Personal
Harriet and Hellen Stephens and two younger brothers were born in Alabama. � Hellen married Walter Tooke but she died after just 15 years of marriage. Walter and his family moved to Texas in 1928 and settled in McAdoo in 1931.
In �1938 Harriet wrote a letter to �Walter and asked if he would come get her and move her and her son Buck from Alabama to�Texas. She told him all the rest of her family had died and �they were left on the big farm there by themselves. �
Jockey, one of Walter's sons, �Ruth Phifer, Walter's daughter, and her husband Willie Phifer decided to go get Harriet and Buck and bring them to Texas. � They drove a wagon from McAdoo to Surglient, Alabama; loaded some of �Harriet and Buck's belongings on the wagon and they all rode the wagon back to McAdoo.
Harriet died on May 4, 1938; just months after they got to McAdoo. � Her son, Buck remained in McAdoo and worked and lived on the farm with Jockey and his family.
Submitted by: Rae Nell (Tooke) Conner
Father's name: S.S. Stephens
Obituary
Miss Harriett Stephens, 56, died at her home in McAdoo about three o'clock Saturday morning. Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church in McAdoo at three o'clock Saturday afternoon. Rev. J.A. Branaman, the pastor, was in charge of the services and was assisted by Rev. Frank Beauchamp, pastor of the McAdoo Methodist Church. Interment followed in the McAdoo Cemetery under the direction of Ward Funeral Home of Spur. Active pallbearers were J.O. Morris, Roy Ward, J.F. Eggar, Frank Macon, Austin C. Rose and L.H. McWilliams.Miss Stephens was born in Georgia August 4, 1882. She moved to Alabama later and moved from that state to Texas about four years ago. She was making her home with her brother-in-law, W.H. Tooke. She had no near relatives surviving.
©Dickens County Times, June 2, 1938
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
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