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CHILDREN: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Lived in Washington Territory. Tree limb fell and killed two of her sons.
Agriculturist
Sarah (Sallie) Elizabeth Thomas
BIOGRAPHY: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Sallie in Tennessee and her husband were thinking of relocating. Here is from a letter from Henry to his daughter on 22 Sep 1908:
"The price of land that is raw land is all the way from $12 to $75 per acre owing to the distance from town. Just now I know of 40 acres 1 1/2 miles from the depot at $65 per acre. You would have to go 7 or 8 miles from town to get raw land at $12 per acre. The $12 land is on a prairie practically no clearing to do. The land near town is covered with a thick growth of mesquite and prickly pears. The land is better where the heavy growth is. It is a dark sandy loam -- the nicest land to work you ever saw it would make you laugh after plowing where you have so long.
"Clearing around here costs from $10 to $15 per acre. That includes grubbing and all. After it is grubbed it plows like old land.
"The water is costly $1000 to $1300 to get a flowing well . A well will water 10 to 15 acres of land. Two crops a year. We expect to clear $100 to $200 per acre a year more or less.
"I like this country. I believe there is a good future for it. People are coming in all the time and some are buying. If it were not for the high price for land and the cost of water it would be filled up right now. Just think of getting Irish potatoes on the market in March. The first ones on the market last March brought five cents per pound. Onions come in April watermelons in May.
"I believe you would like this country and I am sure you would have better health here. I think you should come and see us before you settle. I really think it would be to your interest and if you like it I am sure it would be no trouble to locate Sallie.
"You could fix yourself very well for $4000 to $6000. One man near me rented his land at $20 per acre and bought it at $80 and has paid it out. He had Irish potatoes and followed with cotton. Now clearing the stalks for a fall crop. He is making money."
"This is the best bee and Honey country I ever saw. It is no trouble to make $10 worth of Honey to the colony. If you come here bring your bees and as many as you can. I brought six colonies and bought four more and we have sold $100 worth of honey and got 23 colonies. 1 think I will go in the business. They get something the year round and a good Honey flow for four months in the year. I nave sold all my honey this year for 10 cents per pound here at Falfurrias. If that suits you let me know and I will give you
directions how to fix them to ship."
The following is from a letter written Oct. 20, 1908:
"We received a letter from Sallie today. It seems from her letter that you had decided to come this way. And I though I would make a few suggestions that I think might be to your interest.
"Get an emigrant car. And bring everything you can. I got a car and put all our household goods, wagon, buggy, plows, cook stove, six head of horses, cow, chickens, bees, and we killed our meat, salted it down in a box and brought it. Millie brought all her fruit. I got free passage and came with car. Our bees alone have made us enough to pay for the car.
"It might not pay to bring horses if you can get a good price for them there but it will pay to bring one or two good cows. Butter sells for 35 and 40 cents per pound. Eggs 30 cents per dozen. Coop up your chickens. Fasten the tops and bottoms on your bee hives with long slim wood screws. Tack screen wire over the entrance -- place them where they will get some air and they will be alright -- bring your empty hives and bee fixtures. And if corn is not a good price there slip as much of that in as you can. If you bring some stock the R.R. people will let you put some feed in and they are not likely to notice how much is put in. I paid ninety-five cents for some corn today. A good milk cow is worth $75.
"Bring all the fruit you can. It is high and scarce here. Fruit jars can be packed in sugar barrels. I filled in with cotton seeds. If you can't get cotton seeds hay would do alright.
"Sallie need not bother much about her flowers. Not many that come from the north grow here, This is a great place for flowers and ornamental shrubbery but it has to be adapted to this climate. What we brought with us did no good.
"The change was alright for our horses and mules." Then he concludes with, "Bees are worth $4 per colony here."
Sarah (Sallie) Elizabeth Thomas
BIOGRAPHY: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Sallie in Tennessee and her husband were thinking of relocating. Here is from a letter from Henry to his daughter on 22 Sep 1908:
"The price of land that is raw land is all the way from $12 to $75 per acre owing to the distance from town. Just now I know of 40 acres 1 1/2 miles from the depot at $65 per acre. You would have to go 7 or 8 miles from town to get raw land at $12 per acre. The $12 land is on a prairie practically no clearing to do. The land near town is covered with a thick growth of mesquite and prickly pears. The land is better where the heavy growth is. It is a dark sandy loam -- the nicest land to work you ever saw it would make you laugh after plowing where you have so long.
"Clearing around here costs from $10 to $15 per acre. That includes grubbing and all. After it is grubbed it plows like old land.
"The water is costly $1000 to $1300 to get a flowing well . A well will water 10 to 15 acres of land. Two crops a year. We expect to clear $100 to $200 per acre a year more or less.
"I like this country. I believe there is a good future for it. People are coming in all the time and some are buying. If it were not for the high price for land and the cost of water it would be filled up right now. Just think of getting Irish potatoes on the market in March. The first ones on the market last March brought five cents per pound. Onions come in April watermelons in May.
"I believe you would like this country and I am sure you would have better health here. I think you should come and see us before you settle. I really think it would be to your interest and if you like it I am sure it would be no trouble to locate Sallie.
"You could fix yourself very well for $4000 to $6000. One man near me rented his land at $20 per acre and bought it at $80 and has paid it out. He had Irish potatoes and followed with cotton. Now clearing the stalks for a fall crop. He is making money."
"This is the best bee and Honey country I ever saw. It is no trouble to make $10 worth of Honey to the colony. If you come here bring your bees and as many as you can. I brought six colonies and bought four more and we have sold $100 worth of honey and got 23 colonies. 1 think I will go in the business. They get something the year round and a good Honey flow for four months in the year. I nave sold all my honey this year for 10 cents per pound here at Falfurrias. If that suits you let me know and I will give you
directions how to fix them to ship."
The following is from a letter written Oct. 20, 1908:
"We received a letter from Sallie today. It seems from her letter that you had decided to come this way. And I though I would make a few suggestions that I think might be to your interest.
"Get an emigrant car. And bring everything you can. I got a car and put all our household goods, wagon, buggy, plows, cook stove, six head of horses, cow, chickens, bees, and we killed our meat, salted it down in a box and brought it. Millie brought all her fruit. I got free passage and came with car. Our bees alone have made us enough to pay for the car.
"It might not pay to bring horses if you can get a good price for them there but it will pay to bring one or two good cows. Butter sells for 35 and 40 cents per pound. Eggs 30 cents per dozen. Coop up your chickens. Fasten the tops and bottoms on your bee hives with long slim wood screws. Tack screen wire over the entrance -- place them where they will get some air and they will be alright -- bring your empty hives and bee fixtures. And if corn is not a good price there slip as much of that in as you can. If you bring some stock the R.R. people will let you put some feed in and they are not likely to notice how much is put in. I paid ninety-five cents for some corn today. A good milk cow is worth $75.
"Bring all the fruit you can. It is high and scarce here. Fruit jars can be packed in sugar barrels. I filled in with cotton seeds. If you can't get cotton seeds hay would do alright.
"Sallie need not bother much about her flowers. Not many that come from the north grow here, This is a great place for flowers and ornamental shrubbery but it has to be adapted to this climate. What we brought with us did no good.
"The change was alright for our horses and mules." Then he concludes with, "Bees are worth $4 per colony here."
BIOGRAPHY-MARRIAGE: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Moved with family to Lynden, Washington Terr. at 6 weeks of age - returned to Texas with family at age 9. No children. She lived in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. In California was a hat designer. Move to Falfurrias in 1918. Was Practical nurse and midwife. Later worked at Falfurrias Mercantile as a buyer and salesperson. Married Myrick of Falfurrias TX in 1923 and moved to a dairy farm where she became a bee keeper and "worked" the bees with her father. She extracted Honey from as much as fifty hives until she was past 80 years of age. She moved in 1971 into a new home in Falfurrias and lived alone for seven years although virtually blind and slowed by arthritis. Member of First Baptist Church. Was a past Worth Matron of Easter Star. At age 95 moved from 815 W., Stockton to Austin to live with a neice, Mrs. Robert Allan, Jr.
Rancher. Game Hunter. Security Guard - LaGloria Gas Co (Falfurrias)
BIOGRAPHY-MARRIAGE: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Moved with family to Lynden, Washington Terr. at 6 weeks of age - returned to Texas with family at age 9. No children. She lived in Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. In California was a hat designer. Move to Falfurrias in 1918. Was Practical nurse and midwife. Later worked at Falfurrias Mercantile as a buyer and salesperson. Married Myrick of Falfurrias TX in 1923 and moved to a dairy farm where she became a bee keeper and "worked" the bees with her father. She extracted Honey from as much as fifty hives until she was past 80 years of age. She moved in 1971 into a new home in Falfurrias and lived alone for seven years although virtually blind and slowed by arthritis. Member of First Baptist Church. Was a past Worth Matron of Easter Star. At age 95 moved from 815 W., Stockton to Austin to live with a neice, Mrs. Robert Allan, Jr.
BIOGRAPHY: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Shot himself in a hunting accident. Manager hardware store. Health Dept. Inspector. Ed: Methodist College (Weatherford,TX)
BIOGRAPHY: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason (file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Came with parents and brothers to Falfurrias in 1906. My father, John C. Thomas. was a big part of the town where we lived. He was 16 or 17 when he moved to Falfurrias with his parents and brothers. He got a job running errands for the bank and sweeping the building in the evening. He got other jobs there, was a teller, etc. andeventually became acting president, The president lived in Oklahoma. Later he had his own Real Estate and cattle loan business -- he also bought oil leases [for oil companies. He knew South Texaco and South Texans so well -- I wonder if anyone ever knew it so well. He, too, was highly respected. He was such a dear man and died much too soon -- at age 75 in 1966 of a heart attach. He had not talked of retiring and still had kept his steady pace at work. Deacon of Baptist Church. South Texas Civic Leader.
Cause of death was unknown.
BIOGRAPHY: Letter from Lucy Kruse, 325 Seale St., Kingsville, TX 78363; Mar 1999; to T.Mason(file: Isaac Thomas); EXTRACT: Served as sergeant in WWI. No children. Insurance Co. - Houston. Ed: Law in Portland, OR. STORY for "History of Tarrant County" 1976: In about 1856 there was an election to see if Ft. Worth or Birdville would be the county seat. Sam and some of his friends gave out liquor and got voters so drunk they didn't vote or would vote for Sam's suggestion. Then at about closing time Sam and his friends rushed in (they were from Ft. Worth) and voted illegally. Ft. Worth was selected as the county seat by a narrow margin. Charges were brought and the case went to the Texas Surpreme Court - Ft. Worth won the decision.
Joseph Looney Farmer and John David Farmer received a grant of 395 acres of land from Robert Henry Farmer at W E Gandy et al survey, Tarrant County, Texas, on 21 June 1890. John David Farmer received a grant of 737-70/100 acres of land from Joseph Looney Farmer at Tarrant Co., TX, on 21 August 1897. John David Farmer resided at White Settlement Rd., Fort Worth, Texas, from 1904 to 1905. He was a farmer from 1904 to 1905. He and Addie Laura Redford resided at Aledo, Parker County, Texas, from 1904 to 1929. John David Farmer granted 661 acres of land to Joseph Looney Farmer at Eliza Cathey et al survey, Tarrant County, Texas, on 9 October 1905. John David Farmer granted 287 acres of land to Melinda Jane Thomas at D V Farmer et al survey, Tarrant County, Texas, on 19 February 1908. John David Farmer was a farmer and rancher.