Susan Lynos WINTERS was born March 23, 1895 in Klondike, Delta County, Texas, the third child born to Josh Wilson and Laura Ada Pigman WINTERS. She had auburn curly hair and hazel eyes. She learned to play the piano at an early age, being taught by her father. She graduated from Hawley High School and after obtaining a teaching certificate from Hardin-Simmons College in Abilene, taught school until her marriage to Samuel Bryant CAMPBELL. She was five feet three inches tall.
This is a narrative by Susan Lynos, written at the age of ninety four in exquisite beautiful script:
"I learned to sew at an early age - in fact before I began my school days. I never cared to play with children in out doors play games. I would stay indoors and with needle and thread sew doll clothes. I had many dolls, some very small, others quite large. Each one was dressed nicely from small scraps of material my mother had left from her sewing. As the years went by I learned to sew on my mother's treadle machine. At the age of thirteen I took over most of the family clothing needs, which included sleeping garments for both boys and girls, also shirts and dresses. At age sixteen I was able to fit my oldest sister in her wedding trousseau including evening gown and cape. After my marriage I spent much time sewing for my family and many of my neighbors. These friendly neighbors gladly did my chores, even a family wash which was done outdoors and on a rub board in exchange for sewn garments for their families...this included coats, two piece suits, even curtains for Sam's roadster Hupmobile.
Throughout my lifetime I had many interests - music was at the top of the list. I enjoyed picking cotton (no boll pulling in early 1900's) - those big white bolls allured me. On my tenth birthday I picked two hundred pounds, for which my father gave me two shiny silver dollars.
My pride and joy was my intermediate Sunday School Class. I did substitute teaching in English, Latin, geography and spelling. I also taught two summer schools consisted of the intermediates. My mother borrowed money for my course of education at Simmon's College in Abilene. At that time only a short course was required to acquire a permanent degree. There were only two buildings at Simmon's College. The school board at Hawley employed for the year 1914-15.
A fast talker, my sweetheart, Samuel Campbell wooed me away from the school room and we were married October 25, 1914. We had a beautiful family. We were a busy family - school, church, work and play. I found plenty of time for an interesting time among my vegetables and lawn. We grew all varieties of each. Sam told our neighbors he had proof of my temper if they could see the peppers I was growing, both hot and sweet! Flowers were also in beautiful and colorful arrays.
I enjoyed dramatics, was a member of the debating team. In early childhood I remember having attended a singing school before my school days. Musical terms and theory came easy for me. My father taught me sacred songs in the "square' notes system on the old pump organ. My first learned sacred song was 'Pass Me Not' - one of my favorite tunes. At the age of thirteen I became organist for our church (Methodist). Later the church bought a piano.
I really liked the piano - no more pumping which was tiring!!
Samuel Bryant CAMPBELL was born November 7, 1887 in Buffalo, Leon County, Texas to John Wesley and Esther Parker CAMPBELL. He was the youngest of eight children. The family lived on the land granted to John Wesley by the state of Texas, following the Civil War. John Wesley left home at fourteen years of age and came to Texas, volunteered when we was seventeen years old and served in the Texas Regiment during the Civil War. The family home was large and comfortable. They had several people working on the farm and his mother had plenty of household help. Sam recalled as a child playing with the son of the black woman that cooked and kept house. Fond memories stayed with him throughout his life and he always visited the old home place on his return visits to Buffalo, Texas.
He was blonde haired and flue eyed as a child and later his hair turned dark brown and then gray. He was small for his age as a child due to illness, probably rheumatic fever, but as an adult had a nice five foot-nine, one hundred and sixty pound frame.
Sam's mother died when he was small. He then lived with several relatives; brother Wesley (Bud) and wife, Nora Campbell, and brother Charlie and wife, Lizzie Campbell. Sam helped Charlie on a farm near Coryell, Texas. Then for a short while he had a job in a bar in Cameron where cousin Tom Parker lived. From there he went to Houston to live with his sister Nancy.
Along the line he met a Mr. Walker who built cotton gins. This was in the early 1900's when there were usually steam-driven machines, lots of complex belt systems, and so on. Sam worked three years installing gin machinery for Mr. Walker. When the man fell ill, Sam went to visit Bud and Nora. They were new in Hawley so Sam helped in their cafe and meat market. After that he went back to Cameron to work in a hardware store during the day and a telephone office at night. Later he bought the telphone office in Hawley with his brother Wesley.
He met Susan Lynos WINTERS at a singing at Hodges, Texas. The 'singing' was a meeting of a church or community group who sang mostly religious songs. From the age of twelve Susan Winters played the piano for these meetings. Sam and Susan were married at four o'clock, October 25, 1914 in the hallway of her mother's old ranch home about one mile west of Hawley, Texas. It was to be a small private wedding, but it seemed everyone that knew the young couple wanted to see this done right. So many came that they could not all see; some sat in their buggies.
A brief chronology follows: the young couple bought Wesley's interest in the phone office and operated it until 1915. They sold the phone company and moved to Noodle, Texas to farm Mr. Camp's land. They had a good crop of oats, maize, and cotton. The first oil well in the Abilene area was drilled on Camp's land. Then the man who bought the telephone office forfeited, so back they went to Hawley, this time living in town and farming fifty acres of peanuts one mile east of town. (He always had two jobs it seemed.) In 1917 they sold the farm because Sam was to go to World War I. They put the money in savings and moved by train to Bisbee, Arizona on November 17, 1917. They could make extra money until Sam was called to the service. He managed the general store for the Copper Mining Company at Bisbee, Arizona. On June 30, 1918 Susan, Sam, and two small children left Bisbee, Arizona for Hawley so Sam could report for duty in the Army July 4, 1918.
They decided they would see some of the country on the way home. Sam bought a new Ford car for five hundred dollars. Susan kept a diary or log of their trip on the back of envelopes and the remnants were found by Susan in 1991. They traveled across Arizona, New Mexico, and into Colorado before returning to Texas on July 3, 1918. At this time there were only dirt roads, so many flats had to be repaired.
The two small children slept in the car, Susan and Sam slept on a mattress outside beside the road.
Sam left Hawley on the train July 4, 1918, bound for the Army. When the train arrived at the next town, he found out the Armistice was signed, and he came home!
For the next five years until 1923 Sam owned the telephone exchange at Hawley and worked in the gin. (With a lot of help from Susan in the exchange. They did the laundry together at night after working all day.) He then bought land between Big Spring and Sterling, and owned and farmed with the first tractor in the country. Fuel for the tractor was gasoline.
The oil boom hit Big Spring. Sam and Susan rented rooms to oil field workers and sold butter. Sam hauled water to the oil field with his truck. He could also haul two bales of cotton in the truck.
In 1927 Sam sold the farm because of the oil field traffic.
They then bought eight acres of land north of Lorenzo which Susan still owns. Harold was born there December 6, 1928. In 1930 Sam again repossessed the phone office at Hawley. He now owned the toll line from Hawley to Abilene and to Anson. He moved the family to Hawley and they lived in the back of the telephone office until he sold the lines to a Mr. Thomas. He bought a new car and moved the family back to the farm at Lorenzo, Texas. Depression years were here and he farmed and made good crops, and ginned in the fall. 1933 was a dry year farming. The family all worked together and the small house was always filled with love and laughter. The welcome mat was always out and weekends were with visitors - two or three families and on Sunday always had one or two preachers for lunch and rest.
In 1937 the family moved to Wilson, Texas so Sam could manage the cooperative farmers gin. It was at this time he and others organized the Plains Cooperative Cotton Oil Mill in Lubbok, which at subsequent years has boosted the farmer's income as well as the economy of the area.
Sam Campbell later managed gins at New Deal (1939-41) and Estacado (1942) and Lorenzo (1943-60). He was a very capable manager, and even after retirement his advice was sought by the oil mill and gin boards. He remained on the oil mill board until his death, June 21, 1964. His grandson Harold Glen Campbell is presently on that board.
Sam was very active in the different communities where he lived. For many years he served on the Estacado School Board when they purchased the first school bus. They lived within two miles of school and were not allowed to ride at first. Not all bad, because we could leave home later when he took us to school. He always took us to Sunday School and church every time the doors opeened, no matter the denomination, we went to all. Often one preacher would thank him for generous offering from the pulpit. He served on the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church many years.
Sam and Susan were regular sponsors for school groups of all ages, taking loads on picnics and other outings, Sam was a very generous and caring person, always helping those less fortunate. After his death several people came to tell of the help they had received from him over the years that the family never knew about.
Submitted by Norma Jean Campbell"Once Upon A Plain" by Carroll Wayne Wallace, Sr. and Sydna E. Wallace ©2000
LORENZO (Special) — Funeral services are scheduled at First Methodist Church here at 5 p.m. today for Samuel Bryant Campbell, 76, a widely-known retired ginner who died in Methodist Hospital at Lubbock at 1:21 a.m. Sunday.
Campbell, who had resided here since 1928, was a charter member of the Plains Co-op Cotton Oil Mill and was a member of the board of directors of the Cotton Compress at Lubbock.
He also was on the board of directors of the Lorenzo Co-op Gin Board.
Campbell was born at Buffalo.
Officiating at services will be the Rev. E. Bruce Parks, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. H.F. Dunn, Morton.
Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Carter-Funeral Home, Ralls.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, June 22, 1964
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox HughesNote: Brother-in-law of Mrs. T.W. Stockton, Sr.
Services for Susan Campbell, 97, of Lorenzo were held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, 1993, in Lorenzo First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Lee Roark, pastor, and Sid Parsley, pastor of Haskell First United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial was in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Mrs. Campbell died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993, at her daughter´s residence in Lubbock after a lengthy illness. Jim Hansen ruled death due to natural causes.
She was born March 23, 1895 in Cooper and married Samuel Bryant Campbell on Oct. 25, 1914, in Hawley. He died June 21, 1964. She played for the original Stamps Quartet and was a member of Lorenzo First United Methodist Church. A son, Gerald Campbell, died in 1975, and a daughter, Marilyn Sue Hood, died March 1, 1978. She moved to Lorenzo in 1928 from Big Spring.
Crosby County News & Chronicle, January 21, 1993
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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