W.O. Lockwood Family
Prominent Citizens Kills Self.
A phone message early this morning stated that W. O. Lockwood, a very early and prominent citizen residing about six miles southwest of Old Emma, had shot and killed himself about 7 o'clock this morning. Judge Parrish, Sheriff Mitchell and others left soon after to hold an inquest. It is not known why he committed the rash act.
The Crosbyton Review, Friday, April 28, 1916
Mrs. Willie S. Lockwood, who came to Crosby County in a covered wagon, was buried Thursday in Ralls Cemetery following 2 p.m. memorial services in the First United Methodist Church of Lorenzo. The Rev. Sidney Parsley, pastor, officiated.
Carter-Adams Funeral Home directed arrangements.
Mrs. Lockwood died at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 10, in University Hospital in Lubbock following a brief illness.
She was 92.
The former Willie S. Detwiler was born Aug. 3, 1888, near West, Texas., in McLennan County. Her parents, the late Albert and Mary Detwiler, brought her as a young child in a covered wagon from Orange to Crosby County in 1889. They came by way of Sweetwater, where they spent Christmas Day 1899 before arriving in this county.
The family settled at Buffalo Springs near Lubbock and later built a half dugout on land three miles south of the present Lorenzo. They homesteaded the land.
The Detwilers later moved west of Emma, where their daughter attended school.
She could recall the fear and excitement of two events of her childhood in Emma. One was a threatening prairie fire which was fought by settlers with wet tow sacks to save the town.
Standing in their door watching cattle stampeding down the street was a scene Willie Detwiler Lockwood said she never had forgotten.
She married Will O'Hair Lockwood on May 20, 1906 and lived near Robertson. Mr. Lockwood, a farmer-stockman, died in 1916.
His widow and her children moved to Ralls following his death. They made their home in Ralls until 1927, when they moved to Lubbock.
Mrs. Lockwood resided in Lubbock from 1927 until her death except for a seven-year period (1934-1941) when she resided on her farm in the Robertson community.
A former member of the Order of the Eastern Star at Ralls, Mrs. Lockwood was a member of First United Methodist Church in Lubbock.
She is survived by one son, W. O. Lockwood of Lorenzo; one daughter, Mrs. Walter M. (Daisy) Wood of Lubbock; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Kirksey of Lorenzo; 10 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Lockwood was preceded in death by two sons. Albert Lockwood was claimed by death June 6, 1978, and Tom Lockwood died Nov. 5, 1967.
Serving as pallbearers were Robert Lockwood, David Lockwood, Larry Lockwood, Carl Hart Jr., Dean King, Jim Spikes, Glen Dale King, Jack More, Weldon Henry, Albert Wayne Sechrist and Bob Bryant.
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