Effie Powell

Charles Powell - 2008

Brashear, Catherine 4/6/16 Woodall, W.L. ** this may be a cousin need to checkout** She was married in Sweetwater just a month after Effie married Lantz

Effie and Lantz Powell where married in Sweetwater, TX on March 7, 1916

Brashear, Effie 3/7/16 Powell, Lantz

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txnolan/vital_records/marr1881_19...

I asked Grandma where she got her name from and she said that the Brashears had an excellent milk cow named Effie. She like her name very much.

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One time when I was 12 years old I asked Effie (grandma) that lets take time 50 years in the future and what would she want to tell me after she was gone and what would she say if she could still talk to me. She looked at me in her low key manner and said "Charlie - I would tell you to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I said what thats all and she said that "You will have a much happier life if you just do what I just told you -- Try and always put the other person first".

Well I tried Grandma.

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For some reason I never understood - Effie would cook the very best meals "Fried Chicken was my favorite" and never ever once sat down with us to eat. She ALWAYS would say "Please let me wait on you while you eat as I had a little to eat while I was cooking". Later I would come into the kitchen and she would be eating by herself -- It hurt then and hurts now.... Its just what she did.

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Once when I very first got to be on the hayrake and flip it up and down with Grandpa on the tractor in front was the best time of my life. All day we raked the hay and at the end of the day I was so excited that I ran into the kitchen with Effie and said "Grandma - this is the most fun I have ever had in my entire life. Maybe Grandpa (Lantz) will let you work the rake tomorrow it is a blast. She looked at me and gave a big laugh and said "Charlie - I just guess I been on to many rakes in my llfe for it to be fun anymore. I must be to old." Well now I know what she means. Its hard to do new things in your life to keep you excited and I guess when you can't find anything to keep you interested -- Happy Hunting Grounds for us all.

This is where Effie went to pick cotton when she met Lantz Powell her future husband...

Roscoe, Texas

In the late 1880's the Roscoe area was unfenced ranch country. The Texas & Pacific railroad laid rails through the area in 1881. Old immigrant maps of 1889 show a switch on the railroad about one half mile from the present Roscoe, it was called Katula which was only a flag stop and arrangements had to be made ahead of time for the trains to stop to attach cattle cars.

During 1894 the "wet weather" lakes filled around Katula and the switch and box car depot were moved to the present Roscoe location.

Among the first for Roscoe were:

• Thomas Trammel of Sweetwater opened the first bank in 1897

• The first newspaper was the Roscoe Enterprise in 1893 by Harris & Pickle

• First wedding was Dab Whitesides and Miss Pomers in 1893

• X. B. Sanders was the first child born in Roscoe.

• Mr. Thompson built and operated the first hotel and blacksmith shop

• First school teacher was C.S. Knott for the 2-room school

• First sermon preached in Roscoe was in the home of F. M. Whorton, Rev. Lee Browning was the preacher

• First gin installed by C. L. Ray and Mr. Sandlin

• Dr. Wallace was the first doctor

• First church building was constructed between 1900 - 1905.

• Among the first settlers before the town was started include the McBurnett, Seal, Chappell, McClain, Brashears, Lagow, Carlyle, Edmondson, W.F. Jones, Geigers, Gathings, Whorton, Wall and Thompson families.

The present Roscoe is a far cry from the pioneer days of more than eighty years ago. The pioneers with wagons and teams followed the Texas and Pacific Railroad to the Blackland Divide to the Roscoe area.

The first newspaper in Roscoe was the Roscoe Enterprise, 1893, owned and operated by Harris and Pipkin. The Roscoe Times is even older than Roscoe as the first copies went into the mail March 10, 1906, a year before the town was incorporated.