The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-23


ginning season ii aver he pulls 81
Ibis coat 1t home nnd makes > full
hand III the field. This good family
ARE Industrious people, the old gen
Ttlsman il Primitive Baptist and
we all know that means he pays bis
debts. Uncle John Jackson settled
out here fifty odd years ago. He
now owns about 1400 acres and he
has not robbed any man out of q
cent to buy IL with either. / got to
his house In the afternoon sick and
1 Mrs. Jackson allowed me TO go to
bed. Late ia the evening when
Uncle John came in l was feeling
better and by morning / was o. X.
again. Uncle Johns boys all own
good farms and are honest, hard
working, good citizens. Miss Cora
| Harris and her sister teach the Ozro
school This is Miss Cora's third
session as teacher here and | heard
good reports from her school. On
| towards Auburn Mr.. Stovall who
rented for several years from Uncle
John bought farm out here, has
nice young orchard, eight or ten
beegums, living at home under his
own vine and fig tree. | next
turn across by Sam Jackson's, son
of Uncle John, who lives in splen-
did home, and owns five or six hun
dred acres. Mr.. Hudson, a man of
my name, owns fine farm close by.
Same and the Hudsons and Jack
sons are all right. Just across the
Johnson county line E. J. Laird
owns a fine farm, and he paid his
back subscription. On the Ingle
farm Seaborn Stiles rents and he
and bis good wife spent Christmas
holidays at their old home in
Lincoln county Tennessee, The
land of peace and plenty and good
Ticker. My old enemy, the grip, was
botherine me when / got To Mr.
Stiles and he put down my delicate
frame about forty drops of the very
best old Lincoln county Ticker ever
coursed its way down any poor
mortal's GOOGLE. | felt good and it
cured my grip, and | thank Mr..
Stiles and his better half. We Tex
ans are not used to this kind OF
truck.
Mr.. J. B, Ingle, who for many
years merchandised at Auburn, two
years ago moved to Georgetown to
educate his children. He is now
back on the old Ingle farm. His
mother, Aunt Jane, is now 81 years
old and is a sister to Major Rogers
who founded Waxahachie. She il
still stout for her years. During the
civil war she and her family lived in
Erath county where Indians were
as thick as cattle are now out there
and while they lived there eleven of /
their netghbors were slain by the
Red Skins and she had frequently, /
on moonshlny nights, seen Indians
In her yard aud her husband and
sons were frequently in conflict with /
them. Her Oldest son, who now
lives in Grandview, killed one or
two during the latter part of the war.
They moved back and settled where !
she now resides. Aunt Jane 5 Ger.
taiuly an interesting charact, and
she and Uncle Bob Maydeld are
about the ouly pioneers left who in
habited this section OF Texas before
and during the war, Mrs. Ingle
raj sed "a large family and they are
among Ellis and Johnson counties
best citizens. One daughter, is the
wife of Col. Boyd, a wealthy cattle /
man, away in the interior Of Old
Mexico. She - still cheerful and
Jolly and still loves TO talk Of her
early experiences. She occasionally /
visited her brother, MAJOR Rogers, /
after he settled in Waxahachie and
she said she frequently heard him
say he would like 20 live tttv years
longer 10 see how big and prosperous
Waxahachle would grow and IL the
old gentleman could come forth to-
day he would be bewildered. This
prosperous city OF something like
seven thousand woHld be bigger and
better than he possibly ever dreamed
of and he was very solicitous for th g
town be founded