EARLY SETTLERS ERATH COUNTY-STEPHENVILLE TEXAS

EARLY SETTLERS CAME TO ERATH COUNTY FROM MANY DIFFERENT PLACES. SOME CAME IN VEHICLES PULLED BY ANIMALS. A FEW WALKED. IN MORE RECENT TIMES SETTLERS CAME BY GASOLINE POWERED VEHICLES. IN MORE RECENT TIMES NEW ARRIVALS CAME TO THE AREA BY TRAINS AND THEN AIR PLANES.

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About the Author Luther Butler was born of southern parents in Alamosa, Colorado in 1929. He holds degrees from Eastern New Mexico University, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Tarleton State, University, and he graduated from Durango High School in 1948. He served in the US Navy and has ranched, worked in a mental hospital, in inner city slums, and was with the Texas Department of Agriculture for 23 years. He is married to Jo Butler and has one son. Other novels by the author can be found at Barnes & Noble.com - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=luther+butler&z=y&cds2Pid=9481 To view a discussion of my novels, search "Luther Butler" in Google.

Friday, July 01, 2005

The Spence Family

The Spence Family: "William WHITWORTH as the father-in-law of J. D. BREEDLOVE and living with that family.
The lived in Erath county near Stephenville even before this, since family tradition reports that Rapherd SPENCE, born in 1858, was born at the fort in Stephenville during an Indian raid. The following paragraphs, taken from the writings of Rhapherd Thomas BREEDLOVE and not in order, show something of the deprivation and suffering which was a part of life on the early Texas frontier: "

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