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The James Thomas Haile family moved to Dickens County from Throckmorton in 1897, and settled at Cottonwood (Now Afton, Texas). There were eight boys and two girls in our family.My parents were both born in Tennessee, but they did not know each other there. Their folks moved to Grayson County during the war between the States, and they met there after the war was over. My father was shot during the war and carried a bullet with him to his grave.
My father was a Baptist preacher. There was a one teacher school located just east of the cemetery on the hill, he preached there. All the Haile children liked to sing. We all took part in community, church and school affairs. The Afton Baptist Church was the first church organized in the county.
Our family moved from Grayson County in four covered wagons, it took us several days to make the trip. We had chickens, dogs, pigs, 50 head of cattle and about that mnay horses. The first fall after we moved, about the time of the first cold spell, the cows left, we found them at Guthrie, I guess they were trying to go back to Throckmorton to winter. Some of my older berothers went to drive the cows back, there were no wire fences then.
We settled on a 160 acre tract, a mile and a half southeast from Afton, later on the Matador Land and Cattle Company had Col. Green to survey all that country, and when it was surveyed, we only had 80 acres.
C.C. Haile filed on land near Afton in 1897. Camped at Patton Springs May 7. Made permanent camp where Jimmy Perriman lives. His brother was with him. One would grub while the other plowed. Their planter was made in a dugout by Rupert Harvey. They planted maize and kaffir corn every third furrow. They fenced it, left it, and came back and cut the heads by hand for winter feed.
His first job was farming with "Uncle Bill Winkle" at $18.00 per month, where Afton is now. The postoffice was at Dickens.
He married Ethel Roddy and they had one son, Fred.
He was very active in his community and liked to sing. He was president of the Dickens-Motley County Old Timers Associations for many years.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church for Mrs. C.C. Haile (Ethel Etta Roddy Haile), 83, who died in Spur Memorial Hospital Sunday.Married at Throckmorton in 1899, Mr. and Mrs. Haile made their first home in Dickens County the same year. They have been residents of Afton and Spur and were residing here when she died. She was a member of the Baptist Church.
Rev. Victor Crabtree officiated, assisted by Rev. J.E. Lee.
Survivors include her husband, one brother, Sterling Roddy of Grandview, Oklahoma; two sisters, Mrs. J.H. Haile, Amarillo and Mrs. H.C. Johnson, Mt. View, Oklahoma, one son, Fred C. Haile, is deceased.
Pallbearers were Shorty Smanley, H.D. Marshall, Cliff Bird, J.H. Dobbins, W.E. Neaves, Cecil Godfrey
©The Texas Spur, June 16, 1960
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church on Nov. 29 for a retired Spur stock farmer and rancher, Columbus C. Haile, 87. Rev. John Jenkins officiated and was assisted by Rev. Victor Crabtree, Dickens and Rev. Olif Haile, Plainview.Mr. Haile died in an Amarillo convalescent home on Nov. 27. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He had been a resident of Dickens County since 1895.
Survivors include one sisters, Mrs. Pearl Hodges, Clyde; one brother, S.H. Haile, Amarillo; one grandson, Fred C. Haile, Spur and one granddaughter, Mrs. Annetta Lindsey, Metainie, LA.
Pallbearers were Fred Hale, Shorty Smalley, Alfred Walker, Herschel Marsh, Mansell Bragg and Robert Reynolds.
Burial was in Spur cemetery.
©The Texas Spur December 5, 1963
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
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