The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1914-03-27


father. Col Joseph keyworth, who
were very cordial After partaking
Of a symptoms supper. prepared ny
| Miss keyworth. We repaired TO the
! living room, where the field man
was entertained for several hours
| by this interesting family. The
next morning / braakfasted and was
| escorted to the home of John Key
worth, the second son, and met John,
/ Jr., who has d reputation for grow
| ing corn. At the age of only II
years, Johnnie competed for prize
! in the state growers club ut Dallas
and was beaten only by four bushels.
| Ills record was 81 bushels and 20
pounds. He planted, cultivated and
| gathered the corn and was out OF
| school only four days | was gwen
| n couple of ears o. this corn, as a
sample Johnnie showed me his fine
| colt, a Rather Brooks colt. also
some fine bronze turkeys. hogs and
chickens. He has little brother,
! Simpson, who was named for Dr.
! c. W. Simpson of WaXahachie. MI
| Joseph Kew rth, Sr., moved from
! Missouri in 1882, and settled On
Grove creek, where he resided three
| years. From there he moved TO
Reuna Vista, where he bought a
/ farm and now lives. He and his
son. VIII and daughter, Miss Hattie,
constitute the family, his wife having
| died four years ago. MIR. keyWotsh
| has six children, three boys and three
girls. all married but two, w. A.
| and Miss Hattie. He has a son,
Henry, at Clyde. Texas, who gets
the Enterprise. also a daughter, Mrs.
Knowles, of WaXahachie. His
other two children, John keyworth,
and Mrs. Clark Buck, have farms
in the Beuna Vista community. John
who has a farm adjoining his father,
married thirteen years ago. Miss
our efficient county commissioner.
John started from the bottom notch
and with the help of his splendid
wife, they have a fine home as we'll
as a good farm, and four bright
children, John Jr., Charlie, Simpson
and Ella. Mr.. and Mrs. Buck also
made their farm since marriage.
Will KeyWorth, who runs his fathers
farm, is one of the enterprislng
citizens of his community and is a
director in the telephone exchange
out there. In early days in WaHa-
hachie, VIII acted as deputy consta-
Bile under Ota Cantrell, and when
there were any hard places to look
after he was the one to be put OF
! the Job. Col. keyworth has not only
family, but was an interesting figure
in the Unicn army, He has in a
frame al home a record whore he
participated in thirty-eight battles,
and carries eight sears from the
| war. He was the private secretary
| of Gen. Sherman before and after
the war Dollfe, the celebrated mare,
| rode by Cen sherman through the
| war, was turned over TO Mr., Key
worth by the General as token Of
gaIlantry. He was intimately ac-
quainted with the Sherman family
Mr.. keyWorth has reached the SIND
nile post, but is as hale and hearty
as one only 80 years of age.
Beuna Vista is very progressive
community and the people band to-
gether and move in unity.
From here l headed for Oak
Branch, and saw b. S. Smith and
r. W. Cheyne on John keyWorth S
place busy tickling the soil. On
further | saw George Carroll, w. c.
Patman, J. S. Patman, c. d. Frank
lin and J. w Bearden. By this time
dinner time was close and | ralned
in at j. NJ. Martin S, where | was
treated to a splendid dinner. Mr..
Martin and wife put up a large
supply of fruit every year, in cans,
just as you see in the stores. They
have the machinery for doing thi ;
work at home. They will not put
up much fruit this year, as the crop
was about all killed, we fear. Mr..
Martin believes in diversifying and
has never had to buy corn since he
moved there in 1880. He has a
splendid home and wife that is up
in culinary. Here l met l.. w. Arm
strong, an old veteran on the En-
terprise list. He lost his wife in
1912. They had been married ~
years, liking nine days. The OLD
gentleman is an entertainer and l
enjoyed his company also. After
dinner / hitched up and drove over
to w. F. Martins who got on the
list. MIR, and Mrs. Martin have five