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I was born May 6, 1878 at Maryetta, Mississippi. My parents were Sam and Sally Lowrey. We came to Texas when I was six months old. We settled in Leon County, staying there five years, and then moved to Severe County, Arkansas. We stayed in Arkansas for two years and then we moved to Eastland County, Texas. I married Henry Edwards in 1892 at the Courthouse in Eastland.
I worked in the field and drove oxen to the plow. My father was in bad health, and my older brothers were married, so I had to do the work.
We came to Dickens County in 1899 in a covered wagon. We had two boys, Walter and Luther. We camped at Patton Springs until we got a dugout from Jim Davidson on Croton Flat. It was covered with dirt, and when it rained, it leaked. In the fall we went back to Eastland and picked cotton; while there, our first girl was born in December. We came back in 1900 and rented the Old Baxter farm. There was a two room rock house and a water well there. Aunt Ann Worthington and her family were our first neighbors. Also Uncle Sam and Aunt Caroline Kennedy. Mrs. H. Swarengen was like a mother to me. Hugh and Ida were small and many times when she knew I was alone with the children, she would get on her horse with Hugh and Ida and come to spend the night with me.
Dock and Larry Edwards came with us back to Dickens County. My husband, and Larry, age 15, went up the trail with the Matadors. John Smith was the trail boss. Dock planted the crops and made good cotton. I picked cotton for 50 cents per hundred, it took me all day to pick a hundred pounds.
We moved to what is now East Afton and built a half dugout and covered it with shingles and had windows in it. I was so proud of it. We did not have much wood, so we burned cow ships for heat and cooking. The children went to school at Prairie Chapel. They walked nearly four miles. Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Arrington was our nearest neighbors. We were great friends. When the men were gone to Quanah for supplies, we would spend the nights with each other. What a good time we would have. We made pallets for the children to sleep on. We always helped each other. We had hard times, but the good outshadowed the bad. Sometimes we had to haul water from the Duncan Tank. I would take my washing and wash out the clothes.
Once our oldest daughter was bit by a rattlesnake. The nearest Doctor was at Dickens twenty miles away. We almost lost her. I used the old remedies, and if I hadn't she would have died.
The Matadors claimed our farm, so we bought a farm near Dumont, I made a living by selling milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables to the Dumont folk. I kept account of the miles I traveled selling the produce and it was over three hundred miles.
In 1917, we moved to Dickens and bought the old Sol Davis house. I am still living in the same house. I am 88 years old; I have seen Dickens county grow from its infancy until now 1966. I love it and the good people I have lived with in the town of Dickens fifty years, and what good neighbors I have had for a half a century!
Source: History of Dickens County; Ranches and Rolling Plains, Fred Arrington, ©1971
Maud was the daughter of Sam and Sally (Hornell) Lowery and the wife of Joseph Henry Edwards. After Mr. Edwards death Maud married a "Mr. Oscar Haddock".Best known to his friends and family as Henry Edwards, (aka Joseph Henry or John Henry Edwards) he was the son of Joseph (1843-1911) and Martha (Hargus) Edwards and the husband of Maud Wilma Lowery whom he married on 7 Jun 1892 in Eastland Co., TX. Henry's parents are buried at Eastland City Cemetery, TX. Henry and his wife Maud and some of his brothers (Dock & Lary) moved from Eastland Co. to Dickens Co., TX in 1899. Henry and Maud's children were: Joseph "Walter", Mary (m. Barney Nichols/Nickels), John "Henry", Forrest Lowery, Luther and Ida (m. John Powell).
When Joseph Henry died, Maude remarried someone by the last name of Haddock becoming my grandmother Haddock.
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J.H. Edwards, 62 years of age, a pioneer of Dickens County died at his home in Dickens following several months of illness from dropsy and leakage of the heart. He had been in ill health for several months and for the past two weeks had not been able to leave his bed and death was not unexpected when it came Monday evening, Aguust 28.
"Uncle Henry" as Mr. Edwards was familiarly known by his plenitude of friends, was born in ___ County, Arkansas, September, 1871. He moved with his parents to Eastland County at an early age and when he was 15 years of age he left home and came to Dickens County where he began work as a cowboy. In 1892 he went back to Eastland county and was married to Miss Maude Lowrey (rest of obit unreadable)
©The Texas Spur, August 31, 1933
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Dickens Baptist Church for Maud Haddock, 92. Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated.
Mrs. Haddock came to Texas in 1878 and to Dickens County in 1892. She died Tuesday in the Crosbyton hospital. She had been a member of the Baptist Church since 1896. She married J. H. Edwards at Eastland in 1892. He died in 1932. She later married Mr. Haddock.
Survivors include two sons, Walter Edwards, Dickens and Luther Edwards, Irving; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Nickels, Oakley, Calif.; 15 grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Cecil Meadors, Fred Arrington, Johnny Koonsman, Sam Porter, Kenneth Atkinson and Ned Nickels.
Interment was in Dickens Cemetery.
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