The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-09-08

raises big nelogA on ihtR biaCk land
We ate one that weighed pound
He has more has than anybody. an,
other feed stuff Eaiog. liis red Jvr
seq bog has taken tnr prize At sever
al hog shows ! stayed = night witl
him and don think o. will ba m'
last These pelkS airs my kinfolks
but don't bold if against them, foi
thcy can help &C.
r nryson and all the other Bry
sons take our paper ali the time
heard that Chess Bryson had ths
western fever. and we mas lose hin
for year or two. but he will come
back r. = Mitchell took me in this
last night. and ! never slept on the
front poarch either. He is bull,
old boy and love him and his good
family He will poke fun al me-
though. as does his neighbor. McCou
irk and that is why am SO stuck
on him. Mr. Mitchell gave me q
ticket 10 HIS home always, and as
long as that fried chicken is KEEP,
piled so high, I'll be there on III,
regular rounds.
In looking up the Oldest resident
of Ovilla I find Uncle Ham Harris
Rev. r. NJ White, and Prof Sam
Quaite. They are all well educated
men and have at different times been
contributors to the Enterprise They
are most interesting. too, and I only
wish we had space for a series oi
articles of their memories. The old
est families came there in 1870 &c
tS45. Old Shiloh church was bull,
in 1916, and was by six years the
first church in this county 1t was
Presbyterian and these good people
are now in their third building Rev
White told me that some great meet
ings had been held there. Up till
1890 a count of those who had pro-
fessed religion there was more than
1000 souls. Among the ministers
Wear, Haynes, Beeson of Trinity Uni
versity, and Renfro. When the time
for the protracted meeting would
come the people for miles would
come and camp. Rev. White him
self has been in the ministry for
nearly forty years. He has ridden
thousands of miles. organized six,
teen churches, married many couples
and is now in his 18th year, as
straight as an arrow, and his mind is
p1 In, FOL oct
tates in calling up a fact or name
He told me that to- get his first book
he sold pup. He is well read, fears
God and hates the devil and all his
works.
There has been school at Ole
Shiloh since the church was built
A joint stock company was formed
there about 1860 and they had The
best school around for many years
| Prof d. G. Mulloy and wife laugh
powerful and eloquent preacher AM
preached there for 20 years. Som
of their teachers to be remembers
are w. P. Gillespie who taught befor
the war and afterwards went to Trir
ity University when it was organize
at Tehuacana in 1863 White ar
Davenport taught during reconstru
lion days and their examination u.
der the carpet baggers" is enoue
to make ones southern blood roll We
Our own townsman and newspape
man, Col Thos. J. Middleton, laugh
! there later, but understand, / am no
calling him old, for he is not.
Among the old families are the
Billingsleys, who have moved farther
west; Col. Patton, Clayton who set
tied on Little creek, Mckay, Powers,
King, Loughlins, Hearses, and Phil
lip and Newton Chapman, whose de-
cendantS are numerous in our coun-
ty and among our best citizens.
Kings mill was built there in 1855,
at first horse power but later a
steam mill. 1t was run for 80 years,
the last years in connection with a
gin In 1857 a norther killed the
wheat on April ). and on April II, a
snow 4 inches deep fell. A little
corn and some wheat was made,
nevertheless, and when | asked Rev,
White if it didn't look like starvation
he replied, mo, | have never seen
the righteous forsaken nor His seed
begging bread.
The town OF Ovilla was started in
1870, and A. II. Harris was her first
business man Later came Billiard,
Lancaster, White, Common, Burgess,
Graham. Mcfarland. McCrary and
Berry No whiskey was ever sold
there When the civil war came
her men went out under Capt. Brown,
Cap. Parks, Capt. Getzendaner and
Capt Payne. Oyilla still has her
good school. her progressive citizen
ship is her pride as well as our own,
for are We not one people after all2
NILFIN