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it out" were frequent words. In addition to
farming he raised white Leghorn chickens
and sold hatching eggs. Louis was interested
in his county and helped keep the voting box
of Precinct #3. For a time he was a member
of the FHA Committee for Bosque County.
In 1935 Edna married Edwin Kruse, a son
of Walter and Edda Schulze Kruse; in 1940
Elenore married Edgar Wiede, oldest son of
Henry and Emma Kettler Wiede. Both
reared their families in the Womack commu-
nity of Bosque County. Leon, who never
married, remained on the family farm. He
also operated a sheep shearing rig for several
years. Leon cared for his parents in their later
years.
Louis A. Eckert died 1968 and Anna Eckert
died 1976. Both are buried in Memorial
Cemetery, Clifton.
by Elenore Eckert Wiede
ECKERT, OTTO FAMILY
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Otto C. Eckert was born in 1885 near
Greenvine in Washington County, Texas. His
parents were Rudolph and Alberdina Kroll
Eckert. He had two brothers and one sister
and attended Howenwalde School for only a
few years, as he was primarily a self-educated
man. He was baptized and confirmed in the
Emanuel Lutheran Church in Greenvine.
About 1912, he, his father, his sister, Meta,
and brother, Oscar, moved to Bosque County.
They first settled in the Boxy community
where they farmed and also worked for the
Conrads and other settlers in the Chase
community.
Rudolph Eckert lived on the family farm,
which he purchased from the C. L. Grounds
family in 1916, until his death in 1933. He is
buried in the Clifton Cemetery.
Bertha Moeglich was born in 1890 in
Traugott and Augusta Wolff Moeglich in
Province Posen, Germany. When Bertha was
three years old, her widowed mother came
with her four children, all girls, to American
and landed at Galveston. From there they
proceeded to Burton, Washington County,
and lived near the Wolff brothers, who had
paid the family's passage from Germany.
Bertha attended the Hohenwalde School.
She had been baptized in Germany and was
confirmed in St. John's Evangelical Church
in Burton.
Otto Eckert and Bertha Moeglich were
married in 1917 in St. John's Evangelical
Church in Burton. Their first home was in the
Fairview community in Bosque County. They
later bought a part of the Rudolph Eckert
land in the Cayote community and moved
there.
In 1920, their daughter, Oranella, was born.
In 1940, they bought the south part of the
Prather Ranch on Childress Creek, where
they farmed and ranched. They were active
in the affairs of the Cayote school and
community. They were members of Zion
United Church of Christ at Womack and
were faitful in attendance and support. In
1956 they retired and moved to Clifton. Mr.
Eckert died in 1969 and Mrs. Eckert died two
months later. They are buried in the Clifton
Cemetery.
Oranella was baptized and confirmed in
Zion United Church of Chirst at Womack and
was an active participant in her church'swork. She attended the Cayote School,
graduated from Clifton High School, attend-
ed Clifton Junior College and received her B.
S. degree from Southwest Texas State Uni-
versity, San Marcos. She taught school at
Morgan and Lexington, Texas, and taught
the second grade in the Clifton Public School
for twenty-four years. She retired from
teaching in 1980.
Oranella Eckert and Arthur H. (Art)
Fletcher of Waco were married in 1967 in
Zion United Church of Christ. They lived in
Clifton until 1974, when they moved to their
new home in Robinson, Texas.
By Art's previous marriage, they have five
children, eight grandchildren and one great
grandchild.
They raise registered Hampshire and
Suffolk sheep on their farm. Art operated a
bookkeeping and tax service in their home,
owns a car leasing company and manages the
farm and their rent property.
Oranella quilts, fishes in their farm pond,
is active in the work of St. John's United
Church of Christ in Robinson and partici-
pates in continuing education courses at
Baylor University.
by Oranella Eckert Fletcher
EDDINGS FAMILY OF BRAZOS
POINT
F313
James Willie Keenum and Nellie C. (Reynolds)
Keenum.
This is a chronicle of the Eddings family
that settled in the Brazos River Valley at
Brazos Point, Texas.
Dave Weaver, a Cherokee Indian, was born
in Cherokee Land, Georgia, 1760. He married
a Cherokee woman named Tooley. They had
seven children; the oldest was Elizabeth, born
in 1784. She married John Eddings, born in
1782. To them were born eleven children.
Their fourth child was Ivan Richard, born in
1809.
Ivan Richard married Malinda Culp and
they had ten children. Their sixth child was
Levi Richard, born 1836 in Cannon County,
Tennessee. Levi Richard married Sarah
McCarty, born in Missouri, 1843. They had
five sons: Julius Wilson (1862), Richard Evan
(1864), Redmon and Edmon, twins, (1867),
John Wesley (1869).
Sarah McCarty died in Arkansas, 1870.
Levi Richard later married Mary Cates in
1871. They had ten children: Timothy (1872),
Sarah Martha Elizabeth (1874), James An-
drew (1877), Allie C. (1879), Jani (1881),
Jacob Levi (1882), William Henry (1884),John J. and Sarah Thrissia Clifton.
Millie Oma (1887), Nancy Ella (1890), De-
lores (1892).
Julius Wilson married Louise Buckner in
1884 in Arkansas. They had nine children:
Robert Green (1885), John Richard (1887),
Grover Preston (1889), Coleman Wilson
(1891), Julia Ardenis (1893), Ida Lucinda
(1895), Clarence Alexander (1899), Isiah
Anthony (1902), and Eva Jamsee May (1904).
In 1891, Levi Richard left Arkansas for
Oklahoma. All the family went except Ed-
mond. It took 18 covered wagons to transport
them. The old homestead is still standing and
is being used as a home by relatives.
James Willis Keenum came to Texas at age
12, settling in Fort Worth. He moved to
Longview when he married Nellie C. Reyn-
olds. James and Nellie lived in Big Sandy for
12 years during which time five children were
born. James farmed and made cross ties.
They moved to Whitney, Blum area, where
five more children were born. In 1935 they
moved to the Hill Creek, Bosque County two
miles south of Seven Knobs, where James
farmed and did various jobs for others in the
community.
Children of James Willis Keenum and
Nellie C. Reynolds Keenum were: Austin
James Keenum, Brady Orbon Keenum, Loca
Mae Keenum Nixon, Ola Belle Keenum
Watson, Lois Frances Keenum Seiber, Mary
Audry Keenum Rich, Ladys Marie Keenum
Long, Maude Willie Keenum Rancher, Viv-
ian Nelyn Keenum Martin, and James Willis
Keenum, Jr.
The Clifton family should be included in
the Eddings write-up because of close rela-
tions. A Clifton daughter married an Eddings
and became parents of a large family, influen-
tial in shaping a part of Bosque County
around Brazos Point.
John J. Clifton (1861-1942) and Sarah
Thrissa Armstrong (1861-1937) were married
at DeWitt, Texas. John J. Clifton was a
Primitive Baptist preacher in Oklahoma and
Texas. Their residence in Texas was Brazos
Point, Bosque County.
Their children were born in Oklahoma.
Their sons were George, Bill, Jack, and Little
Joe. Their daughters were Mattie C. Austin,
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