| Birth Date: Jun 25, 1901 | Birth Date: Jun 23, 1900 | |
| Death Date:May 29, 1975 | Death Date: Dec. 11, 1966 |
Linnie McDermett was born in Crosby Co. near Emma, June 23, 1900 to Hugh Henry and Nancy Jeanette McDermett. He was the youngest son of their ten children. Charlie, Annie, John, Troy, Fred, Ethel, Henry Clay, Nora, Linnie and Rosa May. Most of his schooling was in the rural schools which later became Ralls School District. All but five years of his life was spent in Crosby Co. Five of his six children were born on the same farm on which he was born. In later life, he was a trustee for the same school he attended.He lived with his family five years in Medina Co., in Natalia, near San Antonio. When World War II came he worked on defense work, and later moved his family back to Crosby Co., where he lived over 25 years.
Edith Elizabeth Beedy was born June 25,1901 in Donley Co., to Arthur Austin and Mattie Muir Beedy. There she lived with her three brothers, George, Arthur, and Bill, and one sister, Mary, until they moved to Floyd Co. After finishing high school there she went to college at what is now West Texas State University, Canyon.
Edith came to Fairview, near Ralls, to teach in the two-room school. There shortly after, she met Linnie when he came to her assistance putting up Christmas decorations for a play they were having at the school. They were married two years later Dec. 23, 1925 in the home of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Mongole, Donley Co. They made their home on the farm H.H. McDermett homesteaded in Fairview community until June, 1937, at which time they moved to South Texas. Because of Linnie's poor health, doctors advised a change of climate. The family farm was sold to Dr. Snow, and Linnie and Edith bought a truck farm in the Medina Valley. With Linnie unable to walk because of rheumatism, and five small children, Mary Helen, Edith Joyce, Dorothy Beth, Rosalyn, Lawrence Lonnell - Edith took command of the car and after an overnight stop in Abilene, arrived in Natalia, which was to be our home five years.
Martha Jean was born to a now rapidly growing family. The whole family would work all day on the vegetable farm getting the vegetables ready for market. At night Linnie, whose health greatly improved, would take the produce to San Antonio to be sold at market. Because of three early freezes and crop failures, we were unable to keep the farm business. World War II had started. Daddy got a job at defense work which took him away from home months at a time. He felt Mother and we children should be back in West Texas with our families, so in the summer of 1942 we moved to Crosbyton.
Edith began to teach school in Crosbyton and Linnie returned home to do carpenter work. A great many of the homes in Crosby Co., have his handiwork in them.
Mary Helen graduated from high school in Crosbyton in May, 1944, and went into the Cadett Nurse Corps where she received her RN degree. She is married to Billy Joe Jenkins and they have two daughters, Brenda Kay and Laura Deneis. Kay married Ricky Lynn Kelsey; they have one son. Helen's family live in the Dallas area.
Edith Joyce, after finishing Crosbyton High School, went to beauty school in Lubbock. Then she moved to Ralls to work where she met and married J.H. "Cotton" Whitehead. The Whiteheads make their home in Ralls.
Later the McDermett family moved to Ralls where the four younger children were graduated from Ralls High School.
Dorothy Beth married Otis Collins and moved to California. They have five children.
Rosalyn married Wayne Rainwater, they have made their home at Dougherty. Born to them were four sons.
Lawrence spent two years in the U.S. Army after he finished high school. Soon after he graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in accounting, he married Jana Morris of Tulia. They have two sons.
Martha Jean also went to beauty school then came to Lorenzo to work where she met and married William L. Walker. They have one daughter.
The McDermett family was active in Ralls Methodist Church. Linnie and Edith lived out their years in the home they bought across the street from this church. Linnie died Dec. 11, 1966 of Hodgkins Disease and Edith died May 19, 1975.
Source: "A History of Crosby County 1876-1977" © Crosby County Historical Commission 1978; Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas.
RALLS (Special) - Linnie L. McDermett, 66, building contractor here, died at 11 p.m. Sunday in a Lubbock hospital.services will be at 3 p.m. today in First Methodist Church here with the Rev. H. B. Coggin, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter Funeral Home.
McDermett was born June 23, 1900, in Crosby County and had lived here all his life except for five years. He lived in San Antonio from 1936 to 1942.
Survivors include his wife, Edith; one son, Laurence of Lubbock; five daughters, Mrs. Billy Joe Jenkins of Lorenzo, Mrs. J. H. Whitehead of Ralls, Mrs. Otis Collins of Pomona, Calif., Mrs. Wayne Rainwater of Dougherty and Mrs. Billy Walker of Lorenzo; three brothers, Charlie of Ralls, H. C. of Abilene and Fred of Pueblo, Colo.; three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Trammel of San Angelo, Mrs. Rosa Mae Grant of Abilene and Mrs. Nora Freeman of Crosbyton; and 14 grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, 1966
Mrs. Edith McDermett, 73, of Ralls succumbed last Thursday in Highland Hospital in Lubbock after a brief illness.She had been an area resident since 1923, moving o Ralls from Floyd County. She taught school for a number of years before her retirement.
Funeral services were at 4 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church of Ralls. Burial was in Ralls Cemetery.
Survivors include a son, Laurence of Richardson; five daughters, Mrs. Billy Joe Jenkins of Little Elm, Mrs. J. H. Whitehead of Ralls, Mrs. Otis Collins of Etiwanda, Calif., Mrs. Wayne Rainwater of Dougherty and Mrs. Jean Walker of Lorenzo; two brothers; and 16 grandchildren.
©Crosbyton Review, June 5, 1975
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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