The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-02

year ne II IN the enjoyment OF hia
mental faculties and gave me tho
data from which these memoirs are
written Daniel never married and
After the death Of his father. made
his home with hIs sister. MIRA. Good
loe. ct Rod Oak. and has beon dead
many years.
There were thres OF the Patton
daughters. the eldest. Catherine.
married Joel Davis and reared a
family about two miles west of Rcd
Oak. Her surviving children are
Mrs. W. A. Lewis. between RAY and
Bardwell. and virrie and James 4.
who both reside on abe old home
stead.
Margarct first married Robert Bell
and after his death married Robert
0ocdloc. She has been dead sever
|al years. Her surviving children are
~. III. ooodloe. near Milford: Il. II.
Coodioc OF Red Oak: Mrs. Frank
Ross OF western Texas; Mira. ]. 2.
Wilson OF Red Oak. and Mrs. Emma
Mahon OF Rcd Oak Mary married
William Morris and the family NOV
ed away from this county many years
ago. A son. John Erwin. 10 o car
pentcr and livea In waxahachie Jas
+. Patton. known In the lsttcr part
OF his life as Colonel Patton. was
Ia surveyor and spent the greater part
|of hia life surveying and locating
Hand artificates. The oid-timers
said he hobbied himself with raw
hide to step vara aud that In the
morning the dew caused his hobble
to stretch. which caused a number
of old surveys to have excuses. He
took and carried out the contract to
locate the Peters colony lands which
extended through several counties.
His son. g. e. Patton. assisted him
and said IL took three years to CON-
ptete the job. Colonel Patton died
land poor. having enough to make
the payment OF taxes a great prob
lem as most OF his holdings pro-
duced no revenues 1t Is probable
that he owned hundred thousand
acres at the time OF his death
He willed his grand children
twelve thousand acres. the remain
der bsing divided among his chill
dren and going to pay hia debts, q,
r. Patten was the executor OF his
fathers will and says It required
item years OF hard work to fully exc
cute his trust Since che death oil
Uncle hob Mayfield and the return
of 8. E. Patten to Ellis county he 81
now Ellis county's oldest settler
| Joe McCanless. for long time d
Waxahachie institution and good
fellow, has pitched his tent on Venus
route one where he Ia tickling the
bosom Of mother earth. Mrs. Low
mccormick has recently returned Il
Waxahachie to live and has purchas.
ed and occupied a home on Monroe
street. Wednesday found Ely w
Kemble busy at his store at Sterreti
and ready to renew for the Enter
lprise. Frank Hosford Ia one OF ths
most public spirited citizens II ster-
rett which fact is evidenced by his
letting the community have Il five.
acre block out OF the east side Of
/! his farm fr site for the elegant
brick school building which Ia being
erected. When completed4he school
building will be one OF the prettiest
school buildings In the county and a
credit to the community. Hisson and
son are rebuilding the old Horton
land cuibarson gin and Will be ready
for the 1916 crop. At the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens found cor
dial reception, good dinner and
Igenerally enjoyable time. On. my
way TO Red Oak l met DR.. Hill OF
Red Oak who was visiting patient.
After his call rode with him 20
Red Oak. Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Frazier were at home ut Red Oak
land I got some coin At the home
Iof Mr.. and Mrs. w. p. Gist ! spent
1.-THE night. Mrs. Gist went to church
but Pony and l went over the
events OF the past thirty years. Mr.
Gist showed me the chair he sat In
when a baby. 1t 10 home made
|one bottomed with hickory bark and
looks clean and fresh. And the
chair he showed me is sixty-six years
old, being made by his father at the
age Of eighteen years. He also gave
me some slippery elm bark which !
brought home with me. The very
sight of 1t seemed to make the widow
Cox long for the scenes of her chilli
hood In Alabama. was about to
forpat that tha Ciat shaua Ia one of