The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-04-27
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county, the sister Of Major Rogers.
who flrsf settled In Waxahachie and |
built q log cabin on the corner
where the Rogers Hotel now stands.
Major Rogers at one time owned all
the land on which Waxahachie 10
now built and great deal more.
Several years ago thought home on
Kaufman street and the deeds l re-
ceived from the man / bought from
ran back to Major Rogers, who orig
inaIly owned it. He was man of
good practical judgment and in that
early day when there was not possi-
Div more than a dozen families in
Ellis county, this good man real
lied and foresaw the great POSSIBLE
ties of this Eldorado he had stumb-
led on to, and he stayed with it till
the day of his death and his remains
now are buried in cur city cemetery.
| He not only stayed with Waxahac
| HE himself, butthose who. remember
| him say that he induced every
stranger he possibly could to settle
in this goodly land he had dis
covered. One of his daughters
married DR.. Briggs and the Briggs
| family of Waxahachie are his grand
children. En- Briggs was named
for him. Judge Lee Hawkins wife
was a Briggs and one of his grand
children and Mrs. Ingle asked me
particularly of her and the Briggs
family, All throughout Texas to.
day there are men who travelled
over Ellis county in that early day
after Mr.. Rogers settled in Waxa-
hachie and passed on, not realizing
as he did what it was, that now re-
greet exceedingly not taking his
advice and anchOring themselves
while land was cheap here. Mrs.
IngIe Is the last one OF the Rogers
family living. She and her son who
lives at Auburn, just returned re-
Gently from Oklahoma where they
buried Mr.. Tom Rogers, a younger
brother. A few of the old timers in
Waxahachie and surrounding coun-
try will probably remember him.
He frequently visited his brother
here III the early days. Notwith-
standing Mrs. Ingle's great age she
still retains all her faculties unim-
paired and is a great comfort to her
immediate family, and all who are
so fortunate as to meet her.
Mr.. NJ. p. Nation lives right close
to the line of Johnson and Ellis
counties and he, too, is an old timer
in this county. He has for many
years kept fine horses and Jacks and
| improved the stock of his section.
He now owns some splendid animals
recently purchased this year. /. b
Mosley, who married a daughter of
| Uncle John Jackson, lives over here
hon a splendid farm. There is over
here in the edge of Johnson and
Ellis counties a strip OF sandy
| land and those who live on it say it
is just as productive as the black
lands surrounding 1t. The Doctor
Connor estate owns about 800 acres
out here and the neighbors say that
during the Doctors lifetime he fire.
lquently visited this farm, and on
one of his trips the Doctor got lost.
Roads were dim in the early days
and the Doctor found himself wan
dering and lost on the prairie. Fin
| ally he met a cowboy and asked the
| boy where he would find road.
The cowboy, of course, asked him
where he wanted to go and the Doc |
tor, who was a very peculiar kind Of
man. replied: sit makes no differ |
ence to you where / come from or
where l am headed for, you just
simply show me road" 1t was a |
road the Doctor wished to see at
that particular time and the cow
hunter at once proceeded to do that
much for him. I. V. Brady, an i'll
telligent, old gentleman, who is stop
ping over here near Auburn with his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wood, said he wanted TO know
something of Ellis county, having
just come in from the states, so he
subscribed for our paper. Sald he
had heard of the Enterprise and its
immense circulation. Auburn still
has as many business houses as
ever. II was thought Maypearl, the
railroad town close by, would wipe
Auburn out. Three stores, a splen
did school. Auburn is a nice village
on the sandy land. DR.. Payne, we'll
known in this county, is in partner
ship with DR., Henry Kirby who
was raised in this community. DIR.
Payne is also Primitive or Hard
shell Baptist minister and in both
he is eminent. ! secured q splendid
correspondent at Auburn this trip,
hut I will not tell who IL is w a