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STIMSON HOMESITE

Historical marker, 1983

STIMSON HOMESITE

VIRGINIA-BORN DANIEL MARION STIMSON (1827-1898) MOVED

TO TEXAS IN 1853. THREE YEARS LATER HE PURCHASED THIS

PROPERTY, WHERE HE ESTABLISHED HIS HOME AND FARMED THE

LAND. STIMSON WAS WIDOWED TWICE BEFORE HE MARRIED

MARY HEWITT IN 1875; THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, NORA

(1879-1967) AND FANNIE (1884-1962). ACTIVE IN THE METHODIST

CHURCH, THE STIMSONS HELPED ESTABLISH THE BEAR CREEK

CHURCH NEAR THEIR HOMESTEAD.

IN 1888 THE FAMILY MOVED TO THE NEARBY TOWN OF

NEVADA, WHERE THEY HELPED ORGANIZE THE FIRST METHODIST

CHURCH. THE STIMSONS SENT THEIR DAUGHTERS TO PRIVATE

SCHOOLS BUT ALSO PLAYED A PART IN THE CONSTRUCTION

OF THE TOWN'S FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING.

WHEN DANIEL AND MARY STIMSON DIED, THEIR HOMEPLACE

AT THIS SITE WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE DAUGHTERS.

NORA STIMSON MARRIED ANDREW PAUL BARRY IN 1898.

THEY SETTLED ON THE STIMSON FARM, WHERE SEVEN OF

THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN, IN 1914 THEY SOLD THEIR

HALF AND MOVED TO FOARD COUNTY. FANNIE MARRIED

WILLIAM F. BOYD. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN AND CONTINUED TO

MAINTAIN THEIR HALF OF THE STIMSON FARM.

THE WESTERN HALF OF THE DANIEL STIMSON HOMESITE HAS

REMAINED IN THE FAMILY AND HAS BEEN CONTINUALLY

FARMED BY HIS DESCENDANTS FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.

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