Maggie Jones Wooten was born December 29, 1887, in Hamilton County in the Pottsville Community. Her father, William Andrew Jackson Jones, filed on four sections of land north of the present-day Wake community. He sent his two oldest sons out to look after the land in 1897.In 1900, Mr. Jones purchased a section of land from the Dunn Brothers, land on which there was a windmill, a half dugout and corrals. Mr. Jones immediately began building a two-story house on this property, transporting supplies from Quanah. This section of land served as the only stop-over for travelers on their way from Espuela to Floydada. It was known as Pansy.
The windmill dug on the property in 1881 was still in use in 1976, 95 years later, on the Wooten farm. The section of land was sold in 1901 to John Wooten, whose son, Andy, married Maggie Jones in 1914.
In 1901, after the sale of the new house and section of land, Maggie´s father moved to Old Emma where he built again, he sold out in 1902, building yet another house north of Wake which was torn down in the 1930´s. In the meantime, the Jones children were getting their education attending school at both Wake and Old Emma.
Another move was made to Floydada in 1905. Maggie then was employed by the Arthur B. Duncan abstract office. In 1906 the elder Jones died in Floydada, and soon afterward the family moved back to the four sections north of Wake.
Maggie Jones married Andy Wooten in 1914, and the couple moved to the first house built on the section of land acquired by her father but later sold to John Wooten. Two years later, in 1916, they acquired 480 acres of land from the C. B. Livestock Company, represented by Julian Bassett and Glenn McKee.
The Wootens had one son, Donald, who farmed the Wooten land. Maggie and Andy moved to Crosbyton in 1950 where Andy died in 1955.
Maggie moved to Jewell´s Holiday House in Lubbock. Mrs. Wooten´s brother, Roger F. R. Jones, and son, Donald Wooten, resided in Crosbyton. A sister, Myrtle Stewart, lived in Levelland and another sister, Delia Land, lived in Bartlesville, Okla. This group of children came to Crosby County by wagon with their father.
Crosby County lost another of her pioneers Tuesday when Maggie Wooten succumbed at 8:35 a.m. at Jewel´s Holiday House in Lubbock. Mrs. Wooten, the former Maggie Jones, moved to this county in 1900 at the age of 13. She accompanied her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. W.A.J. Jones, in a wagon from Pottsville.The Jones family was one of the first four families to settle on the East Plains.
A Pottsville native, Maggie Jones Wooten was born Dec. 29, 1887. She was 89 at the time of her death.
She was married to Andy Wooten on Jan. 14, 1914 in Crosbyton. Mr. Wooten preceded his wife in death Dec. 26, 1955.
Funeral services were pending at press time with Adams Funeral Home.
Survivors include one son, Donald Wooten of Crosbyton; a brother, R.R. Jones of Crosbyton; a half brother, Roy Jones of Tempe, AZ; a step brother, L.C. Wheeler of Lubbock; two sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Stewart of Levelland and Mrs. Joe A. Land of McAlester, OK; one step sister, Mrs. Arch Williams of California; two grandchildren, John and Andrea Wooten of Crosbyton; and one great grandchild, Brandy Wooten.
Crosbyton Review, November 10, 1977
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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