George Washington Alldredge and Theodocia Ernest Harris Alldredge
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George ALLDREDGE
Birthplace: Homer Angelina Co., TX;
Occ: Farmer
Father: James J. ALLDREDGE
Mother: Cassie Ann ALLEN
Spouse: Theodocia Ernest HARRIS Alldredge
Birthplace: Memphis, TN
Place of death: Crosbyton, TX
Father: Pickens Earl HARRIS
Mother: Drucilla SIMMONS
Survivors: 4 Dau. - Nora Livingston, Drucilla Sprivey, Mrs.W.W.Barrington, Mrs. Jesse Bass.
22 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren, 8 great great grandchildren.
Source: Adams Funeral Home

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George Washington ALLDREDGE was my Mother´s Father. He lived a long live to almost 98. He married Theodocia HARRIS . She lived to be about 95 plus. They had 6 Children, five girls and one boy. Nora, Sam, Drucilla, Mae, Lillie, Georgia. My Mother, Georgia was the youngest and presently (2000) is the only survivor. G.W., Theodocia, Nora, Sam and Mae are buried in the Crosbyton Cemetery.

G.W. (my Granddad) was Farmer and Carpenter by Trade. He lived many years in Brown County, Tx., Scurry County, Tx. near Dermont, Tx. (just West on a Farm) just a few miles West of Snyder, Tx. He was a Deacon in the Snyder, Tx. Primitive Baptist Church. (My Mother & Dad, were both married in the Snyder Church). He lived in Dickens County on a Farm East of Afton, Tx. Then to Crosby County, Tx. near the Cone, Texas Community. Back while Mother was a very young little girl they moved for a couple of years to Globe, Arizona, as they heard there was work out there in the Carpentry Field. The remaining years of his life they lived in Crosbyton, Tx. with their daughter Drucilla Spivey (a widow), in her home. G. W. & Theodocia both died at this residence. They were good, honorable, honest and hard-working people, raising a good family, of which many of the descendants lived many years in the Crosbyton, Tx. area. Sam lived in the Kalgary, Tx. area for many years, driving a Crosbyton School Bus back in the 1940´s. He had several sons, Marshall who married Mary from the East Plains, and they lived most of their lives in Crosbyton, Tx. Next, Max married Jessie WILLIAMS, who was in my graduating class of 1948 at Crosbyton, Tx. They lived in Crosbyton, but mostly, and still do, in Spur, Tx., Dickens County. Jessie was from the Kalgary, Tx. area. Her brothers, J. R. and Zane were both football players for the Crosbyton Chiefs during the 1940´s. A daughter, Wilma Lee married Donald GOWENS of Crosbyton, Tx. and lived there many years, raising their family. Donald´s Dad was Clarence GOWENS of Crosbyton. Oleta, another daughter, married Thedford FRY, a Rancher near Spur, Tx. where they lived and raised their family. She was a RN and worked in the Crosbyton, Tx. Hospital for many years until recent retirement. She was known there as Lee FRY.

Mae married Wade W. BARRINGTON, Tx. and they lived in Crosbyton, Tx. many years. Nora was widowed young, after losing her husband Earnest LIVINGTON with pneumonia, and she lived in Crosbyton, Tx. many years with Mae also. Mae had a daughter, Christine, who graduated from Crosbyton High School about 1945. Christine married Charles HERRING, whose Dad run a Gas Station in Crosbyton on US-82 during the 1940´s. The Herrings were a good family residing in Crosbyton for many years. One of Mae´s sons, Clyde married Betty McCLINTOCK of Crosbyton. McCLINTOCK run a Grocery Store in Crosbyton during the 1940´s. Mae had another son, Aubrey, who married Merle BENNET of the Dickens County, Afton, Tx. area. The BENNET Family later moved to Crosbyton, as well as Aubrey & Merle, and their children. Mae had another daughter, Lona Mae, who married Eddie Hale of the Dickens County, Afton, Texas Area, and they lived in Crosbyton many years, raising their family there. They later bought a farm in Cochran County, just North of Morton, Tx. Eddie´s family was a large family, living mostly in Dickens County. Many of his family members are buried in the Afton, Tx. Cemetery.

My Dad, Jesse BASS married Georgia and they lived many years - most of the 1940´s in Crosbyton, Tx. He had a Chicken Hatchery and Purina & Merit Feeds Store, Dressing Plant during the World War II. Nora had a son Lloyd, who lived & raised his family for several years in Crosbyton, Tx. during the 1940´s as he worked for my Dad in the Hatchery.

I graduated from Crosbyton, Tx. High School in 1948. I have one brother who died at age nine (9), March 9, 1947, with kidney complications - David Irwin BASS, who is buried in the Crosbyton Cemetery. He was in the fourth grade, Mrs. D. A. Edwards was his last teacher in the Crosbyton Schools.

These are all descendants of G.W. and Theodocia ALLDREDGE who lived many years in the Dickens, Crosby County Areas.

Submitted by: Hulan F. Bass

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Geo. Alldredge, 97, Buried Here Sunday, Sept. 3

Funeral services for George Washington Alldredge, 97, long time resident of Crosbyton, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Primitive Baptist Church with Elder E.J. Norman, pastor, officiating.

Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of King Funeral Home.

Born April 13, 1864 in Angelina County, Mr. Alldredge had been a resident of Crosby County since 1939. He died Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. W. W. Barrington. Married to Theodocia Ernest Harris January 11, 1888 at Marlin, the couple had lived together for more than 73 years. They first moved to West Texas in 1923, to Afton in 1931 and to Crosbyton in 1939. He was a retired farmer.

Alldredge joined the Primitive Baptist church June 3, 1892, at Regency, and had been a member for 69 years.

Survivors include the wife; a son, W.S. Alldredge, Crosbyton; four daughters, Mrs. Jesse Bass, Austin; Mrs. Barrington, Mrs. Nora Livingston and Mrs. Drucilla Spivey, all of Crosbyton; 22 grandchildren, 53 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren.

©Crosbyton Review, September 7, 1961
Submitted by Waynell Harris




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