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LINKS TEXAS PANHANDLE,
OK Territory, ADOBE WALLS, ETC
Primarily to Articles in New Handbook of Texas.
Click Here Photo and History 0f Historic Tyler Mansion below
Click Here
History of
Mullock Way Station and O'Laughlin Ranch Hansford Co. TX
The Way Station was located on the Dodge
City-Tascosa Trail on my Great-Grandparents Ranch. Two Articles-one written by My
Grandmother Julia Hibbs McManus in Spring 1999, and the 2nd article written by her sister
Ruth Hibbs Reardon.( Not Pierce-this is my mothers tree Faus hibbs Luke)
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/smoky.htm
this articles contains info about Russell connected to my pierce families
and good info about the settlement of the panhande of texas and the plains
if you have links you
want featured here please contact me
[email protected]
Hanford County Spearman
Tx
Handbook of Texas Online- SPEARMAN, TX
has the Stationmaster house
museum
Reba Hunter is the Director
I hope to get more info about the museum here soon
Reba is doing a Great Job
My mother Juanita Pierce had worked to help get the museum going for
many years. My Aunt Ruby Saltness had done Reba's job in the 1980s
and worked on the two Hansford County history Books.
click here photo of museum
PaloDuro, Texas, was Mentioned in Dodge City Times, in 1877, as
being 21 miles north of Adobe Walls on the straight road to Lakin, Kansas.
Possibly it was the original name of old Hansford.
Spearman, Tx - WOULD YOU
BELIEVE-
Adobe Walls
Stationmaster's House Museum
30 South Townsend
Spearman, Texas 79081
806-659-3008 Reba Hunter
Spearman Tx
Photo Page by Jay McMullan formerly of Spearman Tx
Hansford County
Genweb page Genealogy and History of the Areal
The
First School in Spearman Tx By Susan Pierce Dacus Allen 1960
http://www.co.hansford.tx.us/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pointe/6638/fcc.html
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~txhansfo/1934school.html
this page has the 1934 Spearman School Photography. My Dad JL Pierce
happens to be in this class along with Peter Vernon who married my dad's
cousin
Betty Jo Pierce (now vernonO
hansford vanished
communities
Spearman
School 1934, Hansford Co., TX -- A USGenWeb Project ...
http://www.rra.dst.tx.us/c_t/history/hansford/SPEARMAN.cfm
Faus Family Genealogy Photo page--My Mothers Father's Family
... cLICK ON THE SMALL PHOTOS TO VIEW THE FULL SIZE
PHOTOS. Rube Faus at
Bootshop Spearman Tx 1970's. My Grandfather Rube Faus the
bootmaker. ...
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~piercescga/fausphoto.html
- 10k -
Cached -
Similar pages
Amarillo Globe-News: Obituaries: Julia Hibbs Faus McManus 09/11/ ...
http://www.collectorsguide.com Ernest Wilmeth II Painter/Artistl
ERNEST WILMETH II
Ernest Wilmeth was born in 1952 in a small town in
the Texas panhandle (Spearman Tx). ... 2003 Ernest Wilmeth II � Last
Modified: June 9, 2003.
www.ernestwilmeth.com/
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http://www.amazingsites.com/trip/tornado_alley.htm
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/tx/topic/cemeteries/Wtx/Hansford/ListHansford.html
http://www.spearmanfire.com/default.htm
Handbook of Texas Online- HANSFORD COUNTY
In Memoriam Bob Cluck
http://www.utahwest.com/Truck/spear.htm
Amarillo Globe-News: Obituaries: Worley J. Smith 09/19/02
http://www.greatamericantrails.com/nature_trails/tx_wildlife/canadian_river/crl_001.html
click here photo of Hansford courthouse
http://www.simplyfredericksburg.com/resumeposter/admin/DynellM.shtml
Leslie Dynell formerly of spearman
http://www.hchd.net/
hansford county hospital district
http://agprogram.tamu.edu/who/members/district1.html
panhandle of texas extension offices
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/StormChasing/cases/ChaseLogs/2002/Graphics/May23Spearman.jpg
bad storm near spearman 2002
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/geosciences/StormChasing/cases/ChaseLogs/2002/Graphics/May23John_small.jpg
storm near spearman tx 05/23/02
http://www.hppr.org/About.htm
high plains public radio installs new transmitter in spearman tx
Picture
History - Dust Storm Approaching Spearman, Texas
... Dust Storm Approaching Spearman,
Texas Here is a dust storm as it approaches
Spearman, Texas, on April 14, 1935. Related Categories:
Storms, ...
www.picturehistory.com/find/p/3580/mcms.html
http://www.spearmanlynx.com
spearman lynx sports page Lynx and Lynxette Booster Club
http://www.windmillersgazette.com/history.html
mentions windmills in panhandle of texas and spearman windmill museum
also mentions shattuck Oklahoma windmill museum
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2499716_1
T Kevin Nelson Amarillo Attorney Born in Spearman Tx
Jean Porter born in Spearman Texas
Professor of Religious ethics Notre Dame university
probably one of the greatest intellects to ever come out of the Panhandle
of Texas
http://www.google.com/custom search for Jean Porter formerly of spearman
tx
Endowed Chairs at Notre Dame
... Dame's theology department since 1990, Jean
Porter (of Spearman Texas)
was named ... ethics and moral theology,
Professor Porter is the ... Virtue: The Relevance of
Aquinas for Christian ...
www.nd.edu/~prinfo/endow/artsletters/ endow_porter.shtml
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/porter-jean/index.shtml
DEC 2009
http://provost.nd.edu/assets/78572/final_porter_ad_small_.pdf Nice
Photo of Jeanie cover of Provst magazine.
Team Debate Texas State Champions
Spearman Winners Coached by June Heidelberg Porter Spearman Texas
1965-1966 2A Girls Spearman D’dee Collard and Linnie Bollinger
1967-1968 2A Girls Spearman Lisa Curry and Linnie Bollinger 1968-1969
2A Girls Spearman Linnie Bollinger and Lisa Curry 1970-1971 2A Girls
Spearman Camille Baggerly and Jean Porter 1971-1972 2A Girls Spearman
Jean Porter and Camille Baggerly
Frank Porter husband of June H Porter and Father of Jean Porter Passed
away 1991 Chandler OK.
http://www.findagrave.com/Frank W Porter Spearman Texas
Bosque Johnson County Areas
and some Pierce Links
note all the Handbook Tx link are bad will redo these soon or you
can search on your own
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
PIERCE
JUNCTION, TX
PIERCE,
ABEL HEAD [SHANGHAI]
PIERCE,
FRANK CUSHMAN
PIERCE,
JOHN LEONARD
PIERCE,
JONATHAN EDWARDS
PIERCE,
LEONARD, JR.
PIERCE,
LOVICK
PIERCE,
TX
PIERCES
CHAPEL, TX
BEAN,
PETER ELLIS
BOSQUEVILLE,
TX
BRAZOS
RIVER
BRAZOS
POINT, TX
BUCHANAN,
TX
WARDVILLE,
TX
BELTON, Tx
Nolanville Nolansprings
NAVARRO
COUNTY
RIO
VISTA, TX
BLUM, TX
BLUM,
LEON
WHITNEY,
TX
ROBERTSON,
STERLING CLACK
LEFTWICH,
ROBERT
PETERS
COLONY
ROBERTSON'S
COLONY
DEWITT'S
COLONY
Handbook
of Texas Online BRAZOS LARGOS INDIANS
Johnson county links
pdf reprints
Johnson
County
Kent
Colony-Kimball Bend crossing
Bosque
County History
BELTON, Tx Nolanville Nolan Springs
NAVARRO COUNTY
RIO VISTA, TX
BLUM, TX
BLUM, LEON
WHITNEY, TX
Johnson County
Johnson County
CLICK ON THUMBNAIL TO
SEE LARGE FOTO
This is the" Tyler Mansion" as we
called it. It was the main ranch house of the Tyler Ranch. It was located
north of Morse on the creek. My dad used to let me explore it on my own when we
fixed Ballentine's Windmill's located down the creek. I was always fascinated by
this house, seen from the highway it seemed like a real Panhandle Haunted house. It was
gigantic in size for a home built in the late 1800's in the panhandle. Will get more
info on the Tyler's soon.
new link nov 2012
Stanley Cushing Tyler from Texas State Historical Assoc.
Tyler Ranch House
Hansford County, Texas
Among the very first to settle on the Palo
Duro Creek in Hansford county was Stanley
Cushing Tyler, my grandfather, from Lowell,
Massachachusetts write an outstanding
and colorful pioneer experience.
The son of a wealthy banking family and
a student at Harvard University, he was
found to be in poor health and was advised
to come to the Western plains, which he did
in 1879, a youth of twenty years.
Upon his arrival he bought four sections
of land from the state for $1 an acre and
another four sections from an individual for
an undisclosed sum. He also leased some
100,000 acres from the State. This ranch
took the name of the V-Z Bar Ranch and he
called the V-Z Bar his cattle brand.
The first improvements Tyler built were a
small two-room sod house, a pole barn and
corrals. Because rock was easier to find
than wood, a major portion of the corrals
were made of rock. After five years of learning
the business of cattle ranching, Tyler returned
to Massachusetts to claim his boyhood
sweetheart, Mary Elizabeth Ayers,
daughter of a prominent Charleston,
Massachusetts family.
Following the marriage, the long trip from
the East to the Panhandle of Texas began.
The couple took the train as far as it would
take them. that being Dodge City, Kansas.
some 185 miles from their destination. The
rest of the trip was made in a buckboard followed
by wagons carrying their belongings.
The Tyler's assembled in that sod house
rich antique furniture and drapes, creating
an oasis like atmosphere in the midst of the
stark plains country.
In 1885, Mr. and Mrs. Tyler were blessed
with their first born child, a girl. They christened
her Mary Elizabeth. For this blessed
event Mrs. Tyler went back to her family in
New England where she might receive the
best of medical attention.
When baby Mary was a few weeks old,
the young mother, accompanied by a
nurse, boarded the train back to Dodge City
where they were met by the new father and
buckboard for the overland trip to the
ranch. For the birth of the second child.
Ethel, the trip was repeated. The last three
children, Stanley Cushing, a son who
passed away at the age of five months; Oliver
Stanley "Ollie" a second son; and a
daughter, Fanny Stanley, were born on the
ranch with the attendance of community
physicians and nurses from Kansas City.
Following the birth of the children, Judge
Tyler, as the rancher became known
through serving Hansford County in that
capacity for some time, built for himself and
family a spacious new home. Located in a
vast grassland on the Palo Duro creek near
the old sod house, the Tyler home was one
of the areas first stone buildings. The Victorian
mansion was built in 1891. With solid
rock walls and high gabled roof, the two
storied mansion was an impressive sight to
early day cowboys and settlers. Built in a
land and time when reinforcing iron was difficult
to acquire, gothic arches were of necessity
used above each window and door.
The house had a floor plan that is impressive
90 years later. It had seven bedrooms,
a parlor, a dinning room, kitchen and full
basement.
Tyler imported a stone mason and carpenter
from Dodge City. It took the craftsmen
and eight cowboys a full year to complete
the job. The stone was cut with a large
cross-cut saw and hauled about three miles
from the quarry to the building sate. The
nails, window glass, hardware and lumber
were hauled from Dodge City by freight
wagons. Large cottonwood logs, brought
from the Canadian River by teams, were
placed in the basement for support.
The furnishings, also brought from
Dodge City, had originally come from the East.
Life was stern and full of hardships during
those early years, but it was for the most
part, an enjoyable life. The Tyler's had many
parties and dances in their home. The
neighbors would come from miles around
bringing extra food and blankets for their
children to sleep in the buggies.
In 1907, after 28 years of the austere life
on the high plains cattle ranch, Judge and
Mrs. Tyler decided to move to Guymon in
order to enjoy the comforts of city life. Here
they built a new home and furnished it with
many of the New England antiques and
pieces that had been brought to the ranch
by way of Dodge City and freight wagon.
But Judge Tyler was not ready to retire
and immediately plunged into the activities
of building a new town. He instigated the
construction of the towns light and water
plant and organized and owned the telephone
company in Guymon. He was a diligent
and devoted worker in the Masonic
Lodge. He served as President of the First
National Bank and ,was involved in the dry
dry goods business with his son-in-law, L.E.
udge and Mrs. Tyler were confirmed in
the Episcopal Church as young people and
were ever-firm believers in the teachings of
that church. But as there was no organization
of that church here, they united with
the Presbyterian Church and were active In
the work of this church
The Tyler's resided in Guymon the remainder
of their lives, Judge Tyler passed
away in 1927 and Mrs. Tyler in 1936.
The two older daughters, Mary and Ethel,
attended school in the East where they
stayed with their grandmother. Some of the
two girls earlier years were spent in the
country schools with Ollie and Fanny. Ollie
also attended St. Johns Military Academy in
Kansas and business college in Valparaiso,
Indiana. Mary was married to L.E. Latham in Guymon
where he was a retail merchant. Mary passed away in
1974 and her husband died
in 1968. Their children are Mrs. Gilbert
(Mary Lou) Peppers and Tyler Latham, both
of Guymon. Ethel married Rutledge Henderson and
had one daughter, Mrs. R.L. (Ethalinda)
Valdez of Guymon. Ethel died in 1952 and
Rutledge passed away in 1955.
Ollie married Rose Cook, daughter of
T.A. Cook, an early day Hansford County
rancher and had two sons, Stanley and Oliver,
Jr., both of whom were born at the
ranch, Rose died in 1919. Ollie later married Thyra
Owen and had two sons, Owen
of Odessa and Byron of Amarillo. Ollie died
in 1971, Ollie was honored as Parade Marshall
by the Guymon Pioneer days in 1970.
By Stanley T. Tyler
From Hansford History Book Volume 1
by Hansford Historical Commission
Page 288 |
New Handbook of TX
History Online
note all the
Handbook Tx link are bad will redo these soon or you can search on
your own
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
Web Links for
Adobe Walls and other Tx
& OK Panhandle History Web Links
Most are links to Handbook of Tx History Online
Version
note all the
Handbook Tx link are bad will redo these soon or you can search on
your own
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook
Adobe Walls
1st Battle
Adobe Walls
2nd Battle
Adobe
Walls Trail
Adobe
Walls Texas
Fort
Elliot
History of
Texas Panhandle
Wheeler
County TX
Mobeetie
Tx
Hansford
County History
HANSFORD,
JOHN M.
BARCC
Ranch(Cresswell) Hemphill
CRESSWELL,
HENRY WHITESIDE
CRESSWELL,
TX
Morse
Texas
Josiah
Wright Mooar-Adobe Walls
Mooar,
John Wesley
Panhandle
History-Big Die Up
S Palo
Duro Creek-Cator
Hansford
Tx
JH Cator
Tascosa-Dodge
KS Trail
TASCOSA,
TX
FORT
PHANTOM HILL RESERVOIR
FORT
PHANTOM HILL
TASCOSA
MCCORMICK,
FRENCHY
RUDOLPH,
CHARLES FRANCIS
ROMERO,
CASIMERO
EAST,
JAMES H.
LIT
RANCH
L'ARCHEVEQUE,
JEAN
L'ARCHEVEQUE,
SOSTENES
WOODMAN,
W. H.
Potter Blocker Trail
OLDHAM
COUNTY
OLDHAM,
WILLIAM
MCALLISTER,
WALTER WILLIAMS, SR
Wolf
Creek
Buried
Indian City-Perryton
Ochiltree
County
Old
Ochiltree, TX
Olaughlin
Trading Post
Panhandle
Drift Fences
Alibates
Antelope Creek Phase
Wilburn
Barton-Ochiltree Lipscombe
Joseph
Morgan Canadian-Lipscombe
Turkey
Track Ranch
Alibates
Flint Quarries-Borger
Canadian
River
Canadian
Breaks
Canadian
River Expedition
CORONADO
EXPEDITION
Ruffner
Survey
Caleb
Cape Wilingham
Spearman
TX
Coburn
Hansford Land & CC
Oslo
Tx-Hansford County
QuarterCircle
T Ranch-Bugbee
Bugbee,
Thomas Sherman
Wheat-Hansford
County
James
Sanford
Scissors
Ranch-Adobe Walls
Enid
Ochiltree Failed Railroad
Asa
Borger-Founder Stinnett Borger
HUTCHINSON
Co Bent Ft Adobe Walls
Jacob
Rice Phillips
Pastores-sheep
herdsmen
William
Thomas Coble Ranch
Quivera
Olive
King Dixon
William
(Billy) Dixon
Billy
Dixon Buffalo Wallow
Plemons
TX
PLEMONS,
WILLIAM BUFORD
Amos
Chapman Ft Supply
Causey,
Thomas Ft Supply
Canadian
River Exped Ft Supply
Rath Trail
Ft Supply
RATH,
CHARLES
Jay
Taylor Baker & Taylor
John
Summerfield Palo Duro Creek
Connell
Eubanks Ranch
Lymons
Wagon Train
LIPSCOMB
COUNTY
LIPSCOMB,
ABNER SMITH
LIPSCOMB,
TX
Seven K Ranch
Jones
Plummer Trail
PLUMMER,
JOSEPH H.
Charles
Edward Jones
Western
Trail(Dodge City)
Cattle
Trailing
Cattle
Rustling
Buffalo
Sante Fe
Trail
Goodnight
Loving Trail
Goodnight,
Charles
Goodnight,
Mary Ann (Molly)
GOODNIGHT
RANCH
GOODNIGHT,
TX
Old
Tascosa Texas
Chisholm
Trail
John
Hatcher
Lone Wolf
Bents Fort
Bents
Fort James W Abert
George
Allen Simpson
Snivley
Expedition
SNIVELY,
JACOB
Charles
Edward jones
Commancheros
James
Wiley Magoffin
Adobe
Creek
Abercromibe,
James Smither
Abercrombie,
Leonard Anderson
Onate
Expedition, Juan De Onate
BENT
CREEK
HEMPHILL
COUNTY
SHER-HAN,
TX Ghostown Hansford Co.
BUFFALO
HUNTING
HUTCHINSON
COUNTY
SHARPS
BUFFALO RIFLE
LEE,
WILLIAM MCDOLE
SANFORD,
TX
OLDHAM
COUNTY
Amiel Weeks Whipple
WHIPPLE
EXPEDITION
PALO DURO
CANYON, BATTLE OF
PALO DURO
CANYON
BORGER, TX
John
Hansford
WASHITA
RIVER
DALHART
ARMY AIR FIELD
DALHART,
TX
DALLAM
COUNTY
These are PDF's of the new
Articles
(thru Torrey Trading) are new
These are not in the links above
Springer Ranch
John Summerfield
Tehuacana Creek Council
David Torrey
Ellsworth Torrey
Frank Torrey
James Torrey
Thomas Torrey
Torrey Trading
Hansford County Appraisal District
709 W. 7th
Spearman, Texas 79081-3407
Box 519, Spearman, Texas 79081
(806) 659-5575 fax: (806) 659-5109
Hansford County Tax Assessor-Collector
Helen Dry
PO Box 9 Spearman, TX 79081
Main and Northwest Court
Spearman, TX 79081-0009
(806) 659-4120 (806) 659-4124
Hansford District & County Clerk
Kim V. Vera
P.O.Box 397 or P.O. Box 367
Spearman, TX 79081-0367
(806) 659-4110 or (806) 659-4111
or (806) 659-2666
Hansford County Sheriff
R.L. McFarlin, Jr.
Box 68
Spearman, TX 79081
(806) 659-4140
Hansford
County Courthouse
P. O. Box 367
Spearman , TX 79081
(806) 659-4100 fax1: (806) 659-4100
fax2: (806) 659-2025
Sheri Benton, Library Director
Hansford County Library
122 Main Street
Spearman, TX 79081
PHONE: 806-659-2231
FAX: 806-659-5042
E-MAIL:
[email protected]
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