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Descendants of Valentine Hibbs My
grandmothers Grandfather Amos Hibbs
Feb 10, 2000 I have decided this document is too long for one web page and have broken the Hibbs history up into three pages
Page 1: Valentinue Hibbs descendants through John Samuel Hibbs and Wife Lura Luke Hibbs (thru 4th Generation) Page
2. Valentine Hibbs
Descendants fifth generations through Page
3. Valentine Hibbs Descendants fifth generations through Generation No. 5 Descendants 16. BERTHA10 HIBBS (ED9, WESLEY8, JOHN SAMUEL7, VALENTINE6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) She married FRANK CROSS. Child of BERTHA HIBBS and FRANK CROSS is: i. RUFUS11 CROSS, m. ELIZABETH PAASCH; b. Knowles OK. 17. THELMA10 COLEMAN (GRACE9 HIBBS, WESLEY8, JOHN SAMUEL7, VALENTINE6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) She married JACK LAMASTER. Child of THELMA COLEMAN and JACK LAMASTER is: i. IRVIN11 LAMASTER, m. ELENOR ??. Notes for IRVIN LAMASTER: Played with Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass for many years and Baja Marimba Band in California. 18. AMOS10 WHITTEN (FLORENCE DELL9 HIBBS, AMOS8, JOHN SAMUEL7, VALENTINE6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) He married X. Child of AMOS WHITTEN and X is: i. DANNEY11 WHITTEN. 19. MILDRED ELLEN10 BOUGE (SARAH ELLEN9 HIBBS, AMOS8, JOHN SAMUEL7, VALENTINE6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born July 08, 1893 in Burlington Ks Coffey County, and died June 03, 1973 in West Covina Calf buried in Pioneer Cemetery Beaver Ok June 6 1973. She married RAY AUSTIN BROADFOOT December 25, 1912 in Beaver Co OK, son of THOMAS BROADFOOT and SARAH BRODIE. He was born August 01, 1885 in Fontanelle, Adair Co. Iowa, and died May 03, 1943 in Beaver Ok buried pioneer cemetery May 5 1943. Notes for RAY AUSTIN BROADFOOT: 2 sons thee daughters Children of MILDRED BOUGE and RAY BROADFOOT are: i. ROY ELLSWORTH11 BROADFOOT, b. January 07, 1914, Beaver Ok; m. MAGGIE EUNACE DURAM, March 19, 1935, Liberal Ks Steward Co.; b. March 22, 1913, Forgan, Beaver Co. Ok. ii. MILDRED SADIE BROADFOOT, b. November 22, 1917, Beaver Co OK; m. DONALD R VENABLE, 1933. iii. HAZEL CHARLOTTE BROADFOOT, b. October 25, 1921, Beaver Co. Ok; m. LEROY EVANS, January 27, 1938. iv. DWAYNE WORTH BROADFOOT, b. April 20, 1924, Beaver Ok; m. JESSIE LINDSEY, about. 1940. v. PALLIE JEAN BROADFOOT, b. September 28, 1932, Beaver Ok; m. JOE MITCHELL, Unknown. 20. JULIA ROSA10 HIBBS (SAMUEL ROBERT9, AMOS8, JOHN SAMUEL7, VALENTINE6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, WILLIAM1) was born September 20, 1911 in Beaver Oklahoma. She married (1) HOMER MCMANUS. He was born October 04, 1908 in Brownwood, and died April 12, 1987 in Amarillo TX. She married (2) REUBEN ROLAND PAUL FAUS February 24, 1930 in Guymon Oklahoma, son of GEORGE FAUS and SARA DAVIS. He was born March 04, 1904 in Range Oklahoma March 14???, and died November 17, 1981 in Spearman TX Hansford County interred Ochiltree Cemetery Nov 19. Notes for JULIA ROSA HIBBS: JULIA HIBBS McManus I, Julia Hibbs (Faus) McManus was born September 20, 1911 in Beaver
County Oklahoma. My parents were Robert and Lura Luke Hibbs. My father Rob
Hibbs was born in Kansas and came to Beaver County with his parents in
1883. His father was an ox-team freighter for the Army from Dodge City to
Tascosa, Texas and Miami,
Texas. Beaver Okla. was half-way. Papa first saw the Mulock State Station,
northwest of Hansford where the road crossed the Palo Duro Creek, about
1886, on a freighting trip with his father. He went to work as a chore boy
on a ranch in Hansford County in 1890, they bought their supplies at
Farwell east of where Gruver is now. Papa filed on land in Beaver County,
Oklahoma in the early 1900's. He came back to Hansford (County) with Irv
Steele and helped the Steeles locate there. Lura Luke came to Hansford
County in 1906 with her parents Ethan Allen Luke and Luke. E.A. Luke was a
civil engineer, he got a contract to build a bridge the first in Hansford
County, on the Palo Duro Creek at Old Hansford. He later joined with Tom
and Charley Crowley to form the Alamo Irrigation Ditch Company and built
two dams on the Palo Duro Creek; one at Mulock and one on the
Crowley Ranch (the Huff Wright Place). He also
built a bridge on the J.I. Steele Ranch and many fireplaces and brick chimneys Lura Luke went to Beaver, Oklahoma to visit her
brother and met and married Robert Hibbs in 1908. Rob Hibbs got a letter
from J.I. Steele telling him of the Mulock place and some surrounding land
that was for sale. He came to Hansford County and bought the Mulock place
and four sections in Hansford and four sections of a-joining land in
Ochiltree County. Our neighbors were; Simmons, O'Loughlins, Andrews, Steeles, and the Powers to the
south. Bertrands, McMurry, Newcomb, Crowleys,James, Burks, and Lukes to the north and west. My sister Ruth (Reardon) and
brother Lawrence Hibbs were born at the old Mulock Place. We attended
school at New Hope which was held in the church (Huff's Chapel) as the old
sod at New Hope School-house was unsafe by that time. They later built a
new schoolhouse on the site of the old sod Newcomb Place. I married Ruben
Paul Faus in February 1930 and moved to Spearman where we raised our
family except for the war years in Amarillo. They are: Rosa Amelia
(Steele)12/21/30; Harry Elmer, 9/l4/32;
Juanita Lois (Pierce), 12/l 5/33;
Bertha lleen (Willison) 11/5/35; Ruby Joyce (Saltness) 5/5/ 37; Phyllis
lnez (Mann) 7/5/44. Homer McManus was born in Brownwood, Texas, grew up in
Slaton, his father was an Engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. Homer went
to work for the railroad when he finished high school in 1926, he
transferred to Amarillo in 1929 but left during the depression for lack of
seniority. He came to work in the oilfield in 1956. Homer and I married in
Perryton in 1960 By Julia Hibbs McManus from: Hansford County History Vol 1 1980 page 211 Palo Duro Way Station O'Laughlin Ranch By Julia Hibbs Faus McManus written early spring of 1999 in Gage Oklahoma. Copyright 1999 805 Sante Fe, Gage OK 73843 580-923-7958 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AND PLACE THIS WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED. MY GRANDMOTHER IS 88! There are lots of cotton wood, hackberry trees, and willows on the Palo
Duro Creek, a good wide When the railroad came into Dodge City Kansas, the army contracted freighters with wagons and teams, mostly Ox teams to haul supplies to the Army Forts, from the railroad. The freighters made what was called trails. They chose the best way to get across the country- everyone followed that trail. They wore the ground down so it was easier to get across the country. Two such trails crossed the Palo Duro Creek at the Old Indian Crossing. The first from Dodge City Kansas to Tascosa, Texas, and a latter one from Denver, Colorado. One of the first freighters from Dodge City to Tascosa was Amos Hibbs, with four wagons in tandem; (two wagons hooked together and pulled by six oxen) There was plenty of grass. He had twelve head of oxen hitched and twelve feeding on grass. The ones that were not pulling were tied together and herded along with the wagons, grazing on the grass. It took him almost three months round trip from Dodge City to Tascosa and back. The next three months he freighted from Dodge City to Fort Elliot, Texas, by way of Fort Supply and Canadian, Texas. This route was not quite as far but almost took as long. So He made four trips a year. He had the contract until the railroad came into Amarillo Texas, and Fort Elliot was shut down. Tascosa was a trading post and small town. All the freighters on the Dodge-Tascosa trail stopped over at the Indian Crossing to rest their live stock and repair wagons and harnesses. The O Laughlin brothers' filed on the land, they came there in the later part of the 18?? They built a Way station about three hundred yards north of the Indian Crossing. It was a 24 by 48 foot two story building, and was set in the side on a hill. There were two rooms downstairs, and three upstairs-two bedrooms and a freight storage. A loading dock and doors even with Wagon beds; the bottom north room was just about three-foot above ground. The entire bottom floor that was above ground was rock on the outside but lumber inside. Freighters hauled lumber from Dodge City. The freighters hauled buffalo hides and bones on their trip back to Dodge City. There was a large kitchen in the north end of the bottom floor and a lobby in the south end, which was used as a sitting room but the men would roll out their beds on the floor if the weather was bad. The O'Laughlin brothers lived there a few years. Robert Hibbs said he thought the Way-station was built 1881 or 1882. He was there on a trip with his father Amos Hibbs in the summer of 1883, when he was a small boy, and one of their wagons needed some repairs. They stayed there three or four days and it was very new then. He was there many times through the years. Rob Hibbs said they called it Palo Duro Station back then. Rob Hibbs bought the Palo Duro Mullock Station thirty years later. The O'Laughlin brothers built a ranch headquarters up on the flats about three miles south east of the weigh station before 1890. They sold the weigh station and some land to Ira P Mulloch. Mulloch had sheep and built a sheep shed about 300 ft long. The shed was very low only five or six ft high, about ten or twelve foot deep, and open on the southside. There were some horse barns. At some time someone drilled a well on the top of the hill just above the house and put a windmill, then piped the water into the kitchen, into a barrel, then into a trough for cooling, and then out the side of the house into a ditch and on down the hill. What modern convience! There was a lot of woven wire sheep fence. Mulloch planted alfalfa on both sides of the creek. The creek at that time had a large curve beginning just below the crossing and ran about 150 yards west of the house, full width of a half section one half mile to Bertrand's Property line. The north side of the section line (the Bertrand's were not there yet at that time) The Way station was on a half section connected with a full section on the west and a full section on the east. The Bertrand Place was a half-section, surrounded on side by Mulloch. The land was free range if not claimed and fenced. No one could claim more than one half mile of the creek unless they bought someone else's land. O'Laughlins got the next half-mile up the creek after they sold the weigh station. Ira P Mulloch established a Post Office April 8th 1899. Located section 47 block 45 H& TC RR survey. Mulloch Post office postmaster Ira P Mullock. Mullock sold out and moved to California 1902, but the Post Office retained the same name until it was discontinued Nov. 30 1918. The Post Office was moved from Ranch to Ranch the next 9 years (1902-1911. Other Postmasters were Simmons, Caldwell, and Robinson. Austin A Robinson and wife Rosa Robinson bought the weigh station and two and one half sections of land. The Post Office was moved back to the Weigh Station June 6 1904. The Robinson's also had sheep and alfalfa. Mr. Robinson decided he wanted to straighten out the bend in the creek, he had the channel changed and moved the crossing down the creek about a quarter of a mile. It was a very bad crossing, but was never changed again. The change brought the creek brought the creek to about fifty-foot or less from the house down the hill but not far enough. When the creek rose it came very near the house. Charlie Crowley had bought the Huff and Mel Wright Ranch. Beginning w miles north of the Mullock north line. E.A. Luke a stone mason and a civil Engineer was a long time friend of Crawly. Mr. Luke had just finished a ten-year contract building a railroad across Eastern Oklahoma from Coffeeville KS to Denison Texas I 1904. They operated as Luke's and Sons, Alamo construction Company-contractors. Mr. Crowley persuaded Mr. Luke to come to Hansford County to build some irrigation dams on the Palo Duro Creek. The Luke family bought a section of railroad land just north of Newcomb's ranch near New Hope sod schoolhouse. They had three children of school age, two girls, and a boy, and also a baby boy, four grown boys (two married) and a grown daughter. The married sons soon moved to Oklahoma and file on land of their own. The Luke family fenced their land, build a sod house and a dugout. They drilled a well, and put up a windmill and built a shed for two milk cows, which they bought from one of the neighbors. They also fenced and plowed a garden near the well. They built two small Dams for McCrawly, and on the property line between Mr. MrCrowley and Oren Bertrand and they built ten Chimney's on houses in Hansford. They also built steel bridge and a concrete and rock slab crossing for JD Steele on Palo Duro Creek. It is still holding eighty years later. Mr. Robinson decided he wanted a bigger damn than the others dams. There was no safe place to put a dam on his half mile of the creek. Mr. Luke tried to dissuade him, told him a dam would not hold there, but Mr. Robinson believed it would work, he was very adamant. Mr. Luke finally gave in with the stipulation that it had to be in the contract that if the damn failed he would not be responsible, and that he had told this strongly to Mr. Robinson. I think they finished in 1909. I have a picture of the men working on building the dam. It was taken in May 1908. It was not a big damn. It was not much bigger than the other three. The first big rise washes around it, if it had not it would have probably would have came into the house. They estimated they put in one hundred tons of rock hauled by wagons and mules from the Caprock east of Mullock and cement hauled from Guymon, OK. It was three hundred foot long with two wooden gates. The other two dams were smaller dams built with overflow and concrete and rock shirts to keep it from washing the ground away on the other side. The Robinson's moved away early spring of 1910. John Luke was working for the O'Laughlins. John Luke and his wife Betty moved into the Way Station. Betty Luke took care of the mail without a commission from the spring of 1910 to July 1911, when Mrs. Newcombe was commissioned. At that time Betty Luke went to work cooking for the O'Laughlin Ranch. Robert Hibbs and his wife Lura (the oldest daughter of Ethan A. Luke) bought the Way station and eight sections of land, four in Hansford County, and four in Ochiltree County in 1912. They moved in with a small daughter about Feb 1913. Another daughter was born at the Way Station March 25 1913. A son was born there Sept 1 1914. The freight station was discontinued then but many travelers and freighters camped there until about 1920. Some would stay several months when the weather was bad or some of the family was unable to travel. Mr. Hibbs would sometimes hire the men for a while to build fence and sheds or put up some alfalfa hay. He tore down the sheep's sheds, and built horse barns and wind brake sheds for one hundred heads of cattle. He also built a chicken house, A black smith shop, and a small bunkhouse for a hired man. He brought about 150 head of cattle, six horses, a crippled mule and a jersey milk cow with him from Oklahoma. Some of the horses were both work and saddle horses. It seemed he was building fence the next twenty years. There was always fence to be repaired or new fence to build. Everything went very well until the winter of 1918. The creek kept getting nearer the back door of the house. Each rise it came nearer. In 1917 Mr. Hibbs hired Joe Edden. He rented the Tom McMurry Place. It had a two-room house and a three room half-dugout. The Eddens moved into the house and the Hibbs family moved into the dugout. Mr. Hibbs and Mr. Edden tore down the Way station and built a four-room house on higher ground. Hibbs had about 100 head of cow. Mr. Wilmeth didn't have much pasture. Hibbs and Mr. Wilmeth made a dead. Mr. Wilmeth bought a twelve hundred-dollar Bull and one head of registered Hereford Cows. Mr. Hibbs bought one hundred head of Registered Hereford cows. They put them all on Hibbs pasture. Mr. Hibbs gave Mr. Wilmeth's sons board. They stayed in the bunkhouse and helped care for the cattle. Then things began going bad. First World War I, then the Flu Epidemic, then the worst winter in history, and in the middle, they cattle market dropped to the bottom. Hibbs lost all 90 head of cows and all the calves in the blizzard. I think Mr. Wilmeth lost about all of his as did all the neighbors. Hibbs had plenty of alfalfa hay for all he could get into the sheds They were so crowded he lost ten of them. He got all his Hereford in the sheds. He parked his Oldsmobile car between the haystacks and put cows in the car shed. Mrs. Hibbs and two little children were down with the flu. Mr. Hibbs and the oldest girl (8) did not get the flu, but most of the neighbors were down sick also. Mr. Hibbs tried to care of his family and all the neighbors. A neighbor, Mrs. McElreath (a nurse), tried to help but she had an invalid husband in a wheel chair, and two small boys with the flu. When it was all over in 1921 Mr. Hibbs gave up the cattle business. He had twenty head of mustang mares left. He sold several sections of land, moved to mares on what pasture he had left, and started raising wheat, and built a house two miles east. Bob Archer bought the Palo Duro Place and sold it to Bill McClarity of Perryton TX in 122. Mr. McClarity leased it to J.C. Scroggs the first of April 1922. Mr. Scroggs had a heart attack about three weeks later and died. He left a wife and eight children who lived on the land for eighteen months. George Faus leased the place for five years in 1925 and moved to Colorado in 1930. Grover Brillhart and his family bought the Palo Duro Way station place , the O'Laughlin Ranch, and The McMurry and Newcombe ranch in the early 1930;s. They still own all of that land. James Brillhart owns the old Palo Duro Station--all of the old buildings are gone, the creek crossings all washing out......Nothing like it was when I was a child there. I am Rob Hibbs 88-year-old daughter. Everyone else that lived in that part of Hansford County, except James Brillhart, has passed on. Julia Hibbs McManus Amos Hibbs and E.A. (Ethan Allen) Luke were both my grandfathers. Editor LD Pierce Adds: both were my great great grandfather Notes for REUBEN ROLAND PAUL FAUS: Obituary Amarillo Daily News Thursday Nov 19 1981 of Rube Faus
Rube Faus Spearman: ---Rube Faus 77 died yesterday. Services will be held 2pm tomorrow in Union Church with the Rev Steve Rogers, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. Mr. Faus was born in Range, Ok.
He moved to Spearman in 1910
Left Ira and Ruth Martin. Front Row:
Juanita Faus, Bertha Faus, Ion Martin, Iris Martin, Ruby Faus. Middle Rob Hibbs and Lura
Luke Hibbs.
Article about Rube Faus and his boot shop Feb. 19 1950 New West Provides Wide Market for Cowboy Boots By Margaret Kirk Amarillo News-Globe Correspondent Spearman: Feb. 18 1950 Rube Faus traded himself into Spearman's industrial stream back in 1933. It hadn't been a very good farming year and Rube was ready to change occupations. Leon Bowling had heard about wonderful bean farming in New Mexico. He was tired of making boots. So Rube traded Leon a 1929 Chevrolet Roadster, two cows, two hogs, five horses, a four-wheeled trailer, and two sets of harness for the Bowling Bootshop a four room affair which provided living quarters, boot and shoe machines, a supply of leather. The deal involved no cash. Leon was to remain with Rube until Rube learned how to make boots. They had finished only two pairs when Leon had to take off, and Rube was on his own. He took the situation from there to develop a business, which serves the North Plains and many special customers. Rube made his first pair of boots for Louis Smith, Jimmy Cator's nephew. He has on file 95 order books, which cover approximately 1600 pair, which he has made in the 17 years on the bench. The biggest order came from a man who was 7 feet, 4 inches tall, weighed 260 pounds, and wore a size 15 shoe. In July 1933 the price range was from $15 to $20. Now it's from $47.50 to $75. Rube's strangest order was for a pair of woman's white boots with four aces on the back and front with an inlay of hearts and diamonds around the caps and tops. They sold for $62.50. One day a guy swaggered in and ordered a medium, round, square, quarter box toe! Maybe so. Rube did not argue. When the customer came in for them he wanted to know where the quarter box was. Rube told him it was on the inside, and the man left completely satisfied. Mr. and Mrs. Faus spent about 5 years in Amarillo. They had a shop on fourth Between Polk and Taylor. Mrs. Faus had become an expert top maker. She helped Rube at odd times. She also made tops for the Maddox and Igerton shops. She is quite a designer. She turned out two pairs daily. Could do three pairs for maybe a week at a time during the rush season. Three pair in two days is considered a good average. One day two teen-age boys came into Rube's Bootshop and stalked around a while. As they left each grabbed a boot from the window display. Rube took out after them but his 220 pounds was a handicap. The kids were flagging down the alley, each swinging a boot. The police took over. One morning Rube put a beautiful pair of boots on top of the showcase for display. It was a busy day. When he closed that night he noticed that the worst looking broken down books had replaced the new pair. The replacement was permanent A pair of boots mysteriously disappeared from Rub's showcase. Everybody denied selling them. Mrs. Faus made the deduction that if they sold they would sooner or later be returned for heels. and if they were stolen they would never hear of them. In the usual time, 3-4 months they came back for repair. The wearer had bought them _______place. He paid for them by check. He brought in the cancelled check. Some part lost Continued: ...Back and forth. If a pattern is altered nothing is though of it. One rarely has a request for something absolutely different. If the boot artist makes such a creation, nobody would be caught dead liking it A couple of Radio entertainers came to Amarillo to put on an USO show. They wanted Texas boots. The man was satisfied with a plain pair. They wife wanted a tops that reflected her personality and was absolutely different to all tops ever made or ever would be. She wanted white boots with white tops and Mrs. Faus had to ______all day. She worked and drafted all day. And got nowhere. She went to be worrying about it. At 2 am she woke remembering the blue birds hadn't mentioned. They next day she told her client that bluebirds made out of suede would have that feathered look. It was a bird of an idea, satisfactory to all concerned. Besides all the boot business, rube takes care of half soles, and other shoe repairs. He estimates he does a yearly average of 1000 repairs. Rube has set prices for all except "little, bitsy, teeny boots." He takes off 10 percent on such super-small sizes. Rube Fiddles for recreation. He "doesn't know how come unless its like boot making" Maybe he inherited it. His dad was a fiddler. His Wife's Julia's grandfathers were shoemakers. So was her great, great granddad. Rube had never even so much as sat down on a shoe bench, till he traded with Leon. Judging from the results, maybe there was a cobbler back on the Faus family tree. Newspaper Article Perryton Herald Sunday may 11 1962 RUBE FAUS BOOT MAKER DOESN'T MAKE BOOTS NOW By Mel Marshall
RUBE FAUS BOOT MAKER DOESN'T MAKE BOOTS NOW By Mel Marshall Spearman-- When he closed the order book number 100 after checking off the completion of 5784 pair of hand -made cowboy boots, Rube Faus decided he had made all the boots a man should make in 30 years. That was six years ago, and Rube has not cut leather for a pair of boots since. He spends all his time keeping boots and shoes in good condition. There are plenty of Ranchers and farmers on the North Plains, though; who are still wearing boots Rube made for them. "I get a pair in to fix every now and then," Rube Says. "A Good pair of hand-made boots will last a man 20 years or more. But mostly, what I work on now is shoes and factory boots. Nothing wrong with factory boots, of course, but they don't compare with hand-made boots." Rube Faus got into the bootmaking business 36 years ago, when a bad crop year made him decide to quite farming. He had heard that Leon Bowling wanted to quit making boots in the shop Bowling owned in Spearman, So the two men sat down to dicker out a trade. The deal was closed with an agreement to swap. Rube gave Bowling a 1929 Chevrolet Roadster, two cows, two hogs, five horses, a couple sets of harnesses and a trailer. Bowling turned the shop, a four-room building with living quarters included, all machinery in the shop and a stock of leather---NO Cash. Bowling agreed to stay with Rube to teach him the trade, before taking off for New Mexico. But after working with Rube on two pair of boots, Bowling had to leave to close the deal for the bean farm he'd bought and Rube had to make it himself from then on. He did. The day after his teacher left, a customer walked in and ordered a pair of boots. (Note from LD Pierce Rube's grandson-this customer was Jim Cator's nephew) Rube made them and they fit. So Rube didn't worry any longer a bout not being able to handle to the job b he had taken on. During the next quarter of a Century- he turned out boots of all shapes and sizes, accumulating a supply of over 500 boot-lasts which he still has, stored in the back of the shop he operates now strictly for repair work. "Most of the last are for special customers." Rube muses. "Like the fellow who stood 7 feet tall and wore a size 15 shoe. And a lot of them are for ladies' boots, and little-bite lasts for children's feet. I used to knock 10 percent off the price for those tiny sizes" Rube Explains: "A man who buys hand-made expects them to fit perfectly, so I built up a last using, using thin strips of leather, until I got the exact shop of his foot. That job takes a lot of time and when I'd made a pair of special lasts I'd just put them aside with the customers name of them, because I'd figure he would want another pair sooner or later." Hand made boots are made by stretching the lining and uppers over the last with special pliers, tacking the uppers and lining to the insole as the bootmaker works around the edge of the last. When the leather is stretched-the tension must be just right so the uppers will hold their shape and be neither too loose nor too tight-the edge is welted and the outer sole is sewed on. Then the last is removed and the uppers stitched to the boot. Its is a painstaking job, because each piece of leather is slightly different, and the bootmaker works by feel and judgment. "I got the hang of it pretty quick, I guess" Rube chuckled. "Most of my regulars would just stick their heads in the door when they'd pass the shop and just yell for me to made another pair. "Half the time they didn't even say what color they wanted, and they knew I'd made brown. They liked brown or black or even tan, or whatever. And most of them wouldn't even try their boots on when they came to pick them up. They'd know the boot would fit." When Rube Faus began making boots, the going price was $15 a pair, special fancy jobs running as high as $25. When he put aside his lasts, the minimum price was $65 with the fancy decorated jobs running over $100. Rube Still recalls some of the strange orders he got for fancy boots-especially during the five years he set up shop on Fourth Street in Amarillo. He filled some orders for some wild designs-boots with all white tops, or barber-pole strips of alternate colors, or designs of playing cards around the top, and even one pair with the inserts of bluebirds made from dyed suede. We never used to patent a design he says. " A man came in with a pair of boots he liked and I'd copy for them-just as I would expect a boot-maker somewhere else to copy of one of my designs somewhere else if a customers asked him to. Of course on the really fancy jobs, nobody who wears boots would want a pair like somebody else had." For a hobby, Rube plays the fiddle. "Keeps my hands busy," he explains. "I guess its a little bit like working with leather. But I'll never get back to bootmaking" he adds. "I quit that because I could not find help, couldn't find anybody interested in doing the kind of hand work the job needs. I guess leather workers are what you would call a dying breed. There's not many of us left any more, and no young fellows coming along to take our place." "So I'll just stick to keeping boots and shoes in shape, and let them factories turn out the boots from now on."
Children of JULIA HIBBS and REUBEN FAUS are: i. ROSA AMELIA11 FAUS, b. December 02, 1930, Dennis place spearman TX; d. May 27, 1996, Amarillo TX Buried Ochiltree Cemetery Perryton TX; m. (1) JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE, November 28, 1948, Spearman TX; b. 1929, Riverside Calf Thermole Calf; d. 1990, Denver Colorado; m. (2) JOHN STEELE, January 14, 1972; b. July 20, 1930. Notes for ROSA AMELIA FAUS: Rosa Faus Pierce Steele I was born on my Grandpa Hibb's Ranch North of Spearman, TX, December 2, 1930. When I was three, we moved east of town to the Dennis Place. Now 43 years later in Veronica, Oregon, population 1,700 I live three blocks from Jo Dennis! Grandpa Faus Carried the mail. I went with him often. Sometimes I went the complete route, sometimes I stopped off at Grandpa Hibb's going home the next mail day. Then, the mail went out three days a week. I learned to drive at the age of five sitting on Grandpa's lap, steering and shifting gears. When Daddy first got Electricity in the Boot Shop the whole family went down that night to turn the lights on. Those lights were so bright. When I was eight, Mamma took over the Spearman Hotel. We kids hated living in that hotel. We had to be so quite, so clean, and make the fastest trips possible to the bathroom. There was only one bathroom for the whole hotel. December 7, 1941 I was in the Boot Shop, listening to the radio, we were at war. I'll never forget, I was so scared. In the spring we moved to Amarillo, TX, living there through the War years. In the summer of 1948 we moved back to Spearman. That summer I met and Married James (Jim) Pierce. For the next several years I lived the life of a nomad, moving on the average of three times a year. Our first two sons were born in Dimmitt, TX. Franklin Lee born June 27, 1950, and Roy Paul born May 31, 1951. Our third and fourth sons were born in Spearman, David Lloyd born August 7 1952, and James Michael Born January 17 1955. Our fifth and sixth sons were born while we lived in Perris, California--Calvin Douglas born January 27 1959, and Richard Dean born June 22 1961. In September 1969, Jim and I were divorced and I had to start supporting a family. I went to work as a community center Aide in 1969. In 1971 I had advanced to Community Coordinator. In 1972 I was County Program Director, directing Youth Program, County Community Centers, and Committee for Progress through Law. In 1971 I met John Steele, we married 1972, and I resigned my job and went back to being a wife and a mother. Together we have 11 children, 15 grandchildren, and 15 foster children. John had a disabling back injury, so I am employed again as a Community School Co-coordinator. July 30 1978, one of my precious sons, Calvin Pierce, was killed by a hit and run driver as he sat beside the road. Frank will finish college in June this year. Roy is working in the world's largest nuclear plant in Illinois. He has three sons, Kevin, Ryan, and Jeffery. David works in a Crowne Zellarbach Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon, he has two children, a girl, Lisa, and a boy Dustin. Mike and Richard are working in the oil fields in Oklahoma. John and I are planning to move to Spearman, hopefully in the summer or fall of 1979. By Rosa Faus Steele Hansford County History Book pg. 277-278.
Obituary Rosa Faus Steele Ellis County Capital June 6 1996 Rosa Faus Steele Rosa Faus Steele, 65, died Sunday May 26 196 in Amarillo TX. Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 1996, Union Church of Spearman TX with the Rev. Curtis Torrance of Gage , Ok, Assisted by Rev Kenneth Smith of Amarillo, officiating. Burial was in the Ochiltree Cemetery at Perryton, TX, by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Spearman TX. Mrs. Steele was born in Hansford County, TX., and attended schools in Spearman and Amarillo. She moved with her family to Oregon in 1963. She married John Steele in 1972 at Vernonia, Or, and the couple moved to Gage Ok in 1994. Mrs. Steele was a homemaker and has worked as a computer operator for Tectronics Electronics before retiring in 1994. She was a lifelong member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Mrs. Steele was preceded in death by two sons, Calvin Pierce, Richard Pierce, and an infant daughter; a sister, Juanita pierce; and her father, Ruben Pierce. Survivors included her husband, John Steele; four sons, Frank Pierce of Vernonia, Or, Roy Pierce of Zion Ill., Dave Pierce of Clatskanie, Or, and Michael Pierce of Gage Ok; a foster son, Jim Richards of Vernonia Or; three stepsons; two stepdaughters; her mother, Julia Faus McManus of Gage, OK; Three sisters, Bertha Willison, Ruby Saltness, and Phyllis Mann all of Gage OK. a brother, Harry Faus of Fountain Valley CA; 15 grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren. Memorial may be made to St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center in Amarillo TX
Notes for JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE: death info provided by search co ii. HARRY ELMER FAUS, b. September 14, 1932, Perryton TX; m. ELIZABETH BERG, December 28, 1958, Las Vega NV Reno??; b. July 06, 1935, London England. iii. JUANITA LOIS FAUS, b. December 15, 1933; d. July 28, 1995, Amarillo TX St Anthony's Hospice; m. JAMES LORENZO PIERCE, July 05, 1952; b. April 16, 1933. Notes for JUANITA LOIS FAUS: Obituary Juanita Faus Pierce from The Spearman Reporter Statesman Aug 3 1995 Juanita Faus Pierce SPEARMAN Juanita Faus Pierce 61, died Friday July 28, 1995.' Services were held on Tues. August 1 at 2:00 p.m. at the Union Church with the Rev. Dan Carter officiating. Burial was at Hansford Cemetery with Boxwell Brothers handling the arrangements. Mrs. Pierce was born in Spearman on December 15 1933, and was married to J.L. pierce on July 5 1952 in Clovis, New Mexico. She was a rural mail carrier for 16 years, a member of the Union Church of Spearman, was on the Hansford County historical Commission, and was an EMT Ambulance Driver and a Museum Volunteer. She is survived by her husband; two sons; L.D. Pierce of Dallas, and Tylan Pierce of Spearman.; three daughters, Jammie Pierce, Rosa Roberts of Spearman, and Karon P Hardy of Chesapeake, VA; her mother, Julia McManus of Gage Ok, one brother Harry Faus of Fountain Valley CA, and four sisters, Rosa Steele, Ruby Saltness , and Phyllis Mann of Gage Ok , and three grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to the Hansford Hospice or a favorite Charity. She died in the St Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center Amarillo Texas Casketbearers: Monty Ferguson David Oakley
Ulysses Hardy Derek Hardy Ray Roberts Larry McCoy Notes for JAMES LORENZO PIERCE: J.L. and Juanita (Faus) Pierce JL Pierce son of L.D. Pierce and Jimmie Scott Pierce was born in
Spearman iv. BERTHA ILLEEN FAUS, b. November 05, 1935, Spearman TX Hansford County; m. RALPH HENRI WILLISON, April 1961, Tijuana Mexico; b. April 04, 1931, Los Angeles California. v. RUBY JOYCE FAUS, b. May 05, 1938, Spearman TX Hansford County; m. (1) THOMAS OAKLEY; m. (2) ALLAN WILLIAMS, 1955, Clayton NM; b. January 27, 1923, lives in Pecos TX born in Colorado City TX. Notes for RUBY JOYCE FAUS: Ruby Faus Saltness My Parents, Ruben Paul Faus, and Julia Rose Hibbs, were born at Range, Beaver County Oklahoma: March 15 1904, and September 20, 1911, respectively. Daddy, Youngest son of George Faus and Sarah Davis Faus, his mother died when he was one year old and he was raised by his sisters, Effie (Cox) and Ella (Buschman). He worked at the Hansford Headlight setting type as a youth and went to Old Hansford School. Mamma, oldest child of Robert and Lura Luke Hibbs, attended New Hope and Waka Schools. They were married February 28, 1930 and six children were born to this union; Rosa 1930, Harry 1932, Jaunita 1933, Bertha 1935, Ruby 1937 and Phyllis 1944. I, Ruby Joyce, was born at the old Dennis place in Spearman. We moved to Amarillo in 1941 and I attended the first four years of school at McKinnley and Pleasant Valley. We moved back to Spearman in 1948. I left school, before graduating, for marriage and did not return until 1966 when I had the opportunity to attend secretarial school in Woodland Hills, Ca., and, receive a high school diploma at that time. I worked as Sr. Clerk-Typist for L.A. County and UCLA. My children and I moved to California in 1965, we lived in Canoga Park for nine years and moved to Oregon in 1974 where I attended Pacific University for one semester. I am presently enrolled at PSU at Goodwell, Oklahoma and looking forward to a degree next year in Business Administration. My children are; Jo San (Williams) Metz, born September 14, 1954 at Perryton, Texas, graduated from Canoga Park High School in 1973 and is now a dental assistant. She and George Metz have one child "Little" Georgie, born January 18, 1975. Julie Anne Williams, born October 19, 1955 in Hobbs, N.M., graduated CPHS in 1974. She has two daughters, Jessica Jewlyn Williams born September 1, 1975 in Port-land, OR. and Paul Rea Williams born July 31, 1979 in Sayre, Okla. Dixie Lynn (Williams) Burch born September 30, 1959 at Odessa, Texas, graduated from Spearman High School in 1978. She and James have one daughter, Rachel Irene, born October 30, 1979 in Spearman. David Malcom Oakley, born June 21, 1962 in Perryton, is a junior in high school and works at Excel Chevrolet. Jaunita Sue Oakley, born December 5, 1964 in Canadian, is a freshman in high school and is living with her sister Julie in Sayre, Oklahoma. We moved to Spearman in September of 1977. I have worked at the Stationmaster's House Museum since that time as director and part-time at Martin's Steak Garden. We are members of the Baptist Church. By Ruby Faus Saltness from: History of Hansford County Vol 1 page 253 Letter to the Editor of the Amarillo Daily News I read with interest your article (July 5 1978) on attempting to make the Panhandle a separate state. I also 'had 'read the letter from Mrs. Carol Ennis of Friona on Sunday. . These thoughts and reasoning should have justified the airing and thought of the general public no matter how unsympathetic they may be at the present time. Although the pros and cons are many and varied it is a very good concept. For instance we could name our new state Llano Estacado (the great high plains). Our border could be the Caprock Escarpment, the natural border separating the high Plains from the rolling plains of central Texas. This is an outstanding natural borderline. Plainview or Pampa would be a good state capitol excluding Amarillo or Lubbock because they fight enough: already and either, being a capitol, would make the other jealous and the above mentioned are pretty neutral towns. I agree that we aren't adequately represented in Austin or Washington, D.C. but our towns in the Panhandle are so far apart and separated and we would still be a large state so it is reasonable to assume that with the expense of building a state capitol building and other offices that we would need, we still would not be taken care of much better than in Austin. At 'least for a long 'time; it would take years to get organized into an efficient state, we dreamers can just dream on! Ruby Saltness Spearman TX
vi. PHYLLIS INEZ FAUS, b. July 05, 1944, Amarillo TX NW TX Hospital;; m. LEROY MANN, May 04, 1959, Shattuck Oklahoma; b. May 22, 1939, Blue Earth Minnesota. Notes for PHYLLIS INEZ FAUS: 1951 Amarillo Daily News Spearman Tots Escape Drowning Spearman, June 20, 1951 (Special) Phyllis Faus, 7 yrs old and Mary Lena Jones, 9, had a near escape from drowning Sunday afternoon when they stepped into a deep hole while wading in Palo Duro Creek. Phyllis the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rube Faus, Mary Lena, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Jones. The two families , together with the WH Black Family were on a picnic at the old "Near to Nature Park" and Mrs. Black had been watching the children wade in the creek. In the Short time it took her to walk up to the bank where the adults in the party were sitting the little girls almost lost their lives. Jerry Black, 10, cousin of Mary Lena, shouted the alarm after he remembered the little girls could not swim, and decided they weren't showing off. Franklin Baer, Dumas, and Steve Oates, Pampa, dived into the creek and were bring the children to shore when their parents arrived at the scene. The men, who had just completed a course in first aid, were assisted by Mrs. Oates, a registered nurse, in administering artificial respiration. They continued to work with the children almost an hour before Mrs. Oates though it safe to move them. Rube Faus, took the little girls to the Hansford County Hospital at Spearman where oxygen was administered to complete the first aid treatment. The attending physician said there was no doubt that correct application of artificial respiration had saved the children's lives.. |
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