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CHASING OUR TALES: The Hawthorne Family
OUTDOORS ALONG THE BRAZOS: Spooky Caddo Lake
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OUTDOORS ALONG THE BRAZOS
Spooky Caddo Lake
By Don Price
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STORIES & SNIPPETS
Business outlook here is bright for 1965;
steady growth predicted
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CHASING OUR TALES
The Hawthorne Family
By Sue Seibert
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Spy Knob
By Wynelle Catlin
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By Jim Dillard
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Outdoors Along the Brazos
By Don Price
Y
ou talk about fog as heavy as pea soup, well
let me tell you, you’ll find all about it while
on ancient Caddo at first light tomorrow.
And you’d better sign on with a seasoned fishing
guide beforehand or you’ll not find your way out of
this swamp of 35,000 acres, the narrow boat roads
twists and turns before dark-thirty perhaps.
A plugger’s greatest challenge must include this
pristine lake in East Texas, half of which sprawls in
neighboring Louisiana, not far from Shreveport. One
can motor or paddle up the ships’ channel all the way
to Jefferson, Texas, via Big Cypress Bayou, a continu-
ous waterway all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Ocean-going ships used it over a century ago, back
when King Cotton was the big market.
With its being the largest natural lake in the state of
Texas, ancient Caddo isn’t pining for a majestic set-
ting of any kind: those ponderous cypresses are truly
awesome, draped in Spanish moss, choked with lily
pads and water hyacinths, a mat so thick the water is
stained or tea colored as you lean over the side of a
rented bateau, attempting to penetrate the lush vegeta-
tion. But, oh, the fishing, bluegills and redears bigger
than saucers.
I dialed his number, my uncle’s phone number. It
rang and rang. The year was 1949, answering service
was unheard of, no voice mail, no nothing. We were
lucky to even have a land line. It was good to hear
Uncle Happy’s voice on the 24th ring.
“Say, Uncle Happy, ya got your fishing tackle
ready? How would you like to pull stakes and head to
Caddo for two weeks? The jackfish might be on the
prowl and I badly need a respite from this dear old
Western Auto Store, you know, an escape before I
grow batty. Two weeks of plugging spooky Caddo
would do me a lot of good... okay... I’ll pick you up in
Dallas at noon.”
Everything was in the car. But I couldn’t find my
glasses. I was so excited about this trip to ancient
Caddo for two weeks with my favorite uncle, I’d for-
gotten where I’d put them.
I spent 30 minutes looking for my spectacles under
the bed, on top of the refrigerator, on the dash of my
car, searching high and low; I backtracked, thinking I
had discovered them but just didn’t realize it at the
time because I couldn’t keep my mind on anything
but fishing, you know, the exciting trip to spooky
Caddo Lake.
You won’t believe this, but I was actually wearing
my glasses all the time. Lordy, I was so thankful no
one was around, no one saw me, no one but the cat.
I know it’s my imagination, but the cat seems to be
wearing a smirk on its face, breaking into a grin. The
cat’s not going fishing with us, I’ll guarantee you.
You’ve been there already, I’ll bet, looking for your
own spectacles. If you haven’t, your time’s coming.
The cat? I’ll take care of it when I get back.
And so it’s about time to get away for a couple of
weeks. Bear with me, after 50 years of being pub-
lished I’ve never started a column quite like this one.
Some readers will shy away if they’ve read this far,
crossing the street ‘way before I can get there, saying,
“Oh, I didn’t know that was you or I would’ve
stopped or at least waved.”
My Uncle Happy and I got to Caddo in time to plug
a little before dark. Some of the time we’d use hand-
hewn paddles to scull up a boat road, plugging for
chain pickerel, known locally as jackfish, as we crept
through hyacinths, lily pads and cypress knees from a
rented bateau out of Fyffe’s Camp, up Big Cypress
Bayou.
We were sure-Nuf in upper Caddo now, way up the
bayou, even past the gov’t ditch, dug with fresnoes, so
that the ocean-going ships could make it to Jefferson
to pick up bales of cotton, then plying all the way to
France, perhaps 150 years ago, or more.
Let’s enjoy the natural scenery of this sprawling
swamp, formed during an earthquake according to
Caddo Indian legend; you can’t believe how thick
some of these bald cypresses are, too dense for
bateaus and pirogues, even small ones, better off we
learned, to stay in the twisting boat roads.
One can become disoriented easily on spooky
Caddo, but I felt secure because Uncle Happy was a
former guide – not for hire – but as a volunteer for
out-of-town folks who were not familiar with the lake.
Tea-colored water would be boiling with feeding
jackfish in the autumn, a time for surface lures with
spinners fore and aft. Jackfish sport needle-sharp teeth
and slim, sleek bodies, to mar the paint job of your
wooden plug in an afternoon’s fishing, then pop your
braided line to disappear with your favorite lure.
But if you’ll sit on the boat’s seat long enough you
can spot your top-water plug, scull maybe a few yards
to pick this floating lure off the surface with your pad-
dle blade, perhaps saving a special Heddon Lucky 13,
the one your dad had given you for your birthday.
When you paddle out into the dense bald cypresses
you might look back and notice how the familiar
landmarks have disappeared; one can become con-
fused, especially a city angler not familiar with this
labyrinth. Stay on a boat road.
Spooky Caddo Lake
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The lake’s guides tell the story of a city dude,
already having been warned about getting hopeless-
ly turned around, lost in cypress thickets, who
missed the elbow in a boat road at the mouth of
Taylor’s Lake (a pocket lake on swampy Caddo),
which should have put him in Harrison County
Stretch, one more interlacing boat road. Alas, the
city dude took the wrong turn.
Eventually winding up in Lost Lake (we’re still
in the Caddo swamp), the city angler couldn’t row
his boat through impenetrable cypresses to reach
terra-firma; he had no compass, and twilight was
oozing through the Spanish moss.
Having to spend a sleepless night with cotton-
mouth moccasins, a few alligators and an electrical
storm, this hapless angler groped for his two-cell
flashlight in the bateau’s bottom but grabbed a rep-
tile instead.
The next morning, when the guide and fishing
camp owner found the city dude still circumnavi-
gating in Lost Lake, his hair had turned from black
to white, a true story, they say. Folklore, perhaps.
My uncle and I would toss Creek Chub Ding
Bats and Heddon Chuggers into the Second Old
River. To get there in our rented bateau we’d take a
short cut by motoring up the Government Ditch, a
stretch of deep water dug with mule-powered fres-
noes over 150 years ago, accommodating big pad-
dle-wheelers plying to Jefferson via Big Cypress
Bayou.
Every morning as we’d approach a feeder creek,
I’d always cast as far up the creek’s mouth as I
could, but only after Uncle Happy killed the 6-hp
Wizard outboard.
On one particular morning the tea-colored water
W-H-O-O-S-H-E-D! and my frog-colored Ding Bat
disappeared. Reflexively I set the hook hard but on
a Sherman tank, it felt like.
Clearing the water with my plug rattling in its
mouth was the ugliest thing in East Texas; it was a
grennel, sometimes called a bowfin; a vicious fish,
lots of sharp teeth plus a dorsal fin running full
length, this prehistoric-looking specimen can dam-
age the glossy paint job on a brand new lure in a
flash.
Clearing the water in a rainbow leap at the boat,
this grennel (or bowfin) startled us. A heavy fish it
was, at least 2-feet-plus-some; it cut my braided
casting line. Had we landed it, where in the boat
would we have put those razor-sharp teeth?
Caddo is sometimes eerie, just plain spooky, after
dark. You don’t even have to be lost. The Caddo
Indians told of a great sinking of the earth many
moons ago, forming about 35,000 acres of passage-
ways, referred to as “canoe roads,” a labyrinth of
bayous and shallow lakes; the scenery is awesome,
the bald cypress pristine. And, yes, my uncle and I
caught a lot of nice black bass on this trip.
But I had to leave the piney woods of East Texas,
I had to get back to Mineral Wells and the rugged
Palo Pinto Mountains. While stopping to let Uncle
Happy off in Dallas, we talked of making semi-
annual trips to ancient Caddo, a great idea starting
the very next year.
Homeward bound now, as I passed through Fort
Worth, then Weatherford, I was all of a sudden glad
to be back in rolling country, a familiar landscape
with a simple beauty all its own.
I really was excited when reaching Cool, to drop
down in the valley on Highway 180, then up
through the cut in the big rocks. Voila, it’s great to
be back home. •••
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Chasing Our Tales
The Hawthorne Family By Sue Seibert
T
he first thing I did was find the 1880 census
for Palo Pinto County, and, indeed, Walter is
listed as the ward of Eavin, not Ervin,
Pittman and his wife, Tabitha. There were three
Pittman sons in the family, Benjamin F., age 27;
James A., age 24; and John F., age 22. At the time
Walter was 15. It shows that Walter was a laborer and
that he stated his mother was born in Arkansas, but it
did not have a place of birth for his father. Also, it
stated that Walter could not read or write and had not
been to school, at least not that year.
Evan, not Eavin or Ervin, Alexander Pittman was
born June 14, 1923, in North Carolina, and died July
4, 1888. He was married to Tabitha Pamela Ezell. She
was born in Alabama in 1830.
I have found a family tree which traces John T.
Pittman, Eavin and Tabitha’s middle son. He lived
until 1937, and died in Cache, Comanche County,
Okla. He also lived in Owen Township in Dallas
County, Ark., in 1900. His wife was Mary L. Pittman
(no surname), and she was born in Arkansas.
John and Mary appear to have had six children,
Alice C., Britton, Van A., Ellie A., Milton A., and
David Hugh.
Alice, the oldest, was born in Arkansas in 1879. She
married James Albertis Eason, and their children
appear to have been Minnie, Lotie, Boyce Albert, and
Marguerit. They also lived in Owen, Dallas County,
Ark.
Boyce married Ethel Eason, and they had one child,
Bennie Jean. She married Paul D. Slack, and they
appear to have lived in Shreveport, Caddo County, La.
I have found another source which states that Evan
Alexander Pittman was the son of Matthew Pittman
and born in Tuscaloosa County, Ala. As it appears
Tabitha was born in Alabama, and Evan’s census line
is not readable as to place of birth, this may be the
case.
Interestingly, Evan seems to be a family name for
the Pittmans, so I think this may be the correct spell-
ing.
However, this does not get us any farther toward
finding out about the Hawthorne family.
Now, I have found a Walter P. Hawthorne who was
born about 1866 in Texas. This man married a Lou or
Low who was born in 1881 in Texas. They had a child
called Orvil Doris Hawthorne who was born in April
3, 1911, in Orr, Love County, Okla., and died in Feb.
20, 1978, in Prosser, Benton County, Washington.
Orvil was married to Ruth Elizabeth Church, born
Jan. 6, 1910, in Fleetwood, Ashe County, NC, and
died on July 24, 2006, in Spokane, Wash. I have no
information on children of this couple.
Orvil enlisted in the military on Jan. 25, 1943, from
Los Angeles, Calif. He was a Warrant Officer and was
single at the time of his enlistment. He declared that
he was a semiskilled construction worker and had a
grammar school education.
In
another location I found that Walter and Lou may
have had several other children, including Irvin O.
(perhaps the one the letter is referring to) born 1902;
Floyd M, born 1903; Earnest L., born 1905; Walter
W., born 1908; Lelie R., born 1910, and Orvil/Orville
D.
In the 1920 census I found Walter and Lou with two
other children, Otis G., born 1914 and Austin T., born
in 1916. This census stated that Lou, who could have
Hello,
I am seeking some help to a genealogy question. I have been help-
ing Jack Hawthorne of Knoxville TN who is anxious to learn about
his genealogy, especially his Hawthorne line. He knew his grandfa-
ther, Walter Paskel Hawthorne (1866-1913), but the family knows
nothing beyond Walter.
Here is the story told about Walter P. Hawthorne: He was born in
March 1866 in Texas. He had a slightly older sister whose name is
not known. When they were very young (Walter was not walking yet),
the parents were killed by Indians while on a wagon train. Young
Walter was raised by other people. He grew to manhood, married
twice, had many children, and died in Los Angeles CA in 1931.
Walter should appear in the 1870 census, but he is not found, per-
haps because he was in the missing 1870 Palo Pinto Co census. In
1880 Palo Pinto Co TX, he was listed as a “ward” in the household
of Ervin Pittman. Walter later named his second son Ervin, obvious-
ly in honor of the man who raised him.
We finally obtained the death certificate of Walter Hawthorne, but
unfortunately, his parents are marked as “unknown.”
By a process of elimination, it seems to me that the only possible
father for Walter was James M. Hawthorne who appears in 1860
Dallas Co TX. In later census records, Walter stated that his parents
were born in AR. And Walter’s father was probably a young man
when he married about 1865 (after the Civil War), so I was looking
for a young man, born in AR but living in TX.
Here is our question. Are there any records in Palo Pinto County
that would identify the deceased parents of Walter and his unknown
sister? Would Ervin Pittman have been appointed his guardian by
the Court? Are there Orphans Court records there?
Please advise us if there are charges for research, and if there is
someone who would be willing to look into this for us.
Hoping to hear from you,
Ann Blomquist
865-397-3738
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I received the following email back in January. I find it interesting.
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been Louella with perhaps the middle name of
Emma, was born in Arkansas and that they were, at
the time, living in Wright, Jefferson County, Okla.
Then I discovered they may have had two older
children, Charles P. and Cairo P., and that they may
have lived in Wilbarger County, Texas, in 1900. If
this is the same couple, Lou was only about 15
when they married. Interestingly John Pittman
lived in Wilbarger County in 1900, so he and
Walter could have stayed close together.
This is all I have been able to piece together at
the present.
Now on to an email I received concerning my
last two columns about the Moores near Fortune
Bend. I just received an email from Andrea Kemp:
“Dear Sue, Thank you for looking into my letter.
I am happy to report that I found the place they are
resting and it is at Mountain Home Cemetery. I
talked to a man named Dorman who is a preacher
at the Church of Christ in Graham, and he knew
the history about the cemetery. At one time it was
considered a lost cemetery. He said it was on pri-
vate property and a handful of people are resting
out there. My husband had a meeting last week in
Fort Worth and on Friday on our way home we
came through Mineral Wells to look around the
town. We were pressed for time. I took a few pic-
tures of the Baker Hotel and stopped and to buy a
case of Crazy Water and some soap and face toner.
We also drove by the Haunted Hill House. That
place looked pretty spooky. I found out in June
there is a big event in Graham at the Burgas
Church, and I am planning on attending, and
Dorman is going to take me out to the Mountain
Home Cemetery. I also found out that my great
grandmother’s brother George Gaston Moore died
in Mineral Wells in June 1987. A family member
said he had lived at the Crazy Water Retirement
Home. I am still looking into that information. I
thought the little town of Mineral Wells was a very
interesting place with a lot of history and many,
many stories to tell. I am looking forward to find-
ing out more about the area my family called
home... Many blessings to you.... Andrea.
I found that Mountain Home Cemetery is in the
Ming Bend of the Brazos in Young County. In Find
a Grave I found listed these people in Mountain
Home: Buna Mae Lisle Horton, Billie Ruth Lisle,
Dellar C. Lisle, Frances Estell Lisle, John Jefferson
Lisle, Mrs. Martha Ann Lisle, Millie Alice Bunger
Lisle, Oliver Dale Lisle, Samuel Vassar “Sam”
Lisle, and Thomas Lafayette Lisle. However, I
found no Moores listed. Perhaps when Andrea goes
there she will have better luck!
As to the Haunted Hill House, which she later
told me was at 501 NE 1st St., I know nothing. I
do know that our local ghost walk person has been
telling some, in fact many, outrageous stories about
various buildings in town. I have heard this from a
couple of property owners. Since I am a lover of
history, I really hate to hear that false tales are
being bandied about!
If you have any information about either the
Moore family or the Hawthorne family, I hope you
will get in touch with me. My email is sue_seib-
[email protected]. See ya next time! •••
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From Palo Pinto
to Palo Duro
By Jim Dillard
(Part 2 in a series of articles on Charles Goodnight,
legendary cattleman, ranger and Texas icon, and the
events of his life that took him from the Keechi Creek
Valley in Palo Pinto County to his ranching empire in
the vast Palo Duro Canyon country in the Texas
Panhandle.)
I
n the spring of 1865, Goodnight decided he
would drive a herd of cattle to New Mexico and
Colorado where beef was in high demand. He
and his brother-in-law Adam Sheek began rounding up
their cattle in Young, Palo Pinto and Jack counties and
moved about 2,000 head of big steers and dry cows
west to Elm Creek in present Throckmorton County
near the Neuhous Pens. Unfortunately, during early
September Indians raided his Elm Creek ranch and
drove off most of the cattle. Fourteen men immediate-
ly took up the trail in pursuit of the cattle and were
joined the next day by Goodnight and One-Arm Bill
Wilson. After traveling 25 miles, Goodnight deter-
mined they were outnumbered by the Indians and
turned back to protect his remaining cattle from other
Indians that may have still been in the area.
These events further solidified Goodnight’s resolve
to leave this country for good and relocate away from
the turbulent Texas frontier and the thievery by
Indians and white rustlers. While other cattlemen
would likely begin moving their herds north along the
old established trails used before the Civil War,
Goodnight had other ideas. He would drive cattle
southwest down the old Butterfield Mail route to the
Pecos River and then turn north up that river into New
Mexico and on to Colorado. During 1866 he began
gathering his cattle on the Elm Creek range and made
preparations for a drive to the mining regions of New
Mexico and Colorado where his herd could be sold for
gold. It was also better cattle country and if he could
not sell his herd immediately, he could hold them until
a buyer could be located.
He bought the gear of an old government wagon and
pulled it to Weatherford to a woodworker where it was
rebuilt using hard and durable bois d’arc wood. The
wood axles were replaced by iron and tallow would be
used for lubrication rather that tar. Twelve yoke of
oxen would pull the wagon using six at a time. On
back of the wagon, he had a chuck box built with a
fold out table and legs for the cook to work on. Since
the Indians had stolen his good horses, he went to
Gray’s Ranch on Mary’s Creek near Fort Worth where
he purchased several good mounts.
With his outfit about ready to begin the cattle drive,
Goodnight traveled to Weatherford once more to pur-
chase all necessary supplies for the trip. On the way,
he stopped at Oliver Loving’s camp just west of the
Keechi Valley where Loving was gathering some of
his cattle. Goodnight told him of his plan to drive his
cattle on a southwest route to New Mexico and
Colorado. Loving counseled him about the hazards
and uncertainties of such a trip through that region of
Texas but Goodnight was determined and would not
be swayed from his plan. Loving then asked
Goodnight, “If you will let me, I will go with you.”
Goodnight’s reply was, “I will not only let you, but it
is the most desirable thing of my life. I not only need
the assistance of your force, but I need your advice.”
On the sixth of June, 1866, 30-year-old Charles
Goodnight and 54-year-old Oliver Loving joined their
herds totaling 2,000 longhorn cattle 25 miles south-
west of Fort Belknap to blaze a new southwest cattle
trail. In doing so, they forged their names into the
annals of frontier history. Loving, who had previously
moved cattle north to Colorado and Illinois and east to
Louisiana, was put in charge of the herd on
Goodnight’s insistence and now, for the first time,
pointed this herd southwest. The trail they followed
had also been known as the Emigrant Trail which had
been used by immigrants and travelers seeking their
fortunes in the gold fields of California since the mid
1840 and into the 1850s.
Despite dry streams and waterholes, stampedes,
quicksands of the Pecos, and the desolate expanses of
southwest Texas, they arrived at Bosque Redondo
(Fort Sumner, located in east-central New Mexico)
around the first of July. Since some 8,500 Navajo and
Mescalero Indians had been put on reservations nearby
during 1865, Goodnight and Loving had no problem
selling their “two, threes and up” steers for eight cents
a pound on foot to government contractors. This was
more money than Goodnight or Loving had ever made
from cattle. With some 700-800 cows and calves left
Oliver Loving
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From Palo Pinto
to Palo Duro
that were not sold, these were driven up the Pecos to
Las Carretas where they were rested on good water
and grass for a few days.
It was decided that Loving would move the
remaining cattle on into Colorado to sell while
Goodnight returned to Texas to trail another herd to
Fort Sumner before the start of winter. Goodnight set
out on the 700-mile saddle trip back to Texas down
along the trail he had just traveled and Loving
moved the remaining cattle north through Las Vegas,
NM, and on across Raton Pass into Colorado. After
crossing the Arkansas River near Pueblo and travel-
ing on to near the site of Denver, Loving sold the
remaining cattle to famous ranchman John W. Iliff.
Loving then returned to Fort Sumner to await the
return of Goodnight with another herd.
Goodnight left Fort Sumner with three cowboys
and a mule packed with provisions and $12,000 in
gold. Each rode a saddle mule and trailed their fast-
est horse behind in case they needed to flee an attack
by Indians. They rode by night and rested during the
day in out of the way places to avoid detection by
Indians that roamed throughout the region. At one
point the pack mule bolted during a lightning and
thunder storm and threw off all their provisions.
When Goodnight finally caught up with the mule, he
discovered that the gold was still safely secured to
the mule’s saddle. Without food, the men were
forced to live off the land as they made their way
homeward down the Pecos and northeast toward
Palo Pinto County.
Seventeen days after leaving Fort Sumner,
Goodnight was in Weatherford securing provisions
for delivery to Fort Belknap for the next cattle drive
to New Mexico. Within 10 or 12 days he hired
hands for the drive, organized and equipped the out-
fit and received and branded 1,200 big steers. Once
again, he then pointed the herd down the Goodnight-
Loving Trail toward New Mexico. Forty days later
Goodnight was camped at Bosque Grande, 40 miles
below Fort Sumner in east-central New Mexico,
where he was rejoined by Loving. They made a
crude winter camp by digging into the bluffs on the
east side of the Pecos River where they would
remain camped until spring as the cattle wintered
along the river. On a handshake, Loving and
Goodnight decided to create an equal partnership on
this herd and for the purpose of buying and selling
cattle in the future.
Once a month during the winter, they drove cattle
to Santa Fe or Fort Sumner for delivery to govern-
ment contractors. They also made an agreement
with officers at Fort Bascom, located to the northeast
of Fort Sumner on the Canadian River, for delivery
of any cattle that had been stolen in Texas they
might encounter that were being moved over the
Comanchero trail. Goodnight and Loving had power
of attorney over numerous brands and could help sell
the stock and recover the losses of other Texas cat-
tlemen. Goodnight and Loving remained in New
Mexico until the spring of 1868, selling their cattle
and buying other herds being moved up the
Goodnight-Loving Trail for resale to government
contractors.
Goodnight and Loving returned to Texas during
the spring of 1867 and began buying and gathering
another herd of cattle to drive to New Mexico.
Many other cattlemen in Texas had learned of their
success and also began driving cattle on the
Goodnight-Loving Trail. Consequently, as more and
more cattle were being driven to market, trail drivers
were now competing for the best price. Those who
arrived earliest at the New Mexico markets were the
one’s most likely to get the highest dollars for their
beef. Goodnight and Loving wasted no time and
assembled another herd containing some of their cat-
tle and other cattle they bought from area stockmen.
They met 15 miles south of the Neuhous Pens at
Cribb’s Station and began the drive down the trail
they had established the previous year.
This third drive was plagued with problems from
continued on page 14
continued from page 12
March 2014 • NORTH TEXAS STAR • Page 14
the get-go. By this time, Indians had also learned of
the cattle drives in Texas moving to the southwest and
began making raids to drive off livestock. Stolen cat-
tle and horses were traded to Comancheros, native
traders from northern and central New Mexico operat-
ing on the High Plains and along the Llano Estacado
(Caprock country of the Texas Panhandle,) for com-
modities such as beads, knives, paints, tobacco, pots
and pans, cloth, spikes for arrowheads, guns, ammuni-
tion, coffee, and whiskey. Annual rendezvous were
often held by the Comancheros as designated sites
where trading was conducted with Comanche and
Kiowa Indians. Captives from Mexico and whites
from frontier settlements were also bought from
Indians by the Comancheros and held for ransom by
relatives or government officials.
Goodnight and Loving’s herd had only gone a short
distance past old Camp Cooper when Indians attacked
during the night and stampeded the herd. After fight-
ing off the Indians and regathering most the herd, it
was determined that about 160 head were missing.
Unable to retake the missing cattle from the Indians,
Goodnight and Loving began moving the remainder of
the herd down the trail. The cattle stampeded numer-
ous times on the drive until they reached Horsehead
Crossing on the Pecos River during late July.
As the herd began its move up the Pecos into New
Mexico, Loving decided to ride ahead to Santa Fe to
be present at the bidding for the best government con-
tracts for the herd. Goodnight reluctantly agreed on
the stipulation that he travel only at night to avoid
detection by Indians and rest during the day. He also
sent Palo Pinto cattleman “One-Armed” Bill Wilson
with him who Goodnight said “was by odds the cool-
est man in the outfit.” Wilson had lost most of an arm
in a thrashing machine accident near Black Springs in
Palo Pinto County but never let that be a disability to
him. He was also married to Goodnight’s step sister.
The events and circumstances that resulted from that
decision have become famous in the lore of western
frontier history. Books have been written and movies
made (Lonesome Dove) about Goodnight and Loving’s
fateful cattle drive of 1867. After traveling for several
days without seeing any Indians, Loving had decided
to travel during the day to make better time on his trip
to Santa Fe. He and Wilson were attacked by Indians
as they crossed open flatland and narrowly escaped by
riding fast to the breaks of the Pecos River and hiding
in a hole along the bank. Having received two wounds
during the flight, Loving’s odds of surviving were
uncertain. However, Bill Wilson miraculously escaped
the watchful eyes of the Indians during the night by
swimming down the river and walked barefoot for
three days until he found Goodnight with the herd.
Wilson reported that he was almost certain Loving had
been killed by the Indians.
However, being unable to dislodge the wounded
Loving from his stronghold, the Indians eventually
rode away. Although badly wounded, Loving made
his way up the Pecos to a known cattle trail crossing
hoping someone would find him. Fortunately three
Mexicans and a German boy riding in a wagon pulled
by three oxen discovered him lying near the crossing.
Although they were traveling south, when Loving
offered them $250 to take him to Fort Sumner about
150 miles to the north, they agreed.
After getting the news from Wilson that Loving was
still alive when he left him, Goodnight and six men
immediately started up the Pecos to search for him.
On the way, they encountered Jim Burleson who
Goodnight had previously bought a cattle herd from.
He was to deliver the cattle south of Fort Sumner
where Goodnight would meet him to take charge of
the herd. Burleson reported to Goodnight that he had
traveled south from Fort Sumner to locate his cattle
herd and met the Mexican ox cart carrying Loving. He
then raced back to Fort Sumner and brought the post
ambulance and doctors some 50 miles south to where
Loving was located where they treated and transported
him back to Fort Sumner.
With the news that Loving was alive at Fort Sumner,
Goodnight immediately left on his trusty saddle mule
Jenny for a non-stop 110 mile ride to Fort Sumner
where he indeed found his old friend up and about
recovering from his wounds. The wound in Loving’s
side had healed but the one in his arm was not doing
well. While confined at the fort, Loving had learned
the location of six of his work mules and Goodnight’s
fine saddle horse that had been stolen the previous
spring. Despite Goodnight’s desire to stay with him,
Loving insisted that he go and recover them.
Goodnight retook the stock by force between Las
Vegas and Santa Fe, NM, and made his way back
toward Fort Sumner.
About 30 miles from Fort Sumner, he met a courier
with word that Loving had sent for him as his condi-
tion had worsened. When he arrived, he learned that
gangrene had developed in Loving’s arm and he would
not let the surgeon take it off unless Goodnight was
there. After several days delay by a young doctor at
the fort who had no training in amputations and on
Goodnight’s insistence, Loving’s arm was finally
removed above the elbow. After complications set in,
Goodnight sent a runner he paid $500 with relays of
horses to Las Vegas for Dr. Shoup. The doctor and a
companion physician arrived the second night after the
operation and discovered that an artery had broken in
Loving’s arm. As his condition began to quickly dete-
riorate, the doctors administered chloroform and retied
the artery, but Loving suffered a relapse and began to
decline.
Before Loving died, he asked Goodnight that he
promise to continue their partnership for at least two
years until all his remaining debts were paid and his
family provided for. When Loving told Goodnight that
he regretted “to have to be laid away in a foreign
country,” Goodnight replied that he would see that his
remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at home.
Twenty-two days after being wounded on the Pecos
River by Indians, Loving died on Sept. 25, 1867.
Goodnight had Loving temporarily buried at Fort
Sumner and promised to return in a few months and
take his body back to Weatherford, Texas.
Several months after moving the herd north,
Goodnight established a new ranch in Southern
Colorado. He then returned to Fort Sumner and began
preparations for moving Loving’s body. His cowboys
gathered scattered oil cans from around the fort which
were beat out and soldered together to make a large
casket. The coffin Loving was buried in was placed
inside the metal casket and packed with powdered
charcoal. It was then sealed and crated in another
large box made of lumber. The bed of a wagon was
removed and the box loaded in its place and secured.
On Feb. 8, 1868, the wagon pulled by six big mules
and an escort began the long trip back to Loving’s
home in Weatherford. There are various stories about
who actually accompanied Loving’s body back to
Texas, but his son Joe (Joseph) Loving was likely part
of the entourage. Goodnight was likely not involved as
he continued with his cattle operation in New Mexico
and Colorado. Without incident, Loving’s body was
taken back to Texas over the trail that bore his name
and was delivered to the Masonic Lodge in
Weatherford. Loving was buried there with fraternal
honors in the Greenwood Cemetery. •••
(to be continued)
Sources: “Charles Goodnight: Cowman and
Plainsman,” by J. Evetts Haley; “C. C. Slaughter :
Rancher, Banker, Baptist,” by David J. Murrah;
“Painted Post: The Beldings and Their Ranches in
Palo Pinto County – Pioneer Days to Computer Age,”
by Barbra Belding; Texas Historical Association
Online and several other internet sources.
continued from page 13
Charles Goodnight circa 1880
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by Wynelle Caitlin
SPY KNOB
S
py Knob is a perfectly round conical hill
just outside the Jermyn community in Jack
County. From atop its large boulders one
can see all over Loving Valley.
And no, as some rumors persistently said, it was
not the hilltop where Indians waited to attack
Warren's Wagon Train. That hill was several miles
further west.
When I was a student in Jermyn school some
60-plus years ago, we had an annual end-of-year
outing in the flat to the west of Spy Knob. All of us
students, from first through 11th grades, played
various games, including baseball, ate picnic foods
and had a good time in the shadow of Spy Knob.
(At that time, we only went to school 11 years. I
skipped 7th grade to bump me up when the extra
year was added.)
No one was allowed to climb Spy Knob on our
school outings, but all of us, including me, climbed
to the top at various times. Climbing up it was not
easy, and when we reached the top we sat on the
huge boulders looking across the Valley. Or stood
up, feeling we were as high as the sky. And we
explored and wondered at the initials painstakingly
carved into the massive rocks.
I grew up and married and had four children, and
no longer lived in the Jermyn community. But as
the children got old enough, one of my favorite
places to take them was to climb Spy Knob. And
everytime I did, my dad would admonish me to
watch for rattlesnakes among the rocks. But no
matter how many times we climbed the rocks to the
top we never met a snake.
By the time my youngest was becoming a good
climber, I was becoming less agile. I managed to go
with a grandson to climb Spy Knob, then I had to
admit, I couldn't climb to the top anymore.
Occasionally, I still drive to Jermyn to remember
my climbing days. And other Jermyn memories.
One of my favorite stories occurred during
Depression Days, that period of time when the
economy came to a standstill and no money was
changing hands.
The Loving family was part of Jermyn history. I
went to school with Oliver Loving III.
I was a year ahead of him.
His uncle was president of the bank.
At that time, every family had milch cows.
Milk—sweet milk, clabber milk, buttermilk and but-
ter that came from milk—was a necessary family
food. And for the animals, too. Barn cats were given
their share when their dishes were filled at milking
time. Extra clabber milk was put out for the chick-
ens. Leftover sour milk was put into slop buckets
and mixed with other food for the hogs.
Everyone managed their milch cows so there was
always at least one that was always producing milk.
But once, there was a miscalculation or the bull
slipped in unexpectedly, and all our cows went dry
at the same time.
And we had to have milk. Even if Daddy had had
money, which he didn't, it was hard to go buy a cow
as no one was willing to part with good milch cows.
However, Daddy went to see Mr. Loving at the bank
and asked for a loan to buy a milch cow, if he could
find one.
He didn't get the loan of money—he got the loan
of one of Mr. Loving's cows, to be returned when
one of ours freshened!
Good memories of the good old days. And I still
drive out to look at Spy Knob and remember
climbing to its top. •••
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MARCH 1966
Camp Wolters in Mineral Wells is designated U.S. Army Primary Helicopter School. It was deactivated in
1973 and Fort Rucker, Ala., became the Primary Helicopter School.
MARCH 2, 1866
Sam Savage, 5, is captured by Comanches who killed his father on their Parker County farm southwest of
Weatherford. In November, he and other child captives were discovered among the Comanche by a trader
and ransomed at Fort Arbuckle, Okla., for a sum of $414. Sam lived to age 90 and often recounted the
details of his ordeal. He died in 1951 and is buried in Staggs Prairie Cemetery 3 miles north of Mineral
Wells.
MARCH 5, 1836
Texas cattleman Charles Goodnight is born on the family farm is Macoupin County, Ill. At one time
Goodnight operated out of Palo Pinto County, living in the Oran (Black Springs) area with a herd of cattle
in 1857.
MARCH 9, 1921
Strawn, Texas', namesake, Stephen Bethel Strawn, dies in Strawn. After a few years in Eastland County,
he settled permanently in Palo Pinto County in 1860. He came to Texas from Tennessee, born there April
30, 1837.
MARCH 19, 1895
Palo Pinto County cattleman/pioneer and Baptist preacher George Webb Slaughter dies at Palo Pinto.
MARCH 22, 1941
Camp Wolters in Mineral Wells officially turned over to the U.S. Army. In a ceremony near the headquar-
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STORIES & SNIPPETS
Business outlook here is bright for 1965; steady growth predicted
Sunday
January 10, 1965
Mineral Wells Index
Men in key positions of the Mineral Wells area
economy unanimously forecast a continued steady
growth of the region in 1965, according to a survey
conducted by The Index.
Also, the business leaders agreed Mineral Wells
had a good retail business year and that area indus-
tries operated at full capacity, with several expand-
ing their operations and work forces.
The general consensus is that this trend of steady
growth will extend through 1965, despite the un-
predictable outlook for livestock producers.
Here are the opinions of business leaders repre-
senting a cross-section of the economy:
-----
MARSHAL HAMILTON, president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce--All of our major industries have
added personnel and expanded their operations in
1964. It appears to me that all our retail businesses
have been stabilized and enjoyed an excellent year
in 1964 as far as sales are concerned.
The 1965 outlook seems even brighter in the retail
sales feld, because Mineral Wells has increased in
population.
I believe sales in 1965 will exceed the good year
of 1964.
-----
BILL HILL, president of the Downtown Mer-
chants Assn.--Retail business increases are expected
to carry over into 1965, and may be larger than
in 1964. We will continue to promote as heavy,
or heavier, than we did in 1964, feeling that last
year’s promotions defnitely bolstered the business
picture.
All businessmen I’ve talked to indicated that
they believed 1965 will be a good business year.
Our retail business position in relation to the lure of
the Fort Worth market has improved considerably.
I credit the inter-city business rivalry for creat-
ing better local merchants and the enthusiasm to
compete against he Fort Worth market.
-----
DALE BALDWIN, president of the Brazos
Merchants Assn.--Prospects look even brighter at
the shopping center than the good year of 1964,.
because of the outstanding promotional programs
planned by the association in 1965.
I feel that Mineral Wells is coming on fast, be-
cause of its steady growth.
-----
PERRY HORTON, president of the City National
Bank--I think the economic outlook is good for
1965.
Retail credit should show some increase and
adequate money will be available from lending
institutions to serve the needs of the public without
tightening of credit controls.
The agricultural picture is not too bright. Farm-
ers and ranchers will have to use every means they
can to economize their operations in order to show
profts.
The producers have been caught in the cost -
price squeeze.
---
CHARLES G. LEE, president of First National
Bank -- I don’t see any major pitfalls in the local
economy in 1965, although the livestock producers
will be faced with an unsteady market. However,
ranch conditions are good.
The Army aviation program at Fort Wolters
is stronger than ever. (Lee is co-chairman of the
Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Commit-
tee.)
The student load at Wolters is slated for gradual
gain until the fscal year of 1970.
Mineral Wells banking business had an excellent
1964 as refected in the recent year-end bank call
fgures.
---
SAM MORRISON, district manager of Texas
Power & Light Co.-- The frst six months looks real
bright, because of the overall expenditures that will
be made by federal, state and local governments.
---
PAUL SCHNEIDER, president of the Mineral
Wells Savings & Loan Assn. -- Our total increase in
resources was about $560,000 in 1964, which makes
us believe that the economy will have more a pros-
perous year in 1965.
Continued residential and commercial construc-
tion should bolster the economy. Reason for the
lead in residential construction over other types of
building is that many employes at Fort Wolters are
getting the feeling that the military program will be
on a permanent basis.
Therefore, they are purchasing new homes.
---
NORMAN HINES, manager of Brazos River Gas
Co. and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce
Highway Committee-- We had a very good growth
over the area. Mineral Wells and vicinity is in a
position to enjoy continued growth, but it will de-
pend on a number of factors such as the continued
industrial expansion, which now looks good.
The state surveying of the Graham - Mineral
Wells proposed highway has been completed and
land should be expected to be purchased this year.
The new highway will bring Mineral Wells closer
to the Northwest Texas market.
This series of pieces from the past is meant to remind us of this area’s unique history. The
material comes from old issues maintained at the Index offce and is presented pretty much
as it appeared in print. These papers are quite yellowed and brittle, deteriorating from age.
By publishing these pieces perhaps we can keep them in play in the digital world for years
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