HART SPRINGS
(northwest of McKinney)
ON THE WING
Daily Courier Gazette, April 13, 1913
Personal Mention of People You
Know by Our Field Man.
While proceeding
leisurely last Monday morning to Roland, we were overtaken by J. A. L. Andrews
and his bride of the evening before. He and Mrs. Alice Griffin were quietly
married at the hour of 5:30 last Sunday evening in the home of J. J. Sportsman
on South Tennessee street, Esquire T. O. Murray officiating. The bride on this
happy occasion was formerly Miss Alice Grisham, sister of the late Hon. J. N.
Grisham, and reared at Verona, twelve miles northeast from McKinney. Mr. Andrews
was formerly a citizen of Ellis county, and recently purchased a large farm
three miles west from Celina where they will live soon as a suitable house can
be built. We extend to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews our congratulations, hoping their
barque will have smooth sailing on the matrimonial sea.
Hart Springs.
Just at noon
Buckskin thought it time to halt. We ate dinner in the home of E. A. Kirkland.
Miss Maud Simmons was the name of a certain young lady to whom he promised many
things and fulfilled everyone until after the ceremony and after that he
weakened. Only two children in this home and all read the Democrat-Gazette each
week.
contd
HART SPRINGS JOTTINGS
Daily Courier Gazette, August
4, 1938
by Mrs. O. S. Scott
When this representative visited the home of
Mrs. C. A. Cox we found her confined in her bed with illness. She is being
tenderly cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Lovell and her son, Avner Cox.
Mrs. Cox was for years the correspondent for
the Daily Courier-Gazette and the Weekly Democrat-Gazette, faithfully reporting
the news from the Hart Springs community, located about four and a half miles
northwest of McKinney. The name is derived from the natural spring that is
located on Mrs. J. H. Hill's farm in the Hart Survey. The branch flows through
the Cox farm into Honey Creek.
Mrs. Cox is an interesting conversationalist.
She still keeps up with current events through her papers and radio, although
she has been bedfast for a long time. She has always taken a keen interest in
political affairs, both local and national.
Lava Jennings was a daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. William Jennings. She was born in Ray Co., Missouri on July 19, 1864 at
Lawson forty-five miles east of Kansas City and within twelve miles of the home
of the famous bandit James brothers.
There were four girls and three boys in her
family as follows: Ben Jennings, Lawson, Missouri, Sterling Jennings, deceased,
Walter Jennings lived on a farm adjoining the Cox farm, he passed away thirteen
years ago. Mrs. R. O. Cox of Roland; Ida Jennings, who died at the age of eleven
years; William Cox, who passed away at her home in Kansas City one year ago.
Lava Jennings and C. A. (Aus) Cox were married July 23, 1883 in Missouri. Three
days later they located five miles northwest of McKinney in the Roland community
and have always lived within a ten mile radius of their present home. Aus Cox
was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James Cox, born in Missouri in the same neighborhood
with his wife. They grew up together, attended the same school and were
sweethearts from childhood. He came to Texas with his parents in 1875; camped
the first night on Wilson Creek, south of McKinney. He then moved to the farm
south of Roland. His father purchased 200 acres of land for $5.00 per acre. R.
O. Cox still lives on the old homeplace.
Mr. and Mrs. James Cox reared a large family
of children. They were: John W. Cox, Roland; R. O. Cox of Roland; L. M. (Babe)
Cox of Roland; T. Benton Cox, deceased; Alice Cox, who died when a small girl;
Stella Cox, who married Robert Allen of Plano; Charley Cox, who met a tragic
death in 1905, when he was crushed to death between an engine and separator
while moving the thresher on the brother's farm near Gunter; C. A. (Aus) Cox,
who passed away in 1936; Mrs. Effie Robins, 3343 Pine Street, Dallas; Virginia
Cox, who died at the age of thirteen.
Mr. and Mrs. Aus Cox were the parents of seven
children. They were: Roy, who died in infancy; Willie Nois, now Mrs. W. T.
Beatty, 814 North Kentucky Street, McKinney; two daughters, who died in infancy;
Cyrus Avner Cox, at home; Mrs. Grace Mildred Lovell of San Francisco,
California, now at home with her mother and brother Martin who died at ten
months.
R. O. Cox and C. A. (Aus) Cox married sisters
Mrs. Jim Cox and Mrs. William Jennings were sisters of the late Jim and Tom
Lanier, batchelor brothers who died a few years ago. There are still four
generations of the family living. At one time when there was a school at Ash
Grove Grace Lovell had twenty-four cousins at school with her. The community was
practically made up of the Cox and Lanier families. Mrs. Cox has a clock that
has been telling the time for fifty three years and a cedar tree that has been
in her yard forty two years. We noted some Damson plum trees of which the
original tree came from Missouri nearly a half a century ago.
Avner Cox taught school for six years, then
his health failed. Physicians ordered him out in the open. After his father's
death, he assumed charge of their farm. He raises Whiteface Hereford cattle,
sheep, hogs, work stock and owns three head of saddle horses. A large orchard
furnishes fruit for their needs and some to spare, and he raises Rhode Island
Red chickens as a sideline.
Mrs. Grace Cox Lovell lived for a number of
years in Detroit, Michigan, and made many friends. Among them were Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Engel and little daughters, Leatrice and Joan of Ulier, Michigan; Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Steffens of Detroit, Michigan, who were recent guests of Mrs. Lovell
near Roland. This was their first visit to Texas and they were greatly impressed
with McKinney and Collin County. While here they enjoyed a trip through the
Texas Textile Mills, Inc. here and also the Collin County Cotton Oil Mill. The
South has many wonders for these visitors who took samples of cotton, cotton
seed, etc., as souvenirs, back home with them. They are traveling in an
Oldsmobile and expect to be away from their home for six or seven weeks. From
McKinney they went to Dallas, San Antonio and other Texas cities after which
they plan to visit Carlsbad Caverns, El Paso, Juarez, Mexico: the Grand Canyon
in Arizona; San Diego, Hollywood, Yosemite Park, San Francisco where they will
see the Barbary Coast and Chinatown; Portland, Ore., Seattle, Washington; Mt.
Rainer Park, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone Park and other points of interests.
Our next visit was to the home of Mr. and Mrs.
A. O. McTee. Here we found Mrs. McTee and her husband's mother, Mrs. J. A. McTee
of Farmersville, busy canning. Mrs. McTee was formerly Miss Vera Inmon, daughter
of Mr. And Mrs. C. H. Inmon near Sherman. She has two sisters and a brother as
following: Mrs. Paul Daughtery, Route One, Sherman; Miss Velma Inmon at home;
Roy L Inmon, 7040 Harrisburg Boulevard, Houston, Texas. Arthur McTee is a son of
Mrs. J. A. McTee and her late husband of Farmersville. His father passed away
nine years ago. This worthy couple reared the following children: Mrs. Shellie
Nickles, who teaches in the Spring Hill School near Farmersville; Miss Juanita
McTee, 920 West Second Street, Fort Worth; A. R. McTee, 716 West Avenue, Austin,
Texas; C. B. McTee 1901 Roosevelt, Houston; A. W. McTee, Leonard, Texas.
Vera Inmon and Arthur McTee were united in
marriage, October 6, 1929, at Sherman. They have three bright boys. Arthur
Charles, six years old and reads books and papers, although he has never
attended school; Don Roy, aged four years and Glen Ray, one-and-a-half years.
This is the McTee's second year in the Hart Springs community. They moved from
Blue Ridge and like their new home. They are truck farming together with general
crops. Mrs. McTee was especially pleased with her chickens this year. They have
a steam pressure canner and sealer and are putting up a supply of fruit and
vegetables for use during the winter months.
Communities Index
- Recommended
citation:
"Hart Springs - Collin County
Communities," Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by
Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13 13:37:28 US/Central 2004 ].
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