Mr. And Mrs. William C. Booton moved to Crosbyton in the fall of 1913, Booton had purchased Crosbyton Pharmacy from Joe Parks. A few years later he bought the other drug store and for a long time had the only drug store in Crosbyton. In the spring of 1914, Mr. And Mrs. Booton were joined by their children, Richard and Elizabeth. The Bootons were Episcopalians, but as there was no Episcopal church in the town, they attended Presbyterian church.Crosbyton Pharmacy was located on the corner of the square just east of the courthouse. Will Booton was a quiet gentle man, highly educated and one of the most respected druggist in this part of the plains. He helped many people when a doctor was not available. In fact, one citizen said that he preferred to consult Mr. Booton when sick than the local doctor.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1875, Blanche Goldsborough lived her childhood and part of her early girlhood there. Her mother, Sydney Weathers Goldsborough, died when Blanche was four years old and Blanche lived with her mother´s sister in Baltimore.
At that time her father, Frank Goldsborough, came to Texas to live and settled in Ennis where Blanche spent many of her summers with him. In 1896 she went to Cuero to teach and there met and married William C. Booton. Will Booton was born in 1865 in Missouri and was reared there. After completing his education in St. Louis, her moved to south Texas where he established a drug store and lived in Cuero until his move to Crosbyton in 1913. Richard and Elizabeth, born in Cuero in 1898 and 1903 respectively, lived there until they moved to Waco to attend school in 1913 and later moved to Crosbyton.
Richard Booton was one of the most active young men of his time, having had the first popcorn machine in the town and running the Happy Hour, one of the early picture shows. He also owned a pig ranch adjoining the railroad and it seemed that he could never get a fence to keep the pigs in. He gets much joy out of his story about the Crosbyton train (we called it the Blue Weed Special) having to stop many afternoons on its return from Lubbock for the engineer to get the pigs off the track. Richard joined Elrod Engineering Company of Dallas in 1917 and moved to that city to work. In 1924 he and Martha Minor Johnson of Dallas were married. They have three sons, Richard, Jr., Robert and William, and have eight grandchildren. Richard and Martha live in San Antonio.
In the early days of Crosbyton it was very important for a little girl to be a Camp Fire Girl, and Elizabeth was active in this organization during her school days. She was also a DMC which was likewise an important organization of the town.
Mrs. Booton died in 1919 and Mr. Booton in 1922. On the death of her father, Elizabeth left Crosbyton to attend school at West Texas Teachers College (now West Texas State University). From there she went to Dallas to begin her working career in the insurance industry. She has never married and, now retired, lives in Dallas.
Source: "Crosby County History Book 1876-1977", Crosby County Historical Commission, ©1977
Transcribed by Cheryl McDonald
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