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| Birth Date: Aug. 7, 1905 | Birth Date: Nov. 28, 1895 | |
| Death Date: Aug. 27, 1996 | Death Date: Aug. 20, 1971 |
U. S. Army Corporal Veteran WWI and State Guard Staff Sergeant WWIIROLLIN
Rollin Francis Artley was the son of Ransom and Roxanna Artley. He was born in Pennsdale, PA on Nov. 28, 1895. As a lad he moved with his family to Haven KS.Rollin came to Crosby County by rail in 1915 to help his brother, Charlie, with the farm his parents had bought. His parents had rented a box car, in which they put two teams in one end and household goods in the other. Rollin and Charlie got the land all broke out and started their crops.
Along came World War I and Rollin was called to service. He returned to Kansas and joined friends from Kansas in the army. He was a corporal and served in Germany and France.
After his discharge, he returned to Crosby County. While visiting his aunt, uncle, and cousins, the Edlers, he met Lillian Hames, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hames. They married Dec. 17, 1922.
Rollin and Lillian moved to Bailey County early in 1924 and farmed two crop years, then returned to the Artley farm in Nov. 1925, where they made their home and raised their family.
Rollin went from farming with a team to a tractor with two row equipment and then to four row. He always had cows, pigs, and chickens. for many years they raised goats. Lillian churned butter, molded and wrapped it. Butter and eggs helped to get them through the depression.
Rollin and Lillian had two daughters, Alice Marie was born Dec. 6, 1927 at the family home and Mary Fayma Dec. 24, 1930.
Rollin served on the boards of directors of the first Crosby County Fuel organized, Crosbyton Cooperative Gin and Crosbyton Cooperative Grain Co.
During World War II, he joined the State Guard, which was organized in 1940. He was a staff sergeant.
Their daughters graduated from Crosbyton High School. Alice married Gene Greene and they had three children, Loyd, Barbara and Joe. Fayma married Bill Crump and they had three children, Colene, Wayne, and Lelon.
Rollins´s interests were his work and his family. He took a lot of interest in his grandchildren. He continued to farm until 1969 when he rented the land to his son-in-law, Gene Greene. Even then he liked to continue helping with the farm work, until his death Aug. 20, 1971. He is buried in Crosbyton Cemetery.
Source: "A History of Crosby County 1876-1977" © Crosby County Historical Commission 1978; Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas.LILLIAN
Lillian, the only daughter of Henry and Hattie Hames, was born Aug. 7, 1905, at the family home north of Crosbyton. Her two brothers were Quincy and Warren.She attended school at Big Four and high school in Crosbyton. Their home was on the edge of the canyon, where there were many rattlesnakes. She was taught to shoot a gun at an early age. When she would go after the cows from the pasture to milk she always took her gun and dog along. She worked in the fields every summer, just like her brothers.
Lillian and Rollin Frances Artley, son of the Ransom Artleys of Kansas, were married Dec. 22, 1922. Except for two years, the couple spent their life on the Artley farm northwest of Crosbyton. They had two daughters, Alice Marie was born Dec. 6, 1927, and Mary Fayma was born Dec. 24, 1930.
Alice married Gene Greene and their three children are Loyd, Barbara, and Joe. Loyd married Cindy Kiker, Barbara is married to Randy Hadderton, and Joe is a 1977 graduate of Crosbyton High School.
Fayma married Bill Crump. Their three children are Colene, Wayne, and Lelon. Colene married Jerry Stigler and they have two children. Cynthia and John. Wayne married Lynette Payne, and Lelon married Kandy Jones.
Rollin died Aug. 20, 1971, and is buried in Crosbyton Cemetery.
Lillian moved from the farm to 207 S. Farmer in Crosbyton in December, 1973. She still enjoys sewing and makes most of the clothes for Cynthia and John, her two great grandchildren. She is an active member of World War I Auxiliary Barracks 389.
Source: "A History of Crosby County 1876-1977" © Crosby County Historical Commission 1978; Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas, page 305.
Services for Rollin Artley were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church of Crosbyton with the Rev. Ernest Stewart pastor and the Rev. Floyd Haddock, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Ralls officiating. Burial was in the Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of King Funeral Home.Artley, a native of Pennsdale, Pa., and a Crosby County resident since 1915, died about 5 p.m. Friday after an apparent heart attack in his home. He was a farmer.
Survivors include his wife, Lillian; two daughters, Mrs. Gene Greene of Crosbyton and Mrs. Billy Crump of Ralls; a brother, Olin of Fresno, Calif., and six grandchildren.
©Crosbyton Review, August 26, 1971
RALLS (Special) - Services for Lillian Artley, 91, of Ralls will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Ralls First Baptist Church with the Rev. Les Grifin, pastor of Crosbyton First Baptist Church, and the Rev. Jim Morrow, pastor, officiating.Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home.
She died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at Crosbyton Hospital.
She was born Aug. 7, 1905, in Crosby County. She married Rollin F. Artley on Dec. 17, 1922 in Crosbyton. He died Aug. 20, 1971. She was a member of Crosbyton First Baptist Church and the American Legion Auxiliary.
Survivors include two daughters, Alice Marie Steen of Canyon and Fayma Crump of Ralls; six grandchildren; and 15 great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 28, 1996
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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