The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-11-02

Smith. :. H. OF Mtdioinlans VINO mar
ried Lucy Smith. daughter of ''wii
low Pond" smith. J. +. and o. D.I
OF Grand Prairie. Jennie. who mar
ried Mr.. Nicholson. The other mem-
bers of the original family were
Jack. Finis and Margaret. Margaret
married John n. Garvin and settled
eight miles west Of Waxahachic ON
Waxahachie creek in 1850. Finis
married KATE Ludwick. sister OF
Nose Ludwick. who lives at Midlo-
THAN. Their daughter. Mamie. mar
ried son OF William Ely. Ed and
Adolphus live in Denton county.
laura married Charlie Garvin and
lives at Merkle. Texas. Claude lives
in New Mexico. lack witherspoon
married Margaret Cooper. a sister of
Sam Cooper. pioneer, still living
at Midlothian. A daughter lives at
Roscoe. Texas. The other children
we're Ducie. Lula. j. r., o. d.. Ella,
Ida, Went. Calvin and Lottie. Ella
and Ida we're drowned in 1883.
! Went is at Roscoe and Lottse married
Sam Saunders. Ben Witherspoon.
another of the original brothers.
married Miss Malinda Elder. Their
Oldest son. w d.. Is dead, John lives
at Holdenville. Oklahoma. Sis mar
ried Sam Cooper. Mary married Alex
Jenkins and lives at Waxahachie,
| Jim Married Maude Knight at Mid
lothian, ID. II. lives. at Midlothian.
where he does a large grain business,
and married to q daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. j. l. Lovett. Ben married
Sallie Easterwood and died In Jack
County, G.. G. died recently. Annie
married Amos Elder and lives in
Dimmit county. Texas. The other
i children are Ramsey, Anderson,
Thomas and Verne. This is written
| from hastily taken notes and ] feel
that | have committed some errors.
| Furthermore, do not feel that | have
done justice to family that has
contributed SO much toward the up
building of our county. However,
there is yet another branch of the
family and when reach it will
correct such errors as may appear In
this. The Witherspoons are a quick,
impressive, energetic race of people,
can generally be depended upon IL
| they are your friends, and you will
know it if they are your enemies.
They are generally honest, open and
rather to be admired by one who
believes in humanity and likes to see
real live human. Long live the
Witherspoons.
| / tried last week to tell what /
am now about to relate, but it did
not appear. suppose from what
one of the printers told me | did
not make it plain, so here goes again.
Mrs. ]. H. Howard, who lives on
| Waxahachie b, told me not long since
| that from the time when she was a
small child she had contended that
she could touch hard substance in
one ear with hair pin, but was rid
| icuIed by her family. Recently she
went to local physician, who re-
moved hard little gravel from her
ear. She says it is Tennessee
gravel and that she has carried it
in her ear all. these years.
j. M. Newcomb Of near Forreston
showed me check for $1.72i.21 as
payment for sixteen bales of cotton
he had just sold. Add the amount
received for seed and he got some
money about $4,000 Moral. Don't
put everything in cotton next year
for there is a chance to run the
price down again. w. A. Martin
showed me a blue print of cotton
pickers glove he had invented. II
is designed to protect the ends of
the fingers and yet in no way inter-
fere with the handling OF the cotton.
Ii looks like winner and | hope. will
make Martin rich. Henry Bryan and
Joe and Bessie Nowlin of Stamford
have been visiting their grandpa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Verheyden.
on Grove Greek. John Prude of
Mansfield, La. is visiting his bro
Their, Arch. on Red Oak. At the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Cross
on Palmer 2, l saw some fine barred
rock chickens. Mrs. Criss' mother,
Mrs. Foster, and her sister from La
Rue are visiting her Grover Cleve-
land Wills has established restau-
rant and cold drink stand at Forces
ton. Ben Dorsey is now postmaster
at Forreston. Ben is capable and II
think viii render good service. On
the Fort farm VIII Guyer was run