INTERESTING NEWS FROM FIELD
MAN.
Weekly Democrat Gazette, June 6, 1912
Our first
transaction last Monday was at the home of Grandma Brock, three miles
northwest from the city. She came from Kentucky nearly forty years ago with
her husband, the late James Brock, who died in March 1908. Out of a family
of nine children there were six girls and strange to say, the three boys are
all dead. Five of the girls are married and one, Miss Jennie, lives with her
mother. The land under tillage is worked by tenants and the pasture is
filled with stock from which a neat revenue is derived during the summer. A
good orchard, garden and poultry with the revenues of the farm enable them
to live in ease and comfort. Grandma's eyes are failing but she had her
daughter to read the Democrat-Gazette to her regularly. We thank Miss Jennie
for cash on renewal.
J. T. Brock, the
genial and jolly blacksmith at Rhea Mills, was on the anxious seat when we
arrived and rather than have the steam roller come down the pike, flung a
dollar into our jeans and got a receipt for the best weekly newspaper
published in Collin county, the Democrat-Gazette.
J. C. Fletcher,
farmer and merchant of Rhea Mills left Virginia over forty years ago and
came to Texas in a wagon pulled by a team of mules and exactly nine weeks on
the road. Married in 1878 Miss Cornelia Helm, daughter of Little Jake Helm.
In 1872 bought flour out of the same building which he now owns and sells
goods for $7.00 per hundred pounds. Five years of confinement after an
outdoor life impaired his health, and placing his son, Molly, in the store
he answered the slogan "back to the farm," regained his health after a
couple of years, but prefers to remain where he can commune with Nature. For
many years a reader of the Democrat-Gazette, he cannot do without it now.
His father, G. R. Fletcher, who resided many years in Collin county is
ninety-three years of age and lives in Pilot Point, Denton county.
contd
Old
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Walnut
Grove
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church
Communities Index
- Recommended
citation:
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"Rhea Mills
- Collin County Communities," Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy
Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
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