Mam-ma's Southern Family

William Hutson “Hutts” and Josephine Hazel Lancaster married on 24 November 1915 in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas. [1] Fifty years later they celebrated their golden anniversary on 12 August 1965 in the home of their daughter, Lynn. [2] Four of their granddaughters also assisted. The anniversary was covered in the Seminole Sentinel newspaper and gave the date of the marriage as 27 November 1915 rather than the date listed by the minister on the marriage record. Looking carefully at the marriage record, the minister, R. L. Smallwood, did the return on 14 December 1915. So, either he got the date mixed up or after fifty years Hutts and Jo got the date mixed up. Fiftieth anniversary articles are often full of biographical information and this one does not disappoint. I get a better sense of their timeline. He farmed in Erath County for several years and left for Slaton, Texas in 1926. In 1940, they moved to Fort Worth where he worked at a food store. He was still working there.

Many years ago, I discovered a database on the Kaufman County, Texas, Rootsweb site that listed Civil War soldiers known to be buried in Kaufman County. The database included those buried in Rockwall County, as Rockwall County was formed from Kaufman in 1873. Wayback Machine Today, the website is gone and a browser search for it turned up nothing. However, thanks to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive , I was able to locate the database listings. Perhaps the database was compiled by Kathey Kelley Hunt, as she was the person who collected information to add to the database. All one needs to do to get a capture of the old site using the Wayback Machine is to put in the previous website address: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txkaufma/civilwar/solbkauf.htm . Then select one of the days that the site captured the webpage. Here is how it looked on February 10, 2008. Several of my family members are listed in this database: Ruben Louis Bourn , married my 3x-great-grandaunt, Sarah A.