David Lee Roy Peveler was born in Seymour, Baylor County, Texas on June 18, 1886. He married Henri Bess Coleman on December 23, 1914 in Gaines County, Texas. David’s father, William Jasper Peveler (1855-1947) was born in June 1855 to Greenup Cauley Peveler and the former Martha A. Dennis in Young County, Texas on July … Continue reading The Peveler Family
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Jake McClure
Sources include 60th Anniversary commemorative program for the Lea County Fair and Rodeo in 1995, newspaper articles and traditional genealogical sites: The Jake McClure Arena was constructed under the management of the Lea County Sheriff’s Posse and is dedicated to Jake McClure. Roy Leonard "Jake" McClure was born November 26, 1902 in Amarillo, Potter County, … Continue reading Jake McClure
Jack Danglade
Frank Jack Danglade was born November 4, 1898 in Jasper County, Missouri to Frank Henderson Danglade and the former Bertha Mabel McKittrick. He married Jessie June Price in 1920 and the couple had one daughter. Danglade and his wife had first moved to Texas in 1924 due to his wife’s poor health. The couple lived … Continue reading Jack Danglade
Walter Colquitt Cochran
Walter Cochran was born August 14, 1952 in Georgia to Col. Winston W. Cochran and the former Mary Dickson. His family is believed to have moved to Texas when he was still an infant. He married Nannie Dodson in the 1880s. Walter C. Cochran came to Jal in 1883 from Palo Pinto County in North … Continue reading Walter Colquitt Cochran
The Fort Family
One of the early families to come to the area were the Forts. Benjamin Herman Fort was born December 15, 1857 in Scott County, Arkansas to John Gabriel Fort and Dorinda Jane Bell Fort and was the youngest of their eleven children. Benjamin married the former Louisa Swilling "Lou" Bramlett in Paris, Arkansas in 1879. … Continue reading The Fort Family
William Standifer Williams and Minnie Alice Anderson Williams
William Standifer Williams was born in the early 1860s in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Samuel Lowry Williams (1807-1898) and Katuriah Taylor Williams (1825-1893), a farming family. His father was one of the earliest Anglo residents of that area and is known as the Father of Chattanooga. William was one of the youngest of some thirteen siblings … Continue reading William Standifer Williams and Minnie Alice Anderson Williams
Henry Harada Named Lea County Conservation Farmer of the Year (1969)
The Lea County second water Conservation District Board of Supervisors have selected Henry Harada as Conservation Farmer for 1969. Henry was born and raised at Rocky Ford, Colorado. In 1942 he went into the armed services where he served until 1945. In 1946 he married Amy Watanave, also from Colorado. ... Henry farmed one year … Continue reading Henry Harada Named Lea County Conservation Farmer of the Year (1969)
Pearl Ditmore – Owner/Operator of Pearl’s Restaurant in Lovington
It's not all that often that someone from Lea County gets written up in a state wide magazine, but in 1977, the Hobbs Flare told of Lovington resident Pearl Ditmore's write up in the June issue of New Mexico Magazine. Pearl came to Lovington shortly after World War II and in her first local restaurant … Continue reading Pearl Ditmore – Owner/Operator of Pearl’s Restaurant in Lovington
T. P. Bingham
On last Friday evening, June 8, 1928, at 6:30 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Gaither, near Pearl, New Mexico, our beloved friend T.P. Bingham, closed his eyes on the pain and suffering of this world to open them in that City beyond where pain and suffering are unknown. He had been a … Continue reading T. P. Bingham
Col. C. D. Woolworth Dies
Col. C. D. Woolworth Dies in San Angelo Friday. Prominent Lea County Oil and Cattleman Dies After Illness Of Several Months. Col. C. D. Woolworth, widely known politician and prominent cattle and oil man, died Friday night, October 28th at 10:30. He was receiving treatment in the Shannon hospital in San Angelo, Texas at the … Continue reading Col. C. D. Woolworth Dies
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