton, Tex.), Vol. 83, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1958, newspaper, July 3, 1958; Hamilton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1313712/m1/62/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Private Collection of Mary Newton Maxwell.